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Education and Networking

As you likely know, education is something I am very passionate about.  It is part of my business in the Sales Tax Institute.  But this isn’t the only place I teach.  One organization that I strongly support is the Council on State Taxation (COST).  And they have been supportive of us too!

About 15 years ago, COST decided to develop a week-long Basics School.  The school would provide fundamentals in state tax concepts that apply to all disciplines – income, sales/use and property tax.  This would be about half the week.  The other half of the week, the students would select a track – Income Tax Administration & Compliance, Sales Tax Administration & Compliance or SALT Concepts (theory for both income and sales/use).  As you might guess, they asked if I would help develop the Sales Tax Admin & Compliance day.  Of course I agreed!  This is a great complement to our Basics of Sales and Use Tax class and we’ve had several students attend for a bit more dedicated sales tax training.

Last week, the 14th annual COST Basics School was held!  Helping me since year 1 was Tony Chirico from Covidian.  Tony is on the COST board and although he used to have sales tax responsibility, he no longer does.  But, he is a valuable member of our team for which we are grateful.  He brings the corporate insight and has so much audit experience that he can weave into every discussion.  Carolynn Kranz from Industry Sales Tax Solutions joined the team 10 years ago.  If you don’t know Carolynn – she offers a great database on the taxability of computer and related items.  She also provides sales tax advisory services through her law firm.  She also has a wealth of experience to share with the team.  And she is a member of the Sales Tax Institute faculty too!

This year’s class was great!  We had a real mix of industries and the vast majority of them had less than one year of sales tax experience which is perfect for this class.   We got into some great discussions and had fun doing our exercises – particularly the registration exercise where Doug Lindholm (COST President & Executive Director) plays Tax Director and our SALT Basics Game Show.  It was a close competition between the two teams!

A little history about the COST Basics class:

  • It started in 2004 and until 2011 one of the Big 4 used the school to train their staff and held firm-wide SALT meetings in conjunction with the school
  • The first school was held in Dallas but then Georgia Tech Conference Center has been our home.  Last year we returned to Dallas and we’ll now be alternating between Atlanta and Dallas
  • When the school was first taught, the students were sent home with a 6” binder of materials (and had to carry that around with them!)  Today they are all issued I-Pads with the materials loaded.  In 2012, electronic materials started with Kindles and one year they used Google Nexus 7 devices.  Much more environmental and easier to carry!
  • The most memorable networking event was a tour of the Dallas Cowboy stadium.  Other networking events have been sporting events, shopping trips and trivia nights
  • The most memorable school – that would be 2015 when Atlanta had their blizzard.  This year really demonstrates what COST is all about.  Faculty that were at the school (and stranded!) pitched in to help on topics that weren’t theirs to teach.  Others called in and did their presentations via conference call with a COST staff member running the computer in the classroom.  Local students that couldn’t make it home at night bunked with other students.  It was a great show of how much of a team the entire school faculty is – and how inclusive everyone feels.

I talked to Karen Galdamez who is the Director, National Meetings at COST.  She’s been there a long time and is our go to person!  What she enjoys most about not only the Basics School but her job is that nothing is the same.  Even though the same meeting/school occurs each year – they are all different.  The people change – even though many of the Basics school faculty return each year.  What she dreads is all the CLE administration!  We chatted about how COST might want to try to take a leadership role in trying to simplify this.  Wouldn’t that be great!  The biggest change over the last 14 years of the school has been technology.  Everything has changed – how people register, how COST communicates with them, how they send out materials and manage memberships.  They need much less lead time to prepare for a school since they don’t have to print all the materials.  But ironically, it is still about the same number of boxes since they must ship all the iPads!

I do love doing this class every year – not just because of the opportunity to help new sales tax professionals grow in their career.  But, it’s the networking!  Running in the parallel track is the Income Tax Admin class.  They too have had almost the same team for the last 14 years.  We all look forward to catching up and chatting about what is happening in the state tax world.  And of course – the COST Team – not just Doug, but Chuck, Steve, and Karen really make the class a success.  Many of the other COST staff help facilitate and it is always great to catch up with them.

While I was there last week, I took the opportunity to chat with Doug about COST and the role it plays in the state tax community.  Doug is in his second role at COST.  Years ago, he was the Legislative Director.  He rejoined COST as President and Executive Director in 2000.   During his leadership, the COST staff has grown from 5 to 15 people and they have greatly expanded their educational offerings.  The Basics school is just one of their programs.  They also offer an Intermediate/Advanced Income Tax and Sales Tax School, Sales Tax & Income Tax Conferences, a Property Tax Workshop, Regional Meetings, an Annual Meeting that brings government and taxpayers together as well as international programs with CPA Canada.  They are exploring a program on US Taxes for European Companies this fall. But of all these, Doug’s favorite program is the Basics School.  He loves seeing the passion that the instructors have for the material they teach and how they help ignite the same passion in the students.  And like Karen’s thoughts, every year there is something new in the school since tax laws are always changing.

What Doug likes the most about his job is his team – the people he gets to work with.  The COST Staff as well as his Board of Directors.  The entire team is dedicated and pitches in to get things done.  There is a constant challenge balancing all the issues – especially since they have members on both sides of ‘certain’ issues.  But one issue that everyone was behind is what he is most proud of and that is the effort to get states to adopt independent tax courts.  There have been a core group of people working on this effort with COST including Paul Frankel, Craig Fields, Bruce Ely and Garland Allen.  We all owe them gratitude for their efforts.

Where would Doug like to see COST going next?  He believes the organization sits at the cross roads of Government Affairs and Tax.  These two groups need to better coordinate their efforts.  Tax professionals have a lot of expertise and can help build the case for efforts of their Government Affairs team using quantitative data.  Doug would like to work to strengthen these ties.  After all, state tax is really an opportunity for experiments in economic policy.  Different states can try different approaches while others watch to see what will happen.  We’ve seen that, haven’t we?  Certainly, the various new nexus standards fall into this approach.

Why do I support COST?  Doug and I are on the same page on this one.  COST can help turbo charge a SALT professional’s career.  Starting with COST Basics and progressing through their programs, the educational opportunities are vast.  I learn something from every program I go to!  They have an amazing group of dedicated members and supporters that are willing to share their knowledge.  Plus, they are a network of people that are always willing to help.  Between their member-only audit sessions at conferences, to their Forums where members can post questions, to friendships built, COST is a place for your entire career.  I’ve met some of the smartest, most helpful and fun people in my professional life through COST.  Being a member of COST is well worth the “cost”!

Thanks to COST for all the opportunities they’ve given me (including the opportunity to speak at their conferences for almost 20 years including next month in San Antonio!) and for your friendship and support.  There aren’t many organizations that promote their speakers and their expertise the way COST does.

Posted on February 2, 2017
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Escaping the Chinese government

Chen Guangcheng slipped his captors Sunday. Will the Chinese government retaliate against his family?

By Phelim Kine
Published April 27, 2012 8:01PM (EDT)
Chen Guangcheng   (AP)
Chen Guangcheng (AP)

Last Sunday, China’s blind human rights defender Chen Guangcheng, held under unlawful detention by plainclothes thugs since September 2010, did something remarkable.

He escaped.

But the dangers facing Chen, his family and his supporters are far from over.

Chen slipped away from his home village of Dongshigu in Shandong province and is in a “100 percent safe location” in Beijing, activists reported after his escape was revealed today. But in a video circulated on the Chinese-language website Boxun earlier today, Chen appealed to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to “personally intervene” to ensure that his family isn’t subjected to "retaliation of insane proportion" by his captors. Chen also asked Prime Minister Wen to investigate “those who ordered county-level police and officials to break into my house, beat and hurt me, refused me medical attention – without any legal foundation or officers wearing uniforms.”

