When marketing your vocational school, you're going to want to try to reach a specific audience. When you think about who your audience is, you might be thinking about students who have just graduated high school or who are in their late teens or early twenties who want to go back to school.
In today's Internet savvy society, every school has a website. But could your vocational school website be doing more harm that good? To stand out from the masses, a school website should have compelling content and visual appeal, be engaging and informative, and reflect the school.If it's lacking any of this you could be repelling visitors instead of enticing them to log on.
Inbound marketing is considered the hot new trend these days, but its roots took hold over 100 years ago. The power of the internet has allowed it to flourish, powered by the personal connections businesses are able to make with consumers.
Many sales and marketing departments in companies run separately, with each team working to prove its superiority over the other. In today's market where consumers meet the salesperson while they are in the last quarter of the last cycle, teamwork between sales and marketing teams is crucial to the success of the business.


Dr Fahy's research is situated in the field of environmental behavioural change. Over the last decade she has focused on the topic of sustainable consumption and within this domain, and is known for her path-breaking research which challenges the efficacy of focusing on consumption in isolation from other associated and supporting practices when attempting to redirect living onto more sustainable pathways. This has been framed through an examination of various consumption practices; energy, water, food and waste (previous related research projects include: Fulbright Scholar Award 2013-14, National Economic and Social Research Council 2014-15; CONSENSUS Research Project, EPA 2009-2016). To support this research agenda Dr Fahy has obtained competitive large research funding (>1.7 million Euro personally awarded as Principal Investigator, and she has been involved as a partner in several more projects which have totaled over >15 million Euro). Some of her recent work is summarised in the co-edited collection 'Challenging Consumption' (Routledge, 2014) and the European HORIZON 2020 funded ENERGISE project which she currently leads.
ATLAS – A Trans-AtLantic Assessment and deep water ecosystem based Spatial management plan for Europe (Horizon 2020: Large Scale five year research project 2016-2021) Team member – NUI Galway team led by Anthony Grehan ATLAS creates a dynamic new partnership between multinational industries, SMEs, governments and academia to assess the Atlantic's deep-sea ecosystems and Marine Genetic Resources to create the integrated and adaptive planning products needed for sustainable Blue Growth. ATLAS will gather diverse new information on sensitive Atlantic ecosystems (incl. VMEs and EBSAs) to produce a step-change in our understanding of their connectivity, functioning and responses to future changes in human use and ocean climate.
CONSENSUS# II – Towards transformative action for sustainable consumption (Large-scale project funded under the EPA/STRIVE programme 2014-2016) Project Manager and PI for two of the 5 WPsThis two-year interdisciplinary project extends the original CONSENSUS project and features three complementary workpackages that apply segmentation profiling, living laboratory interventions and mobility biography mapping. These will be conducted in partnership with public, private and non-governmental actors to maximise impact and spin-off actions. CONSENSUS II will provide tangible data and recommendations for public, private and civil society actors in Ireland and Europe to support low carbon development that combines efficiency gains with a socially just allocation of resources.
'Communicating Sustainability Research – Challenges, Opportunities and Dissemination Strategies' (Small-scale project funded by the Fulbright Commission 2014) This project explored the experiences of academics involved in policy relevent research in the field of sustainability. Having spent the last decade working on a variety of policy relevant research projects in the sustainability arena, I drew on my own experiences and critically reflected on the opportunities and challenges of undertaking policy relevant sustainability research. Specifically, I undertook empirical research exploring to what extent the desire to be policy relevant impacts on a researcher's theoretical outlook, his/her conceptual orientations, methodogical approaches employed and his/her dissemenation strategies. This research project was conducted primarily in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, an institution which prides itself on its commitment to real-world research.
CONSENSUS – Consumption, Environment and Sustainability (Large-scale project funded under the EPA/STRIVE programme 2009-2013) This five-year interdisciplinary project was an exploration of household consumption in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This project is undertaken in conjunction with partners from the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway and the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.
MARNET – Marine Atlantic Regions Network (EU Interreg IVB Atlantic Area Programme 2012-2015) This project involved the establishment of a marine socio-economic network that will create and collate comparable marine socio-economic data and utilise this data to support marine socio-economic development initiatives along the Atlantic Area. The project examined the socio-economic utility of the marine environment derived from the productivity of associated marine ecosystems along the Atlantic Arc. The project sought to enhance the competitiveness and the sustainable development of Atlantic Periphery through the continued provision of a solid set of utilisable marine socio-economic information that are vital for policy formation and economic development planning across a range of marine related sectors and regions.
'Exploring perceptions of sustainability and scale in food systems' (Medium-scale project funded under the Millennium Research Fund 2010-2012) This project theoretically and empirically investigated the perceptions of Irish consumers with regard to the sustainability of food systems, not only environmental but also economic and social, from the local level to the global. Specific objectives included i) examining the meaning of 'local', as well as the role that scale plays in influencing consumer food choices; ii) investigating the extent to which perceptions of sustainability in food systems influence purchasing choices; iii) providing a nuanced understanding of the motivations for, and barriers to, purchasing products produced at different scales and explore the implications of such.
'Policies to Promote Cycling in Galway' (Small-scale project funded by the HSE, Galway City Council and WHO Healthy Cities 2010-2011) The overall goal of this small-scale project is to explore public support for a number of policies that could potentially promote and enable cycling in Galway City. The project involves the development of a survey to investigate public attitudes towards cycling with the aim of understanding the extent of public support for policies that would eventually increase the number of cyclists in Galway City.
'Urban Bike Parks' (Desk study. Galway City Council, Healthy Cities Galway June- August 2012) Following on from the successful partnership established between the HSE, Healthy Cities and Galway City Council in the Policies to Promote Cycling in Galway project (outlined above) this short desk top study provided for three months funding of a post-doctoral researcher – Dr Wes Flannery to review international good practice of urban bike parks and explore existing evidence to determine the processes involved in establishing a bike park in Galway City.
'Sustainable Energy Communities' (Desk study. NUI Galway Summer Internship Scheme June- August 2011) This short project is a desk top study of existing evidence to determine the processes and applications of local participatory budgets, specifically participatory Local Carbon Budgets (LCBs). LCBs are essentially caps on emissions in local areas and there is a growing volume of international evidence that suggests they provide a realisable avenue to advance the transition of communities towards low carbon futures. However, the extent to which citizens and communities participate in developing and implementing these budgets varies, and is the subject of much debate. This study is critically reviewing existing case studies of LCB implementation; identify gaps in evidence; and will make recommendations for further research required in the Irish context.
(2017) CONSENSUS Phase II – Towards transformative action for sustainable consumption.
(2016) Segmenting for Sustainability across the island of Ireland'.
(2015) Towards Sustainability: Overview of household consumption trends for water, energy, food and transport in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland'.
(2015) From 'Ever-Greens to Never-Greens' – Segmenting for Sustainability across the island of Ireland.
(2015) 'Greening Ireland? Two Irish Case Studies'.
(2013) Structural Prerequisites for Sustainable Societies and the Good Life – Taking the Sustainable Consumption Lens Seriously.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (8) Conclusion and summary.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (7) Energy consumption.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (1) Methodology and profiling.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (2) Environmental concerns.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (4) Food consumption.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (5) Food waste.
(2012) Consensus Lifestyle Survey – Report on public attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Ireland: (6) Water consumption.
(2011) 'Measurement and Evaluation of Ireland's Progress regarding Sustainable Consumption Policies'.
(2010) Policy Review of EU Directives on production and consumption and catalogue of international best practice models and tools for Quality of Life Proofing'.
(2008) Galway 21: Implementing the Principles and Practices of Sustainable Development in Galway City Council'.
(2007) 'Practical Tools for Sustainability' EPA Report for Galway City Council.
(2006) Galway 21: Quality of Life in Galway City' EPA Report for Galway City Council.
(2005) 'Galway 21: Review of international Local Agenda 21 Best Practice and an assessment of progress of Galway City Council towards a local process for sustainable development'.
(2005) 'Environmental attitudes and behaviour: values, actions and waste management'. Final research report to the Environmental Protection Agency Ireland (research grant # 2001-MS-SE2-M1).
(2017) Presentation 'ENERGISE: Developing an innovative theoretical framework fusing social practice and energy cultures approaches'.
(2017) 'Energy Cultures, Communities and Consumption: Exploring the social, political and cultural dynamics of energy system change'.
(2016) What's in a label? Examining 'Ever-greens' and 'Never-greens' on the Island of Ireland.
(2011) Sustainable Consumption – Towards Action and Impact Conference, Hamburg, Germany.
(2011) Conflict, Compromise and ConsEnSus: Opportunities and Challenges of Policy Relevance in Sustainable Consumption Research at Sustainable Consumption – Towards Action and Impact Conference, Hamburg, Germany.
(2011) Presentation and conference introduction: Introducing Food Consumption . Social Science Research Centre 7th International Conference Workshop 'We Are What We (Do Not) Eat': Linking Food Production and Consumption' at NUI, Galway.
(2011) 'ConsEnSus - Consumption, Environment and Sustainability: Exploring Policies and Instruments for Sustainable Household Consumption in Ireland' . Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA.
(2010) Presentation of The 'making' of place-based community in the urban-rural fringe; the significance of shared visions of quality of life and sustainability (paper by Mahon, M., Fahy, F., Ó Cinnéide, M. and Gallagher, B.) . Presented by M. Mahon at PLUREL Managing the Rural Urban Interface, University of Copenhagen.
(2009) Presentation: 'ConsEnSus: Consumption, Environment and Sustainability' . ICERTS: Irish Centre for Rural Transformation and Sustainability, NUI Galway(Forum for Research on Rural Balanced Development, Sustainability and Natural Resource Management).
(2009) Presentation: Sustainable Consumption: Concepts and Cases . Social Science Research Centre 5th International Conference Workshop 'Society, Culture and the Environment (V) at NUI, Galway.
(2007) Where the Muck Stops… Responsibility and Waste Management Session Title: Planning and Environment, Research Group - Sustainable Waste Management . Presentation: Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society, London.
(2017) Presentation 'Developing an Energy Culture for Europe' Shape Energy European Workshop.
(2017) Presentation 'Developing an Energy Culture for Europe'.
(2016) Presentation 'Geography in Ireland' EUGEO annual workshop.
(2013) Invited Chair and Discussant at international sustainable consumption workshop 'Structural Prerequisites for Sustainable Societies and the Good Life'.
(2013) Keynote speaker Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences, ERDID 2013 Conference 'Sustainability Research in the Social and Human Sciences'.
(2013) Presenter: Sustainability Research – Challenges, Opportunities and Dissemination Strategies.
(2011) 'Measurement and Evaluation of Ireland's Progress regarding Sustainable Consumption Policies' . Report for the EPA, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.
(2010) 'Policy Review of EU Directives on production and consumption and catalogue of international best practice models and tools for Quality of Life Proofing' School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.
(2014) 2014 Towards an Energy Hierarchy presentation at the 'Sustainable Consumption' Problem framing and research design workshop.


