The latest short film in the UCLA Arts An Imaginative Offer series, Leaning Forward spotlights the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture's internationally acclaimed public arts institutions: UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, the Fowler Museum, and the Hammer Museum. Collectively, these venues create a vibrant cultural commons for the research university, Los Angeles, and the world. Click here to watch the short film.


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NEW YORK — Online media giant IAC/InteraActiveCorp has acquired Seattle-based Urbanspoon for an undisclosed amount.
Urbanspoon operates Web restaurant guides across a number of cities, and offers a popular free application for the Apple iPhone. The sale occurred in February, but was disclosed today in IAC's report of its first quarter financial performance.
IAC Chief Executive Barry Diller also disclosed in the company's earnings call today that the company has had discussions with Yahoo about acquiring that company's personal-ads business.
"Whether [the discussions] will go anywhere or not is, of course, enormously speculative," he said. "But I think Yahoo has said it's not an absolute core asset to their future, and it is core to us, personals."
IAC's financial report showed that the recession took a bite out of the company in the first quarter, as revenue fell 22 percent in the Internet company's media and advertising unit, which includes the Ask.com search engine.
Shares of IAC jumped $1.17, or 7.3 percent, to $17.13 in afternoon trading Wednesday, however, as investors likely found solace in the fact that IAC slightly exceeded revenue estimates and said it bought back stock during the quarter.
The New York-based company said that in the first three months it lost $28.4 million, or 19 cents per share.
This compares with a profit of $52.8 million, or 38 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. However, that quarter included income from operations that IAC has since spun off — home shopping network HSN Inc., time-share business Interval Leisure Group Inc., ticketing service Ticketmaster and lending and real estate business Tree.com Inc.
Excluding special items, IAC lost 2 cents per share. On that basis, analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected a profit of 1 cent per share.
IAC said revenue fell 10 percent to $332 million, better than the $330 million analysts expected.


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Q: Regd. The font 'ABCDEE+Calibri' contains bad/widts on Unix/Linux Greetings for the Day :)
I am working on PdfBox and generated PDF successfully as per requirement on Windows. But when running my solution on Unix/Linux and it is generating the PDFs as per requirement. When we tried to open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC version it is giving Pop-up The font 'ABCDEE+Calibri' contains bad/widts. I moved the PDF to windows from linux and tried to open the pdf , now its poping up on windows as well. I have not used calibri anywhere on my pdf. I used TrueTypeFont to load.ttc file as .ttf file. Apart from that there is no great logic as well.
Map<String, PDFont> suppFonts = new HashMap<>();
PDFont arial = PDType0Font.load(pddoc, <<className>>.class.getResourceAsStream("/path/to/the/file.ttf").getInputStream());
PDFont mingliu = PDType0Font.load(pddoc, new TrueTypeCollection(<<className>>.class.getResourceAsStream("/path/to/the/file.ttc").getInputStream());
suppFonts .put("arial",arial);
suppFonts .put("mingliu",mingliu);

we used this HashMap and retrieved font with the name we have given such as arial,mingliu..etc.
Please help me if you have faced such kind of issue earlier.

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The mighty Hughes returns
The College of Law welcomed alumnus, former Sask. judge and BC conflict-of-interest commissioner Ted Hughes (LLB '50) and his family at a book launch in his honour on Oct. 12.
13-Oct-2017 9:28 AM
Hughes and McInnes sign copies of 'The Mighty Hughes'.
Honoured guests, alumni and well-wishers gathered in the college's student lounge for a book signing and speaker event to launch new biography The Mighty Hughes: From Prairie Lawyer to Western Canada's Moral Compass, an in-depth account of Hughes' life, work and significant achievement, by author Craig McInnes.
The pair travelled from BC to Saskatchewan for the special event, and spoke fondly of the relationship they had formed as the book developed as they signed copies of the book for guests.
Among the dignified guests in attendance were U of S President Peter Stoicheff, College of Law alumnus Merlis Belsher (LLB '63), U of S Chancellor Roy Romanow (LLB '64), and Saskatoon lawyer Dan Shapiro (JD '78).
The program opened with greetings from College of Law Dean Martin Phillipson, who spoke of lawyers' roles as public servants, and how there was no finer example of this than Hughes. This was followed by a traditional honour song and prayer by Joseph Naytowhow, a Plains/Woodland Cree singer, songwriter, and storyteller from Sturgeon Lake First Nation.
Ted and Helen Hughes with sons Brian and Keith, and daughters-in-law Elizabeth and Lori.
Shapiro, who was instrumental in bringing Hughes and his wife Helen to campus, spoke at the event, as did Chancellor Romanow, citing the huge impact Hughes had on the province during his time as a Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench justice.
In his greetings, Hughes spoke of his time at the College of Law fondly, recalling how when he started classes in 1947, there were only three professors and a dean, and one woman his class. Funny stories and light-hearted anecdotes were interspersed with serious messages, as Hughes spoke passionately of the atrocities and detrimental after affects of the Indian residential school system.
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Q: Why does `document.getElementById("#sideNav")` not find my element? Why is this code throwing "TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null"?

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A: Because getElementById takes an id, not a CSS selector. Just lose the # on those:
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querySelector and querySelectorAll take CSS selectors, but getElementById does exactly what the name suggests: Gets an element by its ID.