The plight of Chen Guangcheng, his family and his supporters is an exemplar of the yawning gap between the Chinese government’s frequent avowals of support for rule of law with the far grimmer reality faced by Chinese citizens who challenge the status quo. Other high-profile victims of such rough justice include the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, and the recently imprisoned housing rights activist Ni Yulan.

Chen’s fear of retribution is well-founded. Those same local government officials and security forces he mentions in the video – who have operated in plainclothes thuggish anonymity – have tormented Chen and his family by subjecting him to unlawful detention at his home since his release from prison in September 2010. Chen served more than four years in prison on spurious charges in reprisal for defending the interests of women allegedly subjected to forced abortions by local family-planning officials.

During the past 19 months, Chen and his family – including his wife, Yuan Weijing, and his elderly mother -- have been targeted with physical violence by his captors and denied their constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of movement, expression and association. In 2011, those same authorities barred Chen Guangcheng’s 6-year-old daughter, Chen Kesi, from attending school. They subsequently relented, but her school attendance is under the constant supervision of three guards who monitor her every move.

In the hours since Chen’s release has become public, Chinese state media have reported that his nephew, Chen Kegui, is the target of a manhunt; he was allegedly involved with several government officials in a violent altercation in his home earlier this week. Chen Kegui issued a statement describing the altercation as self-defense after people in civilian clothes who didn’t identify themselves broke into his home. It is entirely possible that Chen’s former captors will try to retaliate against anyone else they suspect of assisting Chen in his escape.

What has spooked the local government authorities who have orchestrated Chen’s suffering is the level of popular support he has garnered. Since July 2011, dozens of Chinese citizens have attempted to break the blockade around Chen Guangcheng’s Dongshigu home to visit him and express support. These activists have invariably been obstructed by the thugs who block access to Chen’s village. Some activists have reportedly been beaten and robbed in such attempts. Most famously, in December 2011, the thugs obstructed and manhandled the British actor Christian Bale and an accompanying CNN crew who were trying to visit Chen.

The central government of President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen need to respond to Chen’s appeal for the protection of the rule of law and an investigation of the local government officials and security forces in Shandong who have abused him and his family. Foreign governments need to echo Chen’s call for the Chinese central government to guarantee his safety and make it clear that it’s an urgent priority for maintaining healthy bilateral relations.

The Chinese government needs to understand that the risks of ignoring Chen’s plight – or worse, surrendering him to his abusers – carries far greater potential risk than reward. News of Chen’s escape is circulating across China via the country’s Twitter-like social network sites despite pervasive government censorship.

A betrayal of Chen and his family will only feed popular skepticism about the ruling Chinese government’s 62-year monopoly on power during the current transition to new leadership. As Chen said in the video released on Boxun, “If we have a thorough investigation into my case and announce the result, I think people would appreciate it. If you continue to ignore me, what would the public think?”

Phelim Kine

Phelim Kine is a senior Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.

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Coronavirus updates: Essential information for Pakistan

Positivity rate is over 5%

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Posted: Jul 23, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago

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We will keep updating this story. Last update: 12:00pm, Friday, July 23, 2021

Number of confirmed cases as of 12:00pm, Friday, July 23, 2021
Pakistan: 1,000,034( 1,425 new)

Islamabad: 85,230
Punjab: 351707
Sindh: 362,182
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 141,359
Balochistan: 22,357
Azad Jammu and Kashmir: 29,592
Gilgit-Baltistan: 7,607

Tests done as of 12:00pm, Friday, July 23  2021
Total: 15,584,899
Over 24 hours:: 40,805
Positivity rate: 5.7%
Active cases:53,623

Critical cases:2,525(0new)

Deaths from the virus as of 12:00pm, Friday, July 23,   2021
A total of 22,939 people have died of the virus in Pakistan. (11new)
Islamabad: 789
Punjab: 10,909
Sindh: 5,785
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 4,405
Azad Jammu and Kashmir: 608
Balochistan: 321
Gilgit-Baltistan: 122

In memoriam: Names of health workers who died fighting COVID-19

Recoveries as of 12:00pm, Friday, July 23, 2021
So far  923,472 (543 new) people have recovered from the virus in Pakistan.
Islamabad: 82,176
Punjab: 330,301
Sindh: 321,929
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 134,549
Balochistan: 27,631
Azad Jammu and Kashmir: 20,249
Gilgit-Baltistan: 6,640

Total vaccine doses given as of  Friday, July 232021: 24,096,587
Last 24 hours: 607,056

Important SOPs

Vaccine news

All vaccine updates can be found here.

What are the symptoms of COVID-19?
Cough (usually dry), fever, difficulty breathing, muscle aches and pains, tiredness, loss of taste and smell, chest pain

Which authorities should I contact?
Your government helplines

What will they do?
They will guide you about the next steps. You will be connected to a doctor who will take your medical and travel history. You will be told whether you need to be tested or not.
If you need to be tested health authorities will send an ambulance your way to take you to a hospital isolation ward. Your contacts will be traced and also tested.

What precautions should I take to protect myself from COVID-19?

  • Wear a face mask anywhere outside your house. This includes crowded indoor places as well.
  • Follow social distancing, keep a distance of at least one metre from other people
  • Avoid large public gatherings
  • Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds
  • Carry an alcohol-based hand sanitiser with you. The alcohol content should be 60% or higher.
  • Avoid touching your mouth, nose and eyes
  • Stay at home if you feel sick
  • Disinfect workplace and home surfaces, door knobs, counters
  • Cook food thoroughly

Advisory in Punjabi

Advisory in Balochi

Advisory in Pashto

Where can I go to get tested?

Contact list to get tested for coronavirus in Pakistan

All Divisional Headquarters hospitals
Lahore: Mayo Hospital, Expo Centre, Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute, Shaukat Khanum and Chughtai Lab
Karachi: AKUH Karachi, Dow OJHA, Indus Hospital, SIUT, Chughtai Lab, PNS Shifa, Essa Lab, Civil Hospital, Liaquat National, Ziauddin Hospital
Hyderabad: LUMHS Hospital
Khairpur: GIMS
Larkana: CMCH
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:
Peshawar: Khyber Medical University, Hayatabad Medical Complex, RMI, NWGH, Anwar Lab
Swat: Saidu Group of Teaching Hospitals
Abbottabad: ATH
Quetta: Fatima Jinnah Hospital
Taftan: Mobile testing unit
Skardu: CMCH
Gilgit: DHQ
Islamabad: PIMS, NIH
Azad Jammu and Kashmir:
Muzaffarabad: Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences

Isolation wards and centres in Pakistan

1. AKUH Karachi
2.JPMC, Karachi
3.Dow OJHA, Karachi
4.Civil Hospital, Karachi
5. Liaquat Uni Hospital, Hyderabad
6. PMCH Nawabshah
7. Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas
8. GMMMC Sukkur
9. CMCH Larkana
10. Expo Centre Karachi

1.Mayo Hospital Lahore
2. PKLI Centre Lahore
3. Expo Centre Field Hospital Lahore
4. Nishtar Hospital Multan
5. Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital Sialkot
6. Allied Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad
7. Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:
1. Khyber Medical University, Peshawar
2. Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar
3. RMI, Peshawar
4. NWGH, Peshawar
5. Swat: Saidu Group of Teaching Hospitals
6. Abbottabad: ATH
7. DI Khan: MMTH

1. Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Quetta
2. Prince Fahad/ DHQ Hospital, Dalbandin, Chaghi
3. Jam Mir Ghulam Qadir Hospital Hub Lasbela
4. DHQ Hospital, Uthal, Lasbela
5. DHQ Hospital Gwadar
6. Red Crecent Hospital, Gwadar
7. GDA Hospital, Gwadar
8. GDA Hospital, Gwadar
9. DHQ Teaching Hospital, Turbat

If you’re looking for places that can provide oxygen cylinders, oximeters and plasma, we’ve compiled a list of contacts here.

