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PPP has received two e-mails today, both blind carbon copied, asking us to start polling Hillary Clinton against John McCain to show that she is the stronger candidate than Barack Obama. They say this will show she should be nominated at the convention.
Does anyone know who's behind this? They're pasted below:
From: TIL [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Tue 8/12/2008 7:06 PM
To: self
Dear Pollster,
Since Barack Obama has been performing weakly in the polls against John McCain, and also considering the fact that almost two-thirds of
Americans want a Democrat for president, I ask you to please place
Hillary Clinton's name in your presidential polls from now until at
least the convention.
As neither of the two Democratic candidates have the minimum delegate numbers, there is currently still no certified
nominee. It is not too late for the party to re-evaluate (or validate)
their choice with a viable comparison. Perhaps it is time for the pulse
of the American people to be taken again?
Hillary was way ahead of McCain when the polls were done soon after she suspended her campaign.
It would also be of great interest to know how Hillary still polls versus the other Democratic candidate and John McCain in important big states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter. I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Teresa Lim
From: Jessi [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Tue 8/12/2008 1:47 PM
Subject: Polling on Sen. Clinton...
I've read all your latest polls on Barack Obama vs. John McCain, Would you consider doing some polling as to what would happen if Sen. Clinton were the nominee against McCain? After all, there is no democratic nominee yet, only a presumptive nominee.
Thanks! it would be very interesting.
Jessi LC
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Hillary Spammers
Posted by Tom Jensen at 6:09 PM
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Gold Drops to Near 4-Week Low on Economic Optimism
Gold fell for a second straight day on Wednesday and hit its lowest in nearly four weeks as investors shifted their money into risky assets for better returns on renewed optimism over the U.S. economy. Bullion has slipped more than 3% since hitting a 1-month high in March as fears about the debt crisis in Europe subsided, Wall Street rallied and recent strong U.S. economic data curbed safe-haven demand.
Gold fell as much as 0.8% to $1,563.06 an ounce, its weakest since March 8, after hitting an intraday day high initially of $1,576.91 on bargain hunting. By 0306 GMT, it stood at $1,568.16 an ounce, down $7.08. Weaker gold prices dragged down other precious metals, with silver falling to its lowest since August. "Actually, all depends on the flavour of the day. Now, I suppose sentiment has shifted.
Perhaps, with the U.S. economy on a stronger footing, it's better to be in equities," said CIMB regional economist Song Seng Wun. "Perhaps one should take a bit more risk. It is more of a case of people taking money off the table from gold because they are not quite sure where the technical downside is for gold at this point." U.S. data showed on Tuesday February factory orders rose 3 percent, slightly above expectations.
U.S. gold for June delivery fell $7.40 an ounce to $1,568.50. The Nikkei rose on Wednesday after the benchmark S&P 500 index climbed to within striking distance of an all-time intraday high, while the euro was subdued ahead of policy decisions by the European Central Bank. Investors were awaiting the release of the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report on Friday, which may confirm market views the Federal Reserve wants to maintain its extremely accommodative monetary policy.
Two Fed officials voiced cautious optimism on Tuesday the U.S. economy was on a lasting upswing, but they offered differing views on what that outlook ought to mean for the central bank's controversial programme of buying bonds to stimulate growth. Fears that central banks' money-printing to buy assets will stoke inflation have been a key driver in boosting gold, which rallied to an 11-month high in October last year after the Fed announced its third round of aggressive economic stimulus. "
There is a lack of interest in gold right now and everybody seems to be sitting on the sidelines. Stocks are still looking more attractive for investors than gold and that's where money continues to flow into," said Yuichi Ikemizu, branch manager for Standard Bank in Tokyo . "The $1,550 level is the low for the current ranges and I doubt that prices will break below that level." Gold contracts on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange extended losses as Japanese investors shrugged off tensions between North and South Korea. North Korean authorities were not allowing any South Korean workers into a joint industrial park on Wednesday, South Korea's Unification Ministry and a Reuters witness said, adding to tensions between the two countries.


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Season 2: Stories from the Stage: Season 2
SEASON TWO connects you to 75 masterful storytellers from across the country and around the world, who share powerful real stories.
You can't win if you don't play. And playing can make all the difference.
Game On!
Rocky top refers to a TN place that's tough to plant...yet fertile for great storytelling.
Rocky Top Remembers
Our relationship with clothes encompasses a whirlwind of emotions...from envy to joy.
All Dressed Up
What is a life worth living? Certainly a life well lived...because it only happens once.
You Only Live Once
When it comes to sports, first place isn't always the best place.
For the Win
From the heart of rural America, life in the country is simple...yet also complicated.
Tennessee Backroads
Food lives at the place where connection, community - and sometimes courage - meet.
A relationship blooms for an unlikely pair who meet for an even less likely reason.
Love Calls
From fateful dates to unexpected connections, romance is sparked in unbelievable ways.
