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Yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the 2018 annual contribution limit to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for persons with family coverage under a qualifying High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) is restored to $6,900. The single-coverage limit of $3,450 is not affected.
ThinkHR Comply contains a wealth of information on HSAs, HDHPs, the ACA, and everything else about the ever-changing alphabet soup of benefits. Just log in to the platform to get the tools, checklists, and commentary you need. | 2019-04-20T20:09:30 | https://www.pervidiobenefits.com/irs-changes-course-again-and-restores-2018-hsa-family-limit-to-6900/ |
In June 2018, after privacy activists found security flaws in toys such as My Friend Cayla and others and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission opened an investigation into the problems of connected gadgets, Amazon, Walmart, and Target announced they would stop selling CloudPets. Made by Spiral Toys, CloudPets uses voice recordings, an internet connection, and a Bluetooth-connected app. In 2017, a hackers were able to access and hold for ransom CloudPets' database, including email addresses, passwords, and children's voice recordings. The attack affected more than 800,000 people. More than a year later, Mozilla, working with cybersecurity research company Cure53, found the Bluetooth vulnerabilities were still open. | 2019-04-26T14:20:11 | https://privacyinternational.org/examples-abuse/2555/amazon-withdraws-connected-toys-after-researchers-find-security-flaws |
Senior U.S. District Judge William Steger passed away last night following an extended illness. Judge Steger, who was 85, handled more than 15,000 cases in 35 years on the federal bench in Tyler.
Judge Steger began his career of government service as a fighter pilot during and shortly after World War II. He volunteered to fly Spitfires with the Royal Air Force during the war, as well as piloting P-47 Thunderbolts with the Army Air Corps, and flying some of the first jet fighters shortly after the war. After obtaining his law degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Judge Steger moved to Tyler, where he was instrumental in the growth of the Republican Party of Texas, running for governor in 1960, and for Congress in 1962. He served as state party chairman from 1969-1970. Judge Steger was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas in 1953 by President Eisenhower, and served for six years. He was appointed to the federal bench in 1970 by President Nixon. Judge Steger took senior status in 1987, but continued to handle a full docket. As local practitioners will attest, Judge Steger was the model for many of the Eastern District's current judges, most of whom broke in trying cases before him. Judge Steger's clerks recently hosted a 35th anniversary celebration of his career, and raised substantial sums for a scholarship in his name at Baylor Law School.
The memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at the Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler. There will be a private burial service at 2:00 p.m at Rosehill Cemetery prior to the memorial service. Family visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at Burks, Walker, Tippitt Funeral Home in Tyler.
This is a patent case dealing with the "AutoCycle" oil and gas well controller. Special master Danny Williams prepared the claims construction, and by consent of the parties, Special Master Gale Peterson conducted the trial in this patent case, and prepared a report and recommendations for Judge Steger. The 2001 opinion is by Judge Steger adopting the special master's report and recommendations, which are appended to it. Judge Steger modified the damages from a reasonable royalty to lost profits (increasing it from $100,000 to $408,456), and extended the judgment to cover an additional product as to one of the defendants, which added another $8,370 in damages. Judgment was entered in accordance with this opinion at 2002 WL 32814008 on Feb. 6, 2002.
On December 4, 2003 the Federal Circuit (Linn, J.) affirmed in part, reversed in part, vacated and remanded in part. Specifically, it held that because the district court erroneously construed certain claim limitations of the '991 patent, it reversed the district court's claim construction, vacated the determination that the device did not infringe, and remanded the issue for further findings consistent with the Federal Circuit's claim construction. It affirmed the court's conclusion that the defendant did not induce infringement based on the correct legal standard applied by the court to the facts in evidence. It also reversed the court's denial of the defendant's motion to amend the complaint to reassert an assertion of willful infringement previously stricken by the court, noting that the heightened pleading requirement applicable to fraud claims does not apply to claims for willful patent infringement and remanded for further proceedings on that issue. It affirmed the district court's refusal to consider whether the plaintiff engaged in inequitable conduct when it successfully revived the '048 patent, noting that the heightened pleading requirement applicable to fraud claims does apply to claims of inequitable conduct before the Patent Office.
On the cross-appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's claims construction, but because it believed the district court abused its discretion in determining the amount of the damage award for infringement, it vacated the award and remanded the issue of damages for redetermination. Finally, it affirmed both the district court's determination that that patent did not infringe the patent and the district court's evidentiary ruling under 35 U.S.C. § 282. Judge Rader Rader concurred, stating that "[t]his case illustrates a proper search for 'customary' meaning", which will, no doubt, warm Judge Steger's heart.
On remand, Judge Steger entered judgment, and the bankruptcy court approved the settlement agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant in bankruptcy.
Holding: Defendant's Motion for Suymmary Judgment GRANTED.
Plaintiff alleged that she was sexually harassed at work and was denied overtime pay. Judge Steger granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment, holding that: (1) the alleged conduct was not so severe and pervasive as to alter terms and conditions of employment; (2) the employee unreasonably failed to take advantage of the employer's corrective opportunities; (3) the employer was not liable under the Fair Labor Standards Act for failure to pay overtime because it did not have constructive knowledge of any failure to pay employee overtime; and (4) the employee failed to exhaust administrative remedies as to her constructive discharge claim. | 2019-04-24T10:47:36 | https://mcsmith.blogs.com/eastern_district_of_texas/judge_steger_cases/ |
Former magistrates house & police station in Wirksworth near Matlock now offers 5 star guest accomodation within 4 ensuite bedrooms & excellent food & wine.
Luxury hotel in Castle Donington, offering bed and breakfast and full board accommodation. Perfect for romantic weekends, last minute availability. | 2019-04-21T08:36:08 | https://www.iknow-uk.com/england/peak-district/south-peak-district/luxury/hotels/last-minute/ |
As autumn well and truly kicks in and the days begin to feel shorter and colder, we wouldn’t blame you if you were feeling less than inspired about keeping up with your regular workouts.
We have come up with a few ideas to help motivate you to retain the physique you have already worked hard to achieve.
Whilst we’re aware it can be incredibly hard to resist all those pre-Christmas treats that have started appearing in supermarkets, it’s important not to over-indulge. That being said, we also think that balance is necessary, so make sure you treat yourself every now and again. For example, if you fancy some warming pie and mash for dinner, opt for a healthy salad at lunch.
Treating yourself to that new gym outfit you’ve had your eye on for a while could work in your favour. Looking and feeling good really do go hand-in-hand, and you’re more likely to want to show off your new outfit and hit the gym hard!
For the ladies, we like these two-tone tights from lululemon, which comes with a matching top too; this outfit should help you keep cool during those intense workouts. For men, we like Puma’s Evolution Tech Pants, which feature articulated knees for freedom of movement and flexibility and an invisible back zip pocket to ensure your valuables are kept safe.
While many people enjoy keeping fit outdoors in the summer, it can be somewhat less appealing in the colder winter months. To help you keep active, consider moving your exercise regime indoors.
An exercise class could be the answer, as the usual solo gym routine isn’t to everyone’s taste. London’s Sweat by BXR uses 21 Versaclimber’s in its stimulating full-body cardio workouts, there are three different classes available, meaning all abilities will be well catered for. Working out in a group setting can also be highly beneficial, if you’re exercising with someone that’s a little quicker and stronger, you’re more likely to want to improve your own fitness levels. It can also further encourage you to keep going, as you’re all experiencing ‘training in a team’.
During this time of year there will be plenty of seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables available, giving you the perfect opportunity to get creative in the kitchen and cook up something that’s both healthy and mouth-wateringly tasty.
Why not try roasting some turnips and pumpkins and drizzling them in a little olive oil, they will be packed with lots of vitamins and nutrients; plus you can add as much or as little seasoning as you’d like. If you fancy something a little more adventurous take a look at this appetising roasted winter vegetable salad, with pumpkin, golden beetroot, turnips, and apples.
Sometimes all you need is a little friendly competition or support to really push you with your exercise regime. Working out with a friend is a great way to do this, it will make training more fun and you’ll both be able to push each other to reach new limits.
It is always recommended you speak to your doctor and a qualified trainer or coach before embarking on a new fitness regime or training programme.
Do you have any top winter training tips or pieces of workout wisdom? Let us know on our Facebook and Twitter pages. | 2019-04-25T18:39:31 | http://www.versaclimber.co.uk/tips-maintaining-summer-body-winter/ |
Stayed at Marytown, also known as The National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe- amazing!
Taped a radio show with Fr. Francis all about vocations, of course!
Had delicious deep dish pizza with 12 awesome college seminarians from St. Joseph College Seminary at Loyola University. Please say a Hail Mary for each of them!
Then, the big day arrived. I can’t tell you how excited I was to speak with the 425 priests of Chicago in attendance! They received the Vocation Ministry message well and bought many books! Praise God! I sat next to Cardinal Cupich as a bonus! I love subtle (and not so subtle) hints from the Holy Spirit. The antiphon we sang (Holy Spirit, Come to Us)! The Holy Spirit was with us!
Another standout was that only 28% knew what to do to learn more or how to explore a vocation to the priesthood or religious life further. | 2019-04-22T22:15:04 | https://www.vocationministry.com/about/blog/208-chicago-priests |
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Strauss, Leo (1974). Shlomo Pines (ed.). How to Begin to Study the Guide: The Guide of the Perplexed – Maimonides (in Arabic). 1. University of Chicago Press.
Twersky, Isadore (1972). I Twersky (ed.). A Maimonides Reader. New York: Behrman House.
Seeskin, Kenneth. "Maimonides". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. | 2019-04-22T18:47:32 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides |
Over Winterim and Spring Break, a group of 14 Catlin Gabel Upper School including myself and other students and faculty, travelled to Cambodia. The trip, a part of the Global Education program, was the first trip to Cambodia in school history. While on the trip, we visited a series of schools all supported by the organization Caring for Cambodia.
Caring for Cambodia was established by Jamie Amelio, an American who visited Cambodia and was appalled by the education system. She started the organization to combat the poor education system in Cambodia. Her main inspiration was sparked by a young kid who was trying to sell her goods so that they could make money to go to school. Amelio asked to see the child’s school, and when she went, she immediately knew that change needed to occur.
The lack of teacher experience and instable infrastructure serves as two of the major problems for most schools in Cambodia. Many schools have only a few buildings and must resort to cramming copious amounts of students together in one room usually with a lone teacher. In addition, the teachers are disadvantaged as they are rarely given the adequate tools to create a successful learning environment. The poor student to teacher ratio is solved by Caring for Cambodia’s school system by building many classrooms to support large enrollment, and maintaining a clear focus on keeping class sizes small. Caring for Cambodia also creates a financial plans that will allow for additional teachers to be hired while also providing and requiring teacher development for all their staff.
“Parents send money with their children who pay off their teachers for the answers to national exams,” stated a Caring for Cambodia coordinator, who spoke to us about bribery at other public schools. Teachers choose to accept bribery as compensation since the funding provided by the government is inadequate, and are even sometimes discouraged from attending school on a daily basis. Caring for Cambodia is a non profit, therefore requiring donations to operate. The donations assist in paying appropriate teacher salaries, while also providing annual teaching bonuses.
During Catlin Gabel’s visit to Cambodia, I was impacted by witnessing the struggle families go through on a daily basis, I have gained a greater appreciation of the opportunities presented to me. Previously, I have taken the gift of education for granted, and in some cases even dreaded coming to school each day. But it wasn’t until we visited the Caring for Cambodia schools and saw how happy every student was to be at school that I realized how fortunate I was to go to a spectacular school surrounded by an equally spectacular community.
To learn more about Caring for Cambodia, visit their website here. | 2019-04-19T20:55:38 | https://wantnewsforteens.com/2015/05/04/saving-public-education-in-siem-reap-cambodia/ |
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Have you every wondered how estate planning might fit into your overall, future plans? Even if you are just starting to build your estate and do not need complex estate planning, here’s a quick look at some steps you should consider taking immediately in order to protect your family and to reduce potential expenses in the event of your death.
Draft a Will. A formal, legal document directing the settlement of your estate provides for the distributions of your assets according to your wishes. Without a will, the laws of your state will determine estate distribution. Qualified, experienced legal assistance and proper witnessing should always be sought. Only through a will can you designate your own executor, guardians for minor children, and other fiduciaries. A living trust funded with specific assets can allow those assets to pass to your heirs outside of probate. It may be a smart step to take in addition to drawing up your will.
Title Assets Properly. Unless you live in a community property state, where disposition of assets falls under community property laws, the simplest and least expensive estate planning technique for married couples is to take title to assets as “joint tenants with rights of survivorship.” At the death of one joint owner, such titled property automatically passes to the survivor without having to go through probate. However, there are other forms of titling that may be appropriate depending on circumstances.
Review Your Life Insurance Plan. Life insurance has long been recognized as a relatively inexpensive method for ensuring a surviving spouse will meet key, financial obligations without delay. Regular reviews can help ensure you have adequate protection, and your plan is up-to-date.
Plan for the Unexpected. First, analyze your disability insurance coverage. Second, consider granting a durable power of attorney for financial matters, and a living will and health care proxy for health matters. These advance directives enable the designated individual (usually your spouse, a relative, or close friend) to make important decisions on your behalf should you be mentally or physically unable to do so.
Keep Your Family Informed. Many families subscribe to a limited “need to know” policy between parents and children, especially while children are growing up. However, at some point, all family members should gain some awareness of financial, medical, and estate arrangements that can affect the entire family.
These are a few of the initiatives you can take now to start managing your estate. While larger estates may have different concerns than smaller ones, the key is to recognize that planning is the issue, not size! | 2019-04-25T17:15:36 | http://www.egrfinancial.com/blog/estate-planning-for-everyone |
Should Major League Players Participate in the World Baseball Classic? — Sports Survey of the Day?
The 2013 World Baseball Classic gets underway this weekend, and while it isn't as popular as some of the other global sporting events, it's gaining ground. So is it important to you to see your country well represented?
Many players elect not to participate in the WBC, which has only been around since 2005. Teams don't necessarily want to risk their players getting injured so close to the regular Major League Baseball season.
However, some players love to take the opportunity to represent their country, like New York Mets infielder David Wright, for example. The WBC is also a good opportunity for countries to show off some of their otherwise-unseen talent to the rest of the world. | 2019-04-23T06:47:39 | https://espn991.com/should-players-play-in-world-baseball-classic-sports-survey/ |
1. Is a particular road maintained by the County?
Please contact Road and Bridge at (727) 847-8143 or visit their website and use their Search Road Database Link.
2. Can a gate be placed across the road for fences placed on private roads?
Check with Building Construction Services (727) 847-8126. If it is a through street, no fence across the road is permitted.You may need a survey done to determine your property boundaries. Also,you may not block vehicular traffic to properties located beyond where the fence placement is (providing a key for the lock to those property owners may be sufficient; however, legal issues may exist).
3. Do I need a permit to place a fence on my property?
Contact Building Construction Services at (727) 847-8126 for the answer to that question.
4. I would like to take part in the county's first time home buyer assistance program as a vendor to offer real estate and mortgage services. How can I register?
In order to participate, you must go to the Community Development section of the County website, go to the partners section. There is a vendor form there. | 2019-04-19T20:19:15 | https://www.pascocountyfl.net/faq.aspx?TID=28 |
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There are some benefits to using a Linux box as a router. You get full access to the power of iptables, can host stuff directly on the box itself rather than having forwarding ports to other machines on your network, can torrent with way more peers as the box will support more connections than a usual home router, use the router itself as a fileserver/seedbox, etc.
For the box itself you will need two network interfaces, one for your modem and one for your switch. Throughout this tutorial, we will be referring to the one connected to your modem as eth0 and the one connected to your switch as eth1.
This tutorial is intended for Debian/Ubuntu but porting it to CentOS is trivial.
Debian uses /etc/network/interfaces for assigning IP addresses and so on to its network interfaces. You can use the following and tweak it to your needs.
# Interface bound to local network.
As mentioned earlier, we’ll be using 10.0.0.0/24 as our IP range. Additionally, we’ll use 10.0.0.1 for the IP of our router on the local network.
This will hand out IP addresses between 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.200 for your local network. When/if they run out, old addresses will be reused.
The most important lines are the last two. The first is accepting all packets that forward from eth1 (the local network) and the second masquerades them out eth0 (the internet).
That big comment at the top is to avoid warnings from Debian’s new dependency boot system.
At this point, you’re essentially done. Restart the services and your machines on your local network will start receiving IP addresses and be able to connect to the internet, faster than if you were using a normal consumer-grade router.
Read on if you’d like more functionality.
This will forward all requests coming from eth0 (the internet) on port TCP 2080 to port 80 on machine 10.0.0.169. If you need to use UDP rather than TCP, replace tcp with udp in that command.
What you provide for the hostname can be anything you feel like making up, really. Make sure that the IP you give it does not overlap the range you are having dhcpd provide.
Appendix 2 – Well, what if I want WiFi?
A nice use for your old Linksis wifi router would be to use it as a hotspot. Simply log in to its admin interface, disable its built-in DHCP server, configure its WiFi settings as you’d prefer, and plug one of its switch ports into your switch which is connected to your Linux router. Leave the Linksys’ WAN port unplugged.
At this point it will essentially serve as a wireless “switch” of sorts. So you’ll have all the benefits of using a computer running Linux as a router, and still have WiFi for your place using the old Linksys as a hotspot.
Another way of providing WiFi connectivity is adding a wireless card to your Linux router. Unfortunately, that isn’t something I’ve felt like dealing with yet, so I’m not going to write an article on it.
So you want to install PHP’s gtk extension. Compared to GTK’s bindings for Perl and Python, PHP’s apparently is under-maintained and is a pain to install as the developers have not accommodated changes in libtool. We will need to install various development packages, temporarily tweak libtool, and then attempt compiling PHP-GTK and enabling it, provided that didn’t fail.
This tutorial was performed on vanilla 64-bit Debian Squeeze 6.0.2 successfully. Something similar will hopefully work for Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives.
Assuming you use sudo like myself, you’ll use sudo -i to drop yourself to a root shell. If you have the root account enabled, either log in as root directly or use su - as a normal user to become root.
Unfortunately we temporarily need to hack our libtool configuration. Don’t worry; we’ll restore the old version later. As we’re running as root, we do not need to tweak the file permissions at all here, as other tutorials seem to mention.
Check it out, run buildconf, compile, etc. This is the most important part. If buildconf or configure do not finish successfully, undo the above change (move on to my next step) and reply demanding me to update this tutorial. Please give as much information regarding your distro’s setup and the steps you have taken as possible.
Ensure that gtk is properly installed. We shouldn’t need to worry about cairo being broken since pecl shouldn’t have failed.
This should give something such as the following if all goes well. If it does not list php-gtk, we have failed.
To further verify everything is working correctly, you should probably test a sample GTK hello world as described here: http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/tutorials.helloworld.php or just run the php-gtk software you sought this tutorial for anyway. This is unnecessary if you are installing php-gtk just to get a tool such as the Phoronix Test Suite to work.
You should be done! Comments are much appreciated! | 2019-04-24T13:05:20 | https://debianaddict.com/category/debian/ |
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Windows and Microsoft Outlook). Such backdoors appear to be installed so that spammers can send junk e-mail from the infected machines. Others, such as the Sony/BMG rootkit, placed secretly on millions of music CDs through late 2005, are intended as DRM measures—and, in that case, as data-gathering agents, since both surreptitious programs they installed routinely contacted central servers. A sophisticated attempt to plant a backdoor in the Linux kernel, exposed in November 2003, added a small and subtle code change by subverting the revision control system. In this case, a two-line change appeared to check root access permissions of a caller to the sys_wait4 function, but because it used assignment = instead of equality checking ==, it actually granted permissions to the system. This difference is easily overlooked, and could even be interpreted as an accidental typographical error, rather than an intentional attack.
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Mac Miller & Anderson.Paak on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Sept. 15, 2016.
Mac Miller celebrated the release of his new album, The Divine Feminine, a day early on Thursday night (Sept. 15) when he threw down on The Late Show stage with pal Anderson .Paak. The pair teamed up with host Stephen Colbert's house band, Jon Baptiste & Stay Human, for a funky, silky take on the album's lead single, "Dang!," with both men joyously stepping to the song's subtle, jazzy groove.
The Divine Feminine, out Friday (Sept. 16), features tracks with Kendrick Lamar, Ty Dolla $ign, CeeLo Green, Bilal and lady love Ariana Grande. | 2019-04-25T17:19:33 | https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7511098/mac-miller-anderson-paak-dang-performance-late-show |
James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander star in this uneven and meandering romantic drama.
Take a look at the brand new posters ahead of the film’s arrival next month.
Amazing new footage arrives for the August-released action film.
Own the M. Night Shyamalan fan-favourite thriller.
James McAvoy stars in the scary psychological thriller. | 2019-04-21T14:32:41 | https://www.entertainment-focus.com/tag/james-mcavoy/ |
While hiking last year I stumbled upon this morel mushroom (along with 5 others in the same area). Although it was morel season, I was not actively looking for them. I was both surprised and excited to find my first morel mushroom.
The time is upon us again and I am hoping for another surprise very soon. | 2019-04-19T03:10:53 | https://fstopmama.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/weekly-photo-challenge-surprise/ |
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With a pale pink border stripe, why not choose our dye sublimation personalisation and add whatever message you like in a flowing script font? Simply add your message, be it initials, name or poem, and we'll sort out the rest! | 2019-04-21T20:41:55 | https://www.studiohop.co.uk/products/personalised-cashmere-blend-leopard-scarf |
From S: Big Leap of Faith Folks - It's a personal journey and I'm passionate about it. If you take the time to read I want it to be a resource.
Decided to cut and paste to add this today 7/11/2009 for the HOPE of others in need who may look here on the week of our 30th Reunion. I've been on an awesome and humbling journey.
Do you know someone with Parkinsonism, MS, or Cancer? Dr Paul Rothwell at the Gilbert Clinic in Bethany, Oklahoma is someone you should call for a consult.
I've witnessed a lot of other patients thru my Dad/Oakley's journey and there are other amazing stories. Yes, there were losses along the way but Dad has yet to be one. Again,I can only speak for my Father who is now living two blocks away from us in his own apartment. Two years ago it was just a hope he could be on his own again.
December 27th, 2006. I got a call at 7:36am from Lake Texahoma that my father has been taken to the hospital in Madill. He was found facedown for what we estimate was 12 hours. So rigid from his form of Parkinsonism he could not move or rollover to crawl and reach a phone that was just a few feet away. He also had rug burns on his face, proof he tried and tried! By early Janurary I moved him to OKC to be closer to family interaction. January 14th, 2007 he had a PEG Feeding Tube inserted at Deaconess Hospital as he had been rapidly loosing weight, down to 146 pounds.
