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Developments in cyber, privacy and data continue to evolve rapidly, so we’ve summarised highlights from the past three months to give you a whirlwind tour of the most significant updates.
- In late September, all eyes were on the Australian Government’s response to the Privacy Act Review Report. Relatively few of the 116 recommendations were accepted outright, and most were “agreed in principle” and will be subject to further consultation and refinement. Meanwhile, Queensland is updating its privacy laws, applicable to Queensland government bodies, including modernised ‘Queensland Privacy Principles’ and a mandatory data breach notification scheme.
- ASIC has been unequivocal in its expectations that boards and companies up their game on cyber security. The results of its latest cyber pulse survey indicate that companies are typically underprepared.
- The Australian Government has committed to introducing ransomware and ransom payment reporting laws, and to establishing a Cyber Incident Review Board.
- The number of “systems of national significance” declared under the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SoCI) laws has almost doubled, while the Australian Government has also committed to regulating telecommunications as a type of critical infrastructure under the SoCI Act.
- More insights on cyber risk come from the Australian Signals Directorate’s latest report summarising cyber threats in 2022-23, and the Five Eyes’ adoption of five Principles of Secure Innovation.
- Australia’s digital ID scheme is progressing towards significant expansion, after exposure draft legislation and Rules were released for consultation. This legislation will permit the scheme to be used outside government, by private sector entities.
- The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has continued its enforcement focus on compliance with the Spam Act, with the A$500,000 fine issued against Ticketek for sending commercial electronic messages without consent, and to individuals who had unsubscribed.
- Recent Optus litigation is a timely reminder to carefully plan how to preserve legal professional privilege when handling a data breach. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has also cracked down on mandatory data breach notification, with determinations against two organisations that took too long to investigate before notifying.
- Carefully defining transition out obligations in technology contracts will save a significant headache down the track, as demonstrated by StarTrack’s litigation against its consumables portal supplier, which continued offering the portal to StarTrack’s customers after the contract ended.
- Given the close interest the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) takes in digital platforms and technology, organisations should ensure that their standard form contracts with individuals and small business consumers are cleansed of unfair contract terms after reforms took effect on 9 November 2023. The ACCC is also progressing a new ‘unfair trading practices’ prohibition, which will penalise conduct that otherwise falls short of existing prohibitions.
Government green-lights fairly few Privacy Act reform recommendations
In the latest instalment of review and reforms to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Australian Government released its response to each of the 116 recommendations made by the Attorney-General, on 28 September 2023.
The Government agrees with 38 recommendations, most of which focus on procedural matters, enforcement powers and guidance of Australia’s privacy regulator, the OAIC, while others are recommendations for “further consultation” only.
Some of the substantive recommendations with which the government agrees are:
- introducing new provisions in relation to consents for the use of personal information for research;
- enhanced obligations in relation to using personal information for automated decision-making;
- white-listing certain jurisdictions as jurisdictions to which personal information may be disclosed; and
- new civil penalty provisions for mid-tier breaches that do not meet the “serious” threshold and low-tier penalties for specific administrative breaches.
The Government “agrees in principle” with the majority of the recommendations, including those in relation to:
- refining the definitions of personal information and sensitive information;
- reducing the scope of the small business and employee record exemptions;
- consent requirements and privacy default settings;
- a requirement for personal information handling to be fair and reasonable;
- nominating a privacy officer to be responsible for privacy compliance;
- specific rules for children’s personal information;
- expanding individuals’ right to access personal information;
- introducing a right of erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) and a right to de-index online search results for particular categories of information;
- direct marketing, targeting and trading of personal information;
- refining information and cyber security requirements, including information retention periods;
- introducing the concept of ‘controllers’ and ‘processors’ (service providers);
- updates to the overseas data flow requirements;
- introducing a direct right of action and a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy; and
- updates to the notifiable data breaches scheme.
However, it says that further consultation is required before the Government will take a specific position in relation to those recommendations, to ensure that any reforms strike the “right balance” between privacy rights and impacts on regulated entities.
It “notes” the remaining 10 recommendations (including the suggested removal of the political parties’ exemption). We do not expect these recommendations will be progressed any further.
The Government will release an exposure draft of legislation for the recommendations with which it agrees, for consultation in 2024. It will also further progress consultation on the recommendations with which it “agrees in principle”.
The upshot is that given any substantive overhaul to privacy laws will not occur quickly, entities should continue to take steps to manage and review their compliance against the existing privacy laws, as this continues to be a focus of regulatory and media attention, and an increasing area of interest to individuals.
Overhaul of Queensland’s Information Privacy Act
Even while the future state of the federal privacy laws is in flux, Queensland is progressing a refresh of its 2009 privacy laws that apply to Queensland government bodies. A Bill introduced to Parliament on 12 October 2023 proposes to replace the existing Information Privacy Principles and National Privacy Principles with a consolidated and modernised set of Queensland Privacy Principles (QPPs), which mirror the current Australian Privacy Principles under the federal laws to a significant extent.
It also introduces a new mandatory data breach notification scheme, which extends the federal scheme by:
- requiring the breach to be contained;
- requiring the regulator to be notified if an assessment of a suspected breach takes longer than 30 days; and
- requiring the agency to publicly publish its data breach response plan.
Not only are these reforms of interest to Queensland government bodies, but also any organisation providing services to a Queensland government body whose contract requires it to comply with Queensland privacy laws.
ASIC’s unequivocal cyber security focus
Turning now to cyber security, and Australia’s corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has made it loud and clear that cyber security is a focus and that it expects boards to be taking it seriously.
On 18 September 2023, in a speech at the Australian Financial Review Cyber Summit, ASIC’s Chair delivered “one message” to their audience: in a world where every system is vulnerable and reliance on third-party providers is a risk, evaluate your third-party supplier cyber risk. ASIC is urging companies to remediate the current disconnect between board oversight, management reporting on cyber risks to boards, identification and remediation of cyber risks, cyber risk assessments and implementation of cyber risk controls. ASIC is clear: “failing to do so could mean failing to meet your regulatory obligations”.
On 13 November 2023, ASIC published the results of its latest cyber pulse survey of almost 700 organisations, finding that overall respondents had a weighted average cyber maturity score of 1.66 out of four. It calls on organisations to move from being reactive to proactive, identifying the top four areas for improvement as:
- supply chain risk management;
- data security and protection of confidential information;
- consequence management; and
- adoption of cyber security standards.
Expansion of regulated critical infrastructure
The Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (SoCI Act) imposes a raft of registration, cyber security and notification obligations on operators of “critical infrastructure assets” (when declared under Rules) and “systems of national significance” (when declared by the Minister).
On 8 September 2023, the Australian Government announced that a further 87 systems of national significance had been declared, in addition to the existing 81 systems. The specific systems declared are confidential.
Further, in the wake of the recent Optus network outage, on 13 November 2023 the government announced that telecommunications companies would be included in the categories of “critical infrastructure” under the SoCI Act. These SoCI Act requirements will apply alongside the existing security obligations imposed on telecommunications companies under the Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms (TSSR), passed in 2017.
Ransomware reporting laws and a new Cyber Incident Review Board to be introduced
After a series of failed attempts to pass ransomware and ransom demand reporting laws in 2021, the Australian Government has announced its intention to pass laws requiring Australian companies to report ransomware events, and whether ransoms are paid. As the Minister for Home Affairs, Clare O’Neil MP has noted, “It will be a mandatory no-fault, no-liability ransomware reporting obligation for businesses that would require business to report any ransom incident, demand or payment to Government.”
While further details on these laws have not yet been published, the Government’s imminent new Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 is expected to focus on the growing threat of ransomware, as well as a “whole of nation” cyber uplift framed around “six shields” of cyber security: an informed citizenry and business sector; safe technology; world-class threat sharing and blocking; reliable critical infrastructure; sovereign capability; and a resilient region.
Minister O’Neil has also announced that the Government will establish a new Cyber Incident Review Board, tasked with investigating major cyber attacks, to better “understand how we can reinforce Australia’s national cyber shields.” It will be modelled on other international and domestic agencies like the US Cyber Safety Review Board. The Board’s investigations will be “no fault” and designed purely to collect information and improve cyber defences, and its learnings will be shared with businesses and the wider public.