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Q: Android - How to send/read vCard via SMS/MMS? I'm looking for any way to send/read a vCard via SMS in my app. I've read a lot of articles, web-pages, forums etc. There is still not even a clue how to do that.
Here is transaction.

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*User selects some specific contact

*App generates a vCard for it

*User types a number to send vCard to

*App sends SMS with that vCard(?)

*Addressee recievs SMS with vCard and asked to browse contact/add to
contacts(?)

Here is some posts in stackoverflow with the same issue: this and this. Still nothing helpful...
I've found this nice library to work .vcf files(both write and read). But is there any way to send it to another phone (and read properly of course)? Just send this as a string maybe?
HERE is a nice stack post about handling data from recieved SMS sent by SMSManager.sendDataMessage() method
Please help! I'll be happy to get any clue, useful library or a proof that it's impossible on Android. If there is no way via SMS can you give me advice how to do that via MMS?
What's interesting, that there is a lot of apps with that functionality, so I guess this is possible.
Thanks anyone who responds. Have a good day.

A: You don't have to read MMS from code, when you have system for that.
To send MMS with vCard, you need to attach .vcf file to it.
Here is an answer how to do that.

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The approach of future designers is highlighted through the exhibition of innovative projects and life scenarios as potential innovations in our daily life. L'École de design Nantes Atlantique thus reveals design beyond its aesthetic aspect.
As a professional school of design, L'École de design Nantes Atlantique considers design as a process of innovation. Thus, the teaching activities of master programs are based around topic-oriented MDes programs which give frameworks allowing students to think and experiment.
The topic-based Master's programs represent virtuous ecosystems clustering research, courses (possible double degrees with the IAE-IEMN de l'Université de Nantes, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Polytech Nantes and Télécom Bretagne) and companies, design being the core dynamic element of the innovative process.
Design L'Expo is shown on l'Île de Nantes at the Cale 2 Créateurs. During the two months of the exhibition, visitors will have the possibility to vote for the most innovative project.