How We Met
When we choose to be courageous, the consequences are life changing.
No Matter What
Sometimes when we least expect it, life throws us a big, fat curveball.
When rain falls, sometimes you have to grab an umbrella and just do your very best.
Rain or Shine
Challenges come as a total surprise.
Didn't See That Coming
Day by day, meal by meal, food becomes a part of who we are.
Food for Thought
It has often been said that experience is the best teacher.
Food is central to life but it also shapes us in ways that extend beyond the gastronomic.
Sugar & Spice
Unexpected moments can lead to a "breakthrough."
Holidays: Cheers, Tears and Fears
A lot of emotions goes into making a holiday a holiday...and not just the happy ones.
Holidays: Cheers, Tears and Fears
Holidays can bring unforgettable moments...or they can descend into nightmares.
Holidays: The Good, The Bad
Eureka! Sometimes that moment of personal discovery comes when you least expect it.
Sometimes we choose our new beginnings, but perhaps more often we are thrust into them.
New Beginnings
Life is full of opportunities to begin again.
Fresh Start
We lose things. But when we also find things unexpectedly, it can seem like a miracle.
Lost and Found Part 2
Family. Sometimes they choose us, sometimes we choose them.


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As Enterprise heads toward its rendezvous with Degra and a fateful meeting with the Xindi Council, the crew faces a dangerous trek. To reach their destination, they must enter a subspace corridor guarded by the Kovaalans, a species that isn't very tolerant of trespassers. As Archer attempts to devise a game plan, the crew detects another ship. Strangely enough, it's an NX-class Starfleet vessel ... and as it approaches, it becomes apparent that its designation is Enterprise NX-01!
The ship's captain, Lorian, hails Enterprise and tells them to alter their heading. He then comes aboard Archer's Enterprise and tells the captain that the current mission will not be successful. If Archer takes his ship into the subspace corridor, it will be thrown back in time 117 years. This, Lorian says, is what happened to his Enterprise. His ship has been in the Delphic Expanse for over a century and he's here to prevent it from happening again. Lorian goes on to explain that his crew attempted to destroy the first Xindi probe, but were unsuccessful. Now, he wants to make sure Archer reaches his rendezvous with Degra and prevent the second attack from happening. Lorian's plan is to modify Enterprise's injector assembly using alien technology to enable the ship to reach high warp speeds for brief intervals. That way, Enterprise will be able to avoid the subspace corridor altogether.
Archer wants to believe Lorian, but he can't help but be skeptical. Lorian and his first officer, Karyn Archer, have Phlox confirm that they are indeed descendants from the original crew — Karyn is Archer's great-granddaughter and Lorian is the son of T'Pol and Trip. Archer decides to proceed with Lorian's plan.
As the two crews work together to modify the current Enterprise, everyone learns a little bit about their future selves. Trip enjoys bonding with his half-Vulcan son, but is unsettled to learn that he died when the boy was a teenager. Hoshi learns that she had two children, while Mayweather finds out that he ended up with MACO Corporal McKenzie. Reed is somewhat disappointed to learn that he remained a bachelor. On the other end of the spectrum, many of the crew are descendants of Phlox, who had nine children. Archer, meanwhile, enjoys some quality time with his great-granddaughter, who reveals that Archer's wife was an Ikaaran woman named Esilia, whom he rescued from an anomaly field. Karyn also has another surprise for Archer — she leads him to a senior officer's quarters on her ship, where someone wants to say hello. Inside the quarters, Archer is shocked to find an elderly T'Pol. The elderly T'Pol has apparently been influenced by her time living with humans — she embraces Archer and remarks that it's good to see him. She also hands him a PADD and asks him to give it to her younger self.
The younger T'Pol examines the PADD and explains that her older self doesn't think Lorian's plan will work. She's discovered a discrepancy in her son's calculations, and is afraid there's a chance that Enterprise could be destroyed if it exceeds a certain warp speed. The elderly T'Pol believes Enterprise should try the subspace corridor — it may be possible to reconfigure the impulse manifolds, which should prevent the corridor from destabilizing and history from repeating itself.
Archer tells Lorian that he's going to proceed with the elderly T'Pol's plan. Lorian, however, is unconvinced it will work and is afraid that Archer is just dooming Enterprise and humanity all over again. Lorian secretly forms an alternate plan — he will forcibly take the injectors from Archer's ship so that he can reach the rendezvous point and meet with Degra himself. Lorian takes the injectors, but Archer's on to him and the two Enterprises engage in battle. Lorian is ready to do whatever it takes to accomplish his mission, but Karyn Archer makes him see reason — the people on the other Enterprise are family. She won't allow Lorian to kill them. Finally, Lorian stands down.