The Australian Signals Directorate releases cyber threat report for 2022-23
On 14 November 2023, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) released its 2022-23 Cyber Threat Report. The ASD includes the Australian Cyber Security Centre, which received almost 94,000 reports of cyber events in the reporting period. The ASD responded to 1,100 of these incidents, and engaged in other proactive monitoring and cyber education activities.
Key takeaways from the report include:
- the average cost of cyber crime is on the rise. The average cost to Australian businesses was $40,000 - $70,000 (depending on the size of the business) per cyber crime report.
- critical infrastructure is a target of State actors.
- cyber criminals’ tactics attempt to extract maximum payment from victims.
- while all of the ASD’s Essential Eight cyber security requirements are important, prompt patching of critical vulnerabilities is particularly important, as unpatched vulnerabilities are increasingly used as a vector for cyber crime.
The Defence Minister has announced support for a “temporary safe habour” that would encourage companies to report cyber attacks by providing temporary relief from liability and regulatory actions.
Five Eyes’ five Principles of Secure Innovation
The first Emerging Technology and Security Innovation Security Summit was launched in October 2023 by the leaders of the Five Eyes intelligence partnership. At the summit, the Five Eyes partners consisting of the heads of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and its equivalents in Canada, the US, the UK and New Zealand, launched five principles to help businesses protect themselves against security threats – the five Principles of Secure Innovation.
The five Principles of Secure Innovation are:
- Know your threats: understand the ways in which State-backed and hostile actors may try to get hold of the business’ innovations or technology.
- Secure your environment: create an effective system for security risk management, including:
- risk ownership – appoint a board-level security lead to be responsible for considering security in business decisions and working with the business on security matters;
- risk identification – identify critical assets and potential threats;
- risk assessment – assess security risks; and
- risk mitigation – protect critical assets by implementing physical and virtual barriers, access controls and detection measures, and plan the business’ response to security risks.
- Secure your products: build security into your products from the start, and actively protect and manage intellectual assets, property and the business’ expertise (this will also help maintain the commercial value of any innovation or technologies).
- Secure your partnerships: manage the risks associated with partnering with investors, suppliers and collaborators, including by:
- performing background checks;
- taking a strategic (and intentional) approach to sharing information with partners; and
- including legal protections for your assets and data in contracts.
- Secure your growth: manage security risks as the business grows, in particular:
- as the business enters new international markets, considering export controls, jurisdiction risk and travel security; and
- as the business expands its workforce, introducing security measures such as pre-employment screening, security training, and development of the business’ security culture.
The five Principles of Secure Innovation are guided by MI5’s updated Secure Innovation guidance. This guidance may be useful resource for more information on proportionate physical, cyber and personnel security arrangements.
Digital identity exposure draft legislation open for consultation
Australia has been preparing to roll out its existing Trusted Digital Identity Framework beyond government for some time now, but needs legislation to expand the digital identity scheme. On 19 September 2023, the Government released the draft Digital ID Bill and Accreditation Rules for consultation (which closed in late October).
The Digital ID Bill 2023 (Cth) proposes a framework in which Australia’s digital identity scheme can operate, predominantly under the Digital ID Rules and Accreditation Rules, with supplementary requirements on data, technical matters and service standards set out separately. It features:
- the establishment of a Digital ID Regulator to oversee the Digital ID System;
- specific privacy safeguards, particularly in relation to biometric information, unique identifiers and restricted attributes;
- a liability and redress framework; and
- provisions for a Digital ID “trustmark” to be used by accredited participants in the Digital ID System.
Consultation ended on 10 October 2023, and will be taken into account when producing a refined version of the legislation, which will be introduced to Parliament. The rollout will be phased, starting with reciprocal use of Digital ID in States and Territories, followed by private sector services, and finally private sector Digital IDs for accessing particular government services.
Spam Act enforcement action against Ticketek highlights narrow scope of “factual” messages exception
Following the DoorDash infringement notice in August 2023, ACMA has now fined Ticketek more than A$500,000 for sending texts and emails to recipients who had not given their consent, and to recipients who had unsubscribed.
In relation to some of the messages, Ticketek argued that they were ‘designated commercial electronic messages’ (which could be sent without consent, and without an unsubscribe function) as messages containing only factual event information. However, while ACMA acknowledged that one of the purposes was to provide event information, the messages “also had a purpose to advertise or promote tickets to events” because it contained links to Ticketek’s social media accounts.
This enforcement action again reinforces how narrow the ‘factual information’ exception is to the general spam requirements, and that organisations should rely on it very carefully. If organisations seek to rely on this exception, links to social media accounts should not be included.
The importance of preserving privilege during data breach investigations
A good data breach response plan and data breach preparedness includes measures to maintain legal professional privilege over appropriate documents. The importance of this step has been highlighted in recent litigation in which Optus has sought to avoid disclosing a copy of Deloitte’s review of its 2022 data breach and related documents.
The Federal Court of Australia rejected Optus’ claim of legal professional privilege, finding that Optus had not established that the dominant purpose of the review and report was to obtain legal advice or for use in litigation or regulatory proceedings (although it was one of the purposes).
The Court particularly noted that Optus had made public announcements committing to having Deloitte undertake the review, and that a claim of privilege was at odds with those public announcements. The Federal Court’s decision highlights that clear and specific evidence of key decision-makers of an organisation as to their intention with and understanding of an investigation of an incident will be a critical consideration in any court decision in respect of a privilege claim.
OAIC paying attention to delays in assessing and notifying data breaches
Since the mandatory data breach notification laws took effect under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in 2018, the OAIC’s focus has been on investigating the highest profile data breaches and regularly reporting on notification statistics. However, it has recently released two determinations which show that it is paying attention to organisations that fail to notify, or take too long to notify.
In Pacific Lutheran College, an unauthorised actor obtained access to an email account containing approximately 180,000 emails, and sent phishing emails to over 8,000 contacts. The event occurred in late May 2020. A forensic report was finalised in mid-October 2020, and the OAIC was notified in mid-December 2020. The OAIC found that the College had breached its data breach investigation and OAIC notification obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and had also failed to take reasonable steps to protect affected individuals’ personal information in breach of APP 11.1.
Datateks also involved unauthorised access to email for the purposes of conducting a phishing campaign. The unauthorised access occurred in late June 2020, the investigation concluded in September 2020, and the OAIC was notified in mid-January 2021. The OAIC found that Datateks had breached its data breach investigation and OAIC notification obligations.
Both determinations contain a wealth of information about data breach handling and the requirement for expeditious progress in completing a data breach assessment. Importantly, both determinations emphasise that an organisation should prioritise notifying the OAIC even if it takes longer to notify affected individuals for logistical reasons.
Both determinations include an order with very detailed requirements in relation to the incident response plan that each organisation must develop. These requirements should be used as a checklist for organisations to ensure that their data breach response plan is up to scratch. In Pacific Lutheran College, the orders also included detailed requirements about the information security program that the organisation must implement.
The importance of clear transition out obligations in technology contracts
In the excitement of signing a new deal, transition out obligations can often receive insufficient attention. This is demonstrated by the recent Federal Court case of StarTrack Express v TMA Australia, which arose out of StarTrack terminating its contract with TMA, the IT provider of the consumables purchasing portal used by StarTrack’s clients. Following termination, TMA re-purposed the portal for the sale of its own consumables, and continued to use the portal to sell its consumables to StarTrack’s clients – it appeared at the same URL and the clients could use their same login.
In the absence of clear transition out obligations addressing the portal, StarTrack’s claim (currently being considered on an interlocutory basis) attempts to rely on confidentiality and non-solicitation obligations to require TMA to discontinue the supply of the portal to StarTrack’s clients. The judge in the interlocutory hearing has already indicated that there are some weaknesses in that argument.
The decision serves as a timely reminder that detailed and well-considered transition out clauses in a technology contract will save significant headaches later in the winding down of a contractual relationship.
