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Reflections on four years in the Senate
It will take more hard work, and less politics, to regain the public trust in the Senate.
by Tony Dean is an Independent Senator representing Ontario.
After four years in the Senate of Canada, I've now seen the worlds of public administration and politics from both sides. I'm also participating in the most significant reform of the Senate in its 153-year-old history.
In 2015, I applied for a seat in Canada's Senate under newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new independent appointment process. Then teaching graduate students in public policy at the University of Toronto, I had formerly served NDP, Progressive Conservative, and Liberal premiers and their administrations in Ontario. As head of Ontario's public service I had seen policy-making and politics at the highest levels, working as closely with Conservative policy guru Guy Giorno as with his Ontario Liberal counterpart Gerald Butts.
I was particularly attracted by Trudeau's commitment to Senate reform, which envisaged not just a more independent appointment process, but a more independent and less-partisan Senate. This followed on the heels of a series of Senate-tarnishing own-goals on the watch of the previous government.
Prime ministers earn the right to chart their own course. Stephen Harper, the former PM, was inclined to micro-manage the Senate through his Conservative Senate appointees, and had previously tested with the Supreme Court his government's ability to reform the Senate in areas such as term limits, consultative elections, and abolition. He came away empty-handed.
The court was clear in saying that such changes would need constitutional reform, requiring parliamentary approval plus the support of two-thirds of provinces with at least 50 per cent of Canada's population (and support from all provinces for abolition). This meant that the only realistic option for reform in the short to medium term would be change from within the Senate itself.
Trudeau knew that Senate reform was unlikely under the die-hard, take-turns-in-power Liberal-Conservative duopoly, and so set out to prompt an evolution towards a more independent Senate—a move which initially drew a cynical reaction from his Conservative opponents. But in a move not previously seen in the institution's 153-year-old history, Trudeau gave some teeth to his reform initiative on at least three fronts.
First, in a move that shook the old Senate to its partisan foundations, the PM ousted the Senate Liberals from his parliamentary political caucus, resulting in considerable unhappiness on the part of Liberal Senators and leaving Senate Conservatives scratching their heads in disbelief.
Second, Trudeau's appointments have been consistently non-partisan, with dozens of new appointees drawn from the worlds of academia, public administration, business, charitable and community organizations. Some have deep experience in constitutional law, others are experts in banking, financial and energy regulation, the environment and the senior levels of Canada's public services. There is also a smattering of former legislators. As a result of these appointments and a shift of some Senators away from political caucuses, about 80 per cent of Senators have now declared their independence from partisan caucuses.
Third, the Senate has gender parity for the first time in its history and is considerably more diverse, particularly in terms of Indigenous representation. There is also a greater diversity of ideas and approaches to how the Senate operates. There has been a distinct shift away from the long-standing "us versus them" government-opposition duality in the Senate, which tended to look like a cheaper knock-off of the elected and partisan House of Commons. The reaction of Independent Senators to government bills has been unpredictable. Tough questions are asked of government ministers, and there have been more amendments to government bills than seen in the old system; in the 42nd Parliament, when the Independent Senators group was first formed, 34 bills were passed with 429 amendments. As opposed to taking direction from political parties, Independent Senators have been much more likely to make individual determinations based on their own research and information arising from Senate Committee reviews of bills.
Fourth, we have also seen a more activist Senate led by Independent Senators through motions, inquiries and Senate bills, especially in the areas of social policy and justice system reform. Look no further than Senator Kim Pate, an expert in justice reform and particularly prisoners' rights and issues associated with solitary confinement.
In June of this year, Senators Rosemary Moodie, Wanda Thomas Bernard, and Marie-Françoise Mégie put a broad Senate lens on anti-Black racism as part of the widespread reaction to the May 25, 2020, killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. We saw a rare emergency debate on the realities of anti-Black racism in Canada and a "Committee of the Whole" in which government ministers were called to the Senate Chamber to answer questions on government policy and responses.
Senators Frances Lankin, who led a major review of social assistance in Ontario, and Ratna Omidvar, whose career has focused on immigration and refugee settlement, are among 50 Senators who have advocated powerfully for a Guaranteed Basic Income.
Senator Murray Sinclair and his Indigenous (and many non-Indigenous) colleagues are highlighting the social and economic issues affecting the country's Indigenous peoples, and also some obvious responses such as legislation confirming Canada's commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
The Senate's review of Canada's first Medical Assistance in Dying Bill (MAID) in 2016 and of cannabis legalization bill C-45 in 2017-18 signalled a shift towards bringing a more research and policy-based approach to reviewing bills. By this I mean, looking closely at the government's stated policy goals, and the degree to which the proposed legislation was likely to meet those goals effectively, or not.
For both reviews, there was also rare agreement on getting the Senate's debates and key votes on these bills scheduled on the calendar, as opposed to the more haphazard and unplanned approach to Senate business that has been mostly the norm for decades. Senator Peter Harder (the former government representative in the Senate and now a member of the Progressive Senators Group) has advocated for the formalization of this sort of planned approach to our work through the creation of a Senate business planning committee. There has been a surprising degree of resistance to this on the basis that "we don't do things like that here," an argument that wouldn't last very long with Canadians who expect the Senate to work efficiently on their behalf.
Independents evolve, and the future
Most of the new independent appointees initially coalesced in the now-majority Independent Senators Group (ISG), which was formed in the early stages of reform by the first group of Independent appointees, together with some pre-existing reformers. Not surprisingly, this has now evolved.
The former Liberal caucus, recently re-branded itself as the Progressive Senators Group (PSG) and now has 11 members, including several of Trudeau's independent appointees. A third, more conservative-minded independent group, the Canadian Senators Group (CSG), formed last year under the leadership of former Conservative Senator Scott Tannas, and has drawn members from the three other Senate groups. The creation of new independent groups in the Senate is a healthy development and had been anticipated for some time. I believe that all of us share an interest in building a modern, more responsive and less-partisan Senate.
It's clear that the now-smaller Conservative caucus would love things to go back to normal. Following the initial shock of reform, our Conservative colleagues regrouped and chose to pretend that the old duopoly remained in place, hoping that everything would return to normal if their leader won the 2019 federal election. They have denounced Senate reforms as "Liberal window-dressing." Independents have been regularly assailed in Trump-like terms as "Fake Trudeau Independent Senators" (I am not kidding here). I'm sure it hasn't seemed that way to government ministers who have faced tough questioning and criticism from some of the most capable independent social justice advocates in the Senate.
The Conservatives say that as the "official opposition" their job is to oppose the government, and they certainly do this—sometimes in the most simplistic ways, unfailingly following in lockstep with their Conservative colleagues in the House of Commons. The Senate's Question Period is a replay of QP in the House of Commons, and for the most part so are Conservative contributions to debates and commentary on the legislation that is supposed to be held up for close scrutiny and "sober second thought" once it arrives in the Senate. Instead, Senate business is often just held-up.
While most of these shenanigans can be shrugged off as partisan game-playing, the most damaging behaviour is the intentional use of Senate rules for the purpose of delaying or killing legislative initiatives. The Conservatives used these built-in delays to hold up for over a year a simple vote on a proposed bill to make the national anthem more gender neutral.
There are myriad examples of costly and non-productive delays, including shutting down debate by introducing serial amendments and sub-amendments, and requiring one or two-hour delays by invoking one or two-hour periods of bell ringing to summon Senators while we are obviously all present in the Senate Chamber. If this sounds a little juvenile, that's not the half of it. These delays hold up Senate business for hours at a time and at a cost of thousands of dollars in additional security and staff support. Senators Sinclair and his Quebec counterpart Senator Pierre Dalphond have initiated a discussion on tackling these delays through changes to Senate rules, but of course this discussion could be held up almost indefinitely by delays provided for by the very rules many of us would like to see change. But we will get there because it's the right thing to do.
The new Senate's majority of independent Senators will not be quickly or easily replaced by a successor government wanting a return to partisan appointments. It's clear that Canadians don't want this: an April 2019 Nanos poll suggested that 77 per cent of Canadians want future governments to carry on with the new Senate appointment process. Only three per cent of Canadians wanted a return to the old partisan appointment process, while the remaining 20 per cent were unsure.
It will take more hard work, and less politics, to regain the public trust in the Senate. This will have to be earned one day at a time, by demonstrating that the institution is working on behalf of Canadians as opposed to the interests of any particular political party.
This means fulfilling our constitutional responsibility to take a hard look at proposed legislation and providing our best advice, representing our home jurisdictions, and advancing the rights of those in our society who would otherwise have no voice.
We have to fulfil those responsibilities effectively, efficiently and responsibly. This is what a reformed Senate of Canada looks and feels like and it's a privilege to contribute to the reform process alongside my independent colleagues.
This article appeared in the September 21st, 2020 edition of the Hill Times
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21st Century India, with its increasing young population aspires to be world leader. To achieve this goal, functional literacy even at the grass root levels, is the only possible path.
The state of education in the country is abysmal to say the least. According to Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) released by UNESCO, India has made an headway in improving access to education, but it has the highest number of adult illiterates in the world. This has been identified as the DRAG FACTOR.
Various reports published on the state of education has questioned the quality of education and learning gaps. India is facing extensive learning crisis, which could be addressed only through focused and sustained engagement with schools. ALIG has identified Education as one of the focus areas.
India has the highest number of young population in the world and focusing on their health and well being is imperative. Sizable number of adolescents suffer from health impacting behaviours and conditions that requires urgent attention.
Adolescent is a critical phase of life which brings major physiological, psychological and behavioural changes.
This is a high-risk population prone to substance abuse, high risk sexual behaviours, injury, violence etc. It is crucial to understand the health problems of this sizable population and work closely with them. This is the reason, ALIG has identified it as a focus area.
Skill building, and training is an important tool to build the efficiency and quality of services and economic growth. India is one of the youngest nations in the world and with majority of its population in the working age group.
Given the present demography, India has the potential to become hub for skilled human resource. Skill training is important as increasing pace of globalization and technological changes are taking place world over.
Skill building is also an instrument to empower the individual and improve their social acceptance.