Back on the current Enterprise, Archer confronts Lorian about his actions. The captain of the future Enterprise finally reveals the reasons behind his intense devotion to this mission. He devoted his entire life to preventing the Xindi probe from launching, but in the end, his only option was to send Enterprise on a collision course with the probe. His emotions took over — he couldn't sentence his crew to death. The Xindi probe launched all over again and seven million lives were lost. Archer sympathizes with Lorian, but tells him that all that matters now is what they do next. Archer wants to take Enterprise into the subspace corridor and complete his mission. It will be a lot easier if the two crews work together.
As both Enterprise crews get to work, T'Pol finally has an encounter with her elderly self. The older T'Pol tells her that the emotions she accessed with her trellium experimentation will never fully go away. She must learn to embrace them and live with them. The elderly T'Pol also hints that there's someone onboard who can help the younger T'Pol with these emotions — Trip. The younger T'Pol is a bit uncomfortable with this idea, and says that she doesn't know what she wants. The elderly T'Pol, however, assures her that she will someday.
Once the modifications to the current Enterprise are complete, the two ships head for the subspace corridor, with Lorian's vessel shadowing Archer's. Working together, the two ships manage to fight off the Kovaalan vessels, but as the Kovaalans re-group, Lorian tells Archer to head for the rendezvous. His ship will distract the Kovaalans, engaging them in battle, and he will follow Archer as soon as he can. Archer agrees and successfully navigates his way through the corridor. Once he's on the other side, however, he doesn't hear from Lorian's ship again. T'Pol speculates that the other Enterprise did not survive the battle, but Archer isn't so sure. Perhaps the fact that Enterprise successfully made it through the corridor means that history has corrected itself, and Lorian's Enterprise never existed. But that poses the question: why would they remember them?
Before they can dwell on this for too long, Enterprise is hailed — it's Degra. The time to face the Xindi Council has finally arrived.


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NFL: Seahawks say ticket limits in NFC championship game vs. 49ers were to avoid brokers
RENTON, Wash. – The Seattle Seahawks say their decision to limit ticket sales for the NFC championship game to certain states was due to concerns over ticket brokers.
The Seahawks sold out a small allotment of available tickets — less than 3,000 — in less than 30 minutes Monday. The team has taken heat for excluding fans with billing addresses in California from purchasing tickets to Sunday's game between the Seahawks and San Francisco.
The team says that when tickets went on sale for the playoff game against New Orleans, brokers had found a way to manipulate the system and acquire most of them, then increasing the price on the open market.
Seattle announced its decision to limit sales to those with billing addresses in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, Alaska and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta after Saturday's win over New Orleans and before the Seahawks knew their opponent.


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# Incorporation meeting - sign Articles, Bylaws, file with state
# Incorporation meeting - sign Articles, Bylaws, file with state
# Obtain bank account
# Obtain bank account
# Find a space
# Find a space
# Throw party
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'''Bigass Bylaws Meeting!!'''
'''Bigass Bylaws Meeting!!'''
Latest revision as of 22:29, 19 June 2008
Main results:[edit]
(See discussion below for how we got here.)
Option 2 - Board + Members.
Initial Board Members (5):
- Mitch Altman
- Jake Appelbaum
- Rachel McConnell
- Andy Issacson
- Noah Balmer
Initial Officers (3):
- Executive Director - Jake Appelbaum
- Treasurer - Mitch Altman
- Secretary - David Molnar
Next Steps[edit]
- Jake asks Wendy Seltzer to contribute suggestions
- Mitch takes bylaws to Carol Gee for review (David M. paying for 1 hr time)
- Final drafting/editing of bylaws
- Incorporation meeting - sign Articles, Bylaws, file with state
- Obtain bank account
- Find a space, sign lease
- Throw party
How We Got There[edit]
These are partial notes on our four-hour-plus discussion. Please add or modify for accuracy as needed.
- Points brought up in favor of Option 1 over Option 2 included:
- Difficulty of obtaining 50%+1 of all members for major decisions (bylaws amendment involving Member rights, kicking out Board members), given that we have trouble gathering that many people for meetings now.
- Increased overhead in record-keeping involving Members
- "Interested persons" for IRS purposes (e.g., we have to be aware of how we pay board members and Members, since the IRS may be concerned that we are using our non-profit status improperly)
- Membership meetings must be noticed 10 days in advance
- Bringing up new business not included in meeting notice needs 1/3 of all membership
- Perceived benefits for Option 2 not specific to Option 2
- Listening to will of membership could be achieved through strong mission statement
- Oversight relies on interested parties and culture of transparency ; Option 2 by itself would not prevent problems such as seen in Hackers On A Plane. The fix for problems of that kind is better governance and transparency in day to day operations.
- External bylaws do not need to reflect all details of internal governance
- and in the case of consensus process, cannot reflect such details due to CA law
- Points brought up in favor of Option 2 over Option 1 included:
- Principle of Members electing Board and other Members
- Members can recall non-performing Board member
- Avoids self-perpetuating clique of Board members
- Option 2 "light" - we envision Member meetings (i.e., formal meetings, as defined by law) only for elections, plus cases where Members believe Board is taking the wrong tack and want to discuss (we envision that Members, along with other participants of Noisebridge, will be continually engaged in open dialog about issues of interest and concern)
- Day to day operations are up to Board + Officers, and in particular they can do things like negotiate a lease without needing to always have lease approved by all Members
- Greater investment of Members will tend towards more transparent culture, more oversight, therefore tend to avoid problems such as seen in Hackers On A Plane.
