So far Jonathan has released 4 episodes in the Quick Drop Podcast. The zeroth episode is an introductory one about Jonathan himself and his motivation for creating the podcast. We definitely agree with his points: Podcasts are useful and the LabVIEW community was in dire need of one.
Jonathan works as a Systems Engineer at TBG Solutions. TBG Solutions is a UK based testing, measurement and control company, working with clients such as BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Siemens and Pilkington.
The first episode features guest speaker Neil Crossan, a CLA who works in ATE development, mainly with the cRIO platform. Above all, they explain, in detail the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities of working with Real Time OS based systems.
The second episode is a summation of the NI Days London 2018, a very influential event in the UK. Jonathan explains how the NI Days has changed over time in the UK, becoming much more conferencing and networking orientated.
In the third episode, Jonathan is joined by Tom McQuillan, also a CLA, who is a software dev at Scientifica, a bioinformatics company. To our greatest surprise and pleasure, Hampel Software Engineering was also mentioned, due to our CI methods and a presentation on release automation that we gave at different user group meetings. Furthermore, they discussed the benefits and hardships of using various version control systems, cloud providers and Jenkins.
GDevCon is the first independent conference for graphical programming, which we are proud to be co-organising. You can find all the information on gdevcon.com.
After the success of last year's conference, the second GDevCon will take place between the 21st and 22nd of August, 2019, in Birmingham, a major industrial centre of the UK. The venue has been particularly selected to comfortably accommodate all the new participants expected. We hope to see you there!
In conclusion, we eagerly await more episodes in the podcast, and we hope it may inspire other members to start their own engaging projects. Keep up-to-date with Jonathan's podcast on the web, Spotify, Google Podcasts and many other platforms.
Thank you, Jonathan! Big shout-out!!
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What most users do after jailbreaking their iOS devices is to look for best Cydia tweaks for screen recording. There are many working Cydia tweaks for screen recording that have their own compatibilities and incompatibilities. Users have been lately requesting for a comprehensive list of best Cydia Tweaks for Screen Recording.
Let's not waste any time and jump right to the list of Best Cydia tweaks for screen recording on your iOS devices.
This is one of the best and the most popular Cydia tweak for recording screen of iOS devices. Display Recorder has so many remarkable features to offer but it is a paid tweaks. It is developed by Ryan Petrich and you can buy it from Big Boss repo and install it right away.
This tweak is compatible with iOS 9 and iOS 10 as well but it does pose a problem while saving your recordings. Your recordings are not saved in stock Photos app. On the other hand you get to see the message: "Save Failed! Unable to save video to camera roll" However, of note is the fact that the developer is working on this tweak and soon this Cydia tweak for screen recording will be fully functional for iOS 9 and 10.
We covered AirShou and its screen recording capabilities in a separate post already but it deserves to be on the list of best Cydia tweaks for screen recording your iOS devices. This tweak is a product of Shout.tv that provides broadcasting service for gamers. So AirShou has a dual benefit for users.
For one it allows you to record your iOS screen easily. You can record games or whatever else you want to capture from your screen and then you can broadcast them to your audience on Shou.tv. Another thing worth mentioning is that you can use AirShou on both jailbroken as well as non-jailbroken iOS devices.
Although compatible with iOS 9, some of you might experience a little malfunction. Some users report that when they tap the Record button on their iOS 9 device, AirShou makes the iPhone or iPad restart.
iRec is another widely used iOS Screen Recording tweak. It is compatible from iOS 7 though to iOS 8 and is developed by the developers of Emu4iOS. We covered iRec separately as well.
Therefore, in this post we will only see how it fairs with iOS 9 devices. iRec records the screen of iPhone and ipad with iOS 9 without any apparent issues. However, just like Display Recorder, you cannot save your screen recording to stock photos app in your iOS device. Also, some users have reported that tapping the Recording button crashes the system.
Best Cydia Tweaks for Screen Recording: Vidyo!
Before we tell you anything about features of Vidyo! One thing that makes it standout above all is that Apple App Store has approved it. This is the one and the only screen recording app that has ever been approved by App Store. It comes with a price tag of $4.99 but being there on the App Store does says something about it.
Mostly, screen recorder or any other recorder apps in general usually meet the same fate and get rejected by Apple. So, let's see what makes Vidyo! special enough to get approved.
If you don't have a jailbreak and you don't want to spend money, you can sideload it with Cydia Impactor on your non-jailbreak iOS device.
This is a relatively new software tweak for screen recording and is especially meant for iOS 10. You can download CCRecord from BigBoss repo. When you download it, it installs right in your Control Center and then you can start the recording. Tap the recording icon again or swipe up the screen from the bottom to step recording.
We have in this post assembled a list of some of the Best Cydia Tweaks for screen recording along with their prominent features. Now, you can compare and choose the screen recording tweak for your jailbroken iOS 9 or 10 that suits your needs. Moreover, at the end of this post we have discussed the screen recording solution for your iPhone with iOS 9 and 10 without jailbreak.


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The U16's Kent Youth League team travelled to Chislehurst, to play Glebe FC in their penultimate game of the season. Due to an illness to our manager Toby, a new management team had been drafted in to oversee this tricky fixture. Paul Lansdale and Dave Cooper - aka Saint and Grease - stepped into the role and commanded the dug out with great panache and authority.
The pitch was rock hard and the bounce of the ball was unpredictable. There was also a wind that was on occasions, altering the flight of the ball. The game started at a frantic pace and due to the conditions described above, the Oaks could not get there passing game going. Our opponents had adapted to the situation better than our boys and we were being pinned in our half. McCarthy the Oaks striker was being closely monitored and every time the ball was played to him, he was immediately closed down by three defenders.
Suddenly on the 25th minute, our opponents hit a powerful shot from just outside of our penalty area. Earls dived to his right and with his finger tips; he pushed the ball away to safety. Glebe were having the better of the first half possession but were only able to have one direct shot on target.
On the 37th minute the ball was played forward to McCarthy who was fouled just over the half way line. The resulting free kick was floated into the penalty area, where McCarthy hit an outstanding volley which was goal bound. However our opponent's goalkeeper made a fantastic save at almost point blank range. Travers was the first to react and after an initial piece of skill, he coolly dispatched the ball into the net. This goal had come against the run of play. 0-1
The second half commenced, with our boys now kicking down hill. The new management team had sent the boys out with fresh instructions and this match was really going to turn into a game of two halves. Immediately from the kick off, the Oaks won a corner. The ball was drilled to the front post by the impressive Hathway and Wolfe doubled our advantage with a powerful header. 0-2
The Oaks began controlling the game and it was Glebe's turn to defend. Our boys were attacking at will and had now settled into the fixture. On the 54th minute Hathway played in Cooper down our right hand side. Cooper then scored a brilliant individual goal, by beating two defenders before placing the ball under the diving goalkeeper. 0-3
Five minutes later, McCarthy picked up the ball in the centre of midfield and played a through ball to Strachan out on the left wing. Strachan cut inside and with great trickery he swept his shot into the net. 0-4
Glebe kept chasing every ball and were desperate for the Oaks not to leave their new stadium with a clean sheet. Suddenly on the 77th minute our opponent's striker, hit a fierce shot that hit one goal post, before bouncing on the goal line and hitting the opposite goal post, before being cleared to safety.
During this game Max Della Valle made his long awaited return from injury and looked sharp and back to his old self. It was Max's two goals at Greatness Park earlier in the season, which had settled that game between us and Glebe FC. The boys now look forward to their last game of the season against Tonbridge Angels FC.


It is the first non-sensacionalist and serious post I read on this topic.
Although, I found it somehow contradictory.
Your main statement is that all the history is cyclical.
Why this fact would make AI weaker?