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United States> Code of Federal Regulations> Title 49 - Transportation> Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation> PART 79--MEDALS OF HONOR> PART 79—MEDALS OF HONOR
49 C.F.R. PART 79—MEDALS OF HONOR
Title 49: Transportation
PART 79—MEDALS OF HONOR
§ 79.1 Scope.
§ 79.3 Application.
§ 79.5 Investigation.
§ 79.7 Award.
§ 79.9 Design.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 80504.
Source: 61 FR 17578, Apr. 22, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
(a) This part implements 49 U.S.C. 80504, which authorizes the President of the United States to award a bronze medal for bravery to any person who, by extreme daring, risks his/her life in trying to prevent, or to save the life of a person in, a grave accident/incident in the United States that involves an interstate rail carrier or a motor vehicle being operated on public highways.
(b) The actions for which the medal may be awarded must reflect such unusual daring and bravery that a person would not normally be expected to perform them as a regular part of his/her regular work or vocation.
(a) Any person may apply for the award of the medal described in §79.1, but only on behalf of another person, by writing to the Secretary of Transportation, Attention: Medals of Honor, within two (2) years of the action that is the subject of the application.
(b) Although no application form is required, the following information must be provided:
(1) Name, address, and telephone number of the person submitting the application.
(2) Name, address, and telephone number of the person on whose behalf the application is submitted.
(3) Date, time, place, and weather conditions of the action that is the subject of the application.
(4) Identification of rail or motor carrier involved, or of operator of motor vehicles involved.
(5) Identification of any public or private authority that investigated the accident/incident involved.
(6) Name, address, and telephone number of any witness to the action that is the subject of the application.
(7) Detailed description of the action that is the subject of the application, including why the person submitting the application thinks that the action merits the extraordinary recognition embodied in the Medal of Honor.
(c) An application and any documentary or other evidence supporting it must be supported by oath or affirmation, or by the signer's acknowledgment that a knowingly false statement is punishable as perjury.
The Department of Transportation may make any investigation of an application that it deems appropriate, including the taking of testimony under oath or affirmation.
If the Secretary of Transportation decides that it is warranted, the Secretary shall award the Medal on behalf of and in the name of the President of the United States.
The Department is authorized to adopt and revise the existing designs for the award, rosette, and ribbon provided for by statute.

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Remember 9/11 Memorial and Concert will be hosted by Crown Hill Funeral Home and located on the Canal at 421 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, on September 11, 2012, at 7:30 pm. For more information please visit this link.
Indiana Sports Corporation will commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Pan Am Games with a public celebration Thursday on Georgia Street, in front of Pan Am Plaza, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The celebration will feature live music from the The Wright Brothers Band, who performed on Monument Circle during the Games. Kristie Phillips-Bannister will also take part. Phillips-Bannister was a member of the 1987 Pan American gymnastics gold medal team and was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2006. Members from the Pan American leadership team will also be in attendance.
As part of the celebration, merchandise with a special limited edition 25th Pan Am anniversary logo will be available for purchase, and a life size cutout of Amigo, the Pan American mascot, will be available for photo opportunities. Food trucks will also be lined along Georgia Street for lunch options.
Indiana Sports Corp thanks our event sponsors: Citizens Energy Group, Faegre Baker Daniels, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Omni Severin Hotel, and OneAmerica, as well as event partners Indiana Humanities, The Arts Council of Indianapolis, The Indianapolis Star, and WTHR.
The Indianapolis Indians are offering those wishing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1987 Pan Am Games a 2-for-1 ticket deal for the Wednesday, August 22 game against the Louisville Bats. Gates open at 5:30 p.m., with a Pan Am pregame recognition ceremony beginning at 6:30 p.m. Visit this special web page and use the promotion code SportsCorp.
To recognize the 25th Anniversary of the 1987 Pan American Games, The Arts Council of Indianapolis has created a visual display featuring original artwork, memorabilia from the Games, and more. The display will be featured in the Artsgarden through August 31.
The ISC Corporate Challenge is One Month Away; Are You Signed Up?
Approximately 125 of Indianapolis' leading companies and more than 6,000 competitors are expected to compete in the 2012 ISC Corporate Challenge secured by Stanley Security Solutions September 22 and 29. Becoming a sponsor of the Corporate Challenge is an excellent way to showcase your company to leaders in the Indianapolis area and connect your company's brand to a positive, community-oriented event.
For sponsorship information, contact Craig Lippincott at (317) 237-5000. For more information on the event, please visit our web site.
Tickets are now on sale for the second annual Big Ten Football Championship Game, which will be played on Saturday, December 1, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
As a friend of Indiana Sports Corporation, we would like to offer you a special offer to purchase your 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game tickets in the Indiana Sports Corp ticket block. Tickets in the Sports Corp block are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and are limited to four (4) total tickets per person. This also includes 50-yard line 100-level premium ticket packages that include VIP pre-game hospitality and VIP parking opportunities. Seating allocations will be determined at a later date, but Sports Corp members will be given first priority.
If you are interested in purchasing your Big Ten tickets through this special offer, please visit our special ticket page. Fans and businesses interested in leasing suites for the event should call Melissa Caito at (317) 237-5000for more information.
General public tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000. Tickets range from $50 to $125 depending on seat location.
Fans can also reserve the best tailgating spot in town for their RV. Big Ten RV Nation spots are now available for purchase through Indiana Sports Corp. If you're not bringing the RV to Indianapolis, get your hotel room today at http://visitindy.com/bigtenfootballhotels.
The Big Ten Football Championship Game will feature the champion of the Legends Division facing the champion of the Leaders Division. The winner earns the Big Ten Championship and a chance to play in the Rose Bowl Game or Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game. Wisconsin defeated Michigan State, 42-39, in the inaugural championship game in front of a crowd of more than 64,000 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Indiana Sports Corp's Geared For Health Program has several events scheduled for September, including a Colts Game Day collection and multiple collection and distribution drives at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Indiana Sports Corp's Geared For Health (learn more about the program with this video ) program collects and distributes donated sports equipment to help underserved local young athletes have the equipment they need to jumpstart a more active lifestyle while encouraging a commitment to good health. The program collects new and gently-used donated sports equipment from manufacturers, retailers, institutions, events and individuals, and distributes it to not-for-profit, youth-serving organizations, sports leagues, sports clubs, and schools.
Over the past five years, the program has collected more than $850,000 in equipment and distributed that equipment for the benefit of more than 135,000 local youth. The most recent equipment distribution in April included 11,000 items to 90 local organizations.
If you're interested in volunteering at one of our Geared For Health events, information and the ability to register for shifts can be found here.
Congratulations to 2012 Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award recipient Margaux Farrell, who medaled at this summer's Olympic Games.
Farrell won a bronze medal as a member of France's 800-meter freestyle relay team. As a dual citizen of both the United States and France, Farrell was able to compete for France in the Olympics.
The Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award is an annual scholarship recognizing one male and one female Big Ten senior student-athlete pursuing a postgraduate degree for achievements in academic, athletics, civic service, and leadership. Farrell received the award in conjunction with the 2012 Big Ten Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in Indianapolis.
A recent graduate of IU, Farrell earned her degree in broadcast journalism and is pursuing her master's degree at the University of Southern California.
Farrell is the first female Indiana Hoosier to win an Olympic medal since 1976.
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Last week it was reported that the owner of a small web hosting company had deleted his entire organization with a single line of accidental code. But it turns out the whole thing was a hoax – an internet marketing effort to promote his firm.
Marco Marsala took to the Server Fault forums to ask how he would go about recovering his lost data after alleging that he'd accidentally ran the 'rm –rf' command line, erasing his entire company and the 1500 websites of his customers.
As you would expect, forum users lambasted Marsala for not having safeguards in place to stop this apparent error, and told him that retrieving the deleted data would be extremely difficult.
Things started to look a little suspicious when Marsala added an update to his Server Fault post that claimed all the lost files had been recovered. "We consulted a data recovery company who analyzed one of our 1,500 server disks for a reasonable fee, and after diagnoses, sent … a list of recoverable files. All files are here. Now we're finding the money to pay [them] for all our servers," he wrote.
"The moderators on Server Fault have been in contact with the author about this, and as you can imagine, they're not particularly amused by it," Stack Overflow said in a statement.
He also pointed out that Ansible - the configuration management software he claimed to be using – prevented the kind of mistake he was describing. Marsala said that despite being widely used, few people realized that his made-up incident wouldn't be possible with Ansible.
Hoaxes that turn out to be viral marketing campaigns are nothing new. But the fact that this one used a scenario where all the clients' websites are deleted as a way of promote a web hosting company seems a bit weird.