Debunking common coronavirus myths

What treatment approaches has Pakistan used for COVID-19 so far?

  • Doctors in Pakistan are trying a number of different approaches including:
    1. Remdesivir
  • 2. Steroids
  • 3. PPIs(proton pump inhibitors)
  • 4.prophylactic iv antibiotics
  • 5.clexane(anticoagulants)
  • 6.actemra(toxilumab)
  • 7.supportive multivitamins
  • 8.pulse therapy (high dose iv steriods for 3 days)
    9.  immunoglobulins
    10. Proning
    11. Radiology for diagnosis

Read about them here.

Pakistan’s COVID-19 timeline: Major stories from across the country

Twitter handles to follow:

1.Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health: @fslsltn
2. National Institute of Health (NIH) Pakistan: @NIH_Pakistan
3. Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination: @nhsrcofficial
4.Health and Population Welfare Department, Sindh: @SindhHealthDpt
5. Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, Minister of Health & Population Welfare Sindh: @AzraPechuho
6. Senator Murtaza Wahab, Sindh Government Spokesperson: @murtazawahab1
7. Taimur Khan Jhagra KP Finance and Health Minister: @Jhagra
8. Health Department KP: @HealthKPGovt
9. Usman Buzdar Punjab Chief Minister: @UsmanAKBuzdar
10. Dr Yasmin Rashid Punjab Minister For Primary & Secondary Healthcare: @Dr_YasminRashid
11. Health Department Punjab: @HealthPunjabGov
12. Jam Kamal Khan Balochistan Chief Minister: @jam_kamal
13. Liaquat Shahwani Balochistan Government Spokesperson: @LiaquatShahwani
14. Health Department Balochistan: @HealthDeptBlo
15. World Health Organisation Country Office in Pakistan: @WHOPakistan
16. Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Society of Pakistan MMIDSP: @mmidsp
17. Aga Khan University; @AKUGlobal
18. The Indus Hospital: @indus_hospital
19. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation: @DrTedros
20. UNICEF Pakistan: @UNICEF_Pakistan

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Friday, 15 September 2000

Newsletter Issue 11, September 2000

Sam Young Newsletter

Issue 11, September 2000
Hi guys,
Through some reading that I have been doing lately, and from talking to some clients, I have become quite fascinated by the English language; mainly internet & technology impacts on our communication.
I have suddenly realised how many TLAs we use (Three Letter Acronyms). I think this is partly due to how difficult it is to find simple words for the number of new things.. so we call 'em "long" and TLA them. This newsletter includes a list of the more common ones with their actual names and (in most cases) short definitions.
Also this issue looks at the rise and use of "@". There is a bit of interesting history in this (and hey, most of you think that I am a major computer nerd anyway, so why not reinforce it!). Check out TLAs for SMEs below and Commercial At - Us@earth.uni
If you want to be taken off my mailing list, click here to send me a reply e-mail and I will remove your name.

TLAs for SMEs

Yup, TLAs have permeated our lives. Terms like WAP, RAM, ROM, GPS, ABS ad nauseam trip off our tongues just like we know what we are really talking about!
And then there are the FLAs (4 letter acronyms)...
Following is a list of the more common T&FLAs, and the ones that I have come across recently. If there are any that you think are incorrect, let me know - or if you have any to add (then I can save them up and put them into
  • html, htm, HyperText Markup Language (Universal), HyperText Markup (Microsoft). Web/Internet code for pages
  • http, HyperText Transport Protocol. For moving hypertext files across the Internet
  • URL, Uniform Resource Locator. The standard way to give the address of any Internet resource that is part of the www
  • ftp, File Transfer Protocol. These are all the sites that read as numbers in the address bar
  • www, World Wide Web... what makes up the internet!
  • ISP, Internet Service Provider. The organisation that you pay (or don't pay these days!) who hosts your access to the internet
  • TCP/IP, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is a set of networking protocols; royalty-free and the most common in use on the www
  • Bps, Bits per second. Your connection & modem efficiency (if you have a 56.6K modem, you can transmit/receive up to 56600 Bps)... Kps, Kilobytes per second
  • Tb, Terabyte. 1000 Gb.... Gb, Gigabyte. 1000 Mb... Mb, Megabyte. 1000 Kb... Kb, Kilobytes. 1000 bytes!
  • BBS, Electronic Bulletin Board System. Usually on an intranet (internal company website, behind their firewall)
  • BOT, Short for Robot. Usually applications that go off & do things like search engines (NetBots)
  • ASL, Age Sex Location. Used by unspeedy typists to ask questions in chatrooms
  • IT, Information Techology... IS, Information Systems
  • WAP, Wireless Application Protocol. This is the funky new techno-toy for phones, so that you can access the internet.. and this goes hand-in-hand with Bluetooth technology - see the back issues for stuff about Project Oxygen
  • VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol. Phone connection through a website, using your PC speakers and microphone
  • TAPI, Telephony Applications Programming Interface. A method for applications to work with modems, not dealing directly with the modem hardware
  • MAPI, Messaging Application Programming Interface. A Microsoft Windows system that enables different email applications to work together
  • DVD, Digital Versatile Disc. The new replacement player or disc for video, software storage etc
  • AVI, video file format
  • MP3, MPEG audio Layer-3. Music files that are so good - and are about 5 Mb per track... WAV, Audio. These are 8.2 times bigger than MP3 files but you can write them straight to CD without conversion software
  • The following are all graphics file formats - JPEG (JPG for PC, JPE for Mac), Joint Photographic Expert Group... GIF, Graphics Interchange Format... TIF, Tagged Image File Format... BMP, Bitmap
  • DPI, Dots per inch. Used for measuring graphics resolution
  • ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This a transfer language for use in copying information from one application to another with no formatting
  • DOS, Disc Operating System. The old black or "green screen" environment we all used before windows (and still use underneath windows!)
  • RAM, Random Access Memory. Usually 128Mb these days (my first PC had a 1 Mb HARD DRIVE! The RAM was probably about .2!)
  • ROM, Read Only Memory. Your PC has one for booting up (your PC BIOS - Basic Input/Output System). Commercial CDs are usually Read Only
  • MFD, Multi-functional Device. Phone on which you can access the internet as well as play games, use as an alarm clock and has a GPS built-in
  • LCD, Liquid Crystal Display. Panels in watches, phones, scales.. probably about to go in toasters!
  • PDA, Personal Digital Organiser
  • GSM, Global Standard for Mobile Communications
  • GPS, Global Positioning Satellite. Used for tracking anything with a transponder - your phone, watch, vessels, cars etc through radio frequency
  • AUP, Acceptable Use Policy. Either from your software manufacturer or your employer
  • SME, Small & Medium-sized Entities or Enterprises. Businesses with less than 100 employees usually
  • FDI, Foreign Direct Investment. Dosh people from overseas invest directly into your country
  • GDP, Gross Domestic Product. What your country makes internally each year
  • GBP, Great Britain Pounds... NZD, New Zealand Dollars.... USD, USA Dollars...  AUD, Australian Dollars...  JPY, Japanese Yen etc etc
  • ITO, Industry Training Provider
  • CFO, Chief Financial Officer...  CEO, Chief Executive Officer
  • ERB, Employment Relations Bill... ERA, Employment Relations Act
  • HSE, Health & Safety in Employment Act
  • CBD, Central Business District
  • B2B, Business to Business... B2E, Business to Employee...
  • DDI, Direct Dial In. Your way of avoiding the receptionist
  • MTV, No - not what you thought! Management Through Values. The new great management toy (basically it means treating others as you would like to be treated. Not exactly rocket-science, is it!)
  • AKA, Also Known As
  • BWQ, Buzz Word Quotient!
One thing that really annoys me is those people who write a TLA plural with an apostrophe before the plural "s"!!! Plurals are GPSs not GPS's (unless you are talking about something that is attached to the GPS, of course). My Mother has conditioned me well. I always think "WHAT does the GPS own?" However, I am probably somewhat old-fashioned in that one respect... and I am a grammar-hypocryte as I have no problems putting a comma before an "and"!
Please feel free to email me with any TLAs that you want to get the bottom (meaning!) of.