Bringing a fairness lens to your standard form contracts and business practices
Recent and upcoming changes in Australia’s consumer laws will affect many technology and data-driven organisations in Australia, and should be an area of focus given an active regulator in the ACCC and the significant penalties that apply for non-compliance.
Firstly, updates to the “unfair contract terms” (UCT) laws took effect on 9 November 2023, introducing significant penalties for organisations that include unfair terms in their standard form (non-negotiated or lightly-negotiated) contracts with individuals or small businesses (business with less than 100 employees or revenue of under A$10 million). Organisations should ensure that their standard form contracts are closely reviewed for UCT risks.
Secondly, on 1 September 2023, consultation opened in relation to a new “unfair trading practices” prohibition, which would seek to prohibit conduct which currently falls short of existing laws, such as unconscionable conduct, misleading and deceptive conduct, or unfair contract terms. Examples in the consultation paper include:
- targeting vulnerable people;
- predatory or aggressive business conduct;
- making cancelling services or opting out difficult;
- dark patterns and digital engagement practices;
- misleading omissions and hidden information; and
- limited mechanisms or redress.
Consultation closes on 29 November 2023.
The busy lead up to the festive season is no time to let cyber security preparedness and privacy compliance fall by the wayside. The Australian Government’s latest response to the Privacy Act reforms indicates that substantive changes are still some time away, so organisations should continue to focus on compliance with existing laws.
The Australian Government will shortly release its cyber security strategy, and has foreshadowed a focus on ransomware.


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Here is a breakdown of some of the biggest stories in the nations capital. What kinds of companies will be the next so-called unicorns? A hint Many of them wont have much in common with Uber or Airbnb. The pictures - three anemic watercolours showing a mountain scene, a river and a distant figure sat beneath a tree - are little different from wares on sale at flea markets the world over, except for the autograph scratched in the corner "A.Hitler". Nearly 20 million tuned in to see Alicia Keys, Cardi B. and a Michelle Obama cameo. There are 31,000 registered nudists in the United States. Sometimes they get married. Sometimes the bride isnt the one blushing. Buy plavix canadian website. Whitney Scharers The Age of Light tells the story of the journalist and model plavix who was often overshadowed by her lover and collaborator Man Ray. President Trump spars with a reporter who presses him on his immigration facts after Trump declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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Effect of Repeated Nanocutting on Surface Quality and Subsurface Damage of γ-TiAl Alloy
Y Liu and RC Feng and P Yao and HY Li and H Cao and CL Lei and JH Li, RARE METAL MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING, 52, 3507-3514 (2023).
In this paper, the repeated nanocutting process of single crystal gamma- TiAl alloy was simulated by molecular dynamics method. The evolution of cutting force and microstructure defects in the repeated nanocutting process was studied. The roughness and residual stress of the machined surface were analyzed, and the difference between the repeated nanocutting and the single cutting was discussed. The results show that the repeated nano-cutting process is accompanied by the formation and annihilation of dislocations, and the fluctuation of dislocation line length in the second cutting process is less than that in the first cutting process, and the cutting state is more stable. The cutting force increases rapidly in the initial stage of machining, and then the cutting force enters the stable machining stage. At the same time, it is found that the cutting force of the second cutting is less than that of the first cutting. After the second cutting, the residual stress distribution is more uniform and the residual compressive stress of the machined surface increases due to the twice extrusion of the tool. Secondary machining can improve surface quality and reduce subsurface damage, while the increase in residual compressive stress and energy required for machining reduces the plasticity of the machined surface, so that the third machining has no obvious improvement in surface and subsurface quality.
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METHODS: A total of 2492 female participants in National Wilms Tumor Studies 1 through 4 (1969-1995) were followed from age 15 years through the middle of 2013 for incident BC. The median age at the time of last contact was 27.3 years. The authors calculated cumulative risk at age 40 years (CR40), hazard ratios (HR) by Cox regression, standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) relative to US population rates, and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).
BACKGROUND: The standard treatment of pulmonary metastases in patients with Wilms tumor (WT) includes 12-gray radiotherapy (RT) to the entire chest. To the authors' knowledge, the risk of breast cancer (BC) in a large cohort of female survivors of WT has not previously been reported.
RESULTS: The numbers of survivors with invasive BC divided by the numbers at risk were 16 of 369 (CR40, 14.8% [95% CI, 8.7-24.5]) for women who received chest RT for metastatic WT, 10 of 894 (CR40, 3.1% [95% CI, 1.3-7.41]) for those who received only abdominal RT, and 2 of 1229 (CR40, 0.3% [95% CI, 0.0-2.3]) for those who received no RT. The SIRs for these 3 groups were 27.6 (95% CI, 16.1-44.2) based on 5010 person-years (PY) of follow-up, 6.0 (95% CI, 2.9-11.0) based on 13,185 PY of follow-up, and 2.2 (95% CI, 0.3-7.8) based on 13,560 PY of follow-up, respectively. The risk was high regardless of the use of chest RT among women diagnosed with WT at age ≥10 years, with 9 of 90 women developing BC (CR40, 13.5% [95% CI, 5.6-30.6]; SIR, 23.6 [95% CI, 10.8-44.8] [PY, 1463]).
CONCLUSIONS: Female survivors of WT who were treated with chest RT had a high risk of developing early BC, with nearly 15% developing invasive disease by age 40 years. Current guidelines that recommend screening only those survivors who received ≥20 Gy of RT to the chest might be reevaluated.
- Cancer survivorship
- Secondary malignant neoplasms
- Wilms tumor
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Dow's selloff is unanimous, led by Caterpillar, Boeing
All 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are losing ground in Wednesday's premarket session, as Dow futures shed 282 points, or 0.8%. The Dow's biggest losers are shares of Caterpillar Inc. , down 1.5%, and Boeing Co. , down 1.4%, and Dow Inc. , shedding 1.4%. The most active Dow stocks ahead of the open are Coca-Cola Co.'s , which fell 0.5%, and Apple Inc.'s , which declined 1.2%. The best performer was Johnson & Johnson's stock , which slipped 0.1%.
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Stress is defined as an organism’s complete reaction to environmental demands or pressures. When stress was initially studied in the middle of the twentieth century, the term was used to refer to both the reason and the experienced effects of these pressures. More recently, however, the term stressor has been used for the inspiration that aggravates a stress response. One continuing discrepancy between researchers concerns the definition of stress in humans. Is it principally an external response that can be measured by changes in glandular secretions, skin reactions, and other physical functions, or is it an internal interpretation of, or reaction to, a stressor; or is it both?
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The meaning of stress depends on the approach that psychologists follow. Straightforwardly, stress just means ‘effort, demand upon energy’. Almost everything can create this stress position; a loud noise, a deadline, revision, late transport, or even simply getting up in the morning. However, there are three ways of approaching a definition of stress;
Stress can be classified in terms of all individuals reacting in the same biological way, to the same stimulus. This is the ‘stimulus based model’, i.e. the stimulus causes the stress but our reaction is identical physiologically. Any awareness of a stress stimulus activates the hosts’ physiological response. This is general both across time (every time we encounter a stressor) and society.
Stress can be defined as reliant upon the person’s answer to the stressor. This is a more downbeat way of looking at stress. The individual is portrayed as ‘suffering from stresses’, ‘feeling stressed’. The individual is seen as having an immature coping mechanism. This internal response may also be down to diverse personality types or cultural influences, but the management of stress is seen as coming from internal change.
The most accepted way of viewing and studying stress nowadays, is to use an interactions’ approach. This means we may all be faced with the same external stressor (stimulus) but the stress response that we display will fall heavily on our individual differences, gender or culture. In simple terms, the phrase ‘exam’ is the same stimulus, but some characters will be feeling tense and worked regarding this near event, while other will appear more calm and less stress fluctuation. Psychologists try to find out the factor affecting this interaction and stress management depends on the perceived interaction and response.
