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Romanian Energy Awards 2014: may the best player win
The Diplomat – Bucharest rewarded and celebrated the best performances of the most prominent companies and managers in the local energy sector during the "Romanian Energy Awards 2014" gala
2014-06-07 23:45:52 - From the Print Edition
As the energy sector represents one of the most important drivers of Romania's economy, The Diplomat – Bucharest continued the annual tradition of acknowledging high accomplishments in the Romanian energy sector by organizing the third edition of the 'Romanian Energy Awards'. Taking place at Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest, the award gala brought together personalities from governmental authorities, regulatory bodies in energy, top players in the production and distribution of energy, in...
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Maryland Natural Resources Police Cite Four Men for Poaching
Officers Also Assist in Finding Lost Hunters in Worcester County
Four Prince George's County men were charged with deer poaching Saturday evening and their firearms, compound bow and tree stand were seized.
Acting on a citizen complaint, Maryland Natural Resources Police and Prince George's County officers went to a construction site near Ritchie Marlboro Road, where four vehicles were parked. At about 7:15 p.m., the suspects left the woods and attempted to drive away, when they were stopped by police. One man ran from the scene.
Officers asked the detained men to call the fourth suspect, who returned for questioning. A total of 17 citations were issued:
Rosalino Ortiz Santos, 49, of Lanham, was charged with two counts of failing to field tag deer, hunting without a license, hunting without written permission, and one count of eluding a police officer.
Omero Alvarez-Cruz, 32 of Hyattsville, received citations for deer hunting with a rifle in a shotgun-only county, hunting without a license, hunting without written permission, and driving without a license.
Armondo Espinoza, 49, of Lanham, was charged with hunting with a shotgun out of season, hunting without written permission, and failing to have his hunting license with him.
Ciro Andres, 47, of Lanham, was charged with hunting with a rifle in a shotgun-only county and hunting without written permission.
In addition to confiscating property, officers also seized two does and a five-point antler shed.
All four men are scheduled to appear in Prince George's County District Court Dec. 27. Each man could be fined as much as $3,000.
A College Park man was charged Thursday with illegally fishing striped bass by an officer on surveillance at the Kent Narrows watermen's wharf.
Epifanio Malave, 62, received citations for keeping nine undersized striped bass and keeping seven fish over the daily limit. He was charged as a second-time offender after being convicted in 2015 of the same offenses at the same location.
Malave is scheduled to appear in Queen Anne's County District Court Dec. 7. If convicted on both counts, he could be sentenced to serve up to one year in prison and be fined up to $4,000.
Three lost hunters were located and guided from the Foster Tract of the Pocomoke State Forest, just outside of Snow Hill Saturday evening.
The men called 911 at about 7:30 p.m. to say they had become disoriented as sunset approached and could not find their vehicle. Worcester County Emergency Services dispatchers were able to direct Natural Resources Police officers and Worcester deputy sheriffs to the general location.
Using four-wheel drive vehicles, the officers found the men in less than an hour. The hunters were unharmed.
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THE EDUCATION OF A PRESIDENT
A spring-fed river, the only university in Texas to graduate a U.S. president, and downtown and residential historic districts are just a few of the diverse attractions in this Texas Main Street City. In 2010, San Marcos was honored with a First Lady's Texas Treasures Award for preserving its rich heritage. San Marcos was a stop along the Chisholm Trail cattle route, and thousands of head of Longhorns quenched their thirst in the river while driven to the railhead in Kansas. Today, the clear waters provide recreation for tubers, kayakers and snorklers, and environmental lessons as well. The Rio Vista Dam on the river created Spring Lake, home to the Texas State University's Aquarena Center, where archeological investigations tell the story of the region's earliest inhabitants and glass-bottom boat tours showcase plant and animal life unique to the area.
The University overlooks downtown San Marcos, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1909 restored Classical Revival-style Hays County Courthouse is the centerpiece of the town square, surrounded by period buildings filled with shops, service businesses, restaurants, cafes, and entertainment venues. The LBJ Museum, located in a former downtown movie theater displays news clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and oral histories relating to President Lyndon Johnson's college and teaching years and their impact on his drive to pass landmark legislation.
A humbler downtown building of historic importance is The Calaboose: The Johnnie Armstead African American History Museum. Constructed as a county jail in 1873, the "calaboose" (from the Spanish word meaning dungeon or local jail) was enlarged in the 1940s and used as a World War II USO center for African American servicemen. The Heritage Association of San Marcos holds Friday "Cottage Kitchen" luncheons in the 1867 Charles S. Cock House Museum in Juan Veramendi Plaza park. The popular park also features the restored 1847 cabin of one of San Marcos' founders, Dr. Eli T. Merriman, and a tree-lined pathway to the city's Riverwalk. Don't leave town without driving through the leafy Belvin Street Historic District, an enclave of Victorian homes that open for tours in May.
Watch the following video to learn more about San Marcos's historic downtown. This video was produced for inclusion in the Town Square Walk Around mobile tour, more information about which you may find on the Texas Main Street Cities page at the following link: http://texastimetravel.com/travel-themes/main-texas-main-street-cities
Watch the following video to learn more about San Marcos and the 2010 First Lady's Texas Treasures Award. To learn more about the First Lady's Texas Treasures Award generally, visit the following link: http://texastimetravel.com/travel-themes/main-first-ladys-texas-treasure...
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Sunk Costs and Market Structure
Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration
By John Sutton
Sutton eschews the 'possibility' results of the theoretical product differentiation literature, and instead focusses on robust comparative statics predictions. These predictions are then confronted with a thorough investigation of twenty food and drink product markets in six countries. The result is a unique and informative mixture of theory and evidence.
Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
Sunk Costs and Market Structure bridges the gap between the new generation of game theoretic models that has dominated the industrial organization literature over the past ten years and the traditional empirical agenda of the subject as embodied in the structure-conduct-performance paradigm developed by Joe S. Bain and his successors. The new theoretical literature has engendered pessimism in recent years because many results turn out to depend on detailed features of the market that are difficult to measure. This has led many observers to argue that the new literature offers little basis for the kind of cross-industry studies that have formed the empirical base of the subject since the 1950s. Using current game-theoretic methods, John Sutton reexamines the traditional agenda. He argues that despite the "delicate" nature of many results, there are theoretical predictions that turn out to be extremely robust to reasonable changes in model specification, and these results should be taken into account when looking for statistical regularities across a broad spectrum of different industries. Sutton draws on a wide range of historical sources and on an intensive program of company interviews to assemble a matrix of industry studies relating to twenty markets within the food and drink sector, in six countries - France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. He combines theory, econometric evidence, and a detailed account of the various patterns of evolution of structure found in these industries in a rigorous evaluation of the strengths and limitations of a game-theoretic approach in explaining the evolution of industrial structure.
Out of Print ISBN: 9780262193054 592 pp. | 6 in x 9 in 28 b&w illus. June 1991
$50.00 X ISBN: 9780262693585 592 pp. | 6 in x 9 in 28 b&w illus. August 2007
John Sutton
John Sutton is Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.
