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Willard, Utah (AP) - The automobile-truck crash that killed five men yesterday left 11 children without fathers. Only the driver of the car was unmarried.
MYRON H. BRINKERHOFF, 42, is survived by his widow and three sons. REDGE LYLE JOHNSON, 35, is survived by his widow and five sons and daughters. KENNETH J. BROWNING, 29, is survived by his widow and three children, one a new born boy.
GLEN H. HANSEN, 23, is survived by his widow. She is expecting a child this fall.
The driver of the car was STANLEY BRINKERHOFF, 27, a bachelor. State Police said his driving record showed five speeding convictions and four previous accidents. There was a total of 13 entries.
The wreck between the car and a huge truck-trailer near Willard was the second accident in Utah this year in which five persons died.
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COLLINGSWORTH also faces trial Sept. 23 in Salt Lake City Court on charges of driving after his license had been revoked.
All five men were employees of a Salt Lake City electrical contractor and were working on a contract job for Utah Power and Light Co. in the Tremonton vicinity.
Trooper TeWayne Woodland said the men had not been to their Salt Lake City homes the night before the accident and were apparently traveling from the Ogden area to their jobs. It is not know exactly where they had been.
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Experts have shed light on the fact that it contains a lot of unsafe additives and processed ingredients. Hence, the trend of homemade bread, now. This has resulted in the increasing popularity of automatic bread makers. These are all-in-one machines that knead, mix, and bake bread without requiring too much in the way of effort and attendance.
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If you are a busy person who likes to make your own homemade bread, a bread maker can save your day. You don’t even have to be a busy person to invest in one of these appliances. If you just want to save some time so you can do other more important things, it’s as good a reason as any other to invest in one.
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If you’re in Tokyo and in the mood to listen to some cool, soothing jazz, you don’t have to look far. There’s a wide array of jazz bars all over the city to suit your mood, tastes and budget. So let’s get the music started!
While Center Gai near Shibuya station is more well-known for its nightclubs and bars popular among youth, it’s the least likely place for a jazz bar. Pres Jazz Bar, named after saxophone musician Lester Young, is located near the end of Center Gai, which had formerly been home to several jazz bars that are now unfortunately gone.
The inside is dark and moody, but you can make out lifelike murals on the walls of jazz musicians. Unlike the surrounding clubs and bars where you can barely hear your voice over the blaring stereos, the music at Pres is low, allowing patrons to relax in a calming atmosphere.
For a chance to see a live show by a world famous act, Blue Note in Minami Aoyama is the place to go. The club, which was opened in November 1988 is by far Tokyo’s most famous jazz club. Past acts include legendary musicians such as Tony Bennett and Sly Stone.
While the food and the atmosphere are top-notch, expect to pay just as much for the experience. Tickets are minimum JPY 7,000 to 8,000. Students can take advantage of a 50% discount off the music charge by calling ahead and inquiring about the student plan.
The Room - A Jazz bar where you can Show Off your Dance Moves!
Although The Room is less than a five minute walk from Shibuya Station, the club is hard to find since it is hidden in the basement of a nondescript building. Just look for the red lantern if you get lost. In addition to jazz, The Room plays other genres such as disco, house and funk.
The Room is best for those who prefer to stay away from the mainstream, high-end clubbing experience in Tokyo for something less pretentious. In addition, half of the bar is a dance floor and attracts a down-to-earth crowd that allows you to dance without any judgment.
Located just a two minute walk away from the East South Exit of Shinjuku Station, Jazz Bar Samurai has an interior that is just as unique as its name. There are so many mysteries in this bar. Outside a 5-foot manekineko, a white cat figurine which signifies good luck, greets you. Inside more than 3,000 manekineko, all with different facial expressions, decorate the interior.
The place is one of the last in Shinjuku which embraces the underground culture prevalent during the 1960s. Showa-era posters and haiku decorate the walls, and there are also live improvised haiku reading, setting it apart from other jazz joints in the city.
For die-hard jazz fans, Pit Inn, located in Shinjuku, is the best place to go. The venue is organized in a way that all the seats face the stage and attracts a serious audience who come purely to enjoy the music.
The best part about Pit Inn is that the venue is that unlike many jazz clubs and bars, the place is open from 2 PM, which makes it the perfect place to spend an afternoon. In addition, Pit Inn features relatively unknown jazz musicians who are still trying to make an imprint on the local jazz scene. With one drink included, the daytime shows range from JPY 1,300 to JPY 2,500 while the evening show starts from JPY 3,000.
A 2 minute walk from Takadanobaba Station, Jazz Spot Intro is located in a tiny, but home-like basement. Unlike other jazz bars which brings in musicians to play live every night, Intro sets itself apart from the frequent jam sessions it throws, which includes amateurs as well as professionals. In addition to jam session from Tuesday to Thursday, they have a jam session on Saturday that runs until the morning.
On nights when there are no jam sessions, the club has hundreds of vinyl records and CDs to play from, so you can guarantee that you can request a song that suits your mood while you’re there enjoying a drink.
As you can see, there are a wide variety of jazz bars in Tokyo to choose from. Whether you want to pay a little extra for a shows played by musicians from all over the world, or prefer to listen to someone less well known, or want to dust off your saxophone and play yourself, there is a jazz bar out there for you.
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The year is more than half over, which means those of us who attempted New Year’s resolutions have either mastered, given up, or heavily revised them. It also means my year of reading 100-year-old books is halfway finished.
It all started, in February, with a dead poet and a road trip. And while I had planned to traipse into various used bookshops around the country to find hidden gems, after that, it turns out there were some not-so-hidden gems right under my nose—classics like Jack London’s The Valley of the Moon, Edith Wharton’s Custom of the Country, D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and a slice from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, The Patchwork Girl from Oz.
Then there were delights like Blanche Ebbutt’s marriage manuals, the cookbook with a recipe for cooking calves’ feet, and a morality book for kids.
For the last six months, I have been living between two centuries.
During the day, I work on my MacBook Pro, lead virtual meetings with clients thousands of miles away, and fly in planes across the country—technologies that were not even dreams in the early 1900s. Meanwhile, in the books I read, characters go to moving pictures, take carriage rides, admire automobiles from a distance, and kill chickens by hand.
And while I kept up with 2013’s wailing gun control debates, its political unrest, its tornados and bombs that devastated communities here and abroad, I was also subtly learning about the early suffrage movement and racial discrimination; about labor movements and early union formation.
History has always seduced me. In the present I often find myself overwhelmed, feeling like I’m caught under some grand firework, explosive in its nearness and hard to sort out in all the boom and sparkle. I prefer the benefit of hindsight, of seeing the patterns in life and noticing connectedness or struggles that time and technology cannot change.