Isn't it your future forecasting obtained from "the data from the past you collected"?
ANSWER: The computer can determine the cycle from all the collective data interlaced from around the world. It can forecast turning points decades in advance. But that does not mean it comprehends what the future really is as to a human being. It may seem to be a subtle distinction, but it is the difference between a computer and a conscious being that also knows it has a shelf-life and will grow old and die. I am working hard to deliver Socrates because I have a shelf-life. It is the only way to allow such research to continue beyond my life-span. I do this for posterity for it has taught me so much. It will most likely only be recognized by mainstream after my death and then they will try to discredit it by crafting stories about me personally attacking the creator because they cannot dispute the research Socrates reveals. That is simply how human nature operates historically. Someone one day will quote this very line I just wrote. That is inevitable. Welcome to humanity.
The concept of the future is hard to express in words but I can say to you, " let's go to dinner next Tuesday." You can conceptualize the future and say yes or you will be busy and say can we make it Wednesday? That is a dynamic conception laced with many aspects in our mind. A dog has no concept of tomorrow. A computer can project turning points into the future from the past, but it does not have a concept of the future. It is simply just math – very black and white void of emotion.
There is another hidden order of dynamic multi-dimensional structure we do not understand yet with the human mind. The formal link between neural network structure and how the brain actually functions in processing information does not truly exist and anyone claiming to have some neural net to predict the future is just nonsense. Those claiming to have created AI programs using a neural net to forecast markets is more-likely-than-not just a consumer fraud or simply another model destined to fail. We do not yet understand neural networks in our own brain so we cannot duplicate it in programming.
On top of that, neuroscientists have used a classic branch of math in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they've discovered is hard for us to even visualize that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
We live in a 3-D world perspective. We are not yet capable of understanding how there can be 11 dimensions all interacting. What is the structure? How does this even function? The results of this new study is the next frontier in trying to understand the fabric of the human brain, which somehow is the machine used by our mind that is our consciousness distinguished from the brain itself.
The human brain, by the way, is the most complex structure we know of no less an amazing super-computer. And someone wants to claim they have an AI computer neural net to forecast markets? Good luck with that one. How can you create a neural net we do not yet understand to forecast something that is so complex, it defies description? If we do not yet understand how such a neural net functions in our own brain, how can you write as computer program to mimic such a neural net? How can some neural net suddenly evolve and become conscious if we do not even understand the structure at the core level?
This latest brain model was produced by a team of researchers from the Blue Brain Project, a Swiss research initiative devoted to building a supercomputer-powered reconstruction of the human brain. They used algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics used to describe the properties of objects and spaces regardless of how they change shape. They found that groups of neurons connect into 'cliques', and that the number of neurons in a clique would lead to its size as a high-dimensional geometric object (a mathematical dimensional concept, not a space-time one).
We live in three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension, which we have yet to fully understand as well. Here, the 11 dimensions are how the neuron cliques are connected. Networks are viewed in a structure in terms of groups of nodes that are all connected, which is known as cliques. The number of neurons in a clique determines its size or dimension. The human brain is estimated to have 86 billion neurons, which is a stunning number in itself. These then have multiple connections from each cell webbing in every possible direction. This structure forms a vast cellular network that somehow makes us capable of thought and consciousness that we do not understand.
The Blue Brain Project team focused on the neocortex, which is thought to be the most recently evolved part of our brains, and the one involved in some of our higher-order functions like cognition and sensory perception. Algebraic topology provides mathematical tools for discerning details of the neural network both in a close-up view at the level of individual neurons, and a grander scale of the brain structure as a whole. Connecting these two levels, the researchers could discern high-dimensional geometric structures in the brain, formed by collections of tightly connected neurons (cliques) and the empty spaces (cavities) between them.
What they discovered was amazing structural dynamic complexity, which is really what I discovered taking place with the interconnections globally within the world economy. "It is as if the brain reacts to a stimulus by building [and] then razing a tower of multi-dimensional blocks, starting with rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D), and then more complex geometries with 4D, 5D, etc," according to mathematician Ran Levi from Aberdeen University in Scotland.
What I find so fascinating is that the very same structure emerges at a higher level whereby all humans interact globally in the same manner dynamically shifting and reorganizing structures. What they have discovered I see in the development of Socrates but at a higher level suggesting this is indeed fractal in nature.
Socrates is now beyond 150,000 possible daily patterns in the Global Market Watch. This is just stunning. It is like building a sand castle on the beach creating an elaborate structure which is washed away by the sea in the morning. Both in our mind and within Socrates, we have human thought and action capable of creating dynamic structures to solve or react to some event and then vanish awaiting the next problem to rebuild a completely new structure. This multi-dimensional ability to respond to stimuli is just amazing. I see this is capital flows on a grand scale – ever shifting creating new trends and structure. Tracking this dynamic interlaced structure of the entire world is the same with these 11 dimensions in our biological brain.
How do we dream in concepts that are very imaginative abstracts of reality? We can imagine in a dream concepts and objects that could not exist in the real world like the drawing above that could not exist in reality. We know that the rear portion of our brain gets pretty active during REM sleep, when most dreaming occurs. Some believe that it's just the brain winding down for the night and that dreams are random and meaningless firings of the brain that we don't have when we're awake. There is simply no answer to the question: Why do we dream? I can personally attest to it is not random nor is it just meaningless firings of the brain that we don't have when we're awake. There have been complex problems I have thought about with no answer when awake. Yet it is "on my mind" still when I sleep. Suddenly I have woke up in the middle of the night saying "eureka" that's the answer. This has happened way too many times to support a theory of meaningless randomness.
Take this picture of a girl in the water. Your mind will fill in the blanks as to what you think she looks like. Your mind will create an image that pleases you yet you have not seen her (her picture is at the bottom). Why does the mind fill in the gaps? To the right is another famous drawing. How old is the woman that you see? Is it the mother-in-law or the pretty girl. Which did your mind see first? The mother-in-law with the big nose looking down or the young girl wearing a necklace turned away?
Here is another famous drawing. What animal do you see? The duck with its beak slightly open or the rabbit with its ears pointing to the left? Our mind is capable of creating images from fragments.
To add to all this stunning complexity, we can access data we have stored in our brain for decades from all the five senses. You may hear a song and that will access some event in our past where you perhaps had dinner with someone you fell in love with at least temporarily. Then again, you may return to the place you had that event and suddenly remember that dinner. You might have had some food that night and suddenly you will remember that same event. We can access a memory from any of our senses for our brain is recording everything even if we do not realize it.
There is significant evidence demonstrating that we possess "core object recognition" which is the ability to rapidly recognize objects despite substantial appearance variation. Our brain will engage in reflexive feed-forward computations which will produce a powerful neuronal representation in the inferior temporal cortex. Precisely how our brain creates an algorithm that produces this solution remains a mystery. Nevertheless, we have evidence ranging from individual neurons that build into neuronal populations creating a behavior evolving into computational models. We seem to dynamically create computational models, each based on building blocks of small, canonical sub-networks with a common functional goal. Our sand castles that dissolve and then regroup to solve the next problem.
So sorry, I do not buy that consciousness will suddenly emerge and a computer will be endowed with an evil soul out to rule the world. In my opinion, the complexity is far too extensive for us to understand how our own mind works yet in order to build some neural network that will turn against us. My suggesting is that Elon Musk and crew should stop worrying about AI and start to try to comprehend what we are all about first.


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Sheldon Fingler joins Canadian Rental Association executive
Jan 16, 2019 Business, Local News, Morinville News, People 7
by Stephen Dafoe
Morinville resident Sheldon Fingler, the owner of Infinite Event Services, has been asked to join the Executive Team for the Canadian Rental Association. Fingler recently took on the position of Chair of the Shared Interest Group for Party and Events within that organization and is now expanding his role with the national body.