A clear, concise blending of theory and empirical analysis. The international comparisons of the industries examined shed new insights into the common and unique organizational characteristics of the industries studied.
Willard F. Mueller
Research Professor, The University of Wisconsin
An excellent piece of empirical work by a leader in industrial organization. Econometric tests and industry studies are carefully guided by sound theory. A must reading for students in the field.
Scientific Director at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Researcher at CERAS (of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées), and Visiting Professor at MIT
This study represents a simple yet fundamental and deep test of modern game theory models, illustrating the process by which entry and exit bring the population of firms in a market to the equilibrium number in light of that market's mode of competition.
Richard E. Caves
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sunk-costs-and-market-structure


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Democratic Mobilization, Deliberation and Civic Health
At its best, democratic politics should be a continuing dialogue among citizens and their leaders (and would-be leaders) concerning the appropriate direction and steps necessary for the collective furtherance of their freedom and welfare. At its worst, that forum can descend into demagoguery and active efforts to deprive citizens of their rights. Such situations threaten freedom itself. And the mediating factors determining whether a democratic regime can move closer to an ideal or fall into degraded discourses that actively undermine civil rights and freedom, appear to be how deliberatively the citizenry behaves collectively, the beliefs (ideologies) and integrity of responsible officials and the forms those individuals employ to share their perspectives with voters. None of these factors is new. Indeed, the character of all of these is elemental to the creation and maintenance of self-governing institutions. I have lately been struck by a series of news accounts that together reveal the nation is now evidencing major difficulties with each of these critical components of self-rule. The result has been a presidential election season replete with leading candidates offering deliberate lies as their supposed "platforms;" appeals to the worst tendencies in the voting public, including invocations of racism and jingoism; evidence of widespread ignorance among large shares of the electorate; and a quest for power for its own sake among some would-be leaders, irrespective of the implications of their actions for the health of the body politic. A few examples from those stories may help to illustrate these tendencies.
The first account that caught my attention concerned Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D), who recently issued an executive order restoring the voting rights of of more than 200,000 ex-offenders in his state. It is easy to defend his actions as appropriate in principle, since these individuals had served their sentences for their crimes and returned to the general population. One either takes seriously the fact that they had undergone what the Commonwealth had declared appropriate punishment and now should be treated as any other citizen, or one risks treating whole cadres of Americans (also Virginians, in this case) as undeserving of their innate rights, no matter what price they may have paid society to compensate for their past behavior. Nevertheless, as Leonard Pitts pointed out in his nationally syndicated column, if McAuliffe enjoys the high ground in this situation, there is little doubt that the chief executive's timing was carefully considered. A majority of those who will now be able to vote are African Americans, and while many will not exercise their new found franchise, those who do are likely to vote for the Democratic standard bearer in November. Virginia General Assembly speaker Dennis Howell (R),
… pronounced himself 'stunned,' by the governor's action which he said was designed to deliver November votes to presumed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 'It is hard to describe how transparent the governor's motives are. … The singular purpose of Terry McAuliffe's governorship is to elect Hillary Clinton President of the United States.'[1]
However silly this hyperbole might seem in light of the reality of the likely marginal actual electoral consequences of McAuliffe's action, it demonstrates how threatening the governor's step appears to a party that realizes its majority may be in jeopardy, as Virginia's demographics continue to shift away from the GOP's traditional base. Nonetheless, it also seems unlikely that McAuliffe took his bold step solely as an act of principle. As Pitts concluded, "This is no profile in courage. This is an act of political expedience. … You cannot applaud without holding your nose." [2] Ultimately, this episode is more interesting for what it reveals about the Republican legislative majority in Virginia than it is for the complex motives that may have underpinned the governor's action.
Meanwhile, a second recent news story reported that the GOP continues to demonstrate its willingness to manipulate voter registration and identification requirements in states where it enjoys a legislative majority on the basis of patently false posturing that onerous registration conditions are necessary to avoid widespread voter fraud.[3] Kansas is the latest case in point: More than 22,000 voters who sought to register in February remain in a kind of legal limbo as the state "assesses" their credibility as citizens. Kansas Republican leaders have insisted on ensuring exceptionally difficult registration requirements for these individuals, knowing that nearly 60 percent of them are young (18-29) and, on average, less likely to vote for the GOP in November. Since Kansas has successfully prosecuted only one instance of actual voter registration fraud in the last nine months, despite Republican arguments that deceit is rampant, it seems difficult to defend this stance as anything but a bald act of power to deny individuals their vote because those in positions of authority fear they might not support their party. This situation speaks for itself in its implications for democracy and civil rights, as does the fact that the Republican Party has employed this tactic in multiple states, in addition to Kansas.
That the GOP can embrace an outright fabrication such as the position its leaders have adopted concerning vote fraud in Kansas, despite the facts, suggests that those officials are confident they can play on voter attitudes and fears for support if they can frame the public conversation successfully. In fact, as noted, the GOP has unleashed a barrage of "concern" about voter registration fraud in Kansas. This reality points up the role of appeals to citizens' ignorance and prejudices and the ability to do so via canalized channels that reinforce the beliefs of those already inclined to take specific positions. So it is that the GOP implies that the young people who have registered to vote in Kansas are somehow not "really" eligible to do so because they may lack one or another form of identification demanded. Implicitly that stance also suggests that those thousands of would-be voters are trying deliberately to mislead the state¾a stance for which there is no empirical evidence, but one that is surely emotionally inflammatory for other voters.
Likewise, the Republican Party has argued, again without offering any principle to support its claim, that those who have otherwise paid retribution for their crimes by serving their sentences nevertheless do not merit being treated as citizens. In so doing, those leaders have laid aside the tenet of punishment followed by reconciliation in favor of appeals to citizen prejudice and fears. Howell's comments in response to McAuliffe's action underscored this conclusion. The Speaker highlighted what he took to be the implications of the governor's actions for his party's electoral calculus (and that of the Democrats, to be sure) rather than offer an in-principle contention for his position that these individuals should continue to be denied their civil rights. In truth, he has never offered such an argument. Nevertheless, by appealing to fear and prejudice of "criminals" as well as whipping up partisan outrage, Howell was surely reinforcing the views of members of his party and giving them reasons to be angry about this alleged assault on their birthright. In this sense, his remarks were thoughtfully calculated to undermine deliberation, rather than to encourage it among voters. It appears that like Kansas' GOP leaders, Howell was most interested in securing/maintaining political power for himself and his party and was more than willing to press intentionally misleading claims and exploit voter prejudices to do so.
