Blogging has always been a prominent part of digital content marketing. Every small or big company out there relies on blogging as the basic, cost-efficient yet most effective mode of connecting with the audiences.
And why not? Audiences out there are craving for genuine information that matches and satisfies their search intent which mostly gets sorted through a detailed reading of an informative blog that acts as their investment guide.
If you have just launched the digital debut of your business, consistent blogging with loads of information and applicable keywords can bring you the much deserving organic website traffic faster than the stipulated time frame. Regular blogging is the best and most effective way to build online authority and gain uncompromised audience trust.
From newbie freelancers to the world’s leading tech giants, regular blogging has become synonymous with their brand identity that grabs an instant audience’s attention for a quick read whenever a blog is published.
Example: Amazon Web Service’s blog section is truly worth a read and is considered among great corporate blogs. Jeff Barr, the man behind such engaging publications is a Web Service Evangelist but his tone of writing has more personal touch where he narrates his views as someone who is amazed at things that people made on Amazon’s suite of web services. His storytelling approach makes all the difference that drives the audience to the blog section and gives a good read.
Besides corporate blogging, personal blogging has also become the driving factor for many trending digital sensations.
Neil Patel’s website NeilPatel.com is one trending example of how personal blogging can drive both popularity and profit if you know how to do it right. The core focus of Neil’s blog is to provide valuable content and actionable insights to the readers who visit his blog to fetch guidance. So knowing what your readers want and feeding them the information they are looking for is the super hit formula to great blogging. Only with insightful blogging and smart use of banners, pop-ups, and CTA, NeilPatel.com currently drives an insane monthly organic traffic of around 2,00,000 visitors.
So, what basically blogging is?
Blogging is a simple digital marketing tactic to drive organic website traffic by providing informative and engaging blogs and articles for the readers. These readers are mostly either the target audience who can initiate a purchase after getting convinced of the brand’s credibility or just mere readers who are looking for some real information to feed the inner reading bug. Whether corporate blogging or personal blogging, this knowledge-sharing tactic of digital marketing, when done right, can fetch a real deal for your online business.
What are the best practices for effective blogging?
Articles or blogs that are unable to attract and engage the audience are unlikely to add any value to your brand story. So here are some proven tips to level up your blogging techniques:
Engaging title: The title or topic of your blog is likely to act as the audience-pulling magnet. So even if you are writing on a serious research-based subject, try to include a catchy title that complements the essence of the subject while appearing creative to the readers.
Include strategic keywords: Keywords are important for optimizing blogs, but too much stuffing of transactional keywords won’t help. You need to feature relevant keywords strategically to grab the desired limelight.
Stay unique: Choose your niche and hone your expertise to deliver engaging and informative blogs that are unique in their essence. Staying unique will help grab the desirable attention and drive website traffic faster.
Include images and infographics: Make your blogging more engaging with relevant images and infographics and multimedia where applicable to attract audience attention and inspire action. Putting appropriate CTA is highly recommended to direct the audience to sign up for a product or service.
These are some of the best practices to follow for effective blogging.
What are the benefits of blogging?
Driving organic website traffic: Whether you have just launched a new website or continuing with an older version, regular updating of the blog section with engaging and informative pieces of writing is the simplest way to rank your website on SERP and drive organic traffic.
Repurposing blogs for social media: Cross-posting of domain blogs across social media is also an excellent way to keep your marketing going than creating new content. This marketing not only directs your old audience to your social media pages but also attracts attention of the new visitors to your website through social channels.
Leads to conversion: Informative blogs with tactical use of pop-ups and CTAs make readers click CTA for a free offer that directs them to a landing page where they fill out a form and receives a free offer or limited period free service that can lead to conversion based on user’s satisfaction.
Building credibility: Blogging is an excellent way to share company news or what your business is up to and the latest happenings, collaborations, and launches. You can also share a case study of how your products or services have benefitted potential customers as your success story to gain the audience’s trust.
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SWEETEN SALES WITH NEW ENGLISH RASPBERRY TEA FROM GENERAL FOODS INTERNATIONAL
NORTHFIELD, Ill. – June 11, 2014 – It’s tea time with GENERAL FOODS INTERNATIONAL (GFI) English Raspberry Tea! This brand new limited time flavor blends the taste of sweet raspberries and tea to deliver a creamy café style beverage. Don’t miss out on this delectable summertime treat, available July 1.
English Raspberry Tea provides the perfect opportunity for operators to capitalize on the growing specialty tea and tea latte trend. Domestic tea sales at restaurants, grocery stores and shops reached a whopping $15.7 billion last year – up nearly 32% from 2007, according to consumer goods research firm Packaged Facts. In the next two years, the market is expected to expand to $18 billion. Latte consumption rose 11% between 2012 and 2013, and more than one-tenth of consumers (13%) say they consumed a hot or cold specialty tea such as a tea latte or bubble tea in the last month. All of this adds up to profit potential for operators offering specialty tea and tea latte beverages.
The summer-friendly flavor of fresh raspberries also appeals to consumers’ seasonal tastes. Two-fifths of consumers (41%) strongly agree their beverage preferences change depending on the season, and one-third of them agree that raspberry is an appealing flavor for tea. GFI English Raspberry Tea is the perfect addition to your summertime beverage offerings!
As an industry leader for 40 years, GFI provides you with the power and resources to boost hot beverage sales and treat your guests to a full line of rich and creamy café-style beverages. Each GFI specialty coffee, hot cocoa and tea product delivers the convenience your busy customers demand and the indulgent flavors they love. What’s more, GFI is currently offering free sample kits for order and merchandising kits to help you grab your customers’ attention and encourage sales of English Raspberry Tea, as well as other flavor offerings. The newly designed front-of-house merchandising includes door clings, wobblers, flavor tags, counter cards and translite stickers.
Visit kraftfoodservice.com/GFI to request your free sample kit and merchandising kit, plus download a rebate to earn up to $250 off your purchase of GFI seasonal flavors.
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ABOUT KRAFT FOODSERVICE
Kraft Foodservice is a division of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT), one of North America’s largest consumer packaged food and beverage company. Kraft Foodservice provides a diverse portfolio of brands, marketing and sales expertise and resources to the U.S. foodservice industry. Visit www.Kraftfoodservice.com for more information.

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During the Purim story, when Haman, filled with anger at the fact that Mordechai refuses to bow down to him, even after being invited to the queen's private party, receives the following advice from his wife (who is specifically not listed as one of his "friends"):
וַתֹּאמֶר לוֹ זֶרֶשׁ אִשְׁתּוֹ וְכָל-אֹהֲבָיו, יַעֲשׂוּ-עֵץ גָּבֹהַּ חֲמִשִּׁים אַמָּה, וּבַבֹּקֶר אֱמֹר לַמֶּלֶךְ וְיִתְלוּ אֶת-מָרְדֳּכַי עָלָיו, וּבֹא-עִם-הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶל-הַמִּשְׁתֶּה שָׂמֵחַ; וַיִּיטַב הַדָּבָר לִפְנֵי הָמָן, וַיַּעַשׂ הָעֵץ.Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him: 'Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordechai may be hanged thereon; then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet.' And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Yet, Haman couldn't wait until the morning. No, he had to speak to the king right away. So, that night, he made his way to the palace to receive the king's blessing to execute Mordechai.
Wouldn't you know it; he just happened to pick the absolute worst night for his request; the very same night that the king was wondering how to reward Mordechai for saving his life. Imagine if he had waited until morning. I can see the king pondering how to reward Mordechai for a while, then tabling the issue as sleep overcame him, and in the morning, forgetting about the matter entirely.
Yet, Haman couldn't wait. And his inability to act with even a modicum of patience contributed to his downfall.
Esther, on the other hand, represents a model of patience. When she finally agrees to pay an unplanned visit to the king, she sensibly instructs the people to fast together with her for three days. But then, instead of bringing her request directly to the king, she...invites him to another party. Even the way she invites him strings him along, making him wait, and wait...just to find out what it is that she wants.
וַתַּעַן אֶסְתֵּר, וַתֹּאמַר: שְׁאֵלָתִי, וּבַקָּשָׁתִי. אִם-מָצָאתִי חֵן בְּעֵינֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ, וְאִם-עַל-הַמֶּלֶךְ טוֹב, לָתֵת אֶת-שְׁאֵלָתִי, וְלַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת-בַּקָּשָׁתִי--יָבוֹא הַמֶּלֶךְ וְהָמָן, אֶל-הַמִּשְׁתֶּה אֲשֶׁר אֶעֱשֶׂה לָהֶם, וּמָחָר אֶעֱשֶׂה, כִּדְבַר הַמֶּלֶךְ.Then answered Esther, and said: 'My petition and my request is-- if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request--let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the king hath said
"Sure," she says to the king, "I'll tell you what I want, and what I risked my life to ask you...tomorrow."
It cannot be a coincidence that the king had trouble sleeping that night. Too many questions swirled around in his head to allow him to sleep, all because Esther, instead of rushing head on, took her time, and let him stew over one simple question: What does she want?
A little patience destroyed Haman, and saved the Jewish people.