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Little Island Won Me Over
When you stand in the middle of Little Island, the new parklet levitating off the coast of Chelsea, it looks bigger and farther than it is. You approach the shore, where a bunch of Alice in Wonderland-These poisonous concrete mushrooms spring from the Hudson River. Friendly staff members waving to you on the catwalk if you have booked a free and timed ticket or it's before noon or after 8pm. Once there, you are in a box that has been crafted down to the smallest cheesecloth. Those 2.4 acres of Babylonian lavishness cost $ 260 million to build and it will take millions more per year to maintain. This expense is borne by media mogul Barry Diller, a fact that has baffled those who think of rich and raptor as synonyms. What is amazing is not that a billionaire ordered this handmade Eden to his liking and in a place of his choice, but that he had to do it for the benefit of the rest of us. It's true that plutocratic town planning isn't a way to build a city, and I half-expected the result here would be a cheesy mini-Disneyland hinting at concepts like nature, Public, and to park without a clear understanding of what they mean. Instead, Little Island is a spellbinding, totally New Yorker place.
Most New Yorkers know London based mage Thomas Heatherwick for the brilliant, monumental and sometimes maddening ship at Hudson Yards. This ill-conceived creation was designed without worrying about visitors with disabilities; now it is governed by rules designed to prevent more suicides. (No loners allowed, signage urging against self-harm, no more guards on the alert, and a $ 10 entry fee to cover costs.) Along the High Line, a signed Heatherwick condo features bay windows like bulging eyes, giving the build a disturbing entomoid look.
But on Little Island, Heatherwick's imagination has somehow found its moorings. That says a lot about the man who foots the bill, Barry Diller, who mixed generosity with vigilance. It speaks even better of the collaboration between Heatherwick Studio and longtime New York landscape architect Signe Nielsen. In a day of exploring the city, you might pass a dozen Nielsen projects; 25 years ago, she developed the master plan for the Hudson River Park, and she knows which trees and shrubs will withstand the wind, salt spray and dog urine. When Little Island feels like a weird and wonderful creature that has landed just offshore, it's Heatherwick. When you get the impression that she is closely linked to the city, it's Nielsen.
In a sense, the island is one more feature of the Hudson River Park, which is part of the leisure archipelago stretched along the western flank of Manhattan. Look south and you'll see Gansevoort Pier cleared for a new beach, north and you'll hit the wall at Pier 57, which has Google and a rooftop park in its future. (City Winery is already here.) The Hudson River Greenway draws a line, urging visitors on wheels or in cushioned sneakers to step up. The piers offer a map of destinations: playgrounds, dog trails, ball fields, sunbathing lawns, tables nestled among the flowers. The island, however, has a different pace. You start in an open plaza served by food trucks, furnished with cafe tables and lined with lawns perfect for lounging when not busy resting. An inclined path winds along the hills and valleys, turning back, separating the stairs and stopping on rocks and benches to savor the ever-changing vistas. Like all worthwhile climbs, this one has a top and a reward: a panoramic view that stretches from Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building and beyond.
The trails are long, winding and gentle, but they are crisscrossed with stairs and climbing shortcuts, like a serene sort of falls and ladders. This gives visitors options and prevents a route from feeling like a one-way walk. Sometimes you almost feel lost in the tiny land cut off from the nearby shore. Retaining walls are made of sheet piles, a system of folded steel panels that interlock to form quick and dirty barriers. Nothing less refined. Their virtue, however, is that they are hardly any thickness, and in a landscape as well designed as this, every inch not devoted to the wall adds to a lot more plants. Surprises are impossible to spoil. You arrive on the amphitheater ("the Amph, "in Little Island slang), hidden in a depression behind a ridge, as one might do on a high mountain lake. Even the bathrooms are a surprise, nestled under a mound and shining like a treasure buried in their own cave.
One of the wonders of the island is an ever-changing sense of depth. Up close, it's a cornucopia of tactile details: succulents lined with rusty steel battlements; vibraphones suitable for children; rustic rock faces; wooden stairs so weathered gray that they allude to a previous incarnation; bleachers carved from black locust blocks. The signage is cut through standing metal columns, like old incisions that will never fade. Everything asks to be touched.
All of these design decisions add to a rare specificity, only one here that is absent from so many contemporary places. And those close-up details lead a conversation with the middle ground. The weathered steel rods that enclose the edge of the island are spaced enough apart that even an underweight toddler cannot wiggle between them. This allows parents to relax, look up, and record the visual rhyme between rusty poles and old wooden stakes in the water below. Echoes also work from a distance, although not all of them are intentional. Near the top of the hill I came across a cluster of white Bells of Canterbury standing like towers. Behind them, the World Trade Center and the Financial District towered high, as in a clumsy imitation of the floral skyline.
A secret garden is usually walled. This one is in the open and the city swirls around it, offering unfamiliar sights of familiar places. The Whitney, heaped up and sculpted like a milky cliff; the Standard Hotel, thin and not at all slab when viewed from the front; Bjarke Ingels' pair of winding towers, still under construction near the High Line – all of those sharply angled, faceted structures rise above the gentle mounds of the island and suddenly appear fresh, made festive by the premier blossoms. plan and mature trees.
More than a series of pretty photos, the island is a total immersion experience, which is why the photographs don't do it justice. People tend to keep their eyes on the ground when climbing and lift them up when descending, so Nielsen has planned for both. She planted fragrant perennials near the trails to offer visitors something more interesting than their feet to look at (and smell) and cleared the vegetation at the edges of the island to reveal the skyline and the river. Hudson. "Japanese gardens have the notion of a borrowed landscape," she says. "You don't own it and don't control it, but it becomes part of your gaze. And I thought there were times when the landscape had to pull back to highlight that. "
For the most part, the support structure, so striking from the shore, stays out of sight when you're at it. At one point, however, the path descends to where the tall concrete goblets on their narrow stems form a gallery of pointed arches. The solid mass above and the thinness below – the sheer improbability of all this little world balancing above the water – brings out the audacity of the artifice. 18th-century English landscapers feasted on miniature pavilions amid groves and meadows. Instead of a madness in a garden, Little Island is a garden in a madness.
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In this tutorial, we will learn how to cast a Tardigrade out of silicone. The modeling skill is 'comfortable'- you don't have to be very experienced, but you probably want to feel fairly comfortable within the modeling environment.
My kids love Tardigrades, I love Tardigrades... Really, I think it would be hard to find a person that doesn't love the immortal little water bears! Recently, I was telling my two boys about Tardigrades, and they were fascinated! I thought what better way to fuel that curiosity than casting some soft and stretchy water bears for us to play with.
Leave a comment and feel free to ask questions!
Below is a list of all the items I used to make this Tardigrade.
We will start with placing a picture as a reference photo, I found one that was pretty close to head on after a quick search.
There is a thing called a Space Mouse...It is amazing, I absolutely love using one. If you are building this Tardigrade, you have most likely heard about a space mouse or thought about getting one. If that thought has occurred in your mind, Buy it! <- I bought this kit and love every part of it. I actually store them in the cases when not in use because I have such high respect for how amazing they are.
place a cylinder about where the mouth is.
I had trouble finding a nice view of water bear bottom. So... I decided to make 'em THICK. Lets close up the back end in style and get these legs attached!
Tardigrades have gnarly claws, but I don't think it will be easy tp print them. For now, lets just make some cut like hands and call it a day.
There are a few ways to do this part, I created a sketch on the ground plane. Than, I extruded it by 0.001mm. for me this is a fast way to get the same result.
Now create a sphere in one of the corners like in the picture.
Use tool 'Combine' to join the 4 spheres to the bottom mold.
By painting think coats of paint in the mold, we can help to hide some of the layer lines left over from printing.
By right clicking on the body tab (left side) in Fusion 360 we can see an option call 'properties'. In here we can see that this tardigrade is about 25cc. That is how much Silicon we will need to cast this due.
Use a graduated cylinder to measure half the total amount and make it on a cup.
Because of air bubbles added when mixing, you will often have to fill inject the last bit over a period of time. But, since we know it needs 25ml to be full, it is easy to keep track of. If we don't have 25ml in the mold, it is not completely full of silicone.
You do not need a ton of force, a pretty solid squirt without straining should be fine.
After a set amount of time, the silicone will be fully cured and ready to remove. The EcoFlex 00-30 I used, is 4-5 hours. Silicone is pretty tough stuff. You have to take some care not rip it, but you have a pretty wide birth. Don't be afraid to be a little assertive when removing your Tardigrade.


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Q: Indexing PostGIS table by tile boundaries I have a PostGIS table with 2M rows, all Points. I'm creating tiles from the data, but it's quite slow.
Although I have the normal geometry indexes enabled on the table, I wonder if it's possible to index better according to tile boundaries (which are alwayws the same).
Or is the normal geom_idx taking care of this already?

A: It is in fact possible. And it may even cluster a little better (especially for polygons). I recommend using a quadtile key/quadkey/quadtree system to refer to the item's tile. See http://www.maptiler.org/google-maps-coordinates-tile-bounds-projection/ for some visualization, well documented code, and explanation of different ways to refer to and calculate a tile.


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Q: Problem with importing softmax from scipy and using it once imported from sklearn I have installed scipy using conda.
When I try to import softmax from scipy I get an error:
from scipy.special import softmax
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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-34-35eed14e1f88> in <module>
----> 1 from scipy.special import softmax

ImportError: cannot import name 'softmax' from 'scipy.special' (C:\Users\Alienware\Anaconda3\envs\tf2\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py)

On the other hand I can import softmax from sklearn but then I get an exception when I try to put it in use:
from sklearn.utils.extmath import softmax
X = np.array([[2, 3], [4,5]])
softmax(X)
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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-35-781ae2561cff> in <module>
      1 X = np.array([[2, 3], [4,5]])
----> 2 softmax(X)

~\Anaconda3\envs\tf2\lib\site-packages\sklearn\utils\extmath.py in softmax(X, copy)
    597     max_prob = np.max(X, axis=1).reshape((-1, 1))
    598     X -= max_prob
--> 599     np.exp(X, X)
    600     sum_prob = np.sum(X, axis=1).reshape((-1, 1))
    601     X /= sum_prob

TypeError: ufunc 'exp' output (typecode 'd') could not be coerced to provided output parameter (typecode 'l') according to the casting rule ''same_kind''

A: The first part of your question is probably answered by the comment and boils down to the version of SciPy you're using simply being one that doesn't include softmax. For the second part, the error message suggests that it's failing to convert a double to a long; you can get around this by simply using only doubles in your input:
In [13]: softmax(X.astype(np.double))
Out[13]:
array([[0.26894142, 0.73105858],
       [0.26894142, 0.73105858]])

That softmax does not work with integers is also apparent from the documentation and is by design:

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A: I solved this problem by upgrading scikit-learn and scipy to the newest version:
pip install --upgrade scikit-learn scipy