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  def index # splash page (root_path)
    @splash_page = true
    @stream_issues = Issue.package_stream_issues
    if user_signed_in?
      redirect_to dashboard_path
    end
  end

  def show  # dashboard
    if current_user
    @stream_issues = Issue.package_stream_issues
      @all_open_issues = Issue.package_open_issues
      @zip = current_user.zip
      render 'welcome/show'
    else
      redirect_to root_path
    end
  end

  def discover
    if user_signed_in?
      @open_issues = Issue.package_discover_issues
      @zip = current_user.zip
    else
      redirect_to root_path
    end
  end

  def register_login
    @stream_issues = Issue.package_stream_issues
  end

  def image
    # calls the image upload method in the image upload concern
    image_url = upload_image
    redirect_to image_url
  end

  # ajax route for discover page
  def search
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      location = current_user.zip
    else
      location = params[:location]
    end
    @issue_results = Issue.package_issues_containing(params[:keyword], params[:category], location)
    render json: {issues: @issue_results, location: location}
  end

  def aboutus
    render 'welcome/aboutus'
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end

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Lush is known for its bath bombs, handmade soaps and ... vinyl?
According to a recent article on musicweek.com, Lush's ECC label, ECC100, has released its 11th vinyl album, The Self Preservation Society, a collection of prog and folk covers in all 105 retail locations in the U.K.
The article explains that the label was initially launched as an outlet for music commissioned for Lush's spa treatments, however, it has now expanded into a deluxe vinyl strategy.
Label manager, Mira Manga, was quoted in the article saying, "It's the hardest job I've ever had – I'm competing with bath bombs that are rocket ships ... Often the first reaction from artists is, 'We don't want to link up with a soap company', and then they realize we just want to support their music and give them what they need."


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SNL Transcripts: Bill Murray: 03/07/81
Musical Guest:
Cameos:
Bonnie Bramlett
Neil Levy
It Just Doesn't Matter
Summary: Bill Murray tells the worried cast to ignore SNL's bad ratings and to adopt a laissez-faire attitude towards performing on tonight's show.
Note: Despite Bill Murray's pep talk, this would be the final episode for Gilbert Gottfried, Ann Risley, Charles Rocket, Matthew Laurance and Patrick Weathers, as well as writer/non-credited performer Mitchell Kriegman.
Bill Murray's Monologue
Summary: An excited Bill Murray tosses a woman in the audience over his shoulder. Eddie Murphy rushes out to stop his antics, whereupon the duo proclaim themselves a star-powered comedy team.
Formula for the Good Life
Summary: Jersey guy Paulie Herman (Joe Piscopo) speaks favorably of the chemical industry.
Recurring Characters: Paulie Herman.
Script in Development
Summary: The revisions in a writer's (Bill Murray) mystery novel are acted out behind him as he types.
Altered Walter
Summary: Walter Cronkite (Bill Murray) gets stoned in a sensory-deprivation tank, much to the changrin of his wife (Denny Dillon) and Dan Rather (Joe Piscopo).
Recurring Characters: Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather.
Delbert McClinton and Bonnie Bramlett perform "Givin' It Up For Your Love"
Saturday Night Newsline
Summary: Dr. Jonathan Lear (Mark King) shows off photos of DNA molecules.
Bio: Mark King (1958-) is the bass player for the band Level 42, who would later appear as musical guest in 1986.
Chapstick Celebrities
Summary: "Chapstick" is the new last name preferred by celebrities everywhere.
Recurring Characters: Sammy Davis Jr.
Saturday Night Newsline II
Summary: Bill Murray's annual Oscar picks result in awards given to SNL's original cast.
Nick Rivers
Summary: Nick "Rivers" (Bill Murray) entertains passengers aboard a Mardi Gras cruise along the Mississippi River.
Recurring Characters: Nick the Lounge Singer.
Note: Paul Shaffer's last official episode as leader of the SNL band is marked by his appearance in this sketch.
Saturday Night Newsline III
Summary: Sports reporter Joe Piscopo suggests softer sticks as a solution to hockey violence.
Note: Charles Rocket references his F-bomb from the last episode, by asking "Did you say puck?" in response to Joe Piscopo's report.
Summary: In a film by Mary Pat Kelly, an indecisive man (Brian Doyle-Murray) visits a florist (Bill Murray).
No Sex With Mary
Summary: To avoid starting a scandal, Mary Cunningham's (Gail Matthius) new co-executives insist that they're not sleeping with her.
What's The Cat's Name?
Summary: Ron (Matthew Laurance) house guests (Bill Murray, Ann Risley) try in vain to remember the name of his cat.
Delbert McClinton and Bonnie Bramlett perform "Shotgun Rider"
Bubba's Wash, Fayetta's Dry
Summary: Bubba (Bill Murray) and Fayetta (Denny Dillon) are forced to share their laundromat after their divorce.
Goodnights
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The Indian Festival of Lights (Diwali) is two days away. Buying of gold is customary for millions of Indians at this time. This year, they have a unique choice. For the first time, a gold coin minted in India is available for sale this festive season. The Indian Gold Coin, launched by Prime Minister last week, bears the national emblem – the Ashok Chakra – on one side and Mahatma Gandhi's image on the other side.
The coins are available in two denominations of 5 and 10 grams. In addition, a 20 gram gold bar or bullion is also available. The gold coins are being distributed through MMTC outlets (list of outlets available at mmtcretail.com) at over 20 cities across the country.
The Indian Gold Coin has been minted by the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India. It carries advanced anti-counterfeit features and comes in tamper-proof packaging that will aid easy recycling. The coin is of 24 carat purity and 999 fineness and is hallmarked as per Bureau of Indian Standards. Once purchased, the coin cannot be sold back to MMTC.
According to a statement issued by Ministry of Finance, about 15,000 coins of 5 grams, 20,000 coins of 10 grams and 3,750 gold bullion will be available initially.