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Discrimination law: HR guide
Employers need to understand our discrimination law, and should take measures to prevent discrimination occurring in the workplace. This guide provides some key information.
Our equality law is concerned with the following protected characteristics:
- gender reassignment
- pregnancy and maternity leave
- race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin
- marriage and civil partnership
- sexual orientation
- religion or belief
It is unlawful to discriminate directly against a job applicant or employee by treating them less favourably because of a protected characteristic.
For example, if a female and male employee committed the same misconduct but only the female employee was disciplined this could be direct discrimination.
Another example of direct discrimination could be if an employer chose to recruit a white employee instead of a black employee, who both had similar level of qualifications, because the employer thought that the white employee would be a better cultural fit in the organisation.
The discrimination need not be because of the victim’s protected characteristic, except in marriage and civil partnership instances (when the discrimination must be because that person is married or a civil partner). It is unlawful to treat someone less favourably because of their association with someone who has a protected characteristic. For example, a heterosexual employee could bring a direct discrimination claim if they were treated less favourably because they had a gay friend.
If a person is wrongly perceived to have a protected characteristic they will still be protected provided the treatment is because of that perception. An illustration of this could be an employee who was being treated less favourably because of a wrong belief that the person is Hindu.
Indirect discrimination occurs when
- an employer applies a provision, criterion or practice that applies in the same way to everybody but disadvantages people who share a protected characteristic;
- The individual is disadvantaged; and
- The discrimination cannot be objectively justified.
An example of indirect discrimination could be where an employer has a policy not to allow employees to work part-time hours. This could be indirectly discriminatory on the basis that the policy of not allowing staff to work part-time disadvantages women as more women than men have child caring responsibilities. The individual would have to be personally disadvantaged by the policy. In this type of case it would be difficult to justify the discrimination.
Harassment related to a prohibited characteristic is prohibited.
It happens where a person engages in unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic and the conduct has the purpose or effect of violating the other person’s dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.
An example of harassment could be an employee making an ageist joke which upsets another employee.
A person must not suffer a detriment because they have alleged discrimination, brought a discrimination claim or given evidence or information in relation to discrimination proceedings. An example of victimisation could be if an employee brings a discrimination claim for lack of promotion and is then is overlooked as a result of bringing the claim.
For the purposes of the equality legislation, anything done by an employee in the course of their employment is treated as having also been done by the employer, irrespective of whether the employee’s acts were done with the employer’s knowledge or approval.
However, an employer has a defence if it can show that it took “all reasonable steps” to prevent the employee from doing the discriminatory act. Steps could include having an anti-discrimination policy which is regularly reviewed and communicated to the workforce, warning employees of the seriousness of unlawful discrimination and that it is likely to be deemed gross misconduct, keeping adequate records showing employees are familiar with the policies, providing regular equal opportunities’ training and keeping records of the training and handling complaints thoroughly and promptly.
A few protected characteristic anomalies
An employee who claims direct discrimination must show that they have been treated less favourably than an actual or hypothetical comparator. This is not required for pregnancy or maternity discrimination.
Unequal treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment is of unlawful. There are specific provisions in the equality legislation setting out the protection in more detail.
Direct age discrimination can be objectively justified, unlike for the other protected characteristics. A situation when direct age discrimination might be justified is when an employer promotes the recruitment of younger workers to create a more balanced workforce.
Apart from harassment related to a protected characteristic, there are two other definitions of harassment in our equality legislation. Harassment could include conduct of a sexual nature and less favourable treatment because of an employee’s rejection of or submission to harassment of a sexual nature or harassment related to sex or gender reassignment.
From October 2024 there will be a new duty to take “reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment to employees in the course of their employment. The steps that employers should be taking would be similar to the steps that employers would need to rely on for the general defence to discrimination claims as outlined, above. If the employer has been found to have breached its duty to take reasonable steps to avoid the sexual harassment, compensation could be uplifted by up to 25%.
There are other types of unlawful disability discrimination, which are:
- discriminating by treating a job applicant or employee unfavourably because of something arising as a result of disability without justification.
- failing to comply with the duty to make reasonable adjustments where a disabled job applicant or employee is placed at a substantial disadvantage.
- asking job applicants pre-employment health questions unless for a permitted reason.
There are some limited exceptions when discrimination may be lawful comprising occupational requirements (including religious requirements), statutory provisions, positive action, national security and providing benefits to the public. There are also a number of exceptions specific to age discrimination.
This guide is intended for guidance only and should not be relied upon for specific advice.
Do check mattgingell.com regularly for updated information.

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text: Melodia in E minor (Romanza Patetica) and Melody No. 4 "Auld Robin Gray" (Variations on a Scottish Air) for string bass and piano. Giovanni Bottesini. Edited by Thomas Martin. Published by International Music Company.

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Central Avenue Historic District
134 Convention Boulevard
Hot Springs, AR 71901
Buildings circa late 19th century and early 20th century now renovated and features coffee houses, restaurants, and art galleries among other things.
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Hot Springs Area Attractions
Alison Parsons Fine Art
National Park Duck Tours
Heritage House Museum of Montgomery County
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Crystal Springs Mining & Jewelry Co.
Hot Springs Mountain Tower
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Jungle Mountain Miniature Golf
Jim Coleman Crystal Mines & Rock Shop
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“Pinkwashing” pejorative wiping tolerance away
Nov 24, 2011 | Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz
Fast becoming a viral sensation, a new YouTube video (below) shows two Spanish men “photobombing” an al-Jazeera broadcast by engaging in a long, passionate kiss in frame as the reporter is talking.
The irony of the video is that while the two were supposedly making a point about marriage equality in Spain, they happened to do so on a state-owned network from a country in which homosexuality is punishable by lashings and imprisonment. Indeed, a report from the UN High Commission for Refugees has this to say on homosexuality in Qatar:
Homosexual behavior is illegal [in Qatar]. Islamic laws against homosexuality are applied. [In Qatari society], homosexuality is taboo. There is no visible social support for gay and lesbian rights.
On the topic of homosexuality in the Middle East, Sarah Shulman has written in the New York Times on the prominence of the gay community in Israel and Israeli officials speaking out against the intolerance shown to homosexuals in the rest of the region.
Last year, the Israeli news site Ynet reported that the Tel Aviv tourism board had begun a campaign of around $90 million to brand the city as “an international gay vacation destination.” The promotion, which received support from the Tourism Ministry and Israel’s overseas consulates, includes depictions of young same-sex couples and financing for pro-Israeli movie screenings at lesbian and gay film festivals in the United States. (The government isn’t alone; an Israeli pornography producer even shot a film, “Men of Israel,” on the site of a former Palestinian village.)
This message is being articulated at the highest levels. In May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress that the Middle East was “a region where women are stoned, gays are hanged, Christians are persecuted.”
This seems fair so far, however Shulman then drops a bombshell, explaining what she and others in her circles think of Israel’s tolerant society:
The growing global gay movement against the Israeli occupation has named these tactics “pinkwashing”: a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. Aeyal Gross, a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, argues that “gay rights have essentially become a public-relations tool,” even though “conservative and especially religious politicians remain fiercely homophobic.”
… In Israel, gay soldiers and the relative openness of Tel Aviv are incomplete indicators of human rights – just as in America, the expansion of gay rights in some states does not offset human rights violations like mass incarceration. The long-sought realization of some rights for some gays should not blind us to the struggles against racism in Europe and the United States, or to the Palestinians’ insistence on a land to call home.
This reads as perverse logic. Israel is one of the few countries in the world, even the supposedly tolerant West, that would not only see its gay community as an asset, but actually use it as a selling point to attract tourism. That the neologism “pinkwashing” is apparently gaining such momentum in anti-Israel circles that it would be given valuable column inches in one of the most well-respected newspapers in the world (and in the blog of another), speaks volumes about the thought patterns that characterise Shulman and her ilk.
The only possible conclusion to draw is that Israel can do no right. If Israel were intolerant to homosexuals, no doubt Shulman would be writing about this with indignation; yet Israel is tolerant, and still she becomes indignant.
Nothing illustrates the perversity of her argument better than a group that she herself endorsed. Her article contained a theory that recognising Israel’s tolerance plasters over the genuine tolerance for homosexuality amongst Palestinians, as evidenced by active Palestinian homosexual rights groups:
Pinkwashing not only manipulates the hard-won gains of Israel’s gay community, but it also ignores the existence of Palestinian gay-rights organizations … important is the emerging Palestinian gay movement with three major organizations: Aswat, Al Qaws and Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
However, when one actually visits the website of Al Qaws, the page on the Palestinian LGBT community in the media contains story after story of Palestinians being oppressed in their community for their sexuality and then dreaming of, and in some cases finding, solace in Israel.
In fact, a 2009 Haaretz profile of Haneen Maikey, one of the co-founders of Al Qaws, reveals that Maikey is a citizen of Israel and lives on the Israeli side of the border. While she does have unflattering things to say about Israel, even she recognises that Israel has fostered a far more tolerant society to sexuality.
“People who go to Pride Parade [in Tel Aviv] do so to celebrate their gayness and their sexuality, [but] automatically Palestinians and other Arabs will be busy identifying where the cameras are, busy buying make-up or specific hats to hide. I don’t see why participating in the main tool of liberation by hiding yourself is a good and healthy thing for the liberation cause of the LGBTQ community.”
Of course, this is not to say that Israeli society is a utopia of tolerance with no discrimination. There are significant elements in Israel that are opposed to the state’s championing of homosexual rights. Herein lies the real tragedy behind the “pinkwashing” label being applied to Israel. As one reader of Jeffrey Goldberg’s blog noted:
She describes gay rights in Israel as an incomplete picture of civil rights in the country, which is fair enough, though as usual, it doesn’t acknowledge the arduous efforts of Netanyahu’s recent predecessors to grant the Palestinians almost all of what they purport to want. But it’s not in the nature of politics to be perfect, especially with regard to minority rights. It is always a struggle to build something inherently fragile in the face of a constant war of attrition against an often unyielding majority. If the Left is not willing [to] acknowledge the tangible differences between Israel’s treatment of its gay citizens and the persecution gay and lesbians face in many of the neighboring countries, and to throw its support to Israel, then it is risking seeing those hard-won gains evaporate.
In attacking Israel when it does something that she is generally in favour of (at least, for any other country), Shulman is encouraging the opposite behaviour. Instead of working with the many Israelis who have made tangible gains in their own society and would be more than willing to reach out to their neighbours, Shulman is isolating them, empowering their enemies and joining in the international campaign to cut them off from the rest of the world.
However allowing the gay community in Israel to work with any community in Palestine would of course be inimical to Shulman’s worldview – an irrational hatred of anything Israeli is opposed to cooperation on any level. How her camp believes that this will ever lead to peace is a total mystery.

