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'Rockets blast Patty Mills' Spurs in game one of the NBA western conference semi-finals'
This article about The James Harden led Houston Rockets have the first win from San Antonio Spurs in game one of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series.The Rockets won 126-99.
i chose the article because I would like to know the performance of the NBA team and i am a fan of Houston Rockets.

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The James Harden-led Houston Rockets have demolished Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs in game one of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series.

The Spurs were never in the game, an unusual situation for the five-time NBA champions who were expected to dominate on their home court on Monday.

The Rockets won 126-99.

The Rockets were up 34-21 at the end of the first quarter, extended it to 69-39 at half-time and by the end of the third quarter maintained a commanding 96-67 lead.

Disillusioned Spurs fans began emptying out of AT&T Center early in the fourth quarter.

At one point the Rockets held a 39 point lead.

"We need to get game two," Harden, who had 20 points, 14 assists and four steals, said.

"This was good for us, but we have to get greedy."

Game two is in San Antonio on Wednesday.

The Spurs shot 37 per cent from the field to the Rockets' 46 per cent, a situation that was perfect for Harden and his fast-breaking Rockets

"We disobeyed a lot of basic basketball rules," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich​ said.

"If we are going to shoot quickly and poorly there's going to be fast breaks all night long and they're better at that than what we are."

Canberra's Mills hit three of seven field goals for seven points and the Spurs' All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard sank just five of his 14 shots for 21 points.

Popovich said there was little chance the Spurs would repeat such a poor effort in game two.

"There's not much coaches don't worry about, but that won't be one of them in all honesty," Popovich said.

The Cleveland Cavaliers showed little rust in their 116-105 throttling of the Toronto Raptors in the opener of their Eastern Conference semi-final series.

The Cavaliers had not played since sweeping the Indiana Pacers on April 23 in their first-round series, while the Raptors were left battered and bruised after on Thursday finally knocking the Milwaukee Bucks out in six games.

LeBron James had 35 points and Kyrie Irving added 24 for the Cavaliers.

''That was the mystery coming into the game, how we would come out?'' James, asked about being concerned about being rusty, said.

''Obviously you prepare, you want to come out and play well, but you never know after an eight-day lay-off."

Game two is on Wednesday (9am Thursday AEST) in Cleveland.

Kyle Lowry scored 20 and DeMar DeRozan 19 for the Raptors.

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The James Harden-led Houston Rockets have demolished Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs in game one of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series. The Spurs were never in the game, an unusual situation for the five-time NBA champions who were expected to dominate on their home court on Monday. The Rockets won 126-99.

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This article is about a student stabbed in eye at high School in Sydney.I choose it because this thing is very important for every student.It reflect school violence problem. In China, this problem is very serious.

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A student is in hospital, another has been suspended and a police investigation is under way after a teenager was allegedly stabbed in the eye with a pen at a high school in Sydney's north.

Staff at Cammeraygal High School immediately gave first aid to the student, and police and emergency services were called to the Crows Nest site at about 2.45pm last Friday.

The injured student, "aged in his early teens, sustained an injury to the eye" and was admitted to hospital on Friday afternoon, a spokesman for NSW ambulance services said.

The student is currently still at the Sydney Children's Hospital at Randwick.

The alleged perpetrator, who is understood to be a special needs student, was removed from the classroom straight away and will be suspended, the NSW Department of Education has confirmed.

No charges have been laid by police at this stage but an investigation is ongoing, a police spokeswoman said.

"A lot of statements are being obtained and we have to gather all the evidence," she said.

"We've got a lot to do at this stage."

A spokesman for the Education Department said: "Further action [is] pending the outcome of the police investigation and enquiries by the Department of Education."

"Violence or threats of violence are not tolerated in NSW public schools, which are required to act immediately on such matters."

The Department is offering counselling to students who were in the classroom at the time of the alleged incident.

The injured student's parents were called straight away and other parents have also been informed about the incident.

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A student is in hospital, another has been suspended and a police investigation is under way after a teenager was allegedly stabbed in the eye with a pen at a high school in Sydney's north. Staff at Cammeraygal High School immediately gave first aid to the student, and police and emergency services were called to the Crows Nest site at about 2.45pm last Friday.

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This article is talk about students set to face with higher university fees under Government shake-up. I chose this article because we are oversea students who are going to study in university, so I think it provides some important information about the change of university fees which will increase from next year.

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'Rockets blast Patty Mills' Spurs in game one of the NBA western conference semi-finals'
This article about The James Harden led Houston Rockets have the first win from San Antonio Spurs in game one of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series.The Rockets won 126-99.
i chose the article because I would like to know the performance of the NBA team and i am a fan of Houston Rockets.

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The James Harden-led Houston Rockets have demolished Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs in game one of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series.

The Spurs were never in the game, an unusual situation for the five-time NBA champions who were expected to dominate on their home court on Monday.

The Rockets won 126-99.

The Rockets were up 34-21 at the end of the first quarter, extended it to 69-39 at half-time and by the end of the third quarter maintained a commanding 96-67 lead.

Disillusioned Spurs fans began emptying out of AT&T Center early in the fourth quarter.

At one point the Rockets held a 39 point lead.

"We need to get game two," Harden, who had 20 points, 14 assists and four steals, said.

"This was good for us, but we have to get greedy."

Game two is in San Antonio on Wednesday.

The Spurs shot 37 per cent from the field to the Rockets' 46 per cent, a situation that was perfect for Harden and his fast-breaking Rockets

"We disobeyed a lot of basic basketball rules," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich​ said.

"If we are going to shoot quickly and poorly there's going to be fast breaks all night long and they're better at that than what we are."

Canberra's Mills hit three of seven field goals for seven points and the Spurs' All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard sank just five of his 14 shots for 21 points.

Popovich said there was little chance the Spurs would repeat such a poor effort in game two.

"There's not much coaches don't worry about, but that won't be one of them in all honesty," Popovich said.

The Cleveland Cavaliers showed little rust in their 116-105 throttling of the Toronto Raptors in the opener of their Eastern Conference semi-final series.

The Cavaliers had not played since sweeping the Indiana Pacers on April 23 in their first-round series, while the Raptors were left battered and bruised after on Thursday finally knocking the Milwaukee Bucks out in six games.

LeBron James had 35 points and Kyrie Irving added 24 for the Cavaliers.

''That was the mystery coming into the game, how we would come out?'' James, asked about being concerned about being rusty, said.

''Obviously you prepare, you want to come out and play well, but you never know after an eight-day lay-off."

Game two is on Wednesday (9am Thursday AEST) in Cleveland.

Kyle Lowry scored 20 and DeMar DeRozan 19 for the Raptors.

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The James Harden-led Houston Rockets have demolished Patty Mills' San Antonio Spurs in game one of their NBA Western Conference semi-final series. The Spurs were never in the game, an unusual situation for the five-time NBA champions who were expected to dominate on their home court on Monday. The Rockets won 126-99.

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I chose this article because I'm interested to know about the education skills and strategy in Australia and to compare it between the education in Bahrain.

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As a child, primary school principal Angela Helsloot was always given homework and, as a teacher, she has marked homework sheets nearly every day.

But 20 years into her career, Mrs Helsloot has made the decision to stop the practice at Allambie Heights Public School.

University cuts announced

She said she had never thought too much about homework until last year, when a parent asked about its purpose at a P&C meeting.

The school decided to survey students, parents and teachers on whether they thought it was valuable, and the responses were surprising.

Parents overwhelmingly had most doubts about the value of homework, with 70 per cent saying it was only somewhat important to their child's learning.

When the results of the survey were combined with a growing body of research that has found homework makes little difference in learning outcomes for primary-aged students, the decision was easy.

Since the beginning of this year, the school has stopped sending students home with daily spelling and maths tasks, and instead gives years 3 and 4 students a project every semester and years 5 and 6 students a project every term.

"That isn't mandatory, we say it's highly recommended," Mrs Helsloot said.

The NSW Department of Education describes homework as "a valuable part of schooling ... [which] establishes habits of study, concentration and self-discipline", but allows schools to develop their own homework policy "in consultation with their communities".

Mrs Helsloot said nearly 100 per cent of Allambie Heights students do the project, compared to low rates of homework completion, and it has opened up a topic of discussion between students, parents and teachers.

A recent project required students to research a man-made feature of Australia, and Mrs Helsloot said the tasks were better linked to the skills students will need throughout their lives.

"They have to be able to research collaboratively and communicate well," she said.

"What they're doing now is more aligned with history, geography, science and technology than maths and English."

She said principals from three nearby schools have contacted her to ask about the success of the new policy.

Mrs Helsloot, who started teaching in 1997, said homework had barely changed, even though teaching methods have undergone a major shift.

"Homework is exactly like it was in the 1980s and '90s," she said.