- External bylaws should closely as possible reflect internal governance
- if we have members playing a large role in decisions, they should also be Members
- We briefly discussed an Option 1 with a large Board of Directors (all "Members" are "Directors")
- Pro: avoid some of the overhead of Option 2, keep principle of everyone in control
- Con: large board unwieldy even w/committees, Board members have duty of care, duty of loyalty, no one has any idea if we could get directors&officers insurance for such a thing
- We also briefly discussed having officers replaced by very small shell scripts. The point would be to effectively "unbundle" some of the powers of each officer, by having a legal entity that delegated some powers as needed to different persons (e.g. an "education president" and a "sysadmin president" getting powers as needed from a small shell script serving as board of directors.) The idea owes a debt to Charles Stross _Accelerando_. Unfortunately, California law does not appear to allow shell scripts to serve as directors. David M. pointed out that in Accelerando this trend leads directly to all "normal" humans (i.e. non posthumans) being unable to function successfully in the resulting economy and so they must all emigrate to Saturn.
Final positions: (Thanks to Matt for his notes; the "counted as" come from there. Edit if you disagree with characterization.)
After exploring our options and discussing the pros and cons, this is roughly where we ended up:
- Noah Balmer felt strongly that Option 1 was preferable due to decreased overhead and to the problems that could result from apathetic Members in Option 2. Would not block if we decided to implement Option 2, but he would not vote for it and thought it was the wrong direction.
- Jake Appelbaum felt strongly that Option 2 was preferable due to principle of member control plus past bad experiences with Hackers On A Plane. David Molnar preferred Option 2 with the understanding that it would be "light" and membership meetings happen rarely, but would not block Option 1.
- Rachel could go either way, slightly preferred option 1, but counted as neutral.
- Andy could go either way, slightly preferred option 2, but counted as neutral.
- Matt could go either way, pointing out that we all want to focus on real hacking and not on law hacking, and counted as neutral.
- Mitch would not block either way, but preferred option 2, counted as option 2.
- Eec and Audrey abstained.
The decision was Option 2, with the clarification that the day to day running is handled by the Board and Officers. The Members have formal meetings rarely, mainly to elect Board and new Members.
We then discussed initial board members and initial officers. The results emerged without objections and are recorded above. Finally we talked about next steps and called it a night.
Agenda & Pre-Meeting Notes[edit]
Bigass Bylaws Meeting!!
Two already written up versions of our bylaws will be written up and ready to choose between. Everyone interested in finishing off the bylaws will be locked in a room, and no one gets out till we choose between option 1 (without big-M Members) or option 2 (with big-M Members), and we have our bylaws typed up and ready to mail out to the state!
If we choose Option 2, we will need to decide whether to approve the suggestion that we have a lawyer (perhaps Carol Gee, who we met with earlier about our bylaws) take a look at them before mailing in our bylaws (since bylaws with big-M Members are more complex, legally). David has graciously offered to pay for an hour of lawyer fees for this. If approved, we will need to choose the lawyer.
Here is the Bylaws, with Option 1 parts in yellow, and Option 2 parts in green (and all parts in common are in black):
Here are some notes for discussion (taken at the committee meeting where we came up with Option 1 and Option 2 Bylaws):
A formal method for accepting new Members (big-M or little-M). Option 1: active people get together and say they are cool with a person becoming a member Option 2: same as Option 1, but we also need to have a meeting where Members vote a Member in.
Article II, Section 1, Option 2: Two months, or three, or ?
Note: if we have big-M Members, the minimum notice for an agenda item is 10 days, so if someone wants to bring up an agenda item, they may need to bring it up 3 meetings away (e.g, if it's Monday the 1st of the month, the next meeting is 1 day notice, the 2nd meeting is 8 days, but the 3rd meeting is 15 days, which is OK). But if there is a meeting where there is a quorum (with more than 1/3 (or X%), then something new can be brought up.
Article II, Section 8, Option 2: If 2/3 needed for kicking out a board member, then might be difficult to get rid of them, since it is 2/3 of all Members (not just 2/3 of a quorum). If 50%+1, then easy for a clique to get rid of a board member as soon they get a majority
Article III, Section 1, Option 2: We need a lawyer to word this section for us.


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|Louisiana Division
New Orleans Public Library
|Administrations of the Mayors of New Orleans
Joseph A. Shakspeare (1837-1896)
Joseph Ansoetegui Shakspeare, a native of New Orleans, was born April 12, 1837. His father was Samuel Shakspeare, a Quaker, and his mother, Mariana Mathias, a native of Switzerland. Joseph was the eldest of seven children.