The term “stress” is conceptualised in many different ways by psychologists. Here are just a few:
“A state of psychological and physical tension produced, according to the transactional model, when there is a mismatch between the perceived demands of a situation (the stressor[s]) and the individual’s perceived ability to cope. The consequent state of tension can be adaptive (eustress) or maladaptive (distress).”
Brody, R and D Dwyer (2002) Revise Psychology for AS Level, Hove, Psychology Press, p210
In my perception, this explains that stress is regarded as any given situation and an individual own views on this, whether they have “set the bar too high” or if it is achievable. For example, the situation is running the London Marathon. One person may have been training for many months or even years for this annual run and they feel they can achieve their goal, but another person who has not been training at all may feel confident when signing up, but as the day becomes closer, they begin to realise that the task is almost in-achievable, therefore becoming stressed.
“The non-specific response of the body to any demand”
Seyle (1950), in Eysench, M and C Flanagan (2000) Psychology for AS Level, Hove, Psychology Press, p137.
This view explains that stress to them means that the body reacts in many ways to every situation given to that individual, no set response is guaranteed for the notable “challenge”.
“A pattern of negative physiological states and psychological responses occurring in situations where people perceive threats to their well-being which they may be unable to meet”
Lazarus & Folkman (1984) in Gross, R; R McIlveen and H Coolican (2000) Psychology: A New Introduction for AS Level, London, Hodder & Stoughton, p60
This explanation claims that stress is a response from the body which is triggered by a situation which the brain interprets and becomes “threatened and overwhelmed”. E.g. your first day at a new job. You arrive at your desk, given a long list of jobs needed completing, as its your first day, you don’t know what to do so your brain reads this, resulting in the body reacting (shaking, sweating etc).
The physical response of stress is all about the rapid mobilisation of energy. Hans Selye is credited with popularising the word stress as it is used today. Selye noticed that animals which were put in sustained stressful conditions all developed the same physical problems such as stomach ulcers, weight loss, abnormal changes in the size of glands (some shrunk, some enlarged), and impaired immune system functioning. Selye (1976) proposed that when exposed to sustained pressure there would be a standard response. He called this the General Adaptation Syndrome and divided it into three phases;
Phase one – Alarm Reaction. Immediate reactions of the organism to the stressful conditions, similar to Walter Canon’s (1939) theory of the fight or flight response.
Phase two – Resistance stage. The animal adapts to the demands of the stressor. However, this adaptation requires adaptation energy and this is gradually used up until the animal can no longer resist the stressor.
Phase three – Exhaustion. At this stage, the animals’ resistance to the stressor is so weakened that diseases become apparent.
Most of the long-term adverse changes that Selye observed were due to the effects of another hormone involved in the stress response, cortisol. Cortisol has useful short-term effects; including mobilising energy stores and making us feel more alert. However, for various complex reasons, the long-term effects of cortisol are to down-regulate the immune system, disrupt the reproductive system, suppress the inflammatory response and even to damage areas of the brain which affect memory and mood.
Joseph V. Brady (1958) trialled on monkeys the consequence of stress within different job roles and personalities. Brady positioned the monkeys in ‘restraining chairs’ and conditioned each one to initiate a lever. Electric shocks were given every 20 seconds unless the level was actioned in the time span. This study came to an unexpected stop when many of the monkeys passed away from perforated ulcers. To analysis this Brady used a ‘control monkey’. He positioned an ‘Executive Monkey’ in the restraining chair, which could press the lever to put a stop to the electric shock. The other monkeys had no power over the lever, leaving only the ‘Executive’ monkey with the psychological stress of pushing the required button.
The schedule to the electric shocks was six hours on followed by six hours off and after twenty-three days of this, the executive monkey died. Brady then attempted a variety of schedules, but no monkeys died from this. He then returned to the original ‘work schedule of six on, six off’ and tested the stomachs of the Executives and discovered that their stomach acidity was at its peak during the rest period.
The maximum risk materialised when the sympathetic arousal closed and the stomach was filled with digestive hormones. This was a parasympathetic rebound related with the Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which began development of ulcers in the Executive monkeys. Throughout all the variations of the experiment, not a single yoked control monkey ever developed an ulcer. This proposes that the ulcers were a symptom of the excessive stress encouraged by having the control over the other monkeys fate. Hans Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome proposes a similar effect in the Exhaustion phase.
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There were two Whitehall studies, the first investigates the social factors of health, mainly cardio respiratory disease longevity and mortality rates within United Kingdom civil servants aged between twenty-four and sixty-five. The early study, Whitehall I Study, was carried out in 1967 and carried on for over ten years. A second chapter, the Whitehall II Study, inspected the health of 10,308 civil servants aged thirty-five and fifty-five. Only one third of these ‘experimentees’ were women while the remaining two thirds were men.
Whitehall II studied people within the working age. It looked into the links between work, stress and health. Whitehall II discovered organisation at work, climatisation at work, social influences, early life experiences as well as health behaviours all play a factor in determining the health social gradient. As partakers in this investigation resumes through adulthood, the research is concentrating on health inequalities and the aging population’s ability to function adequately. With an ever increasing population of senior citizens in the United Kingdom, there is a vital need to establish what causes social inequalities and to study long-term repercussions on an individuals’ ability to function and have a healthy retirement. The social gradient in health is not so much a spectacle confined solely to the British Civil Service. All the way through the developed world wherever researchers have gained information to investigate, they have witnessed the social gradient in health. Health inequalities are a worldwide matter affecting people across the social gradient in rich, middle income, and poor nations. To have the ability to address inequalities in health it is essential to understand how social organisation affects health also to find ways to develop the state and circumstances in which people work and live.
The Whitehall II fields of study in the lowest employments grades did demonstrated a higher chance of having many of the established hazardous factors of coronary heart disease (CHD): an inclination to smoke, lower height-to-weight ratio (higher chance of obesity and diabetes), less leisure time, and higher blood pressure. However, even after amending these factors to a more normal level, the lower employment grades were unfortunately, still at greater chance of a heart attack; another factor was at work.
Some have directed the reason of CHD to cortisol, a hormone created by the body as a response to stress. A consequence of cortisol release is a reduction in the immune system’s efficacy through lymphocyte manipulation. One theory illuminating the connection between immune-efficiency and CHD is that infectious pathogens such as herpes or Chlamydia are partially to blame for coronary diseases, thus a body with a chronically suppressed immune system will be less able to avert CHD.
A substituted option to the cortisol explanation is that self-esteem is a key contributing factor and that the relationship between a professional accolade and self-esteem gives an explanation for the health gradient. The study favouring this observation related low self-esteem in test subjects with a greater decline in heart rate variability and higher heart rates in general-both established CHD risk factors-while acting out stressful tasks.
At this current time there is no universally-accepted mode of causality for the occurrence exposed by the Whitehall studies. Clearly stress is associated to a greater risk of CHD, but so are many other unconventional factors. In addition to this, “stress” seems to be too non-specific. There are various kinds of stress in one’s day-to-day life and each kind could contribute in a different way.
The theory of Type A and Type B personality is a type of theory that describes a pattern of behaviours that were once regarded to be a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Since its commencement in the 1950s, the theory has been widely disapproved of for its scientific shortcomings. It nonetheless continues in the form of pop psychology within the general population.
Type A individuals can be portrayed as impatient, controlling, concerned about their status, highly competitive, ambitious, aggressive, having difficulty relaxing; and are occasionally detested by individuals with Type B personalities for the way that they’re constantly rushing. They are often impressively achieving workaholics who multitask, drive one’s self with deadlines to meet, and are uneasy about delays. Because of these attributes, Type A individuals are often portrayed as “stress junkies.”
Type B individuals, in comparison to type A’s, are described as patient, relaxed, and easy-going, basically lacking any sense sense of urgency. This can also be illustrated as lazy and lacking ambition. Individuals who live with their parents well into their adulthood are an example. Because of these traits, Type B individuals are often depicted by Type A’s as apathetic and disengaged. There is also a Type AB mixed profile for people who are not easily categorised or not fit into A or B purely.