The third news account I noticed concerned President Obama, who recently undertook an extended interview concerning his economic legacy with New York Times correspondent Andrew Sorkin.[4] One question Sorkin asked was why so many Americans were so uninformed about the state of the nation's economy and the President offered an empirically accurate and frank assessment:
He quickly returned to the topic of public perception. 'If you ask the average person on the streets, "Have deficits gone down or up under Obama?" probably 70 percent would say they've gone up,' Obama said, with some justifiable exasperation—the deficit has in fact declined (by roughly three-quarters) since he took office, and polls do show that a large majority of Americans believe the opposite. Obama is animated by a sense that, looking at the world around him, the U.S. economy is in much better shape than the public appreciates, especially when measured against the depths of the financial crisis and the possibility—now rarely even considered—that things could have been much, much worse. Over a series of conversations in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in Florida, Obama analyzed, sometimes with startling frankness, nearly every element of his economic agenda since he came into office. His economy has certainly come further than most people recognize. The private sector has added jobs for 73 consecutive months—some 14.4 million new jobs in all—the longest period of sustained job growth on record. Unemployment, which peaked at 10 percent the year Obama took office, the highest it had been since 1983, under Ronald Reagan, is now 5 percent, lower than when Reagan left office. The budget deficit has fallen by roughly $1 trillion during his two terms. And overall U.S. economic growth has significantly outpaced that of every other advanced nation.[5]
The interview suggested that the broad public ignorance of these facts has most frustrated the President. Obama acknowledged the swathe of Americans who have left the labor force completely and highlighted, too, those he has sought to assist who have not benefited from the sustained economic recovery that has occurred during his tenure. But, he also noted that his efforts to aid those displaced by globalization and its depressive effects on wages have been routinely stymied by unbridled GOP opposition. Overall:
'How people feel about the economy,' Obama told me, giving one part of his own theory, is influenced by 'what they hear.' He went on: 'And if you have a political party —in this case, the Republicans—that denies any progress and is constantly channeling to their base, which is sizable, say, 40 percent of the population, that things are terrible all the time, then people will start absorbing that.' [6]
Taken together, these three recent news accounts highlight several longer term trends in our politics that are disconcerting for our nation's ability to engage in anything resembling prudential democratic politics:
Widespread public ignorance of what is occurring in the nation's politics, both as a result of increasingly narrow and partisan communications outlets, and deliberate and elaborate attempts to mislead and obscure those facts in the name of securing power for one or another political party;
The ill effects of the Republican Party's absolutist anti-government ideology and embrace of a form of economic thinking that does not support deliberative or prudent government management of the nation's economy;
The impact for the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens of the GOP's ideology-driven refusal to assist those displaced by globalization—including many of that Party's supporters—but a willingness, instead, to blame them personally for the conditions they confront;
An apparently growing inclination among some party officials to deny Americans their civil rights if doing so will obtain sufficient support to allow them to gain or maintain power.
The implications of a continuation and deepening of these trends, for self-governance and freedom, should such occur, are clear and imply a possible descent into demagoguery or worse, as those seeking power become ever more adroit at manipulating a public often unaware of the realities they confront. Alternatively, the citizenry could rebel against exploitation by elites seeking power and wealth, and demand electoral and campaign finance reforms as well as different forms of information so as to avoid the condition in which many now find themselves. While I sketch these possibilities, there are surely many others that would prevent the wholesale temporary or permanent usurpation of self-governance. Some options might find the electorate choosing to reject the dominant neoliberal public philosophy that has hollowed out the country's public institutions for several decades and deeply eroded their popular legitimacy. Such a turn might prove the most salutary of all.
[1] Pitts, Leonard. "McAuliffe does Right thing for Wrong Reason," April 28, 2016, http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article74099102.html Accessed April 28, 2016.
[2] Pitts, April 28, 2016. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article74099102.html Accessed April 28, 2016.
[3] Editorial board, New York Times, "Voting Gets Harder in Kansas," April 30, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/voting-gets-harder-in-kansas.html?emc=edit_th_20160501&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=40087534 Accessed April 30, 2016.
[4] Sorkin, Andrew, "President Obama Weighs his Economic Legacy," The New York Times, April 28, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/magazine/president-obama-weighs-his-economic-legacy.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentCollection=Magazine&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article Accessed April 28, 2016.
[5] Sorkin, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/magazine/president-obama-weighs-his-economic-legacy.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentCollection=Magazine&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article


Home » News » Adama Barrow is re-elected as President of the Gambia
Adama Barrow is re-elected as President of the Gambia
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Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow delivers his victory speech in Banjul, The Gambia. December 5, 2021.
The current head of state of the Gambia, Adama Barrow, was declared this Sunday, December 5, as the winner of the presidential elections. This was confirmed by the country's Electoral Commission, which is expected to govern for another five years.
Until late at night, hundreds of people celebrated in the streets of Banjul this Sunday, December 5, following the announcement by the Gambian Electoral Commission of the results of the presidential elections.
The elections held this weekend are the first to be organized in 27 years without the presence of former President Yahya Jammeh, who had to go into exile in Equatorial Guinea after refusing to accept defeat against Barrow, elected in 2016.
For 22 years, Jammeh ruled in this small West African nation of 2.5 million people. His dictatorship began after a coup in 1994 and was characterized by the murder and torture of countless political opponents.
Today, many Gambians celebrate that the current president remains in power, considering that it represents a victory for the young democracy of this country.
Barrow was clearly ahead of his main competitor, Ousainou Darboe, in around 50 constituencies out of 53. However, the president's opponents announced that they will contest the results and reserve "all means of action."
The opposition is reluctant to accept Barrow's victory
This Saturday, almost a million Gambians were called to the polls to choose from six candidates, all men, the next leader of the nation.
However, the elections were announced as a duel between Adama Barrow and his opponent, Ousainou Darboe.
"At this stage we reject the results announced so far" by the Commission, Darboe said this Sunday, along with two other of the six competitors.
"All means of action are on the table," he added, calling on "all Gambians to keep calm and peace" while the investigations are being carried out, as apparently "a series of problems" were registered during the vote count.
President from exile
The arrival of Adama Barrow to power in 2016 marked the end of more than twenty years of dictatorship of former President Yahya Jammeh.
Before going into politics, Barrow made his fortune in real estate. Later, he was active in the United Democratic Party (UDP) of Ousainou Darboe and was chosen for the presidential elections of December 1, 2016 as the candidate of an opposition coalition of eight parties.
At that time, Barrow won with 43.29% of the votes against Yahya Jammeh who obtained 39.64% and who had, until then, been ruling the country for 22 years.
But the eccentric Jammeh did not like this much and his reluctance to leave power led to a two-month crisis in The Gambia. Barrow had to go into exile in Senegal and from there he swore his position, to do it again in Banjul on his return.
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Have You Written These 5 Types Of Poetry?
Posted by Julia Travers
Poetry is a difficult genre of creative writing to define and, as a whole, lends itself to redefinition and experimentation. There are also many established forms of poetry and, much like learning a color wheel or new artistic approach with a paint medium or a musical scale or new genre of song on an instrument, learning to write in the different forms of poetry can help writers to hone their craft. Here's a brief overview of what poetry is often understood to be and five types of poems you may want to try writing:
Poetry: What is it?