THE HOPE: Within a few weeks I heard Dr Paul Rothwell was bringing a protocol to Oklahoma City that I had heard about in Italy in the 90s and a protocol Dr.Perlmutter in Florida uses and Dr Rothwell follows. In February 2007 Dad had a consult with Rothwell and he viewed a DVD that put 10 years of info in my head into a 20 minute review for Dad. Dad shocked me and said "let's start" that same day. By April 11, 2007 Oakley stood on his own, walked without aid, shocked staff, family and made my heart leap with joy. Oakley at 80 took the option and the ball and ran with it. By June Dad was determined to eat again. Had some throat tests one good, 2 not so good but after an appointment with Dr Rothwell he gave him the go ahead for a 2 week pureed diet trial. Dad signed the waiver at Bellevue that we would not hold them responsible if he choked....he passed with flying colors and now, as I said in the beginning, Oakley lives two blocks away, NO PEG Feeding Tube - removed 10/30/2007 - Moved into his apartment November 1, 2007.
THE KEY: Dr Paul Rothwell - Gilbert Clinic in Bethany. Dad's treatment is one of many that Rothwell has researched and uses. He is an allopathic trained doctor of 25+ years and in 2006 he was Chief of Staff at Deaconess so that speaks volumes. For me and my family, his knowledge, guidance and faith kept us moving forward. We did have challenges with the nursing home, the Neaurologist - who called it "bunk" (bunk to him - I fired him) and the nursing home doctor (believe it or not he is also on staff at the SAME clinic with Rothwell in Bethany). Dad was 80 when this journey began so I think there is hope for the young and old.
Dr Rothwell has even more information to share about the other conditions I mentioned above as he continues to use naturalpathic along with regular allopatic options.
Married a Lake Park/Western Oaks guy in 1996 after re-meeting NYE 1992. It's been fun lately for us to share stories of our childhood about people, teachers and friends we had in common. He left Western Oaks when his parents moved to Eufala and later graduated from OU. He is a self-employed CPA/Stockbroker. Greetings to all and take care of yourselves. No one else will. | 2019-04-21T18:08:16 | https://pcwest79.com/page.php?groupingID=registration&page_num=16&search=&sort=3&limit=10 |
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Phil’s stories have had an amazing impact on children in primary schools across the country. His unique Oracy to Writing process has already had a dramatic impact on the literacy and oracy achievements of thousands of children across the UK.
Please Use the navigation to the left to check out the great comments people have made about his stories and storytelling. | 2019-04-24T10:08:06 | https://www.thestoryemporium.co.uk/reviews/ |
Why should I buy this product? A really fashionable bow tie to give your dog a new style! It's an excellent hook for the leash, but soft and comfortable. This accessory is made in double layered fabric, hand-sewn, it locks by elastic strap and can be removed from the collar to be washed. | 2019-04-24T02:13:42 | https://youtlet.net/products/bow-tie-dog-collar |
Goadsby in Poole are holding an Open Evening to celebrate their recently refurbished office on Thursday 30th March between 5pm – 7pm.
We look forward to meeting you then!!! | 2019-04-24T03:58:35 | https://goadsby.com/news/115/goadsby-poole-open-evening-245-high-street-north-poole-bh15-1dx/ |
Meaning and definitions of baggage, translation in Tamil language for baggage with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of baggage in Tamil and in English language.
What baggage means in Tamil, baggage meaning in Tamil, baggage definition, examples and pronunciation of baggage in Tamil language. | 2019-04-21T23:59:56 | https://www.english-tamil.net/?q=baggage |
I am fairly a new agent and I am looking from you who have more experience with leads. What companies do you recommend?
Most people that are getting leads from 3rd parties don't like sharing them due to competition. Best bet is to find an imo that has their own lead vendors.
You're not here from around, are you?
Welcome, depending on what type of leads you are looking for feel free to check out the links below.
Yeah, I would highly recommend finding an IMO with 60% contact levels and "cheap" leads!
Even if you had good leads I'd never do business with you. Keep up the helpful posts I'm sure everyone is OK impressed!!!!
No worries, I get it I'm sure your IMO deserves 100% commission from every sale you make.
May I recommend to you making a 3rd account here on the forums? Start fresh one more time?
On a 60% contract it might even be tough to afford my already extremely affordable leads ... (www.leadheroes.com) No worries, I get it I'm sure your IMO deserves 100% commission from every sale you make. May I recommend to you making a 3rd account here on the forums? Start fresh one more time?
I'm sure so many people will click and buy leads since you are so good at helping others. So many great quality posts all the way around good sir. Thanks for contributing.
That's what some call the fighting retreat.
OP what kind of insurance are you selling?
Starting a New Career in the Insurance Industry, I Need Help! | 2019-04-23T18:32:21 | https://insurance-forums.com/community/threads/new-to-the-industry-need-help-on-leads.82881/ |
RSM welcomed Sellers Richardson Holman & West to its family in May 2015, establishing our first Alabama presence, though we’ve been serving middle market companies in the state for many years. Sellers Richardson Holman & West spent more than 20 years building its reputation as the best locally owned public accounting firm in Birmingham. Together, we share a focus on middle market companies and a commitment to building enduring, trusted relationships with clients.
As the third-largest public accounting firm in Birmingham, our office includes 15 partners and more than 100 client service professionals. We are deeply involved with our clients through a proactive, hands-on approach to delivering high-quality service. Our experience and services encompass a range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, food and beverage, construction, real estate, business and professional services, timberland investment and nonprofits.
We strongly believe in giving back to the community in which we live and work and encourage our professionals to get involved through leadership, financial support and volunteer opportunities. Some of the organizations we support include The Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Boy Scouts of America, The American Heart Association, The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, The United Way and the YWCA.
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The IRS announced tax relief, including extended deadlines, to Lee County, Alabama, which was impacted by recent storms.
Alabama recently enacted the data breach notification law. Understand what you need to know, and how RSM can help you prepare.
Alabama’s tax amnesty program will apply to most taxes, provide penalty and interest waiver, and run for three months beginning in July.
Tax Tribunal affirms on rehearing that the rule calculating the taxes paid to other states credit was contrary to the authorizing statute.
Alabama’s economic sales and use tax nexus regulation providing substantial nexus to remote retailers receives its first challenge.
Alabama court rules photography services are not subject to sales tax because the transfer of the photographs was incidental to the service.
Alabama Department of Revenue launches dedicated website for upcoming 2016 amnesty program and provides guidance regarding amnesty terms. | 2019-04-23T20:32:59 | https://rsmus.com/locations/alabama.html |
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Where is New Rochelle in America?
New Rochelle is number 8 in the region New York.
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Rochelle Park > South: I-95 at Interchange 16 (Cedar Street).
Woodside > North: I-95 at Interchange 15 (New Rochelle).
Pinckney Heights: Cross Country Parkway West of Exit 10.
Where is New Rochelle relative to other places?
Top 10 cities in New York and distance from New Rochelle.
Top 10 cities in America and distance from New Rochelle. | 2019-04-25T01:58:42 | https://us.geotargit.com/index.php?qcountry_code=US&qregion_code=NY&qcity=New%20Rochelle |
Winning audiences with her undeniable on-stage charisma, melodic versatility and playful banter, Cathrine Summers’ reputation as a jazz and soul performer of choice continues to grow.
The UK-born singer-songwriter fostered her love of performing in Perth, Western Australia, first making a name for herself at iconic venues including The Ellington Jazz Club, Kings Park Festivals and various venues around Perth such as year long residencies at Crown Casino, Little Creatures and The Fig Restaurants and the likes. One-off shows, radio spots, corporate functions, gala dinners, weddings and music festivals have also featured prominently in her career.
Now, after almost three years living and performing to audiences at some of Sydney’s highest profile venues and events including The Opera Bar, The Basement and the Manly Jazz Festival, Cathrine’s return to Perth marked a new chapter in expanding her repertoire to soul, modern, Motown, R&B and contemporary pop whilst at the same time keeping one root firmly rooted in the Jazz genre.
Cathrine’s sultry, husky and inviting Alicia Keys-meets-Amy Winehouse voice full of timbre and soul has earned her a residency at The Laneway Lounge in Perth’s CBD, as well as regular spots at many other well-known venues. She’s also gained a reputation for making corporate and special occasions truly unique, stand-out events. | 2019-04-20T02:44:33 | https://www.keynoteentertainment.com.au/speakers/dance-bands/cathrine-summers |
This morning I submitted the latest update of Fare City to Apple for review. All being well it should be in the App Store within the week.
The headline feature is a new game mode called Crazy Cabs. By simplifying the game mechanics, Crazy Cabs offers a whole new experience in terms of game play which we think you will love. Instead of controlling a taxi fleet you have to deal with a continuous stream of cabs arriving already laden with passengers. Your job is “simply” to get each cab to its drop-off point and then have it leave without accident. Of course, the taxis arrive at an increasing rate so pressure builds until the game really starts to live up its name! Even if you are growing tired of Fare City you really should give Crazy Cabs a spin. It is like a whole new game for free.
Although Fare City is the type of game that many people can just pick up and play, we have noticed in play tests that some people really benefit from a few handy tips when starting out. So Fare City 2.0 includes a fully playable walkthrough tutorial. Even if you are an old hand at the game you should check it out – it looks gorgeous!
The other major changes have come in the UI. The game selection screen has been made (we hope) a little more intuitive, while the stats screen has had a complete overhaul so stats browsing is much easier.
Oh, but I almost forgot – there is one more thing; not in Fare City itself, but in the free edition. Up until now it has been a try-before-you-buy, time restricted demo of the full game. Not any more! In 2.0 Fare City Free includes the full, original Classic game on the Downtown map. We’ve even thrown in Rookie mode, the tutorial and Open Feint leaderboards. Our hope is that people will find the free edition a much more satisfying experience (and want the whole experience of the full version :-)).
what was in the new version with the new icon? (yellow background). that should be v2.1 right? not this, 2.0?
Do you like “game play suggestions”? Cause I have a few. 😀 (ie: showing number of fares on the roof of a cab). And maybe a “skip to” button so that if cars are traveling a LONG WAY and you are just sitting there waiting, you push it and it zips the cars forward (faster than blue turbo).
It’s actually 2.2 – I’m way behind on my blog at the moment!
2.2 has some nice-to-have features such as social notification – plus you can finally play the game in the reverse landscape if you prefer.
2.3 is currently in production and includes map number 6 – Riverside. It should be submitted in the next few days (once we have reduced the difficulty level of the map a little – it is insanely difficult at the moment).
Why can’t I update from the old to the new version? And when will there be an iPad Version?
Why isn’t the new version and upgrade from the old one? Looks to me like you added one big new feature (crazy cabs) and rather than update the old version properly you yanked it from the app store and are forcing users to pay for an incremental update. That seems rather rude and shady to me. And it isn’t even addressed in this blog post. You just ignore the fact that you did this and hope people won’t notice. Not cool at all.
I bought the old version in March. If I had known it would be made obsolete in June I wouldn’t have bought it all. This is a horrible way to treat your customers. So thanks for taking my money and using it to fund development of an update I in turn have to pay for. Jerks.
Alright, I Should have been a better commenter and read the black log of blog posts. I understand the situation now switching publishers back and forth. Sucky situation. Sounds like you had a crummy time with Digital Chocolate, and i was unlucky enough to buy your fantastic game when that was the version on the store. So sorry for going off on you a little bit. Just bought the new, proper version to get all these sweet upgrades. Keep up the good work!
Did someone answer your question? Things have been a bit busy around here lately and you may have slipped through the net.
When will the iPad version be available in the App Store? | 2019-04-23T22:18:41 | http://finklyinteractive.com/fare-city-2-0-submitted-to-apple/ |
Title: A Battle in the Heat! Luffy vs. The Giant Dragon!
Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Usopp are now facing the dragon who asks who they are. Luffy exclaims that the dragon just talked, but Usopp says that he is hearing things, while running away. As they remain intrigued about the dragon, it lets loose a burst of fire, which they all narrowly evade. Usopp trembles in fear while Luffy and Zoro get excited about facing the dragon. Luffy uses Jet Pistol, which does not seem to effect the dragon much, and he realizes that its hide is really hard. The dragon slams Luffy down with its tail forcefully. Zoro charges towards the dragon, but gets distracted when the dragon talks again and it stretches its head out to bite, which Zoro narrowly evades. Zoro uses a technique called Ultra-Hunt which shakes the dragon up a bit, but it recovers quickly and tries to bite Zoro again, which he manages to block but proclaims that the dragon is very resilient and strong. An enraged Luffy then breaks out from the rubble and kicks the dragon, taking it by surprise and hurting it. Zoro tells Luffy that he heard it speak, while Robin and Usopp also witnessed it speaking.
The dragon flies and uses another fire breath attack, while asking if they are allies of that Shichibukai. The Straw Hats take cover under some rocks and walls, Usopp gets scared even more while Robin questions if it has a grudge against the Shichibukai. Luffy and Zoro are making a plan, with Luffy jumping up to knock the dragon down. When he grabs hold of a wall to launch himself, Luffy realizes it is hot and while he is air-borne, the dragon tries to knock him off with another burst of fire. Luffy stumbles and rolls around on the dragons body, while exclaiming that it is hot, and finds a pair of legs sticking out of the dragon. The dragon then tries to bite Luffy, but accidentally bites its wing which is thrusted forward by Luffy, making it yelp in pain and fall. Zoro then starts to charge forward and yells at Usopp, who uses Trampolia to enable Zoro to jump up and he uses a technique called Iai: Shi Shishi Sonson, and cuts the dragons head off. While they fall, Luffy starts laughing and says that the dragon looks yummy. Zoro then says that they could have a barbecue with the flames on the island as Robin uses her powers to catch the two.
Back at the Thousand Sunny, Sanji finishes making a meal for Nami and calls for her, but finds everybody is asleep with some fog floating around. Sanji, realizing that it is not fog but actually gas, tries to contact Luffy by reaching for the Den Den Mushi, but is put to sleep himself for breathing in too much of the gas beforehand. A group of peculiar individuals emerge in hazmat suits with the letters PH on them and capture the crew, except for Brook. They mention a master that they are taking their captives to.
This Episode is licensed and distribute by Funimation and Crunchyroll. you may visit the website here Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Usopp are now facing the dragon who asks who they are. Luffy exclaims that the dragon just talked, but Usopp says that he is hearing things, while running away. As they remain intrigued about the dragon, it lets loose a burst of fire, which they all... more.. | 2019-04-18T19:06:38 | https://ww21.watchop.io/view/one-piece-episode-580-english-sub/ |
Jarecki's powerful documentary revisits Ike's admonitions.
In his disturbing documentary, Jarecki argues that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats stand a fighting chance against the American war machine.
Despite their differences of style, Eugene Jarecki and Michael Moore are two of a kind: debaters, not journalists.
Jarecki's canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary paints a grim historical picture of war profiteering run amok.
If you're already well aware of what the military-industrial complex can do, you'll be tempted to see this documentary as a missed opportunity.
Why We Fight shows clear merit in these convoluted, double-talking times, but thanks to the polarization of the American public, it's probably damned to preach to the choir. | 2019-04-23T00:45:21 | http://archive.altweeklies.com/aan/qanda/Story?oid=157209 |
Email will be banned in the UK after Brexit has happened following a discovery about severe psychological effects that this form of communication has.
30 years of the World Wide Web has flown by. Can you remember life before the Internet? It was more cumbersome and time-consuming but was less stressful and we were less angry with each other.
What a year it was in 2018 for the Internet. Significant changes in our attitudes to the online world combined with dramatic influences around the globe.
Why do people avoid securing their computers? Millions of computers are unprotected from hacking and viruses? Why?
Mobile phone users look set to need to get a licence to roam, something that has infuriated the Federation Of Online Liberty on this April day.
There is a lot of psychology in business, so business owners ought to learn some..! These books provide the essentials.
What you said in the past lived in the past. But what you published online is as live today as it was back then.And you may regret some things.
The biggest proportion of activity on Twitter is about TV programmes. Newspaper websites are amongst the most popular. Traditional media rule.
Women are in charge of the Internet because they represent more of the actual usage of online services.
Internet marketing is full of theories – mostly untested, but often accepted. Don’t go with the flow – do what works.
These 7 psychology books will help anyone use the Internet in better ways. But they will also specifically help Internet Marketers.
How to attract website visitors – be interesting…! | 2019-04-21T10:29:01 | https://www.grahamjones.co.uk/category/blog/general |
The Utah Jazz will never fully enjoy the fruits of the rebuilding process that began Feb. 23, 2011, when the team traded Deron Williams. Gordon Hayward‘s decision to leave for greener pastures guarantees that.
A couple of months ago, the Jazz seemed positioned to be a franchise to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future. They were a rising, young team that broke through with a 51-win season despite dealing with injuries to key players, ending a four-year postseason drought and winning a playoff series for the first time since Williams’ departure.
Of course, that required re-signing the Jazz’s lone All-Star selection since this rebuilding project began.
• Will Hayward get Celtics past LeBron and Cavs?
• Will Lowry, Raptors break through East?
The Jazz aren’t back to square one — second-team All-NBA center Rudy Gobert, 25, is one of several talented young players who remain in Salt Lake City — but Hayward bolting for Boston leaves a huge hole on the roster. The Jazz developed Hayward into a go-to guy, particularly in the three seasons since coach Quin Snyder arrived, and built the offense around his evolving skill set.
General manager Dennis Lindsey will explore every avenue, but it’s essentially impossible to immediately find a suitable replacement for a No. 1 scorer, especially for a small-market team without much wiggle room under the salary cap.
The Jazz entered the offseason cautiously optimistic that they could keep Hayward, well aware of the attractive options he had to spend his prime, yet they were confident they’d put plenty of reasons in place for him to want to stay in Utah. Leading into free agency, Lindsey took a proactive approach in upgrading the roster. He twice traded up in the first round of the draft, most notably to get into the lottery to select Louisville guard Donovan Mitchell. Lindsey ensured the Jazz would have a proven veteran point guard, trading for 26-year-old Ricky Rubio instead of risking losing (or overpaying) 31-year-old George Hill in free agency. Utah quickly worked to get a four-year, $52 million deal done with Joe Ingles, a sweet-shooting glue guy who happens to be one of Hayward’s best friends.
Gobert is just about to begin the four-year extension he signed last fall, a less-than-max deal that is a bargain for a big man whose ability to dominate doing dirty work complemented and enhanced Hayward’s consistently expanding skill set. The Jazz contingent, which included Rubio, Ingles and Gobert as well as Lindsey, Snyder and others, presented a compelling case during Monday’s meeting at Hayward’s home in San Diego. A major focal point was a specific plan to continue Hayward’s dramatic development, including accompanying tweaks to the offense as his game grows.
The Jazz could offer Hayward something the Celtics couldn’t: the opportunity to be the unquestioned No. 1 offensive option. Utah believed Snyder had just as strong of a relationship with Hayward as Boston’s Brad Stevens, his college coach. But Boston could reasonably paint the picture of a brighter future: a roster basically intact after a conference finals appearance, a pair of top-three picks already in place, more high-lottery picks on the way and a much easier path to the NBA Finals in the Eastern Conference.
There really isn’t anything else Utah could have done in recent months to improve the odds of Hayward’s return. The Jazz front office’s fatal mistake, in hindsight, was made a few years ago when Hayward was a restricted free agent.
The Jazz could have given Hayward a five-year maximum contract then. In that case, as it turns out, his salary in Utah would have been a relative bargain through the 2018-19 season. Instead, the Jazz allowed Hayward to explore the market and opted to match the max offer he received from Charlotte, a four-year deal that included a player option for this season.
A few years later, that looks like a terrible decision. At the time, many scoffed at the thought of paying max money to a guy who just put up pretty good numbers (16.2 points per game with a subpar eFG% of .454) on a 25-win team that just fired its coach.
Hayward’s numbers have soared in the three seasons since under Snyder (topping out at 21.9 points per game with an eFG% of .536 last season), with the Jazz’s win totals making similar jumps. Utah hoped Hayward and Gobert could be the modern-day version of Stockton and Malone, a star duo with staying power that could make the Jazz consistently competitive for an era. They were the poster boys for a developmental program that Jazz staffers proudly considered to be on par with the NBA’s best, a must for a small-market franchise hoping to contend.
With Hayward gone, Utah fans have to hope the franchise can develop another co-star to pair with Gobert. In the painful aftermath of their All-Star’s exit, patience again will be required. | 2019-04-25T19:02:43 | https://marijuanacannabisdispensary.com/jazz-believed-their-pitch-to-hayward-was-as-strong-as-anybodys-espn/ |
And the second sounded, and there was as a great burning mountain falling into the sea and a third of The Sea became blood.
Strong's Greek 2545: To ignite, light, burn, lit. and met; I consume with fire. Apparently a primary verb; to set on fire, i.e. Kindle or consume.
(8, 9) And the second angel . . .--Translate, And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures that were in the sea died, those which have lives; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. The sea becoming blood reminds us again of the plagues in Egypt (Exodus 7:20-21); but we must once more note the variation. It is not an uplifted rod like that of Moses which produces this result: it is the casting into the sea of a huge mass, as it were a great mountain, burning with fire. Professor Stuart calls this image appropriate or peculiar to St. John. The prophet Jeremiah, however, in a chapter which in many particulars is parallel to this and the following chapter (comp. Revelation 11:18), makes use of a very similar image: "Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain" (Jeremiah 51:25). The mountain was the emblem, in Jeremiah's prophecy, of the strong consolidated power and institutions of Babylon. Not only must the loftiness of man be brought low, but the mountains which they made so strong for themselves. The power of God's advancing cause would hurl the rooted mountains from their base. The power of faith, Christ declared, would suffice to do this (Matthew 21:21); and it is at least a singular coincidence that this saying of the Lord's respecting the overthrow of a mountain should occur in His own comment on the destruction of the fig-tree, just as, in this chapter, the vision of the mountain overthrown follows that of the destruction of tree and grass life. Our Lord encourages the faith of His disciples: "Your power will not only expose the pretentious religionisms of the world, as My word has shown the worthlessness of this tree, but you will overthrow also the long established usages and evil customs of nations which corrupt the world." The powers which seemed strong as the great mountains would be seen to be but evil powers, burning, poisoning, destroying; but its power to destroy is checked: it is cast into the sea. Yet no great institution, or nationality, or evil principle is overthrown without some corresponding disadvantages. The falling mountain carries evil even in its fall, the sea becomes blood, the ships are destroyed. The fall of a great nation--a Babylon-- is always fraught with unavoidable miseries to the world and its nations. Doubtless, the interests of commerce and shipping suffer; but this is not, it seems to me, the point of the vision. The symbolism is only weakened by supposing an allegorical mountain to fall into a literal sea and to destroy literal ships. The force of the vision is that certain gigantic forms of evil will be overthrown, but the overthrow will be accompanied with the development of new evils: the advance is made, but the step forward unveils the subtle force of evil. Every corrupt institution is destroyed with the risk of the evil elements diffusing themselves elsewhere; just as the political victory of Christianity was followed by the infusion of certain Pagan elements into the Church. The vanquished always manage to impose some laws on the victor. Even the advance of the Church is accompanied by some such experience.