"It's probably too much, kids do so much outside of school now, going straight to rugby and swimming."

Freya McVey, who was in kindergarten last year when the school changed its policy, said she liked to go swimming and watch television after school.

"Homework is what you do at home but I've never gotten it do it," Freya said.

Mrs Helsloot said: "Homework is always related to what they're doing in the classroom but if a child hasn't grasped it, it just becomes a source of stress and the parent takes on the role of teacher.

"But how we teach maths now is different to how parents learnt it so kids get confused between what they're told at school and at home."

Removing homework has also led to a better use of class time.

"You lost two hours a week setting and marking homework with the kids, that's my own experience," Mrs Helsloot said.

"Now you've got that time back in the classroom."

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I chose this article because it was a really sad example of some parents these day who are too cold and cruel with their children. They are ready to abuse or even kill their children just because they are unhappy with their work, their life.

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This article makes me think a lot, I think the parents from this article are very terrible and irresponsible.

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In Thailand, there was broad anger over the crime, which the police said appeared to have been driven by jealousy. Mr. Wongtalay had fought with his wife the night before the killing after searching her phone and accusing her of having another relationship.

The video showed Mr. Wongtalay fixing a noose around his daughter's neck and then dropping her off the side of a building. After a burst of crying, he climbed over the side to retrieve her body. His subsequent suicide was not shown online.

A second video of the police taking both of the bodies down that night remained on Facebook.

Facebook has been under scrutiny for what role it should play in overseeing the billions of posts and videos that are uploaded on its site each day. Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, addressed the issue at a company conference this month in response to a case in which a man in Cleveland posted a video of himself shooting and killing a 74-year-old stranger.

The deaths in Thailand highlight the global scope of the problem. As Facebook has pushed to further ensconce itself in the lives of its users, it has urged them to share their most intimate experiences on its site. That has resulted in a flood of posts and videos in different languages, cultural contexts and time zones across the world. Accidents and crimes have also occasionally shown up, and patrolling that has proved difficult.

Last summer, an Italian wing-suit base jumper streamed his own death in an accident, while in January, three men in Sweden were arrested and accused of raping a woman and broadcasting it to a private Facebook group. In February, two journalists were fatally shot during a Facebook Live broadcast in the Dominican Republic.

Facebook has said it is working on using artificial intelligence and a better reporting system to ensure that such content can be flagged faster. The company has also introduced tools to help with suicide prevention and assigned review teams to deal with reports that come in.

Still, as the Thailand case showed, some posts can slip by.

After major news outlets in Thailand broadcast the videos, prompting viewer complaints, the country's News Broadcasting Council issued a statement instructing the news media not to run the clips because it could lead to copycat violence.

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Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook

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This article is about the China is facing a shortage of at least 50 million parking spots. I chose this article because  my city also has this problem. sometimes, the parking is very hard to fund, and i think this article is good and interesting.

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A report by the Wall Street Journal says that China is facing a shortage of at least 50 million parking spots. 华尔街日报报道，中国现在缺少5000多万个停车位。 China has the worlds largest automotive market with 180 million vehicles on the road. Accor

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The Coca-Cola Life disappears from Australian shelves which is a important thing about Australian everyday life So I chose it to show something
This article is about Coca-Cola new product failed in Australia market after launched and Coca company how to saving the product
comment from Suri I think this article is significant, especially the Coca-Cola fans and those over-weight persons in Australia. This decision of the Coca-Cola company might will effect the rate of over-weight person in Australia. I think that it will help particular persons to lose weight. This article told us that people focus more on health, which is a positive phenomenon.
comment from Zahra: In my opinion this article is very important to warn us the dangers of soft drinks.
also it makes us know how   Coca-Cola makes a difference to our weight and health.

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The Coca-Cola Company has dropped its Coke Life brand from Australian shelves after spending two years and millions of dollars trying to launch the reduced-calorie beverage as it tries to adapt to an increasingly health-concious market.

The soft drink giant launched the drink, made with the natural sweetener stevia, locally in February 2015 in an effort to lure back lapsed Coke drinkers with a product that was less unhealthy than regular Coke and tastier than the sugar-free Zero and Diet varieties.

Life's launch was followed by heavy supermarket discounting by Coca-Cola and its competitors.

But less than a year later, Coca-Cola and Australian bottler Coca-Cola Amatil started experimenting with the Life recipe to try and reduce the sugar content further, suggesting the brand was failing to sell as expected.

The Life brand was finally axed as part of a branding overhaul in January, but its disappearance has gone largely unnoticed.

Life has been replaced by a new product called Coca-Cola with Stevia, which has 50 per cent less sugar than regular Coke, or about four teaspoons in each 375ml can instead of nine teaspoons. Life had 35 per cent less sugar than regular Coke.

A Coca-Cola South Pacific spokesman said the company had "changed the name to call out 'stevia' so as to better communicate to consumers that it is a lower sugar option".

He said the new recipe hit a better balance between taste and sugar levels. The Life brand was also recently dropped in Britain, but is still available in other markets, including the US.

Sugar hit

Coca-Cola Amatil, which has the licence to bottle and sell Coca-Cola products in Australia, has been trying to adapt its product range as consumers turn their backs on sugary drinks. It has invested heavily in water brands like Mount Franklin and Pump, sales of which are growing at about 19 per cent a year but are also under price pressure from private label bottled water.

The soft drink bottler, which is 29 per cent owned by global giant The Coca-Cola Company, reported that soft drink sales fell 4.7 per cent by volume in Australia last financial year, while scan data obtained by Fairfax Media earlier this year revealed the amount of soft drinks sold in major Australian supermarkets slumped almost 3 per cent in 2016.

Coca-Cola Amatil was hammered on the Australian Stock Exchange last week, with its share price falling more than 10 per cent after it downgraded its earnings because of weak local beverage sales.

The company said that all channels were "experiencing volume and price pressure due to competition and category trends".

Coca-Cola Amatil is trying to cut costs, announcing in February it would close its South Australian beverage manufacturing plant and cut about 180 jobs as part of a $90 million supply chain restructure.

The US-based Coca-Cola Company on Tuesday revealed it would cut 1200 American jobs through to 2018 as part of a $US800 million ($1 billion) savings drive in response to a 20 per cent slump in profit and an 11 per cent drop in overall sales.

Coca-Cola Amatil generated a $257 million full-year net profit last year, down from $403 million the year before.

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Ichose this article because the bad effects of alcohol are really serious and people have to know more about this issue and stop driving when thy are drunk.
comment from David I think this article is important because it highlights the effects of drunk driving. Two of my friends have had siblings killed in car accidents and my uncle died in a car accident just before Christmas in 1966 I can't imagine how sad thaT WOULD have been . Driving a car is a responbiilty not a right.

Comment from Thao: this article is essential for most people who are not careful and do not know the dangers of drink driving. This is the main cause leading to lots of car accidents. This is the reason why police often breath test drivers any time.

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Together We Can Make a Difference.

This article is also in Spanish. Click here for the Spanish version.

Millions of people worldwide do it. Many say "What's the harm, I got home safely and no one was hurt?" Just because you made it home safely to your bed does not mean that you're making a right decision. When putting those keys in the ignition and driving away after drinking you are not only putting your life at risk but you are risking the lives of all those you come across while driving.

Poor Decision Making

Alcohol affects you in a way that changes your judgement, depth perception as well as vital motor skills required to drive safely. Its easy to think you are driving normally when truly you are not. When the police take notice you could be hit with a DUI/DWI. This is the best case scenario. Getting into an accident your life could be lost as well as any others who too are involved in this accident. According to 2009 drunk driving statistics there were 10,839 traffic fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes. This is those whose lives were lost not the total number of alcohol related accidents, or the number of individuals arrested for drinking and driving.

Is drinking and driving more important than your legal status or life? Take a cab, protect yourself as well as others on the roadways, don't become another drinking and driving statistic. Operating a motor vehicle while sober can be difficult in itself, adding alcohol or other intoxicants into the mix is putting your life and the lives of others on the roadways at risk. Make the right choice and put your keys down.

Looking to quit drinking, and get your life on track? Check out the best rehabs of 2015.

The Legal Repercussions of Drink and Driving, DUI/DWI

The sound of a siren, the red flashing lights and a person in uniform knocking at your driver side window. An officer has pulled you over for suspicious driving. If the officer smells a strong odor of alcohol, you exhibit slurred speech or general incoherence you will be asked to exit your vehicle and move to the side of the road where you will undergo field sobriety testing. If you fail to demonstrate the proper motor skills or judgment to safely operate a motor vehicle during these field tests, the officer can then ask permission to perform a blood alcohol content test, commonly abbreviated BAC. In most states the legal limit for BAC is .10%, however many states have adopted a lower BAC of .08%. Failing these tests will result in a ride in the back of a police car, a night in jail and charges of a DUI or DWI. You are now facing the legal repercussions of drinking and driving.