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4 Ways To Never, Ever Use Jargon Again
You can use lots of words that don't mean anything or you can speak like a real person and be a more effective communicator.
[Image: Flickr user Steve Johnson]
By Gwen Moran 3 minute Read
Listen up, everyone who's leveraging a new paradigm to monetize and optimize a business: Andy Craig–not to mention most of the rest of us–wants it to stop.
Craig and Dave Yewman, cofounders of Elevator Speech, a communication consulting company they run from Austin and Portland, Oregon, respectively, are and trying to get all of us to become better communicators by speaking more like we do on the weekends.
"When we go to a party on Saturday night, we don't walk up to a group of people and say, 'Let me tell you how I optimized my calendar last Wednesday to monetize my business. You tell people a story about what happened. They laugh and ask questions. Then, they go across the room and tell someone else," he says.
With such an exchange, Craig says you've just accomplished one of communication's toughest objectives–getting someone to share what you're saying, he says. Your story passed the "So what? Who cares?" test, he says.
He asked a team of 15 executives what "optimization" means. He received seven different definitions.
Some people feel that using jargon makes them sound smarter or fit in better at work, but Craig argues that it obscures meaning. At a workshop Craig led at a former employer, he asked a team of 15 executives what "optimization" means. He received seven different definitions. The most troubling part of that was that the company was a price optimization software company.
And it's not just the common folk who aren't understanding a litany of jargon. New York University physicist Alan D. Sokal wrote an essay entitled, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" which was published in academic journal Social Text in 1996.
The fact that no one bothered to question what all of the inflated language really meant, and that the hoax slipped past the editorial team and made it into print, speaks to how much we've accepted meaningless words that we don't understand.
If a few too many "paradigms" and "onboardings" have slipped into your vocabulary lately, don't despair. Craig says we're already good at the type of storytelling that really resonates with people because it's how most of us speak to others when we're outside of work. He offers a few tips to say more with fewer words.
1. Pay attention to how you speak.
The real "dumbing down" of our language comes when we shift from our ability to connect and communicate when we're relaxed and somewhat informal to when we use "overthought, overwrought words that don't mean anything," Craig says.
Think of the last time you told a story that made other people react. What sorts of descriptions did you use? How did you structure the story? What was it about the story that made them laugh or get angry? Those are clues to how you can be more effective in your workplace communications.
2. Use simple language to make people care.
It may seem like everyone uses jargon, but you'll be a breath of fresh air if you master the art of simple communication, Craig says. Once, when he worked with the CEO of a major golf company, Craig asked the man to explain what his company did. At first, the CEO said, "We're the leading multichannel retail of golf products equipment and services," Craig recalls.
If the word isn't in the dictionary, there's a good chance it's jargon, and you should ditch it.
But after 15 minutes of questions and discussion he finally blurted out, "We're a candy store for golfers." That kind of colorful analogy gives people an image and makes them interested in what you have to say, he adds.
3. Stop using words that are not in the dictionary.
Jargon enthusiasts often make up words like "bouncebackability" and "recontextualizes." If the word isn't in the dictionary, there's a good chance the word is jargon, and you should ditch it, he says.
4. Use examples.
One of the most powerful storytelling methods is to illustrate a concept by using an example or anecdote. So, if you're claiming that your company changes the lives of busy working parents, follow that up with a story about someone whose life was changed in the way you're trying to explain.
Craig says this type of buzzword boot camp is essential. In business, when people don't understand what you're saying, you could be missing out on promotions, investments in your company, and greater sales. It's hard to get excited about language that muddies your meaning.
He insists that choosing clear language over jargon isn't "dumbing it down." "It's easier and lazier to say, 'We're the leading provider of mission-critical seamless solutions that optimize, monetize, and operationalize your business' than it is to come up with that drop-dead simple explanation that anyone can understand," he says.
Gwen Moran is a writer, editor, and creator of Bloom Anywhere, a website for people who want to move up or move on. She writes about business, leadership, money, and assorted other topics for leading publications and websites
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Outperformance without Better Stock-Picking
Posted on March 4, 2017 | 3 comments
NERVES OF STEEL
The Little Newsletter That Crushed the Market
The Prudent Speculator has more than tripled the broad stock market since 1980. What's its secret?
By MARK HULBERT
Feb. 23, 2017 5:48 a.m. ET
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It pays to have nerves of steel.
That's the most important lesson to emerge from the Prudent Speculator's position as one of this country's most successful investment newsletters of the past four decades.
The advisory service, which celebrates its 40th birthday March 10, has pursued a riskier strategy than almost all other newsletters—far riskier than many investors can tolerate. But those who could and did were richly rewarded. Its advice has made more money over the past 40 years than any of the nearly 200 other services monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest.
CSInvestor: the author defines risk as volatility!
Since mid-1980, when we began monitoring the investment newsletter industry, through the end of January, the Prudent Speculator's model portfolios on average produced a 16,937% gain, versus 4,952% for buying and holding the broad stock market (as measured by the Wilshire 5000 index).
That's equivalent to the difference between 15.1% and 11.3%, annualized. (These performance numbers assume all model-portfolio transactions were executed on the day a subscriber would have been able to act on the newsletter's advice; dividends and transaction costs, but not taxes, were taken into account.) To put this into perspective, consider that the best-performing U.S. equity mutual fund over this same period produced an annualized return of 13.6%, or 1.5 percentage points per year less than the Prudent Speculator. (The fund, according to Thomson Reuters Lipper, was Waddell & Reed Advisors Science & Technology [ticker: UNSCX]).
The Prudent Speculator newsletter, which was founded in March 1977 by Al Frank and is based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., was initially named the Pinchpenny Speculator. Frank had become interested in investing several years earlier while working toward his Ph.D. in educational philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He started the newsletter in part to report on the performance of his personal portfolio. From the start, his strategy was to purchase undervalued stocks and hold them through for the very long term. The newsletter's current yearly subscription rate is $295.
In the 1990s, Frank—who died in 2002—began handing the newsletter over to an associate, John Buckingham, now 51, who had been with the firm since 1987. The transition to Buckingham has been unusually successful; the norm in the newsletter business is for services to either languish or close down completely upon the death of their founders. Not in this case. On a risk-adjusted basis, the newsletter's model portfolios have performed even better over the past two decades than in the first two.
What's the secret to the newsletter's success?
It's definitely not market timing, since it has actively argued against market timing throughout its history. Most commentators assume that the newsletter must owe its success to superior stock selection. But though the newsletter's stock-picking has been commendable, many other advisors favor stocks with similar characteristics.
Not for the Faint of Heart
Perfomance of the Prudential Speculator
Source: www.HulbertRatings.com
Recent examples of the newsletter's picks include Zimmer Biomet Holdings (ZBH),Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Nike (NKE), Schlumberger (SLB), and Digital Realty Trust (DLR). In an interview, Buckingham insisted that he pursues value wherever he can find it. But my computer's statistical software shows that the newsletter's recommended stocks tilt to the value end of the value-versus-growth spectrum and the quality end of the so-called quality-versus-junk spectrum, and tend to have smaller market values than the components of broad market averages such as the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
If neither market timing nor stock selection is the key to the Prudent Speculator's outstanding long-term record, what is? In my opinion, it's those nerves of steel I referred to above.
Almost all other advisors who recommend smaller-cap, higher-quality value stocks are unwilling to hold them through thick and thin. Though these value-oriented advisers have longer holding periods than most others, their average currently is 18 months. The average holding period of the Prudent Speculator's currently held stocks, by contrast, is four years. And there have been many times during the newsletter's history when its average holding period was even longer than four years. Its current holding period is this short because the market's extraordinary strength has propelled many of its previously recommended stocks above their target prices.
By selling out too early, Buckingham told Barron's, other advisors find themselves with either one or two strikes against them. The first strike applies even if those advisors immediately reinvest the proceeds of their premature sales in other undervalued stocks: They still leave too much money on the table, since
The second strike is when advisors go to cash after selling. These advisors often end up bailing out of stocks near the bottom of bear markets. Because it almost always takes them a long time to get back into equities after the market begins to recover, they enjoy only some of the market's recovery after suffering the bulk of its decline—and therefore lag the market over the long term.
By not deviating from its commitments to equities, the Prudent Speculator sidesteps both of these strikes.
Consider Frank's reaction to the 1987 crash—the biggest one-day drop in U.S. stock-market history, during which Frank's model portfolio lost nearly 60%. Far from cashing in his chips and going home, as most of us would have been tempted to do in the wake of a one-day loss that big, Frank said he saw no reason to alter the basics of his long-term strategy.
Similarly, consider Buckingham's advice to clients on March 9, 2009, the day that turned out to be the bottom of the 2007-09 bear market—though of course no one at that time could have known that. Buckingham's average model portfolio was sitting with a loss of more than 60% since the 2007 high, and yet his message to clients that day—as it had been every other day during that bear market—was that "our long-term enthusiasm [for stocks] remains intact."
Many investors no doubt find it boring to remain fully invested to stocks through thick and thin and to hold stocks for many years. In fact, Buckingham says, one of the most challenging parts of his job as newsletter editor is continually finding new and interesting ways of saying the same thing: Remain focused on the long term with patience and discipline.
Easier said than done–90% of investing is character.
Note: He leans toward smaller (more apt to be mispriced) stocks, value more than growth (so he faces lest risk of overpaying for growth), quality over junk (so less chance of bankruptcy risk), and then allows AT LEAST four years for value to come out or be recognized. His edge is his patient, long-term perspective.
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Changes to the absentee owner surcharge to be aware of
Be aware of absentee owner surcharge changes, warns Parke Lawyers
Recent changes to the absentee owner surcharge (an increased land tax liability that applies to Victorian land owned by an absentee owner), highlight the need for property investors to seek up to date financial and legal advice, according to Parke Lawyers.
The latest amendments to the Land Tax Act 2005, which came in to effect as from 19 December, extend the existing exemption available to absentee corporations conducting a commercial operation in Australia, to absentee trusts, subject to guidelines to be published by the Treasurer. The changes also affect how absentee owner surcharge liability is calculated for land held under a chain of trusts.
These changes to surcharge laws and the separate introduction of the Vacant Residential Land Tax to come into force on 1 January 2018, highlight the importance of owners and investors engaging professional assistance to protect their legal and financial position, Parke Lawyers Managing Director Jim Parke says.
Subject to certain exemptions, an absentee owner surcharge increases land tax on Victorian land owned by an absentee person – be they an individual, corporation or trust – who owns property.
For non-citizens or permanent residents who do not ordinarily reside in Australia, are absent from Australia on December 31 or for six months in one year; the surcharge will apply in the next land tax year.
The surcharge is calculated on the total taxable value of Victorian land owned and will be included in the Victorian land tax assessment.
Absentee owners must inform the State Revenue Office before 15 January 2018 using the Absentee Owner Notification Portal – www.sro.vic.gov.au/node/5773 Failure to notify may give rise to penalty tax liability under the Taxation Administration Act 1997 ranging from 5% to up to 90%.
Under the amendments to the Land Tax Act applicable to trusts, certain absentee beneficiaries of an absentee trust may be eligible for an exemption from the surcharge.
Mr Parke, who is an accredited business law specialist, says the effect of an exemption is that the absentee beneficiary is taken to be a beneficiary who is not an absentee beneficiary.
The result is that the absentee beneficiary who holds an exemption will not be considered an absentee beneficiary, and will be exempt from the surcharge.
The way the absentee owner surcharge is calculated for land held under a chain of trusts, or sub-trust, structure is also changing in the 2018 tax year.
If you are a specified beneficiary in a chain of trusts (in which a trustee holds an interest in a second trust on trust for a beneficiary of their trust), changes to the calculation of the surcharge may affect you.
The proportion of interests in the land subject to the trust held by absentee beneficiaries should be reviewed. If this has changed since the previous notification, authorities need to be informed of the updated interests.
The State Government advises that it is important to let authorities know if land is held under a chain of trusts, so that the correct information is at hand to ensure a correct assessment.
For advice from our property law experts, contact us.
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Equality of outcome is a concept, realisable through state policies and systems, in which all individuals have approximately the same material wealth and income. This is in opposition to the concept of meritocracy where the successes of individuals is determined by their abilities, regardless of inequalities of outcome. Revolutionary socialists, in particular, support equality of outcome, whilst social democrats and third-way 'socialists' are much more sceptical of this concept. Whilst it can be argued that socialists are committed to equality to a significant extent; this essay will argue that the differing tensions within socialism dispute whether equality of outcome is practical or indeed required for a fairer society.
Revolutionary socialists support equality of outcome. Marx and Engels believed in common ownership over means of production within a communist economy. Marx famously declared, From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs", which has been widely interpreted as his desire to create a society where needs were not determined by effort or other factors. The existing state – that is biased toward the ruling bourgeois class thrives on inequality, and stands in favour of hostility and competition. This state should be overthrown in social revolutions to establish communist institutions as part of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (this was seen in the Russian revolution 1918-21). As a 'class consciousness' develops with the proletariat becomes aware of their exploitation, they will seek to strive for equality between workers. Although Rosa Luxembourg warned against undemocratic, dictatorial revolutions that diminished the proletariat, she also accepted the need for equality of outcome. These revolutions are inevitable as capitalism is inherently unsustainable as 'surplus value' eventually runs out of consumer markets and collapses. Revolutionary socialists aspire towards a society where the economy is centrally-planned with common ownership over means of production, determined solely by human need. This will eradicate socio-economic inequality as all individuals are entitled to the same and equal rewards of labour, dismissing differential outcomes based on abilities. This is further enabled by curtailing private ownership and resolving the inherent contradiction within capitalism between production and wealth accumulation. Thus, revolutionary socialists are committed to equality of outcome to a significant extent.
Social democrats support equality of outcome to a much lesser extent than revolutionary socialists, favouring equality of opportunity instead. Some see equality of outcome to be desirable but unachievable, instead they opt for the "inevitability of gradualness" as Beatrice Webb called for. Webb dismissed the Marxist belief in class conflict, supporting the introduction of socialism via democratic institutions (evolutionary socialism). In this way, social democrats oppose the revolutionary overthrowing of the state and reject the Marxist view of capitalism. She argued a more evolutionary approach, calling for incremental changes to Capitalism, would lead inevitably to a more Socialist society. This is achieved through state intervention and managed Capitalism, argued by the revisionist Crossland as the best way to create a fairer society. He called for universal benefits a mixed economy and state intervention particularly in creating opportunities for all. Crosland looked to State education, public housing and income maintenance for the liberation of potential that would make the selective process of competitive capitalism into a genuinely fair race. Although equality of opportunity may lead to differing outcomes, social democrats saw equal opportunity as a means to denying massive income and wealth inequalities. Revolutionaries would argue that social democrats were at best naive to accept a market economy would ever create equality, instead they stood guilty of furthering inequalities by giving life to Capitalism.
Unlike revolutionary socialists, third-way 'socialists' dismiss the concept of equality of outcome altogether. Giddens rejected state intervention as encouraging a culture of dependency, and discouraging investment and entrepreneurship through the eradication of financial inducements. In this way, third-way socialists promote the priority of the market over the state, rejecting 'top-down' state intervention (exhibited under revolutionary and, to a lesser extent, social democracy socialism) in favour of further privatisation and de-regulation as the opposite stifles economic growth. Third-way socialists hold a belief in a 'competitive state' that develops the skills and knowledge base of the workforce, improving job prospects of individuals and boosting economic growth – as opposed to common ownership. He called this "equality of inclusion" and argued his approach stood between market Capitalism and social democracy, suggesting his thinking was in line with the ultimate aims of socialism. Unlike revolutionary socialism that holds a belief that private ownership within laissez-faire capitalism perpetuates socio-economic inequality and the oppression of the proletariat, these socialists do not necessarily oppose the huge accumulation of private wealth, instead they promote targeted welfare toward socially-marginalised groups as part of the concept of social inclusion to promote equality of opportunity and genuine meritocracy (social justice). This can be seen in a raft of policies under Tony Blairs government, influenced by the Third Way, investing in schools and hospitals but making choice the enabler to success as well as introducing tax credits for the poorest of families. Thus, third-way socialists are not committed to equality of outcome but Giddens would say they belong to the socialist tradition because he, like social democrats such as Webb, want to achieve equality for all. Social Democrats would argue against Giddens, suggesting his form of equality would be too weak to work against immense wealth disparities. Revolutionaries would question the 'socialist' credentials of Giddens and would claim his commitment to the free market in effect brought him closer to Capitalism.
Most socialists aspire to an equal society but do not agree on equality of outcomes. Revolutionary socialists are committed to equality of outcome that can only be realised through revolution. On the other hand, social democrats although believe in the ideal of equality of outcome, favour equality of opportunity through the expansion of the state to introduce socialist policies to ensure social justice, they see this as practical and creating harmony between the owners of capital and the workers. The Third Way reject equality of outcome and neither see it as an ideal or a positive measure of success.
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História do Calendário é um livro escrito pelo prof. Hernâni Donato, da Academia Paulista de Letras, cuja primeira edição foi publicada em 1976.