For other uses, see Fifth Column (disambiguation).
The term was then widely used in Spain. Ernest Hemingway used it as the title of his only play, which he wrote in Madrid while the city was being bombarded, and published in 1938 in his book The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.
Though Mola's 1936 usage is widely regarded as the origins of the phrase, historian Christopher Clark quotes a February 1906 letter by Austrian military attaché Joseph Pomiankowski using the phrase, "...the fifth-column work of the [Serbian] Radicals in peacetime, which systematically poisons the attitude of our South Slav population and could, if the worst came to the worst, create very serious difficulties for our army."
By the late 1930s, as involvement in the war in Europe became more likely, the term "fifth column" was frequently used to warn of potential sedition and disloyalty within the borders of the United States. The fear of betrayal was heightened by the rapid fall of France in 1940, which some blamed on internal weakness and a pro-German "fifth column". A series of photos run in the June 1940 issue of Life magazine warned of "Signs of Nazi Fifth Column Everywhere". In a speech to the House of Commons that same month, Winston Churchill reassured the members that "Parliament has given us the powers to put down Fifth Column activities with a strong hand." In July 1940, Time magazine called fifth column talk a "national phenomenon".
In August 1940 the New York Times mentioned "the first spasm of fear engendered by the success of fifth columns in less fortunate countries". One report identified participants in Nazi "fifth columns" as "partisans of authoritarian government everywhere," citing Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, and the Netherlands. During the Nazi invasion of Norway, the head of the Norwegian fascist party, Vidkun Quisling, proclaimed the formation of a new fascist government in control of Norway, with himself as Prime Minister, by the end of the first day of fighting. The word "quisling" soon became a byword for "collaborator" or "traitor".
John Langdon-Davies, a British journalist who covered the Spanish Civil War, popularized the term "fifth column" by publishing an account called The Fifth Column in 1940. The New York Times published three editorial cartoons that used the term on August 11, 1940. In November 1940, Ralph Thomson, reviewing Harold Lavine's Fifth Column in America, a study of Communist and fascist groups in the U.S., in the New York Times, questioned his choice of that title: "the phrase has been worked so hard that it no longer means much of anything." In the US an Australian radio play, The Enemy Within, proved to be very popular, though this popularity was due to the belief that the stories of fifth column activities were based on real events. In December 1940 the Australian censors had the series banned.
British reviewers of Agatha Christie's novel N or M? in 1941 used the term to describe the struggle of two British partisans of the Nazi regime working on its behalf in England during World War II.
In Frank Capra's 1941 film Meet John Doe, newspaper editor Henry Connell warns the politically naïve protagonist, John Doe, about a businessman's plans to promote his own political ambitions using the apolitical John Doe Clubs. Connell says to John: "Listen, pal, this fifth-column stuff is pretty rotten, isn't it?", identifying the businessman with anti-democratic interests in the United States. When Doe agrees, he adds: "And you'd feel like an awful sucker if you found yourself marching right in the middle of it, wouldn't you?"
Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox issued a statement that "the most effective Fifth Column work of the entire war was done in Hawaii with the exception of Norway." In a column published in the Washington Post, dated 12 February 1942, highly respected columnist Walter Lippmann wrote of imminent danger from actions that might be taken by Japanese Americans. Titled "The Fifth Column on the Coast," he wrote of possible attacks that could be made along the on the West Coast of America that would amplify damage inflicted by a potential attack by Japanese naval and air forces. Suspicion about an active fifth column on the coast led eventually to the forced internment of Japanese Americans.
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in December 1941 said the indigenous Moro Muslims were "capable of dealing with Japanese fifth columnists and invaders alike". Another in the Vancouver Sun the next month described how the large population of Japanese immigrants in Davao in the Philippines welcomed the invasion: "the first assault on Davao was aided by numbers of Fifth Columnists–residents of the town".
Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur features Robert Cummings asking for help against "fifth columnists" conspiring to sabotage the American war effort. Soon the term was being used in popular U.S. entertainment. Cartoons of Porky Pig asked any "fifth columnists" in the audience to leave the theater immediately. In Looney Tunes' Foney Fables, the narrator of a comic fairy tale described a wolf in sheep's clothing as a "fifth columnist". There was even a Merrie Melodies series that ran in 1943 titled The Fifth-Column Mouse. Comic books also contained references to the Fifth column.
Graham Greene, in The Quiet American (1955) famously uses the phrase, "Fifth Column, Third Force, Seventh Day" in the second chapter.
German minority organizations in Czechoslovakia formed the Sudeten German Free Corps, which aided the Third Reich. Some claimed they were "self-defense formations" created in the aftermath of World War I and unrelated to the German invasion two decades later. More often their origins were discounted and they were defined by the role they played in 1938–39: "The same pattern was repeated in Czechoslovakia. Henlein's Free Corps played in that country the part of fifth column".
In 1945, a document produced by the U.S. Department of State compared the earlier efforts of Nazi Germany to mobilize the support of sympathizers in foreign nations to the superior efforts of the international communist movement at the end of World War II: "a communist party was in fact a fifth column as much as any [German] Bund group, except that the latter were crude and ineffective in comparison with the Communists". Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., wrote in 1949: "the special Soviet advantage—the warhead—lies in the fifth column; and the fifth column is based on the local Communist parties".
North Koreans living in Japan, particularly those affiliated with the organization Chongryun (which is itself affiliated with the government of North Korea) are sometimes seen as a "fifth column" by some Japanese, and have been the victims of verbal and physical attacks. These have occurred more frequently since the government of Kim Jong Il acknowledged it had abducted people from Japan and tested ballistic missiles.
Some Israeli Jews, including politicians, rabbis, journalists, and historians, who believe that Israeli Arabs identify more with the Palestinian cause than with the state of Israel or Zionism, have referred to them, who compose approximately 20% of Israel's population, as a fifth column.
Counter-jihad literature has sought to portray Western Muslims as a "fifth column", collectively seeking to destabilize Western nations' identity and values for the benefit of an international Islamic movement intent on the establishment of a caliphate in Western countries. Following the 2015 attack by French-born Muslims on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage said that Europe had "a fifth column living within our own countries". In 2001 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn talked about Muslim immigrants being a "fifth column" the night he was dismissed as leader of Liveable Netherlands.
The term was frequently used by some Russian media during 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine to describe any form of criticism of Russian policy in Ukraine. Aleksandr Dugin came up with a concept of "sixth column" describing those members of Russian elite who do not demonstrate sufficient enthusiasm in supporting the official policy and thus indirectly support the enemy.
^ Madeleine Albright, for example, in a lengthy account of German sympathizers in Czechoslovakia in the first years of World War II, does not use the phrase to describe their actions until she considers their possible response to a German invasion: "Many, perhaps most, of the Sudetens would have provided the enemy with a fifth column".
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New materials for ProJet 2500 and 5600 MJP are now USP Class VI and ISO 10993 certified material, enabling use in medical applications such as surgical guides.
Approved materials include: M2R-CL (clear), M2R-WT (white), M2R-GRY (grey).
The FabPro™ 1000 is an entry-level production printer created for engineers and designers, as well as jewellery artisans and fabricators. The FabPro 1000 easily fits on a desktop and delivers exceptional part quality and speed with lower total cost of operation. At less than £4,000, the FabPro 1000 is up to 4x faster and delivers up to 40 percent lower part cost versus similar solutions.
Ideal for engineering and jewellery applications, the FabPro 1000 excels at low-volume, small-part prototyping and direct 3D production across a wide range of high-quality materials.
Derived from 3D Systems' proven metal additive manufacturing technology, the DMP 8500 Factory Solution is engineered for uniform, repeatable part quality and high productivity in metal 3D printing with a low total cost of operations (TCO).
The DMP 8500 Factory Solution is comprised of function-specific modules designed to maximize efficiency by optimizing utilization. Each module within the factory solution is fully integrated with a Removable Print Module (RPM) which is vacuum sealable for a controlled print environment and engineered to move between printer and powder modules for a continuous production workflow.
When it comes to production, repeatable part quality is essential. The RPM of the DMP 8500 provides consistent powder control, batch after batch to deliver scalable metal additive manufacturing. Featuring a vacuum chamber to ensure the lowest O2 content, the DMP 8500 printer module provides high quality 3D printed metal parts. Powder waste is eliminated, as the vacuum chamber guarantees consistent high material quality, sufficient to be used again and again.
The modular design of 3D Systems DMP 8500 Factory Solution enables continuous function of all metal 3D printing and powder management modules to maximize uptime, throughput and operational value. The ability to match the number and type of modules required for your production workflow helps optimize your investment while minimal manual processes further reduce ownership and operational costs.
With a large build volume (500 x 500 x 500mm) and high throughput enabled by multiple lasers, the DMP 8500 Factory Solution delivers high productivity in metal additive manufacturing. Paired with its modular design, scaling production is straightforward through the installation of additional metal printer and powder modules.
The intelligent laser configuration and 3DXpert™ driven scan technology of the DMP 8500 Factory Solution enables the production of seamless large parts the size of the full build volume. This results in the highest surface quality for metal 3D printed parts with outstanding material properties.
DENVER, Colorado, November 7, 2017 – Today, 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) announced an addition to its line of leading Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) production systems with the ProX®SLS 6100, a next-generation printing platform that enables customers to seamlessly scale from functional prototyping to low volume functional production parts. By combining the printer, new materials, software and cloud-based services, this new solution addresses the majority of the plastic prototyping and production needs of the Automotive, Durable Goods, and Healthcare industries as well as satisfying specific needs for Aerospace interior cabin parts. The ProX SLS 6100 also delivers larger parts than small-frame systems, industry-leading total cost of operation (TCO) and is aggressively priced against similar printers in its class.
DuraForm® ProX® FR1200 material delivers FAR 25.853 compliance, meeting the flame retardancy thresholds required by the Aerospace market for interior cabin parts. The material meets AITM Smoke Density and Toxicity Requirements, and its non-halogenated formulation has a favorable health profile. Parts produced with DuraForm ProX FR1200 possess excellent surface quality and a vibrant white color that cannot be attained with competitive materials making it ideal for post-processing and painting.
DuraForm® ProX® EX BLK is a very high-durability nylon 11-based plastic derived from renewable non-petrochemical based resources. Tough enough to replace CNC/molded ABS and polypropylene, this material delivers functional production parts with high durability and impact strength, and excellent fatigue-resistance for long-term usage. The black color of the material eliminates the need for dying or painting. These properties make DuraForm ProX EX BLK ideal for short production parts that will see repeated use and wear, vehicle dashboards, grills and bumpers, and snap fit enclosures that will be subjected to repeated cycling.
DuraForm® ProX® AF+ aluminum- and mineral-filled nylon 12 is ideal for production of high stiffness components that require heat resistance while under load (e.g., casings, covers and housings for motors, small engines or HVAC systems), as well as parts requiring an aluminum aesthetic. The material is optimal for applications in the Automotive, Aerospace and Consumer Goods industries to deliver functional production parts with smooth surface finish that are also suitable to many secondary processes such as drilling, polishing, and taping. The metallic finish also makes DuraForm ProX AF+ a good material for prototyping of bezels, buttons and knobs where a metal-like finish might be desired.
With automated materials handling through the material quality control (MQC) system, the ProX SLS 6100 provides continuous automatic sifting and filtering with maintenance-free transportation of material to the printer. A new air-cooled laser eliminates the need for a chiller, delivering greater efficiency and lower total cost of operation. Finished prints feature a smooth surface, with the highest resolution and edge definition of any SLS system.
3D Systems' 3D Sprint™ is an additive manufacturing software that prepares and optimizes CAD data and manages the SLS print process. The software includes tools for high-performance, high-density 3D nesting, quality checks for pre-build verification and a sinter cage structure generator, bringing high performance and productivity to the ProX SLS 6100 production process.
3D Connect™ Service provides a secure cloud-based connection to 3D Systems' service for proactive and preventative support to enable better service, improved uptime and production assurance for systems. Through 3D Connect™ Manage, the user can also manage and monitor their equipment with anytime, anywhere access to their print jobs, system performance metrics and usage.
Terms are payment with order.
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Prices quoted are only available for customers on the UK mainland.
Machines offered with 12 month warranty.
Pictured with a drone (including the PCB's) made using the ZMorph VX multitool 3D printer. Photo by Michael Petch.