Meyer Friedman portrayed a suggestion in his 1996 book, Type A Behaviour: Its Diagnosis and Treatment, that Type A behaviour is expressed in three major indicators. One of these symptoms is thought to be concealed and therefore less observable, whereas the other two are more visible;
Symptoms of Type A Behaviour
Time urgency and impatience, resulting in irritation and exasperation.
Free floating resentment, which can be started by even minor events.
Ready for action, this made them familiar towards achievement which caused them to be stressed due to them wanting to be the greatest at whatever they may be doing i.e. sports or in work.
Type A behaviour was first explained as a likely risk factor in coronary heart disease (CHD) in the 1950s by cardiologists Meyer Friedman and R. H. Rosenman. After a nine-year investigation of healthy men, aged thirty-five to fifty-nine, Friedman & Rosenman approximated that the risk of coronary heart disease in Type A individuals is double than that of otherwise healthy individuals. This research had a huge effect in inspiring the development of the field of health psychology, in which psychologists view how a person’s mental state affects his or her health in a physical state.
Type A/B theory has been put under scrutiny on a number of grounds e.g. statisticians have disputed that the original study by Friedman and Rosenman had serious limitations, comprising of large and unequal sample sizes, and less than one percent of the variance in links explained by Type A personality.
Psychometrically, the actions that define the syndrome are not highly associated, indicating that this is a collection of separate tendencies, not a logical pattern or type. Type theories universally have been slated as overly simplistic and incapable of assessing the degrees of variety in human personality.
Researchers also found that Type A behaviour is a poor predictor of coronary heart disease. Research by Redford Williams of Duke University, states the unfriendliness component of Type A personality is the pure and simple risk factor thus, it is a high level of conveyed anger and hostility, not the other components of Type A behaviour that constitute the problem.
On the basis of these condemnations, Type A theory has been termed outdated by many researchers in contemporary health psychology and personality psychology.
To conclude, all three of these theories demonstrate positive relations between situations, theories and stress, however, as stress is an ‘un-defined’ phrase, not one nor is the other able to give us further insight into how to control the stress – illness relationship. The comparison between all three however, is that a combination of cognitive approach along with behavioural approach creates a physiological reaction.
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As you may (or may not) know, I’m an Invited Expert on the CSS Working Group at W3C. Mostly I talk about specs. But today, I’m going to talk about testing.
W3C is working on test suites for the CSS specs, and I wanted us to have more web authors involved. Many of you have been frustrated with the inconsistent levels of CSS support across browsers, and I believe collaborative testing is one of the major ways we can improve the situation.
The annual W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee (TPAC) meetings week took place last month bringing together the CSS Working Group, amongst others, for a series of face to face meetings in Santa Clara, California. Minutes from the meeting have now been made available online and promise progress for a number of CSS3 modules including CSS3 Selectors, Multicolumn Layout, Transitions, Transforms and Animations.
Microsoft today offered developers an early glimpse of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at their 2009 Professional Developers Conference.
Although only at an early stage of development, the IE9 team already looks to have made some impressive leaps forward in terms of web standards support, particularly with regard to CSS3 selectors which, by the looks of the image below (taken from the IE blog), IE9 appears to score an impressive 574 out of 578 in our CSS3 selectors test, a vast improvement over IE8 which scored only 330/578.
IE9 also looks set to boast support for CSS3 border-radius, an improved scoring in the Acid 3 test (if only slightly) and support for HTML5. You can read the full announcement on the IE blog here and we’ll bring you further announcements on the subject as more information becomes available.
Adobe today released a public beta of AIR 2, available for download from their Adobe Labs website, with the final release expected somewhere in the first half of 2010.
Adobe AIR 2 offers a number of improvements and advantages over its predecessor, including advanced support for CSS3 & HTML5 thanks to an updated version of the Webkit browser engine – in fact the same version as used to power Safari 4.0.3. This means developers can now create desktop apps with advanced support for CSS3 modules, notably 2D transformations, transitions, animations, gradients, zoom and Webkit CSS selectors.
Adobe AIR 2 provides end users with exceptional application experiences while giving developers the easiest and most powerful way to develop desktop applications across multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux). You can find out more about the release of the AIR 2 beta here.
This development will undoubtedly lead to an increased usage of CSS3, which has already gained widespread use in mobile application development this year.
To coincide with Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Opera is organising a free Standards.Next event on the topic of CSS3 the following Friday 20th November, at the Time–Life Building. This space has been generously donated to us by Time & Life.
The Standards.Next concept is to showcase, teach and raise awareness of future Web standards-based technologies. After two events in London featuring HTML5 and Accessibility, our third event is the first time we’ve brought the event State side. With NYC being a design-centric town, CSS3 was the perfect topic.
Font Dragr is a HTML5/CSS3 powered web app for testing custom web fonts. The app allows you to drag and drop your truetype (ttf), opentype (otf), scalable vector graphics (svg) or Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts into the webpage for an instant preview of how the font will be rendered in the browser, you can even edit the example text.
Mozilla has joined a growing list of organizations to throw their support behind the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and will support the embedding of WOFF fonts via @font-face from Firefox 3.6 onwards, or if you’re a developer and want to play around with this now, just download a recent nightly build or beta.
The CSS Working Group just published a Last Call for Comments Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3. Please review the draft and send your feedback. We’ll be accepting comments through 17 November 2009. (Note that feature requests are likely to be deferred to CSS4.) The best place for feedback is the CSSWG’s official mailing list [email protected], but we’ll also look at any comments posted (or linked to) here on CSS3.info.
There are a couple issues we’re specifically looking for feedback on:
Rounding vs. Scaling Down
border-image-repeatresizes images to fit the nearest whole number of tiles, rather than always scaling up or always scaling down. Rounding keeps closer to the intended size and, in the case where one dimension is fixed (e.g. in ‘border-image’), keeps the image closer to the intended aspect ratio. This is almost certainly the best solution for vector images and high-resolution raster images. However, if the given image is a low-resolution raster image, it will require interpolating pixels, which can look bad. See Rounding Extremes for illustrations.
The workaround is to specify a higher-resolution image (e.g. by shrinking from the original with
border-image-width). Possible spec solutions include introducing a separate keyword that always scales down, and changing the algorithm so that we force scaling down whenever interpolation would be required for scaling up. So the options here are
- Leave the spec as-is (always round to nearest): the workaround is good enough for me.
- Trigger forced downscaling when interpolation is needed: avoiding interpolation is important to me and I don’t mind that the exact number of tiles is unpredictable and the resulting aspect ratio might skewed a little extra.
- Default to rounding for
round, but I want an extra keyword to force downscaling in all cases (including vector images) because [...].
- Something else?
Please comment on what you prefer and why. (The more specific you can be “for example, this image that I would want to use [...]“, the easier it will be for us to understand your point.)
The previous draft included two properties for controlling behavior at box breaks (line breaks / column breaks / page breaks):
border-breakfor controlling whether the border is drawn at the break, and
background-breakfor controlling whether the background is drawn for each box individually or for the whole element as if it were broken after painting.
Hyatt suggested merging the two, so the current draft has a single
box-breakproperty instead. The two values mean, basically, “render backgrounds and borders for this box, and then slice it up” and “break the box and then render backgrounds and borders for each box individually”. The value names aren’t particularly clear, however, so we were wondering if anyone has better ideas.
So take a look at the new draft and send us your comments! This is your last chance to give feedback on this module: if all goes well, we’ll be publishing the Candidate Recommendation in time for Christmas, and given the state of experimental implementations right now, I expect things to move rapidly from there.

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The Texas governor race comes to San Antonio
SAINT ANTONY – As part of his ‘Celebration of Texas’ tour, Gov. Greg Abbott and his wife Cecilia made a pit stop at the Smoke BBQ and Sky Bar on Saturday.
“Greg and I are so lucky to be here in San Antonio,” Cecilia said, introducing her husband on stage.
He has spent a lot of time in South Texas after announcing his candidacy for re-election a few weeks ago.
On Saturday, the governor addressed an energetic crowd. Abbott touted its achievements, including the state’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The numbers prove it because Texas has now replaced all the jobs lost during COVID and added even more,” Abbott said.