All 50 states have taken serious action when it comes to individuals that DUI, driving under the influence, or DWI, driving while intoxicated. There is zero tolerance, all violators will be arrested and charged accordingly.

DUI

A DUI, driving under the influence, is the act of operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level, BAC, over the legal state limit. If you are arrested and charged for a DUI the state will prosecute you accordingly. First offense typically resulting in loss of license for 1 year, as well as, federally mandated outpatient alcohol abuse program and probation. Those who have had multiple DUI's will most likely be prosecuted to the fullest ability of the law, which varies with each individual state jurisdiction. Regardless to if this is your first offense or second if in an accident while DUI you will be fully prosecuted, if an individual is killed as a result you will too be charged with vehicular manslaughter.

DWI

A DWI, driving while intoxicated, is too the act of operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level, BAC, that is over the legal state limit. If a law officer suspects you of DWI you will undergo a field sobriety test, breathalyzer test and/or blood test to determine intoxication level. The legal repercussions of a DWI are more severe in comparison to an DUI. If you are found guilty of an DWI, you will be charged with drinking and driving. The legal repercussions of an DWI vary with each individual state jurisdiction, often resulting with time in jail, federally mandated alcohol treatment programs and loss of drivers license for an amount of time.

Making The Choice Not to Drink and Drive

According to National statistics, an average of 12,000 people die every year in DUI-related accidents. There is an average of 900,000 arrested each year for DUI/DWI and a full 1/3 of those are repeat offenders. While National averages have dropped by half over the past 35 years there is still an ongoing problem with drinking and driving. The solution to this problem does not just rest in the hands of law enforcement to find these violators and prosecute them but within each and every person to make the conscious choice not to drink and drive. There is always a better option. Keep the roadways safe along with your loved ones and the loved ones of others by not drinking and driving.

Resources and Organizations

How You Can Help End Drinking and Driving

First thing anyone can do is make the choice themselves not to drink and drive. With this said there are many other ways you can help to end drinking and driving. Educating the youth, your personal family members as well as youth within your community is very important. They must know the dangers of drinking and driving as well as the legal repercussions of these action. Another way to help would be to volunteer with an organization set out to end drinking and driving, this will help you to reach out to more individuals and get the word across about the dangers of drinking and driving. You can also donate to these organizations, contributions made by individuals like yourself are what make it possible to keep drivers educated and safe. If you or a loved one have a problem with alcohol, please read our resource on choosing a safe and effective alcohol treatment center.
Regardless to how you help; by making the choice not to drink yourself, personally educating youth, volunteering or donating, you will be working to end drinking and driving.

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This article is also in Spanish. Click here for the Spanish version. Millions of people worldwide do it. Many say "What's the harm, I got home safely and no one was hurt?" Just because you made it home safely to your bed does not mean that you're making a right decision.

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This article is about the newest playground in Melbourne. I chose this article because I like playing in playground and this article reports how a council asked children what they want when they wanted to build new playground. Some local councils don't ask children, so children don't like this when it isbuilt. Councils should solve this problem. If not, children won't like the playground.
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I think this article is very interesting because the government want to build the playground and asking for children what they want. I think that is the good way to know what the children really want and also greatly improved the efficiency of the playground.

comment from Harry I think this article is important  because  it mentions the local councils need to ask children's advice when they want to build playgrounds, and  i think children's thought is significant to city construction.
comment from Dai  i think this article is useful for many governments,because people's opinions are very important,governments should obey some suggestions of people then build some buildings or rules.If every government do,people will feel satisfied with the government and the relationship between people and government will be better.

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Updated April 26, 2017 13:05:05

What would a playground look like if you asked children what they wanted before you built it?

When it came time to revamp the playground at Lilydale Lake Park in Melbourne's outer north east, the local council decided to find out.

Yarra Ranges Council consulted with local primary school children, asking them what they wanted out of the redevelopment.

Nature more important than plastic and colour

"It looks a little less exciting than other play spaces," Robyn Mansfield, council manager of built and active spaces, told ABC Radio Melbourne's Jacinta Parsons.

"One of the themes that really came through with the children was they had this very strong connection with nature, so they wanted that to be the dominant theme.

"They didn't want the bright colours, they didn't want the plastic, but they wanted challenging things - things that they could climb, things that they could jump off."

Designed for young and old

It may also surprise some parents to hear that children said they wanted to share the playground.

"They actually wanted a space where their parents will play with them," Ms Mansfield said.

"Where their older siblings will want to play with them, where their grandparents will want to play with them."

The playground is part of a trend towards intergenerational play spaces; parks that cater to all ages, including adults and teenagers.

"There's a lot of equipment in [the park] that is multifunctional, so depending on your age and your ability you can use it in very different ways," Ms Mansfield said.

"There's a feeling that once you get to a certain age you stop playing and you start working - this [playground] is challenging that notion."

It seems to be working - Ms Mansfield said the oldest known person to have used the new park's monkey bars was 87.

She said she had spent "a fair bit of time" at the park watching how people used it since it opened two weeks ago.

"You see lots of older people, even if they don't have children with them, they come into that space and they just sit there," she said.

"You can see that there's joy there because they're surrounded by play and activity and it feels like a nice space to be in, it feels part of the park."

The park was funded by the Yarra Ranges Council and a $1 million contribution from the State Government's Growing Suburbs Fund.

Topics: play-and-learning, children, children---toddlers, exercise-and-fitness, older-people, primary-schools, lilydale-3140

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I chose the article because I am interested with this issue which is one of the popular news that people are concerned about at the moment . This is the change in Australia citizenship with difficult test for migrants who will have to face to face a harder exam . Moreover , migrants who become permanent residents will also have to wait 4 years before they can apply for citizenship-instead of the at least one year wait now and if an applicant fails the test three time they will wait another 2 years before they want do it again.
comment form Janet I think this article is very important because some of the people want to go to Australia  to immigrants. I want to migrate to Australia. his article can help me know how can i get the Australia immigration policy.

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Updated April 20, 2017 15:40:55

The Federal Government has announced sweeping changes to the nation's citizenship laws, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring that new arrivals must prize "Australian values" and prove their commitment to the nation.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said many of the proposals were reasonable but Labor also described the changes as pandering to the right wing of the Liberal Party.

The new measures would see migrants face a tougher citizenship test which will assess their commitment to Australia and their attitudes to religious freedom and gender equality.

Those with a history of family violence or organised crime could also be barred from citizenship.

Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that they have integrated into Australian society, for example by joining clubs or by providing evidence that they are employed and their children are in school.

A more stringent English language test will also be introduced, which will include "reading, writing and listening" components.

Migrants who become permanent residents will also have to wait four years before they can apply for citizenship - instead of the at least one-year wait at the moment.

If an applicant fails the test three times they will have to wait another two years before they can sit it again.

The Coalition will have to pass the changes through Parliament but if they do, those who apply for citizenship from today will be subject to the new rules.

Test to focus on 'Australian values'

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Federal Government was "putting Australian values at the heart of citizenship processes and requirements".

"Membership of the Australian family is a privilege and should be afforded to those who support our values, respect our laws and want to work hard by integrating and contributing to an even better Australia," Mr Turnbull said.

The Government has not decided exactly how it will assess "Australian values" in the citizenship test, saying it will consult with the public before it settles on the questions it will ask.

The test will focus heavily on respect for women and children, with possible questions about child marriage, female genital mutilation and domestic violence.

Mr Turnbull said the changes would be "empowering for applicants" and called on Labor to support them, rather than "rush off into the realm of their political correctness".

"Fundamentally, the values that bind us together are those ones of respect, the rule of law, commitment to freedom, democracy ... and our citizenship should reflect this."

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton admitted there was no way to stop applicants from lying about their criminal history when applying for citizenship.

"The fact that somebody might fudge an answer on a test or an application is no argument against us asking people if you want to become an Australian citizen, abide by our laws and our norms," Mr Dutton said.

The Government, he said, wanted applicants to view citizenship as a "big prize".

Labor: Some changes seem 'reasonable'

Mr Shorten said he had not been briefed on the full changes by the Government but would consider them carefully.

"I think it is reasonable to look for English language proficiency and I think it is reasonable to have some period of time before you become an Australian citizen," he said.

Earlier, Labor senator Penny Wong said the changes appeared to be designed for primarily political purposes.

"This looks to me like the change you make when you want people to notice," Senator Wong told AM.

"One suspects that Malcolm Turnbull is having a much greater focus on Tony Abbott or perhaps One Nation than any real or substantive changes here."

Senator Wong said the citizenship test was already in English and had been largely designed by former Liberal prime minister John Howard.

"If English grammar is the test, there might be a few members of parliament that may struggle," Senator Wong said.