The use of the ubiqitous @ has taken off like the moon launch. Along similar lines is the adoption of the "e" electronic words - eBusiness, eCommerce, eTailing, eTrends.
But where does that @ come from? Well, I did some reading, and I was surprised by how old that wee symbol is. I didn't even know the correct name for that symbol (my old dragon of a typing teacher would be even crosser with me if she read this). So read on...
The “@” symbol - at more than 500 years old - has become the emblem of the eAge; the pivot of every internet email address and the tail adopted to add Net flavour to brands and trademarks.

The Guardian recently reported on research by Italian academic Giorgio Stabile. Giorgio's research shows that @ was created as an indication of weight or volume. He says that the first known use is in a letter describing the arrival of three ships bearing goods from South America to Italy. The @ sign (the tail is typical of mercantile writing style) represents an amphora, a capacity measure based on terracotta jars.

The @ filtered to northern Europe via trade routes where it became accounting shorthand for "at the price of"… then it went onto typewriters at the beginning of the 20th century and from there was transferred to keyboards with the PC revolution.

However, the poor old @ wasn’t being used much on keyboards (when could Accountants type?!). It's break came when Ray Tomlinson, an American engineer and one of the group who created ARPAnet – now the Internet- completed email software. Ray had to pick a character to divide the user name from the domain information, chose @ because it wouldn't be found in a person's name.

And what do we call it? Well, the Spaniards call @ “arroba” (a 16th century weight/measure - 25 pounds/six gallons). Italian internet users call @ la chiocciola - the snail. And we English-speakers? “Commercial at”. How exciting.

We have Tildes (~), we have Umlauts (the two dot thingys on the top of a letter - ä), we have circumflexes (little hats on top of a letter -  ê) and macrons (lines above a letter – ē). Why can’t we have a flash name for @?

 Suggestions? I like ArrrrrrrOba. Or what about Amphora? That’s where @ came from after all. From a big jar of wine. Mmm....

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Monday, 1 April 2019

Charles Babbage & Plan 28

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My Father was a SciFi fan from an early age - at a time when being a SciFi fan marked you out as being peculiar. My siblings and I grew up surrounded by Science Fiction of all stripe, though I personally loved the hardcore science-based stories. Never mind all that sword crap: who would turn the clock back to a sword when we can have a ray gun?!

I vaguely remember somewhere in my early teens reading a short story - possibly in an Analog magazine - about Charles Babbage having built his difference engine in New Zealand and having taken it to Antarctica, where it was still working today. The memory of the New Zealand connection stayed with me... it meant that someone knew where New Zealand was and thought it important enough to include in a SciFi story (quite exciting for me). O
ther than the New Zealand mention, I have little recollection of the story, aside from an impression of lots of rain, sailing ships and Victorian conversations in the dark. Taken together though, it was enough to make me interested in Babbage; to be aware of his early thinking; and to know of his connection to Ada Lovelace... (the world's first computer programmer).

Years later I found out that the Babbage story had a real Kiwi connection, as some of Babbage's family members had migrated to New Zealand. The University of Auckland computer museum also has a model of the difference engine (University of Auckland, n.d.).

Babbage's difference engine was effectively a calculator. He had designed it at a time before precision engineering, before screws, nuts and bolts had standard lengths, gauges, materials, threads or tightening systems. We rarely consider how important standardisation is to engineering - and if you want an insight into that, read Simon Winchester's book, "Exactly" (2018).

Charles Babbage was an inveterate tinkerer. He started with various plans for his machines, then would improve on his start place and make non-sequential margin notes - sometimes on unrelated pieces of paper, reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci - or give up the plan mid-mind-flight and start a new one. Not only did he plan the difference engine, but also the analytical engine, now considered to be the world's first computer... and long before Turing. The analytical engine is sometimes called the thinking engine.

Since 2010, John Graham-Cumming (the guy who pressured the UK Government to pardon Alan Turing), is leading a project called "Plan 28". Plan 28 is the project to recreate Babbage's analytical engine, using - you guessed it - Babbage's plan 28. This project could only start once enough of all Babbage's writings had been digitised and cross-referenced, due to the non-linear way that Babbage's mind worked. It is hard to determine whether that little screw drawing that he put on the back of plan 14 is related to plan 28 if you don't have well cross-tabulated data, compiled by people with an in-depth understanding of engineering, tool and die manufacture, AND computer science.

About a quarter of a million pounds worth of Plan 28 project funding has been secured over time, and the analytical engine construction is intended to be complete by 2021. The most recent update (Swade, 5 January 2019) explains:

"The end is in sight creating the cross-referenced database for the set of some 20 Scribbling Books, the manuscript notebooks in which Babbage recorded his workings and thoughts on his engine designs. Tim Robinson, who has been compiling the database is up to the last year of Babbage’s life (1871) and is within striking distance of completion. The process has taken [almost] three years."
Please note that the construction of the analytical engine itself will not be an insignificant thing, as it was planned to be the size of a train engine (Graham-Cumming, 2012). Definitely not pocket-sized. And every screw, nut and bolt will have to be worked out and machined (remember - before standardisation).

The build start will be exciting. I am looking forward to what we learn about computing itself as the analytical engine construction phase begins.

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Government vows to find Taxify driver's murderers

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

The Gauteng Provincial Government has reaffirmed its commitment to finding the people responsible for the death of Taxify cab driver Siyabonga Ngcobo.

“We will make sure that whoever is behind this gruesome murder is [found and] arrested… They must be punished. We won’t rest until those responsible are arrested,” Gauteng Community Safety MEC Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane said on Wednesday.

She was briefing the media, together with Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi, following their visit the Ngcobo family in Centurion.

Last week, the burnt body of Ngcobo was found in the boot of a car in Sunnyside, Pretoria.

“We are shocked as the Gauteng government that a person can just take someone’s life. This boy was showing signs of being a good citizen. He was a student…his family was hoping that he would contribute to bettering his life, as well as the life of his family,” MEC Nkosi-Malobane said.

She said she has instructed investigators working on the case to update the family on the developments.

Dealing with rogue elements

MEC Vadi said with the National Land Transport Amendment Bill before Parliament, provision is being made for the recognition of e-hailing services and that they should be registered under the meter taxi category.

“From our department, we have taken a clear policy decision that Uber and Taxify … have to apply for operating licences. We have already received about 1 500 applications from Uber and we are also sitting with thousands of applications from Uber drivers,” he said.

The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport is processing the applications with the municipalities.

MEC Vadi said he suspects that a new group of people are operating as meter taxi drivers illegally.

“As the Gauteng Provincial Government, we must draw a line... This violence has been going on for quite some time between Uber, Taxify and meter taxi drivers and people think they can do what they want.

“We don’t know who the suspects are but should the evidence point in the direction of [meter taxis], if we have to shut down all operations with meter taxis in the province, we will do that. We can’t carry on like this,” he said.

MEC Vadi described the murder as a despicable act, saying it was nothing but a barbaric act of criminality.