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The New York Times Recommends Michigan to the World
The New York Times has a "Letter of Recommendation" section, where they write about things you should try. They recommend many different things to readers: books, food, taking your baby to work, music, lifestyle ideas, and more. In April 20th's issue, the recommendation?
Michigan. First state ever recommended by The New York Times!
The author, Eric Spitznagel, was born and raised in Michigan, and after moving away, still retains his love for the Mitten. He surprised his fiancee with a Petosky stone, and she didn't get it. But he doesn't mind.
His mom was afraid that Bono would be moving the all of U2 to Michigan, after he visited Mario Batali up in Leelanau. She was THAT certain he would fall in love with the state.
He admits to Michigan's faults, too:
We know that Michigan has its faults: lake-effect snow, roads that resemble post-World War II Dresden, a hollowed-out auto industry and Detroit, the only U.S. city with an annual holiday dedicated to looting and fires.
via The New York Times Magazine
But he waxes poetic about the state's good side, and every Michigander's fear that the state will be overrun with people moving here.
There are great things about the state, and it's easy to fall in love with our Mitten. We have everything from beaches, to woods, to cities, to Michael Moore, to Ted Nugent, the Lions, the Tigers, the Red Wings...and of course, all the best of the Great Lakes!
Check out Eric Spitznagel's story at The New York Times, and celebrate our state being the first ever recommended by The New York Times.
Source: The New York Times Recommends Michigan to the World
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The annual Charlotte Salute to Veterans Day Parade officially ushers in Veterans Day.
The event showcases local middle and high school bands, the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program units, active military units, antique cars and veteran organizations. In 2016, more than 2,000 participants gathered to honor those who have served in the United States Armed Forces. If you are an organization that would like to participate in the parade, please complete the entry form below or download and print out this PDF form Carolinas Freedom Foundation – 2017 Veterans Day Parade RSVP. You can contact Parade Chairman Janene McGee at Janene.Mcgee@MecklenburgCountyNC.gov or phone 980-314-1901.


During palliative care week the AHPs within Northern Ireland through their specialist forum are launching a new document focussing on the AHP role within symptom management. This document aims to support all those working within palliative and end of life care by clearly outlining the AHP interventions which are required to address some of the symptoms experienced by people with advanced disease.
In the current climate of health care the demand for palliative care is increasing and there is a need for responsive services for patients and families coping with advanced progressive illnesses in Northern Ireland. Palliative care requires a partnership between the person, family and the whole multidisciplinary team, ensuring the person, and those important to them, stay at the centre of their care.
The Specialist Palliative Care Allied Health Professional (AHP) team contribute their unique expertise to address a person's priorities. Their interventions will include symptom control, rehabilitation, psychological, social and spiritual support. The team includes occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists and dietitians and within the South Eastern Trust is an integral part of the specialist palliative care service.
The aim of the team is to help the person with advanced disease and their family to live life as fully and comfortably as possible and continue doing things that are important to them for as long as possible. These goals will be different for every person, and the AHPs offer the opportunity to participate in a rehabilitation programme, at home or in a clinic setting and also provide a range of interventions alongside other health care professionals to manage the complex and often distressing symptoms of advanced disease.
Rehabilitation starts with patients and families identifying and agreeing achievable goals with the therapists. These can often be simple things like being able to communicate with family and friends or staying independent, being less dependent on others or perhaps going out with friends or being able to get out into the garden.
"I have a connection with the outside world. I am not isolated because I can email and text other people". "I was able to use my 'voice' to ask questions".
"Mummy was only able to maintain her PEG regimen with your support and help - you allowed her to be part of all decision making".
"Do not count the days; make the days count". – Muhammad Ali, Boxer.


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FedEx issues ominous warning about the global economy, shares tumble
FedEx (FDX) withdrew its full year earnings guidance and reported preliminary first quarter results that fell short of Wall Street estimates, sending shares tumbling in extended trading on Thursday.
"Global volumes declined as macroeconomic trends significantly worsened later in the quarter, both internationally and in the U.S." FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam warned in the release. "We are swiftly addressing these headwinds, but given the speed at which conditions shifted, first quarter results are below our expectations."
FedEx shares fell as much as 15% in after hours trade.
A FedEx delivery truck exits a facility in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Cost-cutting measures outlined by FedEx include reducing flights, temporarily parking aircraft, closing more than 90 FedEx office locations, and deferring hiring plans.
"We are aggressively accelerating cost reduction efforts and evaluating additional measures to enhance productivity, reduce variable costs, and implement structural cost-reduction initiatives," Subramaniam added.
Adjusted earnings for the company's fiscal first quarter were $3.44 per share, missing Wall Street's estimate of $5.10, on revenue of $23.2 billion. Back in June, the company said it expected full-year earnings per share to fall in a range of $22.50-$24.50.
The preliminary results from FedEx, which is viewed as a bellwether for the global economy, sent shares of UPS (UPS) and Amazon (AMZN) lower in after hours trading; UPS shares lost more than 5% while Amazon was down around 2% late Thursday.
Other after hours movers
Bowlero Corp. (BOWL): Shares of the bowling operator jumped 8% in after hours trading after the company's fiscal fourth quarter sales topped expectations. Bowlero reported revenue of $267.7 million, up 68% year-over-year, and beat Wall Street's estimate of $194 million. Net income totaled $6.9 million for the quarter.
Texas Instruments (TXN): The company raised its dividend by 8% to $1.24 per share and authorized an additional $15 billion in buybacks. The higher dividend marks the 19th consecutive year of increases and will be payable November 15, 2022 to shareholders of record on October 31, 2022.
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The site of the house is located on the end of a narrow lane, and is surrounded by retaining walls of adjacent sites which are raised on north and east side. Therefore, the house which stands on such sunken site has many light wells which are randomly planed. The light wells are same size and same square tube shape, and are also structure to support a roof.
On ground floor, each light well which has different angles frames the sky randomly along with different positions. On first floor, the light wells penetrate through the space of the floor. It is intended to make residents think usage of the space and activity.


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How Buildings Learn
Anyone interested in architecture should read this book by Stewart Brand. Brand won a National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, and is a co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering "the art of the long view." How Buildings Learn features a lot of illustrations and insights about building and buildings. I especially enjoy the comparison of two structures on the campus of MIT:
The legendary Building 20 (1943) was an artifact of wartime haste. Designed in an afternoon by MIT grad Don Whiston, it was ready for occupancy by radar researchers six months later... In an undertaking similar in scope to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb, the emergency development of radar employed the nation's best physicists in an intense collaboration that changed the nature of science. Unlike Los Alamos, the MIT radar project was not run by the military, and unlike Los Alamos, no secrets got out. The verdict of scientists afterward was, "The atom bomb only ended the war. Radar won it." ... Author Fred Hapgood wrote in 1993 of Building 20, "The edifice is so ugly that it is impossible not to admire it, if that makes sense; it has ten times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on campus... Although Building 20 was built with the intention to tear it down after... World War II, it has remained... providing a special function... Not assigned to any one school, department, or center, it seems to always have had space for the beginning project, the graduate student's experiment, the interdisciplinary research center.
In a later chapter, Brand describes famous architect I.M. Pei's third MIT building, known informally as the Media Lab and formally as the Wiesner Building:
It may have been my familiarity with MIT's homely, accommodating Building 20 just across the street that made the $45 million pretentiousness, ill-functionality, and non-adaptability of the Media Lab building so shocking to me... Nowhere in the whole building is there a place for casual meetings, except for a tiny, overused kitchen. Corridors are narrow and barren. Getting new cabling through the interior concrete walls - a necessity in such a laboratory - requires bringing in jackhammers. You can't even move office walls around, thanks to the overhead fluorescent lights being at a Pei-signature 45-degree angle to everything else.
The Media Lab building, I discovered, is not unusually bad. Its badness is the norm in new buildings overdesigned by architects...
Brand finishes How Buildings Learn with a list of good books, writing, "They are the texts I would reach for if I was going to work on a building..."
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Jul 01 Posted by Gwen Morrison	in Outdoor Living
Living near Lake Oconee offers tons of fun activities, especially during the summer months. There's boating, swimming, fishing, golfing, and so much more. If you're looking for ideas to make your summertime the best time, consider these:
Go boating
As Georgia's second-largest lake, there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy Lake Oconee with family members of all ages. With boating comes water skiing, wake surfing, tubing, lake picnics, or just chilling out on the water. Then, of course, there's jet-skiing, canoeing, and kayaking too. Since Lake Oconee's water level never fluctuates more than 18 inches, it's easy for everyone to have fun on the lake no matter when you decide to venture out.
Fun idea: Enjoy an unforgettable ride on a lux wooden boat via Oconee Classic Boats.
Take a swim
When it comes to a refreshing dip, you've got options at Harbor Club. First, of course, you can jump in Lake Oconee's cool water. But if you're more of a pool person, we've got a crystal clear, junior Olympic-sized option for you to cool off in too.
Fun idea: Check out The Sandbar or Jumping Rock -- both are hidden gems on Lake Oconee that are the perfect swimming spots for creating fun memories.
Catfish, crappie, and largemouth bass are plentiful in Lake Oconee. But did you know that Harbor Club also has several large ponds stocked with fish? Lake or pond, no matter where you drop your line, you're bound to go home with a prize fish, or at the very least some great tales to tell.
Fun idea: Try BigFishHeads Guide Service for an incredible day of crappie or striper fishing.
Play lakefront golf
Our lakefront golf course in Georgia is strategically located alongside picturesque Lake Oconee, making a game at Harbor Club as gratifying as it is engaging. The course touches the shoreline of Lake Oconee on six different holes. It also skirts four creeks and offers several renowned Weiskopf-Morrish Risk Reward holes. See a virtual view of our course, or better yet, book a tee time to experience it for yourself.
Fun idea: Head to the Pro Shop to get fitted for golf clubs, perfectly sized just for you.
Learn about Lake Oconee
At the Lake Oconee Discovery Museum, you'll learn about the culture, history, and natural landscape that makes Georgia's Lake Country so special. It offers tons of interesting photos, fascinating historical exhibits, art, memorabilia, videos, informational kiosks, and interactive multimedia displays. Also, don't miss the documentary tribute to Georgia Power's Wallace Dam and Lake Oconee reservoir.
Fun idea: Take a look at the museum's impressive, large-scale topographic map of Lake Oconee and be the first to find Harbor Club's location on the lake.
Eat lakeside
Part of our Boathouse Marina is The Boathouse Restaurant, which is open during the summer months. It's one of Lake Oconee's only "boat-up" eateries where you can not only fuel up your watercraft but yourself too with cold drinks, tasty snacks, and mouthwatering meals. You can eat inside, outside on the deck, or on the grand lawn -- all offer gorgeous views of the lake. Or, if you come by boat, feel free to order your meals to-go so you can have a picnic out on the water.
Fun idea: During the summertime, The Boathouse offers free, live music on Saturdays. Follow us on Facebook to see the upcoming concert events.
Don't be surprised to see a lot of Harbor Club residents enjoying the lake this summer. Our Southern Living-Inspired Community provides every one of them with direct access to Lake Oconee via The Boathouse Marina. If you're curious to learn what your life could be like at Harbor Club, contact us for a tour today. We look forward to seeing you.