The Canadian Rental Association has members that rent everything from heavy construction equipment to party and event rental materials. Fingler's role as Chair of the Shared Interest Group for Party Rentals oversees those across the country to help them better the member businesses in particular and the industry in general.
This past November, Fingler was asked to attend the national broader organization's organizational meeting.
"Apparently through the meeting, I provided some insight and information that lead to them asking me to join them on the executive team," Fingler explained, adding that he will now serve to manage the shared interest group as chair but also as part of a team that oversees the running of the organization as a whole. "It's a humbling thing to be asked because there are so many people across Canada that are part of the association. It's only a limited number of people that serve on the executive."
Fingler sees the invite as an opportunity to get further involved in his industry and to serve those who work in it.
"I always want to give back. I look at this as a way of giving back to the industry. For me, this is just another way to give back," he said, adding the current president's goal is to bring people on to the executive that are seen as leaders in the industry, capable of leading the organization. "It is very humbling that they saw that potential in me through having just sat with them at the organizational meetings."
Fingler is expecting the position will take him about 10 hours a week. It is something he is looking forward to, particularly in the area of policy development.
"When I get involved, I like to give extra," he said. "It is also something I'm passionate about."
Fingler has been DJing since he was 14. The rental business began about 15 years ago, long before he even knew about the Canadian Rental Association.
"It was the one thing, that when I did become a member, it grew my business and helped me in business in a lot of different ways immensely because it gave me insight as to what other people were doing. It gave me connections to other businesses and other people. I've developed great friendships and relationships. I've got people I can call at any point in any city for support," he said. "That has made a huge difference, and I think that is part of the reason why I want to give back on the national scale."
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Congrats Sheldon
I am not surprised …. Sheldon is a dedicated business person and always accepts a challenge.
Such a great leader in the community both abroad and at home !!!
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Good for you Sheldon. It's inspiring to see such growth. You'll do a great job.
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Most commodities, except for the heavyweights gold and oil, are poised for a down year in 2011, the first fall for this sector since the financial crisis hit in 2008.
Gold looked like it was set for a spectacular year after topping $1,900/oz in the fall, but the precious metal finished up just 13%.
It started the year at $1,400/oz and is currently trading around $1,570/oz.
Silver didn't fare as well, which was down 3.46% for the year from $30.91/oz to $28.21/oz.
Platinum was also down 18.86% and palladium was off 13.45%.
Reflecting concerns about a slowing China and a possible world slowdown, copper prices were hit hard, starting the year at $4.42/lb but ending up at $3.40/lb, a 20% decline.
Oil was up 9.13% a barrel from $89 to just under $100, reflecting the uncertainty in the world markets due to Middle East tensions.
The commodity heavy TSX was off 11% for year. Barrick Gold was down 15.05% to $45.06 a share.


Prior to giving birth to my preemie, I honestly did not know much about prematurity or personally know of many people that have had preemies. I knew my husband was a preemie, but we never really talked much about it at that point other than the fact that they had to cut diapers to be small enough to fit him and he had to get doll clothes in the beginning because newborn clothes were too big. I was reading "What to Expect" while pregnant, but it really only touched on a healthy, full-term pregnancy. My OB also gave no indication that this could be a possibility for me, always saying things look great, but had I known, I would have tried to do some research ahead of time to try to prepare myself. The thought that I would be the one in a one in ten statistic never crossed my mind.
While pregnant, a friend of mine went into labor at 24 weeks and I watched her baby's NICU journey on social media. I was in awe of this tiny human and what she endured. She called her the "tiny warrior" and that is exactly what she was. First she fought to breathe and then to grow and I watched her be victorious with both. I was nervous when I hit 24 weeks because of this, but then my pregnancy continued so maybe I was part of the nine of ten and wouldn't have to worry about this happening.
My third trimester started and I was still good with no indication of going early, but 4 days after that, Poppy came. I was now the one in the one in ten. When you are the one, without much prior knowledge of prematurity, you are blindsided, you are scared, and you feel alone because you don't have that many people you can turn to for advice in this situation because they have never experienced prematurity. I was lucky in that aspect because I had a friend whose NICU journey ended the day mine had started so I was able to talk to her right away so I could start to learn what to expect. Even though you are riding on the biggest emotional rollercoaster of a lifetime, you have to be strong, you have to be positive, and you have to be the biggest cheerleader for your tiny warrior. You educate yourself on a topic that was foreign to you before you delivered and now, after the NICU journey, you feel like somewhat of an expert. Conversations now include medical terminology that you might not have otherwise used in life if it wasn't for your preemie and reaching milestones means more to you than you could have ever imagined. The information I learned about prematurity and how common it is I have also used to inform others so they can be aware too. While all of this is happening, you will learn that you are not the only "one" out there. Last year while fundraising for our March of Dimes team, I found out I knew a lot more of the ones. Friends from high school would make a donation because they had a NICU baby too or knew someone that did. This year has been no different for us. Since returning to work this school year, there has been an outpouring of love and support from the community. They have come up to me at events to let me know that they had a preemie too. Their support has been so much appreciated! I have also met people out and about running errands or trying to get raffle donations for an event that had a preemie or know someone that did. I have had more friends have preemies in the past year too, so I became a person they could talk to if needed. Because of all this, my community of ones is constantly growing. I would not change the fact that my daughter was a preemie. She amazes me each and every day. She is my hero; my miracle. She has made me proud to be part of the one.
Those I met in the NICU became my second family, a family that my husband and I have this urge to give back to now. What you do when you are the one can make the difference to someone else that is currently going through it. We have registered Poppy's Posse again this year in the March of Dimes Walk and are hosting fundraising events to help raise money to fund research to help premature babies have a fighting chance. We go back and speak to current NICU families at Hillcrest and help answer their questions so they don't feel alone in their journey. I was also lucky enough to work for a school district that allowed me to lead a service project to benefit the area NICUs. Every little bit helps when you are in the NICU.
They say, "one is the loneliest number", but that does not have to be the case at all when you are the one in ten and when we are talking about prematurity and the NICU family.


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Janie Miller: "X saying here" – Holly Hughes' Sailing by Ravens
Sailing by Ravens
Holly J. Hughes
University of Alaska Press, 2014
Holly J. Hughes' recent collection of poetry, Sailing by Ravens, is an immersion into nautical language and life, and an exploration of what it means to live with direction and drift, two opposing energies that tug our human lives. Sailing by Ravens is arranged in sections like compass points: north, west, south & east—each section accruing depth about navigating the ocean, experiencing the loss of love, and an exploration of human losses. The collection acts like a plumb line measuring the depth of the charts and maps that Hughes learned to love so young in her life—a plumb line of the self, that "faint tick tick of the heart."
The collection's first section, "North," draws subtle connections between map makers and self makers. "X saying here," Hughes writes, offering a destination to be measured in degrees yet "wrenched from time." The tension in this section quietly builds in the differentiation between actual and magnetic direction, in how the slightest metal objects on a boat can effect the path that will be sailed. As a reader, I can't help but to be drawn to my own map of decisions on the wall. This is what good poetry does, right? Leaves enough space for the reader to enter your lines and go on the ride with you. Teaches you something about yourself as a launching pad for understanding the greater questions and tensions of life.
As Sailing by Ravens goes forward, the sky and stars remain fixed points, yet unreachable, and somehow in this inability to touch—a penetrating fog—we find our humanity: faith and belief become new compass points. The collection challenges our human perceptions at the end of "West," with "Bravo Ocean," a poem that seems to realize how small the planet really is—oceans included. After the ephemeral vastness and history of the poems in this section, we hear underwater cables carrying music from Handel from a phonograph in 1906, and how ships dropped anchor to listen. The poem captures this moment, as if stilling a photograph that captures a change in human consciousness: we are not alone; not ever, in this interconnected world of language.