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LA QUINTA—More than $300,000 was raised at the 15th Annual Bishop’s Golf Classic on December 1 to aid children seeking a Catholic education.
Held at PGA West in La Quinta, the Bishop’s Golf Classic drew the participation of 220 golfers. Proceeds from the signature fundraising event go toward the tuition assistance programs for Catholic schools in the Diocese and toward the Catholic Education Foundation. This year the Diocese will distribute $171,000 in tuition assistance for students attending Catholic schools.
In addition to the golf tournament, 28 Catholic schools in the Diocese sold raffle tickets for a chance to win a 2017 Ford Mustang. The winning ticket was selected by Father Rafael Partida during the banquet dinner that followed the golf event. Eddie Velasquez of Duarte was the lucky name chosen.
This event started in 2002 and, in over 15 years, has contributed over $1.5 million to the scholarship needs of the 30 schools the Diocese. Golfers and tournament sponsors from all over Southern California gather for a great day of golf and the opportunity to help students. Some of major sponsors include Citizens Business Bank, Fullerton, Lemann, Schaefer and Dominick, Redlands Ford, Dignity Memorial, Tovey/Schultz Construction and Trilogy by Shea Homes.


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Dublin's Georgian Doorways
North Great George's Street Dublin
1772 – North Great George’s Street, Dublin
Mount Eccles, the home of Sir John Eccles, Lord Mayor in 1710, stood where the Lorreto Convent, North Great George’s Street stands now. The street was originally a driveway leading to the house. The houses were built over a number of years, with the earliest completed in the years 1772-75. Others such as the James Joyce Centre at No.35 were slightly later. No.35 was completed in 1784 by Francis Ryan for Valentine Brown, the Earl of Kenmare, who used it as his townhouse. The plasterwork here was done by Michael Stapleton, one of the finest stuccadores of the time.

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Occasionally, Mark Sanford is right. And frequently, Barack Obama is wrong. But it doesn’t often happen simultaneously, on the same issue.
I’ve spent the last few minutes trying to find an actual justification for the administration’s decision to shut down the nation’s one and only solution for nuclear waste — that is, a justification more legitimate and compelling than “Harry Reid has promised the NIMBY home folks to close it.” But I haven’t found it. If you have such a link, please share it.
In the meantime, read this New York Times editorial that explains how the Obama administration is doing just what it so often criticized the Bush administration for doing: Ignoring science for political reasons. An excerpt:
The administration’s budget for the Energy Department raises a disturbing question. Is President Obama, who has pledged to restore science to its rightful place in decision making, now prepared to curtail the scientific analyses needed to determine whether a proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be safe to build?
It’s particularly ironic that the administration is doing this just as Obama — who has been sadly ambivalent on nuclear power (one reason why he didn’t get the Energy Party nomination) — announces that the government will provide loan guarantees for two plants in Georgia. So he’s going to back building the plants (a good thing), while pulling away the nation’s one and only solution for dealing with the waste they will produce.
So it is that, in opposing the administration on this, Mark Sanford is on the right side of an issue. It’s been awhile, so make note of this day.

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If you are already not familiar with the Union-Find data structure, check out this simple tutorial to understand the data structure. The images help a lot.
Naive Implementation without Optimizations
The worst time complexity for
union() is O(n) since it may need to run through the whole chain of parents. So in the worst case, m operations can take O(mn) time.
union() to make the worst-case time of Θ(log n).
find() has an amortized time nearly Θ(1)
With both Union-by-size + Path compression
Worst-case time complexity is Θ(m α(m, n)). for m>n operations, where n is the number of elements in the Union-Find tree.
Now, α(m, n) is constant when amortized over a big number of operations. So this turns the time complexity of m operations is just O(m) so each union or find operation is just O(1) on average!