Sinopse
A rigor, não há um só momento em que o Homem não se tenha preocupado com as limitações que o Tempo lhe impõe e, por conta disso, ele passou toda a sua história criando sistemas, construindo aparelhos, conferindo dados, apelando para os astros, no esforço de conhecê-lo, medí-lo e, se possível, controlá-lo.

Essa obra do prof. Donato pretende ser um esboço da História dessa tentativa jamais concluída, nunca plenamente safisfatória e, por isso, sempre renovada, como o prova a necessidade de retirar 1 segundo do dia 31 de dezembro de 1977, para corrigir - dentro da escala TUC (Tempo Universal Coordenado) - o atraso consequente à verificação de que o planeta vem girando mais devagar em torno de seu eixo.

Como é dito na apresentação da obra, "enquanto houver homem e houver tempo, haverá luta entre eles"

Bibliografia
 Donato, Henâni. História do Calendário. S.Paulo: Cia. Melhoramentos de São Paulo, 2a. Edição, 1978

Livros de 1978.

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Montbard is een kanton van het Franse departement Côte-d'Or. Het kanton maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Montbard.

Gemeenten
Het kanton Montbard omvatte tot 2014 de volgende 28 gemeenten:

 Arrans
 Asnières-en-Montagne
 Athie
 Benoisey
 Buffon
 Champ-d'Oiseau
 Courcelles-lès-Montbard
 Crépand
 Éringes
 Fain-lès-Montbard
 Fain-lès-Moutiers
 Fresnes
 Lucenay-le-Duc
 Marmagne
 Montbard (hoofdplaats)
 Montigny-Montfort
 Moutiers-Saint-Jean
 Nogent-lès-Montbard
 Quincerot
 Quincy-le-Vicomte
 Rougemont
 Saint-Germain-lès-Senailly
 Saint-Rémy
 Seigny
 Senailly
 Touillon
 Villaines-les-Prévôtes
 Viserny

Door de herindeling van de kantons bij decreet van 18 februari 2014, met uitwerking op 22 maart 2015, werd het uitgebreid met volgende 29 gemeenten:
 Alise-Sainte-Reine
 Boux-sous-Salmaise
 Bussy-le-Grand
 Charencey
 Corpoyer-la-Chapelle
 Darcey
 Étais
 Flavigny-sur-Ozerain
 Fontaines-les-Sèches
 Frôlois
 Gissey-sous-Flavigny
 Grésigny-Sainte-Reine
 Grignon
 Hauteroche
 Jailly-les-Moulins
 Marigny-le-Cahouët
 Ménétreux-le-Pitois
 Mussy-la-Fosse
 Nesle-et-Massoult
 Planay
 Pouillenay
 La Roche-Vanneau
 Salmaise
 Source-Seine
 Thenissey
 Venarey-les-Laumes
 Verdonnet
 Verrey-sous-Salmaise
 La Villeneuve-les-Convers