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The Copyright Experience of the University of the South Pacific: a Union Perspective
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Fighting the commercialisation of education Future of work in education Education, Research and Copyright
published 24 November 2022 updated 24 November 2022
Elizabeth Reade Fong
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Legislation is meant not only to protect but to bring equity. And copyright legislation is not meant to be any different. However, the reality on the ground in a developing country like Fiji has only reinforced the inequity of access to and, more importantly, the use of information for learning and teaching and research for libraries and educational institutions. The pandemic exacerbated the situation!
Entry and progress in the world of higher education `assumes' a certain level of understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) issues and, in this instance, especially copyright.
In my capacity and experience as a librarian at the University of the South Pacific (USP), this assumption is a fallacy and, even dangerous given the implications of non-compliance with national and international copyright legislation. In comparison to the Australian education system where copyright and referencing are introduced mid primary school as I observed when my 8 year old niece visited some 20 years ago bringing with her, school work on this very issue, my general observation in Fiji and the region is that primary and secondary (high) school reference to IP and copyright is either non-existent or minimal and largely dependent on the initiative of the teacher, as opposed to via the curriculum.
An outdated and inadequate copyright legislation for Fiji education
The Government of Fiji is focusing on technological access for the nation, but there is not the same emphasis on the use of information under a general right to information approach. In fact, in comparison to other countries worldwide, Fiji has one of the most outdated and restrictive laws where basic teaching activities, such as showing a YouTube video in an online class or posting an article on a university platform, are illegal. In such instances, teachers, have to either forego the use of information thus depriving students of knowledge or disregard copyright legislation, exposing themselves to possible legal consequences.
The Fiji Copyright Act (1999) was the outcome of the Fiji Law Reform Commission that was developed in consultation and collaboration with national and regional tertiary institutions in Fiji, the Fiji National Archives and the Fiji Museum, the Ministry of Education and other relevant ministries and NGOs, under guidance of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
My observation of this exercise was that the intention was excellent and the consultations strong, but too few suggestions by public interest stakeholders such as education unions were taken into consideration in the final legislation. I did not believe that the outcome truly addressed Fiji's dependency on externally published works, nor offered solutions to the dearth of writing and publishing by local authors or contributed to overcoming the lack of understanding of copyright per se. The outcome was more of a `one-size fits all' approach, promoting commercial rather than public interests for accessing information and favouring developed nations where the `ability to pay' for information was way beyond that of the capacity of the Fijian government and education institutions in the post-colonial period.
Proposed solutions in education focused on the right to `apply for exemption' from copyright restrictions for using materials for teaching and research. For teachers and lecturers who were already pressured with work, time, and money, it was not a solution. In the pandemic, this was certainly a challenge. Fortunately for USP, online learning and teaching is a norm. Nevertheless, full online teaching in the pandemic was stressful and doing so without having legal security to use materials for teaching increased the stress teachers experience.
The discussions on copyright related to the protection of traditional knowledge (TK) that gave rise to sui generis legislation on TK which was positive.
Challenges facing Fijian education communities must be addressed
The USP has taken a lead role in IP and copyright awareness with the Library and the Centre for Flexible Learning websites informing the university community of how to work and manage copyright but its approach is more about protecting the staff members, students, and the University.
Reactions by library users to copyright clearance is either ` Yes, I agree and understand and will follow due process to obtain clearance' or ` this is too complicated, I will look for something else'. The concern is one of quality in the second response.
Requests were made in the consultations with WIPO in the 1990s for special considerations as a developing country but this did not eventuate. It was always about `seeking special clearance'. We were asking for greater flexibility for all levels of education but this was not forthcoming.
The challenges for information use by teachers reaffirm the need for national and international legal frameworks that recognize that the playing field for creators of academic works is not level. Levelling it requires a realistic assessment of the needs of education in regions such as the Blue Pacific for a use for development perspective without the domination of economic and commercial aspects, as hard that this may be.
The crucial role of unions
The importance of teacher unions playing a role cannot be underestimated given their large membership and expertise in teaching and research. Evidence-based research is the best means to convince relevant international organizations and the Association of USP Staff (AUSPS) is well placed to make a difference within the education sector and beyond.
The staff of the AUSPS is involved in a qualitative research project funded by EI and led by the University of Waikato on ` Access and use of teaching materials from a copyright perspective in Fiji and the Philippines'. The purpose of the research is to contribute the perspectives of teachers on the issue of copyright in the hope that this will bring about reform. The unions of educational institutions are well-placed to support such research and the focus groups selected for the project will be participants in early-childhood, primary, high school and tertiary institutions.
The Association of USP Staff discussed this issue at the 9th Educational International Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, last month. We will seek a review of the Fiji Copyright Act (1999) by the Fiji Law Reform Commission at the Council of Pacific Educators Meetings after the national elections 2022 and support efforts by Education International and the recently launched Access to Knowledge Coalition to promote international reforms at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that promote equity and quality in teaching.
Only by action can unions make a difference for equitable access to and use of information.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect any official policies or positions of Education International.
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How 10,000 Menorahs Helped A Town Defeat Hate
Submitted by dwendel on December 23, 2016 - 4:56pm
Our earlier post outlined recent acts of anti-semitism in two Montana towns, and what people can do. Now we want to share five action principles that have worked all over the world.
You can be a catalyst for change in your town.
The message of Not In Our Town is straightforward. Each of us has a role to play in standing up to hate, and if we work together, on the ground in our local communities, we can overcome acts of hate and intolerance.
Twenty years ago, the citizens of a different Montana community were also facing white supremacist organizing and there is some good news to report: the people of Billings, Montana overcame these threats, and learned how to combat hate. Here's a short version of the story, and below, we've outlined five principles that made their actions effective.
Not In Our Town: Billings, Montana.
The Story of Billings: 10,000 Menorahs help a town defeat hate
In 1995, Not In Our Town told the story of the people in Billings who stood up to white supremacists when a Black church, a Native American family and a Jewish family became the targets of intimidation. Townspeople of all races and religions found common ground against attacks to their neighbors. Religious and community leaders, labor union volunteers, law enforcement, the local newspaper and concerned residents united in action and spoke loudly against hate and intolerance, proclaiming in no uncertain terms "Not In Our Town."
It all started with a story that helped provide a model for how to stop hate groups. When a brick was thrown through the window of a 6 year old Jewish boy who had displayed a menorah for Hanukkah, it was a signal that violence in Billings Montana was escalating.
Local churches, human rights and labor organizations, businesses and the local newspaper urged residents to place menorahs in their windows as a sign of solidarity. At first, there were attacks against some of those churches. But people persevered and that holiday season, 10,000 people put menorahs in their windows to show they would stand together against hate and bigotry.
Tammy Schnitzer in a scene from "Not In Our Town: Billings, Montana." A brick was thrown through her 6 year old son's window where a menorah was displayed for Hanukkah.
Five Ideas to Guide Community Response to Hate
The community of Billings, Montana came together in solidarity when faced with hate and tolerance in their town.
What we have learned from the Not In Our Town movement is that with practice, we can defeat hate by working together in local communities. The people of Billings and members of other communities have created a model for how a community responds to hate. The model has been replicated over and over, across the US and around the world.
Silence is Acceptance. The police chief in Billings, Wayne Inman, an early adherent to community policing, convinced the townspeople that, despite the dangers of taking action, the only way the white supremacists would go away is if there was a consistent and united message showing that the community would not stand for hate. There was retaliation against some who stood up at first, but instead of backing down, the community redoubled their efforts - they kept showing up - at the urging of the police chief.
Respond Quickly to the Need and to People Who are Targeted. No matter who the target is, response must be swift and clear. In Billings, when skinheads appeared at a small Black church, intimidating the congregation, members of other denominations showed up for services at the church, and the skinheads went away. After a Native American family's home was plastered with racist graffiti, 30 members of the Painters Union showed up to paint the house, and 100 residents were there to cheer them on.
"I'll Walk With You." Learn to Practice Anti-Hate Action by showing people who have been harmed that they are not alone. A response to each action of hate, supporting all who are harmed, is the only way we can defeat it. One powerful example occurred in Brooklyn, NY, when hundreds gathered after a Muslim imam and his co-worker were killed. After the attack, New Yorkers who were not Muslim wanted to make sure their neighbors felt safe on the streets, so they launched an "I'll Walk With You" movement. Using an online connection point, people who felt unsafe to walk to the subway or travel on public transportation could find a neighbor to accompany them. After a Black student was threatened on a Texas college campus, hundreds of her fellow students showed up to walk her to class. These are just a few of the many examples of local, positive and powerful responses to hate.
Make Your Stand Against Hate Broadly Visible. Billings was starting to practice their stand against hate, and to see that it could work, when a brick was thrown through the window of a 6 year old Jewish boy who had displayed a menorah for Hanukkah. Margaret MacDonald, now a state senator from Montana, worked to mobilize the Council of Churches, human rights and labor organizations, and local business to place menorahs in their windows as a sign of solidarity.
Don't Back Down. There were attacks against some of the Billings businesses and churches that placed Menorahs in their windows, but the police chief urged them to think of the greater danger of backing down, and the townspeople redoubled their efforts, showing up when and where acts of hate were committed. All of these efforts lead to an end to the white supremacist presence in Billings. Hate, racism and anti-Semitism are still a danger in every town, but people can express the core values that keep bigotry from infecting their cities.
We Can Stop Hate Together
Safe, swift, tangible action shows that hate will be resisted and that we won't let our neighbors live in fear. Practicing response to hate means that when hate manifest itself, communities respond together.
Hundreds of communities have found inventive ways to take action, and here at Not In Our Town, we have been documenting and sharing their methods for over twenty years. Collectively, we are getting better and better at doing this, but now the threat is increasing rapidly, and we have to do more. Please think about how you will stand up for each other in the coming year. Join the Not In Our Town movement, and share our video and a message of hope with your family, your friends, your community.
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MONTREAL—Former Canadian brigadier-general Daniel Ménard, who was fined and demoted for having a sexual relationship with a female subordinate, has been sitting in an Afghan jail for nearly three weeks, the Toronto Star has learned.
The former head of Canadian forces in the country, who now works for private security firm GardaWorld, was detained on or about Jan. 12. He was picked up by local authorities after leaving a meeting with Afghan government officials to discuss issues related to the development of Afghan security forces, Joe Gavaghan, a spokesman for the company, said in an interview Wednesday.
Ménard has not been charged with breaking any laws, Gavaghan said, adding the incident is based on an "administrative misunderstanding" related to its licence to operate in Afghanistan as a private security firm.
Gavaghan said the former commander of the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, based out of CFB Valcartier, appeared in a Kabul court Wednesday.
"This involves some kind of administrative issue with our operating licence. It was kind of a technicality. It's been cleared up and we believe that the individual is going to be released very shortly," Gavaghan said.
Calls and emails seeking information on Wednesday from the Afghan Embassy in Ottawa were not returned.
Ménard has been employed as managing director for Afghanistan by the global security firm GardaWorld since November 2011. Splitting his time between Kabul and the company's Dubai headquarters, he oversees the GardaWorld's operations across Afghanistan and manages its contracts with the U.S. government, non-governmental organizations and other companies, according to an online profile.
Canadian embassy officials in Afghanistan are being kept abreast of the situation, said Derek Burney, chairman of GardaWorld's International Advisory Board.
Company officials in Dubai "have been in contact with the embassy, in fact as recently as (Tuesday) as far as I know, but I have no more detailed information on where matters stand other than that," he said.
The incident highlights the difficult and often antagonistic relationship that exists between security firms and the Afghan government, which is to take full responsibility for security in the country after the vast majority of international military forces pull out this year.
"Some companies, particularly from the U.S., have a cowboy reputation and unfortunately when that happens that kind of paints everybody with the same brush," Gavaghan said.
In 2010, Ménard was relieved of his duties as commander of Canadian troops in Kandahar after revelations he was having an affair with a lower-ranked soldier.
He had already resigned from the army when he was convicted by a military court of fraternizing while deployed and trying to mislead investigators by asking a military chaplain to convince his lover, Master Cpl. Bianka Langlois, to lie on his behalf.
He was demoted to the rank of colonel and fined $7,000. Langlois, who pled guilty for her part in the affair, was fined $700.
"This happened in the worst place, at the worst time — in a theatre of operation," said military judge Lt.-Col. Louis-Vincent d'Auteuil as he handed down the sentence.
Ménard and Langlois began their affair in 2008. While deployed to Afghanistan, the military charge sheet said that they had sexual relations between Nov. 15, 2009 and April 27, 2010.
Prior to this, Ménard was also courtmartialed for mishandling his assault rifle in March 2010, accidentally firing two rounds into the ground while boarding a military helicopter at Kandahar Airfield during a visit from his then-boss, retired general Walter Natynczyk, the former chief of defence staff.