It’s no secret that, globally speaking, most supply chains could be called a disaster — and that might be charitable.
Circumstances beyond enterprise control — a worldwide pandemic that won’t go away, price-gouging by unscrupulous companies, political machinations, even the prospect of a world engulfed in war — have conspired to create the greatest supply chain challenge of our time, possibly in history. But often, the biggest choke point doesn’t lie in the outside world, but at the corporate level itself.
Supply chain executives and managers continue to refine their strategies, often with some success. But they are too often hamstrung by a decades-old culture of supply chain planning, in which all the players — sales, marketing, finance, forecasting, logistics, transportation — operate in silos, isolated from each other. Sales and operations planning is too internally focused. Integrated business planning lacks advanced analytics and is narrowly focused on finance. Think of these as parallel verticals within the supply chain.
But there’s another approach — concurrent planning — that can improve visibility and collaboration across the supply chain.
What Is Concurrent Planning?
Concurrent planning seamlessly integrates, automates, and optimizes planning processes and systems, from demand planning to production scheduling to deployment. The key differentiator between concurrent planning and other models is its horizontal approach, rather than a vertical approach.
Departments needn’t develop their own plans then share them with each other, only to discover they have conflicting assumptions. Concurrent planning combines data, automation, and sophisticated analytics to communicate a shifting landscape to all parties in real time.
So how does concurrent planning help alleviate those supply chain choke points?
Concurrent planning facilitates coordination all the wayacross the supply chain, from manufacturers to transportation providers and to retailers and consumers. This allows companies to react dynamically to changes in demand patterns. Of course, this doesn’t happen magically. For example, the visibility from customers to suppliers is dependent on intelligent automation supported by machine learning at the heart of the supply chain.
Not only does it allow this dynamic reaction, that reaction is accessible to all partners in the supply chain at the same time. There’s no communiqué from department to department to organize a response.
Concurrent planning demonstrates the impact of any changes to any given department’s strategy to all other departments immediately.
If the last two years have demonstrated anything, it’s that resiliency is more important to the supply chain than ever. Concurrent planning can help mitigate the impact of disruptions to the supply chain. Knowing in advance that a regional trend in pandemic growth is beginning, an organization can take steps to re-allocate resources to ameliorate the problem, or source alternative partners or routes to keep product moving.
Likewise, if a natural disaster incapacitates a key link in the chain, concurrent planning can source other capacity temporarily — and, just as importantly, provide guidance on where the company should try to help those affected.
Concurrent planning needn’t necessarily be a build from the ground up. Existing, robust supply chain technology can be enhanced by intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and a variety of artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing.
And these complementary technologies need not be managed in-house. There are many options for offsite, cloud-based applications: private or public clouds; platform as a service, which allows a company to install and maintain these applications at an externally managed server farm; application as a service, which essentially rents use of the application on a per-use basis, leaving the management and maintenance to a service provider; and more.
These options confer several advantages: pricing on a per-use basis, upfront investment cost, ongoing maintenance costs and resiliency — any system worth using will have automatic and seamless failover from one machine to another in the event of failure.
In a time when the worldwide supply chain is precariously fragile, having the most control, the most resilience, and the most reliability are a profound competitive advantage. Concurrent planning offers clear benefits in all those categories.
Charles Chase is the executive industry consultant for the SAS global retail/CPG industry practice and author of Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning: Predicting Changing Demand Patterns in the New Digital Economy.
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Today’s news, Tiger Woods wears FootJoy golf shoes at Augusta National, not Nike
Tiger Woods didn’t sport the Nike swoosh on his shoes,
As he approached the course at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on Sunday.
In fact, Woods was seen wearing a pair of black FootJoy Premiere Series Packard golf shoes instead.
The legendary Master’s tournament, which gets underway Thursday, has caused much buzz in the golfing world,
And Nike’s response was ambiguous.
“As golf enthusiasts around the world, we are thrilled to see Tiger return to competition,” added Nike.
“He’s an incredible athlete, and it’s great to see him returning to this level.
His journey continues to inspire us all, even though he is no longer a professional football player.
We’ll work with him to fulfill his new requirements as he continues his comeback.
Acushnet, the company that owns The North Face and FootJoy, is a publicly-traded firm.
Acushnet did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The footwear flap had a minor impact, too. Acushnet stock surged more than 2.5%, whereas Nike shares advanced less than 1%.
United States Tiger Woods warms up in the practice area in front of the masters of the National Golf Club Augusta on April 3, 2022, in Augusta, Georgia.
Some have suggested that the change is linked to Jack’s severe accident in February,
Which severely damaged his legs.
Taunt can not understand it, but maybe he was looking for more comfortable shoes.
Woods, who started his pro career in 1996, has been with Nike the whole time.
He even has his own pair of Nike Air Zoom Tiger Woods golf shoes.
He may have adorned his coral-colored polo shirt with the Swoosh symbol on Sunday, after all.
Woods has yet to speak about his footwear choices during the weekend,
But he did a post on social networks about who will make a “game decision” as to whether or not to participate in the master’s.
It would be his first competitive appearance since November 2020 if he played.
His most recent major triumph came at Augusta National in 2019, his fifth overall Master’s title.
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The marvels of this huge and noisy city are everywhere, if one takes the care to see them. Seen in a certain attitude, the hugeness of Seoul means one is never far away from some pilgrim's path. In that same certain attitude the huge noise of Seoul is just the static overlay covering over choruses of historic and current voices of faith. They're everywhere, if we can tune our ears.
Members of my class at Ewha this summer participated in a long day this week to visit three such sites. Come, and overhear.
(1) Jogyesa is the headquarters of the largest order of "Zen" or sitting Buddhism in Korea. Located in downtown Seoul, it is always a beehive of activity of prayers, incense, meditation, visitors, the faithful. Every time I have visited (now over ten times), the huge Dharma Hall has had a service of chanting or instruction in progress. Two trees nearly 500 years old each stand tall at two sides of this hall (shown at minutes 1:20" and 3:35" in the video just below).
My students and I explored the area, visited the museum featuring an exhibition of Dharma Bells (example pictured below), and spent 15 minutes in quiet meditation.
Some more pictures:
Lotus is a classic metaphor for Buddhism; rooted in darkness, it grows up to a beautiful flower.
(2) One of our class members is Catholic, so our pilgrimage of faiths from Jogyesa took us to a Catholic Shrine on a small hill on the bank of the Han River. Jeoldusan Martyrs' Shrine (Jeoldusan literally means "Beheading Hill") was established to remember and honor the nearly 2000 Catholics who were martyred during the Byeongin Persecution of 1866. This was the fourth and last major execution of Catholics in Korea. On this site, up to 2000 Catholics were killed, by beheading or being thrown into the Han River from the cliff, shown here in an old painting just below. (Look closely at the painting.)
The Chinese characters for "Beheading Hill"
Here are some more images from our visit:
The above three commemorate some of the more famous martyrs.
YI Seung-hun, one of the first Catholic martyrs, killed in 1801
Jesus with a palm branch
Pope John Paul II visited here in May, 1984 to commemorate the country's 200th year of Catholicism. While here, he canonized 103 Korean martyrs.
St. Andrew KIM Taegon, the 1st Korean-born Catholic priest, and considered the patron saint of Korea; martyred in 1846 at the age of 25.
(3) The third stop for our little band of pilgrims was at the Seoul Central Mosque in Itaewon. A practicing Muslim is in the class. She actually broke her Ramadan month of fasting while here. This was her first visit to this mosque.
Women cannot enter the main prayer hall that the men use; they can go upstairs in a balcony area and offer their prayers. My student took the class members (we are an all-female class) to that balcony and showed them how to pray in Islam.
May your every step be a faith-full one!


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I learned filmmaking by studying the Old Masters - and by that I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.
— Orson Welles
I have been working on a software requirements document that involves optical power levels. I thought it might be worthwhile showing you how I use Mathcad as part of my requirements analysis process. This particular example shows how I computed the minimum optical power levels that a circuit will need detect. I used decibels for the calculations, which are not like standard "multiplicative units". Decibels are not really a unit -- they are more of a scaling. However, Mathcad handles decibels very cleanly.
The Mathcad folks recommend defining special functions for doing dB and dBm conversions and that is exactly what I do. Figure 1 illustrates the definitions I used in this analysis.
Optical Power Basics
P0 and P1 Power Levels
Binary digital communication systems work by sending streams of bits (0s and 1s) across a communications channel. These bits have to be transferred in a form that is compatible with the channel. In the case of copper wire-based systems, we use current or voltage. In the case of fiber optic systems, we use optical power to represent the 0s and 1s. I will assume that we are using "positive logic", which means that the power used to represent a logic 1 (called P1) is higher than the power used to represent a logic (called P0). Unfortunately, measuring P0 and P1 directly requires expensive test equipment (e.g. oscilloscope with optical probe).
Because this measurement is expensive, we define two alternative parameters, average power and extinction ratio. Average power is easy to measure, which makes it the most commonly reported optical parameter. Extinction ratio is difficult to measure (i.e. also requires an oscilloscope and optical probe), but it provides us additional information as to degree of wavelength purity we will see in the laser output (i.e. smaller extinction ratio means less optical power off of our desired wavelength).
Many inexpensive handheld instruments do a fine job of taking an average power measurement. The definition of average power is , assuming that P0 and P1 are equally probable. The measurement instrumentation involved is pretty straightforward:
- a photodiode to convert optical power to current
- a low-pass filter circuit to determine the average of the current from the photodiode.
In most cases, the average power measurement will give us enough information to understand the condition of the fiber network (e.g. ensuring that the loss levels on the plant are within specification).
The extinction ratio is defined as . I do not know of an easy way to measure extinction ratio. It is usually measured with oscilloscope with optical probe. However, the extinction ratio is important because lasers work best with lower extinction ratios. High extinction ratios (>10) cause problems like:
High extinction ratio means that charge density inside the laser's optical channel is varying greatly. This can change the effective index of refraction within the channel and will cause the laser's wavelength to change during the transmission. This is bad because a varying wavelength causes dispersion.
High extinction ratio means that the laser is driven hard on and off. This can mean that the power level will overshoot its P1 or undershoot its P0 level. Overshooting the P1 level is bad because it be difficult for the receiver circuit to deal with the widely varying signal level. Undershooting the P0 level usually means driving the laser below threshold (i.e. the laser stop lasing). This can result in some bizarre problems, including very slow laser switching speeds.
Formulas for Translating Between (P0,P1) and (, PAve)
Figure 2 shows how you can use the definitions for PAve and to compute P0 and P1.
Most of my work involves Passive Optical Networks (PONs). The details of the PON are not important to understand the gist of the post. It is important to know that there are two common types of PON (I am only concerned in this example with ONT-to-OLT receive power levels):
- PON loss is 28 dB
- ONT PAve= 2.5 dBm
- PON loss is 32 dB
- ONT PAve= 2.5 dBm
Figure 3 shows the loss model I used for this post.
Figure 4 shows how I calculated the 0 and 1 levels at the OLT receiver for a B+ PON.
Figure 5 shows how I calculated the 0 and 1 levels at the OLT receiver for a C+ PON.
I just wanted to show folks how I document my requirements work using Mathcad. I do this sort of analysis every day.