I like being able to sort things out.
But that’s just me. So outside of some crazy self-inflicted challenge, why should anyone else read books that may have gathered a bit of cultural dust? Especially when The Millions puts out great previews for the first and second halves of the year, Publisher’s Weekly has some, too and then there’s always The New York Times. When there’s no shortage of good contemporary books—or even timeless classics—why turn so deliberately to books that might seem a little dated?
It’s true that my life would probably not be vastly different had I not been cramming in all this vintage material these last few months. But then again, change isn’t always perceptible. I do know that I read Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In a little differently having read Blanche Ebbutt’s marriage manuals. Likewise with Michael Pollan’s Cooked and the 1913 edition of The Institute Cookbook, Lauren Groff’s Arcadia and The Valley of the Moon, and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep and The Custom of the Country. The agelessness of certain life themes is more easily understood when seen over the landscape of years.
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His results showed barely any red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets.
"They came down Friday afternoon, and I knew right away it was leukemia. I just couldn’t say what type," said Arthur Provisor, the oncologist who diagnosed Alex.
From that day forward, with the exception of a single week, Alex spent the next six months in the hospital. Doctors immediately started blood transfusions — within days Alex was receiving around-the-clock chemotherapy.
Over the next few months, Alex experienced severe side effects including nausea, ulcers, kidney failure, respiratory failure and two heart attacks.
"Anytime he woke up from a nap or from a night's sleep he would say 'hand me my bucket,'" Arrieta said in a recent interview. "That was his body’s way of reacting to being in a conscious state. Sometimes he would throw up for a minute, 10 minutes or an hour."
In 2018, an estimated 10,590 new cancer cases will be diagnosed among children under the age of 14 and an estimated 1,180 deaths will occur among childhood cancer patients, according to the American Cancer Society.
While death rates in pediatric cancer have declined by nearly 70 percent over the past four decades, it is still the leading cause of death by disease in American children.
Dr. Martin Johnston, chief of pediatric hematology and oncology at Renown Children's Hospital in Reno, Nevada, was one of three doctors who treated Alex at Savannah's Memorial University Medical Center.
Johnston says that across the board, there has been a lot of success with treating childhood cancers in recent years. For example, the survival rate for the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, rose from about 5 percent in the 1960s to 90 to 92 percent today, he said.
"But that still leaves 8 to 10 percent of children who are not surviving, and that’s where I think Brandon’s focus is appropriate," Johnston said.
Alex's cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, is most common in adults. The overall five-year survival rate for children with acute myeloid leukemia has slightly increased over time, but still remains at about 60 percent to 70 percent, according to the American Cancer Society.
Instead of receiving treatment from child-specific drugs, most children with cancer are given the same drugs approved for adults, just at adjusted doses.
While traditional chemotherapy is proven to help cure childhood cancer, the toxicity of the drugs can cause lasting side effects on children, including significant learning disabilities and higher risks of heart disease, stroke, infertility and second cancers.
Johnston said most of the drugs he uses daily as a pediatric oncologist have been around for decades and were developed to treat adult cancers.
"Most benefits in terms of better outcomes (for pediatric cancer patients) have not come from new, breakthrough drugs," Johnston said.
But it’s a different case for adult cancers.
In the past 20 years, more than 100 new adult cancer drugs have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Only three were specifically developed to treat pediatric cancer, according to the Coalition against Childhood Cancer.
"Kids don’t represent enough of the population, so they’re not looked at as separate," Arrieta said. "But we’re discounting the value of a child’s life by looking at it with that perspective."
As of March 2018, the American Cancer Society had $36 million in grant funding devoted to all categories of childhood cancer combined. Compared to other forms of cancer, that number is low. Breast cancer, for example, was receiving $91 million and colon cancer was receiving $55 million, according to the society's website.
The rarity of childhood cancers — less than 1 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. each year — makes them difficult to study and discourages pharmaceutical companies from developing innovative treatments.
In addition, pediatric oncologists have a limited numbers of investigators and limited political clout.
"Pharmaceutical companies need to stay in business ... If they spend all that money on a drug to treat 15 patients a year, they’re going to go broke," Johnston said. "You need to have a source of financial support to drive that forward and the only way that’s going to happen is if the government steps up to the plate. And the only way that will happen is if the public steps up and asks for it."
After six months of debilitating chemotherapy, Alex went into remission.
In January 2016, Alex's cancer had returned. And this time, he had limited treatment options because of the toxic effects the previous chemotherapy had on his body.
Alex's best chance at survival, according to his father, was a drug regimen that had only been used on five other children.
All five of those children, however, had died.
"In childhood cancer, after 'X' number kids die, they find out there's not a sweet spot for a particular drug," Arrieta said in a recent interview. "And even if they do find a sweet spot, that's still not a solution, because over two-thirds of children that survive cancer end up with lifelong issues."
Alex’s last blood test didn’t show any leukemic cells. But it also didn’t show the creation of any new, healthy cells either. His bone marrow had shut down.
"The chemo had obliterated them all," Provisor said. "He died because he had no defenses. His body couldn't wait for the bone marrow to possibly come back."
Arrieta blames the adult-centered chemotherapy for his son’s death.
"The treatment they gave him — it’s what killed him," Arrieta said. "His body never recovered from it."
If Alex would have survived, his father said he would have needed a heart transplant, a kidney transplant and a bone marrow transplant.
"That is where a massive disconnect is with any potential solutions for children with cancer," Arrieta said.
"... We’re not headed in the right direction."
While Alex was undergoing treatment, the Arrietas started the nonprofit organization Lambs for Life, as a way to carry on Alex's mission to send care packages with stuffed lambs to every child in the U.S. diagnosed with pediatric cancer.
The mission touched people across the country — from celebrities to comedians to politicians — and Arrieta used his platform as a way to start seeking answers about the lack of drugs and funding for childhood cancer.
When Alex died in April 2016, Arrieta's work took on a larger advocacy role.
"Alex had a huge heart," Arrieta said. "He always cared for other kids more than himself. This is really just an extension of that."
Around the first anniversary of Alex's death, Arrieta made a trip to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s office in Mount Pleasant to discuss the issues he sees with the treatment and overall classification of pediatric cancer.
Less than a month later, he was traveling to Washington D.C. and advocating for necessary changes to pediatric cancer with 12 members of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on health, which controls funding for the National Cancer Institute.
With the help of Graham's office, Arrieta soon racked up enough support to tack on a committee report focused on pediatric cancer to the 2018 U.S. spending bill.
The $1.3 trillion spending bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 23 with the report on pediatric cancer attached.
The report on pediatric cancer formally states for the first time that the federal government recognizes that treating childhood cancer is fundamentally different from treating adult cancer. It also requires the National Cancer Institute to produce a report "within 120 days after enactment of this act on how the NCI is focusing on the unique needs of children."