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A bandit who lives in the forest kidnaps the wife of a local police officer.
A cop and self-styled Robin Hood face off in a wild and brawny contest in Mani Ratnam's bullets-and-dance spectacle Raavan.
The love triangle is as tediously underwhelming as the slo-mo action, but the actors, costumes and lush mountainsides are easy on the eye.
Pan-Indian saga with epic sweep, intense emotion and gorgeous images.
Artful but not arty, Mr. Ratnam, whose films include Dil Se and Guru, delivers the goods.
Not unusually for a Bollywood movie, Raavan combines beautiful photography, over-the-top acting, cheesy special effects and musical numbers that stretch things out well beyond the two-hour mark.
The Tamil version is better directed, better acted, better edited, with music that's organically welded. The lines are sharper, the supporting cast and the main leads connected.
Ratnam's latest effort seems soulless and adrift under a canopy of dense foliage.
Very satisfying entertainment for the eyes, ears and heart - mythic romance and action adventure to a throbbing beat.
While it's hard to see why Villain was so feted by the Japanese academy, the moody, social-realist vibe makes this worth a look.
A.R. Rahman's omni-present score is as overbearing as most other aspects of this overwrought melodrama.
Raavan is an opulent spectacle for the senses.
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WSCTC is located in an area that has long been recognized for its beauty, unique character and recreational resources. The natural environment of Minnesota blends easily with the educational environment of the College to create the setting for a unique living and learning experience.
The College's 130-acre campus is situated in the town of New Hartford. Minnesota's third largest city, Rochester, lies 20 minutes to the southeast; Wisconsin is sixteen miles to the east. Minneapolis, Des Moines, Madison, Mankato and Duluth are all within easy driving distance on major highways and are accessible by both air and bus service.
WSCTC came under direct public control in 1912, when the property was purchased by the State of Minnesota. Since that time, the College has grown into a comprehensive institution of higher education offering a wide-range of programs in the electric science, construction, plumbing, and career and professional fields, leading to degrees of Certificate of Advanced Study, Associate in Science, and Associate in Arts in General Studies. WSCTC is accredited by the South Central Association of School and Colleges.
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Astrid Ferguson, is the momma of the book Molt and The Serpent's Rattle. An emerging poet, blogger, part-time writer, mother of two boys, wife to an emerging Philly artist, novice photographer, major foodie, professional dancer (in her mind) and a lover of all things creative. Astrid is an Afro-Latina (Haitian and Dominican decent) born in Dominican Republic now residing in the outskirts of Philadelphia, PA. She migrated to the United States at the early age of one. A passion for poetry developed after she dealt with childhood hardships and abuse.


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David Leonard Downie is Associate Professor of Politics and Environmental Studies at Fairfield University. Dr. Downie's research focuses on the creation, content, and implementation of international environmental policy.
Dr. Downie's recent and forthcoming work includes Global Environmental Politics, 7th Edition (2017), written with Pamela Chasek; Climate Change (2009), written with Kate Brash and Catherine Vaughan; The Global Environment: Institutions, Law & Policy, 2nd Edition (2005), co-edited with Regina Axelrod and Norman Vig; and many articles, book chapters, and U.N. documents. His most recent articles, book chapters and work-in progress examine a range of issues, including global policy to protect stratospheric ozone, limit the release of persistent organic pollutants, reduce anthropogenic emissions of mercury, and address the competing priorities placed on treaty Secretariats.
As part of his research, Dr Downie has attended dozens of global environmental negotiations on stratospheric ozone protection, toxic chemicals, climate change, mercury pollution, and sustainable development. During many negotiations on ozone protection, toxic chemicals, and mercury, he has worked for treaty secretariats drafting in-session and summary documents. Dr. Downie has also developed several working papers that seek to assist students find authoritative information on international environmental policy, graduate programs in environmental policy, and jobs related to sustainability.
Prior to joining Fairfield University in 2008, Dr. Downie taught courses in environmental politics at Columbia University from 1994-2008. While at Columbia he also held a number of positions at the Earth Institute and School of International and Public Affairs, including Director of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change (2004-2008), Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Climate and Society (2004-2008), Director of the Earth Institute Fellows Program (2002-2004), and Director of Environmental Policy Studies (MIA program) at the School of International and Public Affairs (1994-2000). He returned to Columbia in 2014 to teach a graduate class in environmental policy.
Downie received his B.A, in Philosophy, from Duke University and his Ph.D., in Political Science, from the University of North Carolina. He lives in Southport, CT with his wife and children and enjoys live music, skiing, scuba diving, and Frisbee golf.


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Q: Dynamically hide column list item if the field is empty I have a series of fields that I would like NOT to appear in my list dispForm.aspx. So when a user creates a new list item if these fields are unpopulated the do not appear DispForm.aspx but I still need the EditForm.aspx to show all fields.
I know OOB I am able to hide the list item under content type...this is not what i am looking to achieve.
Is there a way to achieve this with calculated values? ISBLANK (not familiar with the syntax)
Is anyone aware of a solution.
Have tried caml queries such as listed in other posts
"<View><Query><Where><IsNotNull><FieldRef Name="ContentType"/></IsNotNull></Where></Query></View>"

As well as
"<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name="ContentType" /><Value Type="Text">Document</Value></Eq><And><IsNotNull><FieldRef Name="ContentType" /></IsNotNull><Neq><FieldRef Name="ContentType" /><Value Type="Text">Document</Value></Neq> </And> </Where></Query></View>"

A: Insert the following js-code into your DispForm.aspx with SharePoint Designer:
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function() {
    $.each($('td.ms-formbody'), function() {
      if (!$(this).text().replace(/\xA0/,' ').trim()) {
        $(this).closest('tr').hide();
      }
    });
  });
</script>

You also have to included JQuery-library into DispForm.aspx or master-page.