“We can’t have barbaric behaviour become the new norm to resolve a business dispute… It’s a commercial interest matter,” he said.

Speaking on behalf of the Ngcobo family, Nosipho Mathenjwa thanked the MECs for the support that they have given to the family.

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CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. Announces Filing of Preliminary Prospectus

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–November 28, 2016–CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. (“CMED” or the “Company”), a leading plant biopharmaceutical company specializing in the production of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis, announced today that it has filed a preliminary prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, except Quebec, in connection with a proposed initial public offering (the “Offering”) of its common shares (“Common Shares”). A copy of the preliminary prospectus is available on SEDAR (

The Offering will be made through a syndicate of underwriters led by AltaCorp Capital Inc.

The preliminary prospectus has not yet become final for the purposes of the sale of the securities, and information contained in the preliminary prospectus may not be complete and may have to be amended. There will not be any sale or any acceptance of an offer to buy the securities until a receipt for the final prospectus has been issued.

No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved of the contents of this news release. The Common Shares have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States, or to or for the account or benefit of any person in the United States, absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any Common Shares in the United States, or in any other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

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The Company is a Canadian-based, international plant biopharmaceutical company and a leader in the Canadian medical cannabis industry, with 15 years’ of pharmaceutical cannabis cultivation experience, state-of-the-art, GMP-compliant production process, including 281 points of quality control, and world class research and development platforms with a wide range of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis products. In addition, the Company has an active plant biotechnology research and product development program focused on the production of plant-based materials for pharmaceutical, agricultural and environmental applications. CanniMed Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, was the first producer to be licensed under the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, the predecessor to the current Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations. Prairie Plant Systems Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, was the sole supplier to Health Canada under the former medical marijuana system for 13 years, and has been producing safe and consistent medical marijuana for thousands of Canadian patients, with no incident of diversion.

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Nov 27 2004

Icelandic Embassy in London Invaded

Saving Iceland, London, 26 November 2004

Eleven courageous British activists visited the Icelandic embassy to voice their outrage at the building of the Kárahnjúkar dams.

One activist persuaded the secretary to open the “security” door, and while 4 others charged in, another locked herself by the neck to the main door with a D-lock. Three of the four inside the embassy were almost immediately arrested, and the fire brigade used bolt croppers to release the woman on the front door (she too was arrested). Police and staff thought they had cleared the building of intruders, until post-it notes started to appear on a window spelling out ‘NO DAM’. Investigating, they found that an activist had locked and barricaded himself inside an office. The fire brigade were asked to break in, at which point the activist came out willingly and was arrested, as were the others, for “trespassing on diplomatic premises”. The 5 were held overnight. Read More

Sep 23 2004

Self-Sustaining Destruction!

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Facts of interest circulated by members of NatureWatch to participants at the meeting of The International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy in Reykjavik 23rd September 2004

The Government of Iceland is presently damming muddy glacial rivers and building the gigantic power plant Kárahnjúkar (690 MW). The enormous main reservoir of 57 km2 will destroy an area of pristine wilderness and beauty. For months each summer, when the water-level is low, it will leave a huge area covered with a thick layer of powdery dust that will spread over a vast area. The dam will be filled with sediment in approximately 50-100 years, leaving irreversibly damaged land. Such dams are not eco-friendly. Read More

Sep 08 2004

Australian Greens Challenge ALCOA

7th September 2004

Senator Bob Brown will bring his Franklin River experience to help stop a huge dam being built in eastern Iceland.

Announcing in Sydney today Greens backing for the global campaign to stop the Iceland Energy Authority’s huge Karahnjukar Dam and the Alcoa smelter it will feed, Senator Brown said the scenario is very similar to Tasmania’s Franklin River experience.

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Sep 08 2004

Australian Greens join Iceland’s dam-busters

7 September 2004

Alcoa challenged to back Kyoto ratification.

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Mar 21 2004
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Umbrella Protest in Tate Modern, London

This historic action marks the beginning of Saving Iceland.

This was the message demonstrators at Tate Modern wanted to get across as Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s hugely successful ‘Weather Project’ exhibition – featuring a giant sun – came to an end.

The 25 demonstrators staged an “umbrella protest” against the ALCOA dam currently under construction in the Icelandic highlands which will see vast swathes of Europe’s last remaining wilderness flooded in 2006.

Interviewed in the Guardian newspaper on the 27/12/03 Olafur Eliasson himself stated that his “greatest fear is that US aluminium giant ALCOA is destroying the Icelandic highlands with the support of our government.”

The Icelandic government recently announced further plans for similar projects which, protesters say, will spoil much of Iceland’s world-famous pristine nature.

“The government want to turn Iceland into a heavy industry hell,” said one protester, Icelandic environmentalist Olafur Pall Sigurdsson. “These mega projects benefit nobody except the multinational companies who instigate and build them. ”

“This programme of building big dams in Iceland will drag us back into the 20th century when the rest of 21st century Europe and the US is busy dismantling environmentally unfriendly dams,” Sigurdsson went on. Read More

Nov 29 2003

‘Power Driven’ – The Guardian

The Guardian, November 29, 2003

‘Power Driven’ appeared in The Guardian Weekend in 2003 and made a major impact in Iceland. It is still the best main stream analysis of many key issues at stake and an excellent overview of the social background.

In Iceland, work has already begun on a colossal $1bn dam which, when it opens in 2007, will cover a highland wilderness – and all to drive one US smelter. Environmentalists are furious, but the government appears determined to push through the project, whatever the cost. Susan DeMuth investigates.

North of Vatnajokull, Europe’s biggest glacier, lies Iceland’s most fascinating and varied volcanic landscape. Ice and boiling geothermal infernos meet at the edges of the glacier, and then the largest remaining pristine wilderness in western Europe begins – a vast panorama of wild rivers, waterfalls, brooding mountains and mossy highlands thick with flowers. Read More


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Absence Of Profit Motive Is Exactly What's Wrong With Student Loans

Senator Heidi Heitkamp is on a statewide tour aimed at ingratiating herself with college students by talking about the student loan issue. In the Senate Heitkamp has opposed introducing some market forces to the heavily-inflated student loan market,and here in North Dakota she’s seemingly arguing against any sort of market forces for student loans.

“Everybody understands the drag that student debt is on the economy. Everyone understands that college needs to be more affordable. Everyone I hope believes that we should not be making money on the backs of students,” said Heitkamp at a recent meeting at UND. “And so when we start out with those three principles I think that we can solve this problem if we just work together.”

Boring, meaningless platitudes aside, the fact that student loans have essentially become an entitlement is exactly why we have a student loan bubble. It’s also why college has become so affordable.

Back when banks were profiting directly from student loans, there were lending standards. Things such as GPA and the desired area of study were considered before an institution would finance a college education. Today, with student loans essentially nationalized and the federal government backing the loans, the funds are lent indiscriminately.

This has inflated demand for college, which has in turn inflated tuition (and contributed to an epidemic of lavish campuses and sumptuous compensation for university bureaucrats) and created the higher education bubble that Heitkamp and others are at least acknowledging.

The problem is that politicians like Heitkamp are promoting more of the same as solutions.

Rob Port is the editor of SayAnythingBlog.com, a columnist for the Forum News Service, and host of the Plain Talk Podcast which you can subscribe to by clicking here.

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It is a very good signal to sell your Bitcoins if you are a short-term trader. According to the experts’ opinion, Bitcoin is the payment method of the future and now it hasn’t been utilized at a full capacity. At the same time, we need to understand Bitcoin future development that this future won’t come so fast. In a short period of time, Bitcoin can drop in price. A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography and is difficult to counterfeit because of this security feature.