According to Arrieta, the report represents the first of a five-phase approach to restructuring the National Cancer Institute in order to separate pediatric cancer from adult cancer. The following steps include a hearing with the director of the National Cancer Institute on May 17, as well as crafting committee reports on pediatric cancer for the next three upcoming spending bills.
Ultimately, Arrieta's goal is to create a division within the National Cancer Institute dedicated to pediatric cancer.
"It’s like a football game," he said. "We’re trying to do a few yards at a time instead of throwing a hail Mary all the way."
A spokesperson for the National Cancer Institute said it is close to finishing the report.
Arrieta believes the report will be the first change in what could become "the largest impact to childhood cancer policy reform in the history of cancer," he said.
But based on prior experience trying to spark change with elected officials, Alex's former doctor remains apprehensive.
"What I worry about — broadly speaking — is that all the effort expended by advocacy groups and all the desk-thumping that goes on in Washington amounts to window dressing and ultimately nothing really comes of it," Johnston said. "I think it’s going to take people like Brandon to monitor the situation and make sure things are accomplished."
A few months ago, Arrieta received an email that said there were no more requests to change his language for the committee report.
In the midst of what should have been a reason to celebrate, he broke down.
"It’s just too bittersweet," he said.
"I’m grateful to God and the people who are supporting what we’re doing, but I would take it all back to have Alex alive." | 2019-04-19T13:17:13 | https://www.heraldonline.com/article210359389.html |
Tomorrow is the day! Alex Gordon’s phenomenal tribute “Billy McNeill – In Praise of Caesar“ will be launched at the Iron Horse Bar at 7pm. There will be reading and signing and the opportunity to win exciting prices at a raffle, where all proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s Scotland, the charity of choice by Billy’s wife Liz. We are looking forward to an evening of celebration of a football legend together with some famous football stars and -of course- a good pint of beer!
What Spooked Crazy Horse? and Who Stole Sitting Bull?, will be available at the event as well. | 2019-04-19T14:31:01 | https://www.ringwoodpublishing.com/book-launch-billy-mcneill-in-praise-of-caesar-tomorrow/ |
Need a fast, easy quilt design? This is it...make it in an evening, quilt it and bind it the next day. Honestly, it's that easy! I designed this pattern to showcase larger print fabrics that seemed just too pretty to cut into smaller pieces. Because you can utilize 14 different prints, I've used it several times at my quilt store when I needed to show how a full line of fabric plays together. I call it Zippy Strippy, and you can see it below in Bonnie Christine's Cultivate fabric that she designed for Art Gallery Fabrics. Measuring at about 60" x 72", it's perfect for a sofa throw or youth bed. If you like it, you'll find the pattern on my downloadable pattern page!
Simple, straight line quilting with 100% organic cotton batting, and co-ordinating fabric on the back kept this quilt soft, drapey and snuggly! If you've ever sewn with Art Gallery's fabrics, you already know the difference their pima cotton makes in all your projects from quilts to clothing!
I used 12 fabrics for the center strips and two for the two side borders. Actually, there is a 15th fabric used for the bias binding! Isn't this little stripe great? We've included it in the kit, along with all the fabric shown for the top. Backing is available separately. | 2019-04-20T19:14:28 | https://www.maxiemakes.com/blog-1/tag/pima+cotton |
I already live here, and am quite content in my apartment, but a friend of mine is interviewing this week and will likely be headed this way in June.
Can anyone recommend a good broker that works the Upper West Side and/or the northern end of Hell's Kitchen?
And, while it's definitely their last choice, anyone have a recommendation for the Upper East Side?
One Broker a bad idea?
Renting an apartment in the city ... broker NEEDED? | 2019-04-24T06:47:43 | http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18033&s=36ad5fbefdae57c00e2d88d5dd7619fe |
I can’t wait to write about this Turkey trip! I’m currently in Fethiye, sitting looking out my hotel floor to ceiling windows, pine forest clad mountains to the left and right, teal blue Mediterranean below me.
There is just so much to write about so many photos to share. I don’t know if we could have experienced so much of a country better than we have these past two weeks, and it’s not over yet.
Posted by deb on Friday, September 14th, 2007, at 1:57 pm, and filed under Travel: Turkey. | 2019-04-21T08:33:13 | http://deb.denovich.com/2007/09/14/its-not-over-yet/ |
The Laughing Gull – Larus atricilla – is a familiar bird on Florida shores. Many of them winter here from the north and perhaps, our northern neighbors only see them with their familiar black head. Down here in the winter though, that head turns white and in the spring it changes to it’s summer black. Here are a couple of shots. One shows a bird in flight which is in transition. The other shows two birds at different stages.
This entry was posted in Bird and tagged 70-300mm VR, Larus atricilla, Laughing Gull, Nikon D300, Photography. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-19T03:06:09 | https://birdsnbugs.com/2012/03/30/laughing-gull-seasonal-changes/ |
Ignite Tampa Bay 2019 is scheduled for Thursday, June 6th and I can't think of a better way to get excited for this year than to kick back with past attendees and speakers for a pre-event happy hour. If you are thinking about applying to speak at Ignite this year, this is a great opportunity to talk to alumni of the event, learn more about what makes a good talk, and test out your topic. Join us at 5 PM on Tuesday, March 26th at 3 Daughters Brewing in St. Pete. The event is free, cash bar.
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The cost of getting interrupted while developing is high. Have you had one of those days when you just didn’t seem to get anything done due to a little bit of this, a little bit of that? I definitely have.
Sometimes the distraction is due to meetings. Other times it’s Slack or emails. If not those, then phone notifications, Twitter or websites calling for my attention - bottom line being that I find often it hard to focus.
The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. These intervals are known as "pomodoros", the plural in English of the Italian word pomodoro meaning “tomato".
The thing that is really appealing about pomodoro is that it only asks for 25 minutes of your time to start with. Focusing for 25 minutes? Sure. Ignoring all notifications for 25 minutes? You got it. Not checking Twitter for the next 25 minutes? I can do that.
And this ease of getting started is what I use to get back into the zone. Whenever I feel too distracted I just start one single an uninterrupted block of 25 minutes, one single pomodoro.
Thanks to the popularity of the technique there are plenty of apps and tools to help with this and 25 minutes is not that big of an ask. Any interruptions I get this time I just ignore and after 5-10 minutes usually find myself back in the zone. And when the pomodoro is over? More often then not I ignore that as well and just keep going. | 2019-04-18T20:31:57 | https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/getting-into-the-zone-with-a-single-pomodoro/ |
The FCT Administration has put machinery in motion to harmonize taxes in the Federal Capital Territory to reduce cases of multiple taxations.