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The State of Kansas has adopted new T&E requirements with their upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2. These new requirements include the use of Federal CONUS/OCONUS rates to be used for reimbursement of meals and lodging. The University of Kansas will adopt this same requirement beginning on 01/01/2016. Travelers needing reimbursement will use the specific location they stayed in, to calculate their per diem reimbursements. In addition, users will notice a few other changes to the way they enter travel at KU. This includes a reduction to the number of expense types to choose from when processing travel reimbursements, the use of a quarterly system for daily per diem, and the addition of a “Multi Site Trip” checkbox to assist in risk management. Training dates and documentation can be found on tabs of this page, and new documentation will be added as available.


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sources of inspiration for your photography
Where do you find inspiration?
Photographers often find inspiration by studying the work of other photographers. I certainly do. For both professionals and amateurs there are amazing resources like the contest sections at PDNonline. With something like 3 million photos uploaded to Flickr every day there’s certainly no lack of photographic diversity and inspiration there. The internet is an incredible resource for finding images and technical information. Looking at photographs isn’t the only way to find inspiration, though.
I began photo assisting straight out of high school and, as a result, never attended college. Lacking a formal art education I’ve had to educate myself through visiting museums, the public library and meeting artists and other creative people through the course of my work. A large part of my personal inspiration comes from looking at what creative people have done and are doing in mediums other than photography. Painting, sculpture, literature, music and film all inform the way I look at the world.
Here’s what I’ve tried to pick up from other mediums:
Sculpture: I envy sculptors because they work with three dimensions, molding all dimensions into their desired vision. You’ve often heard the phrase “painting with light” but I prefer to approach photography as “sculpting with light”, in pursuit of capturing that three dimensional quality.
Painting: All of the art books told me I should appreciate the great impressionist painters. Well, I didn’t get it. Even a visit to the Art Institute in Chicago wasn’t providing any great revelations. Then I walked away from a collection of Monet’s paintings and looked back over my shoulder, viewing them from about 50 feet away. At that distance they became luminous and drew me back in. Then, for whatever reason, I “got it”. As a result I really like photographs that both provide a quick read and then have something for the viewer willing to stick around for a bit, the same effect Monet‘s paintings revealed.
Literature: Being totally honest, I don‘t make a lot of time for reading fiction. But ask me about Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” and a very strong mental image comes to mind of the Joad family trucking through the dust bowl during the Great Depression. I’ve also been “On the Road” with Jack Kerouac and am glad to have made it out alive. Literature provides the ultimate form of images, unrestricted mental images that aren’t limited by time, place or technical ability.
Music: Musician Tom Waits is an acquired taste. His vocals are rough and raw and his music is considered a collection of discordant noises by some. Waits’ signature is that his music often takes a good look at the downtrodden and often overlooked. For me, as a photographer, that’s a good lesson: seeking to present viewers with what they may otherwise overlook.
Filmmakers: Some of the strongest visual images I can recollect come from films. From the iconic black and white scenes in Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent classic “Metropolis” to the tension of Jim Jarmusch’s static camera in “Stranger Than Paradise”. It’s all storytelling with 24 still images per second.
Whether I’m always conscious of them or not, these are some of the things that influence the way I see the world and also the way that I photograph it. Where do you find inspiration?
- Jim T.

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As the rain dances on the roof of Nubia Farms, I wonder, “How many farmers right now are catching rain?” It’s amazing to see just one aspect of growing a can take a look at and realize how complicated it can become. Water is quite a hot commodity these days, with California reservoirs ranging anywhere from 9% to 66% capacity. California needs a lot of water.
How are we as farmers going to deal with it? We all need water to stay alive, plants more so than us. They’re made up of 90% water whereas animals are about 75% water by weight. The plant will use that water directly when it captures the light energy of the sun then transforms into useful food molecules. The reason for talking about water today is because it’s such an integral part of farming. How good is your water? Have you had it tested? How do you store it? How are you going deploy it and get it to the plants? Are you going to use a gravity-fed system? Are you hand-feeding them or using a mechanized pump system to feed your plants? The questions can keep going and going …
Mendocino is known for its wood, timber, soil trucks, and water tank trucks. I can’t tell you how many trucks I’ve seen rolling up the 101 with two, three, or even five tanks hitched up with each tank holding anywhere from 200 to 5000 gallons, sometimes taking up the entire flatbed. Now we don’t need to be as extravagant as a 5000-gallon tank unless that’s what is needed for what you will be growing. Start with a couple 50-gallon trash cans outside your house right off the drains from the gutters during the rainy season. Again, the amount you need to store depends on what you are growing and what you need to feed it.
Reflecting on the 2014 Lodge Lightning Fire
Last year up in Mendocino during the Lodge lightning fire, water trucks were a huge priority; there aren’t a lot of fire hydrants here like there are in suburbia. What few hydrants there were had water trucks lined up to fill their tanks to only then be driven down the street to feed the Black Hawk helicopters and other equipment. Around 2000 people helped fight this fire on the ground and in the sky.
Sparked by a lightning strike, the Lodge fire scorched over 12,000 acres, injured 15 people and destroyed local wildlife. Getting water from a water truck service was understandably tough business last summer. At the time, a few friends just about ran out of water for their plants, not something you want to have happen in the middle of July when you have 8-foot plants vegging ready to flower. On top of all the smoke choking the plants for oxygen and helicopters flying around all hours of the day like a war zone, the plants were already stressed. But that’s a completely different story.
How Some Farmers are Preparing to Conserve Water
Last week, I was speaking to a fellow farmer who upgraded to a 2 million-gallon water reservoir in anticipation of the upcoming grow season. They began this project once they realized that the reservoirs they were using would not be enough for them to last through the summer for what they wanted to grow. This year I have a friend not even using his outdoor garden to conserve on water for the state, and I myself am holding off on some world record pumpkin seeds given to me by a friend.
What measures are you taking to conserve water this summer? Sound off in the comments.

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GeneralPosted by Bob Woolnough Wed, June 20, 2012 12:38:27
I have this last couple of weeks uploaded some new pictures kindly donated by William Brown an ex-Mounted member, who has also kindly remembered the where and when they were taken along with some of the names.
I managed to obtain a copy of the 1955 RMP Journal Centenary Supplement this last week from which I have also posted some interesting pictures going back to 1855.
GeneralPosted by Bob Woolnough Fri, May 11, 2012 16:23:28
and welcome to the News spot.
I have been receiving more pictures from former members rcently so the Albums
section is starting to grow. If you have any pictures or stories from your time
in the Mounted I would be most grateful for them. The purpose of this site is
to build a history which is available to all for posterity.
Now that the Mounted has passed into the annals of history we are the last of
those that served so I would like to build an historic picture for those who
follow us to give them a reference to learn what life was like working and
playing in such a tight knit community as ours was.
I would especially like to thank George Woodall who has written two books now
on the history of the Mounted which are available from the RHQ shop. The second
book has only just been finished and released this year.
I would like to thank all of those people who have contributed so far and those
who have yet to do so.
If you have any suggestions for the website then please let me know.


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Eli Lilly has licensed exclusive worldwide rights to Ignyta’s Phase I taladegib oncology development program, in a deal the San Diego biotech said could generate up to $53 million-plus. Taladegib is an oral bioavailable small molecule hedgehog/smoothened antagonist. The compound has achieved clinical proof-of-concept and a recommended Phase II dose based on earlier clinical studies.
Ignyta said it also licensed Lilly to exclusive worldwide rights to the topical formulation of taladegib, a late preclinical program being developed for patients with superficial and nodular basal cell carcinoma.
Taladegib, LY2940680 (hedgehog/SMO antagonist), is a chemical entity that binds to the human SMO receptor and inhibits Sonic hedgehog-dependent expression of genes.
Vismodegib is another hedgehog/SMO antagonist that is approved as Erivedge, a prescription medicine used to treat adults with a type of skin cancer, called basal cell carcinoma, that has spread to other parts of the body or that has come back after surgery or that your healthcare provider decides cannot be treated with surgery or radiation.
In clinical studies, Erivedge was shown to have an objective response rate for metastatic and locally advanced basal cell carcinoma of the skin of 30% and 42%, respectively, with complete disappearance of locally advanced disease in half of the responders. The median duration of response in both groups was 7.6 months.
The Hedgehog pathway is a unique signaling system. Normally, Smoothened (SMO) is functionally inert (left) being confined by Patched (12 membrane-spanning receptor protein) in cytoplasmic vesicles. This sequestration seems to depend on the catalytic actions of Patched on Smoothened, which prevents Smoothened from moving into primary cilia. Under these conditions, Gli (red) is cleaved into a protein that moves to the nucleus, where it operates as a transcriptional repressor. However, when Hedgehog ligand (right) binds to Patched, the latter release Smoothened from its site of sequestration, and Smoothened moves onto the surface of the primary cilium and proceeds (in some unknown fashion) to prevent cleavage of Gli, enabling uncleaved Gli to move to the nucleus where it acts as an inducer of transcription.
Vismodegib (Erivedge) interferes with the Hedgehog pathway. The Patched (12 membrane-spanning receptor protein) normally disables Smoothened (7 membrane-spanning protein) rendering it functionally inert. This maintains transcription factor Gli in a cleaved state, acting as a transcriptional repressor. When Hedgehog proteins bind to Patched, Smoothened is released and protects Gli from cleavage. Uncleaved Gli travels to the nucleus and is an inducer of transcription, increasing Cyclin D1 and stimulating the cell cycle (proliferation). Vismodegib blocks the actions of Smoothened. It is administered orally in 150 mg capsules.
Taladegib inhibits cancer growth in cell lines containing a mutation in the gene encoding Smoothened that researchers had previously observed in patient with cancer who developed resistance to vismodegib. Taladegib binds to the Smoothened (Smo) receptor and potently inhibits Hedgehog (Hh) signaling.
Taladegib is also in clinical studies for the treatment of esophageal cancer in combination with paclitaxel, carboplatin and radiation therapy.