The word poetry comes from the Greek word ποιεω or poieo, meaning, "I create." Poetry is sometimes considered to be a bridge or an ambiguous, overlapping space between traditional written works and oral and musical arts. In poetry, the sounds, patterns, and other aesthetic traits of the language used are considered important, as well as the meaning of the words and the piece as a whole. Within poetry, the writer is free to use descriptive, metaphorical (comparing one thing to another), fantastic, lyrical, discordant, repetitive, veiled, and opaque language. The length, meter (pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables) and communicative intent of a poem are at the writer's discretion. A poem offer differs from fiction because a narrative structure is not always present in poems, though both narrative poetry and abstract, lyrical fiction and nonfiction also exist. Sometimes, the words of a poem only exist in a painting or in a live performance of Slam Poetry. Because poetry typically possesses multiple layers of meaning, it can be difficult to translate between languages. For more information on poetic terms, literary devices, structures, and tools, check out Literary Devices.net.
Early poetry likely arose during the oral era of human history, before written stories and records were invented and used. For example, ancient hymns, such as those sung out or recited by the Sumerian priestess Enheduanna around the year 2200 B.C., are considered one of the earliest forms of poetry. Early oral poems are difficult to separate from early stories, songs, and prayers as they were used for spiritual purposes, to tell stories, pronounce love, and keep accounts of local history and tradition (much as they often are today). Poems have also been found engraved in ancient stones and monoliths and early written works that are considered poetic include "The Vedas" and "The Odyssey."
Seven Kinds of Poetry to Read and Write
Epic Poems
Epic poetry calls attention to grand adventures. They are usually long poems which tell intricate tales of a (typically contemporary) hero or heroine's wonder and courage. Famous epic poems include "Gilgamesh" and "The Iliad." Study.com explains that "Epic poems were particularly common in the ancient world because they were ideal for expressing stories orally." You could write an epic poem about someone you consider to be a hero or write a humorous, satirical, or fantastical epic poem about a doubtful or imaginary hero.
Sonnets have a very strict structure and were a favorite of Dante, Petrarch (who created what is now known as the Petrarchan Sonnet), and Shakespeare. The word sonnet comes from the Italian term, sonetto, meaning "little song." Sonnets have 14 lines. Each line ends with a rhyme and sonnets are written in a meter called iambic pentameter, in which each line of writing has five beats and the second syllable is always stressed (every other syllable is stressed). English-style sonnets typically use rhyme schemes of abab-cdcd-efef-gg (in which each letter pair represents a unique rhyme). Below is William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 16"–see if you can catch the rhyming and stressed syllable pattern and then try writing a sonnet of your own.
But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
And fortify yourself in your decay
With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens, yet unset,
With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repair,
Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen,
Neither in inward worth nor outward fair,
Can make you live yourself in eyes of men.
To give away yourself, keeps yourself still,
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
If you need a break from the intensely regulated format of the sonnet, try writing a limerick, which are typically catchy but lighter types of poems with an upbeat rhythm. Limericks are five lines long and are usually intended to be witty, surprising, or humorous. The rhyme scheme is aa-bb-a. Limericks have a rolling, repetitive rhythm. Below is a representation of a limerick's rhythm from Poets.org; "The pattern can be illustrated with dashes denoting weak syllables, and slashes for stresses:
1) – / – – / – – /
3) – / – – /
One of the best ways to familiarize or re-familiarize yourself with simple limericks is to check out and read aloud Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Limericks often have a surprising ending, as in this example from Edward Lear:
There was a young lady of Niger
who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
with the lady inside,
and the smile on the face of the tiger.
A haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry that is succinct and precise. Haikus were originally used in the thirteenth-century as an introduction to longer oral poems. Llater, in the sixteenth-century, the format was used on its own. A standard haiku in English has three lines; the first has five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third has five again. An example by Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki is below.
Toward those short trees
We saw a hawk descending
On a day in spring.
Haiku-poetry.org explains that "It is important to note that the original Japanese haiku was measured in sounds, or 'breaths,' not English syllables. The 5-7-5 approach was a rough approximation. Many traditional Japanese and English-language literary haiku are much shorter than the 5-7-5 format of the West." So, you may come across haikus that vary in length.
Free Verse Poems
Free verse poems exist for the poets who prefer to be unencumbered by rules or traditions or to pick and choose which they want to use, follow, or redefine in their work. When you write a free verse poem, the sounds, length, and purpose are entirely up to you. Here's an example of a short free verse poem by American poet William Carlos Williams:
A stand of people
by an open
grave underneath
the heavy leaves
the cut and fill
for the new road
an old man
on his knees
reaps a basket-
ful of
matted grasses for
his goats.
John Adams, the second president of the United States, said that "You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." Hopefully, you'll enjoy reading and writing poetry and if you agree with Adams, check out the national Poem in Your Pocket Day, which occurs each April.
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Ise Grand Shrine: Naiku
Ise Grand Shrine: Naiku 内宮
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Saint of all Saints
Officially called Kotai Jingu, the inner shrine Naiku is imbued with a mystical atmosphere, which reaches its peak when you climb the steps to the Shoden pavilion ...
Once past the Uji bashi bridge and the large torii, one progresses through a dense forest on a gravel road, and sinks in what remains the most sacred area of Japan: the inner shrine of Ise - or Naiku - where is honored (and fed) the goddess Amaterasu.
It is common here to cross high Shinto dignitaries, and like them, you will need to go purify yourself at the pavilion of ablutions (the Misogi-kan, but beware: the ladle on the left is reserved for priests, and on the right, Temizusha, is open to all visitors) before continuing.
Dreaming in the inner shrine
Further along, the forest full of cedars and kami (gods) houses a number of secondary temples. The Kazahinomi no miya for example, dedicated to the god of the wind, or the Aramatsuri no miya, which allows you to closely admire the Shinmei architecture, rare and typical of Ise, of which you will only see a some elements of it on your approach to the Shoden .
It is here, on top of a flight of stairs, that we have reached the Saints of all Saints. Or rather that you can catch a glimpse, as no visitors are allowed beyond the entrance of the shrine, which is also the official residence of the goddess of the sun. It is forbidden to take pictures of buildings, or any officiants. But you are allowed to dream, to imagine the secret ceremonies that take place daily, the old rituals of dozens of centuries that are perpetuated here.
Ancient rice granaries
This Shoden is destroyed and rebuilt every 20 years, according to a unique architectural model called Shinmei zukuri. While most Shinto shrines of the country were built after the arrival of Buddhism in Japan (fourth century), and are inspired by Chinese temples style, the main Ise pavilion is built on the model of the old Japanese rice granaries: a raised floor, a gabled roof of which the beams extend, forming a "v", and a roof covered with thatch.
Sacred to the highest degree, the Shoden also houses the mirror Yata no kagami, one of the three imperial emblems, with the jewel Magatama (at the Tokyo Imperial Palace) and the Kusanagi sword (at Nagoya Atsuta Jinja ).