Montbard


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"Blunt Review SCB"
Blunt Mag
Southern Cross Bones
Shrine/Shock
BLUNT MAGAZINE ISSUE 52
It's taken Unpaid Debt a while (three EPs, to be precise) to get to this stage, but upon listening to Southern Cross Bones, it's easy to see why they waited. Their debut LP is an assured slice of frenetic punk rock, devoid of the mistakes and hero-worship that usually characterise first albums. Instead, the boys showcase their now-distinctive style, treating us to twelve tracks of stinging twin guitars and chaotic drum work. The punk element is at the forefront, but there are '70s rock influences, too, which make for a well-rounded listening experience. Like The Living End, the band has a lot to say, but they wrap their political and social messages up in catchy melody lines so as not to overwhelm. A little samey at times, Southern Cross Bones is nonetheless an impressive debut that easily stands up to Unpaid Debt's peers, both here and overseas. JH
- Blunt (next Media
"southern Cross Bones album review"
Bombshell Zine
I could tell you that Unpaid Debt is Sydney's most energetic punk rock band in recent years. I could also tell you that Unpaid Debt has played alongside some of the biggest names in punk rock from Lagwagon to Hard-Ons. If you're an inch familiar with Unpaid Debt, you don't need me to sell the band to you. But if you're one of those hermits who's been asleep under a rock for the past few years, then you need to race to your nearest local and score yourself a copy of Southern Cross Bones. Southern Cross Bones is a straight up punk rock album that is free from tricks and gimmicks. And in this day and age when some bands are more interested in fashioning their tunes with a bevy of technological advancements, Unpaid Debt has revoked such refuse to bring to the Aussie scene a feverish punk rock release. From the onset of Drinking With My Stereo and The Working Week, Unpaid Debt are portrayed as the epitome of the Aussie working class society, antheming from the knowledge of working to the bone and embodying the blood, sweat and tears that is an Aussie punk rock band. Through their debut full-length, Unpaid Debt have successfully devised a 12-track monster, uncompromising on the riffs and screams whilst forging an argumentative stance that punk rock is far from dead in this country. Unpaid Debt will soon be riding the success of their most pertinent release to date and the band has instilled the circle-pit ideal that each track can and will be as anthemic and as passionate as the next. Just take Weigh Me Down, Stitches and the brutal West Of The City. They're enough to have you jumping out of your seat and busting a one-man circle on your own living room floor as you reach for the extreme end of your volume dial. Not only is Southern Cross Bones an album that demands every ounce of your energy and a compulsory white-knuckled fist in the air, it'll immediately snap you out of your daydream and into the hard-knocking reality of Aussie punk rock. And if that's not enough to get your blood pumping, then I have no idea what's left out there for you. Just make sure you have the guts and stamina to keep up with this album.
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Hailing from Western Sydney, Unpaid Debt have such accolades to their name as winning Triple J's Unearthed competition, as well as supporting the likes of Mad Caddies, Goldfinger, Against Me, Guttermouth, The Vandals and the band's heroes, The Bouncing Souls.
The four piece have been kicking it for quite some time now, with four EPs to their name, going back as far as 2001, however Unpaid Debt of today are a vastly different band to then. Numerous re-shuffles have occurred in the lineup over the past three or four years, this has stabilised over the past year or so with Joey on vocals, Damo on drums, Harry with his blisteringly technical bass playing, and Nathan with lightning fretwork on the six-string.
August saw the release of UD's long awaited debut long player, Southern Cross Bones, produced by Lachlan Mitchell and released on Shrine Recordings. It's thirteen tracks in all, and surprisingly it's less chaotic (in a good way) and a little more varied than you would expect from their live shows.
Album opener, Noose Song, is full of palm-muted goodness and gets straight into the punk rock/pub rock sing-a-long feel with the repeated shouts of "Shut up! Shut up!" In under three minutes it's into Drinking With My Stereo (what working class punk band could get away without a song about drinking?), beginning with very Chris Cheney-esque string bending. Even on first listen you get the impression this will end up being one of the highlights.
The Working Weak is the lead 'single' from the album, very catchy and surprisingly harmonic for someone with an almost stereotypically Aussie voice as singer, Joey Debt. Songs like this make it really hard to understand why UD aren't one of our major punk exports.
It's crazy just how strong the first half of the album is. Southern Cross Bones (the song) will whip dull and lazy punters into a circle pit frenzy, Weigh Me Down is grand and anthemic, and Stitches again brings out sing-a-longs similar to what you'd imagine from the likes of the Dropkick Murphys sans the bagpipes.
West of The City starts with an appropriately western feel, as if the backing score to an American cowboy movie with Clint Eastwood stepping out onto the middle of a dirt road preparing for a good old fashioned gun slingin'.
Nathan really gets a chance to show off his tricky fingers on Us Against The World, and Daiman Sutherland of Irrelevant guests on the track with his unique strained vocal style.
Closing the album is This Coffin. It starts with an almost ska-ish style to it. It's the darkest sounding song on the album, though don't be expecting it to be some lame attempt to fit in with what's cool at the moment. It's still completely Unpaid Debt, and is a perfect example of the band experimenting with their own sound a little, without removing their trademark feel.
Forget Frenzal Rhomb, these guys are what you should be listening to! Southern Cross Bones has to be the best local punk rock release of the year, so get down to your local record store (or even better, a show) and pick up a copy. A totally worthy release!
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"Southern Cross Bones review"
Shrine / Shock
Review by Dominic Pearce
After already garnering a fairly solid fan base on the strength of their EPs (their most recent Broken Hearts…Broken Bones is still in high demand), Unpaid Debt finally bring to the table their first full-length.
These twelve tracks bear all the hallmarks of good, solid so-cal punk: righteous vocal harmonies coupled with fast, intense guitar licks solidified by a blistering and unrelenting rhythm section. What puts Unpaid Debt at the forefront of their contemporaries, however, is the integrity of their work and command of their genre. While numerous other punk acts either sound like their trying too hard, or not trying at all, Unpaid Debt make no bones (pun not intended) about what they are and the music they make, and the quality of the work is all the better because of it.
Given how many acts have moved on from this era of punk and embraced more recent trend styles of music, it's impressive to see such a solid punk release in a music scene dominated by the pop-culture advent of screamo & hardcore. Tracks like This Coffin and Drinking With My Stereo contain inflections of ska and rockabilly, while Stitches and The Working Weak are straight up, chant intensive punk anthems.
Joey Debt's unassailable vocal bite is both powerful and melodic when it needs to be, Nibbs and Elliot provide a blitzkrieg of a rhythm section, and Thomas' guitar drives the music with fast, distorted precision. Lachlan Mitchell's production puts the levels in the right place, opting for a raw, honest sound to the music as opposed to something more production heavy.
It's refreshing to see a band creating music so honest and free of public persuasion, especially in the realm of punk. Where others may sound like clichéd imitations, a band like this shows how it should be done. It's certainly one for fans of the genre, but at any rate, Southern Cross Bones is a top-notch Australian punk release.
- Rockus
"live review w/h bouncing souls"
The Bouncing Souls (USA) & Frenzal Rhomb - Words by Rockpig [fasterlouder.com.au]
"Unpaid Debt been doing their thing for a number of years with a healthy fanbase out west, with their fair share of lineup changes over the years (like headliners Frenzal Rhomb, only contain one original member) but as they took to the stage tonight looked like they were settled right into doing exactly what they wanted to do. Rock the crowd. It took the punters a few songs to get a wriggle on as they all made their way towards the front, they blasted out their rock/punk anthemic tracks to set the mood for the bands to follow. The energy lifted towards the end of the their set as they busted out one of their token old tracks 'I'm So Happy I Could Shit' which was quickly followed on by the sets highlight, a newer numbers 'Verity' which really had the crowd at a peak. A perfomance which had the punk rock of Rancid combined with the rock'n'roll of The Living End and left the crowd a satisfied bunch as they prepared for The Bouncing Souls."
"live review - Annandale Hotel"
"Unpaid Debt are a riot. They scream into a full tilt boogie mix of hardcore, Oi, Old school and punk.
Id heard their EP "ugly on the inside" last year and was suitable impressed but seeing them live i am now a card carrying Debtophile.
These lads have energy and then some. Raw and amped then cruising with the slightest hint of reggae and 80's rock with a balistic rhythm driving fist in the air blast beats- lead bloke crooning then barking out warm melodies as the band drives and drives almost falling of the edge.
Its a testament to their tightness that they keep it together ......
A must See
- Drum Media
"Live review w/h Mad Caddies"
Recent NSW "unearthed" winners Unpaid Debt took to the Gealic stage and proved why they won the highly sort after radio contest.
A four to the floor energetic mix of 90's punk and 80's guitar flare.