If you’re working on a platform now, know that it’s a race against time before central cryptos take root. ICON is a platform that is intended to facilitate interactions between independent blockchains. It is supported through a cryptocurrency token, ICX. Blockchain offers Bitcoin future development a tremendous level of security, thanks to independent verification processes that take place throughout member computers on a blockchain network. In digital currency cases, this verification is used to approve transaction blocks before they are added to the chain.

Bitcoin is by far the largest; it’s valued at $157bn, compared with the second largest, Ethereum, at $68bn. While there is considerable debate about current valuations, many see a bright future for cryptocurrencies in general, believing they could revolutionise the whole money system.

Because of its size and complexity, downloading and verifying the entire blockchain is not suitable for all computing devices. Bitcoin uses public-key cryptography, in which two cryptographic keys, one public and one private, are generated. At its most basic, a wallet is a collection of these keys. Computing power is often bundled together or “pooled” to reduce variance in miner income.

Since that time, the price has increased by 70%, and this is a very good result. We also need to understand that a very important reason why the cryptocurrency is so volatile now is the fact that journalists attract too much attention to digital tokens. The beginners try to buy this coin because of its popularity. But after they lose, only professionals will stay and use this financial instrument more thoughtfully.

The reason behind his statement is, that we see Bitcoin as the new gold and rallying on par with gold. BitMexresearch is part of their derivatives exchange.

Bitcoin Is Used For Criminal Activity And Phishing

You should start thinking about all the ways to destroy your system or you won’t be able to defend it. If you aren’t imagining all the ways a hostile group will use the power of blockchain, one that doesn’t share your views on openness and freedom and collaboration, then you’re just naive. Crypto enthusiasts will have to come to terms with the fact that the blockchain can and will enable as much evil as it does good. The main challenge is that very few people can agree on what is good or bad in a system and ideology tends to warp those concepts into unrecognizable messes.

It’s not only got a massive first-mover advantage, but it has some elements that no other digital currency can achieve today. This Bitcoin forecast for the future Bitcoin future development of Bitcoin comes from John McAfee. McAfee is famous for his range of anti-virus products and has become something of a cryptocurrency guru in recent years.

I foresee drag and drop smart contracts and AI generated wills with self-escrowing money. Automated password and key recovery will be STOP. By the way, if you want to start a crypto business that everyone will need in the future, solve the inheritance problem. I also see many of the kinds of systems we really need arising from the desire to pass digital money down to your children. But to remain relevant, decentralized cryptos need to move fast. To really take root they need that killer app to spread virally across the globe.

We remember the bottom 1 BTC worth a bit more than $3,000. The loss of Bitcoins is next to fraud, not just a serious issue.

Bitcoin Price In 2030

There is no central server; the bitcoin network is peer-to-peer. On Bitcoin future development 1 August 2017, Bitcoin Cash was created as result of a hard fork.

Some see this endorsement as an indication BTC is indeed strengthening its status as a future viable alternative asset. Be part of the Future of money with Bitcoin Future. Bitcoin Future can trade cryptocurrencies in manual or automatic mode. It’s not possible to win, I tried investing €700 and eventually the software lost it all.

Two years later, in 2013, the price of Bitcoin was increased to 250 dollars and then fell by more than 80%. After that Bitcoin managed to reach the 1,000 dollar level, but this year the price of this cryptocurrency fell to 150 dollars. As we see, such high volatility is a very important argument why this cryptocurrency is interesting only for investors that trade on short-term periods. This price increase is similar to that of 2017. At that time, the price has increased 2 times in one year. It makes big investors pay their attention to the cryptocurrency. Yet, their positive emotions weren’t very long because in the next year, Bitcoin price fell by 70% and this fact makes a lot of investors crying.

Bitcoin Future Review

The current uptrend might last for the next month or might pivot within hours. In this regard, it is vital to be aware of the movements and DYOR before investing in any digital assets. In his blog, the expert proposed a new model for calculating the future exchange rate. Unlike the previous ones, it takes into account not only the shortage of coins that will arise due to the limited issue and halving but also their residual supply. DigitalCoinPrice provides quite an optimistic price forecast for the next year.

  • Every transaction is verified and stored on the blockchain by the miners who get incentivized for each block that is verified.
  • Since then, network capacity has been improved incrementally both through block size increases and improved wallet behavior.
  • To further add they said that every time BTC goes down in volume, it climbs back with an increase in value compared to previous years.
  • He chose the stupidest way to store cryptocurrency.
  • We’ve just mentioned a new crypto asset released.
  • Currently, the BTC/USD live price suggests that Bitcoin is trading at USD 49,090.51 with BTC price up by 3.82% today.

Although he didn’t mention it, this is considered to be the approximate size of the gold Ethereum market. In any case, this would put the price of a single coin at around $400,000.

Bitcoin Price Prediction 2022

Ripple – Ripple was launched by OpenCoin, a company founded by technology entrepreneur Chris Larsen in 2012. Like Bitcoin, Ripple is both a currency and a payment system. The currency component is XRP, which has a mathematical foundation like Bitcoin. An ETF would definitely make it easier for people to invest in Bitcoin, but there still needs to be the demand to want to invest in crypto, which might not automatically be generated with a fund.

In this regard, LongForecast expects the prices to vary from $15,881 up to $33,379 during the year. We will observe the most popular and trusted Bitcoin price prediction websites in order to compare price forecasts for 2021. According to another price prediction website, the price in 2020 was supposed to vary between $18,359 and $42,293. As of December 2020, we can say that this prediction has not met the expectations.

Did you know that credit cards, for example, were first used in but didn’t see mass adoption until the mid-1970’s? That’s almost 20 years for something almost everyone uses every day now. Only 10% of all the transactions on the Bitcoin network may be used for illegal things.

What Will Happen To The Bitcoin In 2030?

Andresen then sought to decentralize control. This left opportunity for controversy to develop over the future development path of bitcoin, in contrast to the perceived authority of Nakamoto’s contributions. McAfee made waves in the cryptocurrency world by claiming that each Bitcoin would be worth half a million dollars by 2020. He went on to predict that Bitcoin could even reach as much as $2.6 million in the same time frame. By that time, Novogratz had already invested $150 million in the cryptocurrency space, having collected more funds from outside sources, mainly wealthy individuals/families and fellow hedge fund managers.

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'I saw some horrible, horrible things': Surviving the Taliban

Razia was born in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, grew up under the Mujahideen, and came of age under the Taliban. Today, she lives in Australia. This is her story.

As kids, we all slept in the basement. It was the only room in the house that was bulletproof.

Later in life, I learned that most kids are scared of the basement. But we loved it. The world outside was chaos, but this little storage room was a treasure trove of family heirlooms for us kids to explore. And when we got tired, we would fall asleep in Grandma’s arms as she told us bedtime stories.

But there were times when we could not shield ourselves from the horror of the world around us. One night, just as we were about to go to bed, we heard a scream. Then a thud. The next morning we found out that a girl had jumped off the 5th floor because a group of fighters had broken into her house to kidnap her.

I will never forget the sound of her body hitting the concrete floor.

In 1994, when I was eight years old, a ceasefire was announced. It was the holy month of Ramadan and a rare sunny day in the midst of a bitter winter. Dad ventured outside to chop firewood, mum was doing the laundry, and I went to help my sister pump water from a communal pump.

That’s when the first bomb went off.

Smoke was rising from where our house was. We knew not to run towards an explosion – secondary bombs at the site of the explosion can kill those who rush in – but when the people you love may have been injured, you are pulled in by a force beyond self-control. Amid the chaos more bombs went off and all of us were injured.

When the dust settled, we found our father’s lifeless body.