A: You can write a httpmodule, and do something like this:
 private void context_PreRequestHandlerExecute(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
            Page handler = (Page) HttpContext.Current.Handler;
            string rawUrl = HttpContext.Current.Request.RawUrl;
            if (rawUrl.Contains("/DispForm.aspx?"))
            {
                handler.Load += new EventHandler(this.page_Load);//remove those fileds you want to hide in page_Load function.
            }
  }

A: Yes you can do similar with jQuery.  Using SPD you can edit the lists DisplayForm.aspx and add in the script you need to hide the field if it is empty.
Getting the correct field can be a bit of a challenge as it is a dynamically created form - I usually use the attribute "title" which contains the display version of the column name.  The downside to this is that if you change the display name you need to change your script.  Click F12 in IE to get developer mode and you will be able to see the structure of the HTML in the form.
EDIT: Code snippet as requested
$("input[title='ExternalColumnName']").parents("tr:first").hide();

You will need to check what sort of input/textarea/select etc your fields are and then use the column name to identify them.


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The Tab is a tabloid-style youth news site, published by Tab Media Ltd. It was launched at the University of Cambridge and has since expanded to over 80 universities in the United Kingdom and United States. The name originates from both an abbreviation for tabloid and a nickname applied to Cambridge students (from 'Cantabs').

The Tabs network consists of a national site and an individual sub-site for each university. Local campus-based stories are produced by students, with a student editorial team for each sub-site. Professional editors in The Tabs offices in Shoreditch and Williamsburg offer guidance and editorial insight to their student teams, as well as writing for the site on a regular basis.

In September 2017 News Corp was the main investor with a total of $6m (£4.6m) of new funding raised by Tab Media. In return for its investment News Corp has taken a minority stake in it and Emma Tucker, deputy editor of The Times, will sit on its board of directors.

History

2009–2012
The Tab was launched in 2009 by Cambridge students Jack Rivlin, George Marangos-Gilks and Taymoor Atighetchi. The website was marketed as "Cambridge University's Online Tabloid" promising to "provide fast news and entertainment direct to your rooms". The Tab was initially funded entirely by its three founders, although it now funds itself through advertising and other investment.

At its inception, "Tab Totty", a Page 3-esque feature, featured photographs of scantily clad Cambridge University (male and female) students in provocative poses. The feature was widely criticised, and Cambridge University's Women's Officer stated, "We can do better as a university". The subsequent controversy was picked up by several mainstream British newspapers, and made international headlines.

In 2009, the site's readers voted British National Party leader Nick Griffin "The worst person ever to attend Cambridge University" with 44% of the vote. In early 2010, The Tab ran an April Fools' Day hoax claiming Griffin had been stripped of his degree. This was subsequently reported by The Sun who believed the claims to be genuine.

In November 2010, The Tab released documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act detailing recent disciplinary procedures enacted across the University. Details from the documents released were then reported by national newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph.

In June 2011, The Tab published a pilot print edition of 5,000 copies in May Week and another Freshers' Week edition in October 2011. This tradition continued in the following years.

2012–2015
In Autumn 2012, The Tab expanded to twelve other British universities. Backed by external investment, Rivlin and Marangos-Gilks aim to build a mass circulation online paper for students across the country.

The news site has held journalism training events in association with The Daily Telegraph.

2015–present
The Tab opened its first American bureau in Brooklyn in July 2015. The Tab's first scoop to make the national papers came four days before it launched its first sub-site – a video of a UVA hockey player chugging a beer on the ice which they broke on their Facebook page made The Washington Post, USA Today and several other titles.

The site launched at 23 colleges on the East Coast in the fall of 2015 – including Ivy League institutions, and major public universities such as Penn State, University of North Carolina, and Rutgers.

They broke several stories which made the American national press. Their coverage of a Dartmouth Black Lives Matter protest was featured on Fox News and quoted in The Washington Post.

In April 2016, The Tab broke the news of where President Obama's daughter Malia was attending college.

In August 2016, founder Jack Rivlin assumed the role of CEO and Joshi Herrmann, a former Tab Cambridge editor who had been working at the Evening Standard, was appointed as Editor in Chief. Grace Vielma became UK Editor.

They have since expanded their team at their London office to 33 people.

In September 2017 News Corp was the main investor of a total of $6m (£4.6m) of new funding raised by Tab Media. In return for its investment News Corp has taken a minority stake in it and Emma Tucker, deputy editor of The Times, will sit on its board of directors.

In October 2020, Digitalbox plc acquired Tab Media and The Tab.

Babe
Babe, also known as Babe.net, was a spinoff aimed at young women.  It was established in May 2016 by then Tab editor Roisin Lanigan and focuses on what Slate contributor Ruth Graham called "vulgar tomfoolery" – provocative, light stories unlikely to appeal to older women.

In January 2018, a woman using the pseudonym 'Grace' wrote an article on Babe accusing comedian Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct. The article was met with a polarized and mixed response among commentators and the public with disagreement as to whether the incident described in the Babe article constitutes sexual misconduct, and to whether the accuser's narrative trivialized or damaged the Me Too movement.  The journalist who edited the story at Babe.net, Katie Way, was criticized by HLN anchor Ashleigh Banfield. Banfield had previously criticized Ansari's anonymous accuser, drawing Way's ire in an email response which she read part of on-air, characterizing it as hypocritical. The email included Way claiming "Ashleigh [was] someone who I am certain nobody under the age of 45 has ever heard of" and describing her as a "burgundy-lipstick, bad-highlights, second-wave-feminist has-been." Responding to criticism of the site's choice to publish the account, Tab editor-in-chief Joshi Herrmann said it was "patently ridiculous" to ignore stories solely because they did not involve illegal behavior.

It was reported in early 2019 that Babe CEO Jack Rivlin was looking to sell the site.

Babe closed in February 2019.

Scoops
Notable scoops for The Tab include Malia Obama's decision to go to Harvard University, and the publication of the memes that got 12 incoming freshmen kicked out of Harvard.

In December 2012, the Bristol title revealed a ban on female speakers at the university's Christian Union.

Starting in September 2013, The Tab pioneered a campaign that got student unions across the UK to ban Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, after Edinburgh University Students' Association boycotted it.

Later in the year, the site published an exclusive story after DJ Tim Westwood was caught unleashing a torrent of sexist jibes at Leicester's Student Union. In February 2016 The Tabs Reading edition interviewed Amber-May Ellis, a student at the University of Reading and a reality TV star, who got a tattoo of homeless Ian Beale on her thigh. In under 24 hours the story had gone viral, it was picked up by all of the U.K's tabloid newspapers and by ITV's This Morning.

A week in 2014 The Tab dubbed "The week The Tab dominated Fleet Street".

In February 2017, The Tab Cambridge reported a story about a student member of the Cambridge University Conservative Association burning a £20 note in front of a homeless person. The story was covered by The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.

False scoops and April Fools' Day hoaxes
In April 2010, an April Fools' Day story alleging that Cambridge had stripped Nick Griffin of his degree was picked up by The Sun.

On April Fools' Day 2014 a Cambridge story alleged that Prince William had received a third class degree.

Controversies
In October 2016, a group of University of Nottingham students dressed as a rollercoaster were reported by The Tab to be impersonating The Smiler rollercoaster crash of June 2015. This article was picked up by the national press including the BBC, ITV and Metro. The Tab reporter, Joseph Archer, admitted to the Daily Mail that he had 'not spoken to the group to ask what their costume was about' as the bar they were in was 'very busy', a statement that the group of students said was wrong. The Tab later issued an apology for their story and admitted that they had 'messed up'.

Student writers, including local student editors, are unpaid which has led to heavy criticism from other journalists as well as accusations The Tab is exploiting its writers.

When The Tab's women's vertical babe was first launched in May 2016 the majority of its writers were unpaid work experience students taking part in The Tab's summer 2016 Fellowship Scheme. In 2017 babe recruited more unpaid contributors in both the US and UK, as part of their 'Summer Correspondents' program.  Applicants were told that despite being unpaid they would receive many benefits, including: "Getting your stories read by thousands of readers across the world". babe established a small team of staff writers and editors at its Brooklyn office before ending in 2019.