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The article is about global warming. It shows humans emit extra exhaust air into the atmosphere. Consequently the speed of ice melting has become faster and faster in the Arctic. Governments have signed treaty to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas.
comment from Janet I think this article is very important because global warming is a big problem  nowadays.  the melting of glaciers means that people can not see the complete glaciers. This is too many emissions such as vehicle emissions, factory emissions and so on. So this problem for the long time, the glaciers began to melt. So we should solve this problem, then our earth can be more beautiful.

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The average westerner's carbon emissions destroy 30 square metres of Arctic sea ice every year, according to new research.

The work indicates that, even with current efforts to cut emissions, the Arctic will lose all its ice in summer within about 20 years.

Plummeting Arctic sea ice cover is one of the most obvious signs of climate change and is increasingly linked to extreme weather events such as storms and floods in Europe and severe cold snaps in the US.

The new study revealed a linear link between emissions of CO2 and the loss of Arctic sea ice, which has shrunk by half in the last 40 years. The link enables people to understand their own contribution to climate change, according to the leader of the work, Prof Dirk Notz, at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.

"It allows us, for the first time really, to intuitively grasp how we all individually contribute to global warming," he said. "The observed numbers are very simple. For each tonne of CO2 that a person emits anywhere on this planet, three square metres of Arctic summer sea ice disappears."

"So far the global warming debate has always been about very large numbers like billions of tonnes of CO2 or very small numbers like 0.1C of temperature change," he said. "Our study allows us to understand that it is really our own individual actions, every day, that contribute to ongoing global warming."

The research, published in the journal Science, analysed the declining extent of Arctic sea ice from 1953 to 2015 and found it tracked the emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel burning and other human activities. The relationship fits well with the underlying physics.

As a result, it is possible to calculate how much Arctic sea ice is lost as a result of an individual's emissions. The average annual emissions of a citizen of the 35 rich nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is 10 tonnes per year, leading to 30 sq m of ice being lost. Citizens of the US, Canada and Australia have a higher carbon footprint - about 16 tonnes - each causing almost 50 sq m of ice loss per year. In the UK, the average emissions are 7.5 tonnes per year, meaning 22.5 sq m of ice loss.

CO2 emissions and Arctic ice loss by country

Prof Len Shaffrey, at the University of Reading in the UK, said the new research was sound and showed a new way of linking Arctic sea ice loss and personal CO2 emissions: "It means on average we are [each] responsible for the loss of tens of square metres of summer Arctic sea ice. That's a pretty sobering thought."

The link also allows the calculation of how much CO2 can be emitted in future before the Arctic is entirely ice-free in September, usually the month of the smallest extent. The scientists found 1,000 gigatonnes (GT) of CO2 was the limit. If all the carbon-cutting pledges currently made by the world's nations are implemented, the Arctic will be ice free in summer in about 22 years, according to the new research.

"There is not a god-given year when the ice will be gone but there is this number of 1,000GT - once we have emitted that amount, the [summer] Arctic sea ice will be gone," Notz said. "If emissions don't change at all from today's level, which is extremely unlikely, then the ice will be gone in 25 years. If emissions continue to rise then the ice will be gone sooner than that."

The 1,000GT carbon budget is also the limit for keeping climate change below the internationally agreed threshold of 2C. This means that even if the Paris climate treaty, which enters into force on Friday, is successful, the Arctic will still become ice-free in summer.

However, the Paris treaty also includes an aspiration to limit the temperature rise to 1.5C, which would require radical cuts in CO2 emissions, including sucking the gas out of the air and burying it. If this was achieved, the Arctic ice cap would remain year round.

Arctic sea ice fell to its second lowest recorded extent in September, and scientists say this matters for a number of reasons. "By losing Arctic sea ice, we are losing a very effective refrigerator, as sea ice today reflects most of the sunlight and keeps the Arctic cool,' said Notz. "If we lose this refrigerator, the Greenland ice cap will melt much more rapidly, for example, and drive up sea levels."

Other scientists are increasingly linking the loss of Arctic sea ice to a weakening of a high level wind, called the jet stream, which is in turn linked to increasing extreme weather events, such as storms and floods in western Europe, severe cold snaps in the US and drought in California. "The jury is still out on how robust these studies are but there is mounting evidence," said Notz.

"Also, we are destroying a landscape from this planet which is extremely beautiful and future generations would have nothing to look at but open water in September, so for me that is an ethical thing," he said.

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The average westerner's carbon emissions destroy 30 square metres of Arctic sea ice every year, according to new research. The work indicates that, even with current efforts to cut emissions, the Arctic will lose all its ice in summer within about 20 years.

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Headline: 'Emmanuel macron ambushed by Marine  Le pen supporters on campaign trail' the report shows the man made a surprise visit to the whirlpool corp, and gave a speech to supporters.                                       I chose this article because i am paying attention to the French election and I want to understand why most French chose him to be president .

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Paris/Frankfurt: French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign team confirmed on Wednesday that his party had been the target of a series of attempts to steal email credentials since January but that they had failed to compromise any campaign data.

Mr Macron's party, known as "En Marche!" or "Onwards", said it had been hit by at least five advanced "phishing" attacks that involved trying to trick a broad number of campaign staff members to click on professionally-looking fake web pages.

The latest attacks were confirmed by security firm Trend Micro, whose researchers found links to a cyber espionage group it has dubbed Pawn Storm, the Macron team noted. Other experts link the group, also known as "Fancy Bear" or "APT 28", to Russian military intelligence agency GRU.

Russia has denied involvement in attacks on Mr Macron's campaign.

Mr Macron, an independent centrist who has been critical of Russian foreign policy, faces far-right leader Marine Le Pen in France's presidential runoff on May 7. Ms Le Pen has taken loans from Russian banks and has called for closer ties with Moscow.

"Emmanuel Macron is the only candidate in the French presidential campaign to be targeted (in phishing attacks)," his party said in a statement, adding this was "no coincidence".

In mid-February, an En Marche! official told a news conference the party was enduring "hundreds if not thousands" of attacks on its networks, databases and sites from locations inside Russia and asked the French government for assistance.

The Macron campaign said on Wednesday it had carried out counter-offensive actions against the fake web sites, which were designed to trick campaign workers into divulging their user credentials. As a further precaution, it also said En Marche! does not use email to share confidential information.

Attempted break-ins?

Netherlands-based researcher Feike Hacquebord of Trend Micro said this week he had found evidence that Pawn Storm, which has been active since 2004, had targeted the Macron campaign with email phishing tricks and attempts to install malware on the campaign site in mid-March.

Mr Hacquebord said some of the same digital fingerprints linked the Macron phishing attacks with those last year on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.

He also found evidence that Pawn Storm was using similar techniques in the past two months to target two foundations tied to Germany's ruling coalition parties and to attack German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic Union, in April and May of last year.

Security firm CrowdStrike has said the group may be associated with the Russian military intelligence agency GRU. Other US-based firms SecureWorks, FireEye and ThreatConnect have also said the group has ties to the Russian government.

A report this month by Denmark's Centre for Cyber Security detailed a string of phishing attacks against the Danish armed forces and the ministries of defence and foreign affairs during 2015 and 2016 which it blamed on APT 28, or Pawn Storm. The report, in Danish, can be found here.

"It is linked to the intelligence services or central elements in the Russian government, and it is a constant battle to keep them away," Foreign Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen of NATO member Denmark told newspaper Belingske on Sunday.

Mr Hacquebord's Tokyo-based Trend Micro has consistently said conclusive proof of Russian involvement is hard given the difficulty of attributing cyber attacks. His Pawn Storm can be read here.

Asked about Trend's findings that Mr Macron was under cyber attack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday: "What (hacking) groups? From where? Why Russia? This slightly reminds me of accusations from Washington, which have been left hanging in mid-air until now and do not do their authors any credit."
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Paris/Frankfurt: French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign team confirmed on Wednesday that his party had been the target of a series of attempts to steal email credentials since January but that they had failed to compromise any campaign data. Mr Macron's party, known as "En Marche!"

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Headline:Suicide has become the leading cause of death of young Chinese people.
This article is about young people taking their own lives is becoming a serious issue in Chinese society. i chose this article because I think this a big issue and it is interesting for me.
Comment from Kevin I think this article is important because the suicide of teenagers is a big problem in society. A lot of problems lead to the suicide of teenagers such as a history of mental illness in the family, social isolation, relationship and financial problems. However, their parents and teachers never attach importance to problems. Everyone has responsibility to pay attention to the suicide of teenagers.
Comment  from Suri I think this article make a deep impression to me and shocked me as well. It indicate a serious situation that young people under too much pressure in China, including the family, study,work and social relationship. It remind us to pay more attention on young people and take care of them.