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Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, Dr Sekai Nzenza, whom social media said was on the run has said that she is in the country.
Reports had suggested that she was on the run following the arrest of Tourism Minister, Priscah Mupfumira, over seven counts of corruption and criminal abuse of office. Since the arrest of Mupfumira, Nzenza has not appeared in the public.
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Nzenza told the Herald that she was is in the country, and spent the weekend at her rural home in Chikomba East constituency. Speaking to the Herald, the minister said:
Good morning Africa (Moyo). Am in my rural village. Will send you photos soon.
She is said to have later sent the photo above which presents her in a vegetable garden.
These reports are in resonance by the report that was given by Secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, and Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi on Sunday. Mangwana said:
Having a lot of media enquiries around the whereabouts of Hon Minister Nzenza.
I have spoken to her and she assures the nation that she is in her constituency in Chikomba East and not on the run from anything or anyone and used strong terms to dismiss the circulating rumours.
Ziyambi Ziyambi also reported that Nzenza was in the country. He said:
I spoke to her last night (Saturday night). She is around; unless she had run away when I spoke with her. But I spoke with her, we were discussing about our work in Parliament next week (this week).
So, surely, that should be the social media for you.
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WA Police and media celebrate their brutality as another pursuit ends in crash [WA Today - 5/3/17]
A man who allegedly tailed and then rammed an undercover police car in Perth's southern suburbs on Saturday has been arrested and charged.
The incident occurred on Carrington Street in Hilton around 6am. ... [WA Today - 5/3/17]
Two teenagers in hospital after dirt bike crash in north Queensland [Brisbane Times - 5/3/17]:
A teenager is fighting for life in hospital after two dirt bikes crashed near Proserpine in north Queensland on Saturday evening.
Emergency services were called to the scene on Spoor Road at Crystal Brook about 7pm to find two teenagers with serious injuries.
An 18-year-old man was flown to Townsville Hospital in a critical condition with severe head injuries, while a 15-year-old boy suffered multiple fractures and was flown to Mackay Base Hospital.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating.
A 42-year-old man has died after his ute collided with a truck in far north Queensland.
The Captain Cook Highway at Clifton Beach, north of Cairns, was closed in both directions for several hours on Friday following the crash, which occurred about 12.20pm.
The 42-year-old Kewarra Beach man was taken to Cairns Base Hospital but died as a result of his injuries.
The 50-year-old male driver of the truck suffered minor injuries. [Yahoo - 3/3/17]
Truck rollover on Bruce Highway at Caloundra [Brisbane Times - 4/3/17]
A young man has died after the car he was a passenger in crashed in Southport early Saturday morning.
Initial investigations indicate the car was heading north on Olsen Avenue when it collided with a vehicle travelling south near the intersection with Griffith Way.
Emergency crews rushed to the scene at 1.30am, but the man, aged in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating. [MYGC - 4/3/17]
A man has died after the moped scooter he was riding was involved in a collision with a van at Labrador yesterday.
Police say that preliminary investigations suggest that around 9.00am, the van and the scooter were travelling north along Marine Parade when they came to a stop sign and collided.
The male rider of the scooter was rushed to the Gold Coast University Hospital with serious injuries, however he died a short time after arrival. ... [MYGC - 3/3/17]
A man has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after a car and motorbike collided at Labrador on the Gold Coast this morning.
The accident occurred just after 9.00am on Frank Street. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Teenager hospitalised after being hit by car on Sandgate Road, Toombul [Brisbane Times - 3/3/17]
Cyclist injured after being hit by a car, Surfers Paradise [MYGC - 2/2/17]
@QldAmbulance [5/3/17]: Male in his 40's w/ wrist fracture taken stable to QE2 Hospital after car & cyclist incident at Archerfield Rd #Richlands.
@QldAmbulance [5/3/17]: Man in his 40's with shoulder injury taken stable to Gatton Hospital after car and bicycle incident on William St #Gatton.
@QldAmbulance [5/3/17]: A 15 YOF taken to Lady Cilento Hospital Hospital with minor injuries after she was hit by a car on Mckean & Beerburrrum Rd #Caboolture
@QldAmbulance [5/3/17]: Paramedics treating a 13 YOM who was struck by a car whilst riding his scooter in ... #AlexandraHeadlands at 7:07pm
@QldAmbulance [4/3/17]: 25y/o male taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with facial injuries after he was hit by a car on Ipswich Road, #Wooloongabba about 8:40pm
A young man has died, nearly a week after he was hit by a bus on the Gold Coast.
The 22-year-old suffered severe head injuries when he was struck while walking along Nerang Broadbeach Road in Carrara around 10pm on Friday.
He had been in a critical condition in the Gold Coast Univeristy Hospital since the accident. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
One arrested after car slams into truck in Logan [MYGC - 27/2/17]
A man has been rushed to hospital in a serious condition after being pulled unconscious from water at Burleigh Heads this morning. ... [MYGC - 3/2/17]
A 29-year-old footballer has died in hospital after collapsing during an amateur league game in Eden Hill last Saturday.
The Bassendean Amateur Football Club player was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital on February 25 but died five days later, on Friday.
The incident occurred on the same day the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles competed in a pre-season game in Geraldton, with temperatures reaching 41 degrees.
At the time, BOM spokesman Neil Bennett tweeted, "It's simply insane to play in conditions like this".
The cause of the man's death, and whether it was heat-related, is not yet known. ... [WA Today - 5/3/17]
A man has been killed while working on a barge near the Barangaroo construction site in central Sydney.
The man, in his 30s, was standing on the barge just before 4.25pm when he was crushed by a large piece of steel. ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 1/3/17]
Backpackers allegedly break into Surfers Paradise home to use swimming pool and toilets [Nine MSN - 3/3/17]:
... "My wife rang me to say that some people had broken into our house. They’d been swimming in the pool and they’d raided the refrigerator," owner Terence O’Sullivan said.
The offenders allegedly broke in, used the swimming pool while blaring loud music, used the toilets and stole "Light and Easy" meals from the refrigerator.
At the same time, police said three other teenagers were stealing a tinny from another property nearby.
CCTV footage shows them sneaking through the backyard before becoming stranded on the canal after the boat’s motor wouldn’t start.
Within 30 minutes, police managed to arrest all six people.
The backpackers are facing several charges, including burglary and assault.
A Gold Coast property developer and two other men have faced court after being charged with hundreds of drug offences.
Steven John Seabrook, 55, is facing 296 charges, including supply and possession of dangerous drugs, following a Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigation into an alleged cocaine and ice syndicate.
Seabrook and co-accused George Boulos, 41, and Shaun Vincent Loader, 46, all faced Southport Magistrates Court charged with the offences. ... [Yahoo - 3/3/17]
Police discover elaborate, hydroponic cannabis set-up at Tallebudgera home [MYGC - 3/3/17]:
... A blue tongue lizard was also located at the home and wildlife officers were called in to remove the animal. ...
This week marks the start of new laws that will allow certain patients in Queensland – including on the Gold Coast – to legally access medicinal cannabis.
But there are concerns that affordability will be an issue for some patients. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Handguns and ammunition have been seized in a raid on the home of a Runaway Bay man with alleged links to outlaw motorcycle gangs. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Police from Queensland’s elite anti-bikie strike force have charged five members of outlaw motorcycle gangs with fraud, over the issuing of motorbike licences. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has announced $1 million will be spent on new CCTV cameras and lighting for the Broadwater Parklands. ... [MYGC - 28/2/17]
A Gold Coast man will spend the next week in jail after facing Byron Bay court today charged with murdering his wife by crashing their car into the Tweed River near Tumbulgum on October 18, 2015. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Lionel Patea sentenced to life for murder of Gold Coast mum Tara Brown [MYGC - 27/2/17]
Abortion decriminalisation bills withdrawn from Queensland Parliament agenda [ABC - 28/2/17]
Women seeking abortions are being turned away from Queensland hospitals [Buzzfeed – 15/7/16]
A Polish nanny brutally beaten and raped north of Brisbane last year has died in a car crash in her home country days before her alleged attacker was charged.
The Queensland Police Service confirmed the 24-year-old woman died this week after returning to Poland in December.
Acting Detective Superintendent Mick O'Dowd said it was "a very sad set of circumstances" and all the police involved had been moved by the news, which came a day after police charged a 28-year-old Petrie man with rape, assault with intent to commit rape and acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm. ... [Brisbane Times - 3/3/17]