The body enters this collection most visibly in the third section, and as a reader I am ready for the self to exist more explicitly within the metaphorical framework of the collection's first half. Hughes writes, "Our bodies an accumulation of coordinates, paths not / taken, streets pulled up short, lonely alleys, dead ends," and she concludes that these paths and decisions are "how we stay alive." Hughes' writing is at its best in "Tied, Untied," a poem that illustrates literal and metaphoric tying of knots, knots that cause resistance and are pulled apart again—until the poem's third section when knots that are "circling certainty" are described as hold against drift, and the poem's "I" realizes that "it's me who's split."
Following Hughes through this collection feels like being led by an experienced guide on a sailboat, yet the final trick is that the boat is made of experience and language, and we are all complicit in these experiences. The collection is patient and, not surprisingly, well-plotted. My only advice to the reader: the early half of the book builds slowly—the feeling of laying plank by plank down before you can see the blueprint—but the struggle is worth it. The collection's subtle beginning made me question what was at stake for me—the reader. But as the themes open up, so does the author, and so does the experience for the reader. You'll be glad to see the planet round, the universe curved, the hand of a god or a scientific account measuring it all.
Janie Elizabeth Miller lives just off the Washington coast on Vashon Island and teaches poetry and environmental writing at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her chapbook, Primitive Elegy, is forthcoming from Alice Blue Books and she won the Grand Prize at the Eco-Arts Awards in 2014. Visit janieelizabethmiller.com for publishing & performance details.
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Ravi Philemon
Yes, we have an activist Government in the PAP
PM Lee Hsien Loong made two very important points in his speech yesterday:
1. Market-fundamentalist approach is central to the PAP.
2. PAP is on the side of Singaporeans.
These are very important points in understanding the PAP. The guiding principle of the PAP is that 'private enterprise is productive'. The PAP however knows that there are downsides to allowing a pure market economy approach, and so intervenes where necessary to protect Singaporeans. This is why PM Lee reiterated that the PAP is about action for the people.
The PAP's action for the people is essentially a system of means-tested assistance in areas like education and heath, which is automatic for those who qualify. And the Party also believes in providing proactive and responsive discretionary assistance on top of the automatic assistance for various other problems such as unemployment. This is the reason why PM Lee calls his government an activist government. The PAP government intervenes in the market mechanism to render help to citizens who need it.
This is where the PAP's mantra of 'self reliance' comes in. The Party has convinced itself that those who want to help themselves know that the PAP is there to help them, and that the Party will go well beyond merely accessing government schemes in providing such assistance. The party believes that this is the best approach because the behaviour will be shaped over time, depending on how easily available assistance is.
The PAP government saw an aging problem, and immediately went into overdrive with an influx of foreigners - not because they don't care for Singaporeans, but because they believe that a vibrant economy is central to continue helping the citizens.
Never mind the possibility that if our labour force were to continue growing by 2+ percent, the population of Singapore will be over 6.5 million by the year 2030. Never mind, that with a population of over 6.5 million people, income and wealth inequality, social tensions, and overcrowding will be extreme. Never mind the possibility that extreme surge in population (mainly through immigration), will affect the Singapore Identity.
Why do you think the PAP Government is suddenly enhancing our infrastructure such as rail and roads, and build more parks, greenery and housing? The National Development Minister said that by 2016, there will be 200,000 housing streams equivalent to the size of 4 Ang Mo Kio towns on-stream. The Government is planning to build two new MRT lines, and extend 3 existing lines to double the rail network. DPM Teo Chee Hean said in February last year that the PAP government intends to extend and upgrade the parks in the next 5 years. The PAP Government is building and extending new roads, even by exhuming old cemeteries like Bukit Brown.
The biggest complain when the wave of immigration started in the year 2004 was that there was inadequate infrastructure to cope with the sudden surge of immigrants. One recent estimate by DBS Vickers expects the upcoming white paper on Singapore's population to raise its population target to 7 million from 6.5 million.
Which means that, even if the PAP is on the side of Singaporeans, in protecting citizens that need protection from the adverse effects of market forces, what remains at the core of the Party's policy-making philosophy is not the citizen of Singapore, but the idea of neo-liberal market fundamentalism. This is the reason why the Party has transferred risks from the state to citizens in areas like public housing, transportation, welfare and healthcare.
This is the reason why 'slapping the driver' is not enough because the driver (being the PAP), is quite sure about the destination it is leading this country to (unless the co-driver believes in the same destination as well). As long as the PAP is in power, there will be an influx of foreigners, there will be downward pressure on salaries of workers (especially mid to low income earners), the rich will become richer while the poor will become poorer (not as poor as some others in other countries because of the activist government, but it will be very difficult for them to break out of that poverty cycle), our young ones will feel the squeeze at schools, the property prices will keep rising, healthcare will remain expensive, CPF will be untouchable...
What we need is a bold rethink. A rethink of policies which will put not market fundamentals at the center of the policies, but one which will place Singapore citizens at the core of its policy-making decisions. A rethink where just like healthcare, education, welfare, social security, transportation...the market too will be for the citizens of Singapore.
When that happens, we won't need an activist government for we will have an active citizenry which can determine the destination it wants for its country. A nation where power will be the people's.
Interesting view. I never thought of it that way.
I thought PAP run Singapore like a business.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/21/us-reutersmagazine-davos-swiss-rich-idUSBRE90K0F420130121
Once upon a time, our then PM proclaimed that Singapore aspired to be the "Switzerland of the East". Reading the above Reuters article on what one Swiss citizen championed with 100,000 signatures, I wonder when would we have enough of a critical mass of native Singaporeans (which partly accounts for PAP's unsaid but pressing political agenda to neuter Native Citizens with Naturalized Citizens) to (i) stand up for ourselves and our country and (ii) vote in enough Opposition MPs to first tackle our Constitutional Laws - some of which are simply unjust laws at source.
Risks of Unchecked Export-Driven Growth
Singapore's basic economic strategy of surviving by tapping on the global economy by attracting foreign investments to Singapore and exporting our goods to international markets is flawed. Goldman Sachs said in a client note on Thursday that, "We reiterate our view that Singapore has one of the highest exposures to weakness in external demand, because of its high ratio of exports to GDP and the high portion of exports-driven domestic demand". The brokerage firm has lowered its forecast for Singapore gross domestic product for 2009 to -8 percent from -4 percent previously as the US economy is expected to contract further in the year, curbing already weak demand for Asian goods. In Singapore, consumption composes only 40 percent of the GDP versus at least 55 percent in other developed Asian economies. With globalisation, more players have entered the "export-driven" economic playing field. Good skills are offered at lower wages by these players. This globalisati
Feedback: Budget 2009 - Tax-cuts not the way to go
I am concerned that another round of personal and corporate tax cuts may leave the government unable to play its essential roles in promoting the common good and preserving essential community services and support. Although these tax cuts may seem attractive in helping to draw more foreign talents and investments especially in these times of economic slowdown, the cuts should be avoided as these taxes should be the main means of supporting social welfare. Further to this suggestion, the government should also not raise GST further and should pare down the use of GST for providing public assistance. The Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, said in an exchange in parliament on March 9, 2007 : "We can always do more (in providing public assistance) and we can always raise GST further." The raising of GST further, will put a huge tax burden on the poor. Some studies show that the lowest 20% of the population pay more than 15% in taxes, while the top 1% of the populatio
Why Dr Tan Cheng Bock is still my choice to be the Elected President
This Presidential Election (PE) is turning out to be the 'Battle of the Tans'. Of the 3 Tans who have put themselves forward for the race, I am still inclined to vote for Dr Tan Cheng Bock in the coming election, and my reasons are very rational. Dr Tony Tan Yes, I am happy that he invited the bloggers to the media conference where he announced his intention to run in the PE. But that invitation happened because by his own admission, bloggers cannot be ignored any longer because they have a "role in news dissemination and commentary in Singapore". Although Dr Tony Tan said that he is running as an independent candidate, everyone from the government, from the current President to the Prime Minister, have come out and endorsed him (even if it is not explicitly). I suspect what will happen next is the NTUC Chief Lim Swee Say, will come out to say that Dr Tony Tan is a suitable candidate and that the labour movement will support his candidacy. I wonder why PM Le


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Fire in the Blood
Warm Springs women carry on a family firefighting tradition
by Erin Rook
Erin Rook Karlen Yallup (left) and her mother Yvette Leecy, both firefighters, look out over a singed Warm Springs.