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Suicide has become the leading cause of death of young Chinese people, aged between 15 and 35, according to a survey carried out by the Chinese Ministry of Health. 中国卫生部的一项调查显示，自杀已成为15至35岁的中国青少年死亡主要原因。 Young people t

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Healine: "Too clean for Our Children's Good?"
This article is about health,it express that the parents focus too much on the clean for their children's goods lead to the immunity of children decreasing.However, it is not essential to do this, because contact a little bit germs can improve children's immunity.The reason why I choose this article is it expose a issue about the helicopter parents who pay too much attentions on their children.This article tell those parents to change this attitude.
comment from Harry i think this article is very important because it highlights the effects on children's health. it states some parents focus too much on their children's cleanliness, but being very clean is not healthy to children. i think this article has a lot of useful information for me.

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The Checkup

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When a toddler's pacifier falls out of his mouth and onto the ground, does it get confiscated and boiled by anxious parents or just licked off and reinserted by the more casually inclined?

Many parents, quite reasonably, worry about germs and dirt finding their way into a child's mouth. But many have also heard in recent years of the "hygiene hypothesis," which holds that some exposure to germs and microorganisms in early childhood is actually good for us because it helps develop the immune system. A 2013 Swedish study, for example, showed that children whose parents just sucked their pacifiers clean had a lower risk of developing eczema.

When we talk about the hygiene hypothesis, the collection of theories that address the possible problems that can be associated with growing up less exposed to germs and dirt, we are essentially talking about growing up indoors. We're talking about living in a world of relatively clean and controlled surfaces, where even small children who are constantly picking things up and putting them in their mouths are not going to come into contact with a very wide variety of exposures.

"The built environment is the place in which our children grow up," said Jack Gilbert, the director of the Microbiome Center and a professor of surgery at the University of Chicago. He was one of the authors of a well-known 2016 study in The New England Journal of Medicine which compared the immune profiles of Amish children, growing up on small single-family farms, and Hutterite children, who are similar genetically but grow up on large, industrialized farms. The Amish, living in an environment described as "rich in microbes," or alternatively, full of barnyard dust, had strikingly low rates of asthma.

Dr. Gilbert is a co-author, with Rob Knight and Sandra Blakeslee, of a book on the topic coming out in June called " Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System."

For the last century and a half, he said, since understanding that microbes cause disease, human beings have tried as hard as possible to wall off their bodies from the microbial world of bacteria, viruses and fungi. "We've deliberately separated ourselves for reasons of comfort and reasons of fear of disease."

And it's worked; there's no question that increasing hygiene has saved many children from sickness and death. Scrupulously separating children from the microbes that can be found in impure water, for example, or unpasteurized milk has played a major role in reducing infant and child mortality, enabling millions of children to live and thrive. But we've also come to ask, in recent years, whether children who are too completely walled off from the microbial surroundings in which our species evolved may grow up with some negative consequences of our ever-cleaner homes.

That separation actually starts even before a baby is brought into its clean home environment. "All mammals are born heavily inoculated with bacteria from the maternal birth canal," said Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, an ecologist who is associate professor in the Human Microbiome Program at New York University School of Medicine. For breast-fed babies, the nursing period is generally one of lower environmental exposure but intense maternal exposure, she said, and then, after weaning, babies enter a period of much more interaction with the microbes around them.

"The end of the strict lactation period is the beginning of a very intensive environmental exploration," Dr. Dominguez-Bello said. "That happens to all mammals including our kids that lick everything they find - by the time the lactation period ends, the last half of it has been of mixed feeding milk and solids, and then we are supposed to be ready to face the world."

Modern human habits, she said, can interfere with this early exposure at every turn; babies may be born by cesarean section, without exposure to the birth canal and its bacteria; they may be bottle-fed instead of breast-fed; they may sleep far away from their mother; and they may well be treated with antibiotics for one infection or another. (The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for the first year of life, and recommends that infants should sleep in the same room as their parents but on separate safe surfaces to reduce the risk of sleep-related deaths.)

In a study published in 2016, on which Dr. Dominguez-Bello collaborated, scientists profiled the microbial development of a group of babies in the United States, examining the ways in which their bacterial populations were affected by mode of birth, by formula feeding versus breast-feeding, and by antibiotic exposure. In her research in the Amazon basin of South America, she said she has found that in rural houses and huts, most of the bacteria are related to the surrounding environment. In such settings, she said, the mother is more likely to carry the baby, and to sleep with the baby, both of them exposed to bacteria from plants and soil.

As houses become more enclosed and more subdivided, she said, spaces are increasingly separated by areas of use, and the speed at which outside air replaces inside air is decreased. "What happens is, we reduce the exposure to external environmental bacteria, so we become the main source of bacteria, our skin, our mouth, we shed bacteria, and the house becomes highly humanized, most of the bacteria in a house in a city will be human," she said.

Walls, she said, are the best bystanders, revealing what is going on in a house, because they are not usually cleaned. After many years, she said, "you find highly oral bacteria near the sink," fecal and vaginal bacteria "near the toilet," and skin bacteria "in the rest of the house."

So we need to study the health consequences of the built environment, even the more modern and more "hygienic" built environment, which is a complicated place, and by no means sterile.

"We used to live in much dustier environments," said Marsha Wills-Karp, a professor of environmental health and engineering at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Still, she said, though houses are cleaner, the built environment contains many components, including chemicals and airborne particles, not just microbes.

"Studies have shown that priming or seeding of the microbiome in the child is absolutely critical," she said. "While you don't want to go out and expose your child to aggressive infections, you don't want to create such a sterile environment that their immune system doesn't develop normally; it puts them at risk of developing immune diseases."

And what we have learned, Dr. Gilbert said, is that early life exposure to microbes can shape not only the immune system, affecting a child's likelihood of developing autoimmune conditions like eczema and asthma, but also the endocrine system, and even the child's neurodevelopment.

"Different bacteria and fungi affect different diseases differently, and affect different children differently," he said. "We don't understand the interactions between the immune system, the genome, and all the other components of the body as well as we could."

In an article published last October in the journal Microbial Technology, Dr. Gilbert speculated that it might be possible to develop vaccines that would help children's immune systems develop by providing controlled exposures to some of the most important microbes and microbial components. An alternative approach would be to educate parents about defining the kinds of natural exposure that might be most helpful, given the specifics of their children and their communities.

"There are definitive ways to embrace the controlled exposure or uncontrolled defined exposure to that rich microbial world early in life," Dr. Gilbert said.

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The Checkup When a toddler's pacifier falls out of his mouth and onto the ground, does it get confiscated and boiled by anxious parents or just licked off and reinserted by the more casually inclined? Many parents, quite reasonably, worry about germs and dirt finding their way into a child's mouth.

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I chose this article because the photos about this article are funny.These interesting pictures can attract many people.And this article explained why the person wear some funny clothes .And the way that parents and children have some conversations.The father and his daughter had become famous in Facebook
commend from Steven-song : it's such a funny report. A dad who wears different and outrageous clothes to solve his daughter problem of using phone. The dad dressing in these clothes became a viral hit, so every morning he put some pictures in the Facebook where he dresses in outrageous  clothes with different students taking photo.

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If you've tried to have a conversation with a teenager lately, you might understand this dad's extreme measures to get his daughter to put her phone down. He's using the one deterrent that is kryptonite to teens: embarrassment.

US dad Bradley Herbst came up with the rule that whenever he drove his 14-year-old daughter Sydney to or from school, she wasn't allowed to use her phone. And the looming punishment if she broke that rule? Bradley promised to walk her into school dressed in whatever outrageous costume he happened to be wearing that morning.

That's right. For the morning school run, Bradley dresses up as anything or anyone, from Michael Phelps to Richard Simmons to a secret service agent and a stripper - he really does seem to have a huge collection of costumes. And every day he's ready to get out of the car if he needs to.

Bradley shares a few photos each morning on Facebook, where they have become a viral hit.

Bradley as Madonna and Rick James with his kids. Source: Facebook

Bradley told that he had the idea when he realised Sydney was embarrassed by his regular clothes. "One morning she was being a typical teenager and said, 'You cannot wear that to school' and all it was was shorts and a t-shirt."

So Bradley has found his daughter's Achilles heel, and now they spend car rides to and from school talking about what's going on at school and at home. And Sydney has never been tempted to pull out her phone.

"I have never had my phone on," she says. "Ever!"

"We routinely have family game night where we play board games and cards," Bradley told Babble. "There are no electronics at the dinner table either."

And this push to get children off their devices, even if it's for a few minutes on the ride to school, is important. Over exposure to screen time can lead to children finding it difficult to function in their 'real' lives - as reported by The Standard-Times, "This includes the ability to make friends in person, take responsibility for actions, display good manners, use polite language, control emotions and temper, follow verbal directions, and develop empathy for others."

That's something that Bradley is determined won't happen to Sydney. And although Sydney protests and pulls her best sullen teen face for all the photos, she admits she secretly loves what her dad gets up to.

"I hate to say it, but I do," she laughs.