Abbott showed his support not only for the Texas public school system but also for law enforcement, saying his niece is an officer with the San Antonio Police Department.
He also addressed the situation at the border, emphasizing his stance on securing the border while using the time to meet opponent Beto O’Rourke.
“The worst thing that could happen to Texas is if you had a governor who sided with Joe Biden and his open borders policy,” Abbott said.
But much like Abbott, O’Rourke understands the importance of winning voters here in South Texas.
He was in San Antonio this Wednesday and in Austin on Friday. The Democratic challenger focused on the failed ballot papers.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and Freedom to Vote Act were defeated in the Senate on Wednesday after two Democrats refused to change party rules to clear the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold.
O’Rourke said this is a failure, particularly for Texas, that he hopes to overcome.
“Throughout February, two million Texans will hear from someone in this campaign to remind them of their right to vote and what it takes to vote in this state,” O’Rourke said.
Both Abbott and O’Rourke are campaigning hard ahead of the March 1 primary. If you haven’t signed up to vote, there’s still time. The closing date for entries is January 31st.


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Last year, two people in Saudi Arabia had contracted a mysterious coronavirus just before the annual Hajj, raising fears of a SARS-like outbreak. That didn’t happen, but the virus, which causes a condition called Middle East Respirtory Syndrome (MERS), has been spreading. A year later, officials in Saudi Arabia are once again trying to prevent an outbreak at a pilgrimage that attracts 2 million people from across the world.
"We've done a lot of work to ensure Hajj goes smooth without any [Mers] cases," Professor Tariq Madani, the Saudi Arabian government's scientific advisor on MERS, told the BBC. "Being a virus transmissible from human to human is a big concern for Hajj. We have overcrowding and this is an excellent medium for a respiratory infection to spread."
Since the coronavirus that causes MERS was noticed in 2012, there have been 855 cases of MERS, and 333 people have died, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. But even though the virus has killed hundreds of people, there’s still a lot we don’t know about it, including where it comes from. While camels are the most likely suspect, the WHO emphasizes that “the full picture on the source is not yet clear.”
The MERS virus is from the same family of coronaviruses as SARS, but it’s not quite as easily transmissible. That being said, "not quite as easily transmissible" as SARS is still pretty bad. The virus now appears to be transmissible between humans in close contact, and a large number of the people who contracted MERS caught it in hospitals that didn’t have extensive safety protocols in place. After a spike in the number of cases within the kingdom earlier this year, the King of Saudi Arabia fired his Health Minister, Abdullah al Rabeeah, who apparently had told reporters that there was no need for additional protective measures to try to control the spread of the virus.
Since then, the BBC reports that much tighter infection controls have been implemented in Saudi hospitals, and the government has set up a dedicated control center in Jeddah to coordinate responses to new cases.


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Prime minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves has said there are questions which may emerge soon concerning teachers who were deemed to have abandoned their jobs after their failure to take the COVID-19 vaccine last year.
Speaking on the Issues at Hand programme on WE FM on Sunday, July 10 Gonsalves reflected that we have had carnival and if over the next few days there is not a spike in COVID-19 cases the possibility exists that these teachers may be returned to the classrooms.
“Now that we are starting afresh…what is the situation of those teachers in a new epidemiological situation, or an altered epidemiological situation as far as covid is concerned?”
Last year, several teachers and other public officers who were classified as frontline workers, refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine as mandated by an SR&O which the government had put in place.
“Should those teachers who did not take the vaccine and who under the Law, where there was a requirement for them to take it, and when they didn’t take it, they had abandoned their jobs under the Law.
“Whether they should be offered to return, if they wish to return?”
“And on what conditions should they return?”
Gonsalves asked on the Sunday morning programme.
Up to the time of publication St Vincent and the Grenadines had recorded 114 covid-related deaths.
Of these deaths, 105 persons had been unvaccinated, one was partially vaccinated and eight had been fully vaccinated.
According to information provided by the coronavirus Taskforce, 30,916 persons have had their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 36,810 persons have had their first dose.
The prime minister told listeners on Sunday that questions also arise in relation to the vaccine,mask wearing, and also testing.
The US government has recently provided the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines with more than 4,000 doses of vaccines for children 5-11 years old.
With these vaccines now available to children, Gonsalves wondered “what would parents say in relation to the liberalization of any condition.
“Would the parents feel that an unvaccinated teacher is safe to have in the classroom still, in relation to their children?”
He also queried about “the vaccinated teacher, like the unvaccinated teacher inside of the staffroom.”
The prime minister said this issue is “not only about those teachers who chose not to take the vaccine and who did not meet the requirement in Law.”
He said these are questions which are likely to emerge within the next couple of weeks.
“It is not unreasonable for anyone to give consideration to their emergence or re-emergence, but it is not a simple straightforward issue,” Gonsalves pointed out.
He further stated that the advice of the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Simone Keizer-Beache, is fundamental to this issue.
“Fundamental to all this is what would be the advice tendered by the Chief Medical Officer, and those who are entrusted in Law to provide relevant advice to the state authorities in making determinations.”
With the carnival celebrations recently concluded, Gonsalves hoped to provide a framework for possible consideration of a solution to this matter.

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- Oregon's estuaries are important ecosystems for scientific study. Consequently, knowledge of what research has been conducted helps us identify benchmarks and plan new projects. A comprehensive bibliography of published research, technical reports, local documents, and data sets is one means of recording this knowledge. For these reasons, the Guin Library staﬀ have compiled bibliographies on Netarts Bay, the Salmon River Estuary, Siletz Bay, Yaquina Bay, the Alsea River Basin, the Yachats River Estuary and the Umpqua River Basin.
- The Yachats River (Lincoln County, Oregon) has a very small (40 acres), estuary. The State of Oregon classifies it as a Conservation Estuary, because it is relatively undeveloped. This bibliography attempts to identify research on physical, biological and cultural aspects of the Yachats River and its estuary, with an emphasis on fisheries and natural resources. Because the estuary is so small and the area has not been extensively studied, the scope of the bibliography has been extended to some aspects of the interesting nearby rocky coastline. In addition to some attention to the area’s pre-history, historical coverage dates from Alexander McLeod’s trip through the region in 1826 through June, 2023.
A web-based version of this bibliography is available at:
https://guin.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-estuaries. The web version offers keyword searching, which includes major concepts as well as species names and geographic referents.

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The historic district of Segundo Barrio opens the opportunity to restore the Church of the Sacred Heart
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – An idea to recognize the historic significance of Segundo Barrio and hundreds of community properties is now a reality.
Almost 700 properties are part of the historic district of Segundo Barrio, designated by the national park services. The community and its buildings are now part of one of the largest historic districts in the country, according to the county and local historians.
And, although the designation is largely a recognition of the buildings’ historical significance, it is treated as a spotlight on Segundo Barrio and its roots – a story known as “Ellis Island of the Border” .
“I am very proud to have been able to be involved in this,” said El Paso County Commissioner for Ward 2, David Stout. âIt was something long in the works. I think our local historians started talking about it 10 or 11 years ago.
It has been a long road for the neighborhood recognition efforts.
The city had initial plans to launch the research and application to create the historic district in 2015. But the city council ultimately voted against the idea.
At the time, the El Paso County Commissioners Court picked up on the idea and began researching efforts to apply for the district. As a first step, the county proposed to create a neighborhood with nearly 1,000 properties. But with advice from historians and the Texas Historical Commission, the proposal was split in two.
The district’s second application, a proposal for downtown properties, remains on hold as more than half of the landowners within its boundaries have spoken out against its creation.
Historic designations are generally honorary and have no limitations for landowners. They also offer federal tax credits to homeowners to renovate their properties with help from the state and the federal government.
Already, there are plans to renovate one of the oldest buildings in the district. With state tax credits, about 25%, or $ 1 million, will be used to help renovate the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, according to planners.
Much of Segundo Barrio’s history dates back to the founding of El Paso in the late 1800s. Some of the bricks that support the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart are over 100 years old.