I love gardening! I learned all I know from my mom!
She is a master gardener.
I want to do more Container Gardening this year. I love the beauty of all the pots out there available.
Things to know when you are planting containers.
Then long low trailing vine type stuff around the edges of the pot so it will 'spill' over the container.
Use different types of pots for interest.
I love all the "greens" in this picture.
Don't be afraid to do different things!


Phineas & Ferb take fin to new Heights in Best Lazy Day Ever. Candace freaks out when her brothers decide to spend a blissful un-bustable day doing absolutely nothing! And Perry gets a surprising "un-makeover" when Doofenshmirtz invents an "Uglyinator". Whether they're chasing the sun on a mad dash around the world or soaking up the sun doing nothing at all, Phineas and Ferb are always charting a course for adventure!


A company's greatest potential lies in being able to hold strong corporate values and provide commitment to their clients, as well as the organisation.
A Business Process Outsourcing relationship must be able to ascertain the long term objectives of the client. From an organisatonal perspective, client retention is a necessity. The focus of Bendigo is on building a client relationship at the start, and doing this consistently to manage growth and potential.
Our actions are our responsibility, and we at Bendigo take ownership of all outcomes, consequences and results. We believe that our commitments must be honoured, and due to any temporary fluctuation that may occur, we provide solutions and take responsible risk towards resolution.
Bendigo Marketing has a professional, yet casual working environment. We encourage openness and are constantly open to receiving suggestions and ideas for development and growth. Within the organisation our team comprises of associates, and beyond the organisation we follow.
At Bendigo we have a dedicated team who have an in-depth expertise to support all needs. Our software products and tools are regularly updated, and we implement object oriented designs. We continuously update to latest upgrades that are available in the market. We always keep abreast of the developing market trends.
As much as we strive our employees to focus on individual development, we lay apt importance on team growth and objectives. We embrace a diverse culture and respect all differences. Due to the open communication network we follow, we encourage a joint effort, sharing ideas and working together towards our daily and long term objectives.


Mako wrote: Who's next? Pichu?
You're such a good fortune teller! I suggest a career on it.
Ha! I'm always right! So how old were you in the first pic?
Pichu finally puts a picture!
So that's what Manny looks like ....future nurse Manny .
Is there other way to have a woman at my side?
Pic won't show for me?
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You look very much like your avatar.
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When my Grandpa on my mom's side died, I was going through his things. He was always into aviation, and was a bit too old for WWII, had bad vision and flat feet, so he was rejected from the draft any way. He also worked building air planes durring WWII. I found this negative with a bunch of his old papers and stuff. And this is what came up when I had it developed. Its a shame its not a clear photo, as she is quite attractive, and the air planes in the back ground are cool too!! No one has any idea who she was, or where it was taken.


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Pfizer's $1 million leads big corporate givers to state Republican Party's building fund, which has no limits on contributions
By Heather Close Published January 9, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH
By Tom Loftus, for Kentucky Lantern
FRANKFORT, Ky. – In what may be the largest political contribution ever given to a political party in Kentucky, the drug maker Pfizer Inc. gave $1 million last month to the building fund of the Republican Party of Kentucky.
A report filed by the Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund last week with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance listed the $1 million from Pfizer along with five other big corporation contributions in the final quarter of 2022 totalling $1.65 million.
That is an extraordinarily large haul for the fund, which had raised only $6,000 during the first three quarters of 2022. The other large corporate donors to the fund in late 2022 were:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, $300,000;
Altria Client Services LLC, of Richmond, Va., $100,000;
Comcast Corp., of Philadelphia; $100,000;
AT&T, of St. Louis; $100,000;
Delta Air Lines, of Atlanta, $50,000.
State and federal campaign finance laws set limits on how much a person or political action committee can give to the executive committee of a political party. A person can give no more than $15,000 per year, and corporation contributions to a party's executive committee are prohibited.
But part of a campaign-finance bill passed by the General Assembly in 2017 allowed each party to establish a building fund that can accept contributions of unlimited amounts. It also allowed the building funds to accept contributions from corporations.
The Kentucky Democratic Party's building fund has not yet filed a report on its contributions and expenses for the last quarter of 2022. The party has started a four-year process of selling its headquarters near the Interstate 64 and Versailles Road interchange in Frankfort.
The Republican Party's headquarters are at Capital Avenue and Third Street in Frankfort, in a building named for U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
The election registry website says that money in a party building fund "may be used for expenditures related to the purchase, construction, maintenance, renovation, and repair of the state executive committee's main headquarters facility."
In response to questions from Kentucky Lantern, Sean Southard, spokesman for the Republican Party of Kentucky, released a statement Monday that said in part "The Republican Party purchased the lot next door to our Frankfort headquarters and is planning an expansion project. Our current headquarters was acquired in 1974. With the growth of the Republican Party in Kentucky, we have a need for additional space."
In response to a question about the huge size of the corporate contributions, Southard's statement said, "As we raise funds into the building fund account, we are following both federal and state law. The funds raised into this account can only be used for certain expenditures related to the building and are not eligible to be spent on candidate or issue advocacy."
Pfizer has long had a lobbying presence in Kentucky and for years it has retained the lobbying firm headed by John McCarthy to represent its interests in Frankfort.
McCarthy, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Kentucky and still a member of its executive committee, did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment on the Pfizer contribution.
Pfizer is a multinational pharmaceutical and biotech company based in New York; its brands include Viagra, Zoloft and Lipitor and more recently the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine and the antiviral Paxlovid.
Fueled by sales of its Covid vaccine, Pfizer's revenue doubled to $81.3 billion from 2020 to 2021. The company ranks 43rd on the Fortune 500 list. For the first three quarters of 2022, Pfizer reported $76 billion in revenues.
Pfizer announced in November that it will triple or even quadruple the price of its Covid vaccine once it goes on the commercial market next year, according to Kaiser Health News.
Pfizer is no stranger to political spending. In 2022, the company spent $11.6 million lobbying the federal government, putting it in the top dozen lobbying spenders, according to Open Secrets. Its affiliates and PAC contribute generously to federal candidates of both parties.
Altria Client Services (a subsidary of a cigarette manufacturer formerly known as Phillip Morris), AT&T, Comcast and Delta also are registered to lobby the Kentucky General Assembly. Metropolitan does not retain a lobbyist in Frankfort, according to records of the Legislative Ethics Commission.
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Ushahidi's sexual harassment victim has gone public and revealed damning details of her ordeal
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A not-so-good week for Ushahidi
By Abdi Latif Dahir
Published July 21, 2017 This article is more than 2 years old.
Angela Kabari, a former capacity development officer with Ushahidi, has come forward and identified herself as the former employee at the center of the sexual harassment case that has shaken up the Kenyan software company and wider tech community in recent weeks. In a long Medium post, Kabari also named the respondent in the case as the Ushahidi senior executive that was suspended last week.
Ushahidi has so far declined to confirm the identity of the suspended executive and no formal legal charges have been filed.
Kabari said the senior colleague verbally asked her to have sex with another colleague while on a retreat in January, presumably, she wrote "for his own titillation." Kabari said that she had heard stories from eleven other women who had similar unpleasant encounters with the same person, showing that he had "years' long, widely-known reputation for sexually inappropriate conduct, socially and at work." These women narrated incidents where he had allegedly exposed his genitalia, sent inappropriate or suggestive text messages, or pornographic pictures.
"Viewed against this grim picture, I feel as if I got off light," Kabari wrote. "And in the larger spectrum of harassment that encompassed physical assault and even assault, it is easy to dismiss what happened to me as trivial. Except that it is not."
Kabari's statement provides links to the Ushahidi inquiry report and an audio transcript of the conversation between both parties at the Aberdare Country Club.
Kabari's statement is damning for the leading technology company, which was built on the ethos of social activism and public transparency. Since it was founded in 2008, Ushahidi, which means "testimony" in Swahili, has attracted admiration for changing the way information is collated and shared during emergencies. Its award-winning crisis-mapping platform has also been used all over the world from Africa to the Balkans, to the United States, and Latin America. The non-profit also won awards for its innovations, and received millions of dollars in grants and investment from firms like Omidyar Network and the MacArthur Foundation.
When the allegations surfaced online in early July, they were received with a mix of shock, caution, and anger among the users of social media networks in Kenya. The allegations of sexual harassment also presented a cautionary tale for what can go wrong in Kenya's budding tech industry, otherwise known as the Silicon Savannah. Kabari's allegations also raised questions about how women were treated in Kenya's start-up sector—and even whether Ushahidi could recover from such a stumble. On July 11, Ory Okolloh, one of Ushahidi's original founders and who left the company in 2010, put out a piece noting the idea that individuals or organizations were "too big to fail" was "wrong."
Kabari also said that she was disappointed by the actions and inactions of the board members, who censured her for seeking legal help, attacked her character, and only seemed to act after public pressure was mounted on them through WhatsApp groups, blogs, and media outlets. At least three member of the board, she said, had known for quite some time about the senior colleague's "alleged penchant for harassing women." She also said that none of the board members got in touch with her during this time to inquire about her well-being.
In her post, Kabari also called out the board members for not being forthright about those who have left or stayed. The board currently consists of three of its original founders—Erik Hersman, David Kobia and Juliana Rotich—and independent Stanford University's Jenny Stefanotti.
Kabari's statement also notes that Hersman "indirectly corroborated" the accused's events of the night in question. She says he insisted he was looking for a lost earpiece and that Erik and the Aberdare stuff were helping him look for it. The audio transcript shows otherwise, and Kabari says that Hersman had already gone to bed by then. Kabari had pulled out her phone in order to turn on the torch and look for the earpiece, and started recording as a way to make him listen to his "drunk" voice the next morning.
"Even if Erik had been awake, the fact that he was called upon as [an] "alibi" should have clearly demonstrated his lack of independence," Kabari wrote. "One cannot be a witness and judge in the same case!"
Since the story came out, Ushahidi has tried to contain the fallout by first saying it was investigating the claims and taking the matter "seriously." Then, on July 17, it released a statement outlining the chronology of how the events transpired since it first took place in January. But Kabari says the process was "poorly managed" and only continued to deepen the culture of silence and secrecy that surrounds sexual harassment. In order to avoid the accused senior colleague, Kabari says that she took leave from late February until mid-March, and afterwards worked remotely and only came to work thrice a month.
Kabari said she hopes her case will help push companies to evaluate their sexual harassment procedures, and help support victims. "It is my hope that, my story shall prompt a change in company policies, both in the Kenyan tech space and in in other fields," she said.