He received a practical education and having early developed a taste for mechanical work, followed in the footsteps of his father and started work in his shop. He applied himself closely and gained a thorough and practical knowledge of the many intricate and diversified branches of iron founding. For many years he worked in the same institution at whose head he was at the the of his death. In order to gain greater knowledge of the craft, he apprenticed himself to the Novelty Iron Works of New York City and after two years he returned to his native city and again entered the employ of his father.
In 1863, he married Miss Antoinette Kroos, a native of Berlin, Germany. This union was blessed with five children, Mrs. W. H. Henderson, Mrs. F. F. Fairchild, Mrs. John Dymond, Jr., and Mrs. Nelvil Peuch; his only son, Joseph, Jr., died at the age of twelve.
On December 16, 1880, he was elected Mayor. The census at that time showed a population of 216,000 and in spite of many obstacles the city continued to grow. Mayor Shakspeare was a man of unusual strength of character and he was known for his sincere desire to promote public welfare; he was very intellectual and had exceptional executive ability.
The principal events during his administration were: A contract with the New Orleans & Pacific Railroad permitting the line to use the "batture" facing the city; the sale of the franchise to the New Orleans, Carrollton Railroad Company for a period of twenty-five years for the sum of $271,000. He also advocated the establishment of a paid Fire Department instead of the contract system. He was not able to make this possible during his time, but kept the idea before the public. His administration was one of reform and improvement. The Shakspeare Almshouse was built with the proceeds of high licenses collected from the gambling houses which were reduced in number from approximately eighty to about sixteen.
As previously narrated, Joseph Shakspeare served this city as Mayor from 1880 to 1882. He was again called to serve the city as Mayor for a term of four years. He did so from 1888 to 1892. Only once before had a Mayor of New Orleans served two terms and that was John T. Monroe who served from 1860 to 1862 and again in 1866.
Notwithstandng the financial difficulties encountered by him upon taking office, considerable public work was done during this regime, most especially paving of the streets for which purpose gravel and chert were used, asphalt being little known at that time. Coliseum Street was the first one to be paved with chert and gravel, in fact, the first street in New Orleans on which these materials were used. The Coliseum Street car line was built, using electricity for motive power. It was not, however, until 1894 that electricity was used generally, when it was adopted by the St. Charles Street car line. – Electric light was another great improvement which made its first appearance under Shakspeare's term. The first electric lights were located on Magazine and Dryades Streets.
It was during his administration that Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the Confederacy, died in New Orleans at the home of the Associate Justice Charles E. Fenner, at the corner of First and Camp Streets, on the night of December 6, 1889. – The body was sent to the City Hall where it lay in state and thousands of people filed past the coffin to look for a last time upon the face of the man who had presided over the destinies of the Confederacy during the entire period of its brief existence. The deceased was dressed in a suit of Confederate gray and the council chamber was profusely decorated with the somber trappings bespeaking the gloom that dwelt in the hearts of the thousands to whom he was dear. The funeral services were held the following Wednesday morning at the entrance to the City Hall and it was one of the most impressive ever held in the United States. He was buried in the Metairie Cemetery and a few years later his body was transferred to Richmond, Virginia, where it now lies.
The Howard Library, donated to the city by Mrs. Annie Howard Parrat, was formally opened on March 4, 1889. William Beer was appointed librarian. The Louisiana Historical Society was organized in March 1889, to collect and preserve relics of the Southern Confederacy. In January 1891, this organization occupied an annex to the Howard Library erected for this use through the generosity of Mr. Frank T. Howard, the gift of Mrs. J. L. Harris. A beautiful chapel was erected alongside Christ Church on St. Charles Avenue and in July 1890, the Sophia Newcomb Memorial College for young women was built on Washington Avenue, the gift of another generous woman, Mrs. J. L. Newcomb.
A most sensational episode during his administration was the assassination of Chief of Police, D. C. Hennessy, the arrest and trial of a number of Italians at the hands of a mob. The Italian Government, through Foreign Minister, Marquis Budini immediately took action to bring the matter before the Department of State in Washington. It removed its Minister from Washington and this step led to the withdrawal of the American Ambassador from Rome. Later, however, the United States Government paid an indemnity to the Italian Government of $125,000 francs.
As a member of the legislature during very unsettled times, he commanded the respect and admiration not only of his friends, but of his opponents as well, who were forced to recognize his ability. Notwithstanding all these qualities, he was modest and of a retiring nature and shrank from notoriety and publicity. In appearance he was a man of commanding presence, splendidly proportioned and of noble bearing. He was an entertaining conversationalist, possessing an inexhaustible stock of anecdotes and when relating some amusing incident, his eyes would sparkle with great merriment.
He died January 22, 1896 and was buried from his residence No. 1616 Carondelet Street.
