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Australian government provides $15.8 million for North Adelaide Technical CollegeTuesday, June 27, 2006
Australian Minister for Vocational Education and Training, Gary Hardgrave has announced the government will provide AU$15.8 million to establish an Australian Technical College in North Adelaide. The minister said the government was entering into a partnership with the Archdiocese of Adelaide and consortium of industrial and manufacturing companies.
The North Adelaide college will be located in Elizabeth and be operated as an independent non-government school. The college is one of 25 to be established across the country.
Enrolments at the college will begin in 2007 and will offer courses in areas where identified skills shortages exist in the North Adelaide region, specifically – engineering, construction, electronics and cooking.
Mr Hardgrave said that the proposed college had been popular among the North Adelaide business community. “This important initiative has been well received by North Adelaide business and industry, and will help to address skills needs and provide opportunities for those in greatest need, including a lot of Indigenous students in the region,” Mr Hardgrave said.
“The fact that this College is being led by local employers, local government and other key stakeholders, means it will be truly industry and community driven,” he said.
Australian Technical Colleges were established to cater for year 11 and 12 students who wish to do an apprenticeship as part of their school education.
The Australian Education Union has expressed a number of concerns about the model put forward by the government. In a report, they claim that trade facilities at TAFE colleges (operated by state governments) will deteriorate as funding is diverted to the ATCs. The union is also concerned that ATCs are supposed to be selective VET schools. According to the union they will have selective entry and preferential funding. It is feared that teachers will be lured away from schools and TAFE colleges to higher paid positions in ATCs.
The Education Union suggested that the government invest in schools that already offer vocational education programs.
By John B Mayall
When you hear about General Positioning System (GPS) system, you should first consider the GPS receiver. It is the part of the device responsible of processing the signal sent by the satellite in the space to find out your actual location. The receiver is usually placed on the dashboard of your car or underneath it. It renders on a dedicated output device your screen your destination.
The entire GPS is a constellation of about 27 satellites rolling around the center of the Earth at a steady speed. Amongst these satellites, 24 of them are responsible of processing signals emitted by the receiver and the remaining satellites are used for storage purposes on case of an unplanned event. The GPS receiver is responsible of hooking up with satellites used for storage purposes and working out its position from that satellite by computing their distance. The mathematical tenet used for this purpose is named trilateration.
Trilateration can be achieved in two dimensions and also in three dimensions. The rationale of this mathematical principle is to work out a triangle where you are located at the center of it. As soon as the GPS receiver emits its position and makes a connection with other satellites, it immediately works out three nearest points and computes your position.
Three types of GPS receivers can be noticed: those which can be installed in a car, lightweight and mobile GPS receivers and tracking GPS receivers. It is obvious that portable receivers are a huge boon for outdoor activities.
Finally, it is good to know that the actual process of GPS receivers is a little bit more intricate than what was described in previous sections. However, throughout this article, although the main objective was to give a broad overview how they work in theory the next paragraph will delve into advanced details about GPS computations.
From previous sections, we learnt that the GPS receiver computes its distance to the nearest available satellites in space by noticing the time spent by the emission of a given signal from the receiver to the satellite. There are another category of GPS receivers that you have not mentioned throughout this article. In order to overcome the lack of precision of the traditional GPS receiver, differential GPS receivers were born. Their rationale is to estimate the level of GPS errors at a stationary receiver station with a location that was already computed before. Since the Differential GPS hardware at the station is already aware of its own location, it can work out its receiver’s level of errors in a straightforward way. The station then broadcasts a radio signal to all Differential GPS-equipped receivers in the nearby area, providing signal correction information for that area. In general, accessing this correction information makes Differential GPS receivers much more correct and precise than traditional GPS receivers.
The most essential function of a GPS receiver is to pick up the transmissions of at least four available satellites and combine the information in those transmissions with information in an electronic almanac, all in order to figure out the receiver’s position on Earth.
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Wikinews interviews Australian Glider Amanda CarterFriday, September 28, 2012
Melbourne, Australia — Monday, following her return from London, Wikinews talked with Amanda Carter, the longest-serving member of Australia’s national wheelchair basketball team (the Gliders).
((Wikinews)) You’re Amanda Carter!
((WN)) And, where were you born?
((WN)) It says here that you spent your childhood living in Banyule?
((WN)) Okay. And you used to play netball when you were young?
((WN)) And you’re an occupational therapist, and you have a son called Alex?
((WN)) Any more children?
((WN)) You began playing basketball in 1991.
((WN)) And that you’re a guard.
((WN)) And that you are a one point player.
((WN)) And you used to be a two point player?
((WN)) When were you first selected for the national team?
((WN)) And that was for Barcelona?
((WN)) How did we go?
((WN)) And what was Barcelona like?
((WN)) Did you play with a club as well?
((WN)) The 1994 World Championships. Where was that at?
((WN)) Which brings us to 1996.
((WN)) Your team finished fourth.