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Dad's hilarious social media deal with daughter gets the job done

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This article which is the real costs of air pollution.
It shows air pollution killer number 5 which is infamous Volkswagen car emission fraud. Other car also has problem about air pollution and this article also talk emission and chemical problem.
I like to choose this article because I agree with car emission is a mian problem to air pollution.
* Comment from Thao : I am excited in this article because air pollution is the big problem at the moment in many developing countries that human have to face with . Especially,  in my country Viet Nam , air polution is happening which is really influence to our health and environment by motobike, factory, car and so on. I think fresh air

Comment from Harry: Air pollution can not be overlooked. If human beings do not reduce it, it is not just a cost matter, it will cause more and more diseases and damage the earth. So, we must focus on and take actions as soon as possible. For instance, like this article situation, high exhaust cars must be banned.

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Air pollution doesn't just look and smell bad. It kills. And it costs megabucks.

We all know that high blood pressure, smoking, high blood sugar, and cholesterol are big risk factors for premature death. But air pollution is right behind them - it's killer number five.

Remember the infamous Volkswagen car emission fraud? It has been estimated to cause the early deaths of some 1,200 people in Europe alone - via air pollution.

The fraud happened over a seven-year period.

According to the New York Times: "From 2008 to 2015, Volkswagen sold 11 million diesel cars worldwide rigged with software that cheated emissions tests by running the full emissions-control system only if the car sensed a test was underway."

So if the car's software detected that the car was out of the testing laboratory, it increased the emissions far above the legal limits. It did this to improve both the fuel economy and the car's performance.

And the difference it made was enormous. When the 2011 Volkswagen Jetta was tested in a hilly environment - without the cheating software - it emitted 38 times the permitted levels of one pollutant!

Here's how the scam worked:

Emission omissions

Diesel engines burn the fuel at a higher temperature than petrol engines.

This means that inside the combustion chamber, a wider range of chemical reactions can happen between the diesel fuel and the nitrogen gas that makes up about 80 per cent of our air. So diesel engines produce more nitrogen-based pollutants.

After leaving the combustion chamber, the exhaust gases go through a filter to trap particles, and then a nitrogen oxide trap. But for the nitrogen oxide trap to work properly, the engine has to use a little more diesel fuel, which reduces its fuel economy.

The laboratory tests that measure air pollution from cars are well defined. The engine is started, then allowed to idle for specified time, and then run at number of different power levels, each for a specified time.

What Volkswagen did was build into the car's software an alert for this exact laboratory testing regime. When this very specific testing regime was seen to be active (in other words, the car was being tested for exhaust emissions), another bit of software kicked in.

Known as the "EA 189 Engine Software", the crooked software was used in a variety of Volkswagen engines, and in other cars in the Volkswagen group, including models of Audi, Seat and Skoda.

The software was designed to temporarily reduce both the power and the fuel economy of the car, which would temporarily improve the exhaust emissions. Once the test conditions finished, the car reverted to its higher emissions, higher performance programming.

The resulting air pollution came with extra profits for Volkswagen, but at extra costs to the community.

The real cost of air pollution

In early 2017, Professor Steven Barrett from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a paper entitled " Public health impacts of excess NOx emissions from Volkswagen diesel passenger vehicles in Germany".

Professor Barrett and his team estimated that just from the illegal emissions in Germany alone, some 1,200 people would die around 11 years earlier than expected.

They also estimated that if Volkswagen were to recall and fix these cars so they would meet the European emission regulations, over the life of the vehicles this would avoid an extra 2,600 premature deaths and save the European community 4.1 billion euros in health costs.

Another 2017 study showed that worldwide, air pollution from all sources kills over 4 million people each year.

And a joint study by the World Bank and the University of Washington estimated that air pollution costs the entire world economy about $US5 trillion each year.

When you compare that $US5 trillion to the growth product of the entire planet of around $US75 trillion, it's clear that air pollution is a significant financial cost.

It seems the only people who benefit from air pollution are those who create it, and who do not pay for the consequences.

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Dr Karl: The real costs of air pollution

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Air pollution doesn't just look and smell bad. It kills. And it costs megabucks. We all know that high blood pressure, smoking, high blood sugar, and cholesterol are big risk factors for premature death. But air pollution is right behind them - it's killer number five. Remember the infamous Volkswagen car emission fraud?

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Posted by Steven This article looks at problems of doping in sports.I chose this article because I like sports especially the basketball in N.B.A. There are a lot of famous sport stars in the league.Including,the person who was discovered doping in the league.This article reported that one of the rare prominent NBA players has been suspended under the league policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

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Noah, who was already expected to miss the rest of the Knicks' season because of a recent knee operation, will serve his suspension once he is medically cleared to play again. That means he is likely to miss nearly a quarter of next season.

Later on Saturday, with Willy Hernangomez starting at center, the Knicks lost at San Antonio, 106-98.

The National Basketball Players Association said in a statement that Noah would not appeal the suspension and called the violation a "regrettable mistake." The union also said Noah might not have been suspended under a newly negotiated collective bargaining agreement that is to take effect July 1.

The substance that appeared in Noah's test will still be banned, but a player will be allowed to contest a punishment if, despite due diligence, he could not have known that he was using a forbidden substance.

"Unfortunately, the current C.B.A. does not permit such consideration," the union statement said.

The union added that Noah had been "forthcoming and cooperative" throughout the league's investigation. Noah, through a representative, declined to comment.

Suspensions of professional athletes have become more commonplace as drug testing and P.E.D. investigations have expanded. But bans of N.B.A. players remain relatively rare. Since the N.B.A. began testing for performance-enhancing drugs in 1998-99, fewer than a dozen players have been suspended under the program - none of them substantially better known than Noah.

Major League Baseball, on the other hand, has suspended several dozen players for P.E.D. violations since the start of 2005, including stars like Ryan Braun, Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez.

The N.B.A. tests for more than 160 substances under the current bargaining agreement, and it administers four random tests throughout the season. Players also face two tests during the off-season. A first violation results in a 20-game suspension while a second one entails a 45-game ban.

Noah signed with the Knicks in July as the team's marquee free-agent addition, and he was expected to provide defense and leadership for a team that has been stuck in a perpetual rebuild. But Noah, 32, struggled in the first season of his four-year, $72 million deal. He averaged 5 points and 8.7 rebounds in 46 games this season.

He has not played since Feb. 4 because of his knee operation, and his suspension creates more questions for the Knicks. Noah was already receiving limited playing time after the emergence of Hernangomez, whose solid play earned him a larger role.

Correction: April 2, 2017

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I chose this article because I think that it is interesting about the dress, especially I think many people want to know more about Ivanka Trump's dress cause she is the daughter of the President of the United States.

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On the other hand, her clothing reflected the same conflicts that have bedeviled Mr. Trump's government from the beginning.

Consider her appearance onstage for a panel discussion in a floral dress, suede high heels and simple jewelry. Before she had said a word, the choice telegraphed an unapologetic and unmistakable femininity (flowers!) in direct contrast with those of the other panelists: Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, wore more traditional, armorial jackets, while Chrystia Freeland, Canada's foreign minister, was in a power-red dress. Ms. Trump's choice suggested that when it comes to female strength, disguise is no longer necessary - though she did cover it with a somber black coat when she visited the Holocaust Memorial.

So far, so interesting. Especially because the dress was by the American designer Michael Kors; it's part of his spring collection that, when shown on the runway in September, was set to the tune "Get Happy," sung live by Rufus Wainwright - in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton victory in the presidential campaign.

After the election in November, Mr. Kors was not among the designers who overtly announced that they would not be dressing the Trump administration, although he has maintained a discreet distance. Still, the first lady, Melania Trump, has worn his clothes on at least two occasions: arriving at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and his wife, and more controversially, during her husband's joint address to Congress in February.

Mr. Kors is being strategically drawn in, whether he likes it or not. (People are free to buy what they want, no matter the politics of a designer, after all.)

Yet in Berlin, at an occasion meant to promote, at least in part, female entrepreneurship, the dress was a surprising choice. Granted, Mr. Kors is an American designer, but he is both established and - to state the obvious - male. It's hard not to think that Ms. Trump missed an opportunity to practice what she preaches. (She did deplane in Germany wearing a skirt by Misha Nonoo, an up-and-coming name who ticks both the American and the female boxes, so Ms. Trump presumably was thinking about that on some level).

Further complicating the matter was the fact that when Ms. Trump was asked, "What is your role, and who are you representing, your father as president of the United States, the American people or your business?" she responded "Certainly not the latter." Nevertheless, according to White House Wardrobe, a website that purports to be a "Nonpartisan fashion lover following the style of #MelaniaTrump and #IvankaTrump, and recreating White House looks for less!", she appeared to be wearing shoes from the brand that bears her name, as well as jewelry from her now-defunct high jewelry collection.