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By Mark Teale
14 July 2021
(Realise Your Dream)
As we age the prospect of residential aged care starts to become more of an issue – one that we all hope to avoid. I am sure for those of us who have parents in residential aged care, regardless of how good the care is, the thought of entering a nursing home ourselves is not something we want to think about in a great deal of detail.
So, when the issue becomes a reality, what are the first steps that need to be taken to ensure that I – or in this example my widowed mum – can effectively enter a residential aged care facility without too many dramas.
1. Complete an ACAT assessment
You can't drive mum to the closest nursing home and ask if they have a room available for her. Your mum needs to have an ACAT assessment to say that she is eligible from a health perspective to enter residential aged care.
What is an ACAT assessment?
ACAT stands for Aged Care Assessment Team. This is a team of medically qualified people who can assess your mum's health and decide on a suitable plan to ensure your mum is cared for and receives the necessary medical care.
How do I find my local Aged Care Assessment Team?
A very good government website myagedcare.gov.au will provide you with direction on applying for an assessment. After the assessment is completed, a letter will be forwarded to you or your mum in this example, outlining the level of care that she is entitled to receive.
It is important that the letter provides the necessary residential aged care approval to ensure mum can enter a residential aged care facility.
You now have the correct ACAT Assessment letter and mum can now consider entering a nursing home.
2. Figure out how much you need to pay
There are forms that need to be completed and there are a couple of different forms which are relevant to a person's circumstances.
In mums' case, as she is a widow and in receipt of an age pension who owns her home, she will need to complete an SA 485 which will ask questions concerning her home, its value and whether she is planning to rent the home or sell the property. The reason why it is not necessarily asking her about her other assets and income is because Centrelink already have these details.
If mum was not in receipt of an age pension, she would need to complete a far more detailed and comprehensive SA 457 form as Centrelink does not have any income or asset details because she is not in receipt of an age pension.
If you are confident in using the internet, there is also a dynamic SA486 form that you can complete online which changes the questions on an ongoing basis depending on the answers you have provided to the previous question.
These forms are all available on myagedcare.gov.au, which provide a good explanation of who should be completing what form.
These forms can be completed before mum needs to enter the home so that mum and you in this example are aware of the fees, but do not panic if you are not able to do so as they certainly can be completed after mum has entered the aged care facility.
A few weeks after completing and lodging the forms, mum will receive a letter from Services Australia outlining her fees and whether she needs to pay a Refundable Accommodation Deposit
3. You can now relax!
Not quite, after mum enters the aged care facility her fees are reviewed on a quarterly basis in January, March, July, and September. The aged care facility will receive notification of the review and any possible change in the fees, with necessary adjustments being made for the fees which have been paid in the last three months.
So, even though mum is now safely residing in the aged care facility you still need to be diligent to ensure that mum's fees are correct, and her financial circumstances are reviewed and kept up on date on a regular basis.
I understand that you now may have questions as to what fees mum may have to pay, if this is the case then you may find the following link to a previous RYD blog helpful – Residential Aged Care 101 – the basics.
If you still are unsure of the process and have questions speak to an expert who can fully explain and the issues you and your mum may face when it does come time for her to enter residential aged care.
Peter Kelly
PK believes people have the right to accurate, affordable and unbiased information that addresses all aspects of their preferred retirement lifestyle, thereby giving them the opportunity to make informed decisions that will empower them to live out their lives with dignity, certainty and security.
Mark Teale
Tealey's ambition is to change how people think about their retirement, he wants people to dream, plan and realise retirement is not defined by a magical age prescribed by the legislation.
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Salmon Virus Indicts Chile's Fishing Methods
PUERTO MONTT, Chile — Looking out over the low green mountains jutting through miles of placid waterways here in southern Chile, it is hard to imagine that anything could be amiss. But beneath the rows of neatly laid netting around the fish farms just off the shore, the salmon are dying.
A virus called infectious salmon anemia, or I.S.A., is killing millions of salmon destined for export to Japan, Europe and the United States. The spreading plague has sent shivers through Chile's third-largest export industry, which has left local people embittered by laying off more than 1,000 workers.
It has also opened the companies to fresh charges from biologists and environmentalists who say that the breeding of salmon in crowded underwater pens is contaminating once-pristine waters and producing potentially unhealthy fish.
Some say the industry is raising its fish in ways that court disaster, and producers are coming under new pressure to change their methods to preserve southern Chile's cobalt blue waters for tourists and other marine life.
"All these problems are related to an underlying lack of sanitary controls," said Dr. Felipe C. Cabello, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at New York Medical College in Valhalla that has studied Chile's fishing industry. "Parasitic infections, viral infections, fungal infections are all disseminated when the fish are stressed and the centers are too close together."
Industry executives acknowledge some of the problems, but they reject the notion that their practices are unsafe for consumers. American officials also say the new virus is not harmful to humans.