As Chuck Robertson of the Mad Caddies watched on entertained from the side of the stage, the members of Unpaid Debt bounced relentlessly around the stage, off their amps and drum kit. While the guitar twiddled to mass applause to the up tempo tracks like "im so happy I could shit" and of cause the now familiar "Verity", the crowd revelled in it, getting warmed up for the Caddies.
With an Elvis Costello number thrown in for good measure the group left the stage and should be proud of their performance. - Drum Media
"Southern Cross Bones" LP
Released August 2006 through Shrine Records/Shock
"Broken Hearts...Broken Bones" EP
Released October 2004 through Chatterbox Records/MGM
"Ugly On The Inside" EP
Released September 2002 Independently / MGM
"Talk to the Hand" EP (out of print)
Released April 2001 Independently
"The Suckerpunch EP" (out of print)
Perhaps it's about being in the right place at the right time, perhaps it's about hard work and dedication.
For Sydney's punk rockers Unpaid Debt it's about both.
So when the opportunity came up to support their life long idols, a dream became a reality and a burning desire to excel was augmented. Having the chance to perform alongside the Bouncing Souls twice would definitely have been a pivotal point for the career of Sydney's Unpaid Debt. Firstly the US punkers took them under their wings, treated them as equals and gave them a chance to impress and be impressed. Secondly it saw the more formal introduction to the Frenzal Rhomb lads who, on the same tour took such a liking to the four piece couldn't look past them as inclusions on Lindsay's 'Rock Against Howard' Compilation with their anthemic track Call it a Day. It also forged a solid friendship with the fellow Sydneysiders. Thirdly and possibly most notably, it was only a few weeks after these gigs that saw the Unpaid Debt crew get chosen from over three thousand entrants to win the illustrious and extravagant New South Wales edition of the Unearthed competition held by national radio station Triple J. Verity the unearthed track was added to Triple J rotation, hit No 6 in the net 50 and was added to the hottest 100 nominations.
But it doesn't stop there…
No strangers to sharing the stage with the big guns, you name them Unpaid Debt has probably supported them. The Mad Caddies, Goldfinger, Against Me!, New Found Glory, Guttermouth, The Hard-Ons, The Vandals, less than Jake, Melincolin, NO FX are just a few that spring to mind.
Need further proof?
After turning heads on a support show with US legends Lagwagon in 2003, the band asked for Unpaid Debt to tour nationally alongside them in October of 2004. Hours upon hours on the road has become an experience all too familiar for the band and can only be equalled by the amount of hours spent in the recording studio.
Past History
Since their formation in 2000, Unpaid Debt recorded their first six-track EP The Sucker Punch and a year later recorded another ten tracks for their second EP Talk to the Hand. Of which, this EP was voted as 'CD of the Week' in Revolver Magazine and 'Best Local Release' in Mixdown's punk poll for 2001. Again a year later, this time with the help of MGM Distribution, the Ugly on the Inside EP was recorded and the track No Apologies reached the number 1 position on MP3.com's punk charts and remained as one of the most downloaded tracks for over twelve weeks.
It was time to once again lay down tracks for their latest EP release Broken Hearts and Broken Bones this time arousing attention from the offices of Chatterbox Records who are releasing the six-track EP. Including the winning 'Unearthed' track Verity, the EP is set to sent the band on a National tour in November 2004. Presented by Triple J, Blunt Magazine and Bombshell Zine, it seems these guys make an impression with everything they do.
Saw the band take in almost every inch of our big brown land and forge firm fans from Sydney to Perth and also saw their Broken Hearts EP go into its forth pressing as well as a hand shake pressing deal with MGM as the demand grew for their previous recordings
Unpaid Debt spent most of their time in 05 till March 06 in the studio they demoed 48 songs for their latest recording which has been recorded at Standing Wave and produced by Lachlan Mitchell
The album titled Southern Cross Bones was released September 06 to rave reviews from Music media and fans alike, the first single has spent a lions share of time in the indie charts and on rotation on Triple J radio as well as being nominated in the Triple J Hotest 100 and having the clip aired on Rage, Channel V and MTV.
Unpaid Debt will be releasing a DVD in September 07 this is a fly on the wall doco of the last three years of the bands carreer.
Perhaps it's about being in the right place at the right time, perhaps it's about hard work & dedication.
Whatever it is, the Unpaid Debt crew are making a noise that is impossible to ignore.
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VUE Audiotechnik Inspires at Valley Bible Fellowship
By robp@dpagan.com
LAS VEGAS, DECEMBER 10, 2015 – Myriad terms have been used to describe live audio systems, but rarely has anyone chosen the word "inspiring." But that is exactly the word that JP Dutton, Worship Director for the Valley Bible Fellowship used to describe the VUE Audiotechnik system recently installed in the house of worship's main sanctuary.
The church recently turned to H.A.S. Productions to install a new system based around the VUE al-Class and moved its full-scale Pennsylvania–based competitor's rig that had been in the room into a separate youth room. "This new system is so clear and present that it has changed everything for the worship team," Dutton explains. "There has not been a single service where I have not been stopped by members of the congregation and told not only how great it sounds, but how clearly they could hear each individual instrument. I was so inspired to sound as good as possible that I even went out and bought a new guitar."
The VUE rig is doing an audio miracle in a room that is not audio friendly. The building that Valley Bible Fellowship occupies was not designed as a worship space, unless the devotion is focused on footwear. Before the congregation moved in, the building was home to the largest shoe store in the Las Vegas Valley. While some acoustic treatment has been done on the sidewalls, it is more like audio first-aid than starting with a space optimized for amplified sound.
The system itself is a novel approach that was designed by VUE's Mike Adams and deployed at Valley Bible Fellowship for the first time. It combines a pair of al-4SB Ultra Compact Flyable Subwoofer boxes hung in an end-fire configuration above each of the 8-box hangs of VUE al-4 Subcompact Line Array Systems. These are supported by three powered, high performance hs-28 subs installed below the stage.
"The al-4 boxes are a lot bigger sounding than their size would imply," said H.A.S.'s Jay Easley. "But when coupling them directly with the hs-28 subs, in some cases, it can feel like the middle is less present. The al-4SB boxes flown above the arrays really help fill that out. This system is about one-third the size of the one it replaced and provides all the impact they need, along with much more clarity."
For Dutton it is about a full sound at a much lower volume. "The old system was made to sound best at about 110dB. So we were dealing with constant complaints about the volume. With the VUE system we get a sound that is really full and present but at a lot lower volume."
Dutton reports that it is not just him and the worship team that have noticed the difference. Valley Bible Fellowship hosts regular concert performances by some of the biggest names in the Contemporary Christian music space including Audio Adrenaline, Phil Wickham and Trip Lee. "We have had performers come to us after their show raving about how great the room sounds and how much better it is now with the VUE system installed."
While music is a crucial part of services at Valley Bible Fellowship, like most houses of worship, the most pressing audio need is for complete clarity and comprehension of the Message, which is mostly passed along through spoken word. The VUE system also shines in that capacity.
"We have had requests for things we were never able to do before since we had the VUE system put in," reports Dutton. "Last Sunday, we had a speaker delivering a message and he asked if I could just play in the background behind him to kind of fill things out. We never could have done that with our old system. The music would have made the words impossible to understand for many people in the room. But with this new VUE system, it was not a problem. I played and he spoke and everything was crystal clear.
"My mom always told me, 'The proof is in the pudding,'" Dutton continues. "We knew from the first demo that that this was a system that sounded great right out of the box and for a volunteer-bested house of worship like ours, that is really important. We have now been using the system for a few months and are very happy with everything about the new VUE system and the service from H.A.S. Productions."
About VUE Audiotechnik
With an unflinching focus on innovation through technology and a firm commitment to relationships, the VUE Audiotechnik team united in 2012. With more than a century of combined experience, VUE's founders have been at the epicenter of many of professional audio's most noted success stories. From visionary loudspeaker designs that set the tone for our industry today, to the development of the giants in modern sound reinforcement, the team's work has been felt and heard throughout the spectrum of professional audio. Since inception, VUE has experienced immediate acceptance and unparalleled growth. Though a relatively new addition to the lineup of professional audio loudspeaker manufacturers, VUE is already recognized as a leader in innovation. Explore our success stories at www.vueaudio.com.
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Habitat of Humanity of Kershaw County and a partnering local church started construction on House #23 during the winter of 1996. The family, a mom and her young son, moved in April of 1997. The mom was determined to get a home to call the family's own. She qualified with our affiliate and remained on our waiting list for over 2 years. With the help of Habitat for Humanity, her church, and other organizations, her goal was accomplished. Since achieving her goal of home ownership, Mom has gone back to college and is completing work on a Bachelor's Degree.