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, stated this while receiving members of the Hotel Owners Forum, FCT Chapter that paid him a visit in his office at Area 11, Garki I District, Abuja.
The Minister said that one of the areas that have been of great concern to the FCT Administration is multiplicity of taxes; stressing that the Administration, the soon to be operational FCT Inland Revenue Services in concert with the Federal Inland Revenue Service will work out a modalities to harmonize all taxes.
According to him, “the ultimate goal is for businesses and organizations to just make one payment to a particular agency and that agency divides the payments to all the others. That way, you don’t have to communicate with five or six different people coming to you and you don’t know who is genuine and who is not genuine. I can assure you we are on the path towards being able to surmount that”.
Malam Bello revealed that in no distant future, the Administration would sort out all these problems of multiple taxations and give the residents a clear programme and roadmap as to what the collections are supposed to be.
He, however, warned that on no condition must any kind of tax be paid into private accounts because taxes are meant for the government.
“With regard to taxation, I want to clearly tell you now that any person that comes to you and says pay tax into a private account, don’t pay. Taxation is for government. Even if for any reason, taxes are being collected through consultants and so on, first and foremost, the taxes go to government coffers, then government pays the consultants. If you have a problem, report to me directly through your Association,” the Minister emphasized.
Malam Bello added, “On the issue of the tenement rate and area of the jurisdictions of the Area Councils, particularly AMAC, it’s something that is in the court, so I will not say anything right now. But what we are trying to do will take care of all these and everybody will be carried along”.
The Minister said that it’s a pity that of recent, the economic situation has affected almost every sector of the nation but that it’s a reality that nations go through and I think it’s not peculiar to Nigeria.
He, however, assured that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is very conscious of the need to encourage the private sector because government alone cannot cater for the employment needs of all Nigerians.
Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hotel Owners Forum, Eze Maxwell Omerra Kanu remarked that the Forum has about 250 Hotels in its membership and called on the Minister to help resolve problems of multiple taxations in the Federal Capital Territory.
Eze Kanu appealed to the Minister to assist in ironing out problems of Land Use Contravention where their members are usually charged very high on yearly basis.
He also called for the review of the Abuja Master Plan especially as it concerns Hotels and Hospitality industry to provide more plots of land for such facilities. | 2019-04-20T20:14:28 | http://www.championnews.com.ng/fcta-to-harmonise-taxes-eliminate-cases-of-multiple-taxations/ |
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The Urbana Program just came out last week, with a detailed schedule and all sorts of other great information about what our days in St. Louis will look like. Strange as it may sound, I am especially looking forward to the time allotted for dinner.
Dinner at Urbana is an amazing thing. I think the best way to describe it is an enjoyable human assembly line in which you get to eat a quick meal with a few of the other 16,000 people also dining at Urbana.
In anticipation of these Urbana dinners, and due to a lot of recent thinking about conversations (see my last blog), I have gathered some thoughts about how to have a meaningful conversation that challenges and transforms the participants. I hope these ideas encourage you to have deeper conversations both now and at Urbana!
My dinner experience at Urbana 12.
Somewhere, someone thoughtful came up with a helpful set of steps or layers for making conversations more meaningful. I’m not 100% sure where they came from, but I know that I was introduced to the Five Layers of Conversational Intimacy at InterVarsity’s Red River Region (that’s Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas) Rec Week.
Like peeling back the layers of an onion, these layers of conversation are meant to help you take a conversation from basic, small talk questions to finding out the motivations, concerns and values of the person you are talking with. They are a helpful pattern of questions that build on each other, taking the conversation deeper and deeper. Though they do not have to be followed exactly, the layers provide an outline of how to ask questions that lead to a meaningful conversation.
The ritual greetings and conversation starters: Hey, what’s up? Hello! How are you?
Information gathering questions: How many siblings do you have? What are you studying? What brought you here?
“What do you think about ___?” What is it like having a younger brother? What are you hoping to do as an engineer? What do you think about this seminar?
“How do you feel about ___?” How do you feel about being separated from your brother during college? What is important to you about making machines? How do you feel about going overseas on mission?
“Why do you feel that way about ___?” Why do you miss your brother when you are at school? Why do you want to use your engineering skills to create water purification systems? Why are you feeling nervous about what God has been telling you at Urbana?
My favorite category name is “unguarded vulnerability” because it sounds so frighteningly deep. There is something about those “why do you feel” questions that lead to the most interesting, challenging, and transformative conversations. Recently, when I was asked why I feel like my semester has been good-tiring, I was reminded in the conversation that followed how much joy I find in my commitments so that even though every moment feels full, I do not want to trade them for anything else. God challenged me in that moment to remember the good instead of focusing on the tiring aspects.
If this is the kind of conversation you want in your life, either now or at Urbana, I encourage you to try peeling more layers off the onion, to go deeper and reach points of unguarded vulnerability in which God might speak to you or reveal something that transforms you.
I really liked this post Sarah! I have always had trouble with developing chitchat conversations into more vunerable and interesting ones. Now I realize that I mostly ask "What"/"How" questions and I don't think to ask "Why" enough. I will definitely be putting this onion peeling conversation tactic to use soon! | 2019-04-21T05:01:53 | https://urbana.org/comment/434 |
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They were peremptorily re-routed with effect from April 21, since when there has been no bus to the city using William Street south of Brisbane Street; they are all now using Beaufort Street.
This makes sense for those routes from Morley going straight along Beaufort Street but does not do so for two routes, the 60 and 16, which join William Street from Walcott Street but now have been diverted to turn left at Bulwer Street, to join all the others in Beaufort Street.
I spoke with Transperth about this and was told that as bus lanes had been set up in Beaufort Street, it wanted to make best use of them and that it was not possible to have buses travelling two ways in William Street.
With some thought, it can be seen that just because William Street had been opened to two-way traffic, there is no need to change the way in which some buses serve the area.
Routes 16 and 60 did not need to be changed at all.
The sensible option would have been to have kept routes 16 and 60 travelling straight along William Street from Walcott Street to the city and to continue, also with no change, with their return routes from the city as they have done.
This would have involved no change at all to these routes, and have maintained albeit a less frequent but acceptable service to the city south of Brisbane Street.
There is no logic in what has been done to these two routes. | 2019-04-26T03:37:53 | https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/opinion/why-change-2/ |
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Affordable fees based on sliding scale are also available. For Waller area children and families who are facing such issues as: depression, anxiety, loss, parenting concerns, marriage therapy, and parent/child conflict.
Ft. Bend Senior Citizens Inc. provides Meals on Wheels to the elderly in Waller County.
The Hill Top Group Smoke-Free Alcoholic Anonymous and Al-Anon meets at 7:00 p.m. every Thursday.