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Grant Hackett
Competitor for Australia
Gold 2000 Sydney[1] 1500 m freestyle
Gold 2000 Sydney 4×200 m freestyle relay
Gold 2004 Athens[2] 1500 m freestyle
Silver 2004 Athens 400 m freestyle
Silver 2004 Athens 4×200 m freestyle relay
World Championships - Long Course
Gold 1998 Perth 1500 m freestyle
Gold 1998 Perth 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Gold 2001 Fukuoka 1500 m freestyle
Gold 2001 Fukuoka 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Gold 2003 Barcelona 800 m freestyle
Gold 2003 Barcelona 1500 m freestyle
Gold 2003 Barcelona 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Gold 2005 Montreal 400 m freestyle
Gold 2005 Montreal 1500 m freestyle
Silver 1998 Perth 400 m freestyle
Silver 2001 Fukuoka 400 m freestyle
Silver 2003 Barcelona 400 m freestyle
Silver 2005 Montreal[3] 200 m freestyle
Silver 2007 Melbourne[4] 400 m freestyle
Bronze 2003 Barcelona 200 m freestyle
Bronze 2005 Montreal 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
World Championships - Short Course
Gold 2002 Moscow[5] 400 m freestyle
Gold 2002 Moscow 1500 m freestyle
Gold 2002 Moscow 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur 1500 m freestyle
Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Silver 1998 Kuala Lumpur 400 m freestyle
Silver 2002 Manchester[6] 200 m freestyle
Silver 2002 Manchester 400 m freestyle
Gold 2002 Manchester 1500 m freestyle
Gold 2002 Manchester[7] 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Gold 2002 Manchester 4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold 1999 Sydney 1500 m freestyle
Gold 1999 Sydney 4x200 m freestyle
Silver 1999 Sydney 400 m freestyle
Grant George Hackett OAM (born May 9, 1980) is an Australian swimmer who won the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This has led him to be regarded as one of the greatest distance swimmers in history. He also collected a gold medal in Sydney for swimming in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay. He is well regarded for his versatility, being the world record holder in the 1500 m and 800 m freestyle, and 2nd and 4th in the 400 m and 200 m freestyle respectively. He has dominated the 1500 m event in the past decade, being undefeated in the event in finals from 1996 until the 2007 World Aquatics Championships. His four World Championship gold medals in the event make him the only swimmer to have won a world title in one event four times, and in total, he has won 10 World Championship gold medals. Hackett is the current captain of the Australian swimming team. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... 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2 Career Best Times
Hackett was born at Southport on the Gold Coast of Queensland. The son of a policeman and younger brother of an Ironman champion, he first achieved prominence on debut at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships, where he first won the 1500 meters. He also won the 400 m freestyle, recording his only international victory over the yet-to-be-famous Ian Thorpe at the distance in international competition. He also won the event at the 1998 World Championships, and was narrowly upset by Thorpe in the 400 m. He also combined with Thorpe, Michael Klim and Daniel Kowalski to win the 4×200 m freestyle relay, beginning a six-year winning streak in the event over the United States. These results were replicated at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. From 1997 to 2007 he was unbeaten in the 1500 m, winning it at every major world competition, including the World Championships, Pan Pacific Championships, Olympics, Commonwealth and Australian Championships. Southport is a coastal town near the mid-point of the Gold Coast, Australia and has one of the citys largest communities. ... Gold Coast redirects here. ... For other uses, see Queensland (disambiguation). ... Rare footage of the original IronMan Bracelet on display at The Abbott Arena. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the Thorpedo or Thorpey, is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Michael Klim OAM (born August 13, 1977 in Gdynia) is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. ... Daniel Kowalski (July 2, 1975 - ) was an Australian middle- and long-distance swimmer specialising in freestyle events. ... The 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from September 11 to September 21 making it the first Asian country to act as host and the last Commonwealth Games for 20th Century. ... Nickname: Motto: Maju dan makmur (English: Progress and Prosper) Location in Malaysia Coordinates: , Country State Establishment 1857 Granted city status 1974 Government - Mayor (Datuk Bandar) Datuk Abdul Hakim Borhan From 14 December 2006 Area - Total 243. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
In 1999, Hackett broke his first world record, unexpectedly breaking Giorgio Lamberti's 200 m freestyle world record at a club-level meet in Queensland. It was subsequently broken by Ian Thorpe in the same year at the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships in Sydney, although Hackett himself bettered his old mark. Hackett himself claimed the 1500 m freestyle, and combined with Thorpe, Klim and Bill Kirby to break the world record in the 4×200 m freestyle. Giorgio Lamberti Giorgio Lamberti (Brescia, Italy, January 28, 1969), is an Italian swimmer. ... William (Bill) Ashley Kirby (born Septmeber 12 1975 in Perth, Western Australia) was an Australian freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1990s and 2000s, who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as part of the 4x200m freestyle relay team. ...
Entering the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Hackett was the overwhelming favourite in the 1500 m freestyle, and was also expected to help Thorpe take a quinella in the 200 m and 400 m events. However, he was struck down by a virus and in the 400 m and 200 m, he was well short of his best, finishing eighth and seventh respectively. He followed this with an extremely slow swim in the heats of the 4×200 m freestyle relay, and was dropped from the final quartet, being replaced by Todd Pearson. By the time the final of the 1500 m freestyle came, Hackett had qualified third behind sentimental favourite Kieren Perkins, who was being vocally cheered by the crowd. In the face of the immense pressure, Hackett adopted a more attacking, fast-starting approach, and managed to hang on to claim gold. Todd Pearson (born November 11, 1977) is an Australian swimming champion, who was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. ... Kieren John Perkins OAM (born August 14, 1973), is a former Australian professional swimmer. ...
Over shorter distances, however, Hackett has been somewhat overshadowed by his fellow Australian Ian Thorpe, with his versatility over varying distances often unheralded. Despite this, he is a hugely popular figure in Australia. His extroverted personality is in sharp contrast with Thorpe's more reserved style, and is more in line with Australian expectations of sporting figures. His major interests outside swimming are playing the guitar and motor racing. Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the Thorpedo or Thorpey, is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. ...
At the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Hackett was in the peak of his speed. He set personal bests in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle events, finishing second to Thorpe on both occasions, and bettering the previous world record in the latter. Along with Thorpe, Klim and Kirby, they bettered the previous world record in the 4×200 m freestyle. In the 1500 m, Hackett attacked immediately, and stayed well ahead of Perkins' world record, and with the crowd standing and willing him on, he broke the record by 7 seconds, to claim gold. This article is about a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. ...
He replicated the results at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships in Yokohama, and the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, taking the 1500 m and 4×200 m relay, while finishing behind Thorpe in the 400 m and 800 m, except in Barcelona where Thorpe opted not to swim the 800 m freestyle. He also claimed two silvers and a bronze (in Barcelona) for his outings in the 200 m freestyle. The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from July 25 to August 4, 2002. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ...