Verses 8, 9. - And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. Jeremiah 2:25 contains a somewhat similar description, with, however, a different meaning. There the mountain is the heathen power; here it is the instrument of the punishment of the ungodly world. Alford objects to calling the mountain a volcano, though that, or something of the same nature, seems obviously to be meant. The contiguity of such appearances to St. John in the Isle of Patmos may have suggested the idea. The judgments appear to increase in severity as we go on. The first affects vegetation, thus causing trouble, but not destruction to men; the second begins to affect animal life; the third causes many men to die; and the following ones affect men as direct punishments. The vision may be said generally to typify great trouble and commotion. The figure is used in other places to denote something remarkable and awe inspiring (cf. Matthew 21:21; 1 Corinthians 13:2; Job 9:5; Job 28:9; Judges 5:5; 1 Kings 19:11; Psalm 46:2; Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 54:10; Ezekiel 38:20; Micah 1:4; Nahum 1:5). It is also the symbol of a great power. In Isaiah 2:2 it signifies the Church; in Amos 4:1 an earthly power; in Isaiah 41:15 the enemies of Israel. We may therefore conclude that a judgment of great magnitude and force is foretold; and though it is possible to point to particular events (such as the overthrow of Rome by the Gothic power) as a fulfilment of the prophecy, yet we must remember that the complete fulfilment will not he accomplished until "all enemies are put under his feet." And the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed; even they that had life (Revised Version). (On the "third part," see on ver. 7.) Whether one third part of the sea, separated in some way from the rest, and all the creatures in that third part, or whether a third part diffused over the whole extent, is meant, it is impossible to say. The whole is a vision, and not subject to natural laws. The meaning is evident. As before, a large part, but not the largest, is signified and this time the judgment is directed against another portion of creation. The sea, as well as the productions of the earth, can be used by God as his agent by which to punish and warn mankind. The attempt to press the vision into a particular application has led to a variety of interpretations. Wordsworth and Elliott both think that the destruction of Roman ships is foretold; the former pointing to the ships as the instruments of commerce and luxury, the latter referring to the destruction of the Roman navy. Bengel, Grotius, Vitringa, see here a vision of war'. Hengstenberg believes the sea to typify this world; the living creatures, mankind; and the ships, villages and towns. Those who place the fulfilment of the vision in time subsequent to the sealing of Revelation 7. fail to see that the trumpets do not follow the seals in chronological order, but that both are being fulfilled side by side in the same epoch; viz. that of the existence of man. | 2019-04-18T10:58:03 | https://biblehub.com/revelation/8-8.htm |
The world has been taken over by social media and blogs about any subject are popping up. It looks like an overdose. As a foodie traveller I always check out travel blogs before I pack my bags. I like to do the unusual things and food is always high on the agenda. I noticed, that I couldn’t find any blogs, which suited my pallette. Have you ever tried to find a good blog about Norfolk? It’s a hard find..
New York, Cape Town, Delhi and Hong Kong – enough choice or keep it to the food theme, flavours. My food and travel blog, the globetrotter foodie has been in the pipe line for many years, but due to the pressures of life I never pulled it off. After my visit to Marrakech I knew it was time to share my love of food and travel, but as time went on, it didn’t happen. My break to Norfolk gave me the final push. It was time to show the world there is more than just the famous destinations. I hail from the North of the Netherlands, Friesland, which is never covered in any blogs. It is a lovely part of the world and the birth place of Mata Hari, a famous female and most intriguing spy and of William of Orange.
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1 . Terrible Search Extremely literal search engines reduce wonderful in that they’re unable to deal with typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of your query terms. Such search engines are particularly complicated for older people users, but they hurt every person. A related problem is when ever search engines prioritize results entirely on the basis of how many predicament terms they contain, instead of on each document’s importance. Significantly better if your search engine calls out “best bets” at the top of the list – especially for significant queries, like the names of the products. Search is the user’s lifeline when ever navigation falls flat. Even though advanced search can sometimes help, basic search usually works best, and search must be presented like a simple package, since absolutely what users are looking for.
2 . PDF Documents for On line Reading Users hate finding a PDF file even though browsing, as it breaks their particular flow. Possibly simple items like printing or perhaps saving documents are difficult because common browser commands don’t work. Layouts are often times optimized for a sheet of paper, which usually rarely has the exact size of the user’s web browser window. Bye-bye smooth moving. Hello tiny fonts.
Most detrimental of all, PDF FILE is an undifferentiated blob of content material that’s hard to browse through.
A great grasp of past direction-finding helps you understand your current position, since it’s the culmination of your journey. Learning your earlier and present locations subsequently makes it easier to decide where to go following. Links can be a key factor with this navigation method. Users can exclude links that proven fruitless in their earlier trips. Conversely, some might revisit links they seen helpful in days gone by.
Most important, learning which pages they’ve already visited slides open users right from unintentionally returning to the same web pages over and over again.
These kinds of benefits only accrue below one essential assumption: that users can tell the difference among visited and unvisited links because the internet site shows these people in different shades. When went to links can not change color, users display more navigational disorientation in usability evaluating and unintentionally revisit the same pages continuously.
Search is the most important way users discover websites. Search is also probably the most important techniques users get their way around individual websites. The standard page title is your main tool to draw new guests from search listings and help your existing users to locate the specific pages that they can need.
The page subject is protected within the HTML CODE label and is generally used since the clickable headline designed for listings upon search engine final result pages (SERP). Search engines typically show the first of all 66 heroes or so from the title, so it is truly microcontent.
For various other pages than the homepage, commence the title with a few of the most prominent information-carrying phrases that express the facts of what users will find on that page. Because the page name is used for the reason that the windows title in the browser, it’s also used seeing that the label just for the window inside the taskbar within Windows, meaning that advanced users will progress between multiple windows beneath the guidance of the first one or two words of each page name. If all of your page titles commence with the same text, you have significantly reduced user friendliness for your multi-windowing users.
Unfortunately, users also dismiss legitimate design elements that look like widespread forms of marketing. After all, when you ignore some thing, you don’t examine it in greater detail to find out what.
Thickness is one of the strongest usability guidelines: when points always conduct themselves the same, users don’t have to stress about what will happen. Instead, they really know what will happen based on earlier encounter. Every time you discharge an apple above Sir Isaac Newton, it is going to drop in the head. Could good.
A lot more users’ goals prove right, the more they may feel in control of the system and the more they may like it. Plus the more the system breaks users’ expectations, the more they will experience insecure. Oops, maybe easily let go of this apple, it will probably turn into a tomato and bounce a mile in the sky.
Opening up fresh browser home windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an lung burning ash tray for the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my display screen with anymore windows, thank you (particularly as current systems have gloomy window management).
Designers open new web browser windows within the theory it keeps users on their web page. But actually disregarding the user-hostile principles implied in taking over the user’s equipment, the approach is self-defeating since it hinders the Back press button which is the conventional way users return to previous sites. Users often can not notice that a brand new window seems to have opened, particularly if they are using a small monitor where the house windows are strengthened to complete the screen. So an individual can who attempts to return to the foundation will be mixed up by a grayed outBack press button.
Links that don’t become expected weaken users’ understanding of their own program. A link can be a simple hypertext reference that replaces the actual page with new articles. Users hate unwarranted pop-up windows. When they want the destination to show up in a fresh page, they can use their browser’s “open in new window” command – assuming, naturally , that the hyperlink is not really a huge piece of code that interferes with the browserai??i??s standard patterns.
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Under the reported plan, the Union Jack will fly from government buildings only on Remembrance Sunday. It will not be hoisted on other royal anniversaries and birthdays. The procedure is in line with other public buildings, a practice already adopted in recent years at the government’s St. Andrew’s House headquarters in Edinburgh.
Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Sturgeon hit back at critics, insisting that this is not a new practice and was not ordered by her. She said the updated administrative step was “sensible,” and had actually been in place since 2010.
Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond jumped to Sturgeon's defence, stepping forward to reveal he was the one behind the decision back in 2010 to use the the Royal Banner of Scotland - also known as the Lion Rampant - instead.
What a load of complete piffle from The Mail, The Telegrapgh et al. The hoisting of Lion Rampant had nothing whatsoever to do with @NicolaSturgeon.
On Wednesday Tory MPs were infuriated by the news - but Sturgeon was quick to shutdown her naysayers.
3/ since 2010, the Lion Rampant has been flown on Royal occasions - entirely appropriately. Since the Lion Rampant is the Royal Banner, it is not clear to me why anyone would object to that. However, the key point is that there has been no change to this since 2010.
4/ yes, the civil service recently decided to update the published guidance, but simply to ensure that it accurately reflected the long standing practice - the underlying policy has not changed. And why would it?
5/ as for the claim that I ordered a change, I have issued no instructions, orders, authorisations - or even expressed an opinion - about changing flag policy. The update of the guidance was an administrative step - albeit a sensible one - and not done at my request.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson took to Twitter to lash out at the SNP, telling them its focus needs to be elsewhere.
The SNP government should be more concerned with raising standards, not lowering flags. Dismal stuff.
Sturgeon was quick to call out Davidson online, labelling her accusations as "fake news."
Westminster MPs swept up in the wave of anti-flag news labeled the change as "outrageous," accusing the SNP of "small mindedness" and a "tawdry attempt to sow more division."
"The SNP lost the referendum and they seem to be forgetting this crucial point,” Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told the Telegraph. "This decision smacks of small mindedness and is an affront to the majority of Scots who voted to remain within the UK."
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith also said the decision was “outrageous."
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Tory MP Andrew Bridgen also took a swipe at the SNP. “The SNP clearly thinks they won the Scottish referendum and therefore can remove the Union flag when they should be removing the European Union flag,” he said. | 2019-04-19T21:26:48 | https://www.rt.com/uk/416837-royal-scotland-flag-banned/ |
"Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity."
These verses are part of a much larger discourse where it seems like the writer is trying to figure out the purpose of life. Here, he realizes that it isn't to labor and earn earthly things, because at death they are just left to others, and may or may not be taken care of or respected at all.
That's a hard thing to remember, because work *is* important, and we value almost by definition the things that we work for. It is hard to remember that we still owe everything we have to God, whether or not we worked for it. It's part of the gospel package to give to others and to help them, but when we claim ownership of things and they become especially valuable to us, it is hard even to consider that someone else might need them more than we do.
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In a bid to break the notion that it is just a smartphone brand, Chinese electronics major Xiaomi has amplified its products portfolio in categories like fitness and health, smart home, smart travel and more, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Expanding the “Mi Home” experience stores across the country, the eight-year old company lets users try, experience and provide feedback on the minimalist design philosophy-based products that have been doing well in the international markets and have the potential to do well in the Indian space as well.
The company has announced a new generation of Android TV-integrated Mi TVs with voice assistance, Mi Air Purifier 2S and Mi Home Security Camera 360 with “talk-back” feature at affordable prices.
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One of my testers for my Membership / BP Fun theme site logged in OK, but when she tried to edit her account it gave 3 error messages despite the fact she was in the PAO Community area and had the Howdy message on screen.
Is it a bug or something I need to fix somehow?
As I cannot add a screenshot to this message from my WPMU Dev Dashboard, I will register it and then add the screenshot.
Here is the screenshot and message from my tester.
Have successfully joined the community and all the things you listed below looked as they should. I think it’s looking really good and working pretty well now.
Error: This email is already registered, please choose another one.
I've just tested that as well and am seeing the same. Thanks for reporting this, I'll ask the developer to have a look here.
Quick update, just wanted to mention I've done some more testing and it seems this only occurs with BuddyPress activated.
EDIT: This only exists in the current beta version, the main release version works just fine.
Thanks but I need more info to make sense of that. I am using a BP theme (BP Fun) so it is built into my theme. I have never loaded it.
I can therefore only have BP "activated", I think.
I have the BP registration page allocated but hidden otherwise I just get an error message to repair it on my screen Same issue happens with the Activate page so it is hidden as well.
I am only using a full version. I did not load a beta version as I saw others reported more issues and I have enough to contend with now, so that doesn't explain my issues.
I can give you access if you want to check it out but PLEASE record it if you do anything in case I have to reverse it. I am at a very critical time before launching the site and cannot afford for it to get mucked up now. Happy for you to look around in admin though if you want to look at settings to try and replicate it.
Could you please try the version from attach? It has to fix your issue. Please, delete your current version of the plugin (don't worry you won't lose your settings or members) and install new version.
Please, let me know whether it fixes the issue.
I have avoided uploading that beta as there were too many issues after someone loaded it up. I cannot afford to have more things go wrong.
I am in the middle of testing my newly moved site for another (SSL/htttps) issue and don't wish to tinker with a beta version and add yet more drama.
When there is a non-beta one I am happy to try it.
Does that beta DEFINITELY fix the issue? If is a suggestion then I am disinclined to do the wild goose chase / "just try it" approach. Sorry.
That beta version definitely fixes this issue. And to install it, you simply deactivate and delete your current version (all the data is stored in the database so you won't lost any settings).
And you then upload and activate this version.
Thanks for that. I have now sorted the other issue I was dealing with and so all my pages are https://.
I am just doing a few other things and will give it a go then - might be tomorrow.
FYI. If there are issues can I just switch it back?
OK - trying it now and will ask my tester to retest her Edit Account page.
What is the issue esp as I DELETED the other one.
Your advice on what to do next?
OK just realised I just deactivated and didn't delete.
Now deleting the files (and hoping NOTHING goes wrong) as I need to finish my site and I've had enough problems to contend with to date.
Thanks for your patience with this one, though I'm very glad things seem to be working well right now given your other threads.
Could I just double-check with you that this one was sorted with that beta version? | 2019-04-23T08:46:35 | https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/error-message-at-my-account-edit-screen |
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The event brought partners together from across EMEA to understand the extended Syncsort vision and be brought up to date on industry trends, particularly around data management. In addition, the event provided a perfect platform for partners to network and obtain updated on the latest Syncsort developments with a showcase of their market-leading data integration and data quality solutions. This effectively provided partners with new insights into how they can meet organisations developing needs around Big Data.
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A state school in east London has had 41 students offered places at Oxford or Cambridge University.
Conservative MP Peter Bone has said that extending Article 50 would be the “greatest mistake” for Theresa May because the current March 29 deadline makes the EU “think very carefully” about their position.
Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has said that “Britain can do better” than the Prime Minister’s deal on leaving the European Union.
Conservative MP Dominic Grieve has said that he, along with other MPs, will not allow a “catastrophic” no-deal Brexit to happen, as Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal is set to be voted on, on Tuesday afternoon.
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has said that that Theresa May’s deal is the “most dangerous” because it will break up the “UK union” between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the EU is “unlikely” to give the UK a “punishment Brexit” because the UK has a £95bn trade deficit with the EU.
Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith has said Theresa May’s decision to hold a General Election in 2017 was “one of the worst decisions made by any government”.
The gambling watchdog has urged people to “sit up and listen” after a study suggested the number of children classed as having a problem has quadrupled to more than 50,000 in just two years.
Robert Halfon MP has said that “a mass conveyor belt of people going to university” is wrong and the Government should be investing in skills.
Sir William Cash has said that the British people are “fed up” with “Remoaners threatening to try and unwind this deal”, after MPs have been urged to vote down an deal on the EU and call for another Brexit referendum.
Headteacher Chris Dunne has said more money is being spent on poorer students, "simply because they are staying involved" in education.
Criminal Barrister Osman Osman has said that if it is found that Arron Banks has done “nothing wrong” then it raises questions as to why the case has been referred to the National Crime Agency.
Carolyn Harris, the chair of the fixed odds betting terminals all party parliamentary group has said that Tracey Crouch was a “principled woman” and a “huge loss” to the Government. | 2019-04-18T18:48:35 | https://talkradio.co.uk/julia-hartley-brewer?page=2 |
Why do some people develop terrible complications from diabetes, while others skate through with no complications at all? Is there such a thing as immunity from complications, and if so how can you get that immunity for yourself?
Unfortunately, nobody knows the answer to those questions, and until now, few have even looked into them. We know from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and from other studies that blood glucose control makes a big difference in complications of diabetes. But there is much more to the story.
In the DCCT, and the long-term follow-up study called EDIC (Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications), people with Type 1 practicing “intensive blood glucose control” reduced diabetic kidney disease by 50%, heart attacks by 57%, nerve disease by 60%, and eye disease by 76%. Pretty good, but what about the 25% to 50% of intensive control subjects who got the complications anyway? And what about the 10% to 15% of people with Type 1 who never seem to get severe complications, without practicing intensive control?
Now Swedish scientists are finally starting to look at this basic question. Valeriya Lyssenko, MD, PhD, and Peter Nilsson, MD, PhD, both from Lund University Diabetes Center, are conducting the PROLONG (PROtective Genes in Diabetes and LONGevity ) study, looking at Swedes who have had diabetes for more than 30 years, half of them without complications. They will be compared to others who have had diabetes less than 15 years and have already developed major complications.
At least scientists are finally looking. Another study at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston is following people who have had Type 1 for over 50 years, to find out what keeps them complication-free, or close to it.
According to Dr. Nilsson, complications arise because “The blood vessels and other organs of the body become sugar coated and stiff. It is reminiscent of premature biological aging.” I would call that a pretty unsophisticated level of understanding.
They’re starting to learn more at the cellular level, at least in mice. Washington University researchers say that blood vessel damage in diabetes may involve a deficiency of fatty acid synthase (FAS) an enzyme that helps protect blood vessel walls. Mice engineered to lack FAS had a lot of blood vessel damage. People with low insulin production or high insulin resistance also tend to have low levels of FAS.
The Lund study participants will answer questions about their lifestyle and diseases they, or their closest relatives, may have. Genetic tests will be analyzed, and close relatives of the participants will also be invited to take part.
It’s looking more and more like all types of diabetes should be considered inflammatory diseases. Hopefully this will lead to new treatments and paths to prevention, but how does this knowledge apply to self-management? I hope readers have some ideas, but all I can do is refer you back to this article on inflammation from 2009, or this one on anti-inflammatory diets. Other than that, it seems like the best thing you can do is to have good genes, and the second is to keep glucose well controlled. A person concerned about inflammation could certainly take cheap anti-inflammatories such as salsalate or ibuprofen. One could also reduce stress, meditate and relax more, and move one’s body more.
One encouraging note from the Swedes: They have found that “a person who has had diabetes for [over 30 years] without developing complications is unlikely to develop them later in life.” So if you’ve made it that far, things are looking good! | 2019-04-22T06:25:02 | https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/immune-from-diabetes-complications/ |
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The Sedan crater at the Nevada Test Site is nearly a quarter-mile wide and 320 feet deep. One purpose of the 1962 Sedan test was investigating whether nuclear weapons could be used to excavate canals and harbors. The crater is a national historic site.
THE PAVED ROAD that leads to the mammoth Sedan nuclear crater at the Nevada Test Site, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, is rippled and bouncy. The shock waves from 828 underground nuclear explosions have made the road undulate like a ribbon that has been twitched.
Sedan is a striking example of nuclear might.
It was one of 27 nuclear bombs detonated as part of Operation Plowshare to see if such explosions would be useful for excavation, and consisted of a 104-kiloton bomb (equivalent to 104,000 tons of TNT, or nearly five times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945) buried 635 feet below the Earth's surface.
The resulting explosion excavated 6.6 million cubic yards of earth, leaving a radioactive crater nearly a quarter-mile in diameter and 320 feet deep. To stand on the jumbled bank of earth on its rim, the radiation from the 1962 explosion having faded to near-background levels, is to get a disquieting reminder of the puniness of the individual in the face of modern power.
Sedan was part of a long series. The first bomb set off at the Test Site was on Jan. 27, 1951. The last was on Sept. 23, 1991, after which President Bush imposed a test moratorium that has been extended by President Clinton.
In those 40 years, weapons scientists set off 100 atmospheric explosions and 828 underground. Those underground created a mesquite moonscape of small craters formed when the bombs created an underground chamber and the land slumped.
Over the years the atmospheric tests exposed a quarter-million assembled troops, plus communities downwind in Nevada and Utah, to an estimated 12 billion curies of radiation, or 148 times the release from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear-plant meltdown near Kiev, Ukraine.
The bursts were given colorful names such as Priscilla, Zucchini, Diablo, Buster and Mazama. Above-ground testing ended in 1962 and physicists moved underground, setting off bombs at the bottom of drilled shafts up to a mile deep. Movies of these tests show the ground jerking with a convulsion and then slumping into a crater, with clouds of dust rolling away in the wind.
THE ENTRANCE to the Nevada Test Site still has cyclone-fence pens to hold protesters who used to assemble at the gate and get arrested. Military police, tired of the caging, once bused a group of arrestees 60 miles out into the desert, dropped them by the side of the road, and drove off.
Now, with the Cold War over, as many as 10,000 tourists a year take tours of the bleak site. What they see are the structural remnants of what became known as the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD: twisted bridge girders, smashed igloo bunkers and shattered windows, the glass still lying in the dust and glinting in the Nevada sun. Scientists built hangars and set out airplanes, cars, locomotives, fuel tanks and freight cars. What would it take to destroy, totally destroy, the Soviet Union? What would doomsday really be like?
The physicists studied their wreckage and produced classified estimates. In 1984, the World Health Organization estimated an all-out nuclear war would kill 3 billion people.
Nature is slowly reclaiming the blast sites. A tuft of grass has sprouted at ground zero of the Met explosion of 1955. Mesquite and sage grow in the old blast zones. We watched a coyote jog along a spring lake near the site of the 37-kiloton Priscilla test. Birds nest in the twisted I-beams of a trestle once wrenched by an explosion half a mile away.
In 1955 scientists built a mock village around a 29-kiloton test called Apple. The houses were built of brick and wood, painted, furnished and occupied by mannequins obtained from J.C. Penney.