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South Korean battery maker SK On said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ford Motor and Koc Holding to form a joint venture to produce electric vehicle battery cells in Turkey.
The plant is targeted to start by 2025 and aims to have an annual production capacity of 30 to 45 gigawatt hours, SK On said in a statement on Monday.
SK On, which is SK Innovation’s wholly owned battery unit, counts Ford, Volkswagen and Hyundai among its customers.
Ford plans to build a new version of its Transit Custom van for the European market in Turkey in 2023 including full-electric and hybrid variants along with the combustion-engined version.
SK announced last year a plan to invest 10.2 trillion won ($8.22 billion) with Ford to build three battery plants in the U.S.
SK currently has battery production sites in the U.S., Hungary, China, and South Korea.


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BANDUNG - Coffee Java Preanger from West Java was developed by Ayi Suteja, a coffee farmer in Malabar Pangalengan. It managed to become champion in the coffee festival held by Atlanta United States last March. West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan appreciates the achievement in a meeting with Ayi Suteja in Pakuan, Thursday (21/4).
"This is incredible, West Java Coffee became the first winner in the prestigious coffee festival. Not only a champion, but the first champion, and also 6 other championship which we get,” he said.
According to the Governor, he achieved the feat proved that West Java local coffee does have advantages over other coffee in the archipelago or even the world.
"This proves that our coffee is superior compared with other coffee in the world. Just how we can develop this advantage could become a commodity that can be relied upon,” said Aher.
The meeting between the governor and the coffee farmers named Ayi Suteja take place in the backyard of Pakuan in a relaxed atmosphere while enjoying that coffee champions.

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Lime Rock Resources has closed two acquisitions, totaling $113 million, of working interests in oil and gas properties in Oklahoma and Texas from separate sellers. The largest acquisition was of the Potato Hills natural gas field in southeast Oklahoma from two private sellers after two sets of exclusive negotiations. Lime Rock assumed operatorship of the field in February. Houston–based Lime Rock Resources also recently acquired interests in wellbores in the Texas Gulf Coast region adjoining its existing New Years Ridge property. The smaller acquisition was also from a private seller.
February $47M Bakken lease sale second highest in North Dakota history
North Dakota's February Bakken lease sale raised $47 million, the second–highest amount in the state's history (#1 was November 2009, at $71 million). The sale "bodes well for the pace of drilling activity and portends a growing rig count in the play, which currently sits at around 80 rigs," noted Madison Williams Equity Research. The highest bid was submitted by Irish Oil & Gas Inc. The company bid $7,300 an acre for three 40–acre tracts in Mountrail County. Other acres in Mountrail averaged $1,617/acre. The second highest bid was also made for Montrail County. Empire Oil bid $6,600 an acre bid for 100 acres in the county. The most leased acres came out of Burke County with 11,977 acres leased. The bids in the county averaged roughly nearly $600 an acre.
Noble Energy purchases DJ Basin upstream assets
Noble Energy Inc. has closed the purchase of substantially all of the US Rockies upstream assets of Petro–Canada Resources Inc. and Suncor Energy (Natural Gas) America Inc. The company acquired nearly 100 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), half of which are estimated to be proved reserves. The acquisition adds nearly 10,000 boe/d to Noble Energy's daily production and includes 340,000 total net acres, nearly 200,000 of which are located in the Greater DJ Basin. Roughly two million cubic feet equivalent per day of production and 13 billion cubic feet equivalent of reserves were included in the preferential rights exercised and not part of the final acquisition.
Avere revises Haynesville acquisition terms
Avere Energy Inc. has signed the revised and restated letter agreement to acquire a working interest in an undeveloped Haynesville prospect in Mississippi. The letter agreement between Avere and American Exploration Corp. states that the company will earn a 20% working interest in the joint venture lands by paying 20% of the costs of the drilling and completion of an initial deep gas well (roughly US$2 million) and by making additional payments aggregating US$2 million to American, including a non–refundable US$75,000 deposit, which was paid on January 27, 2010. Avere continues to organize financing to pay for (1) the farm–in and drilling obligations in connection with its farm–in on this Haynesville shale gas prospect as described above; and (2) for at minimum a subsequent development well on the property; and (3) for a seismic acquisition program.
Dejour secures mezzanine financing for project expansion
Dejour Enterprises Ltd. has secured a $5 million line of credit from an Alberta–based mezzanine lender. The first $2 million will be available upon closing and used to refinance Dejour's existing bank facility and fund its working capital. The remainder will be accessible, subject to additional lender review and approval by the Dejour board, to finance project expansions currently being considered by Dejour at its Drake/Woodrush facility.
Exterra acquires additional Permian Basin acreage
Exterra Energy Inc. has acquired additional acreage in the Permian Basin area by acquiring an additional 480 acres in Pecos County. This acquisition provides Exterra with roughly 20 to 30 new additional proven undeveloped drilling locations for expansion in the Cardinal Field.
Rock Hill Capital invests in Blackhawk Specialty Tools
Rock Hill Capital Group has made a pure equity investment (no debt) in Blackhawk Specialty Tools LLC, an oilfield services company located in Houma, LA. Blackhawk, founded in April 2008, is a provider of automated top drive cement heads and related equipment and services to the deepwater offshore oil and gas industry operating in the US Gulf of Mexico and Brazil. Blackhawk is led by president and CEO, Billy Brown. The business is expected to expand through organic growth and select acquisitions. Founded in 2008, Rock Hill Capital Group LLC is a private equity investment firm that targets investments in growing middle to lower middle market companies with enterprise values of up to $75 million. Currently, Rock Hill has $50 million of committed capital under management through Rock Hill Capital I LP.
Norse Energy grabs a piece of the Barnett
Norse Energy Corp. ASA has signed a letter of intent and exclusivity agreement with Strategic Petroleum Investment Consultants Enterprise Inc., Paris Oil & Gas Corp., and Eleon Operators LLC (Spice/Paris) for the potential acquisition of roughly 19,700 acres in the Barnett combo play in Texas for US$70 million. The purchase price will be paid by issuing US$55 million in NEC ASA shares with the reference price NOK 4.70 per NEC ASA share. US$15 million will be paid in cash, of which US$3 million is to be paid at closing, and US$12 million to be a seller's credit. The oil and gas acreage holds current net after royalty production of nearly 600 boe/d from the Barnett combo play. The Barnett assets to be acquired by Norse includes a 4.1% working interest in 32,500 Barnett acres operated by EOG Resources/EnCana. Dr. Dimitrios Kousparis, president and main owner of Spice/Paris, will remain a full time employee of NEC USA. His main focus will be the execution of an active drill–out program for the Midway and Bellevue acreage.
Friendly Energy doubles South Texas lease acreage
Friendly Energy Exploration acquired a 50% working interest in the South Thrifty lease in Central Texas. The property is situated in Brown County, Texas, roughly five miles north of Bangs, Texas. The lease totals 981 acres of which approximately 60% is in defined oil fields. There are 25 well bores of which 24 are producers and one is a water injection well. The project has five tank batteries and all wells have production equipment in place. The primary production zone is the Ellenberger. Since the South Thrifty field was opened in the mid–80s there have been over 1.8 million barrels of oil and over 4.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas produced. The company anticipates adding up to an additional 100 b/d to production with little costs. It anticipates initiating a secondary oil recovery by using the water produced from the Ellenburger as a drive mechanism to capture original oil in place from the Chappel Reef complex. The company's preliminary indications are that the South Thrifty Lease could have a minimum of two million and up to seven million recoverable barrels of oil. With the addition of South Thrifty lease, the company will be the operator on over 2,000 acres on five separate leases.
Lime Rock Partners invests $6M in TerraSpark
Energy private equity investor Lime Rock Partners will invest $6 million in TerraSpark Geosciences, a software solutions and consulting services provider, to help accelerate the commercialization and development of its Insight Earth seismic visualization and interpretation products.
Hess picks Triple Point to manage oil trading, risk
Triple Point Technology, a provider of multi–market commodity and enterprise risk management software solutions, has been selected by Hess Corp. to provide its Commodity XL for Oil™ software to manage its supply, trading, risk, and logistics for crude oil and refined products.