When my sister and I were discharged from hospital, Grandma, Mum, and us six kids all under the age of 12, crammed into the back of a truck and escaped to Pakistan where two of my mum’s sisters lived with their families.

We donned head scarves to blend in and we made ourselves small to fit into an already full house. And for a few months, it worked.

But then it all came unstuck again. My nine-month-old baby sister got sick and didn’t receive the medical attention she needed. We lost her.

You wouldn’t dare break the rules.

For the next couple of years we moved between Pakistan and Afghanistan. And in 1996, the Taliban came to power.

With the barbaric Mujahideen gone, the streets of Afghanistan were quiet. But as women living under the Taliban, we were prisoners. You wouldn’t get killed by rocket fire when you went outside – but we weren’t allowed outside without being covered from head to toe and chaperoned by a male guardian.

Because we were a household without a man, we relied on male relatives to come to our house and take us grocery shopping. Some weeks, if they didn’t show up, we would go hungry.

You wouldn’t dare break the rules. I saw the Taliban catch a woman with a man who wasn’t related to her. They accused her of adultery and whipped here right there in the street. People came out from the shops to gander at the spectacle. It was awful. The Taliban held the Quran under his arm while he whipped her. This was so he didn’t whip her with too much force – people can die from public whippings – and if the Quran falls to the ground, that is sacrilegious.

In 1996, Mum re-married. The man she married lived in Australia and he applied to sponsor us all to live with him.

That sponsorship process was six years in the making. And when we did finally get word that our visas had been approved, we were given one week to pack up our lives and move to the other side of the world.

We crash-landed at my stepdad’s tiny apartment in Perth. Compared to how we lived in Pakistan, it was much better, but it wasn’t quite what we were expecting… we thought the West was what we saw in Hollywood movies we used to watch at my aunt’s house in Pakistan!

Men in the street felt entitled to rub themselves against you, pull at your headscarf and say obscene things.

In 2009, I went back to visit Afghanistan. The country was still a mess. When the Taliban were removed, the restrictions on women to cover themselves in public were relaxed – but the society didn’t change overnight. If you weren’t covered head to toe, men in the street felt entitled to rub themselves against you, pull at your headscarf and say obscene things. Most Afghan women deny that it’s a problem. I think they dismiss it because they feel powerless to change it.

But I came of age in Australia. So, one day, when my uncle’s wife and I were at the market and a man slid his hand up my skirt, I turned around and punched him in the face. He fell to the ground and I kicked him. People actually came out from the shops and cheered me on!

Looking back, I need to laugh about experiences like that. I don’t want to let men traumatise me. And I’m here now. I’m one of the lucky ones. And I will be forever grateful for that.

 I’m here now. I’m one of the lucky ones.

But I’m not in an impenetrable fortress. When I’m watching the news, anything to do with conflict triggers memories that rattle me. I hear the word ‘terrorism’ and I’m instantly transported back to Afghanistan.

My early days at university were really hard. I broke down in tears in more than one history class. And when I cried, I told my story to my lecturers and they cried. I think for some of them it was their first time confronting the lived-experience of Afghanistan's history, not just what’s written about it. But studying history and journalism has been a healing process, it has been my way of owning my story.


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S.C. Chamber Releases 2017 Competitiveness Agenda

January 9, 2017

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce is announcing the release of our 2017 Competitiveness Agenda.  As the unified voice for business in our state, we are fighting for these changes to not only keep local businesses prosperous but also to attract new businesses to the state. The Chamber Board developed the 2017 Competitiveness Agenda through investor surveys, grassroots meetings with local chambers, and input from business leaders in our state.  You are invited to a press conference January 18th at 2 p.m. in the Statehouse Rotunda to listen to South Carolina business leaders explain why these changes are needed.

Chamber President Ted Pitts said, “For Palmetto State businesses to grow and prosper, we have to take steps to make our state's climate more business friendly and competitive.  Our state has become the ‘it’ state for jobs, and we need to develop the skilled workforce to fill them.  We need to finish the job for our state's businesses and citizens who need safe roads and bridges to travel and move products. Finally, our current business licensing system is one of the most business unfriendly policies that our small businesses have to deal with."

2017 Competitiveness Agenda

Fill the Workforce Pipeline

South Carolina’s business community needs targeted strategies that will increase the number of people with the right skills in the talent pipeline:

  • Apprenticeship participation growth
  • Expansion of Career and Technology Education
  • 0% State income tax rate for military retirement benefits
  • Ex-offender workforce integration programs
  • Tuition support for non-credit bearing State Licensed or Industry Recognized credentials for critical needs jobs
  • Re-establishment of the Education and Economic Development Coordinating Council

Finish the Job on Roads

South Carolina’s business community has consistently called for sustainable, long-term funding to fix, and maintain South Carolina’s roads and bridges.

  • Revenue options: remove the sales tax exemption on motor fuel; raise the sales tax exemption cap on vehicles; dedicate these funds directly to infrastructure

Cut the Red Tape on Business Licensing

South Carolina’s small business community needs a standardized business licensing process that makes it easier to do business across the state.

  • One form, one expiration date and the ability to file online through the Secretary of State

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Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn
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Ffordd Dyffryn
LL30 2LZ
01492 878907
3 - 11
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School level results for primary schools were not published by the Welsh Government in 2020. We give a summary star rating based on the last available data as a helpful indicator to parents. This is to be used as a guide only. You can view national level results including the percentage of pupils across Wales achieving the expected levels for the Foundation Phase (age 7) and at Key Stage 2 (age 11) here.

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Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn is on the west side of the town of Llandudno in Conwy. The school serves the neighbouring area, although a small minority of pupils come from other areas of the town. There are 135 pupils on the school roll, including 15 nursery children.

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Our heat maps use groups of postcodes, not individual postcodes, and have naturally soft edges. All pupils are included in the mapping (i.e. children with siblings already at the school, high priority pupils and selective and/or religious admissions) but we may have removed statistical ‘outliers’ with more remote postcodes that do not reflect majority admissions.

For some schools, the heat map may be a useful indicator of the catchment area but our heat maps are not the same as catchment area maps. Catchment area maps, published by the school or local authority, are based on geographical admissions criteria and show actual cut-off distances and pre-defined catchment areas for a single admission year.

This information is provided as a guide only. The areas from which pupils are admitted to a school can change from year to year to reflect the number of siblings and pupils admitted under high priority admissions criteria.

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All 3 of my children have attended this school and I wouldn't send them to any other, the school has changed dramatically in recent years, the facilities have improved but the warm and welcoming atmosphere has remained the same, the teaching staff are amazing, the care given to children is second to none and the education being received is inspirational, setting up the children with a lifelong love of learning :)
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News & events from Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn

Last update: 02 May 2019

Since the last full inspection report published in 2012, Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn received a monitoring visit from Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales and the school was removed from the list of schools requiring special measures.

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Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn is judged to have made sufficient progress in relation to the recommendations following the core inspection in October 2012.

You can see the inspector's comments on all recommendations by click on the View Report link at the top of this School Guide page. The overall Estyn rating will be reviewed at the next full inspection.

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We talk about ourselves giving away our power, taking back power, self-empowerment, and others being over-powering, or a real power-house. In our lives we may feel powerful or powerless. But what do we really mean?

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      A Collaborative Artefact Reconstruction Environment

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      Virtual Environment, Collaboration, Artefact Reconstruction

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          A novel collaborative artefact reconstruction environment design is presented that is informed by experimental task observation and participatory design. The motivation for the design was to enable collaborative human and computer effort in the reconstruction of fragmented cuneiform tablets: millennia-old clay tablets used for written communication in early human civilisation. Thousands of joining cuneiform tablet fragments are distributed within and between worldwide collections. The reconstruction of the tablets poses a complex 3D jigsaw puzzle with no physically tractable solution.