Film showing the ignition and disintegration of most of those houses has become a standard memory of the atomic age: the siding bursting into smoke and flame, the house leaning away from the force of the blast and finally blowing away in a whirl of debris. This from an explosion of popgun force, compared to the standards of today's weaponry.
Ground zero of Apple is still too radioactive, 40 years later, to allow visitors to prowl about. Two of the houses are still standing, however, one just over a mile away and another a mile and a half from the bomb site, preserved like mummified husks by the desert air. On the nearest house the paint was blasted off, and shutters town away, the windows shattered and the interior chewed up. The basic frame survived, however. The brick chimney is twisted but still standing.
Photos show the mannequins thrown and slumped like rag dolls and table settings knocked askew, the nose of "father" clipped off by a piece of flying debris.
It is disturbing to visit these relics of the Cold War, just as it is disturbing to visit a prison or landfill or other reminders of society's less savory necessities, or insanities.
There is also a drabness to them. The nuclear complexes were mostly sited in lonely or desolate places to maintain security. While the weapons are technologically impressive, the atomic reservations are bleak compounds of windowless concrete reactors and factories and hasty government-spec architecture: places frozen in the 1950s and 1960s.
OF THE 16 major nuclear complexes that cropped up around the United States, the loveliest by location is probably Los Alamos, a piney plateau in northern New Mexico selected by Robert Oppenheimer because he had spent time there at summer camp as a youth.
Lavish residences and mobile homes alike claim some of the prime perches on the rims of canyons that cut the plateau. Other scientists live in pleasant suburban neighborhoods. But there is no substantial downtown or civic core. Los Alamos revolves around its fenced lab.
The laboratory shares with Lawrence Livermore in California and Sandia labs in Albuquerque the responsibility for designing and devising tests of nuclear warheads, and there is an uneasy sterility about the place. White-male stereotypes have been beaten to death and yet Los Alamos is unmistakably, even to this white male, an overwhelmingly "guy" kind of place: a techno-freak haven for boys who like things that go boom, even underground.
The enthusiasm for this raw power can be slightly infectious, even during a brief visit: I found myself musing that once, just once, it would be awfully interesting to stand in the Nevada desert and see one of these things go off.
All those interviewed at Los Alamos believe their work has saved the world from a disastrous war, rather than threatened one.
"I've always considered nuclear weapons to be defensive," said computer expert Mike Sohn. "The reason there have been no major conflicts in the world the last 50 years (comparable to the world wars) has been the presence of the bomb."
"We feel we are defending the nation," added Ken McKenna, who works to counter proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. "We don't know why Saddam (Hussein) didn't use biological weapons, but the conjecture is he didn't because the (American) response would have been overwhelming and devastating to his country."
Our nuclear posture is changing. The U.S. nuclear arsenal peaked at about 30,000 warheads, and the Soviet arsenal, once estimated to be as few as 20,000 warheads, has been revealed since the end of the Cold War to have reached 45,000. Both stockpiles are slowly being cut to meet a START II arms-reduction limit of 3,500.
That is still more than enough warheads to destroy either country. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once suggested a hundred bombs might be a sufficient deterrent.
Warheads are being disassembled at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas. It takes several days to a few weeks to safely take a warhead apart in the earthen bunkers there called Gravel Gerties.
Since 1988, according to the Department of Energy, the number of U.S. strategic warheads on deployment has been cut 47 percent and the number of nonstrategic, or battlefield, nukes by 90 percent.
U.S. ground forces are no longer nuclear-armed. Neither are Navy surface ships. Submarine and land-based missiles have been de-targeted, or aimed at the ocean instead of Russia (though both sides could re-target their warheads in a matter of minutes or hours.) Strategic bombers have been taken off alert, nuclear submarines have gone from "alert" to "modified alert," and several weapons systems proposed in the 1980s have been canceled.
The Trident submarine fleet, once planned to have 20 boats, will have only 14. The Air Force is cutting 28 B-52s and keeping 66. There has been a 70 percent cut in military personnel with access to nuclear weapons.
By 2010, planners hope to achieve an annual nuclear-weapons budget (which does not include the ships and planes and missiles that deliver warheads) of $2.5 billion, a third of what it was in 1989. Research funding at the federal government's nuclear-weapons labs has been cut 42 percent since 1989, and money for nuclear testing has been cut 50 percent.
THIS TREND poses the obvious question of why America needs a Los Alamos at all anymore. Why not let nuclear wizardry wither? Through decades of work, scientists whittled the 10,000-pound Fat Man to cruise-missile-sized 259-pound packages with more punch, more accuracy and more reliability. Isn't that good enough? Can't we quit fiddling with nukes?
South Africa built seven nuclear bombs and then decided they were more trouble than they were worth and dismantled them. Argentina and Brazil backed away from bomb-building efforts. India appears to be letting its nuclear capability deteriorate. The breakaway republics in the former Soviet Union appear willing to leave their nukes to the Russians, rather than have the headache of maintaining them. Why can't the major powers do the same?
Scientists reply that nuclear weapons will remain a necessary component of U.S. defense into the foreseeable future, particularly for a nation that doesn't want the expense of sustaining a huge conventional military to deter attack.
"I think the genie is out of the bottle forever," said Bob Kelley, who works on emergency response to terrorist bomb threats.
The scientists' logic is that nukes are necessary as a threat, that the threat is effective because the bombs are so terrible, that they are terrible because they work, and that with nuclear testing shut down, we must devise new means to ensure they work.
In other words, reliable bombs mean fewer wars: the "peace through strength" philosophy voiced through the Cold War.
There are practical problems in sustaining a credible stockpile. Warheads have an effective shelf life of perhaps 10 years, after which their reliability becomes too uncertain. In the past this did not pose much of a problem because new weapons so rapidly succeeded old. But if technology is frozen, the stockpile must be periodically inspected and rejuvenated.
An essential component of hydrogen bombs, tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has a half-life of only 12.5 years, meaning in that time that half of it decays. It must be replenished in warheads. The United States is disassembling bombs quickly enough to retrieve enough surplus tritium until 2011 or so, but we will run out unless a new reactor source is started, probably in South Carolina.
Plutonium, another basic bomb ingredient, has a half-life of 24,000 years and won't run out anytime soon, making the world's surplus of plutonium a security headache. But it emits alpha radiation that can affect the conventional explosives that trigger an atomic weapon and create pockets of helium gas in itself.
What this means in terms of weapon performance is unclear. The old method was to cart an aging weapon to Nevada and try to set it off, measuring its energy output. "We used to say Nevada equals truth," said computer-expert Sohn.
The testing was necessary. Despite the success of the first atomic bombs, subsequent, more sophisticated ones did not always work as planned. Tom Seed, a physicist at the Nevada Test Site, noted that in one recent series of 12 underground explosions, six weapons "underperformed" and had to be reworked.
With testing ruled out, physicists now want to simulate explosions on computers that don't exist yet. A modern Pentium computer that can be bought at a discount store is two to eight times more powerful than the ones used in the 1960s and 1970s to design most of the current U.S. stockpile. But to simulate the complexities of a three-dimensional nuclear explosion requires computers a billion times faster than the Pentium, explained Sohn. Such machines are not expected to be delivered for another seven years.
Also planned is improved bomb analysis by X-ray and setting off microscopic nuclear explosions in a proposed $1.8 billion National Ignition Facility proposed for Lawrence Livermore labs in California.
Jackie Cabasso, a nuclear critic with the Western States Legal Foundation, said such elaborate measures are designed not to maintain present warheads but perfect new ones without underground testing. She charges that the program is more a welfare program for underemployed bomb designers than a safeguard of our stockpile.
"Experienced designers are an endangered species," admitted Sohn. The Los Alamos cadre is in its 40s and 50s. Younger physicists stay away not just because of moral qualms but because weapons laboratories no longer offer the job security and cutting-edge computers and instrumentation that once lured designers.
The trend worries Defense Department officials. "You cannot mothball intellectual capital," Secretary William Perry said last year. "That's the basis for (continuing) the research-and-development program. It would take decades to reconstitute critical elements of the (defense) industrial base if we had to do it from scratch."
Difficulty in restarting weapons design is exactly what peace advocates would like to see. A withering of bomb expertise might not put the genie back into the bottle but could force the United States to look to other means to ensure its security.
The question then becomes what makes the world the safest. Complete nuclear disarmament by the major powers, risking blackmail by rogue dictators or terrorists? Dependence on aging nuclear stockpiles so unreliable that perhaps their military use would be too much of a political gamble to be exercised? Or maintaining, and regularly updating, a nuclear stockpile frightening enough to discourage war but catastrophic if it were used?
With the "new world order" far from clear, this is a political question presidents will probably be wrestling with for years. | 2019-04-22T14:59:09 | http://old.seattletimes.com/special/trinity/articles/part2.html |
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Texas Senate committees have wasted no time moving their anti-city agenda forward. The first special session began last Tuesday, and the Senate has set at least nine harmful bills for committee hearings this weekend. It is likely the committees (and later the entire Senate) will quickly move the bills, but interested city officials should come to Austin to testify.
The overall message to senators is that Texans don’t want to be told they must conform to one way of thinking or one way of living by overreaching big-government politicians – whether it comes from Washington or from Austin. Let Texans decide at the local level what’s best for their community.
If you can’t make it to Austin, you should call your Senator’s office to express your opposition, especially if he or she is on one of the committees.
The Senate Business and Commerce Committee will meet on Saturday, July 22, at 9:00 a.m., in the Capitol Extension Room E1.016 (PDF) to consider numerous preemption bills. Summaries of the bills and talking points in opposition are included on this page.
1S.B. 12 (PDF) (Buckingham) – Property Rights/“Super-Vesting”: would provide that: (1) a city or county may not enforce an ordinance, order, or other regulation that prohibits or restricts the use or development of real property that has been platted if the ordinance, order, or other regulation was not in effect on the date the owner of the property acquired title to the property; (2) the limitation in (1) does not apply to a parcel of land for which the owner has filed with the county clerk of the county in which the land is located a written waiver of the limitation; and (3) the bill applies only to a prohibition or restriction that is not subject to Chapter 245 (the “permit vesting” statute), including prohibitions or restrictions exempt from that chapter.
1S.B. 13 (PDF) (Burton) – Expedited Permitting/Occupational Vesting: would make various detrimental changes to the law governing permit issuance and vesting. With regard to the issuance of any permit required by a city to construct or improve a building or other structure in the city or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, the bill would provide for detailed “shot clock” procedures. With regard to chapter 245 of the Local Government Code (the “permit vesting” statute), the bill would – among many other things – make engaging in an occupation subject to permit vesting.
Overriding Local Permitting Talking Points: City ordinances on the issuance of a wide variety of permits are adopted in an open and transparent process that seeks input from residents and businesses. The resulting rules are tailored to the needs and concerns of the local community. Any claims that cities have restricted economic growth through local permitting rules are simply absurd based on all the economic indicators that show Texas cities are booming. Three out of four new jobs in Texas are created in the state’s major urban areas because they provide the services, facilities and infrastructure businesses and their employees need to thrive. State government should not mess with the obvious success Texas cities have achieved in attracting and growing job-creating businesses.
1S.B. 14 (PDF) (Hall) – Tree Preservation Preemption: would provide that: (1) a city, county, or other political subdivision may not enact or enforce any ordinance, rule, or other regulation that restricts the ability of a property owner to remove a tree or vegetation on the owner’s property, including a regulation that requires the owner to file an affidavit or notice before removing the tree or vegetation; and (2) the bill does not prevent the enforcement of an ordinance, rule, or other regulation designed to mitigate tree-borne diseases as recommended by the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Banning Local Tree Protections Talking Points: Responding to citizen concerns about property values and maintaining attractive, livable neighborhoods, about 50 Texas cities have adopted local rules on the removal and replacement of larger trees. Many cities have chosen not to adopt tree preservation ordinances. The decision on whether to have local tree protection rules should be made at the local level by the citizens in each community and not by an overreaching centralized government in Austin.
1S.B. 15 (PDF) (Huffines) – Cell Phone Ban: would preempt a city from regulating or prohibiting the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle.
Banning Local Safe Driving Ordinances Talking Points: It took the state legislature more than a decade to finally pass a statewide law this year on the use of cells phones while driving. During that time, citizens in many Texas cities pushed for adoption of local ordinances to deal with the increasing number of traffic accidents caused by distracted drivers. Many of those local ordinances are more comprehensive than the recently passed state law which contains a number of exceptions and loopholes. If Texans decide they want their community to have more safety precautions than provided by state law, they should be allowed to make that choice and not have their local traffic safety rules overridden by the state.
The newly-formed Senate Select Committee on Government Reform will meet on Saturday, July 22, at 11:00 a.m., in the Capitol Extension Auditorium (Room E1.004) (PDF) to consider revenue cap and other property tax reforms. Summaries of the bills and talking points in opposition are included below.
1S.B. 1 PDF) (Bettencourt) – Revenue Cap: this bill, known as the “Texas Property Tax Reform and Relief Act of 2017,” would make numerous changes to the process for calculating and adopting property tax rates. Of primary importance to cities, the bill would: (1) adjust the property tax rollback rate in the following ways: (a) define “small taxing unit” as a taxing unit other than a school district for which: (i) the maintenance and operations tax rate proposed for the current tax year is two cents per $100 of taxable value; or (ii) taxes of $10 million or less are imposed when applied to the current total value for the taxing unit; (b) maintain an eight percent rollback rate for all small taxing units (Note: this is the same as current law, although there would be a lowered petition requirement for a rollback election as detailed by (2), below); (c) for a taxing unit other than a small taxing unit, provide for a rollback rate of four percent; and (d) provide that the governing body of a taxing unit other than a small taxing unit may direct the designated officer or employee to calculate the rollback tax rate of the unit in the manner provided for a small taxing unit if any part of the unit is located in an area declared a disaster area during the current tax year by the governor or by the president of the United States; (2) provide that any adopted tax rate of a small taxing unit exceeding the rollback rate would subject the taxing unit to an election if a petition is signed by at least ten percent of the number of registered voters of the taxing unit who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election; (3) provide that any adopted rate of a taxing unit other than a small taxing unit exceeding the rollback rate would subject the taxing unit to an automatic rollback election held on the November uniform election date in the applicable tax year, at which the voters would determine whether or not to reduce the tax rate adopted for the current year to the rollback rate; and (4) make numerous calendar changes to the property tax appraisal, collection, and rate-setting process in order to have property tax rollback elections for taxing units other than small taxing units on the November uniform election date.
1S.B. 93 (PDF) (Bettencourt) – Revenue Cap: would lower the property tax rollback tax rate to five percent and make several other changes to the property tax notice process. Among many other things, the bill would requires cities to pay for non-voter approved debt supported by property taxes with the maintenance and operations portion of the tax rate instead of debt service. This provision will force cities that have issued certificates of obligation, tax increment bonds, and other formal debt instruments that are not approved by the voters to adopt tax rates exceeding the rollback rate just to finance their existing debt obligations.
1S.B. 96 (PDF) (Bettencourt) – Revenue Cap: this bill is essentially the same as 1S.B. 1, except that “small taxing unit” is defined to include taxing units that bring in property taxes of $20 million less when applied to the current total value for the taxing unit.
Revenue Cap Talking Points: Cities are not the cause of high property taxes in Texas because cities collect only 16 percent of the property taxes paid by Texans statewide. That is why imposing a state cap on city revenues will not provide any meaningful tax relief. The real problem is skyrocketing local school taxes caused by the state’s failure to adequately fund education. The burden of local school district taxes will continue to grow over the next two years. While trying to mislead Texans and shift the blame to cities, the legislature approved a state budget in May that calls for a 13 percent increase in local school property taxes.
Imposing a statewide cap on city revenues will not provide tax relief for homeowners but it will harm public safety, job creation and transportation funding. The largest item in every city budget is funding for police, fire fighting and emergency medical services – as much as 70 percent of the budget in some cities. Any state restrictions on city budgets will impact the ability to hire more personnel, improve salaries and benefits, upgrade technology and replace outdated equipment.
State restrictions on city revenues will reduce or eliminate discretionary spending on economic development incentives that help attract and retain job-creating businesses. Revenue restrictions will force cities to reduce or eliminate local funds that subsidize state highway construction projects which will increase traffic problems in urban areas.
1S.B. 18 (PDF) (Estes) – Expenditure Limit: would provide that: (1) a city or county’s total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in a fiscal year may not exceed the greater of statewide changes in population and inflation, according to a formula provided in the bill, or the previous year’s expenditures; and (2) revenue received from the issuance of bonds approved by the voters or from a grant, donation, or gift is not considered an available source of revenue for the purposes of the bill.
Spending Cap Talking Points: Imposing a one-size-fits-all cap on the budget of every Texas city would be a disaster for Texans for many of the same reasons that apply to revenue caps. Texans should continue to decide at the local level what is best for their community. The level of services and spending desired by the residents of any community can vary significantly from one year to the next. In addition, city governments are large employers and service providers. Their expenditures for street repairs, heavy equipment, lawsuits and employee training, pensions and health insurance are vastly different from the expenditures of a typical household.
Cities in the Panhandle must budget for snow removal which can vary from year to year. Cities that attract a large number of visitors, like San Antonio and cities on the Gulf Coast, must provide services to more people than their resident population.
Setting one statewide spending cap that applies to every city in a state as vast and diverse as Texas is simply unworkable. The limitations on law enforcement, firefighting and emergency medical services would endanger public safety. Restricting spending for maintaining streets, parks and water, sewage and drainage systems would make Texas cities less livable and less attractive to potential employers and investors.
State legislators should trust Texans to make decisions on the level of services they want in their community and their neighborhood.
The Senate State Affairs Committee will meet on Sunday, July 23, at 1:00 p.m., in the Senate Chamber in the Capitol (PDF) to consider annexation limitations. A summary of the bill and talking points in opposition are included below.
S.B. 6 (PDF) (Campbell) – Annexation: would completely rewrite the Municipal Annexation Act to severely curtail the ability of cities to annex property. Of most importance, the bill would provide that: (1) a “Tier 1 county” means a county with a population of less than 500,000; (2) a “Tier 2 county” means a county with a population of 500,000 or more; (3) a “Tier 1 municipality” means a municipality wholly located in one or more tier 1 counties that proposes to annex an area wholly located in one or more tier 1 counties; (4) a “Tier 2 municipality” means a municipality: (a) wholly or partly located in a tier 2 county; or (b) wholly located in one or more tier 1 counties that proposes to annex an area wholly or partly located in a tier 2 county; and (3) a tier 2 municipality is authorized to annex an area with a population of 200 or more only if the following conditions are met, as applicable: (a) the city holds an election in the area proposed to be annexed at which the qualified voters of the area may vote on the question of the annexation and a majority of the votes received at the election approve the annexation; and (b) if the registered voters of the area do not own more than 50 percent of the land in the area, the city obtains consent to annex the area through a petition signed by more than 50 percent of the owners of land in the area.
Annexation Talking Points: Since the creation of home rule cities in Texas over 100 years ago, the process of municipal annexation has produced dynamic cities that are among the nation’s leaders in job creation and economic growth. The annexation process has proven to be the most effective and efficient way to deal with population growth and provide the essential services needed by residents and businesses. Legislation that would allow unincorporated subdivisions to veto annexation plans would effectively freeze the current boundaries of Texas cities and begin a process of urban decline that doomed cities in other states. When cities can’t grow, they die. When the city core begins to deteriorate, it affects the entire metropolitan region making it harder to attract and keep job-creating businesses. The slower job growth and lower incomes infect the entire state economy. A study conducted by the economic analysis firm, TXP, Inc. (PDF), last year found that states that restricted annexation had lower personal income and economic growth and lower municipal bond ratings. If the legislature had passed the proposed annexation restrictions 50 years ago, Texas today would not have cities that lead the nation in job growth and business relocations. We would not have cities with vibrant downtowns attracting people with commerce, the arts, entertainment, shopping and nightlife.
City official opposition to the bills above is vital to defeating the centralization of government in Austin. Please email Shanna Igo, TML Director of Legislative Services, with questions.
Representative Drew Darby is the TML Legislator of the Week for the First Called Special Session.
He represents House District 72, which includes San Angelo, Big Spring, Eden, and Ballinger.
First elected in 2006, Representative Darby is currently serving as Chairman of the House Energy Resources Committee and Chairman of the Select Committee on State and Federal Power and Responsibility. He is also a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Representative Darby previously served on the San Angelo city council, which gives him a unique perspective on the important issues facing Texas.
Representative Darby has filed probably the most insightful bill of the session. H.B.78 would repeal the dubious budget strategy of S.B. 1 (the state budget bill passed during the regular session) that counts on huge gains in school property taxes to mask the state’s ever-diminishing share of school funding (see “The Smoking Gun” article elsewhere in this edition for more details). While the prospects of a bill like 78 are probably grim in today’s environment, it’s refreshing to see a legislator highlight that real property tax relief won’t come from diversionary tactics like capping city and county taxes, but only through meaningful school finance reform.
78 are probably grim in today’s environment, it’s refreshing to see a legislator highlight that real property tax relief won’t come from diversionary tactics like capping city and county taxes, but only through meaningful school finance reform.
We hope city leaders across Texas, and particularly those in Representative Darby’s district, will express their appreciation to this outstanding leader.
The Texas Municipal League has long maintained that proposed revenue caps on cities and counties are just a smokescreen to hide the state’s mismanagement of school finance. High property taxes are caused by the state continuing to demand that school districts pay for an increasing share of education through local property taxes.
You read that right. To make up for reduced state money going to school funding, the legislature passed, and the governor signed, a budget dictating that property values – and the school property taxes derived from them – must go up by almost fourteen percent over the next two years. Can the state simply wave its magic wand and, presto, home values go up by a certain amount? Apparently so, especially if they’re intentionally under-funding schools with state dollars.
Now, consider that the mandated school property tax increases – 7.04 percent and 6.77 percent – are both higher than the four percent annual increase allowed for cities and counties under the Senate’s proposed revenue cap in S.B. 1 from the first special session. Will the state hold an election of the citizens to approve those two school property tax increases? Of course not.
Instead, some state leaders will attempt to pass a revenue cap on cities and counties during the special session now underway, hoping to shift the blame and divert attention from what’s really going on behind the school funding curtain.
“We would like the opportunity to meet with you to discuss the role cities play in attracting jobs and investments to support the prosperity of the State of Texas,” their letter (PDF) states.
The letter was signed by the mayors of Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Fort Worth, Frisco, Galveston, Houston, Irving, Lubbock, McKinney, Plano, San Antonio, San Marcos, and Sugar Land.