Bakken shale JV planned for GeoResources, Resolute Energy
GeoResources Inc. and Resolute Energy Corp. have entered into a joint venture to develop acreage in the Bakken Shale Trend of North Dakota. GeoResources has acquired roughly 61,000 gross (42,000 net) leasehold acres in Williams County, North Dakota. Resolute will acquire a 45% interest in the acreage and GeoResources will retain a 45% interest and operations. A third industry partner is expected to participate for the remaining 10%. Currently, the parties plan to drill at least three horizontal wells in the Middle Bakken formation prior to year end, as well as seek to acquire additional acreage in the area. Recent activity in Williams County has confirmed commercial production in the Middle Bakken formation, which is a primary objective for the joint venture. Secondary objectives include the Three Forks, Madison and the Red River formations.
Grizzly submits application for Algar Lake oil sands
Alberta, Canada–based Grizzly Oil Sands ULC submitted an application to the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment for the development of an 11,300 barrel per day (b/d) oil sands project at Algar Lake. The project is expected to operate at an average capacity of 10,000 b/d over a design life of 30 years. The project will utilize a method of in–situ extraction known as steam–assisted gravity drainage to exploit the resource. Grizzly is seeking approval for the Stage 1 development, consisting of two plant phases and 40 well pairs on four well pads. Each plant phase is designed to operate at an average capacity of 5,000 b/d. Grizzly intends to construct the first phase consisting of one modular central processing facility (CPF), ten well pairs on one well pad, and associated roads and pipelines. The second plant phase, to be developed two years subsequent to approval, will include a second modular CPF and an additional 10 well pairs on one well pad. Each phase's estimated initial gross capital cost is roughly $120 million. An additional pad ($35M each) will be required for each phase every five years. Over the life of the project, Grizzly expects to drill nearly 100 well pairs from 10 well pads. Production life for each individual well pair is estimated to be five to seven years. McDaniel & Associates estimate the project will ultimately recover nearly 89 million barrels of bitumen. Grizzly expects receipt of approvals within 12 to 18 months, with an 18 month period leading up to production after the approvals. The Algar Lake Project is roughly 28 miles southwest of Fort McMurray and 6 miles west of Highway 63.


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Jeane Kirkpatrick is a largely forgotten figure today, but not for good reason. Starting in 1979, and continuing through much of the 1980s, she was at the forefront of advising President Ronald Reagan’s efforts to defeat the Soviet Union.
Luckily she (and her ideas) are getting a second look. Author Peter Collier is out with a new biography called “Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick.” It’s a fine read that should remind Americans about this woman — who was a towering figure during the last quarter of the 20th century.
A Democrat for much of her life, Kirkpatrick and her husband were close allies of Minnesota’s Hubert Humphrey. “She had never thought she’d have anything to do with Republicans,” Collier mused during a recent chat. “She didn’t know any Republicans, and the ones she knew, she didn’t like because she thought [they] were sort of heartless.”
So how did this lifelong Democrat came to serve as an advisor to one of the greatest Republican presidents in history? “She came to the GOP from two events: The takeover of Iran by Khomeini [The Iranian Ayatollah who overthrew the Shah of Iran], and even more by the Carter administration’s enabling of the rise of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and their [the Sandinista’s] ability to act as a focal point for the Soviets in that hemisphere.”
Those two events caused Kirkpatrick to veer sharply to the right in the summer of 1979. While vacationing in France that year, she prepared the legendary article in Commentary magazine entitled “Dictators and Double Standards.” As Collier notes, it proposed the following idea: “While representative democracy may be the goal, it is better to have a pro-American authoritarian regime than a radical, totalitarian regime that is anti-American.”
This was far from a lesson in Realpolitik. Collier went on to detail the moral aspect of Kirkpatrick’s underlying theory: “[A]uthoritarian governments didn’t seek to control the totality of the human being,” he explained, “But totalitarian governments — such as that of the Soviet Union and Mao’s China — did exactly that. They wanted to do nothing less than to penetrate into the soul of the human being and society.”
After serving as an adviser to Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, Kirkpatrick spent four years as the United States Ambassador the United Nations and was a part of Reagan’s National Security Council. William Safire called her, “The courage of Ronald Reagan’s convictions.” That’s a high — and deserved — compliment for a woman who helped change the world.
After a tumultuous year of revolution and political change — especially with the Arab Spring — Kirkpatrick’s ideas are perhaps needed as much as ever. How should the United States conduct foreign policy in this new world? Should we prefer the old bad men we believe might change — or the new bad men we know are bent on inflicting evil on the souls of men?
Those questions would be right up Kirkpatrick’s alley. And you’ll have a much greater appreciation for this after reading Collier’s book. Pick it up today.


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For this month’s next review for Genre Grandeur – Ensemble Movies, here’s a review of Love Actually (2003) by Emily of the Flapper Dame.
Thanks again to Carl of Listening to Film for choosing this month’s genre.
Next month’s genre has been chosen by Amanda of Hollywood Consumer and we will be reviewing our favorite L.A. Films.
Please get me your submissions by the 25th of Oct by sending them to firstname.lastname@example.org
Try to think out of the box! Great choice Amanda!
Let’s see what Emily thought of this movie:
Today the term “all-star cast” has all but almost faded in obscurity, as now it refers to those “epic event” movies from the 60s and 70s. Disaster flicks, war movies, and historical pics- the genre is endless, but the one movie that brought the concept forward into the 21st century was the Christmas essential Love Actually (2003).
Directed by Richard Curtis, Love Actually revolves around Christmas and the love lives of an all-star cast, whose characters are all connected to each other in some way or another. Due to the fact the film came out in 2003, I was too young to watch it then, and I saw this one for first time in 2016. My guy Colin Firth was the main draw for me (he’s practically the only A list star I love in relation to today’s stars), but it turned out that everyone’s storylines and performances were enjoyable.
Whether a subplot was cheerful, sad, heartwarming or just plain hysterical- Love Actually manages to somehow make it all worth watching. Some of the character’s predicaments even mirrored the actor’s real life: Liam Neeson’s character Daniel is grieving the loss of his wife, while Colin Firth’s Jamie is trying to win the affections of his Portuguese housekeeper Aurélia (Lúcia Moniz), with the language barrier keeping them apart.
Of course, this movie is also a chance to view the late great Alan Rickman in a role that makes you believe he’s the most lovable jerk, as his character Harry cheats on his wife Karen (Emma Thompson) for his secretary, Mia (Heike Makatsch).
Personally, I can’t skip over Hugh Grant’s David the Prime Minister. The scene of Hugh dancing down the hallway and the stairs made me laugh so hard the first time I saw it, and it’s what made me see him differently (I only knew him as Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones, a favorite modern day movie of mine!).
In regards to reactions to this movie, the more I read other people’s opinions, the general consensus is this movie is polarizing. It seems to divide people into the, “this movie is trashy”, camp (think about the actual plots, and YES its trashy) and the, “this movie is iconic”, camp (the All I want for Christmas is You performance, the “you are perfect” moment). I for one do say the movie is full of clichés however; it’s the actors who make you care about the storylines and the characters they are playing. No matter what anyone thinks of it, the ending montage at Heathrow Airport set to Beach Boys God Only Knows, is very powerful and can even win over the harshest of haters.
For better or worse, Love Actually also spawned a bunch of other holiday all star cast movies such as Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve and Mother’s Day. While I haven’t seen these other movies, perhaps because they just don’t contain an actor I care about (and maybe because Love Actually is British), I will admit the idea of these movies are unique and a change to the usual style of storytelling.
Overall, Love Actually may be over rated, and a tad trashy, but also full of funny and cute moments that bring Christmas cheer. Its certainly one I watch every Christmas season, plus it’s just a fun excuse to see your favorite actor from basically any other TV show / movie you love. (Don’t believe me? Take a look at the Honest Trailer below- it’s seriously eye opening!)
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LOVE the graph and LOVE the movie, Actually.


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