Submitted Yolanda is currently fighting fires on the Spokane reservation.
Submitted Yvette Leecy burns a fire line to protect homes from the County Line 2 fire in Warm Springs.
Submitted Karlen Yallup works a burnout in Nebraska.
Yvette Leecy walks through the fire camp like it's her home—and in many ways, it is. She stops to greet the crew serving meals to firefighters, grabbing a sack lunch and asking how long they've been working fires. Some are relatives, others are coworkers, none are strangers.
It's this knack for working with people—combined with a fierce determination and indefatigable spirit—that has helped the Warm Springs native fight an addiction to meth and alcohol, and to become a sought-after wildland firefighter and timber sales officer. Where meth once coursed through her veins, fire now lives.
After coming home from nearly two years of treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, Yvette felt hopeless. How would she get back on her feet without a driver's license or a job? Her brothers—who worked on the hot shot and engine crews—suggested she give firefighting a try. It wasn't long before she was hooked.
"It's a spiritual and emotional state for me," Yvette says. "I actually want to be a part of teaching the tribe with my daughters that treating the ground is important because then it brings back our healthful berries; it brings back our vegetation."
Once she'd been out of treatment for three years, she tried to regain custody of her children—two daughters and a son—who'd been in the care of family since she went into treatment. But the judge told her she would have to choose between the new career that gave her a sense of purpose and accomplishment, and the three children she loved and missed.
"I was approached by courts to step down from fire management, take my kids full time, or leave them in my mom's care," Yvette recalls. "When you fight fire, you can't be distracted, your focus needs to be 100 percent on that, or 100 percent on being a parent. The court didn't think I could do both."
If she had been a single father, Yvette notes, the outcome would have likely been different. Still, she transferred to a job in forestry, where she could at least continue to work with the forest, and focused on continuing her education and raising her children.
"It was very emotional," she says. "My passion for firefighting grew inside me. I felt like this was my purpose—to fight for Mother Earth."
Now that her children are grown, Yvette has been able to fight the occasional fire while continuing to work in forestry and on completing her degree. Most recently, she was part of the initial attack on the County Line 2 Fire, and only took a break to spend time with her daughter Karlen, a 23-year-old student at the University of Idaho who is studying forestry and fire ecology—and, not coincidentally, spent the summer fighting fires in Arizona, but had a rare week of downtime before returning to her senior year.
Yes, that's right: Yvette is not the only female firefighter in the family. Both of her daughters, Karlen and Yolanda Yallup, are following in their mother's footsteps. Yolanda is currently fighting the complex of fires in the Spokane area that recently claimed the lives of three firefighters. The single mother is also studying forestry at Central Oregon Community College between fires.
But, for Yvette, the education and inspiration flows both ways, and she says she is actually the one following their lead by returning to school to learn more about the science behind forestry and fire management.
WOMEN IN FIRE
Though Yvette's extended family has a significant presence in the fire management field, female firefighters are still few and far between. Warm Springs Fire Management Officer Trey Leonard doesn't know for sure how many women are currently fighting fires with his crews. After Yvette starts naming names, the two estimate about five of the almost 90 firefighters on Warm Springs crews are female.
But even at just over 5 percent, that's still more representation than can be found in, say, the Bend Fire Department, where only one firefighter is female—Fire Captain Trish Connelly, who became Bend's first woman firefighter when she joined the department in 2002. Nationally, women represent just 3.7 percent of firefighters.
Bend Fire Chief Larry Langston says the low number of hires is directly related to how few women apply and turn out for testing. Of the 27,719 candidates tested by National Testing Network last year, Langston says just 5 percent of the candidates were women. Of the 121 tested in Bend, just two were female.
"Our firefighter physical demands are high; quite frankly, there are few women who can perform them safely," Langston says. "That probably is the biggest barrier for women; but a few are strong enough."
To become a wildland firefighter, candidates generally must complete what's called a "pack test," in which they hike three miles in 45 minutes while wearing a 45-pound pack. But, as Yvette points out, the demands of the job can be tougher than what the test covers. Smoke jumpers, who parachute out of planes to address fires in remote places, may carry up to 130 pounds in their packs.
Langston says the Bend Fire Department is making efforts to increase the number of female firefighters, but lowering the physical requirements isn't one of them.
"I have seen a lack of females in structural fire departments," Langston says. "Similar to most structural departments we have not lowered our physical entrance requirements; they are the same for men and women."
Instead, Bend Fire has hired a handful of women to staff its new ambulance transport program, which Langston hopes will give them first-hand knowledge of what it takes to succeed as a firefighter. The department also hosts a summer program called Camp Fire Ax.
"The Camp is a week of orientation for high school-age young people who have an interest in the fire service," Langston says. "We have had over 12 young girls attend in the last five years. Our hope is these young women will consider firefighting as a career."
Yvette says that even when women meet the same physical requirements as men, there's still an assumption that they can't hack it. Some men, she says, are worried that working with a woman means they'll end up carrying her pack for her. But if anyone's likely to be seen carrying a fellow crew member's pack, it's Yvette.
"You have to fight for a job as a female here in fire country," she explains, noting that her efforts to start an all-female Hot Shot crew, like the Apache 8, have so far fallen on deaf ears.
Yvette's daughter Karlen adds that perceptions about women in fire management are changing, if slowly.
"The culture is changing within; it's not necessarily looked at as a man's job anymore," she says, adding that as more women understand what firefighting entails and that they are capable of doing the job, more may enter the field.
LADIES TO THE FRONT
Each woman has her own reason for fighting fires. For Yolanda, one of Yvette's two daughters, going into fire management was an obvious choice, given the occupation of her childhood role model.
"My mom was my hero," she explains. "The passion for the job was already in my heart."
The summer after her first year at college, she joined the Warm Springs Type 1 Hot Shot Crew, putting her on the front lines of serious blazes. Case in point: She's currently fighting the Okanagon Complex Fire, now the largest fire in Washington State history at 256,500 acres and growing.
"I'm on the Spokane Reservation helping our northern brothers and sisters with their home," says Yolanda who, like her sister, is half Yakema and half Wasco. She's been on the ground with Warm Springs Engine 37 since August 18. "As much as I want to be home, I have a duty and it's in Spokane."
And it's a duty she takes seriously. Despite the machismo that sometimes comes with protecting public safety, she says firefighting is deeper than that.
"My role as a firefighter is more than just spraying water on the fire; it's more than being the fastest in physical training or the strongest lifting the most weights," Yolanda explains. "It's not the crew logo or the agency you're from, it's what you can bring to the team. To protect our native land, our neighbors' land, it's what we do as firefighters. All the egos and different levels go away as we all want to accomplish the same goal."
BLAZING A PATH
Yvette's other daughter, Karlen, shares that goal, but she also sees her fire management work as a stepping stone to better understanding and protecting natural resources. She had her first taste of fire the summer after finishing her associate's degree in 2012. Her rookie season was in Warm Springs, but she went on to fight fires in Washington and Arizona.