But the latest outbreak has occurred after a rash of nonviral illnesses in recent years that the companies acknowledge have led them to use high levels of antibiotics. Researchers say the practice is widespread in the Chilean industry, which is a mix of international and Chilean producers. Some of those antibiotics, they say, are prohibited for use on animals in the United States.
Many of those salmon still end up in American grocery stores, where about 29 percent of Chilean exports are destined. While fish from China have come under special scrutiny in recent months, here in Chile regulators have yet to form a registry that even tracks the use of the drugs, researchers said.
The new virus is spreading, but it has primarily affected the fish of Marine Harvest, a Norwegian company that is the world's biggest producer of farm-raised salmon and exports about 20 percent of the salmon that come from Chile.
Salmon produced in Chile by Marine Harvest are sold in Costco and Safeway stores, among other major grocery retailers, said Torben Petersen, the managing director of Marine Harvest here.
Arne Hjeltnes, the main spokesman in Oslo for Marine Harvest, said that his company recognized that antibiotic use was too high in Chile and that fish pens too close together had contributed to the problems. He said Marine Harvest welcomed tougher environmental regulations.
"Some people have advocated that this industry is too good to be true," Mr. Hjeltnes said. "But as long as everybody has been making lots of money and it has been going very well, there has been no reason to take tough measures."
He called the current crisis "eye-opening" to the different measures that are needed.
On a recent visit to the port of Castro, about 105 miles south of Puerto Montt, a warehouse contained hundreds of bags, some weighing as much as 2,750 pounds, filled with salmon food and medication.
The bags — many of which were labeled "Marine Harvest" and "medicated food" for the fish — contained antibiotics and pigment as well as hormones to make the fish grow faster, said Adolfo Flores, the port director.
Environmentalists say the salmon are being farmed for export at the expense of almost everything else around. The equivalent of 7 to 11 pounds of fresh fish are required to produce 2 pounds of farmed salmon, according to estimates.
Salmon feces and food pellets are stripping the water of oxygen, killing other marine life and spreading disease, biologists and environmentalists say. Escaped salmon are eating other fish species and have begun invading rivers and lakes as far away as neighboring Argentina, researchers say.
"It is simply not possible to produce fish on an industrial scale in a sustainable way," said Wolfram Heise, director of the marine conservation program at the Pumalin Project, a private conservation initiative in Chile. "You will never get it into ecological balance."
When companies began breeding non-native Atlantic salmon here some two decades ago, salmon farming was seen as a godsend for this sparsely populated area of sleepy fishing towns and campgrounds.
The industry has grown eightfold since 1990. Today it employs 53,000 people either directly or indirectly. Marine Harvest runs the world's largest "closed system" fish-farming operation at Rio Blanco, near Puerto Montt, where 35 million fish a year are raised until they weigh about a third of an ounce.
As the industry abandons the Lakes region in search of uncontaminated waters elsewhere, local residents are angry and worried about their future.
The salmon companies "are robbing us of our wealth," said Victor Guttierrez, a fisherman from Cochamó, a town ringing the Gulf of Reloncavi, which is dotted with salmon farms. "They bring illnesses and then leave us with the problems."
Since discovering the virus in Chile last July, Marine Harvest has closed 14 of its 60 centers and announced it would lay off 1,200 workers, or one-quarter of its Chilean operation. Since the company announced last month that it would move south, to Aysén, the government has said the virus has spread there as well, in two outbreaks not involving Marine Harvest.
Industry officials say Chile is suffering growing pains similar to salmon farming operations in Norway, Scotland and the Faroe Islands, where a different form of the I.S.A. virus struck previously.
Norway, the world's leading salmon producer, eventually decided to spread salmon farms farther apart, reducing stress on the fish, and responded to criticism of high antibiotic use with stronger regulations and the development of vaccines.
Researchers in Chile say the problems of salmon farming go well beyond the latest virus. Their concerns mirror those of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, which heavily criticized Chile's farm-fishing industry in a 2005 report.
The O.E.C.D. said the industry needed to limit the escapes of about one million salmon a year; control the use of fungicides like green malachite, a carcinogen that was prohibited in 2002; and better regulate the colorant used to make salmon more rosy, which has been associated with retina problems in humans. It also said Chile's use of antibiotics was "excessive."
Officials at Sernapesca, Chile's national fish agency, declined repeated requests for interviews for this article and did not respond to written questions submitted more than a week ago.
But Cesar Barros, the president of SalmonChile, an industry association, said, "We are working with the government to improve the situation."
He dismissed the broader criticism of sanitary conditions, saying there was no scientific evidence to support the claims. But researchers charge that the industry has been reluctant to pay for scientific studies, which Chile sorely needs.
Residual antibiotics have been detected in Chilean salmon that have been exported to the United States, Canada and Europe, Dr. Cabello said.
He estimated that 70 to 300 times more antibiotics are used by salmon producers in Chile to produce a ton of salmon than in Norway. But no hard data exist to corroborate the estimates, he said, "because there is almost an underground market of antibiotics in Chile for salmon aquaculture."