At 196 cm (six foot five) and 89.8 kg (198 pounds), Hackett is an imposing figure, who wins the gruelling 1500 meters race by sheer physical strength and stamina. He showed this in Sydney when he won despite having only partly recovered from illness, and again in Athens, when he survived challenges from swimmers (Larsen Jensen and David Davies) six years his junior to hang on to win the race, despite a partially collapsed lung. This came after a solid swim in the 400 m to claim silver behind Thorpe, and an unconvincing swim in the 200 m and 4×200 m relay, when he was more than a second outside of his best. His sluggish heat swim placed him third, raising concerns amongst the Australian camp. After the Olympics, it was revealed that one of his lungs was partially collapsed, leaving his total lung capacity diminished by 25%. Larsen Jensen (born September 1, 1985) is an American swimmer. ... David Davies (born March 3, 1985, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom) is a British long-distance Swimmer. ...
In 2005, Swimming Australia introduced the concept of a captain for the swimming team. Hackett was awarded this honour, and led Australia in the World Championships at Montreal, Canada. He won gold medals in the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle, the first person ever to achieve this feat. His victory in the 800 m event broke Thorpe's world record, and his 1500 m victory saw him become the first to win an event four times at a World Championships. He was named as FINA's Male swimmer of the meet. He was named as the Australian Swimmer of the Year in 2005, and was also named the Swimmer of the Year by the Swimming World magazine. Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Region Montréal Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3] - City 365. ...
In November 2005, Hackett announced his withdrawal from the 2006 Commonwealth Games due to being unavailable for the selection trials because of a minor surgery to correct a shoulder injury. However, he was given dispensation to act as a non-competing captain in order to mentor the fellow swimmers in the lead-up to the competition. The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between March 15 and March 26, 2006. ...
In late 2006, Hackett relocated to Melbourne due to personal reasons. He attributed his disrupted preparation to adjusting with his new regime. Prior to the 2007 World Aquatics Championships, he presented a pessimistic outlook of his prospects. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... The 2007 World Aquatics Championships or the XII FINA World Championships is currently being held in Melbourne, Australia from March 17 to April 1, 2007. ...
He qualified last in the 400 m event, but lead in the final before fading in the last lap to take the bronze medal. He qualified fifth in the 800 m event, but finished seventh, more than ten seconds behind the winner. In 1500 m final Hackett came seventh, ending his decade long unbeaten streak in the event.
In December of 2007, Hackett competed in and won his first National Championship 10km Open Water race. By barely edging out veteran open-water swimmer and Ironman Triathlete Ky Hurst, the pair both qualified for the World Championships in in Seville, Spain. However, Hackett failed to finish in the top 10 in this event, and therefore missed out on qualifying for the 10km open water swim at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[8] He was also criticised for appearing to be overweight after the event, a claim that he rejected as "ridiculous".[9]
Though Hackett failed to qualify for the 10k, he has a hard program to swim at the Olympics. He swims the 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle and the 4x200m freestyle relay. In the 1500m he can become the first male swimmer to win three successive Olympic titles in the same event, an opportunity denied two-time Olympic 1500m champion Vladimir Salnikov due to the 1984 Summer Olympics communist boycott. Vladimir Salnikov Vladimir Salnikov (Владимир Сальников, St. ... The Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States followed the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. ...
Career Best Times
1. 200 Freestyle-1:45.61(4th fastest ever)
2. 400 Freestyle-3:42.51(2nd fastest ever)
3. 800 Freestyle-7:38.65(WR)
4. 1500 Freestyle-14:34.56(WR)
On April 14, 2007, Hackett married Australian singer Candice Alley. is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Candice Marie Giannarelli, better known as Candice Alley (born June 23, 1983) is an Australian singer-songwriter of Italian descent. ...
He has Bachelor of Commerce and Laws degrees from Bond University.[10] For other uses, see Bond. ...
World record progression 1500m freestyle
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^ ESPN Sydney Swimming. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
^ 2004 Olympic Games swimming results. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
^ Montreal 2005 Results. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
^ 12th FINA World Championships. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
^ 2002 World Championships - Short Course Swim Rankings results. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
^ BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
^ Cowley, Michael. "Hackett fails in open water", The Age, May 5, 2008.
^ Paxinos, Stathi. "No muffin top here: Hackett fighting fit", The Age, May 7, 2008.
^ Dabkowski, Stephen. "Long-distance Hackett on target to be a stayer", The Age, August 2, 2003.
Kieren Perkins Men's 1500 metres Freestyle
World Record Holder (Long Course)
July 29, 2001 – Succeeded by
World Record Holder (Short Course)
September 27, 1998 – Succeeded by
Michael Phelps World Swimmer of the Year
Ian Thorpe World Pacific Rim Swimmer of the Year
Tae Hwan Park
Olympic champions in men's 1500 m freestyle
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Grant Hackett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (965 words)
Grant George Hackett (born May 9, 1980) is an Australian swimmer who won the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, making him one of Australia's greatest ever distance swimmers, perhaps the greatest distance swimmer the sport has ever seen.
Hackett was born at Southport on the Gold Coast of Queensland, and first achieved prominence on debut at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships, where he first won the 1500 meters.
Hackett was awarded this honour, and lead Australia in the World Championships at Montreal, Canada.


Beekeeping, as opposed to foraging honey from wild bee colonies, probably began at different times in different parts of the world. Many agree that the first evidence of beekeeping appears in the paintings of ancient Egypt, dating from around 2500 BC.
Beekeepers work long hours in the spring and summer. They monitor their hives to ensure the colony has a healthy queen and that the colony is clean and free from disease. To keep their bees strong, beekeepers must place the hives in locations that will provide abundant nectar sources as well as water. Beekeepers harvest their honey in late spring to early fall, depending on regional plants' blossoming times.
In the fall, beekeepers prepare their hives for winter, ensuring that each hive has adequate honey "left on" (not extracted) to feed the colony. Many beekeepers also move their hives to warmer states during the winter. About onehalf of all commercial beekeepers are migratory beekeepers. Some rent their bees to farmers, moving their hives to pollinate various crops. Others relocate their hives near blossoms for honey production.
The purpose of beekeeping
Apiculture or beekeeping is the art of managing bees with the intention of getting the maximum return from this work with the minimum of expenditure. Bees produce swarms, queens, wax and honey. The production of swarms and queens should be left to specialists. The production of wax has some value, but this value is diminished by the cost of rendering. The production of honey is the main purpose of beekeeping, one that the beekeeper pursues before everything else, because this product is valuable and because it can be weighed and priced. Honey is an excellent food, a good remedy, the best of all sweeteners. And we can sell honey in many forms just as we can consume it in many forms.
It is also worth noting that beekeeping is a fascinating activity and consequently rests both mind and body. Furthermore, beekeeping is a moral activity, as far as it keeps one away from cafés and low places and puts before the beekeeper an example of work, order and devotion to the common cause. Moreover, beekeeping is a pre-eminently healthy and beneficial activity, because it is most often done in the fresh air, in fine, sunny weather. For sunshine is the enemy of illness just as it is the master of vitality and vigour.
One more important thing: the bees fertilise the flowers of the fruit trees. Apiculture thus contributes greatly to filling our fruit baskets. This reason alone should suffice to urge all those who have the smallest corner of orchard to take up beekeeping.