          In reconstruction experiments, participants collaborated synchronously and asynchronously on virtual and physical reconstruction tasks. Results are presented that demonstrate the difficulties experienced by human reconstructors in virtual tasks compared to physical tasks. Unlike computer counterparts, humans have difficulty identifying joins in virtual environments but, unlike computers, humans are averse to making incorrect joins. A successful reconstruction environment would marry the opposing strengths and weaknesses of humans and computers, and provide tools to support the communications and interactions of successful physical performance, in the virtual setting.

          The paper presents a taxonomy of the communications and interactions observed in successful physical and synchronous collaborative reconstruction tasks. Tools for the support of these communications and interactions were successfully incorporated in the “i3D” virtual environment design presented.

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              A participatory approach could be used to implement work place or organizational improvements. However, the question is which participants should be involved and how. In this paper the theoretical involvement in different steps of a linear stepwise approach is described and compared with the latest projects of 300 practitioners. From a theoretical point of view ergonomists and employees play an essential role in the improvement process and are involved in most stages of a change process. Designers play an important role in idea generation and prototyping. Top management and middle management are important in the first step to set goals that are consistent with the strategy of the enterprise. Middle management is also needed in the steps where improvements are selected. This theoretical prediction is affirmed. However, middle management appeared to be also involved in implementation. The role of ergonomists is in practice limited in later stages in implementation, which is not preferred by the ergonomists.

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Drug Encapsulation System Selectively Targets Senescent Cells

A team headed by Manuel Serrano at IRB Barcelona has designed a drug encapsulation system that selectively targets senescent cellsThe study paves the way for therapeutic approaches to eliminate senescent cells in many diseases, such as pulmonary fibrosis and cancer.

Senescent cells are damaged cells that do not perform their normal roles anymore but that are not dead –hence they are commonly known as zombi cells. These cells interfere with the functioning of the tissue in which they accumulate. Senescence is a cell program that is triggered by many types of damage and senescent cells are present in many diseases. They accumulate in diverse types of tissues during aging, thus contributing to the progressive deterioration associated to aging. Eliminating these zombi cells is one of the challenges facing science today.

In the Cellular Plasticity and Disease lab headed by the ICREA researcher Manuel Serrano at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and supported by “la Caixa” Banking Foundation, the researchers devise strategies to eliminate senescent cells.  In a study published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, they present a proof of principle of a drug delivery system with selectivity for tissues that harbour senescent cells.

In collaboration with a team headed by Ramón Martínez-Máñez at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, the IRB Barcelona scientists have exploited a particular hallmark of senescent cells in order to design a delivery system that specifically targets them. They have demonstrated its efficacy in cells in vitro and in two experimental mouse models, namely pulmonary fibrosis and cancer. These diseases are characterized by the presence of damaged cells, and in the case of cancer this is particularly true after treatment with chemotherapy.

The figure shows two views, frontal and lateral, of the image obtained by CT of the lungs of a mouse with fibrosis (grey areas) before and after receiving nano-therapy directed at senescent cells

In these models, the senescent cells take up the carrier more efficiently than other cells and once inside the cell the casing of the carrier degrades to release the drug cargo. When the nano-vehicles contained cytotoxic compounds, the senescent cells were killed and this resulted in therapeutic improvements in mice with pulmonary fibrosis or with cancer.

This nano-carrier may pave the way for new therapeutic approaches for serious conditions, such as pulmonary fibrosis or to eliminate chemotherapy-induced senescent cells, explains Manuel Serrano. Another outcome of this study is that these nano-carriers could be used for diagnostic tests of senescence as they can transport a fluorescent compound or marker.

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Olga Kobzar spoke at the 14th Annual Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Symposium, delivering a Regulatory Update presentation on recent developments at the Texas Railroad Commission and the General Land Office.

She also spoke at the January 2019 Austin Bar Oil and Gas Section Luncheon.

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A Trio of Valentine’s Day Tags

Hi Crafters! Valerie here today with a trio of cute Valentine’s Day tags! Two of them have shaker elements, and the third one has a beautiful bright and shiny foiled frame around it. Valentine’s Day Tag Basics First things first, … Continue reading

Koala Valentine’s Day Card

Hello! Valerie here today, and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so today I have a pink Valentine’s Day card featuring a pretty heart backdrop and an adorable koala! Koala Valentine’s Day Card Instructions Step 1 – Attach Red … Continue reading

Lip Balm Tall Tags Tutorial

Hello, crafters! Valerie here today! The Holidays are quickly approaching, and my project, Lip Balm Tall Tags, would be great for a gift exchange, a teacher’s gift, party favors, and many other holiday situations you’ll find yourself in! Step 1 … Continue reading

Handmade Christmas Banner and Card Box with Graphic 45

Are you looking for handmade home decor pieces for the holiday? We have two projects to inspire you with, using Graphic 45. Stay with us until the very end to enter to win the giveaway, but first, let’s look at … Continue reading

Dimensional Hillside Christmas Cards

Hi crafters! It’s Valerie here today with two Christmas cards to show how to add a dimensional hillside landscape on them with the help of our various adhesives. The two cards are very similar, but a little different, too. However, … Continue reading

Shiny Holiday Gift Tags

How about some shiny, sparkly holiday gift tags today that have some fun dimension?! I have a tutorial for you today featuring the 3D Foam Holiday Embellishment Kit on this project, along with other trusty Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® products I used … Continue reading

Merry Flip and Slide Card

Hello, Crafters! Valerie here today. I have an interactive Christmas card with a flip slider on it! That is just ONE of the cool features on this card. So let’s get right to it and I’ll show you how to … Continue reading

CAS Be Jolly Snowman Card

Tis the season to be jolly with this adorable Snowman card! When you want your cute snowmen to have a pop of dimension on your projects, this is the way to do it while leaving your project with a very clean look. 3D … Continue reading

Holiday Fun with Stampendous – Day 5

Can’t believe we’re on the last day of fun with our friends at Stampendous! For our finale, we have Shellye McDaniel and Valerie Ward showing us what they created and it’s stunning! Don’t forget to read all the way to … Continue reading

Sliding Surprise Birthday Card

Hi there! Valerie here today with an interactive card that slides open on two sides and reveals more to the scene than what you see just on the front! See what happens when you pull those two tabs – eek! … Continue reading


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We find ourselves colleting and scrapped all manner of vehicles during the course of our work. Last year, we collected and processed over 5,000 unwanted vehicles from a wide range of places including private individuals, local gornment bodies, the DVLA, insurance companies, businesses and the motor trade. We’re not fussy and will try and help you out, no matter what your situation. Call us today for a free quote and get your car scrappage sorted in minutes.
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Little Falls woman injured in ATV crash near Royalton

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BELLEVUE TOWNSHIP — A Little Falls woman was injured in an ATV crash reported at 4:24 p.m. Thursday, according to the Morrison County Sheriff's Office.

The crash occurred near 63rd Street and 210th Avenue, roughly 5 miles northeast of Royalton.

Emily Bartkowicz, 24, was driving an ATV eastbound in the ditch along 63rd Street when she attempted to go over the road approach, hit a culvert and flew off the ATV, the sheriff's office said. Bartkowicz was transported to CHI St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little Falls with a possible back injury.

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Beach Guardian Beach Clean Up

In our last round of grants Sea-Changers supported Beach Guardian with a grant which supported a series of beach cleans over the festive period. They organised 10 beach cleans with 400 people participating - fantastic going and looks like you all had some festive fun too. The cleans took place at beaches that included Trevone Bay, Harlyn Bay, Constantine Bay, Treyarnon Bay and Porthcothan Bay.


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