That exposure led her to study forestry and fire ecology at the University of Idaho, where she's entering her senior year. After she graduates, she'll start an internship through the State Department's Pathways program (her mother Yvette plans to follow in those footsteps).
With hands-on experience and a strong academic record—she recently received the Intertribal Timber Council's Truman D. Picard Scholarship—Karlen has a wide range of options ahead of her. Just this Saturday, she was scouted for an elite modular firefighting crew that combines Hot Shot and Smokejumper responsibilities. A member of Tribal Council also bent her ear about attending an Intertribal Timber Council meeting coming up at Yale University, encouraging her to make professional connections and consider a graduate degree there.
But regardless of where she ends up, fighting fires will always have a draw.
"I like the work, I like the people," she says. "It's long hours and hard work. I like making decisions in timely situations."
But few of those people have been women. Though she worked with a couple female firefighters her first two seasons, she was the only one on her crew this summer. Still, though the work is male-dominated and all-consuming, she says there's nothing about the job she doesn't enjoy, aside from wearing the same clothes for long stretches of time and other creature comforts that get cast aside in the name of containing blazes.
"You have to decide: sleep or shower," Karlen explains.
BEYOND BURN LINES
While reporting on fires tends to focus on threats to safety and structures and the extent to which a blaze has been contained, Yvette and her daughters see fire as something more complex than a natural disaster.
Fire is a fact of life in Warm Springs, which Karlen points out is a fire adapted ecosystem. She says she remembers learning about fire from her grandmother.
"In Warm Springs, there's been large wildfires every year or every other year since I was growing up," she says. "Not enough fire is bad for the land, too much fire is bad for the land. There's a balance."
Karlen says she sees fire as a natural, healthy medicine for the land. So, despite the job title, she and her family members are managing the fire more than fighting it. Like physicians, they are tasked with ensuring that the land gets the amount of fire it needs without causing dangerous side effects.
But even when fire burns out of control, it's not always a clear-cut tragedy. Yvette says that the County Line 2 Fire burned over her late father's home, which was occupied by other family members. Fortunately, everyone got out to safety. Passing by the property is actually a bit easier now for Yvette.
"It's like he turned a page for us," she says.
Yolanda agrees that fire often gets a bad rap, despite its importance to the ecosystem.
"When you see fire, you see black. It's not all bad," she says. "We need to educate people."
Erin Rook
Erin is the Source Weekly's Associate Editor. Before moving to Bend in 2013, Erin worked as a writer and editor for publications in Portland including PQ Monthly and Just Out. He has also written for the Willamette Week, El Hispanic News, Travel Portland, OUT City, Boston magazine and the Taunton Daily Gazette...
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EJC-STATEMENT: At the Malmö International Forum, Dr. Moshe Kantor calls on leaders to focus on youth education to combat antisemitism
by Comunidad Judía · 8 Heshvan 5782 – 14 October, 2021
At the Malmö International Forum,
Dr. Moshe Kantor calls on leaders to focus on youth education to combat antisemitism
(Malmö, 13 October 2021) – President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Dr. Moshe Kantor addressed the plenary of the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism on behalf of Europe's Jewish communities, and called on world leaders to focus their efforts on fighting extremism and conspiracy theories amongst youth.
"Over the past year and a half, young people have been locked down and exposed 24/7 to online disinformation, extremism and antisemitism. Never in history was a young generation so intensively brainwashed with conspiracy theories and lies, and at the same time so unfamiliar with the tragedy of the Holocaust," Dr. Kantor said. "Therefore, preventing young people from falling into extremism is one of the fundamental challenges of our time. But so far, the majority of our strategies has failed."
Dr. Kantor stressed the importance of a multi-faceted approach to the problem of extremism by providing solid economic foundations and channeling the force of social influence for good: "We must invest more in young people; we need a new social contract between generations. We must adapt to the digital age and to find the most relevant influencers online and build social platforms that will attract our younger generations and open their souls and minds."
"We cannot win the fight against antisemitism without winning the fight against extremism in general. We can turn social media from a potential mental health catastrophe into the most effective way of combatting extremism," he added.
Dr. Kantor spoke in front of heads of state and government, researchers, experts and civil society representatives from around 50 countries. This was Dr. Kantor's first international public appearance since the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem. Malmö International Forum was to take place in October 2020, 75 years after the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, but was delayed.
The Forum was hosted by Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and attended by many national leaders, including Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Ireland's Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, UN Secretary General António Guterres, European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Sweden's HM King Carl XVI Gustaf and HM Queen Silvia were also in attendance. Leaders of hi-tech and social media companies like Google, Facebook and Tik Tok also participated.
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To turn a minor issue into a major source of conflict. Likened to coaxing a smoldering flame into a fire by literally blowing on hot coals. Stop trying to blow the coals! There is no tension between Jen and me—you're imagining it! A: "What went wrong last night?" B: "Well, you know Sue, she just kept blowing the coals until everybody was in an all-out fight."
Actively doing a certain job. These reports are just speculation—they didn't consult anyone actually at the coalface. I earned my retirement after 30 years at the coalface.
To scold, reprimand, or reprove someone severely for an error or mistake. I was dragged over the coals by my boss last week for messing up the accounting software. I know Mary messed up, but don't drag her over the coals too hard for it.
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To scold, reprimand, or reprove one severely for an error or mistake. I was raked over the coals by my boss last week for messing up the accounting software. I know Mary messed up, but don't rake her over the coals too hard for it.
To be dwelling on something unpleasant. Primarily heard in UK. Yeah, you made a mistake, but it's one we can easily fix, so stop raking over the coals.
old-fashioned To increase one's speed, effort, or energy. An allusion to steam-powered locomotives, which uses a coal furnace to create steam that controls the train's speed. We're going to be merging onto the highway soon, so be sure to pour on coal before we reach the on ramp. What a come back! They've certainly poured on coal since halftime, haven't they?
Needless or superfluous action. (Newcastle was long the epicenter of coal mining in England.) Typically used in the phrases "carry coals to Newcastle" and "take coals to Newcastle." Why did you bring DVDs with you when I have a home theater? That's like carrying coals to Newcastle.
old-fashioned To increase one's speed, effort, or energy. An allusion to a steam-powered locomotive, which uses a coal furnace to create steam that controls the train's speed. We're going to be merging onto the highway soon, so be sure to pour on the coal before we reach the on ramp. What a come back! They've certainly poured on the coal since halftime, haven't they?
Prov. to do something unnecessary; to do something that is redundant or duplicative. (Newcastle is an English town from which coal was shipped to other parts of England.) Mr. Smith is so rich he doesn't need any more money. To give him a gift certificate is like carrying coals to Newcastle.
Fig. to give someone a severe scolding. My mother hauled me over the coals for coming in late last night. The manager raked me over the coals for being late again.
Also, black as coal or pitch . Totally black; also, very dark. For example, The well was black as night, or She had eyes that were black as coal. These similes have survived while others-black as ink, a raven, thunder, hell, the devil, my hat, the minister's coat, the ace of spades-are seldom if ever heard today. Of the current objects of comparison, pitch may be the oldest, so used in Homer's Iliad (c. 850 b.c.), and coal is mentioned in a Saxon manuscript from a.d. 1000. John Milton used black as night in Paradise Lost (1667).
Do or bring something superfluous or unnecessary, as in Running the sprinkler while it's raining, that's carrying coals to Newcastle. This metaphor was already well known in the mid-1500s, when Newcastle-upon-Tyne had been a major coal-mining center for 400 years. It is heard less often today but is not yet obsolete.