According to Darwin, self-fertilisation of flowers is not the general rule. Cross-fertilisation, which takes place most commonly, is necessitated becaus of the separation of sexes in flowers or even on 2 different plants; or because of the non-coincidence of maturity of pollen and stigma or by the different morphological arrangements which prevent self-fertilisation in a flower. It happens very often that if an outside agent does not intervene, our plants do not fruit or they yield far less; many experiments demonstrate this.
As Hommell put it so well: the bee, attracted by the nectar secreted at the base of the petals, penetrates to the bottom of the floral envelope to drink the juices produced by the nectaries, and covers itself with the fertilising dust that the stamens let fall. Having exhausted the first flower, a second presents a new crop to the tireless worker; the pollen it is carrying falls on the stigma and the fertilisation which, without it, would be left at the mercy of the winds, takes place in a way that is guaranteed. Thus the bee, following its course without relaxation, visits thousands of corollae, and deserves the poetic name that Michelet gave it: the winged priest at the marriage of the flowers.
Hommell even attempted to put a figure on the benefit that resulted from the presence of bees. A colony, he said, which has only 10,000 foragers should be considered as reaching barely average, and a large stock housed in a big hive often has 80,000. Suppose 10,000 foragers go out four times a day, then in 100 days this will make four million sorties. And if each bee before returning home enters only twenty-five flowers, the bees of this hive will have visited 100 million flowers in the course of one year. It is no exaggeration to suppose that on ten of these flowers, at least one is fertilised by the action of the foragers and that the resulting gain would be only 1 centime for every 1,000 fertilisations. Yet in spite of these minimal estimates, it is evident that there is a benefit of 100 francs a year produced by the presence of just one hive. This mathematical conclusion is irrefutable.
Certain fruit producers, above all viticulturists, set themselves up in opposition to bees because bees come and drink the sweet juices of fruit and grapes. But if we investigate the bee closely we soon notice that they ignore the intact fruits and only empty those with pellicles that are already perforated by birds or by the strong mandibles of wasps. The bee only gathers juice which, without it, would dry up and be wasted. It is totally impossible for bees to commit the theft they are accused of, because the masticatory parts of its mouth are not strong enough to enable it to perforate the fruit pellicle that protects the pulp.


New Law in Ontario Threatens Jobs, Worker Safety
March 2019 – IBEW Electrical Worker Publication
Under the guise of modernizing apprenticeships and cutting red tape, Ontario's provincial government recently pushed through a blatantly anti-worker measure that instead will end up putting skilled people out of work and placing workers' safety at risk.
"Bill 47, the so-called 'Making Ontario Open for Business Act,' is actually a gift to open-shop contractors," said First District International Vice President Tom Reid. "For years, they've lobbied for an easier path toward hiring lower-paid, less-skilled workers, and now they have one."
Until recently, Ontario law required one journeyman be hired for each of the first four apprentices working on a given job site. For electrical workers, the ratio shifted to three journeymen for each of the next three apprentices, then six journeymen for each of the next six apprentices, and finally three journeymen for each apprentice after that.
The Progressive Conservative party gained majority control of Ontario's government in June following the provincial elections. Party leader Doug Ford, now the province's premier, introduced Bill 47 partly in response to some contractors' claims that the ratios were keeping employers from finding apprentices and apprentices from finding jobs.
"What they were really after was maximizing contractors' profits," Reid said.
The bill, which was introduced on Oct. 23 and became law via royal assent just four weeks later, immediately altered the required ratio of journeymen to apprentices to 1:1, regardless of trade or of a site's workforce size.
"And now that employers can bring on helpers or apprentices without proper oversight from trained and certified journeymen, workplace safety becomes a real problem for everyone on the job site," Reid said.
Bill 47's passage is a step backward for workers in Ontario's building trades, Reid said, because reasonable ratios are critical to ensuring the correct balance of apprentices and trained workers.
"This is the beginning of a slippery slope," he said. "In provinces outside of Ontario, open-shop contractors have been lobbying for ratios as high as three apprentices for every journeyman."
The IBEW Construction Council of Ontario, which represents more than 17,000 certified electrical workers in the province, notes that more than 95 percent of IBEW apprentices end up completing their apprenticeships.
"But if we don't provide apprentices with the necessary training, oversight, and knowledge, that percentage might start to fall," Reid said.
Further, statistics from the Ontario Construction Secretariat show that apprentices who sign with a union are 30 percent more likely to complete an apprenticeship.
"Apprentices need to get a broad range of experiences, but they also need oversight and guidance to learn and be safe on the job and to successfully transition from apprentice to journeyman," Reid said. "It's hard for one journeyman to constantly keep an eye on just one apprentice, because journeymen also have to stay focused on their own work."
Bill 47 also eliminated Ontario's College of Trades, a body whose responsibilities included enforcement of trades and worksite ratios. Without the college's oversight, employers now will find it easier to replace experienced journeymen with apprentices or low-paid helpers, Reid said.
Established in 2013 when Ontario was led by Kathleen Wynne's Liberal Party, the college's 21-member board of governors has consisted of representatives of the skilled trades and the public at large appointed by an independent council.
The college ensured that trades workers had the proper training and certification to work legally in Ontario. It also maintained a public registry of licensed and certified trades workers, and apprentices were only allowed to work in a trade if they had College of Trades certification and were working with a journeyman.
"Unfortunately, the college was mired in politics from the moment it launched and had trouble achieving its mandate," Reid said.
Eliminating the college, rather than fixing it, will hurt the IBEW's ability to properly train current and future apprentices. "With Bill 47's passage, jobs can be filled by untrained workers, potentially putting themselves and others in danger," he said.
"The public counts on electricians to provide safe and reliable services," Reid said. "Taxpayers deserve to have the job done right the first time, and not to pay twice because it was done by someone who wasn't properly trained."
Bill 47 calls for the College of Trades to be disbanded within the next few months. "The government intends to develop a replacement model for the regulation of the skilled trades and apprenticeship system in Ontario by early 2019," the province's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities said in an Oct. 23 news release posted on its website.
In the meantime, the college noted on its own website that it "will work with the government to support an orderly transition of key functions in the coming months and looks forward to providing input on creating a stronger skilled trades system in Ontario."
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Iran-Russia pas de deux
BY Kourosh Ziabari
Russian President Vladimir Putin's July visit to Iran was a geopolitical reset for both countries. The collapse of the JCPOA and the Ukraine crisis has strategically united Iran and Russia against their common adversary, the U.S. Russia is now a credible alternative to fill the investment vacuum for Iran's defence, trade and energy sectors.
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Turkey: Europe's new gas hub?
The Ukraine crisis has sent the EU scrambling for new gas supplies, generating fresh interest in gas pipelines from Central Asia and West Asia via Turkey. Practical difficulties make most of these new projects unviable.
TAGGED UNDER: Bulgaria, Energy, European Energy Transition, European Union, gas pipeline, Iran, Israel, Mediterranean Sea, Nordstream, Qatar, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, Turkey, Turkey Gas Hub
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A fruitful SCO foreign ministers' meet
BY K.A. Dhananjay
The SCO foreign ministers met in Tashkent in July to plan for the all-important SCO summit in September. New additions and old issues remain, but the SCO is now growing into a significant grouping, with importance to India
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Can the WTO Agreement Stop Unsustainable Fishing?