For more information & directions, please call 281-375-2005.
AA meetings are held at the United Way, located at 531 FM 359 S., in Brookshire, every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. | 2019-04-26T00:44:25 | https://brookshiretexas.org/ongoing-events/ |
Hello, folks. This is the High Reverend Dean Becker, and this is Cultural Baggage. We've got a great show, most of it coming to you from Canada. But first, I want to get something out of the way.
It's time to play Name That Drug By Its Side Effects! Difficulty breathing, swelling of your face, fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, severe blistering, bruising, tingling, numbness, pain, weakness, bleeding, dark urine, clay colored stools, jaundice, and death. Time's up! The answer: Nuvigil, a medication that promotes wakefulness.
You know, it's been a few years since I talked to our next guest, but he's been busy the whole time, I can guarantee you that. He works up in Canada, I think he's based in British Columbia, but he's been one of British Columbia's most outspoken advocates for marijuana reform, and I applaud him. I'm glad to hear that he's also been talking about decriminalizing the personal possession of hard drugs including cocaine and heroin. With that, I want to welcome Mister Dana Larsen. Hello, Dana.
DANA LARSEN: Hey, hello, thanks for having me.
DEAN BECKER: Dana, you know, you heard what I said, I'm a LEAP speaker. I think we have bigger fish to fry than just cannabis these days. Would you agree with that thought, sir?
DANA LARSEN: Well, the opioid overdose crisis is pretty extreme, especially here in Vancouver, BC, where we've had about four deaths a day now from opioid overdoses, and I'd call it -- I'd say it's not a drug crisis, it's a prohibition crisis, and these overdoses and deaths are caused almost entirely by the war on drugs.
DEAN BECKER: Exactly right. I don't know how often you might hear my show, but I close the Cultural Baggage show with the thought that because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag and I urge folks to please be careful, and that is the point. Nobody knows what they're buying these days. Supposed heroin is being replaced by fentanyl and carfentanyl, in the main. Your thought, please.
DANA LARSEN: Well, you know, if you look back historically, the exact same thing was happening during alcohol prohibition, where, in Canada and the US, many thousands of people were blinded or killed by drinking alcohol that was poorly made or wood grain alcohol, and if alcohol prohibition had lasted until now, we would see the same thing, where the number of deaths goes up every decade.
Every decade since we banned opioids in Canada, we've seen more overdose deaths than the decade before, and actually back in the 1990s, when there was one overdose death a day in British Columbia, that was considered a crisis, and we had a big -- hearings, and discussions, and the government talked about changing things, and eventually they didn't do anything and they just decided one death a day was the new normal.
Now that it's up to four deaths a day, everyone's freaking out again. I really hope they don't decide in a year or two that, oh, four deaths a day isn't so bad actually, and just wait till it gets to ten deaths a day before they get concerned again.
We need to realize that the prohibition is the root cause here, and ending prohibition is the solution to the drug overdose crisis.
DEAN BECKER: You know, in recent weeks, here in my city, Houston, we had a couple of instances where cops thought they encountered fentanyl or carfentanyl, gave themselves naloxone treatment to prevent, I guess, ODing or dying, but the fact of the matter is that stuff is deadly, but it's not as deadly as is often indicated, that you can't absorb it through your skin and immediately, you know, fall over dead, it's another means to just frighten us into believing, I don't know, this drug war is worthwhile. Your thought there, Dana.
DANA LARSEN: Well, yeah, I mean, fentanyl and carfentanyl are certainly dangerous, but they don't absorb into your skin if you touch them like that, that's really a myth and I think that the police are spreading paranoia and misinformation about this, which doesn't really help the situation at all.
And, you know, people, they want clean, safe opiates, and we need to provide a clean, safe source of drugs. And people say to me, I don't want to pay for any addicts drugs, that's not fair. Well, then charge them, because it's very, very cheap, producing these drugs is incredibly cheap. You can get, you know, heroin tablets or other forms of opiates for like a dollar a dose.
The only reason it's so expensive for street drugs is because of prohibition, and, you know, in Switzerland they have programs where they allow opiate users to buy opiates, at cost, it doesn't cost taxpayers anything, but there's no profit being made either. And it works very, very well.
And in Portugal, where they've decriminalized possession of all drugs and are treating drug use like a health issue, they've also seen remarkable success, and many American states have also decriminalized possession as well. You know, Oregon, I believe, has a thing in place where there's a limited amount of any drug you can possess, and you won't be charged. And I think we have to stop looking at drug use as a crime, or as a moral failing, and just look on it as a health issue, and people need help, we should be helping them.
But, the main thing these people need is clean, safe drugs, in knowable doses, in safe amounts, and to not allow that to happen, really, it's tantamount to murder, in my opinion.
DEAN BECKER: I'm with you there, sir. I was privileged, earlier this spring, I went to Switzerland there, I got a chance to interview Doctor Christoph Buerki. He was the designer of the Swiss heroin injection program. I had a chance to tour their facility, learned how, you know, people come in twice a day, they do their heroin there, and that, in the approximate twenty years, I don't remember exactly, of this program, no one has died.
It's -- it's -- the fear of these drugs is more deadly than the drugs, am I right?
DANA LARSEN: Well, we've had a hundred years, or more than a hundred years, of demonization, of paranoia, of fear and attacks against primarily opiates, but also cannabis and cocaine and many other substances as well.
And, you know, these substances, in their original, natural forms, they're not deadly. People who smoke opium or drink opium tea, they don't overdose and die. And before we banned opiates, that was how opiate users used it, they primarily smoked opium. And I think we need to go beyond a supervised injection site, and offer opiate users a safer alternative. Sure, if you need to inject, okeh, there's a safe place you can do it, here's some safe drugs.
But, maybe you'd prefer a cup of opium tea? Maybe you'd prefer to smoke some opium, and I think a large number of current opiate injectors would switch to milder, safer forms if they had the alternative.
And we saw this again with alcohol prohibition, where during alcohol prohibition, smugglers don't want to smuggle beer and wine, they smuggled a hundred percent pure alcohol, the strongest stuff they can get, and then they dilute it down on the other end, after it's been smuggled. And that also caused countless health problems, deaths, overdoses from alcohol.
And when you ban a drug, you make it stronger. Not because users necessarily want stronger drugs, because that's what's easier to smuggle, and more profitable, and prohibition makes drugs stronger. And legalization makes drugs weaker, and safer, and people really want more moderate doses for their use.
And so, you know, people say we've got a drug problem or an overdose problem, and I always say, it's a prohibition problem. Prohibition is what is causing this to happen. And you know, in my opinion, the war on drugs is really a genocide against poor people, marginalized people, indigenous people, and we need to recognize that, and that politicians who support prohibition are ultimately supporting death, misery, and genocide, in North America and around the world.