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Easy to customize and addicting to type with: Cooler Master CK720 Mechanical Keyboard Review
Source: Cooler Master
Over the past several years, keyboard customization has become a far more widespread practice. Browsing YouTube or TikTok, it's not uncommon to see a video of someone sharing their newest one-of-a-kind keyboard. No doubt this has a lot of gamers wanting to break into the hobby.
There are a few barriers, though. For one thing, there's a learning curve to customization: some specialized tools are required, and some study of how-to videos or articles is needed unless you're comfortable destroying everything you purchased. You can have someone else do it, but this is an expensive option — many times more so than the most premium mechanical keyboards on the market.
That's what made it so exciting when I received the Cooler Master CK720 — the organization's first mechanical keyboard intended for customization at an enthusiast level, but also designed for keyboard collectors and builders.
Cooler Master's Peripheral General Manager, Dennis Liu, explained it best, stating "The CK720 is our answer to a niche segment of the hobby that we've seen explode in recent years. Although gaming keyboards remain an essential offering of our company, we couldn't ignore the outpouring of feedback from our fans who wanted our signature quality in a hot-swappable mechanical keyboard."
On its own, the keyboard sounds great — there's great silicone padding, and it boasts Kailh Box V2 switches. Typing with them is different from most of the mechanical keyboards that I've used, but this is not a problem at all. The switches are excellent: smooth to the touch, tactile in action, with a subtle but satisfying sound. Of course, many people like something with more thock, but for those that want the enjoyment of a mechanical keyboard without being overly loud, this is a perfect choice.
What is great about the CK720, though, is its easy options for customization. Included in the box are eight 8 Cherry MX switches, along with a tool kit to swap out the keycaps and switches. While I have owned many mechanical keyboards, this was my first instance ever trying to customize one. I was a little intimidated at first. However, once I got a hold of the toolkit, I realized it would be a lot easier than expected.
Cooler Master makes it as simple as possible in changing out your keyboard. There's no screwdrivers or soldering required — customization is as easy as snapping together some LEGO bricks. According to Liu, the "wanted to make sure the CK720 is a great stepping stone into the hobby". They surely succeeded on that front. Removing keycaps is super simple, with the tool provided extremely reliable in this task. The told to remove the switches takes a bit mor precision, but it is far easier than conventional means.
With the Cherry MX switches, the level of thock is taken to infinity. It sounds great. Honestly, the only complaint I can give this board is that I wish the entire board consisted of Cherry MX switches. That is a personal preference, though.
Overall, the Cooler Master CK720 is a fantastic board. It is versatile enough to meet the demands of keyboard customizers, while being simple enough to allow newcomers a smooth entry into the hobby. And even on its own, ignoring the customization, it's simply a great keyboard,
Final verdict: 8/10
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Long drives at last for Opportunity (or, getting your kicks on sol 1,666)
It's been way, way, way too long since the view from either rover's cameras has changed very much. So I hope you'll join me in a shout of "woo hoo!" or perhaps "yippee!" as I show you the latest view from Opportunity, from sol 1,666, as automatically composed in Mike Howard's Midnight Mars Browser software:
Screen capture from Midnight Mars Browser, Opportunity sol 1,666 As of sol 1,666, Opportunity had driven about 250 meters south of Duck Bay, the point at which it had entered Victoria crater an Earth year before. In this panorama it is looking across Cape Victory toward the crater. Most of the panorama is built of larger Navcam frames; the smaller images in the center of the panorama are higher-resolution images taken with the Pancam, and indicate Opportunity's next likely drive direction.Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / Midnight Mars Browser (Michael Howard)
If you aren't among the people who have given over 25 GB of your hard drive to Midnight Mars Browser, Mike has helpfully exported this view as a Quicktime VR panorama, on which you can click and drag your mouse to spin the view around.
That hole in the ground is, of course, Victoria crater, Opportunity's neighborhood for the last Mars year or so. We're about to leave it in the rear-view mirror, but not before taking one last parting view. You don't even need to read A. J. S. Rayl's latest rover update (although you should go read that!) to figure out what's going to happen next; the only clues you need are in the panorama above. At the end of any long drive, the rovers usually grab at least a partial panorama with their Navigation Cameras (Navcams) to get a good fix on where they are. The Navcams are black-and-white only and are the lower-resolution of the rovers' mast-mounted cameras; you don't need very many Navcam images to make a complete 360-degree view around the rover. In the panorama above, you can see parts of five Navcam frames tiling Opportunity's horizon, and a further two that fill in the space immediately in front of the rover's wheels. But on top of that, you see four much smaller tiles. Those are Pancam frames. Pancam has roughly three times higher resolution than Navcam; the tradeoff is that it takes more Pancam shots to cover the world around Opportunity. So at the end of a drive, they take Pancam shots only in the direction that they plan to drive next, giving the rover drivers a detailed view of the terrain at a distance from the rover. On any Midnight Mars Browser panorama, the location of the Pancam shots tells you where the rover drivers are aiming Opportunity next. In this case, they're aimed at the crater rim -- so they're planning on driving Opportunity toward the rim, presumably to get a good look back at the crater.
Here's a tidbit of the route map maintained by Eduardo Tesheiner, with the basic outlines of Opportunity's near-term future path (as articulated by Steve Squyres) marked in blue.
Opportunity's short-term plans, sol 1,666 A close-up view of the path Opportunity's first two long drives after exiting Victoria crater, and the plans outlined by Steve Squyres for the upcoming sols of driving.Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UA / Eduardo Tesheiner
Here's a few snapshots from the recent spate of driving.
Sputnik crater, sol 1,661 At the end of a drive on sol 1,661, Opportunity looked to the side over a small but unusually deep hole in the ground, named Sputnik, to Victoria.Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Here's a view to the rear taken at the same time.
Paolo's Plunge and Bagnold, sol 1,661 Opportunity Navcam view of Victoria crater rim: Paolo's Plunge and Bagnold, sol 1,661Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
After that they quickly left Duck Bay behind. Here's the rear view after a long, long drive on sol 1,663. On the road again!
Opportunity looks back, sol 1,664 After a drive of more than 150 meters on sol 1,663, Opportunity took a day of rest to look around and contemplate its tracks on the rippled sand of Meridiani Planum.Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech
A. J. S. Rayl's latest rover update will fill you in on the upcoming plans for Opportunity. There's a great quote from principal investigator Steve Squyres in there: "We could have decided to do just go noodling around out on the plains, sniffing at cobbles until the wheels fall off. But you know, that just didn't feel to me like the right thing to do. These are the Mars Exploration Rovers. We decided that it would be good to set a really challenging, maybe impossible goal for ourselves, then take on the challenge of trying to meet it." I would bet you a case of beer that there are scientists on the team who secretly (and maybe not so secretly) would prefer to "noodle around" checking out the various piles of cobbles. But that's not Steve's way, and I'm glad. Steve's taking a risk here -- the risk being that what Opportunity will find along its journey might not be as scientifically exciting as what it may have found with noodling. But the journey will be so much more fun. The view will change from drive to drive, and you never know what'll be over the next sand ripple -- I'm confident that both scenic and scientific surprises await, no matter how good the reconnaissance is from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. I, for one, will be following the mission a lot more closely now than I have been.
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Hot August Fights – Rollerpalooza and This Weekend's Derby Events Nationwide!
As everyone knows, we love roller derby here at Brown Paper Tickets and we got a ton of derby events happening all over the country this weekend.
One of special interest to us is Rollerpalooza starting on Friday, August 19 in Coos Bay, Oregon. Our Derby Doer Bob Noxious is going to be in the house to help out. Bob travels all over the country helping out derby leagues with everything from announcing to coaching to helping them set up ticketing. If you're a derby league that needs a hand, get in touch with Bob and he can help you out.
Rollerpalooza is a weekend long derby festival that features clinics, scrimmages and tournaments from up and coming Northwest derby teams.
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Prepare to die yet again.
Namco Bandai has announced that From Software's dungeon-crawling, nightmarish RPG follow-up Dark Souls 2 is finally available in North America for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4. Created by a new director duo, Dark Souls 2 brings new enemies, new bosses, challenges and a new world to slog through in the effort to stay alive. It also boasts improved visuals over the original to further immerse you in the suffering you're about to endure.
Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Namco Bandai Games America Chris Gilbert stated that, "Possessing both technical and aesthetic improvements over its predecessor, Dark Souls II represents the pinnacle of From Software's development prowess on both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 systems.
Dark Souls 2 will also be releasing on April 25th for PC. You can check out our review of the game here.