((WN)) Lost to the Unites States in the bronze medal game in front of a crowd of 5,000.
((WN)) That must have been awesome.
((WN)) They also have a fondness for the sport.
((WN)) They kept on saying in London that the Gliders have never won.
((WN)) So that was Atlanta. Then there was another tournament, the 1998 Gold Cup.
((WN)) How did we go in that?
((WN)) But that qualified… no, wait, we didn’t need to qualify…
((WN)) You were the second leading scorer in the event, with thirty points scored for the competition.
((WN)) In basketball, some of the low pointers do pretty well.
((WN)) I notice the scores seem lower than the ones in London.
((WN)) How often do the Gliders get together? It seems that you are all scattered all over the country normally.
((WN)) That’s reasonably often.
((WN)) I didn’t see you training in Sydney this time… then you went over to…
((WN)) 2000. Sydney. Two Australia wins for the first time against Canada. In the team’s 52–50 win against Canada you scored a lay up with sixteen seconds left in the match.
((WN)) That brings us to the 2000 Paralympics. It says you missed the practice game beforehand because of illness, and half the team had some respiratory infection prior to the game.
((WN)) You scored twelve points against the Netherlands, the most that you’ve ever scored in an international match.
((WN)) At one point you made four baskets in a row.
((WN)) The team beat Japan, and went into the gold medal game. You missed the previous days’ training session due to an elbow injury?
((WN)) During the match, you were knocked onto your right side, and…
((WN)) Someone just bumped you?
((WN)) You were knocked down and you tore the tendons in your elbow, which required an elbow reconstruction…
((WN)) You spent eleven weeks on a CPM machine – what’s a CPM machine?
((WN)) You’re right handed?
((WN)) So, how’s the movement in the right arm today?
((WN)) You still can’t fully flex the right hand.
((WN)) How old is he now?
((WN)) So that recurs, does it?
((WN)) So you gave up wheelchair basketball after the 2000 games?
((WN)) Did they cover you from the 2000 injury?
((WN)) Who was that?
((WN)) Back in the Gliders again.
((WN)) And of course you got selected for 2012…
((WN)) My recollection is that you weren’t on the court a great deal, but there was a game when you scored five points?
((WN)) That was against Mexico.
((WN)) The strange thing was that afterwards the Mexicans were celebrating like they’d won…
((WN)) The speed at which things move is quite astonishing.
((WN)) Because you are the more experienced player.
((WN)) And now you have another silver medal.
((WN)) We double-checked, and there was nobody else on the team who had been in Sydney, much less Barcelona or Atlanta.
((WN)) Most of the Gliders seem to have come together in 2004, the current roster.
((WN)) Are you still playing?
((WN)) You would have been isolated from him anyway.
((WN)) Fair enough.
((WN)) You will continue playing with the club?
((WN)) Is there anything else you’d like to say about your record? Which is really impressive. I can count the number of Paralympians who were on Team Australia in London who were at the Sydney games on my fingers.
((WN)) Greg Smith obviously, who was carrying the flag…
((WN)) What I basically wanted to ask was what sort of changes you’ve seen with the Paralympics over that time — 1992 to 2012.
((WN)) To me… London… the coverage on TV in Britain, but also here, some countries are ahead of others, but basically it’s being treated like the Olympics.
((WN)) Huge crowds…
((WN)) I was looking around the North Greenwich Arena…And that arena! The seats went up and up and up! And as it was filling on the night, you could see that even that top deck had people sitting in it. I guess in 2000 even, to fill stadiums, which we did, we gave APC and school programs, a lot of school kids came to fill seats and things. We didn’t necessarily see that in London. They were paid seats! People had gone out and spent money on tickets to come and see that sport.
((WN)) I saw school groups at the football and the goalball, but not at the basketball.
((WN)) I was very impressed with the standard of play.
((WN)) What’s in Osaka?
((WN)) After the Paralympics.
((WN)) And then after that?
((WN)) How many tournaments do they normally play each year?
((WN)) You played a tournament in the Netherlands?
((WN)) Thank you very much for that.
Voluntary sterilization of poor women proposed by Louisiana state legislatorThursday, September 25, 2008
A Louisiana representative has proposed a controversial solution to “generational welfare,” which would pay women on welfare to get sterilization. Republican John LaBruzzo said he thought of the idea because of his constituents’ outrage over paying for welfare.
“You have these people who are just fed up with working their buns off to try to provide for their own family and being forced by the government [to] provide for others’ families who just want to have unlimited kids”, he commented. He is currently working with Baton Rouge to gather data in support of his proposal.
The idea, which LaBruzzo has not finished forming, would award any woman on government assistance a check of $1,000 if she gets a tubal ligation operation. LaBruzzo is also considering rewarding sterilization in poor men and giving tax incentives for higher-income families to have more children.
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LaBruzzo, who is pro-life, said that the people “on the other side of the political spectrum are pro-choice. Well, let’s give these people the ability to choose.”