DEAN BECKER: Wow. You nailed it, Dana, that's exactly my feelings. This is -- this is a deviation from reality, it's, I call it a quasi-religion, this belief in prohibition. Doesn't need any data, just the belief.
You know, you guys have, in British Columbia in particular, had safe injection sites, Insite there, where folks can come in and use their drugs under medical supervision, and I think in, I don't know, over a decade that it's been in play there hasn't been one death that has occurred there, though there have been those who overdosed, and were able to recover thanks to the medical personnel on staff.
And we have down here in the US now, San Francisco, Seattle, Ithaca, New York, New York City, a couple of other cities I'm leaving out, are considering making use of safe injection facilities for their cities. What would you say to those politicians considering making that move?
DANA LARSEN: Well, I support supervised injection sites very, very much. They reduce disease, they reduce overdose, they also can act as a facility for people who do want help or to want to stop using opiates, that they can get information and contacts and work to end their opiate use there. So I think they're a good start.
But, also, in the long run, I feel that it -- supervised injection sites aren't really the final solution to anything, you know? They definitely save lives and prevent people from overdosing, but in my opinion it's a little bit odd to say well, we're going to give you a clean needle and -- to put your dirty street drugs in, and then if you overdose we're going to be here to stop your overdose and to give you some Narcan to -- or naloxone to reverse your overdose.
But, really we should be giving them some clean drugs to put in their needle as well. So, I think that, and we should also offer them alternatives that are non-injectable and perhaps safer. So I definitely think that supervised injection sites are a good first step, and that they save lives, and that people who oppose them ultimately believe that drug users should die as punishment for being a drug user.
But I think we've got to go beyond supervised injection sites, ultimately. They're a first step of many steps towards really ending prohibition altogether.
DEAN BECKER: Well -- well said. Dana, I think about, you know, you guys have had a medical marijuana law in place for many years now, and it has worked out pretty good, as best I understand it, but you're legalizing October Twelfth or something, I believe, there's a new set of laws going to be in play. But from my perspective down here in Texas, it really seems kind of creepy, the way it's all set up. Your response to that thought, please.
DANA LARSEN: Yeah, the legalization is going to come into play in Canada on October Seventeenth, although it's going to be ultimately a multi-year, maybe a multi-decade process of really sort of ending the stigma and attacks on cannabis users.
The laws they've put in place, I mean, I support what we're doing in Canada because I think it is a step forward, but the way they're treating cannabis, the -- we want to see an end to prohibition that includes an apology from the government, a recognition that prohibition was wrong, and based in racism and bigotry and ignorance and was never well-intentioned and never accomplished anything good.
But the route they're going is to say, well, we're going to punish cannabis, if you violate any of these rules we're going to punish you far out of proportion to what it would be with alcohol. And they've put in rules that are far more restrictive than alcohol, in every way, and far more punitive, even though cannabis is the much safer choice than alcohol.
So there's all kinds of things in this legislation that really need to be looked at in Canada, and ultimately will need to be changed over the next ten or twenty years, as we continue moving forward on this.
There's lots of examples, you know, for instance in Canada, an adult parent can share alcohol with their minor child if they choose to do so at home. So you want to give your kid a half glass of wine with dinner or something, that's not a crime. But an adult parent who shares cannabis with their teenage child can face very severe penalties and jail time.
And, it's like that all the way down the line, where every aspect of these cannabis laws are still maintaining the idea that cannabis is incredibly dangerous, and that cannabis users can't be trusted, and that it's better if we all just drink alcohol instead of using cannabis, and so it's created a system I think that is still unduly restricted, unduly controlled, and there's still going to be even arrests for cannabis possession in Canada after it's legalized.
If you possess cannabis, which they call illicit cannabis, so you didn't buy it at the right place or grow it yourself, that's a crime, and you can go to jail for that, with quite severe penalties. And we just don't treat alcohol or tobacco or anything else that's legal like that, so, there's still a lot of work to do, but, you know, in a planet where prohibition is the dominant policy in pretty much every country on earth, I think Canada is still making some significant steps forward, even though it's not really giving us everything that we want when it comes to ending cannabis prohibition.
DEAN BECKER: Look, I have to agree with you, Dana, but -- progress is progress, and embrace it and move forward, but, it just seems that there was a reach back to reefer madness, to just hang onto it, to carry it forward into this new era, and that's what's kind of creepy to me, is that it's obvious. Cannabis is not the threat it was once purported to be, and why the heck are we so afraid.
DANA LARSEN: Yeah, I feel that the decisions being made by Canada's liberal government about -- and the rhetoric around legalization is really designed not to do the right thing, but to thwart attacks from the right. So they're framing legalization as a way of fighting, you know, the bad guys who are the organized crime and the gangsters who are selling cannabis now.
They're framing legalization as a way of protecting young people from the harms of cannabis, rather than framing it as cannabis is pretty good, actually, and prohibition is wrong, and we never should have banned it in the first place. And so because they're taking that angle and that approach, it really kinks the way that legalization is going to look in Canada.
And, we have a very strange situation in Canada, much like the situation in Amsterdam right now, where cannabis is illegal federally, but many cities have got cannabis shops in them operating quite openly, in Vancouver, in Victoria, and other cities that these dispensaries have been granted business licenses and mainstream acceptance, even though they're still against federal law.
And the legalization we're getting is actually being accompanied by threats to crack down on the dispensaries, and to shut down and punish even more severely the current industry.
I was in Amsterdam a few months ago, and the Dutch coffee shop owners were like, hey, congratulations, they're going to legalize in Canada, and I told them, well, yeah, thanks for the good sentiment, but it's like if the Dutch government said we're going to open three government run cannabis shops in Amsterdam and then we're going to raid and shut down every single coffee shop that's here and throw all you guys in jail. And they were like, oh, that's not a good idea. And I'm like yeah, it's not.
It's not really like a system that's open for those who are already in the industry, and who have been the pioneers moving things forward, and challenging the law. They're still seeing those people, like myself, as criminals who deserve to be punished and flushed out of the way so that we can be replaced by a limited selection of corporatized government cannabis, and I think that's just not the way to go.
There needs to be a liberation of the industry, and not trying to replace and demonize the current cannabis industry, and replace it with this government monopoly, that's not really going to work in Canada. I think it's going to lead to many more years of conflict, arrests, confusion, and stigmatization of cannabis users.
DEAN BECKER: Well, you know, earlier you spoke of the fact that these harder drugs really cost just pennies to make, that the -- it is the prohibition that inflates that price to where it is today on the street. And the same can pretty much be true for cannabis. I realize there's rent for the warehouses where this stuff is grown, but, you know, you can grow some pretty good stuff outdoors that basically costs nothing but time and a little sunshine.