References

Publications established in 2009
Publications associated with the University of Cambridge
Student newspapers published in the United Kingdom
European news websites
Youth in the United Kingdom

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Urken, who is the first-ever Bowdoin men's tennis player to play for an NCAA individual championship, will face Jack Katzman of the host school (CMS) at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT for the national title. Complete live coverage can be found here.
Urken advanced to the national championship match with a pair of wins on Friday. He defeated Gustavus Adolphus' Mohanad Al Houni (6-3, 6-2) in the quarterfinals before bouncing Nikolai Parodi of CMS (6-4, 4-6, 6-4) in the semifinals.
He won two matches on Thursday to open the tourney, cruising to straight-set wins over Zach Hewlin of Whitman (6-2, 6-4) and Sebastian Sikh of North Carolina Wesleyan (6-1, 6-4).
Luke Tercek fell in the opening round of the singles championship to Vishnu Joshi of Johns Hopkins (7-6, 6-7, 6-4).
Tess Trinka of the Bowdoin women's team advanced to the second round of the championship with a first-round win against Caroline Kutach of Trinity (Texas) 6-3, 6-3. She fell in the second round to Victoria Yu of Wesleyan 6-1, 6-2.
In doubles action, Trinka and Izzy Essi dropped their first round match to a duo from the University of Chicago (6-4, 0-6, 6-4).
On the men's side, Urken and Tercek fell in the first round as well to a team from Chicago (6-4, 6-4).
Urken will face Katzman for the NCAA title on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT. Visit https://webapps.cmc.edu/livescore/ for live scoring and video.


What a wild weekend here in eastern NC with a stormy weekend and a stormy start to the work week with storms rumbling through the area this Monday morning with the potential for more strong storms today thorough mid- to late afternoon. Some of these storms will contain moderate to heavy rainfall this morning and this afternoon with some partial clearing to the west some storms that do form will have the potential to produce small hail and gusty winds, and again very heavy rainfall. The summary for last week was mild during the week with dry conditions with temps in the loer to mid 70's with some low 80's mixed in during the week. Last weekend we saw a strong but slow moving cold front moving into the area with strong to severe storms at times. The main threat out of all the storms where very heavy rainfall, small hail, and deadly lightening. But there where some severe weather reports in NC with 1 possible tornado reported in Harnett County, NC. Reports came in as roofs being torn off of houses in that area. And other reports where wind damage reported in central NC, near Raliegh. But other than that we are getting much needed rain due to the lack of it and a possible minor drought starting if we didn't get this rainfall. Total Dopplar Radar estimates for rainfall starting April 30- May 3, 2004 at 9:38am is 3.00"-3.50" and rain is still falling. The total would probably add up to 4.00"-4.50" after this cold front fial sweeps through the area late this afternoon and evening. The outlook for this week is partly to mostly sunny skys with dry conditions and temperatures starting off cool in the low 70's and warming up to the mid 80's by later in the week. No storms are forecasted through this period as of today 5/3/2004.
The weather for this week is going to start off on the wet side with some rain showers in here on Monday with a slight potential of a severe thunderstorm with mainly a hail and wind and a flooding threat for the stronger and slower moving storms. The rest if the week is going to look cooler than normal so we will be below average for a day or two before we recover into the high 70's and low 80's. The next chance of rain won't be until next week sometime. Currently we are moving into a drought but just a minor drought as of this time. But if we don't get any heavy downpouring soaking rains then we could be having ourselves a minor to a moderate drought here in North Carolina, and in the Southeastern United States alone. Currently this year alone we have only recieved about 5-6 inches of rain and in below yearly average.
I appolize that i wasn't able to write a summary of the weather for the past 2 weeks. I was very busy at other things, so when i get time to type a summary for those 2 weeks i'll let you know i the Newsletter.
Hello, I hope everyone had a nice cool weekend and that you are awake today after the dayights savings time. The weather story for last week was pretty quite other than a rain shower and a thunderstorm that where widely scattered in the area. We only picked up under 100's of an inch or so here in Lumberton. Other than that the amount of rain wasn't going to put a dent in the pollen count because it remained at or near high all week. Sunday a cold front passed through the area with a quite windy and cool day. I did expect the air mass to drop the humidity down below 25% putting us in a Red Flag Warning yesterday and today. But only minor brush fire was reported in SC. Monday night is going to be another hard freeze with temperture readings going below 32 tonight to about 30 degrees. The rest of the week we will have a minor 40% chance of rain or a thunderstorm as the next front moves in form the southwest bringing us a chance of a thunderstorm or 2. Other than that the temps will rebound once again in to the 60's and maybe 70's this week with over night lows in the 40's and low 50's during the week.
I got some good news for the people out there wanted some rain to clean the air out and the reduce the pollen in the air. Well the only chance for rain will be on Tuesday as a cold front pushed eastward. But this cold front isn't going to produce alot of measureable rainfall but it will bring in a NW windflow and a little bit of rain to clear the air out. But just to let you know we are not in a drought yet but March will be on the records for the driest March on record. Well thats all the news i have for now out of the weather center for this but stay tune in next week for a full stories worth of Tornado reports for the month of March and the current numbers on for the year.
Winter weather here in Lumberton, NC has seemed to make a come back in temperature wise but not snow or ice is going to be in the forecast tonight or through the week. Monday night is going to be probably are last freeze but a hard one to. Temps here in southeastern NC is expected to dip down to the mid 20's with some spots in the low 20's. The cause to this hard freeze on Monday night is a strong cold front blowing quietly through North Carolina and behind the front a strong Artic area of high pressure ushering in very cold air from Canada. And with that a calm wind and clear skies will lead to a hard freeze. But for the rest of this week i'm expecting the High pressure to stay in the area through the week and bring earm weather starting Weds- the weekend. Some week in April i will be e-mailing the Warning Cor. of the NWS office in Wilmington for a possible SkyWarn training for thise who want to be trained to become a spotter and report severe weather to the NWS when its imminient. Or to refresh your mind on spotting. If interested in coming please e-mail me at Tornado9017@yahoo.com because i need at least 10 people to come for the Warning Cor. from our local NWS office.
Winter has seem to end here in North Carolina due to spring on our door step. Spring starts on March 20, 2004 @ 1:47am. Due to that the sun is getting to a higher angle and the air is being heated more than when winter first started back in December of 2003, when the angle of the sun was at its lowest point during the year. But March is a tricky month for winter weather here in North Carolina. Also this is the month when NC is at its highest of Severe Weather. But through all of spring, March-June we are at risk of potential severe weather. This month is the anniversiary of the March 20, 1998 Severe Weather and Tornado Outbreak, and the March 28, 1984 Carolina's Tornado Outbreak. So as you see March can be a very active time of the year for Tornadoes. So beware and be prepared. And stay on top of severe weather during all of spring and summer, and fall. The one advise that i would give people is, is to purchase a NOAA Weather Radio with the new SAME technology to alert you when any type of severe weather strikes your county with the new SAME technology it will only alert you when your county is issued a severe weather warning, and or watch. Plus make sure it has a battery back-up and a loud tone to alert you when you are in bed. So go out if you don't kave one a purchase one for under $50.00 for a AC/DC powered and battery back-up and/or a handheld with the same features. It may one day save your life and lives of others.