Ms. Trump's office declined to confirm whether the accessories were, indeed, from her former brands, but White House Wardrobe posted photos on Instagram of similar items from both lines so that viewers could "get the look," a development that underscores the continued difficulty Ms. Trump might have in extricating herself from her brand.

Although she has resigned her position with the company, placing her holdings in a trust, and although the jewelry brand has been discontinued, the fact that both lines were conceived to reflect her taste and her wardrobe means that whether or not she is wearing one of the brands, or just something that resembles it, her appearance acts as a promotional opportunity - intentional or not. She has been careful to wear big American brands (Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors) on major public occasions. But she was, and remains, the best model for the brand that bears her name, even without a formal relationship to the company. Given the label, it's unavoidable.

During the event in Berlin, Ms. Trump acknowledged that her governmental role was still very new, and that she was learning how to be effective. And it is an unprecedented situation. So if there is confusion, perhaps it is understandable.

But optics matter. Ms. Trump understands that as well as anyone. The question is how she uses them.

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Ivanka Trump and the Issue of Image in Berlin

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On the other hand, her clothing reflected the same conflicts that have bedeviled Mr. Trump's government from the beginning. Consider her appearance onstage for a panel discussion in a floral dress, suede high heels and simple jewelry. Before she had said a word, the choice telegraphed an unapologetic and unmistakable femininity (flowers!)

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The article is about Pollution in China. I chose this article because there are different types of serious pollutions in China. This article can help people and government focus on pollution
Comment from Tim: it is a extreme important article. Because the situation that the article describes likes most of countries in China. With the development, many cities in China has be destroyed by the waste. For example, in ancient, Suzhou was a wonderful place that people lives. However,  it suffers the smog in every winter.

Comment from Gavin; I also angry with serious pollutions! i like ancient China which is beautifual place

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Recent aerial photographs of extensive pollution at industrial sites in northern China have caused a public outcry, and calls for action from the authorities.

The images, taken by a drone, show a cluster of dark red and rust-coloured pits occupying a big patch of land in a village called Nanzhaofu in Hebei province.

The NGO which broke the story, Chongqing Liangjiang Voluntary Service Centre, said preliminary tests it conducted showed the waste water in the pits was strongly acidic.

The pollutants have been been there for years, it said, meaning the underground water might have been contaminated.

The centre said three pits in total had been found, covering a total of 350,000 sq m.

The two largest were 500m apart in Nanzhaofu while a third smaller one was found in Xizhaizhuang county in Tianjin.

Together, the two provinces circle Beijing. Volunteers told Chinese media that similar polluted land could be found in other provinces.

'I thought it was coincidence'

After the images were published on the NGO's social media accounts last week there was an outburst of public anger.

"Those photos are shocking, the authority has been doing nothing, I am so angry!" one social media user said.

"My aunt is from that county in Hebei, she died from cancer two years ago. Her grandson is suffering from cancer and her mother in law has cancer too," said another.

"I thought it was just coincidence but now I don't. The government has to provide us a safe environment."
The city where you can't escape smog China district is overnight property hotspot
It's still not clear where the contaminants came from, but the local authorities were quick to respond to the anger and launch an investigation.

The Tianjin authorities sent workers to clean up the pit there, along with three other contaminated sites.

They promised to eradicate the problem before the end of July, but this did little to ease the anger.

In Hebei, authorities blamed local people for the contamination, saying they had been illegally dumping acid waste for years. The main suspect had been arrested in 2013, they said.

But on social media, people are asking why, if the suspect has been arrested, nothing had changed and the land is still contaminated.

Reporters who visited Nanzhaofu were told by locals that their lives had been severely affected by the pollution - cancer rates were increasing, they claimed, and a pungent smell had filled the air in the summer in recent years.

They don't drink well water, instead they either buy barrel water, or get to a well 5km away in a neighbouring county.

In its annual report this week, the environment ministry said water standards in some areas of northern China had declined since 2015.

Environment Minister Chen Jining said water samples found 36.3% of heavy polluting industries' land and the surrounding soil did not meet government standards, according to a report by South China Morning Post.

However, Mr Chen said China's overall condition of air, water, and soil pollution had improved in 2016.

One particular area of concern among the public comments has been that all the three sites are less than 100km from Xiong'an, the area of Hebei recently identified as the location of a new Special Economic Zone.

The decision will bring huge investment to the region, putting it on a par with areas like Pudong in Shanghai.

It will serve as an extension of Beijing, and the Hebei party chief has said the project would prioritise ecological development and "build a new area of green, forest, wisdom and clean water".

But Hebei has been notorious for its pollution levels for years.

Many have been asking whether it's right for China to begin developing a new area if it can't keep the existing one clean, and whether the necessary environmental protections really will be put in place.

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Chinese anger over 'acid pollution' images - BBC News

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Recent aerial photographs of extensive pollution at industrial sites in northern China have caused a public outcry, and calls for action from the authorities. The images, taken by a drone, show a cluster of dark red and rust-coloured pits occupying a big patch of land in a village called Nanzhaofu in Hebei province.

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This article is about a person who drove 1,300km across NSW on his way to Perth but will not face charges. This is a problem for parents. The boy just has 12 years old, it is not to drive the car. But he was to see very important person for him. Then he was drive the car to the another place to see the person. And he want his parents afraid for him. So I chose this article. This is a problem for parents not know about their children.

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Posted April 27, 2017 11:09:07

A 12-year-old boy who was stopped at Broken Hill in far-west New South Wales after driving more than 1,300 kilometres will not face formal charges.

Police on the state's mid-north coast said they issued a caution to the boy for illegally using the car, driving without a licence, and failing to pay for petrol.

He was caught at Broken Hill on Saturday afternoon, having driven across the state from the town of Kendall near Port Macquarie in his stepmother's car.

Officers pulled the vehicle over when they noticed its bumper bar dragging along the ground.

"Admissions have been made to the offence," Detective Inspector Kim Fehon from the Mid-North Coast Local Area Command said.

"The cautioning process in the presence of his parents is the opportunity for him to fully understand that what he did is wrong, and that it is an offence, and what the consequences of that can be," she said.

No conviction will be recorded and the matter will not go to court.

The boy told police he was on his way to Perth, which would have added a further 2,800 kilometres to his trip.

Detective Inspector Fehon said the boy was driving to Perth with the aim of meeting a family member.

She said his parents had no knowledge of his planned destination when they reported him missing as soon as they realised he was gone.

The bumper bar was hanging off the car as a result of a crash.

"The child did have an accident, but fortunately not with another vehicle," Detective Inspector Fehon said.

"Initially, we are told he ran into a curb and then ran off the road, and obviously that caused further damage to the vehicle."

The boy was reunited with his family in Kendall on Sunday.

Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, broken-hill-2880, kendall-2439

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Posted April 27, 2017 11:09:07 A 12-year-old boy who was stopped at Broken Hill in far-west New South Wales after driving more than 1,300 kilometres will not face formal charges. Police on the state's mid-north coast said they issued a caution to the boy for illegally using the car, driving without a licence, and failing to pay for petrol.

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Posted by David This article looks at problems of ocean pollution in Vietnam. If the pollution is caused by industry then the government should punish those who caused it. 

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Posted by David This article looks at problems of ocean pollution in Vietnam. If the pollution is caused by industry then the government should punish those who caused it. 

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Vietnam said on Thursday it was investigating whether pollution is to blame for a spate of mysterious mass fish deaths along the country's central coast after huge amounts of marine life washed ashore in recent days.

Tonnes of fish, including rare species which live far offshore and in the deep, have been discovered on beaches along the country's central coastal provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Hue.

"We have never seen anything like it," aquaculture official Nhu Van Can told AFP on Thursday.

The strange situation first came to light when farmed fish in the area began dying in great numbers, he said, with locals later discovering huge numbers of dead fish on beaches.

Local fishermen told state-run media that they are burying hundreds of kilograms of fish everyday.

"If you sail just three miles offshore, you can see dead fish all over the ocean floor," the state-run Tuoi Tre quoted local fishermen as saying.

Signs point to the fish having been poisoned by "unidentified substances," Tran Dinh Du, deputy director of agriculture in Quang Binh province, said, according to the report.

"We have asked people not to eat the fish and not use the fish as food for their livestock," Du added.

State news outlet Thanh Nien quoted worried locals saying they dared not eat any of the washed up fish, adding in their report that "all signs (are) pointing to an environmental disaster."

Central Ha Tinh province is home to a sprawling economic zone which houses numerous industrial plants, including a multi-billion dollar steel plant run by Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa.

Hanoi has dispatched teams of environmental experts and officials to investigate the phenomenon, the Ministry of Environment said in a statement posted online.

"We must quickly establish whether the fish have died because of environmental pollution," environment minister, Tran Hong Ha said in the report.