Mother and daughter killed in Footscray fire shared 'enormous' love [The Age - 5/3/17]:
A mother and daughter killed in a fire in Footscray this week had an "enormous" love for each other, according to their distraught family.
Tanya and Zoe Elizabeth Burmeister were squatting in the former Kinnears rope factory in Footscray when a blaze erupted at 11.30pm on Wednesday.
The mother and daughter were killed, along with an unidentified male known as 'Bluey'.
Darren Patrick Clover, 52, is alleged to have lit the fire. He has been charged with three counts of murder, arson causing death and arson.
Sharren Jeffs said she was devastated to learn of the death of her daughter, Tanya, and beloved granddaughter, Zoe, in such tragic circumstances.
"The love they had for each other was just enormous," she said.
"I didn't know they were living there, I only found out it was them when my other daughter called to tell me."
Ms Jeffs said she was upset and angry that she hadn't heard directly from Victoria Police. ...
Woman’s body found inside home in Bankstown, in Sydney’s west [Nine MSN - 5/3/17]
Geraldton doctor Chamari Liyanage, who killed abusive husband, granted parole [ABC – 27/2/17]
Man charged over bashing in Surfers Paradise [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Accused torturer belted boy, dragged girl [Yahoo - 3/3/17]:
A man accused of punishing children with torturous "bootcamps" forced them to run through a forest, locked up and belted an autistic boy and made him drink bottles of Tabasco sauce, a court has heard.
Christopher Martin Munro has pleaded not guilty to the repeated torture of four children aged between four and 12 years old in a trial at the Brisbane District Court.
Throughout 2013, it's alleged Munro tortured the children, who are unrelated to him, as punishment for insulting each other, running, or being "too loud".
A witness, who cannot be identified, told the jury on Friday he would dump the children in a state forest on the Sunshine Coast and drive off, making them fear they would be abandoned.
On one occasion, a five-year-old girl was pulled by the hair by Munro as he drove for about two kilometres, while another man held a second girl through the rear window on the driver's side.
"They had to run to keep up," the witness told the court.
"They were screaming and trying to stop, saying they were tired."
The jury heard a police interview given by the oldest alleged victim in December 2014, where he told detectives he had large bruises after being hit by Munro with a large, grey strap.
The 12-year-old boy, who suffers from autism, said he was locked in a room for a week and prevented from seeing his mother as punishment for misbehaviour.
He was allowed out to use the toilet and was fed dinner at about 4pm, the court heard.
The boy also told the jury about other modes of punishment and described one incident after he had called other children names such as "stupid and silly".
"I like Tabasco sauce," he said.
"Every time, when I called (the children) bad names ... he used to get it out and he used to give it to me - the whole bottle."
At dusk, he was taken to a forest north of Brisbane and made to run behind a car until exhausted.
"I felt like I was going to faint," he said.
The boy also said he was afraid Munro would find out he had spoken about the alleged abuse.
Munro also allegedly ran "bootcamps", some lasting several days, during which he made the children repeatedly sit and stand and march on the spot, then punished them when they couldn't keep it up. The trial continues.
A Brisbane father whose young daughter died after prolonged physical and sexual abuse has had his sentencing unexpectedly adjourned to investigate whether he suffered a "psychological abnormality".
Matthew Lee Williamson had pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to the manslaughter of three-year-old Kyhesha-Lee Joughin but denied fatally harming the child.
After hearing two days of evidence, Justice Roslyn Atkinson was anticipated to hand down her findings on Thursday as to what role Williamson played in Kyhesha's painful death and his appropriate punishment.
But Williamson's case was adjourned until March 16 after his defence barrister Michael Copley requested a report into whether a "psychological abnormality" contributed to his conduct towards Kyhesha. ... [Yahoo - 2/3/17]
Kyhesha-Lee locked in room using rope, father's manslaughter sentencing hears [ABC - 1/3/17]
A 35-year-old man will face a Queensland court next month after being charged with child pornography offences.
The Goodna man was allegedly identified by the Crime and Corruption Commission during an ongoing investigation into people using peer-to-peer networks to share child exploitation material.
Police carried out a raid on the man's home late on Thursday, finding illegal video and image files, and he is set to face Ipswich Magistrates Court on April 5. [Yahoo - 3/3/17]
Three teenagers who used social media to boast about their Brisbane crime spree are facing more than 40 charges after members of the public dobbed them in.
Police say social media posts led them to a boy and a girl, both 15, and another boy aged 14.
They are now facing more than 40 charges over a string of burglaries and thefts across Brisbane's north over the past month.
The teens face charges including stealing, unlawful use of motor vehicles and burglary among others. [Yahoo - 3/3/17]
Murdered prisoner should not have been in Maryborough Correctional Centre: Queensland Coroner [Brisbane Times - 3/3/17]:
... Gordon, who suffered a fatal blow to his head from behind, was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, Mr Ryan found in a report handed down this week.
It followed an inquest he held in June and August last year.
"The failure to remove loose items of metal exercise equipment was an oversight that led to a catastrophic result," Mr Ryan said.
Gordon was in jail after a positive urine test resulted in him breaching the conditions of his parole in relation to an intensive correction order.
He had previously served short periods in custody on property-related offences.
Glebow, meanwhile, was sentenced to life imprisonment after he bashed Brisbane father Michael Greer to death in March 2000, after mistakenly assuming he was gay.
While Gordon was a slender man, with a frame less than 60 kilograms, Glebow was a feared prison "head" who had beaten and raped fellow inmates, the inquest heard. ...
The approval of an Instrument Landing System (ILS) for Gold Coast Airport has been confirmed by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
It comes more than a year after the original approval was challenged by local protest groups.
A review of the project timeline is underway to determine whether the ILS will be installed and operational in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. ... [MYGC - 2/3/17]
Board members sacked from embattled Queensland Sugar Limited in fight with competitor [ABC - 3/3/17]
Sugar companies Wilmar and Queensland Sugar Limited have reached an in-principle agreement to end a long-running stand-off that was threatening the harvest season in North Queensland.
Singaporean-owner miller Wilmar and marketing company QSL on Friday announced they had reached agreement on the three issues that had been holding up a deal.
QSL managing director Greg Beashel released a statement confirming the parties were now working on the next stage of the process. ... [Yahoo - 3/3/17]
Black lung found in 19th Queensland coal mine worker [Brisbane Times - 1/3/17]
Sanctuary calls on Queensland government to stop shooting Fraser Island dingoes [ABC - 5/3/17]
Australia's only hospital for frogs may be forced to move almost 150 kilometres from its home in the next month, as its owner struggles to find a suitable location in Cairns. ... [ABC - 3/3/17]
A Gold Coast prawn farmer says he will turn his attention to far north Queensland to keep his business afloat after white spot disease wipes out his southern business.
Seven prawn farms on the Logan River have tested positive to the devastating virus which causes productivity losses of up to 80 per cent.
One of the largest farms, Gold Coast Marine Aquaculture, lost 25 million black tiger prawns when it was forced to destock as part of the eradication program earlier this year.
General manager Nick Moore said the facility could be shut down for more than a year. ... [ABC - 1/3/17]
Bundaberg receives official drought declaration [Brisbane Times - 4/3/17]
Environmentalists want the Federal Government to scrutinise the proposed Colton mine, which they say will pour a billion litres of untreated waste into waters around the World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. ... [ABC - 28/2/17]
Judge denies Queensland University of Technology 18C racism appeal [ABC - 3/3/17]:
Queensland University of Technology administration officer Cindy Prior has been denied leave to appeal her racial discrimination case against three students.
Ms Prior attempted to sue three QUT students under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act for $250,000 after they posted comments on Facebook about being asked to leave an Indigenous-only computer room.
Federal Court Justice John Dowsett dismissed Ms Prior's case in November on the grounds it did not have reasonable prospects of successfully bringing a racial hatred case.
On Friday, Justice Dowsett denied her leave to appeal his decision. ...
Jemena has adapted its construction schedule for the pipeline aimed to connect Mount Isa and the eastern coast to the Northern Territory’s gas supply.
The construction of the Northern Gas pipeline between Tennant Creek and Mount Isa was due to start in April.
It will be delayed as the company finalises outstanding land access approvals with traditional owners in the Northern Territory.
A company spokesman said the approvals will be completed in several weeks, and the compressor stations in Phillip Creek and Mount Isa will be completed this year as planned.