(f) A municipality or region may not collect a permit fee, registration fee, administrative fee, or any other fee from an electrician who holds a license issued under this chapter for work performed in the municipality or region. This subsection does not prohibit a municipality or region from collecting a building permit fee.
[W]e further “presume the Legislature chose statutory language deliberately and purposefully.” We endeavor to interpret each word, phrase, and clause in a manner that gives meaning to them all. We accordingly read statutes as a whole so as to render no part inconsistent, superfluous, or devoid of meaning.
Moreover, the rules of statutory construction demand that when general words follow specific and particularized enumerations of powers, the general words are treated as limited and applied only to the same kind or class of powers as those expressly mentioned. This rule ensures that terms are not construed more broadly than the legislature intended. In addition, the meaning of particular words in a statute may be ascertained by reference to other words associated with them in the same statute.
Using these canons of construction here, we construe the general prohibition in 1305.201(f) (“A municipality or region may not collect a permit fee, registration fee, administrative fee, or any other fee from an electrician who holds a license issued under this chapter for work performed in the municipality or region”) in light of the specific fee authorization that remains in Section 1305.201: Subsection (f) expressly authorizes a city to continue to collect a building permit fee.
By changing the permit title, a city would be in conformance with subsection (f) of the bill because it would be issuing a building permit and it is not prohibited from collecting a building permit fee from an electrician.
A city could register an electrical license free of charge verifying state license law requirements. A building permit fee for electrical work can offset administrative costs of enforcement verification.
How each city defines and charges for a building permit for electrical or other work should be decided by that individual city based on the advice of local legal counsel.
During the regular legislative session, legislation passed that potentially opens the door for the state to reconsider numerous state statutes requiring cities and other local governments to publish legal notices in the newspaper.
S.B. 622 by Senator Konni Burton (R – Colleyville) provides that: (1) the proposed budget of a political subdivision for a fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2018, must include a line item indicating expenditures for required newspaper notices that allows as clear a comparison as practicable between the expenditures in the proposed budget and actual expenditures for the same purpose in the preceding year; and (2) excepts from the requirement in (1) a political subdivision primarily located in a county with a population of less than 50,000.
The passage of S.B. 622 is a direct result of the work done prior to the legislative session by the Joint Interim Committee on Advertising Public Notices, which was established to examine whether print or internet publication of legal notices best serves governmental entities and citizens of Texas. The committee’s interim report (PDF recommended legislation in line with what ultimately passed in the form of S.B. 622 so that further study on the publication of legal notices may address the question of cost based on official budget records.
While S.B. 622 does require some cities to add an additional item to their budgets, the information required can be used by cities and other local governments in the coming years to demonstrate exactly how much cities and other political subdivisions are spending on publishing legal notices in the newspaper. This information, coupled with the continuing expected decline of newspaper readership in the coming years, may prove very useful in convincing legislators that the time has finally come to shift to online legal notices.
iii. The market value of all new improvements to the property.
provide that the governing body of a taxing unit other than a small taxing unit may direct the designated officer or employee to calculate the rollback tax rate of the unit in the manner provided for a small taxing unit if any part of the unit is located in an area declared a disaster area during the current tax year by the governor or by the president of the United States.
1H.B. 115 (G. Bonnen) – Property Tax Deferral: would provide that: (1) an eligible person serving on active duty in any branch of the United States armed forces may pay delinquent property taxes on property in which the person owns any interest without penalty or interest no later than the 60th day after the date on which: (a) the person is discharged from active military service; (b) the person returns to the state for more than 10 days; or (c) the person returns to non-active duty status in the reserve; and (b) a delinquent tax for which a person defers payment under (a) that is not paid on or before the date the deferral period expires: (a) accrues interest at a rate of six percent for each year or portion of a year the tax remains unpaid; and (b) does not incur a penalty.
1H.B. 116 (Uresti) – Installment Payments: would: (1) expand the types of groups who may be able to pay off delinquent property taxes in quarterly installment payments; and (2) for a residence homestead, authorize a person who is disabled or over 65 or disabled veterans and their unmarried surviving spouses to pay off delinquent property taxes in monthly installment payments.
1H.B. 154 (Phelan) – Appraisal District: would, among other things, provide that: (1) an appraisal district is governed by a board of five directors; (2) one director is elected from each of the four commissioners precincts of the county for which the appraisal district is established; (3) the county assessor-collector is a director by virtue of the person’s office; (4) if the county assessor-collector is ineligible to serve pursuant to a contract, the appraisal district is governed by the four directors elected from the commissioners precincts and a director elected from the county at large; and (5) the directors other than the county assessor-collector are elected at the general election for state an county officers and serve two-year terms beginning on January 1 of odd-numbered years.
1H.B. 155 (Phelan) – Appraisal Review Board: would: (1) authorize the appraisal review board, on motion of the chief appraiser or a property owner, to direct by written order changes in the appraisal roll or related records as provided by (2); and (2) authorize the appraisal review board to order the appraised value of the owner’s property in the current tax year and either of the two preceding tax years to be changed to the sales price of the property in the current tax year if, for each tax year for which the change is to be made: (a) the property qualifies as that owner’s residence homestead; (b) the sales price of the property is at least ten percent less than the appraised value of the property; and (c) the board makes a finding that the sales price reflects the market value of the property.
1H.B. 158 (Metcalf) – Property Tax Deferral: would provide that interest accrues at a rate of five percent in connection with the deferral or abatement of the collection of property taxes on an appreciating residence homestead.
1H.B. 159 (Metcalf) – Property Tax Deferral: would provide that the annual rate at which interest accrues in connection with the deferral or abatement of the collection of property taxes on residence homesteads of elderly or disabled persons is five percent.
1H.B. 160 (Metcalf) – Property Tax Appraisal: would, among other things, provide that the chief appraiser is elected for a two-year term at the general election for state and county officers by the voters of the county in which the appraisal district is established.
1H.B. 165 (Geren) – Property Tax Appeals: would: (1) authorize a property owner to appeal an order of the appraisal review board determining that the appraisal review board lacks jurisdiction to finally determine a protest by the property owner because the property owner failed to comply with a statutory requirement; (2) provide that a property owner who establishes that the appraisal review board had jurisdiction to issue a final determination of the protest is entitled to a final determination by the court of the protest on any ground, regardless of whether the property owner included the ground in the property owner’s notice of protest; and (3) provide that for certain appeals, if a plea to the jurisdiction is filed in the appeal on the basis that the property owner failed to exhaust the property owner’s administrative remedies, the court may, in lieu of dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, remand the action to the appraisal review board with instructions to allow the property owner an opportunity to cure the property owner’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
1H.B. 174 (Metcalf) – Appraisal Districts: would, among other things, provide that: (1) one director is elected from each of the four commissioners precincts of the county for which the appraisal district is established and one director is elected at large from the county; (2) the county assessor-collector serves as a nonvoting director, unless ineligible; and (3) the directors other than the county assessor-collector are elected at the general election for state an county officers and serve two-year terms beginning on January 1 of odd-numbered years.
1H.B. 179 (Roberts) – Property Tax Exemption: would provide that qualifying disabled first responders and their surviving spouses are entitled to an exemption from property taxes of the total appraised value of the qualifying disabled first responder’s residence homestead.
1H.B. 192 (P. King) – Property Tax Appraisal: would provide that the chief appraiser may not increase the appraised value of property following the year in which the appraised value of the property is lowered as a result of protest or appeal unless the increase by the chief appraiser is reasonably supported by clear and convincing evidence when all of the reliable and probative evidence in the record is considered as a whole.
1H.B. 203 (Miller) – Property Tax System: would make several changes to the property tax system, including: (1) that an appraisal review board consists of five members elected by the voters of the county in which the appraisal district is established at the general election for state and county officers; and (2) that the members of the appraisal review board serve two-year terms beginning on January 1st of odd-numbered years.
1H.J.R. 25 (Shine) – Property Tax Exemption: would amend the Texas Constitution to: (1) authorize the governing body of a taxing unit other than a school district to adopt a residence homestead property tax exemption, expressed as a dollar amount, of a portion of an individual’s residence homestead if the exemption is adopted by the governing body in the manner provided by law for official action; (2) provide that the amount of the exemption is $5,000 of the appraised value of the residence homestead, except that if the average market value of residence homesteads in the taxing unit in the tax year in which the exemption is adopted exceeds $25,000, the governing body may authorize an exemption in a larger dollar amount not to exceed an amount equal to 20 percent of the average market value of residence homesteads in the taxing unit in the tax year in which the exemption is adopted; (3) provide that the legislature by general law may prohibit the governing body of a political subdivision that adopts an exemption under (1) from reducing the amount of or repealing the exemption; and (4) provide that, for a taxing unit which has ceased granting a percentage-based homestead exemption and adopted an exemption under (1), an individual who would have been entitled to a percentage-based residence homestead exemption had the governing body not ceased granting the exemption is entitled to continue to receive the percentage-based exemption in lieu of the dollar-amount homestead exemption if the individual otherwise qualifies for the exemption and the amount of the percentage-based exemption exceeds the amount of the dollar-amount exemption. (See 1H.B. 119).
ii. taxes of $10 million or less are imposed when applied to the current total value for the taxing unit.
make numerous calendar changes to the property tax appraisal, collection, and rate-setting process in order to have property tax rollback elections for taxing units other than small taxing units on the November uniform election date.
a. is identified by the name of the office of tax rate notices, instead of the name of the appraisal district, and as the “Real-time Tax Rate Database;"
eliminate the ability of a taxing unit to challenge before the appraisal review board the level of appraisals of any category of property in the appraisal district or in any territory in the appraisal district.
1S.B. 49 (Schwertner) – Appraisal of Agricultural or Open-Space Land: would, among other things, eliminate the requirement that a person pay interest along with additional taxes if land that has been designated for agricultural use in any year is sold or diverted to a nonagricultural use.
1S.B. 50 (Buckingham) – Appraisal Review Boards: would provide that the appraisal review board may not determine the appraised value of the property that is the subject of a protest to be an amount greater than the appraised value of the property as shown in the appraisal records submitted to the board by the chief appraiser unless agreed to by the parties to the protest.
1S.B. 78 (Nichols) – Property Tax Appraisal: would provide that land used principally as an ecological laboratory by a public or private college or university does not qualify for appraisal as qualified open-space land unless the land was appraised as qualified open-space land on the basis of that use for the 2017 tax year.
repeal the statute providing rollback relief for pollution control requirements.
1S.B. 96 (Bettencourt) – Revenue Cap: this bill, known as the “Texas Property Tax Reform and Relief Act of 2017,” is essentially identical to 1S.B. 1, above, except that this bill would adjust the property tax rollback rate in the following ways define “small taxing unit” as a taxing unit other than a school district for which: (1) the maintenance and operations tax rate proposed for the current tax year is two cents per $100 of taxable value; or (2) taxes of $20 million or less are imposed when applied to the current total value for the taxing unit.
1H.B. 139 (Giddings) – Sales Tax Exemption: would exempt certain school art supplies from sales tax if the sale takes place during a period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the Friday before the 15th day preceding the uniform date before which a school district may not begin instruction for the school year, and ending at 12 midnight on the following Sunday.
1H.B. 216 (Fallon) – Sales Tax Exemption: would exempt firearms and hunting supplies from sales taxes during the last full weekend in August.
1H.B. 34 (Reynolds) – Legal Services: would, among other things, provide that attorneys are added to the Professional Services Procurement Act (which would require qualifications-based procurement).
1H.B. 141 (Paul) – Municipal Management Districts: would impose various changes to the governance and operation of municipal management districts.
1H.B. 169 (Fallon) – Voter Assistance: would, among other things: (1) provide that an election officer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the person permits an unlawful voter or ineligible ballot to be cast in a manner that will be counted; (2) provide that a voter who is unable to read or mark the ballot by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read the language in which the ballot is written is eligible for assistance; (3) provide that before allowing a person to assist a voter, an election officer must: (a) review the voter assistance affidavit form and confirm that the form is complete; (b) note on the form the reason provided by the voter for eligibility for assistance; (c) confirm that the assisting person is eligible to assist the voter based upon the answers provided; (d) administer the oath to the assisting person; and (e) sign the voter assistance affidavit attesting that the officer has complied with (a)-(d); (4) provide that an election officer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the officer knowingly fails to comply with (2); and (5) increase penalties under certain circumstances for a number of different election-related offenses including: (a) unlawfully assisting or influencing a voter; (b) fraudulent use of application for ballot by mail; (c) unlawful carrier envelope action by person other than voter; (d) unlawfully assisting voter voting ballot by mail; and (e) paid vote harvesting activity.
1H.B. 212 (Reynolds) – Voter Registration: would require the secretary of state to implement a program to allow a person who has an unexpired Texas driver’s license or personal identification card to complete an electronic voter registration application over the Internet.
1S.B. 34 (Miles) – Early Voting by Mail: would, among other things, provide that: (1) the officially prescribed application form for an early voting ballot must include a space for the voter to provide a change of residence address within the county, if applicable; (2) if the application includes a change of address within the county, the early voting clerk shall notify the voter registrar of the change and the registrar shall update the voter’s registration accordingly; (3) the early voting clerk is not required to provide a form for a statement of residence to a voter who indicated a change of address within the county on the voter’s application for an early voting ballot to be voted by mail; and (4) the signature verification committee and early voting ballot board may provide a voter the opportunity to correct a defect under certain circumstances for an early voting ballot voted by mail.
1S.B. 36 (Rodriguez) – Early Voting by Mail: would, among many other things, authorize early voting by mail for any qualified voter and provide for implementing procedures.
1H.B. 219 (Martinez) – Occupational License Addresses: provides that certain the home address of certain state occupational license holders may not be published on the state agency’s website, unless the license holder requests for their home address to appear on the state agency’s website.
1H.B. 117 (Uresti) – Cell Phone Ban: would provide that certain affirmative defenses to prosecution for violation of the offense of use of a portable wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle are not available if the offense was committed by a person under 18 or by a person operating a school bus.
1H.B. 128 (Leach) – Abortion: would provide that neither a state agency nor a political subdivision may not use appropriated money to pay or reimburse, directly or through a contract or grant, a person that pays for or provides abortion services.
1H.B. 146 (Farrar) – Breast-Feeding: would: (1) prohibit a person from interfering with or restricting the right of a mother to breast-feed in any location the mother and child are authorized to be, and from revoking the mother’s authority to be on the premises solely because she is breast-feeding; (2) require the comptroller to provide certain notifications about a mother’s right to breast-feed; (3) authorize a mother to bring a civil action against a person who allegedly violates the mother’s right to breast-feed; and (4) provide that if a mother prevails in a civil action she is entitled to injunctive relief, damages up to $500 for each day a violation occurred, reasonable attorney’s fees, and court costs.
1H.B. 163 (Springer) – Abortion: would provide, among other things, that a city may not enter into a contract, give any thing of value, or transact in any way with an abortion facility licensed by the state or an affiliate of the abortion provider, except for basic governmental services such as police, fire, and utility services.
1H.B. 170 (Dutton) – Public Bathrooms: would: (1) require a person with control over bathrooms and changing facilities in a public building to ensure that each bathroom and facility in the building is gender-neutral and single-occupancy; (2) except from the requirement in (1): (a) a federal or other building exempt by law; and (b) a public building constructed before January 1, 2018; and (3) provide a civil penalty for a violation of (1).
1H.B. 180 (Shine) – Local Debt: would, among other things: (1) require the comptroller to create an Internet database, known as the Political Subdivision Public Information Warehouse, that contains information regarding all active political subdivisions in the state that are authorized to impose an ad valorem or sales and use tax to issue bonds, notes, or other obligations; (2) require the warehouse database to include the following information: (a) the name of the political subdivision; (b) the rate of any sales and use tax the political subdivision imposes; (c) various property tax rates for the most recent tax year; (d) the total amount of the political subdivision’s debt, including the principal, interest, and year in which the debt would be paid; (e) the political subdivision’s Internet website address, or if the political subdivision does not operate a website, contact information to enable a member of the public to obtain information from the political subdivision; and (f) the Internet website address for the appraisal district in each county in which a political subdivision has territory; (3) authorize, but not require, the warehouse database to include the following information: (a) information describing the political subdivision’s boundaries; (b) the political subdivision’s current budget; (c) each current check registry published by the political subdivision’s governing body; and (d) any other current financial audit or annual report published by the political subdivision’s governing body; (4) authorize the comptroller to consult with the appropriate person from each political subdivision to obtain the information necessary to operate and update the warehouse database; (5) require the governing body of a political subdivision that publishes the check registry on its website to provide a link to the webpage containing the information to the comptroller; (6) require the comptroller to update tax rate information at least annually; (7) require a political subdivision to transmit records and other information to the comptroller annually in a form and in the manner prescribed by the comptroller, for purposes of operating the Political Subdivision Public Information Warehouse; and (8) require a political subdivision to transmit to the comptroller: (a) its most recently adopted annual budget; (b) its most recently adopted annual financial report; and (c) the address of the Internet website maintained by the political subdivision, if any.
1H.B. 206 (Villalba) – Expenditure Limit: would: (1) provide that unless additional expenditures are authorized by a majority of a city or county’s voters voting at an election called for that purpose, a city or county’s total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in a fiscal year may not exceed the greater of: (a) the amount of total expenditures for the preceding fiscal year; or (b) an amount determined by multiplying the amount of total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in the preceding fiscal year by the product of: (i) the sum of one and the estimated average rate of projected growth of the population that resides in the city or county’s geographic boundaries during the period ending on the last day of the fiscal year and beginning the first day of the preceding fiscal year; and (ii) the sum of one and the estimated average rate of monetary inflation in this state during the period described by (1)(b)(i); (2) provide that for the purposes of determining the amount of total expenditures described by (1)(a): (a) the city or county shall use, as available, data published by the United States Census Bureau as a basis for estimating projected population growth; (b) not later than May 1 of each year, the comptroller of public accounts shall make available on the comptroller’s Internet website and submit to the secretary of state for publication in the Texas Register the rate of monetary inflation in this state for the preceding year; and (c) as soon as practicable after receipt of the rate described in (2)(b) from the comptroller, the secretary of state shall publish that rate in the Texas Register; and (3) provide that the requirements in (1) and (2), above, do not apply to a city or county that does not impose taxes or incur debt.
1H.B. 211 (Reynolds) – Officer-Involved Injuries or Deaths: would: (1) disqualify an attorney from prosecuting a peace officer with respect to any offense arising out of an officer-involved injury or death, if the officer is employed by a political subdivision that is also served by the attorney; (2) require a local law enforcement agency employing the peace officer involved in an officer-involved injury or death to report the incident as soon as practicable to the attorney general; and (3) require the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to perform the duties of a prosecuting attorney in the case.
1H.B. 213 (Fallon) – Public Retirement Benefits: would limit the amount of retirement benefits any member of a public retirement system, including the Texas Municipal Retirement System, may receive to an amount no larger than certain military salaries or certain federal deputy positions, regardless of the amount in the account or the years of service of the public official.
1H.J.R. 31 (Shine) – Unfunded Mandates: would amend the Texas Constitution to provide that a law enacted by the legislature on or after January 1, 2019, that requires a city or county to establish, expand, or modify a duty or activity that requires the expenditure of revenue by the city or county is not effective unless the legislature appropriates or otherwise provides, from a source other than the revenue of the city or county, for the payment or reimbursement of the costs incurred for the biennium by the city or county in complying with the requirement.
1S.B. 4 (Schwertner) – Abortion Providers: would, with limited exceptions, prohibit a governmental entity from entering into a taxpayer resource transaction or contract with an abortion provider or an affiliate of an abortion provider.
1S.B. 18 (Estes) – Expenditure Limit: would: (1) provide that a city or county’s total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in a fiscal year may not exceed the greater of: (a) the city or county’s total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in the preceding fiscal year; or (b) an amount determined by multiplying: (i) the city or county’s total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in the preceding fiscal year; and (ii) the sum of one and the rate most recently published by the Legislative Budget Board under (2), below: (2) require the Legislative Budget Board to publish a rate not later than January 31 of each year equal to the product of: (a) the rate of growth of the state’s population during the preceding calendar year, using the most recent estimates published by the United States Census Bureau; and (b) the rate of monetary inflation in this state during the preceding calendar year, using the effective consumer price index for all items for this state as determined by the Legislative Budget Board based on information published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor; (3) provide that a city or county’s total expenditures from all available sources of local revenue in a fiscal year may exceed the amount described in (1), above, if: (a) the local government’s voters approve the additional expenditures for that fiscal year at an election called for that purpose and held on a uniform election date; or (b) the governor declares or renews a declaration of a state of disaster in that fiscal year, and the governor’s designation of the area threatened includes all or part of the geographic territory of the local government; (4) provide that revenue received from the issuance of bonds approved by the voters or from a grant, donation, or gift is not considered an available source of revenue for the purposes of this section.
1S.B. 25 (Hall) – Cell Phone Ban: would: (1) prohibit a city from regulating or prohibiting distracted driving, including the use of a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle; (2) permit a city to continue enforcing state laws related to distracted driving; (3) create the offense of collision during distracted driving that provides: (a) a person commits an offense if the person causes or is at fault in a collision while operating a motor vehicle and engaging in activity that is not related to the operation of the motor vehicle and interferes with the driver’s ability to pay attention to the road; and (b) the offense is a class C misdemeanor, except that the offense is a state jail felony if it is shown at trial that an individual suffered serious bodily injury or death.
1S.B. 38 (Rodriguez) – Discrimination: would: (1) provide, with certain exceptions, that a person commits a discriminatory practice in violation of law if the person, because of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of an individual, denies the individual full and equal accommodation in a place of public accommodation or otherwise discriminates against or segregates the individual based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression; (2) authorize a person aggrieved because of a violation of law described in (1) to file a civil action in district court; and (3) add sexual orientation and gender identity or expression as a protected class in existing state anti-discrimination provisions.
1S.B. 39 (Zaffirini) – Cell Phone Ban: would provide that: (1) a motor vehicle operator is prohibited from using a portable wireless communication device unless the vehicle is stopped outside a lane of travel; and (2) a city is preempted from adopting or enforcing regulations related to the use of a portable wireless communication device by the operator of a motor vehicle.
1S.B. 52 (Huffines) – Local Debt: would provide that an election held by a political subdivision to authorize the issuance of bonds does not authorize the issuance of the bonds unless at least three-fifths of the voters voting in the election vote in favor of authorizing the issuance of bonds.