Researchers say that some antibiotics that are not allowed in American aquaculture, like flumequine and oxolinic acid, are legal in Chile and may increase antibiotic resistance for people. Last June the United States Food and Drug Administration blocked the sale of five types of Chinese seafood because of the use of fluoroquinolones and other additives.
But huge numbers of fish go uninspected. The F.D.A. inspected only 1.93 percent of all imported seafood in 2006, Food and Water Watch said, citing F.D.A. data.
Stephanie Kwisnek, a spokeswoman for the F.D.A., said that she did not know the percentage inspected. But she said the F.D.A. tested 40 samples of the 114,320 net tons of salmon imported from Chile in 2007. None of them tested positive for malachite green, oxolinic acid, flumequine, Ivermectin, fluoroquinolones or drug residues, she said.
The F.D.A. is planning an inspection trip to assess Chile's overall controls on its farmed salmon, she added.
Mr. Petersen, the managing director of Marine Harvest in Chile, said the company planned to return to the Lakes region in a few years, once the area had become free of contamination. In the longer term, he said, Marine Harvest will leave Chile's fresh-water lakes and produce more older salmon in closed systems where it can maintain "biological control."
Meanwhile, neighboring fishermen who have been affected by the fish-farming industry can only hope for better days. Mr. Guttierrez, 33, said that just six years ago he and his fishing partner would haul in 1,100 pounds of robalo on a typical day. On a recent day he pointed to that morning's catch of only 88 pounds in a cooler in the bed of a pickup truck.
He lamented the changes he had observed in the fish: they are rosier than before, and their skin is flabbier. He said he suspected that the wild fish were eating the same food pellets that the salmon were being fed, which he said were falling to the sea floor.
"If the water continues to be contaminated, we will simply have to go to another area to find our fish," he said. "But it is getting harder and harder."


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Regional technical assistance centers have gradually evolved to play a major role in IMF technical assistance. These centers, which are largely donor financed, have become important vehicles for helping countries carry out economic reforms.
Their objective is to assist countries in designing and implementing their poverty reduction and broader developmental strategies and help countries integrate into the world economy.
For example, they help strengthen public financial management, and so improve governance and transparency, facilitating donors' use of budget support instruments. They help improve tax and customs administration, providing an environment that is more conducive to investment and growth, increasing the resource envelope for poverty reducing spending and reducing the opportunities for corruption. At the same time, such reforms facilitate trade and enable countries to take better advantage of the forces of globalization.
Each center is staffed with resident advisors whose mix of expertise reflects the technical assistance needs of the group of countries they serve. The centers are close to the countries they serve and flexible in their delivery of services, making them well placed to handle reform implementation issues on a day-to-day basis.
Resident advisors at regional centers are able to develop deep knowledge of the circumstances and needs of the countries, including cross-cutting and regional issues, and provide intensive and constant follow-up on assistance delivered.
As beneficiary countries have phrased it: "They are just a phone call away" and will accompany the government all the way in implementing economic reforms, including overcoming practical obstacles by working through the nitty-gritty details and putting together the nuts and bolts.
Economies of scale
Regional centers can naturally exploit economies of scale. Neighboring countries typically have similar economic structures and assistance needs, and a regional approach enables more help to be delivered at lower cost. An added benefit is that regional centers can promote the sharing of reform experiences between countries, allowing officials to adopt tried and tested best practices while minimizing reform risks. Last but not least, they can be excellent vehicles to furthering regional harmonization and integration efforts of the beneficiary countries. Quite deliberately, the groupings of beneficiary countries of most regional centers mirror those of relevant regional organizations with whom the centers can work on coordination of economic policies and harmonization of standards, while integrating these into their work with country authorities.
Using the regional center as a vehicle for their regional integration efforts was the dominant motivation of the countries requesting help from our recently opened center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. They had long realized that the region would fare better through deeper economic integration and collective insertion into the global economy. The center is set to support the countries' push for integration, including, for example, their plans for a regional customs union, free trade agreements with other regions, and regional aspects of banking supervision and regulation.
One of the strongest features of the regional centers is their governance structure, which integrates all stakeholders. All regional centers are guided by steering committees comprising representatives from donors, beneficiary countries, and other international agencies. This helps promote aid coordination and ownership of reforms, in line with the objectives of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. These steering committees provide strategic guidance for the centers' work plans, through a consultative process that helps build shared ownership of the assistance delivered.
As my colleague Antoinette Sayeh confirmed in her recent post, countries like the regional centers because they are close and have an inclusive governance model. At their request, and given the positive feedback by all stakeholders, we are seeking to scale up the regional approach to technical assistance by expanding the scale of operations of many of the existing centers and by opening new centers: in addition to the new center for Central America that opened in 2009, further plans include a new center in Central Asia and two additional ones in Africa.
When complete, the 10 regional centers will cover 102 countries, including all of sub-Saharan Africa.