Last month the Wakaya Aboriginal Land Trust lodged an emergency objection to the Northern Territory Government saying they had not consented to land clearing. [North West Star - 3/3/17]
Sir Angus Houston appointed University of the Sunshine Coast chancellor [Brisbane Times - 3/3/17]
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FREE THE REFUGEES!
Political prisoners display the faces of their friends who Australia has tortured, killed or disappeared - Nauru, May 2016
Australia imprisons other country's dissidents until they die or are deported [Guardian - 13/5/16]:
... On Wednesday a 26-year-old Bangladeshi man [Rakib] died of suspected heart failure in the Nauru hospital before he could be evacuated to Australia.
He had checked himself into the hospital two days earlier after – according to reports from Nauru – he ingested a large number of pills including Panadol.
A statement written by the young man to support his refugee claim said he fled Bangladesh after locals threatened to kill him and his boyfriend for having a homosexual relationship.
“The locals forced us to go to the local mosque, a five-minute walk away, and started to beat us in public in front of the mosque,” he said.
“[My boyfriend] and I were pleading with everyone to forgive us but they would not stop beating us. They said words to the effect of ‘if you rectify your actions we will not kill you. However if we catch you again we will kill you’.”
The couple were treated for injuries, but attacked several times again, he claimed.
He was threatened with dismemberment and blinding, and his parents disowned him.
He and his partner fled separately and never made contact again, he said. ...
Memorial for Rakib - Nauru, May 2016
Coercion of illegally held political prisoners on Manus Island continues unchallenged and unopposed by the Australian media, lawyers, "advocates" and human rights organisations [The National - 2/3/17]:
... According to Boochani, three asylum seekers from Lebanon and 12 from Bangladesh agreed to voluntarily leave the centre.
“They will be transferred in the next few days,” Boochani said.
“All of these men signed but the big problem is that all of them were under pressure and threatened by immigration for a long time.
“Nobody has done research about the people who went back to their countries during the past four years, so we don’t know what has happened to them.
“It’s hard to imagine the cruelty of this policy and how they have put so much pressure on people who had suffered incredibly for four years.”
Boochani said that the Resettlement Support Centre, a company contracted to assist refugees seeking permanent resettlement in the United States, interviewed about 20 refugees per day.
The Resettlement Support Centre was contracted by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
He said that there was uncertainty within the centre whether the resettlement deal between the Australian and the United States governments would eventuate.
“In Manus, there are no advisers for refugees to help them make decisions about their future,” he said.
“When refugees asked RSC (Resettlement Support Centre) company officers, they don’t give them any useful information.
“There is no assurance that they will reunite with their families and it’s very worrying .”
Why did Obama deport 85 Muslim asylum seekers to Bangladesh, India and Nepal? [Democracy Now - 8/4/16]
Why are the only pictures and videos of the #NoPrideInDetention float at the 2017 Sydney Mardi Gras being posted and tweeted by ALP advocates at Refugee Action Coalition Sydney? Have #NoPrideInDetention been bullied by the ALP again?
Where is the footage of the #NoPrideInDetention float from genuine activists?
@RAC_Sydney [4/3/17]: No Pride in Detention, No Pride in Turnbull: Mardi Gras Float ... Saturday 4 March from 4 pm #SydneyMardiGras
... I was a Staff Sergeant in the South African Police during and after the Apartheid era and I can honestly say, hand on heart, that I have never witnessed the injustice and ill-treatment of human beings that I witnessed at Bravo Camp, RPC Nauru. ... Nauru Senate Inquiry, Submission 98
Manus Island: Guardian Australia obtains six letters detailing persecution in Iran, detention centre abuse and fears about being exiled to Papua New Guinea, where homosexuality is illegal. [24/9/14]
Page 129: Information provided by the Salvation Army – Introduction to PNG Powerpoint Presentation (received 11 June 2014) [Senate Inquiry into the "incident at the Manus Island Detention Centre during 16 February to 18 February 2014"]
Fears for gay refugees on Manus Island [Star Observer - 20/12/13]:
... Since July when then- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd introduced a policy of resettling all refugees arriving by boat in either Manus Island or Nauru, the population at the Manus facility has tripled to over 1,000 people.
The report also highlighted claims of bullying of gay asylum seekers by staff and other detainees.
The most senior Australian immigration official on the island, Renate Croker, is also alleged to have warned gay asylum seekers that any sexual relations between them would be reported to the local police.
Amnesty International Australia refugee crisis spokesperson Graeme McGregor said they had spoken to gay men who detailed the extent to which they were forced to hide their true identities, including altering their asylum bids to remove any claims of sexuality persecution so as not to come to the attention of PNG authorities. ...
Joint media release with Kevin Rudd - Prime Minister, Mark Dreyfus - Attorney General and The Hon Tony Burke MP - Australian Minister for Immigration, Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship [19/7/13]
Women and children, including unaccompanied minors, will be among those sent to Nauru and Manus Island for processing under a hardline approach aimed at sending a message to people smugglers that there will be no exemptions.
With the first batch of about 40 asylum seekers to be flown this week to Nauru, where a temporary tent city has been erected, the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said he would not be issuing any blanket exemptions to people sent offshore because these would be exploited by the people smugglers. ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 12/9/12]
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North Texas quarterback Austin Aune is back with the Mean Green, preparing for another season.
The former Argyle standout was enrolled in classes and with the team when it returned from a break for the holidays, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Denton Record-Chronicle on Thursday afternoon.
Aune spent six years playing minor league baseball before shifting his focus to football. He turned 28 in September and said that he would consider his future after the season.
Aune got married in May and has a daughter due next month. He was a sophomore in terms of eligibility last season.
“I consider myself a super senior,” Aune said after UNT’s win over UTSA to cap the regular season. “I want to get a bowl win and then assess things after that. I have a little girl on the way. I will talk to my family and see what is best from there.”
UNT went on to fall to Miami (Ohio) in the Frisco Football Classic to finish 6-7 after playing in a bowl game for the fifth time in six seasons.
Aune played a key role in UNT recovering from a 1-6 start to win five straight games and become bowl eligible.
Jace Ruder started the first four games of the season before UNT turned to Aune. He went on to throw for 1,991 yards and nine touchdowns.
What might have been even more important was the tone Aune set while showing faith in the Mean Green’s ability to recover from a rough start. UNT lost six straight games following a season-opening win over Northwestern State.
Aune consistently said that UNT was close to breaking through during that slide. He threw for 121 yards and led the Mean Green with 65 rushing yards in an overtime win over Rice that broke UNT’s losing streak.
The win sparked UNT, which won three more must-win games heading into its regular season finale against UTSA. Aune threw for 116 yards in the Mean Green’s 45-23 upset of the Roadrunners, who were ranked No. 15 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll.
Aune threw for 228 yards with two interceptions in UNT’s loss to Miami (Ohio) to cap the season.
Aune’s return will add to what is expected to be a heated quarterback race. UNT signed two mid-term transfers in Stone Earle (Abilene Christian) and JD Head (Louisiana Tech).
Ruder, who transferred to UNT from North Carolina ahead of the 2021 season, is also expected to return.
“Quarterbacks are always hard to pass up,” UNT coach Seth Littrell said during his midterm signing day press conference in December. “You can’t ever have enough because of the way it’s gone today. You’ve got guys who are sort of a revolving door. I felt like that was definitely an area of need. We were going to end up taking two.”
Those newcomers will have a chance to compete with Aune this spring as he looks to extend his unusual journey in athletics. He committed to TCU in the spring of 2011 and enrolled at the school before the New York Yankees selected him in the second round of the 2012 draft.
Aune signed with the Yankees after they offered him a $1 million signing bonus and spent six seasons playing in the minor leagues. He never found traction in baseball and elected to shift his focus to football.
Aune spent the spring of 2018 at Arkansas before transferring to UNT. He was a backup for two seasons and then split time with Jason Bean in 2020. Bean left the program after the season and transferred to Kansas.
Aune has thrown for 3,777 yards and 23 touchdowns with UNT, where he has emerged as a leader for younger players.
“What separated him from our other quarterbacks is the way he leads the team,” wide receiver Roderic Burns said last season. “He’s never in panic mode. It’s great to know that we have a quarterback who is going to help us find a way to win.”

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