1S.B. 54 (Huffines) – Preemption Suits: would provide, in regard to cities and counties over 25,000 in population, that: (1) if a court determines an ordinance or similar measure of the political subdivision is unenforceable because it is preempted by state law, the court shall award the prevailing party court costs and reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees to be paid by the political subdivision; and (2) if a court determines an officer of the political subdivision has failed to perform an act of the office required by state law, the court shall award the prevailing party court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to be paid by the political subdivision for which the officer served at the time of the failure to perform.
1S.B. 65 (Garcia) – Government Bathrooms: would provide: (1) that a governmental entity (including a city), with control over a bathroom or changing facility in a building owned or leased by the entity, must allow a person to use a bathroom or changing facility located in the building consistent with the person’s gender identity or gender expression; and (2) for an attorney general complaint and enforcement process (including civil penalties, mandamus, and other equitable relief) for a violation of the requirement described in (1).
1S.B. 77 (Schwertner) – Abortion Providers: would, with limited exceptions, prohibit a governmental entity from entering into a taxpayer resource transaction or contract with an abortion provider or an affiliate of an abortion provider.
1S.B. 79 (Menendez) – Medical Cannabis: would prohibit a city from enacting, adopting, or enforcing a rule, ordinance, order, resolution, or other regulation that prohibits the cultivation, production, dispensing, or possession of medical cannabis.
A “Tier 1 county” means a county with a population of less than 500,000.
A “Tier 2 county” means a county with a population of 500,000 or more.
A “Tier 2 municipality” means a municipality: (a) wholly or partly located in a tier 2 county; or (b) wholly located in one or more tier 1 counties that proposes to annex an area wholly or partly located in a tier 2 county.
The City of Brownsville and a neighboring municipality may annex in a way that surrounds that municipality if the governing body of each municipality adopts, on or after September 1, 2017, a resolution authorizing that action.
The City of Fort Worth is authorized to annex without consent certain areas that are surrounded by the city.
A municipality may annex all or part of the area located in an industrial district designated by the governing body under the requirements applicable to a tier 1 municipality.
A municipality may not annex for full or limited purposes any part of the area located within one-half mile of the boundaries of a military base unless the municipality and the base authorities have entered into a comprehensive written agreement that establishes provisions to maintain the compatibility of the municipality’s regulation of land in the area with the military base operations following the annexation (the provisions in current law related to coordination with military bases remain intact).
For a permit application for which notice is provided under (1)(b), above, the city must grant or make a preliminary determination to deny the permit not later than the 15th day after the date the notice is received.
A city may not extend the period for the city to act on an application under the bill more than once.
If a city fails to act on a permit application within the period required by (2), above, or by an agreement, the permit application is considered approved and the city: (a) may not collect any permit fees associated with the application; and (b) shall refund to the applicant any permit fees associated with the application that have been collected.
If a city makes a preliminary determination to deny a permit application, the city must send written notice of the determination to the applicant not later than the first business day after the date the determination is made stating: (a) each application deficiency that is a reason for the determination, including a citation to the specific ordinance, order, regulation, or policy relevant to the determination; (b) the specific actions required by the applicant to remedy each specified deficiency; and (b) a deadline not earlier than the 30th day after the date the notice is sent for the applicant to complete the remedial actions specified in the notice before the denial becomes final.
If an applicant substantially completes the remedial actions specified in the notice under (5), above, within the period required, the applicant may request reconsideration of the determination.
The city shall grant the permit if the city determines the applicant has substantially completed the specified remedial actions.
Not later than the 15th day after the date the applicant’s request for reconsideration is received, the city shall send the applicant written notice of a final determination to grant or deny a permit application.
If the city fails to send notice of a final determination within the period required by the bill, the permit application is considered approved.
Written notice of the city’s final determination that a permit is denied must include the information required by (5), above, in addition to written findings of the reasons the city determined that any remedial actions taken by the applicant were insufficient to correct the deficiencies specified in the notice provided under (5), above.
Any final determination that a permit is denied may not be based on: (a ) a reason or remedial requirement that was not previously disclosed to the applicant in the notice required under (6), above; or (2) a requirement for the applicant to comply with any ordinance, order, regulation, or policy that is not substantially related to the construction or improvement of a building or other structure.
A city may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, order, regulation, or policy relating to granting or denying a permit under the bill that: (a) restricts or prohibits the right of an applicant to reapply for a permit to construct or improve the same building or other structure that was the subject of a denied permit application; (b) requires a private employer to offer more than the minimum wage; or (3) authorizes on-site monitoring of a private employer by a nongovernmental entity.
“Project” means an endeavor, occupation, or activity over which a regulatory agency exerts its jurisdiction and for which one or more permits are required to initiate, continue, engage in, or complete the endeavor, occupation, or activity.
Rights to which a permit applicant is entitled under chapter 245 accrue when an applicant submits the application electronically if the regulatory agency accepts applications electronically by a method that provides confirmation of receipt.
A regulatory agency may provide that a permit application expires on or after the 61st day after the date the application is filed, if certain conditions are met, but a permit application may not expire before the 11th business day after the date the regulatory agency provides the applicant with the notice described by the bill (the bill may have an error because it doesn’t describe that notice).
A regulatory agency may not deny a permit application based on a requirement for the applicant to comply with any ordinance, order, regulation, or policy that is not substantially related to the purposes for which the permit is required.
Except as provided by the provisions in (1)-(12) in the section above, or other law that provides for a shorter period, a regulatory agency shall approve or deny an application for a permit not later than the 60th business day after the date the regulatory agency received the completed application.
A regulatory agency may extend the period under (7), above, for approving or denying an application by an additional 10 business days if the regulatory agency provides written notice of the extension to the applicant during that period stating the reasons the regulatory agency has been unable to grant or deny the permit application during that period.
A regulatory agency may not extend the period for the regulatory agency to grant or deny an application under (8), above, more than once.
If a regulatory agency fails to approve or deny a completed application as provided by (8) and (9), above, the application is considered to be approved.
If a regulatory agency denies a permit application, the regulatory agency must send written notice of the denial to the applicant not later than the first business day after the date of the denial stating: (a) each application deficiency that is a reason for the denial, including a citation to the specific ordinance, order, regulation, or policy relevant to the denial; and (b) the specific actions required by the applicant to remedy each specified deficiency.
This title does not prohibit a political subdivision from adopting procedures to provide a shorter period than provided by law for the approval of a permit.
The entirety of chapter 245 becomes retroactive to permits issued before the effective date of the bill.
1H.B. 187 (Oliverson) – Non-Annexation Agreements: would provide, in relation to the current law that requires a city to offer a non-annexation agreement to property that is subject to an agricultural or certain other property tax exemptions, that: (1) the execution of a non-annexation development agreement does not extend the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city; and (2) an area subject to an agreement may not be considered for the purposes of calculating the width of an area or municipal territory.
1H.B. 207 (Huberty) – Annexation: would provide, with some exceptions, that a qualified voter of a water or sewer district, any portion of which a city has annexed for full or limited purposes, is entitled to vote in municipal elections regarding the election or recall of members of the governing body of the city and the amendment of the municipal charter, regardless of whether the city has annexed the entire district or whether the voter resides in an annexed portion of the district.
1S.B. 47 (Schwertner) – Developer Participation Agreements: would provide that: (1) the amount of a performance bond for a developer participation agreement must be for the contract price for the improvements; (2) a city may not require the developer to include in the amount of the bond any other improvement related to the development that the developer did not contract with the city to construct; (3) a city and developer may agree that, instead of a performance bond, the developer may submit an irrevocable letter of credit in the amount required for the bond; and (4) as part of the agreement, the city may not pay any amount to the developer, issue a building permit related to the development other than a permit necessary for the improvements that are the subject of the contract, or approve a subdivision plat for the developer until: (a) the improvements are complete or in the final phase of construction if the improvements are constructed in phases; and (b) the developer has submitted to the city an affidavit stating that the developer has paid all costs associated with the construction.
1S.B. 55 (Huffines) – Building Codes: would: (1) lower the population threshold in current law from 100,000 to 40,000 to invoke certain notice and hearing procedures for changes in a city’s building code; and (2) impose new requirements: (a) that a city publish a detailed cost-benefit analysis of a building code or code amendments; and (b) that would mandate, for an amendment that addresses existing or potential harm to health and safety: (i) scientific evidence supporting the probability or likelihood that the harm has occurred or will occur; and (ii) scientific evidence supporting the probability or likelihood that the amendment will prevent or address the harm.
1S.B. 61 (Hughes) – Open-Enrollment Charter Schools: would: (1) prohibit a city from treating an open-enrollment charter school differently than a school district for purposes of zoning, permitting, code compliance, and development (but would maintain the exemption in current law that a campus of an open-enrollment charter school located in whole or in part in a city with a population of 20,000 or less is not subject to zoning); (2) require a city that has annexed territory for limited purposes to enter, on request of an open-enrollment charter school, an agreement with the school governing certain land development standards and water pollution controls (these are the same requirements currently in place for school districts); and (3) exempt an open-enrollment charter school from paying impact fees unless the governing body of the charter school consents.
1H.B. 133 (Reynolds) – Minimum Wage: would provide that the minimum wage is not less than the greater of $15.00 an hour or federal minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standard Act.
1S.J.R. 11 (Estes) – Labor Organizations: would amend the Texas Constitution to prohibit state or local funds from being used for the administration of a labor organization, including the collection of dues or fees.
1H.B. 123 (Swanson) – Concealed Handguns: would provide that, in relation to a prohibition against carrying a concealed handgun by posting an optional “30.06” and/or “30.07” sign, it is a defense to prosecution that the license holder was personally given notice by oral communication and promptly departed from the property.
1H.B. 175 (Anchia) – Concealed Handguns: would provide that: (1) a person who is authorized by a federal agency may possess a firearm in a secured area of an airport; and (2) “secured area” means an area: (i) of an airport terminal building or of an adjacent aircraft parking area used by common carriers in air transportation but not used by general aviation; and (ii) to which access is controlled under federal law.
1H.B. 205 (Pickett) – Motor Vehicle Inspections: would require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to: (1) identity the minimum program required by the federal Clean Air Act for the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program; and (2) develop a state implementation plan revision and necessary rules to revise the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program to include only the minimum program.
1S.B. 58 (Huffines) – Vehicle Inspections: would eliminate regular mandatory vehicle safety inspections.
1H.B. 199 (Picket) – Solar Charges: would provide that an investor owned electric utility may not impose on residential customers who are distributed solar or wind renewable generation owners: (1) a rate or charge that applies only to those customers; or (2) a rate or charge that is significantly higher than a similar charge imposed on residential customers who are not distributed solar or wind renewable generation owners. | 2019-04-19T21:28:18 | http://www.tml.org/419/July-21-2017-Number-28 |
When the current Ethiopian government came to power in 1991, it strived to create a climate that would support private sector development and entrepreneurship. Almost 20 years later, however, the role of the private sector in the economy remains limited, and is well below that of regional peers such as Uganda or Tanzania. While an abundant empirical literature on Ethiopian urban labor markets, SMEs and their constraints exists, this paper presents a simple theoretical model of firm start ups and skill shortages with imperfections in the labor markets and the business climate. The model captures several stylized facts that characterize the Ethiopian urban labor markets, and is used to analyze policies aimed at encouraging SMEs and the formal private sector, in particular subsidies to entrepreneurship and employment of skilled labor. | 2019-04-18T18:21:59 | https://www.afdb.org/fr/aec-2009/papers/on-determinants-of-smes-in-ethiopia-which-incentives-matter/ |
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On February 20, the GSTN made changes in the GSTR-1 Excel Offline Utility Tool, CSV file format and JSON format. We have incorporated these changes in Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.4 within a short time to ensure that you can file GSTR-1 easily.
When you create an invoice for transporting goods, Tally.ERP 9 captures all the necessary details required to generate e-Way Bill. You need not re-enter these details again in the e-Way Bill portal. Just export the invoice in JSON format and upload it to the portal for generating e-Way Bill.
Enter the e-Way Bill Number (EBN) in its corresponding invoice, print the invoice and hand it over to the transporter.
You can export JSON file for a single invoice, or for multiple invoices together in one go.
If the mode of transport, vehicle nos, place of supply and State are the same for a given set of invoices, you can group them and generate a single JSON file for a consolidated e-Way Bill. But first, you must generate e-Way Bills for each invoice as a prerequisite.
Tally.ERP 9 identifies invoices for which e-Way Bills are yet to be generated. You can add, modify, delete, consolidate and track e-Way Bills.
You can generate e-Way Bills on behalf of your supplier or transporter; or in cases of purchases made from unregistered dealers; and for credit notes, delivery notes and receipt notes as well.
Define the applicable flat tax rate for your business at the company level . Tally.ERP 9 applies the rate on your taxable turnover and calculates tax liability.
Tally.ERP 9 calculates tax on purchases made from registered dealers and allocates it to your purchase cost. It lets you account tax liability on advance payments and purchases made under reverse charges.
You can generate 'Bill of Supply' for your sales as per GST format.
You can directly export GSTR-4 in JSON format and upload it to the GST portal.
If you are a composite dealer already using Tally.ERP 9, and if you have changed the settings from Regular Dealer to Composite Dealer.
In Release 6.4, you can now create separate Cess Ledgers based on quantity and value of the item. Cess gets bifurcated accordingly in the invoice. The printed invoice will show the bifurcation.
If a purchase order created after disabling the option Provide complete accounting allocations in order/ delivery note? was linked in receipt note or purchase transaction, an error appeared in the Calculator panel. This issue is resolved.
On saving a sales invoice with stock item rate and GST ledgers, an error appeared in the Calculator panel if the delivery note linked to the invoice had only quantity, and not the rate. This issue is resolved.
The B2B Invoices appeared under B2C Invoices in GSTR-1 when multiple address details were enabled for the company and party ledger. This issue is resolved.
In GSTR-1 , the credit notes recorded with the nature of transaction Export Nil Rated did not appear under Credit/Debit note (Unregistered) - 9B . This issue is resolved.
In the GSTR-3B report the taxable values appeared in table 5 also instead of appearing only in tables 3(1)(d) and 4(A)(3) when Purchase From Unregistered Dealer - Taxable was enabled for reverse charge. This issue is resolved.
Memory Access Violation appeared in the GSTR-1 report of a particular data, when the period was set to 15 days of October 17. This issue is resolved.
The purchases from unregistered dealers for value less than Rs. 50,000 per day appeared as Unregistered Purchases crossing threshold , under No direct implication in return tables in the GSTR-3B report. This issue is resolved.
In the JSON or MS Excel file generated for GSTR-1, the Export Type was blank for the invoices with the nature of transaction Export Nil Rated .
The supplier invoice number and date of taxable purchases did not appear in the drill-down reports of Purchase Taxable and Interstate Purchase Taxable , when opened from the Summary View of GSTR-3B . This issue is resolved.
In a few companies, the Incomplete/Mismatch in Information (to be resolved) section in the GSTR-3B report displayed the voucher count, but the Exception Resolution screen was blank. This issue is resolved.
In the printed GSTR-3B return, the state tax amount credited in journal voucher for Reversal of Input Tax Credit with Others , appeared under Central Tax column. This issue is resolved.
The first drill-down report of GSTR-3B table 5.
The table 5 of the printed return form. This issue is resolved.
The purchases under reverse charge made from unregistered dealer by selecting TDS ledger (grouped under Duties & Taxes - Others ), appeared under Incomplete/Mismatch in information (to be resolved) of GSTR-3B . This issue is resolved.
In GSTR-3B , input tax credit was calculated for purchases configured as ineligible for input credit. This issue is resolved.
You can view the purchases that are ineligible for input tax credit with the tax break-up in GSTR-3B report.
When interstate sales recorded with the company's state as the Place of Supply in Release 6.3.1, was opened in Release 6.3.2, the transactions appeared under Incomplete/mismatch in information (to be resolved) . This issue is resolved.
Memory Access Violation appeared on opening the GSTR-3B report in few companies. This issue is resolved.
On exporting the GSTR-3B data in MS Excel and JSON formats, the values of 4(A)(5) and 4C appeared in negative, although the net values were in positive. This issue is resolved.
Item details were not displayed when recording sales with delivery note. This happened when sales and payment vouchers were enabled with default accounting allocation, and the sales voucher was opened from payment voucher. This issue is resolved.
In the Day Book , filtering the sales transactions for a buyer did not work. This happened when Allow separate buyer and consignee names? was disabled in F12, and a party ledger was used in the supplementary details of a cash invoice. This issue is resolved.
Instrument number was displayed in bank allocation screen although it was disabled using F12 during voucher creation. This issue is resolved.
Party address details were repeated in Voucher Register report. This happened when multiple addresses were enabled for the party, and voucher creation was initiated in invoice mode and later switched to voucher mode. This issue is resolved.
Items rejected in a delivery note appeared in the sales voucher. This happened when an item was completely rejected from a delivery note with multiple items, and another delivery note was created for the rejected item, and both the delivery notes were used in a sales voucher. This issue is resolved.
mismatching under gst 3b table wise detail shown in mismatching party and company'S GSTIN/UIN cannot be same.. how to resolved it .. | 2019-04-25T18:14:22 | http://www.tallyknowledge.com/2018/02/whats-new-in-tally-release-64-get.html |
3926 Cottage Shores Drive - Burt Lake's sought after west side living at its finest! Wake up with your morning coffee and watch the sunrise. Beautiful location and view are to be enjoyed here! Three bedroom condo comes with a dock that allows you to enjoy Burt Lake and all of 42 mile Inland Waterway! You have access to four lakes for the price of one! This is a great location for those coming up for the weekend. Just minutes from I75. Short drive to Mackinaw City, Cheboygan, Petoskey and Harbor Springs! For the nature lover, there is a bike trail just across the road. The snow mobile trail system is nearby as well!Currently rented. Makes a great investment property. Natural gas has also been ran to the condo.This is the perfect location to enjoy Northern Michigan!!! | 2019-04-19T12:54:45 | http://www.stevenhutchinson.com/Property/MI/49716/Brutus/3926_Cottage_Shores_Drive |
The 2019 Masters is trying to avoid its first Monday finish in over a quarter century. The start for the Masters final 18 holes on Sunday has been adjusted in an attempt to avoid the expected inclement weather. Play begins at 7:30 a.m. ET. Furthermore the entire final round will not be televised. The final round of the first Major of the 2019 season will air at 9 a.m. ET. | 2019-04-19T22:14:45 | https://news.wagertalk.com/golf-picks-and-odds/odds-to-win-2019-masters-final-round-early-start |
The Pacific Cancer Foundation is an independent 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization created exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. Through the implementation of various programs, the Foundation gives meaningful assistance to cancer patients and their families. The Foundation works to foster public awareness of the needs of cancer patients. The Foundation is dedicated to assuring that cancer patients are well informed of treatment options available within our community and on a national level. The Foundation will assist appropriate patients in accessing clinical trials and innovative therapies. | 2019-04-20T12:45:31 | https://jwcameroncenter.org/portfolio/pacific-cancer-foundation/ |
The problem with editing large texts in SQL Backend is that the text is broken up into separate lines, so the “carriage return” character at the end of the first line is interpreted by anything SQL as the “I’ve finished typing, now go do that” command.
The quickest way around it is simply to update the table using standard SQL commands (i.e. update tablename set field=value where….). Now usually, you would simply put the value bit in single quotes and run the SQL, but you have the added complication that the text contains single quotes itself, and the way to specify single quotes as literals is putting a single quote before it (i.e. ” – which is obviously not the same as the ” double quote even if it looks the same on screen).
Open up a new query window in SQL Server Management Studio, pointing to the database.
Paste the text you want to change into Notepad, change it and then do an Edit Replace, replacing single quote ‘ with double quote ” and replace all instances.
Do a Select All, and copy the text.
Paste what you have on the clipboard into the SSMS query window between the two single quotes next to @Comment, so the text you copied gets assigned to the @comment variable.
Specify the logid number to identify the record to be updated.
It looks like a lot of steps, but once you’ve gone through it once, you’ll see it’s not much work at all, and certainly much quicker than scrolling through the field.
That way, you don’t need to copy large amounts of text out and in again, since you’re just changing small bits of it. | 2019-04-24T05:19:51 | https://dotnetco.de/modify-large-text-in-sql-backend/ |
Which website allows you to download historical stock data, other than Yahoo Finance?
Discussion in 'Data Sets and Feeds' started by Daal, Oct 24, 2018.
YF doesnt have some data in a stock I follow (there are a bunch of 'null' rows for some reason). The data exists but I dont know of a site that will let you download it so easily. Is there one?
One of our newest sponsors is called Polygon.io and they offer both real-time and downloadable historical data for all 24,000+ stock symbols, and you won't have to deal with null rows.
Tiingo offers historical data, I believe it's still 2000 symbols for free per day.
Not really. They get some of the data from the same sources. What symbol is it, what are the dates?
Even IB data starts from Oct 28, the company announced uplisting just that month so most likely it wasn't traded on an exchange until that date, uplisting dates are often postponed.
You're probably comparing to your broker's data which doesn't distinguish between listed and OTC.
Bigcharts has their own method which IMO is wrong as the CUSIP changed.
As of October 7, Anavex common stock will trade under the ticker symbol AVXLD for a period of 20 business days. After that time or earlier once NASDAQ approves the uplisting requirements, the “D” will be removed and our Company’s symbol will once again be AVXL. A new CUSIP number will be assigned to the Company’s common stock as a result of the reverse split. | 2019-04-20T02:55:05 | https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/which-website-allows-you-to-download-historical-stock-data-other-than-yahoo-finance.326295/ |
We are a group of volunteer citizens who come together to spruce up Alamogordo! Our April project is to give one of CHINS (Children In Need of Services) facilities a much needed exterior makeover. We will be painting and replacing the fencing of a CHINS building on Florida Ave. We need lots of volunteers along with some equipment to use during this weekend. Please contact us for more info. Help us improve our city!
Full House Too 211 N. Florida Ave. | 2019-04-23T11:22:55 | https://business.alamogordo.com/events/details/community-initiative-project-04-13-2019-22677 |
Just a small part of my stock of wood. I tend to collect it. This picture was taken several years ago, it has grown considerably since then. | 2019-04-19T01:25:43 | http://wandlesscrafts.com/Shop_Tour/woodstorage.html |
Connect with your newsletter subscribers and mass market jobs & services via email marketing services: i.e. iContact, VerticalResponse, ConstantContact, etc.
Mass email via 3rd party services.
Eliminate the chances of your job board website getting banned for occasional spam report by one of subscribers.