And I guess what I'm leading to here, Dana, is, we have a situation where cannabis has been way over priced for decades, and the price is not going down that much through your new government policy. The black market's still going to be out there, it's still going to be kind of thwarting the efforts of the government. Am I right?
DANA LARSEN: Oh, absolutely, and you know, I always say, if they want to shut down every dispensary in Canada and get rid of the black market, it's easy to do. Just have legal cannabis be higher quality, better selection, and lower prices than what's out there now.
And if they do that, well then my dispensary can't compete, and we would have to shut down, which I would consider kind of a victory. But they want to tax it a dollar a gram, regardless of how much that gram costs, it's going to be a dollar tax on it, plus seven percent GST federally, plus provincial taxes, plus probably a provincial fee as well. So we're looking at, you know, around a two dollar a gram tax on this plant.
They're not going to be able to compete with the current industry if they don't lower those taxes and produce more quality. And another thing maybe people don't realize is that the legalization we're getting in Canada only is for dried buds. No extracts, no edibles, no hash, no concentrates, no cookies, no brownies, no suppositories, no capsules, none of those things are going to be legal in Canada.
Only raw, dried buds for smoking will be available in these government run shops when we legalize. And they say they're going to bring in the extracts and the edibles in a year or so, I expect that will be more like two or three years before they really get that figured out and in place.
But -- but ultimately, I mean, I'm all for smoking dried buds, but especially for medical users, the real value medicinally comes from the extracts and the edibles and things like that, that have a higher concentration and more ability to help with medical issues.
And so, you know, as a Canadian citizen, I say, well, get on this right away and legalize it all, and as someone who runs a dispensary I say, hey, take your time. We've got this covered, and the longer they take to get their stuff in place, the longer we can continue serving our members and providing those products to those who need them.
DANA LARSEN: So, it's going to be a long, slow process in Canada until we get to where we need to be.
DEAN BECKER: Maybe I had heard those details, that they weren't allowing for extracts and edibles, but that just -- that just seems ridiculous. Some folks can't smoke anything, their lungs will not handle it. It's -- it just seems outrageous to me.
Again, folks, we're speaking with Mister Dana Larsen, he's a drug policy activist up there in Canada, based in British Columbia. Dana, as we're wrapping it up here, I want to come back to, you mentioned they're trying to deny you and good folks like Jody and Marc Emery the right to open a dispensary, to be providers, that many of those that are taking over the distribution of these drugs are former cops and district attorneys, and others who used to prosecute folks who sold cannabis.
And that to me is part of what, you know, was creepy to me about what's going on up there. Would you address that for us, please?
DANA LARSEN: Oh, absolutely. That's an issue, and you know what? It's one thing if a police officer, you know, I'm glad to see cops, you know, growing cannabis or moving into the cannabis industry in some ways, but not when they're going to continue to demonize cannabis users.
You know, now they're saying, well, don't buy it from those gangsters who've been selling it all along, buy it from me, I'm a cop, you can trust me, or I'm a big former politician, you can trust me, buy it from me, and these people often were angry and pushy opponents against legalization. They demonized cannabis, they attacked Trudeau for wanting to legalize, and then now as soon as it's legal and they see the money, they suddenly see dollar signs in their eyes and they decide they want to be the ones to sell it to everybody.
And, I just think that that's wrong, you know, it -- people in the cannabis industry should not be the same people that have been fighting to destroy the cannabis industry, who continue to demonize cannabis users and cannabis growers and the cannabis culture.
I don't want to buy my cannabis from those people. And I think that most cannabis users don't want to buy it from them either. And so, we've really got a system in Canada that is difficult for the average person to get involved in, and participate in.
And I will say it's sort of heading in the right direction in some ways, but that they're opening that up a little bit, they're creating what they're calling microgrow licenses and things like that, for smaller growers, but, it's such a slow, slow process, and so restricted, and ultimately you really need millions of dollars to sort of get involved in the legal industry. And I think that kind of restriction is going the wrong way.
I like what I'm seeing in some cities like Oakland and a few American states where they're actually making an effort to set aside licenses or include people that have personally been affected by cannabis prohibition, or from communities that have been marginalized and hurt by cannabis prohibition, and trying to prioritize them to get the licenses and to be part of the legal industry.
And I think we need to have that kind of approach in Canada, but that's not what we're getting. We're getting the opposite, where it's the elite, the people who are already millionaires, who want to become billionaires on the cannabis industry, and I think that's just the wrong way.
And ultimately, legalization should mean that cannabis is a lot cheaper, and more available, and higher quality than it is now. And if that's not happening, then it's not really legalization, it's more just kind of a sideways move on prohibition in some ways.
So, yeah, we have a lot of problems with our legalization, but, at the same time, I'm glad that we're moving in this direction and we're having these discussions, and you know, hopefully it's not another ten or twenty years before we create a system that's really dot the end of cannabis prohibition as we want to see it happening in Canada.
DEAN BECKER: Well, I thank you for that, Dana. I have one more question here. I came to Canada, I don't know, I'm guessing ten years ago, I was up there to visit Marc and Jody and to tour the Insite facility. And as I came across the border, they found where I had been busted thirty five years ago, now it's probably 45 years ago, I was just a kid.
And they almost didn't let me in the country. It was for robbing a drug store. I didn't rob it, but I pled guilty and I took the five years probation rather than twenty behind bars. We're going to have a situation at the border where folks in Canada will not be able to come to America because they're pot smokers, much the same as pot smokers can now, are being denied coming into Canada for the same reason. Your thought in that regard.
DANA LARSEN: Well, I -- we do restrict people coming into Canada, but I think America's more strict in how they deal with people coming across the border the other direction.
And we're actually starting to see this happen in Canada now. It used to be just sort of regular people or poor people with criminal records that were getting stopped, and wealthier people could find a way around it, but we've recently seen a few prominent Canadians who are big money investors in the cannabis industry getting turned back at the border.
And in a way, I think that's kind of good, because it needs to affect the rich and powerful people before they'll do anything about it. And I'm seeing these folks saying, I can't believe it, I'm shocked that I was turned back at the border because I happen to own a cannabis company.
And of course, that's not just, but I hope that these people in these positions of power will then try to pressure the US government to change those laws, because we're going to have thousands and thousands of Canadians who, whether or not they use cannabis, they're going to be working in a legal government regulated cannabis shop, and if they get -- if the US customs, you know, finds out where they work, they're going to get banned from entering into the US, and this is going to affect a lot of Canadians.