Speed up, as in They keep passing us so pour on the coal, Mom! or We can get this issue of the paper out on time if we pour on the coal. This slangy expression originated in aviation in the 1930s but must have been an allusion to the coal-burning engines of trains and ships, since aircraft were never so powered. It has since been transferred to other vehicles and other endeavors.
When people talk about what is happening at the coalface of a particular profession, they are talking about the thoughts and actions of the people who are actually doing the job. The problem is that middle management simply don't know what is going on at the coalface. The aim is to show politicians the impact of their policies at the coalface. Note: This expression is used to suggest that these are the people who really know about the profession. Note: In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
If a person, especially someone in authority, hauls someone over the coals or rakes someone over the coals, they speak to them very severely about something foolish or wrong that they have done. Lewis was hauled over the coals by English football authorities over his conduct in the match. Taylor was hauled over the coals for wasting police time. She was raked over the coals by an opponent who compared her to a convicted tax evader. Note: This expression may refer to a practice in medieval times of deciding whether or not someone was guilty of heresy, or saying things which disagreed with the teachings of the Church. The person accused of heresy was dragged over burning coals. If they burned to death they were considered guilty, but if they survived, they were considered innocent.
If someone is raking over the coals or is raking over the ashes, they are talking about something that happened in the past which you think should now be forgotten. Yes, we made mistakes in the past, but let us not waste time raking over the coals when there is hard work to be done. Why must we keep raking over the ashes, causing distress to so many people?
something brought or sent to a place where it is already plentiful.
Coal from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northern England was famously abundant in previous centuries, and carry coals to Newcastle has been an expression for an unnecessary activity since the mid 17th century.
This expression originated in a form of torture that involved dragging the victim over the coals of a slow fire.
1998 Town and Country Planning Workers at the coalface of sustainable development need these success stories.
The metaphor is based on the shovelling of more coal into a locomotive's furnace.
(British English) where the real work is done, not just where people talk about it: Many of the best ideas come from doctors at the coalface.
A coalface is the place deep inside a mine where the coal is actually cut out of the rock.
(British English) (supply) something that there is already a lot of: Exporting wine to France would be like taking coals to Newcastle.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the north of England, was once an important coal-mining centre.
(British English) (American English rake somebody over the ˈcoals) (informal) criticize somebody very strongly for something they have done: I was hauled over the coals for being late.This was once a form of torture (= an act of causing somebody severe pain as a punishment or to make them say something) in which a person was pulled over hot or burning pieces of coal.
Any unnecessary activity. Before the days of railroading, goods and commodities were transported by water. Coal in particular was shipped to port city of Newcastle before being distributed to the rest of England. Therefore, unless you were the captain of a ship laden with coal, carrying that kind of fossil fuel to Newcastle was a waste of your time and energy.


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Armenian National Institute of Standards (SARM) cooperates with the Russian Union of Industrialists
One of the most important issues of the Republic of Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is the implementation of EEU technical regulations in Armenia. In fact it is not an easy process, as required to bring into force a number of technical requirements that local producers should be able to align their products and production. Currently, the EEU has 34 technical regulations, and constantly develop and discuss new projects.
In any case, the introduction of technical regulations always requires active involvement of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in the process of development and discussion. It is senseless to define requirements though they are based on the international best experience, if they aren't going to have appropriate understanding, support and accomplishment further. Consequently, in the field of technical regulation it is crucial to organize public hearings properly, reflecting the opinions of entrepreneurs and the introduction of harmonized approaches. Actually, the implementation of the requirements of technical regulations is mainly driven by the application of relevant international and regional standards.
From left to right: President of RSPP, Alexander Shokhin, deputy chairman of the Committee TRSCA RSPP A.Lotsmanov, Vice President of RSPP, Chairman of the RSPP TRSCAD.Pumpyansky, the Head of RosstandartA.Abramov, Director of SARM Y.Azaryan
Given these realities, in the EEUframework it is importantto establishappropriate platforms and opportunities for discussion, which will allow industrialists and entrepreneurs to actively participate in the processes of technical regulation and standardization. Currently in Russia, this process is organized with the help of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), in which structureit is established and has been operating for over 10 years the Committee on technical regulation, standardization and conformity assessment. Committee closely tracks all work in the field of technical regulation and sends worked out projects to harmonize its members and often organizes public discussions and hearings projects.
To improve the efficiency of technical regulation in RA and related standards development activities, the National Institute of Standards (SARM) also took the initiative to create a platform for the discussion. Bycollaboration with more than 200 organizations involved currently in technical standardization committees, SARMhas established Committee for technical regulation, standardization and conformity assessment (TRSCA). Membership in the Committee is open to all domestic organizations and the involvement of new membersis encouraged. As chairman of the committee of TRSCA, director of SARMY.Azaryan at the invitation of the RSPP on November 28, 2014 participated in an event dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the RSPPCommittee of TRSCA, during which a tripartite Memorandum of Understandingamong the SARMCommittee of TRSCA,RSPP Committee of TRSCAand Rosstandarthas been signed. According to theMoUit is agreed to establish a Russian-Armenian Business Dialogue, through which an effective interaction of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of EEU Member States in the field of technical regulation, standardization and conformity assessment will be ensured.
ISO GA 2017 Berlin
The delegation of the National Institute of Standards headed by director Yenok Azaryan participated in the annual traditional events of ISO held in Berlin, Germany, on September 18-22, 2017, hosted by the German Institute of Standardization (DIN). By the way, the week of ISO took place in Berlin because it was celebrated the 100th anniversary of the foundation of DIN.
Worlds Standards Day 2016
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ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 39th General Assembly
The delegation of the National Institute of Standards headed by the director Y. Azaryan on September 11-14, 2016, participated in ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 39th General Assembly held in Beijing, China.
New achievements in the field of international cooperation
To participate in the ISO General Assemblies, in addition to discussing technical issues, brings best opportunities to gain recognition and sign agreements on cooperation. ISO member bodies don't miss this opportunity to communicate with each other, sign new agreements and lay the foundation for new forms of cooperation.
50th meeting of the ISO Committee on developing country matters (DEVCO)
The delegation of the National Institute of Standards headed by the director Y. Azaryan on September 11, 2016 took part in the 50th plenary meeting of the ISO Committee on developing country matters (DEVCO), Beijing, China.
International Workshop Agreement (IWA) document on Drip Irrigation
Representatives from about 25 countries met in Stockholm at SIS (Swedish Institute of Standards) to discuss and develop a new International Workshop Agreement (IWA) document on Drip Irrigation.
SARM has established a new standardization national technical committee SARM TC26 Light and lighting
SARM has established a new standardization national technical committee SARM TC 26 "Light and lighting". The first founding meeting of TC has been held on August 11, 2016.
Memorandum of Understanding with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
On June 14, 2016 delegation of SARM met in Washington with the ANSI leadership, during which a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed.
31st plenary session of CASCO in Dubai
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2016-09-26 ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 39th General Assembly
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2016-09-26 New achievements in the field of international cooperation
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2016-09-07 International Workshop Agreement (IWA) document on Drip Irrigation
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2016-08-12 SARM has established a new standardization national technical committee SARM TC26 Light and lighting
SARM has established a new standardization national technical committee SARM TC 26 "Light and lighti...
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Rams Moving To Inglewood; Chargers Have Option To Follow
Filed Under:Jim Hill, NFL, Relocation, Roger Goodell
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The NFL will return to the Southland, with National Football League owners approving plans Tuesdsay for the St. Louis Rams to move to a proposed stadium in Inglewood, with an option for the Chargers to share the facility if the team can't reach a viable stadium deal in San Diego.
The decision, made on a 30-2 vote by league owners in Houston, marks a long-awaited return of the NFL to the Los Angeles area, which hasn't had a team since 1994. The decision also opens the door for the city and county of San Diego to reopen negotiations with the Chargers to keep them from moving, while giving the team a safety net if such talks break down again.