While LaBruzzo has stated that he has received an outpouring of support over his idea, the ACLU spoke out against the proposal and called it a “meanspirited attempt to eliminate the poor.” Planned Parenthood representative Julie Mickelberry called it a “bribery”, suggesting a solution which attacked the root of the problem was needed and that the representative needed to “go back to addressing issues of education about unintended pregnancy and opening healthcare access.”
NZ law exempts working farm dogs from embedded ID tag ruleWednesday, June 21, 2006
New Zealand farmers have won a key victory in Parliament, with MPs voting to exempt Working farm dogs from microchipping legislation, passing 61:60.
The Federated Farmers debated the law for a long time, saying that the cost of microchipping all their dogs will be a huge cost and an inconvenience. Under previous legislation, all newly registered dogs were to have identification microchips embedded by July 1. The microchips in dogs are for owner identification, in case of attacks on humans. This law was introduced when Carolina Anderson, 7-year-old, was attacked in 2003.
Parliament has been debating several proposed amendments to the Local Government Law Reform bill, which aimed to change the microchipping requirement.
Blogger David Farrar says “It is very messy for the Government to lose the vote after piling so much pressure on.” In the end only Labour, Progressive plus New Zealand First voted for it.
The Green party split votes (rare for a party). Four Greens MPs voted for the farm dog exemption and two against.
The four Green MPs were – Sue Bradford, Keith Locke, Sue Kedgley and Nandor Tanczos. The Greens had previously proposed that only dangerous dogs should be microchipped.
In favour of exempting farm dogs:
Total: 61
Against:
Total: 60
byAlma Abell
If you are a sole proprietor, you and your business are legally one and the same thing, rendering you personally liable for all its debts. Therefore, in the event that your business is declared bankrupt and there is not enough money in the business to pay the debts, creditors will be entitled to not only take the business assets, they can also take your personal assets. This rule also applies for general partners. If your small business is compelled to file for bankruptcy, it is essential that you seek assistance from someone having the requisite legal knowledge in business bankruptcy. Here are some important reasons for hiring a Small Business Bankruptcy Lawyer.
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Choosing a business bankruptcy attorney will guarantee you that they already have experience in bankruptcy adjudications on a business level. You may gauge a particular attorney’s level of experience by getting references from their colleagues, as well as visiting their website and examining the various reviews made by their previous clients.
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If your business is on the verge of financial failure and you are considering filing for bankruptcy, it is essential that you hire a Small Business Bankruptcy Lawyer who is committed through certification to keeping up their proficiency through continual practice and education. Contact Hitchcock & Associates, P.C. They have competent bankruptcy lawyers with a winning track record. Visit Tomhitchcock.com for details on their services.
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Bank of England governor warns housing market is biggest threat to UK economySunday, May 18, 2014
The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has warned that the state of the housing market in the United Kingdom is the current biggest domestic threat to the country’s economy, due to lack of house building, and regulatory issues.
In an interview to be aired on Sky News today, he said the housing market is the “biggest risk” to the economy and has “deep, deep structural problems”. Of house building he said: “There are not sufficient houses built in the UK. To go back to Canada, there are half as many people in Canada as in the UK, twice as many houses are built every year in Canada as in the UK and we can’t influence that.”
“We’re not going to build a single house at the Bank of England. We can’t influence that. What we can influence […] is whether the banks are strong enough. Do they have enough capital against risk in the housing market?”
Carney also said the Bank of England would look into the procedures used to issue loans and mortgages to see if they were being granted appropriately: “We’d be concerned if there was a rapid increase in high loan-to-value mortgages across the banks. We’ve seen that creeping up and it’s something we’re watching closely.”
Kris Hopkins responded to Carney on behalf of the government, saying the government “inherited a broken housing market, but our efforts to fix it are working”. “We’ve scrapped the failed top-down planning system, built over 170,000 affordable homes and released more surplus brownfield sites for new housing. We’ve also helped homebuyers get on the housing ladder, because if people can buy homes builders will build them. Housebuilding is now at its highest level since 2007 and climbing. Last year councils gave permission for almost 200,000 new homes under the locally-led planning system and more than 1,000 communities have swiftly taken up neighbourhood planning. It’s clear evidence the government’s long-term economic plan is working.”
Earlier this month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development called on the UK government to “tighten” access to the ‘Help to Buy’ scheme introduced by George Osborne and the coalition government in 2013. ‘Help to Buy’ has also recently been criticised by three former Chancellors of the Exchequer — the Conservatives Norman Lamont and Nigel Lawson, and former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling. Darling said: “Unless supply can be increased substantially, we will exacerbate that situation with schemes like Help to Buy.”
On the campaign trail in the USA, May 2020Friday, June 19, 2020
The following is the first edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories.
This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail includes interviews with the vice presidential nominees of the Constitution and Libertarian parties as well as the chosen running mate of the leading Green Party presidential candidate.