Select job seeker or employer contacts as per any criteria desired (industry, location, subscribed, etc.) and export the list into CSV file via job board software admin. CSV file will contain name, email or any other data for the contact contact list to be uploaded into 3rd party emailing service.
Subscription functionality can be added to a WordPress Blog integrated into your job board. Your WordPress-based blog can be added to job board website as www.jobboardurl.com/blog. Blog is normally customized to reflect your job board design and provide seamless job seeker navigation experience whilst offering free plugin options, like Newsletter subscription.
These and other personalized automatic notifications (i.e. registration confirmations, applications, etc.) are sent by job board software automatically. | 2019-04-26T08:25:55 | https://www.jobboardmount.com/features/mass-email-marketing/ |
Launched as a vision of CEO Herb Needham in 1997. H&M Distributors, Inc. has seen amazing growth, quickly becoming a “go-to” supplier for many of the large lighting maintenance companies and lighting distributors, across the US. Starting with only himself in 1996 out of a small 1 unit office/garage space, the company has employed over 75 different employees and now operates out of a 30,000-sq. ft. building.Having successfully ran both a Lighting Manufacturing company along with a Lighting Maintenance company Mr. Needham found a need for customers to find specialty lighting items that were in stock, along with being able to offer cross reference solutions to obsolete items that correctly fit and work as a replacement.Unlike majority of lighting companies H&M Distributors, Inc. does not remove obsolete items from their website or product database. We take our technical knowledge to suggest a replacement item that is either a direct cross, or one where we can note any differences so you are confident it will work for your needs. Along with our goal to be able to supply a direct cross for any unavailable or obsolete item, we had become an “On-Demand Stocking Master Distributor”.What is an On-Demand Stocking Master Distributor? That means that we have listened to our customers and built our product database from that. What you need is what we will stock. H&M Distributors, Inc. first started out as mainly distributing Shatter-Resistant Fluorescent light bulbs from a patent developed and designed by Herb Needham, and later bought by GE Lighting as the Cov-R-Guard Fluorescent. As lighting needs of our customers changed, we listened and started to stock Sockets and Lampholders. Now we bring bulk quantities of over 1,200 different Sockets and Lampholders along with being able to purchase and/or cross any Socket needed and allow our customers to buy as little as 1 unit of any product. We also now are a large stocking Distributor of LED Drivers, Low Voltage Transformers, HID Capacitors, Refrigeration Ballast, Cooler Shelf Harnesses and many more items. All because it’s what our customers requested. Not only do we stock these item types, but we also know them inside and out and can assist with any technical or wiring question. We do this so that you do not have to, and so that you do not have to purchase more than you need from a Vendor.H&M Distributors, Inc. does not just have a Technical Support team to assist with product crosses, wiring or any other technical information, we train all employees with that knowledge. So, when you contact H&M Distributors, Inc. 90% of your technical questions can be answered by the first person who picks up the phone, and for the last 10% we have a Support Desk email address, to help get your answer as quick as possible. Along with the technical knowledge we offer, we found it a must to be able to ship all in stock orders the same day.But don’t take our word for it. Try us out, or contact us and see for yourself why we’re the best not the biggest lighting wholesaler. | 2019-04-25T16:14:11 | https://discoverdash.com/listing/www-hmlighting-com/ |
Once upon a time in the land of anytime before Y2K, if you wanted to grow pot, you’d either have to know somebody who grew themselves and wanted to give you a lesson or get a book from the library. But then the web went world wide and the tube got you’ed and it was a lot easier to learn how-to without even having to ask a living soul. It meant more convenience, more up to date information, and less exposure if the cannabis cultivator in question happened to be less than certified.
But you still had to actually go out into the world to get your grow gear. Not no more. Now 3Dponics, a purveyor of 3D printable gardening goods, released its new 3-part hydroponic set-up plans free for download earlier this week. As long as you can get your seeds delivered along with some food, you need never leave your home again.
If you’re like us, you’re waiting for the moment when you can 3D print complex organic material, then you can print your own weed, your own shatter, your own friends to dab it with, indeed whole universes of dabbers dabbing, indeed you could dab whole universes, vaporizing them with your own 3D-printed suns. You could 3D print slaves to run their own 3D-printed printers and create whole armies of rigs and waxes and universes dying, vaporizing, being reborn, BHO-extracting into existence. Yeah, the future’s going to be tight. | 2019-04-20T10:27:51 | https://dabsmagazine.com/now-you-can-3-d-print-your-own-hydroponic-weed-garden/ |
Augmented Reality,art, Southeast Asian food, Bubiko Foodtour, VR, music, haikus, photographs, videos, unusualness... and discussions, readings from, and free downloads of, EBOOKS! The broadcast starts at 3PM September 30, Malaysia time, ends on Monday, October 2 at 3PM Malaysia time.
Contact With Shadow is not a free download, but if you are interested in the future of book distribution, you should know about Unglue.
There is an audiobook version of i ate tiong bahru, narrated by Mirai Booth-Ong. And, this is 3how's debut album.
Bubiko Foodtour is AR's first superstar.
Base of operations: the Abby Hotel in Ipoh, Malaysia.
If you are here because you are interested in my AR-related startup ideas, this post gives you an overview.
I am writing this 30 hours after the marathon went live.On one hand my blog views are double what they usually are. On the other hand, there haven't been many viewers. That is OK. I didn't do any pre-publicity, I am not paying Facebook to blast the event and there are no costs, other than my time. I hope that towards the end of the 72 hours there are more viewers. For now, I can only say if you visit the FB live page, say hi.
Hello everyone... I hope the weekend is a good one for you.
Just to short note to say that I am doing a live FB broadcast from Ipoh-for 72 hours. I started Friday at 3, will finish at 3 on Monday. The camera I am using isn't very good, the audio is so-so, the internet is slow and I am silhouetted during the daytime. Perfect!
Actually I am learning a lot, and my blog is seeing a nice amount of action. The free ebooks are trickling out of Amazon. I can see clicks on my blog posts about my AR startup plans. Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter from the Malay Mail.
i. Sent a telegram to Rolling Stone magazine in New York City. Elvis photos. Please advise. 1978, April. Elvis at Royal Oak. Detroit. The Attractions. B 'til open the late show doors. Smell of paint on animal leather. First time, Faster than Normal. 'Good night', spat out. Stormed off. ii. The hotel room window back cover. Accidents will happen. Hasselblad stand-up in my room. iii. a. Rochester New York, Imperial Bedroom. Talk Talk. b. Fuji Rock,with only Steve... at the piano above the sea. iv. Roppongi hotel room, the Residents tour. A yakitoriya, Snakefinger eloquent about Pete. v. Back home in Toledo, my mom played Burt Bacharach records, especially on weekends. vi. Singapore: A Good Year for the Roses... Days.
Towards a New Cinematography is the latest title for the book that I committed myself to with this post.
Singapore has recently been very helpful to me. For example, because of an amazing series of talks organized by SCAPE, I was able to get up to speed on 4K, thanks to three great presentations by Matt Seigel. Twice I was able to hear Karl Soule go over some of the numerous delights in the Adobe Creative Cloud.
I heard Kazz Sato speak about sound! I was in the same room as Royston Tan!Nicholas Chee!
These talks really brought me up to speed, helping me get a sense of the current state of indie film production. Very important, especially after my years away from video, when I was in "exile" in Bali.
Himanshu Shah, speaking about a Virtual Roller Coaster.
Himanshu Shah has been in the production industry for the last 15 years and is involved in a number of companies. Amongst the companies he is currently involved in is one that does stereoscopic 3D video production. His latest company is involved in the creation of VR Rides.
www.dude.sg Eugene Soh is a Singaporean fine artist who happens to be a programming genius. When he isn't travelling the world, he is at home making apps or creating epic photographic renditions of famous renaissance paintings. Eugene has recently taken a strong interest in harvesting energy from the sun (solar power, because he hates paying bills) and may be moving in that direction.
The Tehran-Dakar Brothers at Zora Art Space (NY) Jan 8, 2011. Performing "Everyday Blues". | 2019-04-18T10:50:33 | http://www.blacksteps.tv/category/unlocking-with-ears/ |
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've only done some very basic stuff with both Cro and Bailador. From what I can tell, Cro requires less code to get something going in, but Bailador is easier to get a regular MVC model working in. Have you read through the Cro SPA tutorial? | 2019-04-20T17:10:09 | https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=perl6-users%40perl.org&q=subject:%22Bailador+vs.+Cro%22&o=newest |
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The following Official Record for Ryan Sisemore is being redistributed by LCN and is protected by constitutional, publishing, and other legal rights. This Official Record was reported on 2019-03-21 08:59:12. The person named in this listing has only been arrested on suspicion of the crime indicated and is presumed innocent. | 2019-04-21T03:17:58 | https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/arrest/35127622/ryan-sisemore-arrest.html |
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The following items were taken from the Nov. 21 through 27, 1959, Examiner.
Nearly 400 persons attended the annual dinner of the Wagon Wheel District at which Boy Scout leaders were honored for their work. The Order of the Silver Beaver was awarded to Lester L. Fike, Ben V. Alton and W. Morris Turner. A new award, Order of Merit, was presented to Ed Mader, Dr. W.J. Lee, James Pimblott, H. Tupper Smith and Paul D. Arend.
The new John W. Luff elementary school was officially dedicated Nov. 22. The Board of Education voted to name the new building for Mr. Luff, who served on the board from 1931 to 1949, when he retired. From 1936 until his retirement, he was president of the Board. He died Sept. 25, 1958.
A native Jackson Countian, Walker Cooper, of Buckner, has been hired for the coaching staff of the Kansas City Athletics (A’s). Cooper, the catcher in the famous Cooper brothers team, managed the Indianapolis Indians during the 1958-1959 season. Cooper played in the National League for 17 years. He was in the World Series three years, all while playing with the St. Louis Cardinals, and played in all six all-star games.
Abigail Van Buren, known to millions of readers as “Dear Abby,” is the fascinating columnist you’ve read about in Time, Coronet, Pageant, Life and other magazines. Starting Nov. 30 in The Examiner, you’ll have the opportunity to read her sparkling, pithy and sage advice to the troubled people who write her.
The following items were taken from the Nov. 21 through 27, 1909, Examiner.
Louis B. Root, superintendent of Mount Washington Cemetery, died at St. Mary’s hospital in Kansas City. He was superintendent of Mount Washington since 1901. He was superintendent of parks under the first park board in 1893. Later he made a survey of Swope Park and in the following year became its first superintendent. During his term, he carried out plans for the early development of the park.
William F. Street has purchased the two story brick building at 209 W. Lexington Street. The consideration was $6,000. He purchased the building from G.B. McCauley. The ground floor is occupied by the Lyric theater, and the second story comprises the east half of the Eagle hall.
After one or two postponements, the “possum” hunt for city councilmen and other officers and a few friends will take place. Nothing less than a blizzard or an earthquake is to prevent it, according to councilman W.L. Jones the author of the scheme. It is to be on the farm of A.J. Bundschu, near Little Blue, east of Salem church. The party will go in automobiles.
William G. Gore of Blue Springs received one of the petitions asking that state wide prohibition be voted upon in the general election in 1910. He told Judge Wallace at the time that he doubted if he could fill such a petition at Blue Springs because it was a wet town. Gore circulated the petition and in 24 hours had it filled and sent for more. Out of the 172 men he presented the petition to, 162 signed. | 2019-04-26T10:35:27 | https://www.examiner.net/x215411657/50-and-100-years-ago-Nov-21-27-1959-and-1909 |
The forthcoming album from Darren Middleton sees the singer-songwriter and former Powderfinger guitarist finding his comfort-zone as a solo musician.
In the seven years since Powderfinger disbanded in 2010, Darren has undergone an intense evolution that’s seen him produce two solo records under his own name, as well as composing scores for feature films, short films and documentaries.
Currently working on his third studio album sans-The Finger, Darren says it was a long process to reconcile his illustrious past as guitarist for one of Australia’s biggest bands with the determination to create his own identity outside of the group.
“I think initially I found for me – and maybe it’s quite general for other people who have left a big organisation – you’re quite desperate to find yourself really quickly and make a mark on your own,” he says.
“That for me took a couple of solo records; it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, and I also realised I don’t really want to shed that skin because that’s a really big part of what got me to where I am.
Darren’s first solo album ‘Translations’ was released in 2013, followed by ‘Splinters’ in 2015. With his transition from band member to independent musician seemingly complete, Darren says he wants to make the forthcoming record a more powerful statement of his own artistic intent.
“I want to make this a bit crunchier, a bit crisper and with a bit more of an edge on the sounds and not so rounded,” he says.
While Darren is making defiant strides forward as a solo artist, he recently came back together with three of his four former Powderfinger band mates for a one-off performance at Splendour In The Grass that sent social media into a frenzy about the possibility of a legitimate reunion.
“It was a lot of fun,” Darren says of the Splendour show.
As to those rumours about a full-fledged reunion of the band, unfortunately Darren gives them a good dousing, saying there are no plans for such an event although he’s not ruling out any possibilities just yet.
Stay tuned to MADCAP Entertainment and Like our Facebook page for updates about new music from Darren Middleton. | 2019-04-21T10:58:23 | http://www.madcapglobal.com/news-exclusive-interview-with-darren-middleton |
In its FOI request of 27 April 2015, the applicant sought access to records relating to the sale, transfer or proposed sale of lands adjacent to The Square Shopping Centre by South Dublin County Council to the National Asset Management Agency(NAMA) and/or the National Treasury Management Agency(NTMA) as referred to in the Council's minutes of 14 October 2013. In its decision of 28 May 2015, the Council identified 17 records (Schedule A) as relevant to the request and granted access in full. In a letter of 10 June 2015, the Council stated that eight further relevant records (Schedule B) had been discovered. It granted access to one of these in full and partial access to the remainder. It refused access to the redacted information on the basis that it was commercially sensitive (section 36 of the FOI Act refers). The applicant submitted an internal review request on 25 June 2015, raising various issues, including a claim that not all relevant records had been identified. The Council's internal review decision of 16 July 2015 affirmed the original decision on the redacted information and addressed the issues raised by the applicant. It said that certain further records were not held. The applicant submitted an application for review to this Office on 30 July 2015.
In conducting this review, I have had regard to the submissions of the applicant, to the submissions of the Council, to the content of the records and to the provisions of the FOI Acts. I have decided to conclude the review by making a formal, binding decision.
The review relates solely to whether the decision of the Council to refuse access to the information sought was justified on the basis of the exemptions claimed.
I should explain the approach to the granting of access to parts of records. Section 2 of the FOI Act defines "record" as including "anything that is a part or a copy" of a record. Section 18 of the FOI Act provides for the deletion of exempt information and the granting of access to a copy of a record with such exempt information removed. This should be done where it is practicable to do so and where the copy of the record thus created would not be misleading. In this case, it became necessary to examine relatively small amounts of information in parts of the records since the Council's decision on Schedule B records effectively redacted occasional paragraphs throughout the eight records.
Section 22(12)(b) of the FOI Act provides that a decision to refuse to grant a request shall be presumed not to have been justified unless the body satisfies me that its decision was justified. In the normal course, failure by the body to justify its decision is sufficient for me to find that the body had not justified its refusal to release certain records. However, given the nature of the records at issue, and while having regard to the provisions of section 22(12)(b) in conducting this review, I have also had regard to the fact that the release of certain records may affect the interests of third parties as it seems to me that the Council's failure to properly engage with this Office should not result in unwarranted adverse consequences for the various third parties.
Although I am obliged to give reasons for my decision, section 25(3) of the FOI Act requires me to take all reasonable precautions in the course of a review to prevent disclosure of information contained in an exempt record. This means that the extent to which I can describe the records or disclose in any detail particulars of the third parties interests is limited.
Apart from the very significant question of whether, as claimed by the applicant, the Council's decision failed to identify and consider many additional relevant records which it holds, my review must address the refusal of access to relatively small parts of the eight records in Schedule B. However, the way in which the Council dealt with the request and with my Office has meant that a disproportionate amount of time and effort was required in an attempt to bring clarity to the matters at issue. The Council's decision making did not comply with section 13(2)(d) of the Act in that the relevant exemption provisions were not properly identified and applied to particular records and the public interest balancing test was not considered at all. Further, the Investigator discovered discrepancies in the redacted and unredacted versions of the records (e.g. the same information released in one record but redacted in another; conflicting accounts as to what parts had been redacted and what, exactly, had been released) so that there were protracted exchanges between my Office and the Council to try to establish what remaining withheld material had to be considered in this review.
I do not intend to set out the full detail of the various difficulties that arose. It will be clear from what follows that the Council's handling of the matter was so poor that two statutory notices were necessary followed by a meeting between senior staff of my Office and the Council before any real progress on the review could be made. I also deal below with the Council's worrying failure to identify additional records and to satisfy my Office's queries as regards the adequacy of its searches. I find it hard to understand why after 18 years of the Act's operation, FOI bodies do not make use of the substantial training and other resources available including the guidelines, manuals and templates available from the Central Policy Unit (CPU) of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at www.foi.gov.ie and from my Office (www.oic.ie). I intend to raise the handling of this case further with the Chief Executive of the Council.
Both the original and internal review decisions of the Council failed to provide adequate reasons for the decisions and there was no consideration of the public interest as required. Therefore, I issued a notice under section 23 of the Act directing the Chief Executive Officer to furnish to me and to the applicant an adequate statement of reasons for the decision. At the same time, my Office sought a submission from the Council focussing on the issues likely to be central to the review. The Council was invited to consider previous decisions of my Office together with advice and guidelines on justifying the exemptions claimed. The Council's response to the section 23 notice was very disappointing. In particular, it failed to address the public interest as required. I must say that I was surprised by the Council's attitude and by its failure to engage with the requirements of the Act at that stage.
My Office issued a further statutory notice on 5 November 2015 under section 45 of the Act. This required the Council to provide certain information and expressed my Office's disappointment that the Council had failed to clarify important issues so that the review could proceed. The Council responded in a limited fashion.
It was evident at an early stage that an "adequacy of search" issue arose in this review. The applicant made it clear to the Council in its internal review request that, in its view, there were considerably more relevant records than had been identified by the Council. The applicant set out numerous omissions which it had been able to identify. The applicant also informed the Council that it had made an FOI request to another FOI body in relation to the same issue and as a result of the response received, it was aware of records, to which the Council was a party, which had not been identified by the Council. The request to the other FOI body is the subject of a separate review by my Office. On the basis of the information provided by the applicant and given the nature of the transaction the subject of the request, the Investigator was satisfied that the Council was likely to hold more relevant records which it should have identified. In order to address this, she raised (by letter dated 9 October 2015) a number of "search questions" with the Council. The Council responded to these questions in what I would describe as a minimalist manner and referred to the "detailed and comprehensive search of all Council records on the matter" ; it did not identify any further relevant records.
In its response to the section 23 and 45 notices, the Council referred to the "sensitivities" associated with the underlying issue to which the FOI request related. In view of this and the deficiencies in the responses provided by the Council, my staff considered that a meeting with the Council was the best way to progress matters. This meeting took place in early January 2016. Its purpose was to clarify the requirements of this Office, set out the issues which required to be addressed and to give the Council a final opportunity to provide the relevant information. At the meeting, the Council thanked my staff for clarifying certain matters. It accepted that there were, in fact, more relevant records which had not been considered to date. It seemed to accept that records had been created by e.g. its legal advisors and/or its valuer that were not addressed in its decision. It undertook to identify those records. It is not clear to me why the Council did not consider these records relevant at the outset and deal with them in its decisions. As a body which has been subject to the FOI Act since 1998, at best, it demonstrates a very poor understanding of what the FOI Act requires and at worst, a shocking disregard for the Act and the rights of access to information that it provides for requesters.
The Council was specifically asked, both at the meeting and in writing, to provide this Office with details of the third parties whose information was contained in the relevant records. My Office told the Council that it might be necessary to make contact with the third parties. Neither the identity nor contact details of the third parties was obvious from the records themselves, but the records certainly contain information, the release of which has the potential to affect third parties' interests. The Council provided some information on 16 February 2016, following a reminder. The information provided was in the form "Parties to X licence". It has not been possible for my Office to identify these third parties and therefore, it could not have made contact with them should records affecting their interests be considered for release. It is clear from the content of the records, including the information which has already been released, that the Council was engaged in negotiations which would have an impact on these third parties. I cannot see how the Council could have envisaged bringing those negotiations to a conclusion without being in contact with these third parties and therefore, it is difficult to believe that the Council could provide my Office with no more information than the title of a licence. I must state that the third party entities to whom I refer here are not NAMA or the NTMA who are FOI bodies even though Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act provides that they are "Partially Included Agencies" i.e. that access is restricted insofar as certain types of records are concerned.
In view of the discrepancies and inconsistencies discovered in the various versions of the records, it was necessary, after much engagement with the Council, to obtain copies of the released information from the applicant. Therefore, where detailed contents of records are referred to in this decision, it is on the basis of the released versions supplied by the applicant. This is of particular relevance in the cases of Schedule B Records 6, 7, and 8.
Despite the issues identified by the applicant and the fact that the Investigator raised this on a number of occasions with the Council, it was not until the meeting in January 2016 that the Council admitted that it did, in fact, hold further relevant records which it had not identified or considered. This calls in to question the nature of the "detailed and comprehensive search of all Council records on the matter". I do not accept that the Council took all reasonable steps to ascertain what records it held.
On 21 January 2016, the Council wrote to my Office providing three further schedules and over 80 additional records which it had identified. The schedules list the records and the Council's position of that date on those records now identified as coming within the scope of the request. No reasonable explanation was put forward by the Council as to why these were not identified previously. Neither did the Council indicate that it had considered refusal by reference to section 15(1)(b) or section 15(1)(c ) i.e. that it had difficulty identifying the records sought or that the nature or number of records would cause difficulty. It is a matter of serious concern to me that the procedures in place in the Council failed to identify (or worse, identified and failed to consider releasing) these records until a very late stage, and only following repeated interventions by my Office. In the circumstances, I cannot find that section 15(1)(a) applies.
As far as I am aware, the Council has not notified the applicant of the existence of these "new" records or of its position on them. It appears that they have not been released. I do not consider that, in this case, my Office should be required to make a first instance decision on these records or, indeed, embark on a further investigation as to whether all the records held have now been identified and considered. I am satisfied that it is appropriate to annul any decision of the Council in respect of any additional records held and to direct that it conducts a fresh decision making process under section 13 of the FOI Act.
could prejudice the competitive position of that person in the conduct of his or her profession or business or otherwise in his or her occupation.