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Sonic Archaeology
Explorations in cultural and social history through recorded sound.
A Guide To Australian Warner Bros Record Labels In The 1960s and 70s
Recently I became interested in understanding the evolution of the Australian Warner Bros label during the 1960s and 70s. This post focusses on key releases that highlight changes in the label design and information over two decades. Warners issued and reissued many of their albums over the years and my aim is to help clarify which years/eras certain pressings come from.
This guide is informed by marginalia from records in my collection, online articles & discographies, as well as newspaper articles found using the amazing Trove database at the National Library of Australia. Others have written extensive accounts of the Warner Bros story both in Australia and elsewhere and I have provided links to a few favourites at the end. This is a work in progress and I appreciate any feedback or additional information that improves its accuracy.
Quick overview of the different Australian Warner Bros. Records labels
1960-63: Grey label Mono
1960-63: Grey label Stereo
1963 – 65: Long ARC text
1966 – 69: Gold label
1967: ARC credit dropped
1969 – 70: W7 & green label
1970: Shield logo & local acts
1971: Shield logo & green label
1972: ℗ year added
1973: Burbank label for international acts
1976/77: WB shield with 'Records' written through
1978: Cream label
1960/61: Establishing An Australian presence
The Rogers Record Review column in the Canberra Times on the 15th August 1960 covered the 'big news' surrounding the premier release for Warner Bros Records in the Australian market. Twelve of the best selling LPs from the U.S catalogue were selected as an initial offering including titles by Pete Rugolo, Bing Crosby, George Greeley, Raoel Meynard, Paul Desmond, Roger Smith, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Bobby Havana Boys, Tab Hunter, Stan from the TV Show Hawaiian Eye, The Warner Bros Military Band, and Edd Byrnes.
As 'Kookie' in the successful TV show 77 Sunset Strip, Byrnes was one of the star actors on the WB books. The top right corner of the LP's front sleeve shows the boxed Warner Bros logo which would increasingly appear exclusively on the rear of the sleeve in following years.
Although released in Australia in 1960, the licensing and manufacturing information at the bottom of the sleeve copies the U.S release and reads "© 1959 Warner Bros Records Inc. A subsidiary and licensee of Warner Bros Pictures Inc. Manufactured and Distributed by Australian Records Company Ltd."
The rear sleeve advertises 'Vitaphonic' high fidelity. This continues to appear on WB releases until at least 1968.
The grey label features a black and yellow WB shield logo. Variations on this logo come and go over the following decades. For the first decade WB was manufactured by the Australian Record Company Limited. They're credited in the third row of text from the bottom (just above Vitaphonic High Fidelity).
The Outriggers LP is an early stereo pressing from the 60/61 period. It was originally released in the U.S in 1958. Note the catalogue number 1224 is lower than 1309 for the Kookie LP above. For the next decade Australian releases were selected from the broader U.S WB catalogue and not always issued in the same order as the U.S.
The cover reproductions remain true to the U.S pressings. The © text on the rear of this sleeve reads 1958. Years can't be relied upon exclusively to accurately date Australian pressings until local WB manufacturing begin printing the ℗ year on labels in 1972.
1963/64: Manufactured in Australia By The Australian Record Company Limited
In 1963/64 there is a shift in the way the Australian Record Company is credited on the labels. Previously the text reads "Australian Record Company Limited". The updated text is smaller print and longer. It reads "Manufactured In Australia By The Australian Record Company Limited, Licensee All Rights Reserved."
Original 1960 text
Updated ARC text
It is difficult to be certain about the exact date. The last release I can find with the original text is W 1490 -Let's Go! With the Routers. This was advertised as an upcoming U.S release in Billboard magazine of January 1963 and so it's highly likely that it was issued in Australia sometime later that same year.
An early example of the new text is on the LP W 1525 Ski Surfin' by The Avalanches. This was advertised in Billboard magazine as a new U.S release in December 1963. Therefore, it must have been released in Australian in December 1963, or far more likely, released sometime in 1964.
The updated text was certainly in place by September 1964 when the Peter Paul And Mary In Concert LP was released and being reviewed in Australia.
Interestingly, LPs like the debut by Peter, Paul & Mary, which was certainly issued in Australia by January 1963, were also issued with the updated text. This suggests that there were multiple pressings of at least this LP in the first year of its release.
1965/66: Warner Bros label goes gold
In June 1965, W 1589, Peter, Paul & Mary's LP A Song Will Rise was a best seller in the U.S. The album was originally released on the grey WB label in Australia. Unfortunately I can't find a primary source to confirm it, but it seems reasonable to say that WB would have wanted to get it out as soon as possible to capitalise on their popularity and therefore it was probably issued sometime in mid to late 1965.
By April 1966 the label had changed to gold. Ike & Tina Turner's Live Show (W 1579) is an early example. The album was released in the U.S early in 1965 and the sleeve of the Australian pressing carries a © date of 1965. However, reviews don't begin appearing in Australia until April 1966 suggesting WB delayed local release.
1967/68: Warner Bros. – Seven Arts Ltd.
In November 1966 Jack L Warner sold his share of the Warner Bros. Company to Seven Arts Ltd. In July 1967 shareholders of both companies approved the sale of WB to Seven Arts. The resulting merger was named Warner Bros. – Seven Arts Ltd.
The Association's album Insight Out was packaged to capitalise on the success of their song Windy which was in the Australian charts in August/September of 1967.
Though the album was released in Australia after the merger took place, the text on the rear sleeve still reads This record published and © 1967 Warner Bros. Records Inc., A subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
Anything Goes by Harpers Bizarre first appeared in the U.S Billboard charts late in December of 1967. Original promo copies of the U.S pressing credit still use the WB shield logo on their cover and credit Warner Bros. – Seven Arts at the bottom of the rear of the sleeve.
However, text at the bottom of the original Australian pressing, likely issued early in 1968, does not yet credit the merger and reads "This record published and © 1968 Warner Bros. Records Inc., A subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc."
The Grateful Dead's self titled debut album was being reviewed in Australia in March/April 1968. The text at the bottom of the rear sleeve is the earliest reference I can find of an Australian pressing that credits Seven Arts. It reads "This record published and © 1968 Warner Bros. – Seven Arts, Inc., A subsidiary and licensee of Warner Bros. – Seven Arts Inc."
Interestingly, the album was originally released in the U.S in March 1967. The fact that the Australian pressing has a © date of 1968, and the Harpers Bizarre LP also has a © 1968 date, despite being originally released in 1967, suggests that the © year printed on sleeves is becoming more reliable during this period.
The gold label was still being used in 1968 for this second WB album release from the Grateful Dead.
1968-69: W7 logo and the first green labels
Either later in 1968, or certainly by 1969, a new W7 logo had begun appearing on the front and rear sleeves – usually in the top right corner. The logo was introduced in 1967 in the U.S for films made by the company but it seems to have taken a little longer before it became a fixture on their recordings.
There is also another shift in the colour of the label – this time to green. Along with this change is new text that appears on the top of the label that reads Warner Bros. – Seven Arts Records. Underneath this text is the W7 logo.
Again, it's difficult being too specific about when the changes occurred, but in this case the © date on the rear sleeve for Lalo Schifrin's Bullit soundtrack (WS 1777) says 1969 and my copy has a radio station stamp showing May 1969 so it had certainly happened by then.
1970: Warner Bros begins Australian operations
In July 1969 the Kinney National Company acquired the entire Warner Bros. – Seven Arts company. This was a fascinating business move by Kinney who had previously run parking lots and a funeral home. By 1970 Seven Arts had been dropped from the name and the company was known again as Warner Bros. The label remained green but there was a return to the WB shield design, this time with blue text on an orange background.
Looking to expand further, Warner Bros. announced in July 1970 that it was opening Warner Bros. Records of Australia later that year. With Paul Turner as President of operations it launched officially on October 1st 1970. This launch marked the end of the Australian Record Company's period as the licensee for WB in Australia, though it would still take care of distribution until late 1972 when WEA Records Pty Ltd. took over. Turner and his team were given full control of releases and promotional activities. They were empowered and encouraged to sign local acts and the WB companies in other markets, which now included Canada and the U.K along with the U.S, were to help market those acts to their own audiences.
The first local act to release an LP on the new label was Tamam Shud with Goolutionites And The Real People (WS-200001), which came out in late 1970. The label highlights the changes in design with Warner Bros. Records along the top and the WB shield logo featured below it.
The other change that takes place at this time is the manufacturing credit on the rear sleeve. From 1970 on it simply says "Manufactured and Distributed under license." The example here is from the Brownsville Station LP from 1971.
1972: Year of release printed on label