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Thomas Hampson Sings Iago in Company Role Debut at Metropolitan Opera March 11 – 30
Beginning March 11, Thomas Hampson gives his company role debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera as the treacherous Iago in Verdi's Otello (five performances through March 30). Hampson first sang the role at Zurich Opera in fall 2011, and it joins other key Verdi roles – including Simon Boccanegra and, last season, Macbeth – that Hampson has sung in recent seasons at the Met. Hampson joins Argentinian tenor José Cura (Otello) and Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona) for this, Verdi's penultimate opera, which received its triumphant world premiere (20 curtain calls for the composer!) at Milan's La Scala in February 1887. Hampson discusses his first Met Iago in the commentary that follows:
I am tremendously excited to be returning to the Met again this season. Last year, we celebrated 25 years since my debut with the company, and I was deeply moved by their show of affection for me and for their years of generous support. To sing in a Met Otello is a milestone in any singer's career, and I've waited for quite some time to sing Iago because I think you need a lot of experience with other Verdi roles to begin to understand it. I've come to really love this role, which I was very afraid of at first. But it really fits my vocal and theatrical abilities, perhaps even better than some of the other bigger Italian repertoire that I've done at the Met. José Cura and I have done these roles together often, including last season in Zurich. He's a very dynamic, unpredictable, and exciting performer on stage, and one of the nicest colleagues you can work with. Krassimira Stoyanova is an old friend and one of my closest colleagues in the business. We've worked together frequently in Europe and she is one of the most beautiful and classy singers in the business today. If you really want to learn about singing, just listen to what she can do. Our conductor is Alain Altinoglu, a shooting star if there ever was one – he is very energetic and extremely capable. I've seen this classic Met production many times, and look forward to what promises to be an extremely gratifying experience for both the performers and audience alike.
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MAEER's MIT Institute of Design, Pune, Maharashtra, has issued the notification for admission into various UG & PG programmes, to be offered in the ensuing academic session 2013-14.
MAEER's MIT Institute of Design, Pune, Maharashtra, has invited applications from eligible candidates for admission into the following undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) Diploma programmes, to be offered in the upcoming academic session 2013-14. The admission process will consist of two phases including MITID-DAT Design Aptitude Test (Phase-1), followed by Studio Test & Personal Interview (Phase-2) at MITID campus in Pune.
MITID Design Aptitude Test (MITID-DAT) for various courses (GDP, PGDP & Fashion Design) at various centers is scheduled to be held on March 31, 2013.
Note: The Institute reserves the right to change / cancel any of the test centres mentioned above.
Interested candidates are required to apply online by filling in the online application form made available on the Institute's official website: http://www.mitid.edu.in/. The direct link for the same is: http://220.225.105.183/SitePages/Home.aspx. The exam fee or application fee is Rs 2000 (USD 45 for foreign students) which is to be paid in the form of DD drawn in favor of exam fee is "MIT INSTITUTE OF DESIGN" drawn on Pune branch. After successfully submitting the online application, one must take a printout of the same. The duly filled in and completed application form should be sent to the Institute, latest by January 31, 2013. For any further queries regarding admission, eligibility criteria and application procedure, candidates are requested to visit the Institute's aforementioned official website.


The combined impact of increasing energy needs and the rising prices of parts have forced automakers, suppliers and marketers to find new ways of using technology to come up with better vehicles. New business trends are behind the transformation of the automotive manufacturing industry. By adopting these trends, manufacturers can better respond to global challenges like market uncertainty.
Rising oil and gas prices, air pollution, traffic jams and extensive media coverage of the global warming debate have increased the awareness of automotive customers with regards to environmental issues..
Drastic emission regulation for vehicles will affect most markets in four years but automakers product portfolios are insufficient to meet the demand for engines with low CO2 emissions rates. Zero emission vehicles are ripe for volume markets but RD partnerships are vital to the successful development of power and fuel cell technologies.
A system already in production will enable a car to stay some distance away from another vehicle on the road. Short-range radar braking systems will hit the market soon. In the future, self-guided cars will allow drivers to sleep, read or do other tasks while traveling. Future systems will employ digital imaging, special roadways and sensors to create driving commands.
Experts predict that cars in 2025 will be made from advanced polymer composites. They will be lighter but more reliable, recyclable and spacious with electric propulsion powered by direct hydrogen fuel cells. This will result in zero emissions and 100 to 120 mpg-gas equivalence for large SUVs, or up to about 200 for four to five-seater family sedans.
Fuel costs will be offset by using the vehicles as power stations while parked. Cells from millions of parked cars would plug into homes or the city power grids. The 20 to 40 kilowatt engines will make clean power that may be sold to utility companies or used privately.


FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets were dominant on defence in their season opener, with one player after another coming up with highlight-reel plays.
Five interceptions, big tackles and lots of pressure on the quarterback marked the 48-17 victory in Detroit last Monday night .
Despite all that, though, the Jets see plenty of room for improvement.
"Our mission this week is to step it up," cornerback Morris Claiborne said. "Our feeling is we're not taking this game as something we're going to be stuck on. No, we're trying to be better than that game. So, this week, we're coming out and trying to be better than last week. We're not playing like we're stuck in the past or anything like that.
The Miami Dolphins certainly know what's coming Sunday at MetLife Stadium, and that's a Jets unit noticeably faster than it was last season — and even in previous years, for that matter.
Improving the overall speed on defence was a focus for coach Todd Bowles and general manager Mike Maccagnan, and that was on full display against the Lions .
Linebacker Darron Lee had two interceptions, while Claiborne, cornerback Trumaine Johnson and safety Jamal Adams also had picks. It was the most by the Jets in a game since Oct. 3, 1999, when they also had five against Denver.
Lee returned the first of his INTs 36 yards for a touchdown that gave New York a 31-17 lead in the third quarter. It was the Jets' first defensive score since 2013 — a span of 73 games, which had been the longest drought in NFL history.
It was also the first INT of the third-year linebacker's career. He was just getting started. About 2 1/2 minutes later, Lee picked off another pass by Matthew Stafford.
Lee might be the biggest wild-card on the Jets' defence. The 2016 first-round pick out of Ohio State had two solid but unspectacular seasons to start his NFL career. While he finished second in tackles both seasons, his lack of big plays has been a major knock.
Even former Jets linebacker and current sports radio host Bart Scott called for the athletic Lee to be more physical and come up with game-changing plays.
Well, one game into this season and Lee is looking much-improved in both areas.
Both Lee and Adams spoke after the game about how they were able to predict the play calls by the Lions, and the players credited the coaching staff for thoroughly preparing them.
While Williamson and Johnson are new to the Jets' defence this season, many of the key pieces are back and have experience working in the system. That includes Adams and fellow safety Marcus Maye, who are both in their second seasons — although Maye missed the opener and likely will sit out against the Dolphins with a foot injury.
Five interceptions might be a lot to reasonably expect on a weekly basis, of course, but the Jets saw what they can do when they're clicking in all areas on defence.
And that's without even having any sacks, an area that has been widely criticized in recent seasons. But, the Jets generated lots of pressure and had four quarterback hits, including two by defensive end Leonard Williams.
"I think we can be really good, man," Williamson said of the defence. "I'm still learning the little intricate details of it all, but I feel as a unit, we could be great. I feel like the talent is there. We have great coaches. We just have to continue to come out there and work hard every day and continue to do what we've been doing during camp.


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Newcastle Tide Times
Previous Tide: Low
-0.0m
Current Tide: Rising
January 30, 2023, 2:53am
0.8m*
Next Tide: High
* Estimate based on the rule of twelfths.
Tide Chart and Curves for Newcastle
This tide graph shows the tidal curves and height above chart datum for the next 7 days.
Newcastle Tide Times for Monday January 30, 2023
High 04:22 0.9m
Low 11:11 0.1m
Upcoming High/Low Tides for Newcastle
01h 28m until the next high tide
08h 18m until the next low tide
Location Map for Newcastle
Locations Near Newcastle
January 2023 Tide Table for Newcastle
Jan 1 11:33am 0.0m 11:11pm -0.1m 5:09am 0.9m 5:08pm 0.6m
Jan 2 - - 12:38pm -0.0m 5:58am 1.0m 6:09pm 0.5m
Jan 3 - - 1:29pm -0.1m 6:42am 1.0m 7:04pm 0.5m
Jan 4 12:35am -0.0m 2:13pm -0.1m 7:20am 1.1m 7:51pm 0.5m
Jan 5 1:15am -0.0m 2:49pm -0.2m 7:58am 1.1m 8:33pm 0.5m
Jan 8 3:14am -0.1m 4:39pm -0.3m 9:51am 1.2m 10:31pm 0.6m
Jan 9 3:54am -0.1m 5:18pm -0.3m 10:29am 1.2m 11:12pm 0.6m
Jan 10 4:36am -0.1m 5:56pm -0.3m 11:07am 1.1m 11:54pm 0.6m
Jan 11 5:16am -0.0m 6:32pm -0.2m 11:44am 1.1m - -
Jan 12 6:00am 0.0m 7:09pm -0.2m 12:37am 0.6m 12:21pm 1.0m
Jan 13 6:46am 0.1m 7:44pm -0.2m 1:22am 0.7m 12:58pm 0.9m
Jan 14 7:41am 0.1m 8:21pm -0.1m 2:10am 0.7m 1:40pm 0.8m
Jan 16 10:02am 0.1m 9:54pm -0.1m 3:51am 0.8m 3:40pm 0.6m
Jan 17 11:17am 0.0m 10:51pm -0.1m 4:45am 0.9m 4:55pm 0.6m
Jan 18 - - 12:25pm -0.1m 5:40am 1.0m 6:07pm 0.6m
Jan 19 - - 1:27pm -0.2m 6:36am 1.2m 7:14pm 0.6m
Jan 20 12:48am -0.2m 2:22pm -0.4m 7:30am 1.3m 8:14pm 0.7m
Jan 21 1:45am -0.2m 3:15pm -0.5m 8:24am 1.4m 9:09pm 0.7m
Jan 22 2:40am -0.3m 4:06pm -0.5m 9:16am 1.5m 10:02pm 0.8m
Jan 30 11:11am 0.1m 10:19pm 0.0m 4:22am 0.9m 4:36pm 0.5m
Jan 31 - - 12:21pm 0.0m 5:18am 0.9m 5:49pm 0.4m
The data and charts above provide the tide time predictions for Newcastle for January 2023, with extra details provided for today, Monday January 30, 2023.
What are Tides?
The tides are very long waves that move across our oceans, and they are caused by the gravitational pull from the moon and, to a lesser extent, the sun.
When the highest point of the wave (also known as a crest) reaches a coastline, the coast experiences what we call a high tide. At the lowest point (also known as a trough) reaches the coast, we experience a low tide.
Tidal forces of the moon in the open ocean will form as bulges of water that face the moon, but around land mass and coast lines, the water is able to spread out onto land, which creates the tides.
Earth's tides change based on the gravitational pull of the moon as it orbits us. The gravitational pull of the moon is strongest on whichever side of the Earth is facing it, annd gravity pulls the oceans towards the moon, resulting in a high tide.
On the opposite side of Earth, the bulge is caused by inertia. The water moving away from the moon is able to result the gravitational forces trying to pull it in the opposition direction because the gravitational pull is weaker on the far side of Earth. Inertia wins, and this caused the ocean to bulge out and create a high tide.
As the Earth spins, different locations on the planet will face the moon, and this rotation is what allows the tides to cycle around the planet.
Types of Tides
There are two types, or extremes, of the tide. These are called the spring tide (also known as the King tide) and the neap tide. These tide types occur twice every month.
Neap Tides
When we experience a low tide, the Moon is facing the Earth at a right angle to the Sun. This means that the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun actually work against each other. We call these tides neap tides, and it's when the difference between high and low tide is at its lowest.
A neap tide happens between two spring tides, twice a month when the first and last quarter Moon appears.
Spring Tides
When we experience a high tide, the Earth, Moon, and Sun are in alignment, and this creats a strong gravitational pull. A spring tide is when the high and low tide difference is at it's most extreme, the highest and the lowest tides of the month.
Tide Predictions for Newcastle
Our tide prediction model for Newcastle uses harmonic constants and the nearest available coordinates along with the Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT) to define the chart datum.
Tide times and heights may not be 100% accurate and they also do not account for local weather conditions. We built this tool out of a love for tides and astronomical calculations but it is not intended to be used for navigation or any purpose where you would need to rely on the data being accurate.
If there are any errors or problems you find with the tide data for Newcastle (or any other tidal station) please let us know.
Tide Stations in New South Wales
Broughton Island
Camp Cove
Crookhaven Heads
Crowdy Head
Dangar Island
Ettalong
Harrington Inlet
Ku-ring-gai Y.c.
North West Solitary Island
Patonga
Port Hacking
Port Kembla
Princess Jetty (Batemans Bay)
Sand Point (Pittwater)
Sydney (Fort Denison)
Ulladulla Harbour
All Tide Stations in Australia
Australian external territory
Territory of Christmas Island


Niantic is reportedly displeased with Ukranian developer Elyland due to similarities between its game Draconius Go and the former's Pokemon GO.
As reported by Forbes, Draconius Go, like Pokemon GO, is a location-based game about finding and battling creatures. It also uses augmented reality mechanics to place its creatures in the real world.
Niantic has reportedly contacted Elyland claiming the developer has infringed on its copyright. Elyland, however, is adamant that its game is entirely original.
"When we developed this game, we consulted leading world-class lawyers, and we are 100% certain that Niantic's claim is unjustified. Niantic's reaction shows that they consider us as a serious rival," said Andriy Semenyuk, Founder and CEO of Elyland.
"By doing so, they actually prove that our product is better. In just one year, our Ukrainian team has managed to do more than Niantic, with all their billions of income. And we are proud of our results. Our graphic is unique and better quality than in any other AR games."
Pokemon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara said back in September 2017 that the firm has only accomplished 10% of what it wants to do with Pokemon GO. Trading and battling between players are set to be added to the game in the future.


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Starlight Award ceremony at the Capitol Cinema in Madrid on April 11, 2011
Starlight Notodofilmfest Jameson joins a special prize that rewards the films that uphold the value and preservation of the sky and stars. These films look at the sky.Notodofilmfest Jameson, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has called the Starlight Award for second consecutive year. Contestants made short films, documentary or animation of no more than three and half minutes long, that contribute to defending the value of the sky and stars.
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