The Chargers have a one-year option to move to Inglewood. If the Chargers pass, the Raiders then have a one-year option to move to Inglewood, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a Tuesday news conference. Read the full text of that news conference here.
Should they choose to stay in their current cities, the Chargers and Raiders would receive an extra $100 million from the NFL to build stadiums in their home markets, on top of the $200 million the league already offers for such projects.
Goodell lauded the Inglewood plan.
"It's more than just a stadium," he said. "It's an arts and entertainment complex that will be responsive to the kinds of things we need to be successful with our fans in the Los Angeles market."
For Inglewood, the decision is a major economic leap forward.
Rams owner Stan Kroenke plans to build a $1.86 billion, 80,000-seat stadium to house his team on the site of the former Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Inglewood Mayor James Butts called the decision a "transformative" moment for his city.
Butts said the league owners recognized that the project "was the most economically lucrative" stadium proposal on a sweepingly large parcel of land. He said the city already got a major boost from the renovation of The Forum.
"With the addition of the largest, most beautiful stadium in the world and bringing back the Rams with it, we become a national entertainment center," he said on the Beast 980.
The Inglewood stadium will not be ready until at least the 2019 season, and the Rams would likely play their 2016 season in the Los Angeles Coliseum. USC, which manages the Coliseum, has said it would welcome a team for the 2016 season, the LA Times reports.
Many Rams fans gathered at the Coliseum on Tuesday night to celebrate the announcement.
CBS Sports' Jason Caldera reported on Tuesday that USC signed off on two NFL teams sharing LA Coliseum starting as soon as 2016.
It's unclear if the Chargers would actually join the Rams in Inglewood, with Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos repeatedly insisting he had no interest in simply being a tenant in a stadium owned by Kroenke. Kroenke said on Tuesday that he's amenable to either a lease deal or offering an equity partnership.
"I will be working over the next several weeks to explore the options that we have now created for ourselves to determine the best path forward for the Chargers," Spanos said following the owners' vote.
Spanos has wanted a replacement for aging Qualcomm Stadium for around 15 years, a quest stymied by the city of San Diego's fiscal problems of a decade ago, the recession and difficulty in finding a suitable site.
When Kroenke proposed about a year ago building a stadium in Inglewood, the Chargers responded by announcing plans to construct their own playing facility.
That plan evolved into a $1.7 billion, 72,000-seat stadium in Carson that would be shared with the Raiders. Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger was enlisted as chairman of that project.
The approval of the Inglewood plan was seen as a snub to Carson city leaders, who said they will be watching with interest how a preliminary ruling by the Federal Aviation Administration may affect the Inglewood stadium project. The proposed stadium is located about three miles from LAX.
He said the city will move forward with other development plans on the 157-acre property, but the land will remain committed for an NFL stadium until April, when the city's pact with the Raiders and Chargers expires.
"If the league must revisit this issue, Carson stands ready," said Carson Mayor Albert Robles. "Our site will be exclusively available as a stadium site until at least April when our current agreement with the Chargers and Raiders expires."
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took to Twitter to express his delight of the Rams' return — even though the stadium is outside the city of Los Angeles — calling it a "great day for LA," and adding, "I'll see you at the Coliseum later this year."
Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe called the decision a victory not just for Inglewood, but for the county's 10 million residents.
"As a long-time Rams fan, going back to the days of watching them take the field at the Coliseum, I am excited to see them come back," Knabe said. "Having become a Chargers fan after the departure of the Rams, if they ultimately decide to come to Los Angeles, it will be a win-win for Los Angeles County and we will welcome them with open arms."
Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson hailed the NFL's "triumphant" return to the region.
"Not only does the NFL's announcement bring excitement to our sports fans, but today's decision also promises to bring new economic opportunities to our local businesses and hospitality industry," Wesson said.
Kroenke said moving from St. Louis "has been the most difficult process of (his) professional career," CBS St. Louis reported.


Several studies published in recent years have linked a number of those suffering from less prevalent peritoneal mesothelioma to genetic factors, including gene rearrangement and mutation.
At the Perrin's National Trends in Asbestos Litigation Conference in San Francisco, those attending heard a panel discussion that included references to the link between BAP1 gene mutation and peritoneal mesothelioma, though the studies suggest it is a low number.
Michelle Potter, of consulting firm KCIC, which tracks and publishes the number of asbestos claims filed and other information on the litigation, referred to the panel discussion in a recent post on the company's website.
A co-panelist, Lisa Oberg from Dentons, raised the issue that mesothelioma can be caused by genetic factors.
According to Potter, Oberg cited figures showing that for claims from traditional asbestos exposure, 86 percent are pleural and 14 percent are peritoneal, and the average age of the claimant is 72.
Of those mesothelioma plaintiffs with the BAP1 gene, 50 percent are pleural and 50 percent are peritoneal, with an average age of 56.
It was argued that claimants should be asked if there is a history of cancers in the family, and if so, there is a greater likelihood that BAP1 gene is present.
"The goal for defendants should be to identify such cases as early as possible. If a claimant does not have traditional asbestos exposure and is relatively young, then it may be worth the investment to request the test for the BAP1 gene — to see if it points to this alternative cause of mesothelioma," Potter wrote in her post.
Potter also revealed the figures on asbestos filings over the last three years. Mesothelioma claims are decreasing at approximately five per cent a year, while lung cancer are constant. KCIC notes non-malignant claims change greatly from year to year.


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@Module
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Arvid Rosengren is the wine director of restaurant group Copenhagen Concepts, which owns and runs eight restaurants in Denmark and London. He was named the Best Sommelier of Europe 2013, writes for Livets Goda, and teaches at sommelier schools in Scandinavia.
In terms of wine, I wish I was 20 years older to live through the times when quality of wine was universally on the rise, but you could still pick up some of the greats for affordable prices.
I was 20 years old, and was surprised by a pretty simple Nebbiolo. I just couldn't grasp how all these lovely aromas could be there at once. I was hooked from there on.
About 200 scattered in various wine cabinets and cellars. I just splurged on some 2011 Château d'Yquem – lots of money but will be worth it in a few decades!
Nine years. I started out in a wine shop selling simple everyday wines but quickly became obsessed and joined the sommelier trade a couple of years later.
☆ Which vintage and region do you wish you'd bought a whole case of wine from?
Chenin Blanc probably. I'm more of a white wine drinker really, and I love Loire wines – they're so refreshing, yet serious and versatile.
Probably Valdeorras in Galicia – the quality potential is huge.
On the sommelier side, Gerard Basset without a doubt.
Just off the top of my head for winemakers, I'd love to lock these guys in a winery together and see what comes out: Dirk Niepoort, Katharina Prüm, Cathy Corison, Raul Perez, Eben Sadie, Mercedes López de Heredia and Maria-Teresa Mascarello.
Although there have been many good combinations, I prefer "simple" food. One of the best experiences I had last year was turbot grilled to marvellous gelatinous perfection with one of the Godellos from Rafa Palacios, the 2011 As Sortes, at Restaurant Elkano in the Spanish Basque Country.
I've yet to taste J.F. Coche-Dury's Corton-Charlemagne. I'd love to drink that with my girlfriend. She's not in the business, but she adores his wines above all, and I can never get enough of them for her!
☆ What's the highest number of wines you'd had on one of your wine lists?
I've never counted, but around 2000 references.
Apart from Madeiras which have been older, I've served a 1907 Heidsieck Champagne not long ago. It was one of those bottles that was found in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea a few years ago. It still had a bit of fizz and was delicious, although quite sweet.
I feel honoured and humbled to be part of such a distinguished team of judges, so most of all I'm looking forward to meeting and talking to them. And hopefully there will be some good wine as well!