The essence of the test in this section is not the nature of the information but the nature of the harm which might be occasioned by its release. In order for the exemption to apply, it is necessary for the harm and the reasonableness of the expectation that the harm could arise from the release of the information under FOI to be identified.
The Council's position is that the information is commercially sensitive. In support of its position, it states that there are significant and ongoing legal issues surrounding sale of lands adjacent to The Square. It says that disclosure of the details of the parties involved would prejudice the outcome of ongoing "legalities". It also submits that court rulings from previous and ongoing litigation processes are clear indicators of the forms of legal and commercial sensitivities involved. The Council failed to identify which limb(s) of section 36(1)(b) it was relying on and did not address the question of identifying the harms that might arise or the expectation that such harms might arise. The justification provided by the Council for the application of section 36(1)(b) is weak and is such that I considered finding that refusal of access to the redacted parts of the records had not been justified as required under section 22(12)(b) of the Act. Clearly, where redacted information has been released in another version of the record, the harm envisaged by section 36(1)(b) cannot now arise from its release at this time. Some of the redacted information comprises comments by Council officials on the content of the records. This is not commercially sensitive information as envisaged by the exemption.
The remaining redacted information relates to third parties. Despite the poor justification of its decision by the Council, I must be mindful of the interests of the third parties to whom the information relates. The FOI Act recognises that disclosure of records may affect the interests of parties other than the applicant and the FOI body. The standard of proof required in the second part of the sub-section is relatively low in the sense that the test is not whether prejudice is certain to materialise but whether it could do so. Although the records are several years old, it appears that at least some of the contents concern matters that are still "live".
withheld information in para headed "The Subject Lands"
Having found that section 36(1)(b) applies to the information above, section 36(3) of the FOI Act requires me to consider whether, on balance, the public interest would be better served by granting than by refusing the request. In this regard, the Council sets out the context for the transaction the subject of the request. It states that The Square is and remains a significant driver of economic activity in Tallaght. It also says that the terms of the transaction as negotiated were presented to the elected members of the Council at its meeting in October 2013.
The FOI Act itself recognises the public interest in ensuring the openness and accountability of public bodies as to how they conduct their business. However, section 36(1) itself reflects a public interest in the protection of commercially sensitive information. Having considered the matter, I am satisfied that the public interest in openness and accountability and in the public knowing how the Council carries out its functions is served to some extent by the substantial amount of information already released. I take the view that the FOI Act was designed to increase openness and transparency in the way in which FOI bodies conduct their operations and, in general terms, was not designed as a means by which the operation of private enterprise would be opened up to scrutiny. In the circumstances of this case, I find that, on balance, the public interest would not be better served by the release of the small amount of information to which I have found section 36(1)(b) applies.
Having carried out a review under section 22(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I hereby vary the decision of the Council; I annul any decision of the Council in respect of the additional records and any further records that might be held within the scope of the request and direct that a fresh decision making process be undertaken under section 13 of the FOI Act, which will be subject to the same rights of review as the original request. I further find that section 36(1)(b) applies to the withheld information as detailed in the table above. I direct the release of the remainder of the information in respect of which I find that the Council has not justified its refusal of access under section 36(1)(b) of the Act. | 2019-04-20T16:50:20 | https://www.oic.ie/decisions/d150234-AX-c-o-Solicitors-and-South/ |
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What is actually vitamins? Do you all know about it? Here I will be discussing vitamins. How it is formed and what are it’s used. So in today’s scenario if we notice that the world is rushing on for work….
How 8 constitution medicine is the best type of acupuncture treatment? | 2019-04-22T11:59:13 | http://www.dermatologistskincare.com/category/health-care/ |
Round Rock Superintendent Steve Flores, Ph.D. named Sam Robinson, Cedar Ridge High School Head Football Coach, as Round Rock ISD’s Superintendent’s RRock Star for January 2018.
As the head football coach, Robinson works with student-athletes throughout the year to ensure that they are succeeding on the field and in the classroom. Recently, he helped lead the Cedar Ridge Raiders to a record season as the team made it to the UIL State Football Semifinals, the farthest in the campus’ history.
Along with a record-breaking season, Robinson has emphasized the importance of sportsmanship throughout the program and encouraged student-athletes to practice it whenever possible. These qualities were displayed during their spectacular game against Coppell High School.
Following the game, while Coppell faced a heartbreaking loss after missing an extra point in overtime, the Cedar Ridge football team stopped their celebration to stand with the Coppell student-athletes while their school anthem was played. In appreciation, a parent of a Coppell player shared in an email sent to members of Cedar Ridge and District administration the impact the actions of the football team had on her and the entire Coppell nation during a time they faced disappointment.
RRock Star is a distinction awarded by the Superintendent to a member of the Round Rock ISD team who impacts students within the District. | 2019-04-23T06:16:04 | https://news.roundrockisd.org/2018/01/19/coach-robinson-named-superintendents-rrock-star-for-january/ |
As a single parent of a child, Gail, had done everything right. She had gone to college, received a degree, and secured a good paying job. She was the proud mother of a son, Mateo. While her parents lived in Tucson, Gail was especially close to her mother’s family – Gail’s aunts, uncles, and cousins – who lived in Colombia. Gail decided to take a chance and move to Colombia and pursue a dream of teaching English and living close to her family.
Gail was fortunate to receive a job offer to teach English in Colombia and sold her belongings for the move. Upon arriving, however, Gail was given the bad news that a teacher’s strike had engulfed the city, and she would not be able to work as a teacher. Gail wanted to enroll her son Mateo in school, but the only schools that were open were private schools. They were very expensive and out of Gail’s budget and a distance away from where they were living. The strike prevented Gail from enrolling her son in any public school.
As Gail depleted her emergency funds, she realized she would need to move back to the United States. She had to make a conscientious decision to move back home for her stability and her son’s well-being.
Gail used her last savings and purchased tickets to the United States where she hoped to rebuild her life. Upon arriving, Gail was grateful to be back home with her parents and siblings. She immediately secured a part-time job, but the position did not allow her to meet her housing needs.
Gail needed to find a lifeline, a resource that could help her find a firmer footing. Then, a friend from Mesa suggested she move to El Rancho apartments, a low-cost housing community. Gail did and was able to receive the assistance of A New Leaf’s unique MesaCAN service.
MesaCAN is a community action organization with the mission of helping residents in emergency situations through financial support, budget coaching, building life skills, and workforce development. MesaCAN’s helpful staff worked with Gail to provide assistance and help her with the first month’s rent and utilities, as well as coaching and budget planning. It was exactly what she needed at this time of need.
MesaCAN is a vital service in the Valley and is dedicated to helping people find hope in difficult situations. The programs of MesaCAN helped transform Gail’s life, and now she has a full time job with a determination to create a better life for her and her son. In an effort to pay it forward, Gail decided to volunteer at MesaCAN and recently joined the MesaCAN Tripartite Board where she will be able to make a lasting impact on the lives of other mothers and families in need. She was accepted onto the Board in February 2018.
Gail is now sharing her story to raise awareness of the helpful services of MesaCAN and promote anti-poverty efforts in local neighborhoods. If you know of someone who needs a lifeline just like Gail, you can find more information about A New Leaf’s MesaCAN services on the MesaCAN page at TurnANewLeaf.org.
The quote that Gail lives by and has helped her throughout her transition comes from her favorite Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ”It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Although things didn’t work out like Gail expected, she stays optimistic in knowing she can achieve anything she sets her mind to do. | 2019-04-18T16:17:46 | https://www.turnanewleaf.org/about/news-archives.html/article/2018/06/26/gail-s-story-finding-hope-at-a-new-leaf |
Cannot wait to try this one out. I think my boys will really enjoy it as well.
Still haven't forgiven the devs for abandoning the excellent formula in Train Valley 1.
Maybe I'll give this a new chance someday. They do support Linux with both games, which is awesome.
dpanter Still haven't forgiven the devs for abandoning the excellent formula in Train Valley 1.
Why would you want the same game again? Changing the formula is a great thing for gaming.
Imagine if they didn't add heroes to Warcraft III?
KohlyKohl (…)Why would you want the same game again? Changing the formula is a great thing for gaming.
I haven't played the second game, but I've watched some videos of it. IMO the first game is different compared to all the other train games because it does not focus on distribution of goods. The second game seems like a run of the mill train game, only not as deep. I'd rather play the first game or OpenTTD/Industriegigant/etc.
KohlyKohl Imagine if they didn't add heroes to Warcraft III?
That's the game that stopped my interest in the genre. To me, the heroes are a distraction. They are great for the single player campaign (better than StarCraft's approach) or special maps that focus only on heroes.
Imagine if Warcraft III had been a Gold Mine Foreman business simulator. Happy with that "sequel"?
TV1 is a puzzle game.
TV2 adds tycoon-esque resource management into the mix.
Sequel? It's not even the same type of game. I suggested to the devs that they should call it Train Valley Tycoon or something instead since it diverts so far from the original. Sadly, they didn't agree.
If you enjoy riveting stuff like transporting thing A from place 1 to place 2, and transport thing B from place 3 to place 2 in order to make thing C and transport it to place 1 in order to now make thing D which you transport to place 4... then TV2 might be a game for you. | 2019-04-19T15:11:08 | https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-great-distribution-puzzle-game-train-valley-2-has-officially-released.13951 |
A Cleveland man was walking along Mt. Auburn Avenue, on the East side of Cleveland, when he saw four cars pull into a parking lot at a nearby apartment building.
Three men then approached him from a field near the building. They instructed him to lay down and took his cell phone and 200 dollars. One of the men then shot the victim in the buttocks and hit him with his gun, resulting in a bullet wound and an injury to his left ear.
The police report states that two differently sized bullet casings were found at the crime scene. No suspects have been identified or arrested.
The Cuyahoga City Council has discussed a plan to sell $65 million in bonds in order to make repairs and improvements in Progressive Field and Quicken Loans Arena, according to an article on Cleveland.com. The idea will be voted on at a future meeting.
These bonds would be paid back in 10 years using money from the “sin tax,” a tax on cigarettes and alcohol which voters extended in 2014 and which the county began to collect again in August.
Improvements will include new scoreboards for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland Indians, a new roof for the Indians’ arena, new closed circuit and video production systems, and many other repairs to the aging Progressive Field. The Cleveland Browns have also been making changes to their arena, to be funded partially with this fund.
“The proceeds from the new levy will fund bond debt service and provide a significant amount of dollars available for other capital repairs at the three buildings,” Timothy Offtermatt, chairman of the Gateway Economic Development Corp., said to Cleveland.com.
Changes are slated to be completed by the 2016 Republican National Convention.
On Wednesday, a 4-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder. When first asked, his father claimed that the boy had been shot in a drive-by shooting. He later said that the boy was actually shot by another child on accident.
Police arrested the father for child endangerment, and the boy was brought to Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital with his mother, according to an article on Cleveland.com. | 2019-04-18T23:17:32 | http://observer.case.edu/cleveland-catch-up-october-30/ |
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Raid Lamoille was created way back in 2012 by the fertile minds at GRVL Cycling as a gravel ride to share with our friends. Since then it has become a must-do for serious gravel cyclists.
In 2018 we moved from Stowe to Craftsbury and for 2019 we’re coming back to our “new” venue, with the routes (25 and 50-Miles) remaining principally the same. See the Course page fr more info. On either loop we’ll take through the Vermont countryside, down twisty descents, by mountain streams and serve up a heaping helping of some of the best gravel riding to be found anywhere. Did we mention hills? Oh, we’ve got quite a few of those for you too!
Our post-ride celebration is renowned. We’ll again will have a fantastic spread of victuals provided by the Craftsbury General Store and ice cold beer from our friends at The Alchemist Brewery.
Say Lamoille like a local, “lah-moyle”, and sign on to ride!
How: The ride may be conducted on a properly prepared bicycle (see Tech page).
Route: Long and Short Routes both marked with arrows at critical intersections and GPX files, cue sheets will be provided (see Course page).
Support: We will have a tech at the Start and some limited sweep but, otherwise, this ride is essentially self supported – plan accordingly (including packing some cash for provisions along the way!) NOTE: there are well-stocked country stores situated along the routes.
Celebrate: Our post-ride activities will include great grub washed down with locally-crafted brews from The Alchemist!
Sleep: Looking for lodging – contact the Craftsbury Outdoor Center for some sweet Raid Lamoille deals!
Register: Online registration is subject to rider cap and deadline. For more information see the Registration page. | 2019-04-22T09:03:40 | http://raidlamoille.com/event/ |
Exxon spills some Oil, Flight of the Conchords concludes on HBO a decade before Tenacious D debuts, Troop Beverly Hills is an underrated classic, Betty White loves opioids, Doug’s first and last movie, and John Cena goes a dozen rounds as gamers reaquaint themselves with Wrestlemania Legends. All that and more this week on Thirty Twenty Ten, your weekly look back on the week that was 30, 20, and 10 years ago.
I’ll stand up for Damned United; it’s charming and just a little bit nasty.
Since for whatever reason you three failed to discuss them, 976-Evil was the Horror film directed by Robert Englund, yes Freddy Krueger himself and co written by Brian Hedgeland of L.A. Confidential fame.
Been a while since I’ve watched it but I recall it being pretty bonkers. I feel I should just for kicks. I do know Robert Picardo but onky in voice over but the dude can sound threatening when he wants to. But Chris, I’m surprised you failed to bring it up.
And the other one is Rooftops which should interest Diana a bit because it was the last theatrical film directed by Robert Wise. Never saw it but it’s an action film about a street fighter taking on street gangs. That’s it. I think I can understand why it was his last but I doubt it’s his worst. That title belongs to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Doug’s 1st Movie I did see in theaters unfortunately. First off, I saw the trailer on a Disney VHS when it used to be called The First Doug Movie Ever. Probably when it was supposed to be direct to video.
But yeah, saw it in theaters and well, not worth it. Obviously is not worth watching. Not to mention, it’s kind of out of nowhere based on its premise because the show itself was relatively down to Earth save for that one Halloween episode but then comes this movie and they just flat out made it about a lake monster that turns out to be real. Which, okay. I guess that was the best idea they could think of but honestly, there’s s reason I prefer Pepper Ann. That show was actually funny.
Quantum Leap however I watched religiously on the Sci-Fi channel when I was a kid. Stuff went over my head but I always engaged.
Futurama I only watched on Fox once and the rest reruns via Adult Swim. Quite a funny show really.
It’s another week and that means another look at AYAOTD season six. This week is another episode I’m not quite fond of: The Tale of the Hunted. The story follows a girl whose father is a hunter and she has a crush on a boy that hunts with her father. She’s going to go hunting with them when one of her friends complains about the cruelty of hunting. By some magic force the main character is turned into a wolf and is being hunted by her father. It’s not a terrible episode, it just is a little too heavy handed with getting its message across. If you removed most of the friends complaining and had more realization with the main character figuring this out on their own it probably would’ve been a better episode. We’re at the halfway point for the season, and I’m a little sad, but I’ll see you next week for another recap.
Troop Beverly Hills began my dependence on Evian. Now that I am old and have access to Sam’s Club a whole wall of my room is boxes of Evian (I drink 2 liters of it a day), almost like the scene where Shelley Long is in her bedroom watching her Ex Husband’s old commercials surrounded by empty bottles of Evian. Now I sit in my bed and watch old commercials surrounded by boxes and bottles of Evian.
I think for years I used to get Flight of the Concords confused with Good Mythical Morning before Link Neal began wearing his hair in a more modern hairstyle. oops.
aw, edtv. When Ellen wasn’t doing anything with her career because noboby would hire her.
Also, the oversaturation of Ally McBeal begins. Doesn’t those half hour “Ally” episodes begin soon? I think that was fall of ’99.
I thought football and NASCAR killed Futurama?
I wanna see Chris’ ghost dad t-shirt.
Hi Diana, British pronunciation is silly sometimes. Brian Clough’s name is said ‘Cluff’ and would rhyme with ‘ruff’.
Also re. birthday quiz, shame on you Chris and Sarah, hang your heads in shame, minus 1 point each.
The Golden Girls episode about pain pills. The media we consume in our youth often stays with us the most not because it was the best examination of a topic we ever experienced but because it was the first. Thus all other exposures to that same topic build upon the foundation that it has already laid in our mind. For me such was definitely the case with this episode covering addiction to prescription medicine. Being a child of the 80’s I can’t remember a time when I was not exposed to media warning about the evils of illegal drugs (“No! No! The Right to say no!”) but before this episode the idea that you could become addicted to something a doctor gave you was completely alien to me. They were doctors after all. You took whatever they gave you and that was that, right? Of course not but 10 year old JR just assumed that was the case. He then watched this episode and without him even realizing it, this sitcom laid a seed in his head that sprouted and remains alive to this day. Because like a lot of people, I’m on some regular medication. And for the most part I just keep taking them. But every couple of years I do like to write my doctor and ask if I should continue doing that. I’d like to say that’s because of the articles I’ve read on how to best manage your own health. I’d like to say that but the image that usually comes to my head when I write those emails is of Bee Arthur saying, “Rose, I don’t think your doctor meant for you to take those for 30 years!” and it shows me that because the seed that a single episode of a tv sitcom that aired in 1989 and that I might not have ever seen since then is apparently still bearing fruit.
Quantum Leap: Oh boy did I get a lot from watching this show, including my use of oh boy! I didn’t really watch any drama shows from the time but because this one had a time-travel gimmick it roped me in and roped me in hard. I became a huge fan and it was probably my favorite tv show of the time and is one of only two shows I ever paid money to read professional fan-fic of, I mean officially licensed novels of. I remember the novel which got solely focused on Sam and Al trying to start the Quantum Leap project and the machinations involved in Sam leaping before the system was fully ready as being an exceedingly powerful piece of literature, and no I will never look it up to check thank you very much. But I read that novel because the show pulled me in with historical drama after historical drama. At the time I watched it, I really didn’t know any history. Every historical era was pretty much just a setting; Star Wars had a setting, Star Trek was a different setting. The 1950’s were a setting and the 1970’s were a setting to me in the same way, but I had no concept of how the events of one ended creating the other. The show didn’t really change that, that took book learning, but the show did a pretty good job of exposing me to how much of an alien place my country could be as little as 25 years earlier. To my young mind the Civil Rights episodes seemed to take place in a different world (before racism was cured forever) than the one I was living in. It could be hokey at times but I think it had a really good heart. I fell out in later seasons though and have always meant to go watch the episodes where apparently there is an evil leaper.
I’m just going to say it, Futurama has the best first episode of any cartoon tv show of all time. Think about it; in the first episode we see Fry’s old life (which will be important to multiple episodes later), we see him get frozen (with Easter eggs like Nibbler’s ears in the background that won’t pay off for a long long time), we see The World of Tomorrow and are introduced to all the most important characters in the show, and it has a number of really great comedic bits that really stand out.
Ayumi Hamasaki (Next Level 2009) is a very talented artist. She was at her peak when I lived in Japan and I liked her well enough, but I was never that into J-pop to really get into her music so she mostly faded from my view. So it feels kind of odd when I occasionally hear that she is still singing and still a huge star. In my mind she will always be this fairly young fresh faced new singer but then I’m reminded that the Junior High students I taught who exposed me to her music are now in their early 30’s. It’s always important to remember that life happens to other people even when you aren’t looking at them.
Monsters Vs. Aliens. In 2009 when this film came out it cost $175 million and was the second most expensive animated film of all time (Wall-E was number one at $180 Million). And… I don’t see why. Wall-E seemed cutting edge to me with some really amazing stuff but I don’t remember being wowed in the slightest at this film when I watched it with my kids. They seemed to have liked it well enough but have never asked for it again. Where did all the money go on this film?
Troop Beverly Hills is a movie I definitely remember watching as a kid and have wanted to rewatch it again. I first saw Jack Black on one of my favorite X-Files episodes called “D.P.O.” where he is the friend of Giovanni Ribsi, who can kill people with lightning.
Quantum Leap is a crazy show where Scott Bakula once leapt into a vampire, a chimp, and Elvis, but the absolute craziest episode is Season 5’s “Goodbye Norma Jean”, where Scott Bakula goes back in time to stop Marilyn Monroe from dying in 1960.
I know what you’re thinking, Didn’t Marilyn Monroe die in 1962? You’re right! But that’s because Scott Bakula saved her in 1960.
The episode ends with Al telling Sam about Marilyn’s ultimate fate, but Sam’s intervention gave her enough time to make The Misfits…without Quantum Leap, we wouldn’t have The Misfits.
So I’m 8, and I’m like, “Mom, Dad, we gotta watch The Misfits.” And they said, “How about Some Like It Hot instead?” (recently on Classic Corner). Which was a great choice. Thanks Mom & Dad and Quantum Leap! | 2019-04-20T18:42:19 | http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/2019/03/21/flight-of-the-conchords-is-grounded-futurama-debuts-and-shelly-long-commands-the-troops-thirty-twenty-ten-mar-21-28/ |
After a prolonged battle, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s $30 million period epic “Padmaavat” opened across most of India on Thursday. The film’s release was accompanied by vandalism of malls and burning vehicles.
The violence erupted amid claims by Hindu hard-liners that the film distorts history. On Wednesday, a mobile phone video that went viral showed a bus full of schoolchildren being pelted with stones by “Padmaavat” protesters on the outskirts of Delhi. Many schools in the Indian capital decided not to open Thursday.
India’s Supreme Court overturned a ban on the film’s release by the state governments of Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Appeals against the high court’s decision were dismissed. The states contended that the film’s release would cause law and order issues, but the Supreme Court said it was the states’ duty to maintain peace.
Despite this, the Multiplex Association of India, a trade organization representing 75% of multiplex operators, advised its members in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Goa not to release the film until the situation calms down.
The film’s troubles began during its shoot when fringe groups belonging to the Hindu Rajput community claimed, sight unseen, that the film distorts history. The groups also railed against an alleged dream sequence in which Hindu queen Padmavati is wooed by Muslim invader Alauddin Khilji. Sets were repeatedly vandalized, and Bhansali and lead actress Deepika Padukone received death threats.
The release was deferred from Dec. 1, 2017, to Thursday. India’s Central Board of Film Certification changed the title from “Padmavati” to “Padmaavat,” after the fictitious Sufi poem on which the film is based, and ordered five cuts. Producers Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Bhansali Productions complied. Paramount is distributing in a few international territories.
Some commentators have suggested that the protests have a political agenda. They noted that violence has largely occurred in states governed by Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP, while opposition-held states have been largely calm. The film was approved for release in neighboring Muslim-majority Pakistan. | 2019-04-24T20:41:39 | https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/viacom-padmaavat-india-violent-protests-1202676430/ |
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