The international corporate shuffling and negotiations continued and in the first half of 1972 Kinney Music International renamed itself WEA International. The WEA initials standing for Warner, Elektra and Atlantic -the three major labels that had been bought out by Kinney. WEA Records Pty. Ltd. took over sales and distribution from November with operations in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and Brisbane. WEA Records Pty. Ltd. begins to appear on labels and sleeves as the distributor after this date.
Worth noting is that from 1972 onwards the Australian pressings of Warner Bros. Records begin to put the ℗ year on their labels just under the catalogue number and MX numbers. This makes it much easier to date pressings after this period.
Featuring G. Wayne Thomas, John J. Francis, Brian Cadd, and Tamam Shud, the Morning of the Earth was an early local success for the label becoming the first Australian film soundtrack to achieve gold sales status.
1973 – 1978: The 'Burbank' label design for international artists
In 1973 Warner Bros. began using a logo that reflected the surrounding of their headquarters in Burbank, California. This has since become known as the Burbank label. Most noticeably the text at the top now reads "Burbank, Home Of Warner Bros. Records". The change seems to have occurred in mid 1973.
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell's soundtrack for the film Deliverance would have been one of the final releases using the green WB label in 1973. It was being reviewed as a new release in Australian newspapers in June 1973.
The self titled album by English band Greenslade (BS-2698) was being reviewed in August 1973. The only copies I have come across are on the Burbank variation.
The Burbank label didn't change significantly over the following four years. The only update that I'm aware of is the addition of the word 'Records' through the middle of the shield logo. While I can't fix a date for the change, it doesn't seem to appear on anything before 1976. Releases I have from 1976 & 1977 have both variations.
Only international artists appeared in the Burbank label. Australian acts continued releasing albums on the green WB label through until 1975. An example is the Stone soundtrack by Billy Green (600 002) which appeared in 1974. Local acts began appearing on other labels of the Warner stable, like Reprise, after 1975.
1978: First use of the cream/white label
The final variation considered in this blog is the cream or white label which began being used in 1978. An example is the the Champagne Charlie album from Leon Redbone (BSK-3165). This continued into the 1980s.
Other WB sources of information
Michael De Looper has compiled an excellent discography of Australian Warner Bros. releases in the 1960s and the 1970s. It covers LPs, EPs, and 45s.
The Global Dog site has a comprehensive discography for Warner Bros 45s released in Australia.
The Milesago website has an excellent writeup on the history of Warner in Australia.
For thorough information on Warner Bros Records and it's history in the U.S check out Warner Brothers Records Story – David Edwards, Patrice Eyries, and Mike Callahan
Robert Lyons is a good source for info about the U.K Warner Bros operations and pressings.
As I said at the beginning, if you spot anything that you feel should be corrected, or have information that can help further develop the detail in this blog, please get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.
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New deal in York for unique Irish Black Butter
Northern Ireland's unique Irish Black Butter is now on the shelves of one of the best known delis in Yorkshire from an agreement at the recent Taste the Greatness presentation at Fine Food North show in Harrogate.
Irish Black Butter, a Food NI member company, took part in the showcase in Harrogate and met representatives from Costello's Good Food Shop in York. As a result of the ensuing discussions, Irish Black Butter founder and managing director Alastair Bell has begun supplying his unique sweet/savoury spread to the popular deli.
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Mr Bell, commenting on the latest deal in Britain, says. "I am thrilled to have a presence in the historic city of York and in such a successful food retailer. I look forward to working with Carol Costello in promoting my Irish Black Butter to her discerning customer base.
"The business with The Good Food Shop is the latest in a string of listings in specialist food stores in Britain which have resulted from our participation at Taste the Greatness presentations in Britain. I've found the events organised by Food NI in association with Invest NI to be tremendously beneficial as I seek to expand sales in Britain.
"I believe we need to see more of these in Britain in the months ahead. The Food NI team is doing a tremendous job in helping smaller food firms develop sales in what is still our biggest marketplace," he adds.
Another business boost for Alastair came last month from Sheridan's in the shape of hugely significant listings by Avoca and Fallon & Byrne, both in Dublin and respected as two of the most prestigious food halls and restaurants there. Avoca has around 10 stores on the island of Ireland, including an immensely popular outlet in Belfast, while Fallon and Byrne has a network in greater Dublin.
He developed the delicious spread in 2016 using Armagh Bramley apples, treacle, spices and brandy and launched it the following year.
As well as developing sales in Britain, Alastair is also now fielding inquiries from delis in the US and Germany for the unique spread he launched in November 2017 on the back of a trip to the Channel Island where he sampled an apple spread.
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Nyerereite: Mineral information, data and localities.
Named by C. Milton in 1968 in honor of Julius Kambarage Nyerere (29 October 1964, Butiama, Tanganyika – 5 November 1985, London, United Kingdom), president of Tanganyika and then Tanzania 1964-1985. The original description contained only a name and composition. A later proposed name of natrofairchildite (in another paper that included data) was denied and nyerereite was given priority.
Platy crystals to 0.5 mm.
Incommensurately modulated twin structure (Bolotina et al., 2017): Cmcm(α00)00s with modulation vector q = 0.383a*, with above unit-cell parameters. Originally assumed to have Cmc21.
Gregoryite 5 photos of Nyerereite associated with Gregoryite on mindat.org.
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Chen, W., Kamenetsky, V. S., & Simonetti, A. (2013). Evidence for the alkaline nature of parental carbonatite melts at Oka complex in Canada. Nature communications, 4, ncomms3687.
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It starts to become a bit depressing to kick someone so much when they're down, but few directors have fallen so far out of favour in recent years than M. Night Shyamalan, the man who offered his services as nominal helmsman for this Smith family vanity project (Will, starring alongside his lesser-talented son, Jaden). Or the Smith Family Robinson. Either way, this movie is one that just didn't look good from the outset. The trailer didn't even feature any good moments, and trailers are supposed to sell movies by using the best bits (think of how many comedies that you've been disappointed by when – altogether now – all the best bits were in the trailer). The fact that it seemed to be a two-hander between Will and Jaden wasn't something to look forward to. Even the promotion from big Will, AKA one of the most energetic stars and best promoters of the past decade, couldn't raise any enthusiasm.
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The film starts with Smith Jr. providing a lot of exposition via voiceover. I admit that alarm bells were ringing within the first minute or two of the movie. Jaden Smith is terrible in this movie, and knowing that you're about to spend most of the film in his company fills you with dread as soon as you realise just how bad he is. But let me explain the story before I get too distracted by my many complaints. Jaden is trying to follow in the footsteps of his father, but he's not up to par. Daddy is a soldier who can expertly ghost in the company of dangerous creatures out to get him. Ghosting is the ability to become invisible by controlling your body and losing any sense of fear. A few scenes later and father and son are the only survivors of a crash that leaves them stuck on Earth, now a planet full of dangers and inhospitable to humans. Smith The Elder has a bad injury, meaning that it's all down to Smith The Small to trek through the dangerous environment to reach an emergency beacon that will bring essential aid to them. Can you figure out the third act? If you've seen a handful of movies in your life then yes, yes you can.
If being 100% predictable from start to finish was the worst crime that After Earth committed then it wouldn't be almost painful to watch. As much as we complain about predictable movies, I'm happy to admit that sometimes familiarity is comforting. We all know that it can breed contempt, but that's not always the case. Unfortunately, After Earth has much more than that working against it. I have already mentioned the terrible acting from Jaden Smith so I won't spend more time picking on a child actor. Sadly, Will Smith isn't doing great work here either. I can only assume that he was trying to make his son more comfortable.
The script is horrible. It's clumsy, it's patronising and it throws in a number of elements that make no sense whatsoever. Developed from a story idea by Will Smith, it obviously strives to be something meaningful and grandiose. Gary Whitta and Shyamalan instead manage to highlight all of the plot holes and melodrama to make a painful sci-fi soap opera. It's not even laughably bad, unfortunately, although it comes close: e.g. the scene in which Daddy Smith doesn't realise that Smith Junior was scared by a big spider crawling on his hand while he climed up some rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . just moments after reassuring him that he would spot dangers before they ever got close to his boy and would advise him on how to act/react.
Are there any good things in the movie? A few of the special effects are good. And Glenn Morshower appears for a minute or two. That's all I can think of.
After Earth is available to buy here in the UK from Monday 14th October. I encourage everyone to avoid buying it.
DIRECTOR: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN
WRITER: GARY WHITTA, M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN,
STARS: WILL SMITH, JADEN SMITH, SOPHIE OKONEDO, ZOE KRAVITZ, GLENN MORSHOWER
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