Hailed as historic, the new global rules to curb harmful fishing subsidies is a step towards sustainable fishery practices. The negotiated deal, however, is fraught with concerns over overcapacity in fisheries, deep-sea fishing legislations, and blue finance. It may be better for developing countries to formulate their own regulations and set up mechanisms to prevent illegal fishing within their territorial waters – and hold the WTO agreement to its word.
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Indians in the development of the UAE
BY Sifra Lentin
Indians are the largest expatriate community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Their contribution to building that nation is being celebrated this year, which is also the UAE's golden jubilee year. Cultural fluency built on centuries-old trade and migration makes it easier for Indians and Gulf Arabs to collaborate.
TAGGED UNDER: CEPA, CETA, india-uae, India-UAE bilateral, India-UAE trade, Indians in UAE, Mumbai ports, UAE-India
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India's EO satellites in the Indo-Pacific
BY Chaitanya Giri
The Quad has agreed to launch a satellite-based maritime security initiative to curb illegal fishing by China. India is a global leader in satellite launches, especially in Earth Observation (EO) satellites. The Indo-Pacific nations are looking at the Indian model because it is applicable, economical, and sustainable.
Courtesy: Press Information Bureau (PIB)
Expanding India-Israel climate cooperation
India and Israel have completed three decades of diplomatic cooperation. Their bilateral partnership in the areas of defence and agriculture is successful. Now is a good opportunity to deepen their existing collaboration in defence and agriculture and identify ways to work together on water security, renewable energy and green healthcare.
TAGGED UNDER: Food/Agriculture, India-Israel ties, israeli leaders, sustainability., sustainable investment, water security
Courtesy: Mint
India-UAE trade comes full circle
On February 18, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). This is a modern trade agreement with its roots in the erstwhile Bombay Presidency's administration of the nine Emirati kingdoms.
TAGGED UNDER: bombay history, CEPA, Maritime Bombay, postcolonial period, UAE, UAE-India, UAE-UK
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Short supply of Wisconsin homes blunts sales, pushes up prices
Sales slipped but prices rose in July as a short supply of homes for sale put pressure on Wisconsin's housing market, a report released Monday shows.
Short supply of Wisconsin homes blunts sales, pushes up prices Sales slipped but prices rose in July as a short supply of homes for sale put pressure on Wisconsin's housing market, a report released Monday shows. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2xmwSIy
Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 5:51 p.m. CT Aug. 21, 2017 | Updated 5:57 p.m. CT Aug. 21, 2017
Realtors say Wisconsin needs more homes on the market.(Photo: Paul Gores / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Wisconsin Realtors Association reported 8,178 closings on existing homes in July, down 5% from 8,608 in July 2016.
But as sales shrank, the median price of houses sold last month jumped 5.9% compared with July a year ago, to $180,000 from $170,000. That was the highest July price recorded since the state Realtors group fine-tuned its data collection methodology in 2005.
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The dearth of homes on the market in the state is part of a nationwide shortage of homes for sale, particularly in metro areas.
"Low unemployment rates and relatively low mortgage rates continue to fuel the demand side of the housing market, but inventory constraints have kept our sales down," Erik Sjowall, chairman of the state Realtors board, said in a statement.
The Realtors organization noted that on a seasonally adjusted basis, the state unemployment rate stood at 3.2% in July, down a full percentage point from July 2016. In addition, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate was below 4%.
Sjowall said Realtors would be selling a lot more homes if inventories were growing, but instead they are decreasing. Inventories of homes on the market in the state were 13.8% lower than July of last year, and 45% below July 2011, when they peaked at nearly 72,000 homes available for sale, the Realtors said.
Michael Theo, president and chief executive of the Wisconsin Realtors Association, said in the group's monthly report that the tight supply of houses is driving up prices. He said he expects affordability to erode over the next six to 12 months.
"Remarkably, our housing continues to be affordable, but it's been slipping," Theo said.
Through the first seven months of 2017, sales in the state were down 0.1% while the median price was up 6.1%.
The biggest percentage price bump occurred in southeast Wisconsin, with the median price increasing 9.1%, to $195,000 from $178,700 in July a year earlier.
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Launch of Inmarsat SwiftBroadband unmanned aerial vehicle service to provide operational capability
Inmarsat and Cobham SATCOM today announced the launch of the Inmarsat SwiftBroadband unmanned aerial vehicle (SB-UAV) satellite communications service, intended for use with the Cobham SATCOM AVIATOR UAV 200 terminal.
The new service was launched at AUVSI XPONENTIAL, an event dedicated to drones, intelligent robotics and unmanned systems, held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Centre, Dallas from 8th-11th May (Booth 1631).
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are the fastest-growing sector of the aerospace industry and governments are increasingly looking to harness the advantages that unmanned vehicles can provide.
The rapid development in technology and subsequent increase in capability now sees governments deploying UAVs in operations as diverse as border protection, surveying, infrastructure inspections, emergency services and police surveillance.
Shaun Flanagan, Sales Director at AERO-SATCOM, an Inmarsat channel launch partner for the new service, said: "Unmanned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) is one of the fastest growing markets for Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) and, due to the constraints on equipment size, weight and power consumption for this type of aircraft, it is crucial that the providers of airborne MSS equipment and satellite services be creative in supporting the applications required by ISR operators. Cobham's AVIATOR UAV 200 combined with SB-UAV, Inmarsat's Class 4 SwiftBroadband service, allow AERO-SATCOM to meet the needs of this demanding market."
The world's smallest aeronautical satellite terminal
The AVIATOR UAV 200 redefines UAV satcom connectivity by integrating everything into one compact, lightweight box. Weighing just 1.45 kg, AVIATOR UAV 200 is 76% lighter than anything comparable on the market and a perfect fit for the smaller UAV's favoured by governments. Inmarsat has worked to complement this tiny terminal with the release of the SB-UAV service – an Inmarsat SwiftBroadband Class 4 service which provides up to 200 kbps data for full, real-time control of the UAV whilst also allowing real time image or video transfer in parallel.
Andrew Legg, Regional Director of Sales, Aero, at Cobham SATCOM, said: "We are extremely excited to be working with Inmarsat on providing the AVIATOR UAV 200 Satcom terminal and its associated service, SB-UAV to the unmanned aerial vehicle industry. There is significant interest in the product capability from within the industry globally as OEMs and operators recognise the value of the highly reliable all-weather data connectivity solution operating on the established and well-proven Inmarsat network. The low weight of the system and its resulting applicability on even the smaller long range UAVs means it is a true platform BLOS capability multiplier."
Andy Start, President of Inmarsat Global Government, said: "We determined that a key enabler for the effectiveness of increased UAV deployment in the government market lay in the efficient transfer of information between these vehicles and decision makers. By extending the ability to retrieve information off a UAV beyond line of sight, the value of each sortie is extended exponentially – allowing increased operational agility through substantially improved situational awareness."