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Jonathan's Loyalty to David
20 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and went and said to Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
2 So Jonathan said to him, "By no means! You shall not die! Indeed, my father will do nothing either great or small without first telling me. And why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!"
3 Then David took an oath again, and said, "Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But (A)truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
4 So Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you yourself desire, I will do it for you."
5 And David said to Jonathan, "Indeed tomorrow is the (B)New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go, that I may (C)hide in the field until the third day at evening. 6 If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked permission of me that he might run over (D)to Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.' 7 (E)If he says thus: 'It is well,' your servant will be safe. But if he is very angry, be sure that (F)evil is determined by him. 8 Therefore you shall (G)deal kindly with your servant, for (H)you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. Nevertheless, (I)if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?"
9 But Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! For if I knew certainly that evil was determined by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you?"
10 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me, or what if your father answers you roughly?"
11 And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out into the field." So both of them went out into the field. 12 Then Jonathan said to David: "The Lord God of Israel is witness! When I have [a]sounded out my father sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and indeed there is good toward David, and I do not send to you and tell you, 13 may (J)the Lord do so and much more to Jonathan. But if it pleases my father to do you evil, then I will report it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And (K)the Lord be with you as He has (L)been with my father. 14 And you shall not only show me the kindness of the Lord while I still live, that I may not die; 15 but (M)you shall not [b]cut off your kindness from my [c]house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth." 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the [d]house of David, saying, (N)"Let the Lord require it at the hand of David's enemies."
17 Now Jonathan again caused David to vow, because he loved him; (O)for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 18 Then Jonathan said to David, (P)"Tomorrow is the New Moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 19 And when you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to (Q)the place where you hid on the day of the deed; and remain by the stone Ezel. 20 Then I will shoot three arrows to the side, as though I shot at a target; 21 and there I will send a lad, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I expressly say to the lad, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them and come'—then, (R)as the Lord lives, there is safety for you and no harm. 22 But if I say thus to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you'—go your way, for the Lord has sent you away. 23 And as for (S)the matter which you and I have spoken of, indeed the Lord be between you and me forever."
24 Then David hid in the field. And when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat the feast. 25 Now the king sat on his seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall. And [e]Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty. 26 Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him; he is unclean, surely he is (T)unclean." 27 And it happened the next day, the second day of the month, that David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat, either yesterday or today?"
28 So Jonathan (U)answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. 29 And he said, 'Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me get away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the king's table."
30 Then Saul's anger was aroused against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now therefore, send and bring him to me, for he [f]shall surely die."
32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, (V)"Why should he be killed? What has he done?" 33 Then Saul (W)cast a spear at him to [g]kill him, (X)by which Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to kill David.
34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.
35 And so it was, in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad was with him. 36 Then he said to his lad, "Now run, find the arrows which I shoot." As the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 37 When the lad had come to the place where the arrow was which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried out after the lad and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?" 38 And Jonathan cried out after the lad, "Make haste, hurry, do not delay!" So Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows and came back to his master. 39 But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew of the matter. 40 Then Jonathan gave his [h]weapons to his lad, and said to him, "Go, carry them to the city."
41 As soon as the lad had gone, David arose from a place toward the south, fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another; and they wept together, but David more so. 42 Then Jonathan said to David, (Y)"Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the name of the Lord, saying, 'May the Lord be between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants, forever.' " So he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel 20:12 searched out
1 Samuel 20:15 stop being kind
1 Samuel 20:15 family
1 Samuel 20:25 So with MT, Syr., Tg., Vg.; LXX he sat across from Jonathan
1 Samuel 20:31 Lit. is a son of death
1 Samuel 20:33 strike him down
1 Samuel 20:40 equipment
1 Samuel 20:3 : 1 Sam. 27:1; 2 Kin. 2:6
1 Samuel 20:5 : Num. 10:10; 28:11–15
1 Samuel 20:5 : 1 Sam. 19:2, 3
1 Samuel 20:6 : 1 Sam. 16:4; 17:12; John 7:42
1 Samuel 20:7 : Deut. 1:23; 2 Sam. 17:4
1 Samuel 20:7 : 1 Sam. 25:17; Esth. 7:7
1 Samuel 20:8 : Josh. 2:14
1 Samuel 20:8 : 1 Sam. 18:3; 20:16; 23:18
1 Samuel 20:8 : 2 Sam. 14:32
1 Samuel 20:13 : Ruth 1:17; 1 Sam. 3:17
1 Samuel 20:13 : Josh. 1:5; 1 Sam. 17:37; 18:12; 1 Chr. 22:11, 16
1 Samuel 20:13 : 1 Sam. 10:7
1 Samuel 20:15 : 1 Sam. 24:21; 2 Sam. 9:1, 3, 7; 21:7
1 Samuel 20:16 : Deut. 23:21; 1 Sam. 25:22; 31:2; 2 Sam. 4:7; 21:8
1 Samuel 20:18 : 1 Sam. 20:5, 24
1 Samuel 20:21 : Jer. 4:2
1 Samuel 20:23 : 1 Sam. 20:14, 15
1 Samuel 20:26 : Lev. 7:20, 21; 15:5
1 Samuel 20:32 : Gen. 31:36; 1 Sam. 19:5; [Prov. 31:9]; Matt. 27:23; Luke 23:22
1 Samuel 20:33 : 1 Sam. 18:11; 19:10
1 Samuel 20:42 : 1 Sam. 1:17
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Marvin lives with his parents and a grandfather who is always inventing new gadgets to help his family. But his grandfather's inventions often end up making Marvin's life harder. Then one particular invention proves a success but it also attracts unwanted attention from a school bully.


Australian fuel use standards are outdated compared to more modern methods.
THE accuracy of the Australian Standard test used to measure new car fuel consumption and emissions has always been highly questionable. It looks as if it's going to stay that way for some time, as the Australian Government has no plans to adopt a new, much tougher and more accurate test now in force in Europe.
The new Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure - thankfully abbreviated to WLTP - is still done on a laboratory bench but the simulation aligns much more closely with real world driving conditions.
That's hardly surprising when you compare the Australian and European test procedures.
Average speed overall is 34km/h, in the city cycle it's just 19km/h and the vehicle is stationary for 25 per cent of the entire test.
Why you fill up more often than you should.
That's the main reason car makers fit automatic engine stop-start - it makes their fuel figures look a whole lot prettier than if the car was idling for a quarter of the test.
WLTP is a 23km simulation that takes 30 minutes, with longer, more frequent periods of strong acceleration and high speeds - the average speed is 46.5km/h and the car is stationary for 13 per cent of the time.
WLTP includes an extra emissions check on the accuracy of a model's laboratory results, comprising on-road tests of the same car, fitted with instruments to measure consumption and emissions while in motion.
If there's a substantial variation, the car maker gets a "please explain". After 2023, no variation will be allowed.
"A modern certification process should provide values that are as close to reality as possible, (so) you can compare various vehicle models," says Mercedes-Benz. "The NEDC process no longer meets this requirement."
The Australian government has no plans to replace the local test with WLTP. The manufacturers themselves recognise that NEDC is, according to BMW, "totally outdated".
Some European makers claim this will lead to new models being unavailable in Australia, either because their latest engines won't operate on our dirty petrol, or because they aren't willing to spend millions complying with the outdated standard for our small market.
"The sooner Australia harmonises with European fuel and testing standards, the better for Australian consumers," says VW Australia's Paul Pottinger. 'Unless a means is agreed upon to recognise WLTP results here, the choice of vehicles available to Australians will continue to diminish."
The Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities is responsible for emissions tests. Asked whether the European stand would be adopted in Australia, a spokesman said: "The department will continue to monitor international developments regarding WLTP and consider whether ADR81 should be reviewed."