Vietnam has a long coastline and much of the country's export income depends on seafood, including farmed shrimp, catfish and wild-caught tuna.

Last year, the country earned $6.6bn from seafood exports.

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Vietnam said on Thursday it was investigating whether pollution is to blame for a spate of mysterious mass fish deaths along the country's central coast after huge amounts of marine life washed ashore in recent days.

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This article is about pollution in Dali a very beautiful city in China. It shows that when development happens too quickly it can sometimes cause problems. The government needs to do something to solve this problem . I would like to go there one day.
Comment from Gavin; I agree that many city in China have serious pollution problems. I remenber when a city have smog the local people will try to move out their city and move to a new city which is fresh air and tourist attractions such as Dali.

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Beijing: To China's 'smog refugees' - the city residents who had fled to the countryside with their children for cleaner air - Dali was their Bali.

The ancient town in southern Yunnan province, beneath Cang Mountain and near Erhai Lake, was once dubbed China's "hidden gem", for its pristine scenery and the traditional ways of its ethnic Bai inhabitants.

Nearby Shuanglang, a 1000-year-old fishing village, became a magnet for young Chinese seeking an alternative life, as hundreds of guest houses, bars and restaurants spread around Erhai's shore.

The music and arts scene flourished. A school was set up to educate their children outside the Chinese education system.

But the eco-bohemian dream came crashing down this week, as local authorities began closing hundreds of businesses in Shuanglang.

Up to 2000 guest houses and restaurants along a 130-kilometre stretch around the lake face closure for a year for failing spot inspections of their septic tanks.

Erhai Lake has become heavily polluted, and the authorities blame raw sewage being pumped into its waters by the fashionable new buildings.

Guest house owners who have spoken to Fairfax Media are stunned that just a day's notice was given before the closures, which are designed to allow the town to build a new sewage system. Even McDonalds has been shut, they say.

All farming land - which includes many of the most scenic lakeside hotels - will be reclaimed by the government.

Mei Zhang is the author of Travels Through Dali With a Leg of Ham, her 2016 memoir of growing up in Dali. She watched its more recent transformation into a cultural community dubbed "Dali-fornia" by some.

She told Fairfax Media the forced closures have upset many of her friends, whose livelihoods are dependent on the lakeside guesthouses.

"From an environmental point of view, it is great they are going to take action, but as a human being, this is everything they own."

Ms Zhang, an eco-tourism pioneer in China, said the "new Dali people" had brought good and bad to the town.

It was the arrival in 2004 of Ye Fu, a famous Chinese writer, that began the migration. "A lot of young Chinese literary people followed him," she says. Next came the artists and film-makers.

"Then came more young urbanites, yuppies, couples with babies who wanted a new life. They brought modern tastes in architecture and services, and they all wanted to be on the lake front to get that stunning view," she said.

The problem was, lakefront land was traditionally farming land that wasn't for sale. The new arrivals signed long-term leases for a cheap price. When the Bai villagers saw the huge leap in land value as tourism boomed, resentment grew, says Ms Zhang.

Town regulations didn't keep up. "It was anarchy and you had to fend for yourself," she said, explaining why so many new arrivals have found themselves in breach of the rules.

Dali's Bai population is 1 million. It was reported last week that 24 million people visited Dali in 2016, she said.

"That is an extraordinary number. I can't imagine the impact on waste and sewerage," she said.

With no tourism income, some smog refugees will be forced to leave. For the creative community, the disillusionment may have already set in before the shutdowns.

"Some people have looked at Dali's explosion and said this is not the utopia they thought it was," she said.

A Dali native, now living in California, she hopes Dali's cultural spirit survives.

In the past four years, the number of inns in Shuanglang alone tripled to 380.

The town's environment protection officer was jailed for four years for accepting bribes last year, and blamed for neglect of duty, according to local media reports.

The guest house owners agreed the lake needs to be cleaned up, but are upset that no offer of compensation has been made. Restaurants say they will be forced to lay off the local Bai villagers they employ.

Business owners estimate Dali will lose 5 billion Chinese yuan ($960 million) from its economy over the next two years.

One local hotel owner said he employed 20 staff, and had a wages bill of 60,000 yuan a month. He estimates he will lose 300,000 yuan this month alone.

Greenpeace's water campaigner Tingting Deng said Yunnan was "a beautiful place", but Erhai Lake had become heavily polluted with nitrogen and phosphorous, causing frequent algae blooms.

In the past, air pollution had been the focus of the Chinese government's environmental clean-up efforts, but this was changing, and since 2015, local governments had been told to take responsibility for improving water quality, she said.

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Beijing: To China's 'smog refugees' - the city residents who had fled to the countryside with their children for cleaner air - Dali was their Bali. The ancient town in southern Yunnan province, beneath Cang Mountain and near Erhai Lake, was once dubbed China's "hidden gem", for its pristine scenery and the traditional ways of its ethnic Bai inhabitants.

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Posted by David have never been to Bahrain and don't know much about it. This article helps me learn  something about some environmental problems in Bahrain

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Posted by David have never been to Bahrain and don't know much about it. This article helps me learn  something about some environmental problems in Bahrain

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Comment from Zahra ; I remember I celebrated the environment day when I was young.
The government in my country tries to increase people's awareness  of  the environment and how to save it and make it healthier.
Also the charities have cleaning campaigns to preserve the environment .

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News Of Bahrain | National Environment Day of Bahrain

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Eng. Rehan Ahmed* The National Environment Day of Bahrain is celebrated on 4th February every year. Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Personal Representative of His Majesty and President of the Supreme Council for Environment (SCE) has always been reiterating the determination to improve the...

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Posted by David

The government has recently made some changes to visas in Australia. One visa is the 457 via. Will it affect people who want to work in cafes and restaurants?

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It's a few days since Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the planned abolition of the 457 visa and the hospitality industry went into meltdown.

The panic was immediate. Some of it, for good reason. Tourism Australia is hanging its hat and a bucket load of cash on our food and beverage industry. The industry, meanwhile, is in the grip of a major skills drought that was predicted to get worse all on its own, even before the 457 changes were announced.

A large number of our hospitality workforce is currently here under the 457 visa. Understandably, Tuesday's announcement saw a lot of sky-is-falling rhetoric. Now we've had a chance to breathe (and actually read the fine print), how is this really going to play out?

Some of the panic is misplaced. A number of chefs like Colin Fassnidge and Duncan Welgemoed, of Africola, have highlighted their journey to Australian restaurant royalty was via a 457. The thing is, that is not off the cards.

Very few hospitality-related jobs were among the professions to be cut from eligibility. It's bad news if you're a blacksmith, sail maker, and deer farmer. But chefs, now with three years' experience instead of two, still make the cut.

The 457 as it was granted eligible workers four years. They were eligible for permanent residency after two. By March 2018, this will be replaced by two Temporary Skills Shortage visas - a short term, two-year visa for some professions and the medium and long term four-year visa for others.

Chefs made the medium to long-term list. But, a huge number of agricultural jobs, cafe or restaurant managers, cooks, bakers and pastrycooks are now on the short-term list.

Given that it appears that permanent residency applications now only apply after three years, there is concern that this may wipe out the pathway for anyone on the two-year visa. This is yet to be confirmed, but if true that makes Australia a lot less attractive to the likes of say, the new gun front of house manager at Attica, recruited from Eleven Madison Park. Probably someone we'd consider an asset, no?

A series of caveats will also apply. Chefs and cooks cannot apply to establishments classified as fast food and take away joints, and limited service restaurants including "fast casual restaurants" and bars with a limited food offering.

Theoretically, the tightening of controls is supposed to fix some problems. The collection of Tax File Numbers is designed to ensure employers are paying minimum market salary, not blackmailing employees with the promise of permanent residency.

The 457 as it was was already problematic for the industry. The minimum salary as it stands is $54,000. Joel Valvasori, of Perth's Lulu la Delizia, points out, "That suggests at a minimum a senior chef de partie. If they raise the minimum wage for it further, then you're only looking at sous chef levels. We need more soldiers though. We already have enough young entitled Australian chefs to fill the senior positions."

As for the wild suggestion that tighter restrictions will mean more jobs for Australians, all 457 visa holders make up less than 1 per cent of the workforce. Australians can already apply for jobs as waiters, chefs, cooks and fast food workers and don't require huge sponsorship fees. They aren't applying, or, they don't stay in lower level positions. Despite what MasterChef has taught us, kitchen work is hot, hard and often unrewarding. Often the only way you can get a line cook to stay is to have them contracted in on the promise of permanent residency.

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The 457 visa abolition has caused hospitality panic. Is it justified?

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It's a few days since Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the planned abolition of the 457 visa and the hospitality industry went into meltdown. The panic was immediate. Some of it, for good reason. Tourism Australia is hanging its hat and a bucket load of cash on our food and beverage industry.