And so I hope that we could put pressure on the American government. I don't know how responsive Trump is going to be to wanting to make those changes, but hopefully, if you guys still have a democracy and a president in a few years, that your next president might actually work to change some of these things, because it's going to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people, and it's going to impact trade across the border quite severely as well.
And in British Columbia especially, we look to the north, and there's legal cannabis in Alaska, and we look to the south, and there's legal cannabis in Washington and Oregon, and yet if you -- and there's going to be legal cannabis in British Columbia, but if you're a legal cannabis user crossing from British Columbia into Washington or Alaska, you're going to get turned back because the federal government still hates cannabis as official policy.
So, it's going to be a strange situation, and it's certainly the punishment, the stigmatization, and the harassment and the arrests of cannabis users and cannabis growers, and those in the cannabis industry. It's going to continue for a long time to come.
And what's happening here in Canada's really is just the first small step in a long journey towards really ending cannabis prohibition and recognizing that cannabis was never the problem, that cannabis is the solution, and prohibition is the problem.
DEAN BECKER: Right on the money, sir. Thank you for that. Friends, we've been speaking with Mister Dana Larsen, he's an activist extraordinaire up there in British Columbia. And, a closing thought to share with you, Dana. The lady at the border, I said, do you see any problems other than that 35 years ago charge, and she said no, I don't. And then she said, I tell you what, Mister Becker, we'll let you in this time. And she let me in the country, in a very, in my opinion, very Canadian perspective. Closing thoughts from you, Dana.
DANA LARSEN: Ah, well, just that I think we have to keep up this effort and we have to keep pushing to really end the stigma around cannabis, and for me, like we've been saying, it's much more than just cannabis, it's the whole war on drugs, and you know I've been thinking maybe it's time to open a medicinal mushroom dispensary in Vancouver, and start providing psilocybin mushrooms and other beneficial entheogens and psychedelics in a medical fashion to those who need it.
There's a lot of research and experience showing that these kind of entheogenic substances can really help people deal with addictive behaviors, and help them sometimes stop using opiates. And that's one of the many hypocrisies of the war on drugs, that some of the drugs that can help you get off opiates are also banned under prohibition, even though these things are incredibly useful, psychologically beneficial.
So, for me, I want to continue pushing to end the whole war on drugs, the war really on many of the world's most beneficial and useful and culturally relevant plants. And so, in many ways, this journey towards ending prohibition is really just beginning, and we still have a very long, long way to go.
DEAN BECKER: We close this out with a quick injection of thought in support of Mister Dana Larsen. Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno.
MARIA MCFARLAND SANCHEZ-MORENO: The US has used the war on drugs and criminalization as its main approach to problematic drug use, or all drug use, for decades, and it got us here, where, at this time when tens of thousands of people are dying of overdose every year. It's time for the US to look, take a hard look, at these failed policies, and explore new alternatives that have been proven to work elsewhere.
DEAN BECKER: Maria is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, drugpolicy.org.
This is Dean Becker, urging you to visit our website and check out our seven thousand radio segments, that's all available at drugtruth.net.
And again, I remind you, because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag. Please, be careful. | 2019-04-20T21:22:42 | http://drugtruth.net/comment/2234 |
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I've been a little quiet on social media for the last couple of weeks as I am building myself a new website. A photo of me banging my head against a monitor doesn't make for a good Instagram moment! I have been thinking about upgrading my website for a while - it is a basic Wordpress site that has served me well but I feel like I have out grown it. And seeing as I am resting between jobs (aka unemployed) it seemed like a good time.
I want a site that looks more contemporary, that allows me to display my work in lots of ways, that allows me to sell my work online, that can house a blog and that can 'grow' with me. Oh and I also want it to be a lot easier to use than Wordpress. My research fell into two categories - finding the best set up (site host, e-commerce provider etc) and looking at lots of sites to help me decide how I want mine to look. The first part was easy. I picked Squarespace as it is a one stop shop that is cheaper than other options. It is very easy to use and I can upgrade my basic plan if I need more functionality in the future. The Help section is really good and, if I get stuck, my daughter and her partner having been using it for years for their shop Good Press.
The second part - looking at other people's sites - was very enjoyable as I've seen some great art but it was also a bit surprising. Very, very few of the textile artists have a shop function or even list prices. And yet many of them will list a price when they exhibit work in galleries or at shows and I'm sure are as thrilled as I have been when somebody buys their work. So I wondered why not? Maybe it feels like setting up a shop is too much effort given that the number of sales is always, unfortunately, going to be small? (Which maybe it was before sites like Squarespace made it quite straightforward). Or are we worried that the audience will see us as less serious about our art if we put a price on it? Do we worry that it will be seen as craft rather than art? Are we concerned that viewers will scoff when they see the price of the work?
I hope not. I am deadly serious about my art. It is a passion. An obsession. I am going to continue to make art even if I never sell another piece. But let's get real. Making art costs money - if you add up everything you have spent this year on materials, on submission fees, on postage, on running costs for the space you work in, on your website, etc, etc, how much does it come too? And then there is time. I approach my art with the same professional attitude I use in my day job - my time has value and I want to be rewarded for the investment I make in my art. Being curated into shows is fantastic, thrilling and a big motivator. But somebody liking my work enough to spend money on it - now that is in a different league so why wouldn't I make it as easy as possible to buy?
One of my goals for 2017 was to increase the number of blog posts by posting at least once a week. I've noticed that I get more 'traffic' when I put out posts close together. But I'm failing dismally. Why? Probably because I feel like my posts should have a proper subject, ideally something I've not covered before. It was easy last year when I was making and submitting lots of pieces. I could write about each piece, about my sucesses and my failures.
But this year is different. It is a 'making' year. With the exception of a piece for Fine Art Quilt Masters (submitted today, horray!) everything I am making is for the two exhibitions I have scheduled with Helen Conway in 2018. Because I have a long leadtime I'm working differently. I'm focussed right now on printing all the fabrics I am going to need. This will go on for another two to three months and whilst I can Instagram some nice images there is not a whole lot to write about that I haven't already covered. In between printing I am also developing some small works and some hand made books. I can, and will, write about these but have accepted that this is one goal I won't achieve. | 2019-04-20T22:48:58 | https://www.leahhiggins.co.uk/blog/tag/Social+Media |
The number of shares outstanding of the Regency Centers Corporation’s voting common stock was 94,127,031 as of February 18, 2015.
Portions of Regency Centers Corporation's proxy statement in connection with its 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference in Part III.
This report combines the annual reports on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 of Regency Centers Corporation and Regency Centers, L.P. Unless stated otherwise or the context otherwise requires, references to “Regency Centers Corporation” or the “Parent Company” mean Regency Centers Corporation and its controlled subsidiaries; and references to “Regency Centers, L.P.” or the “Operating Partnership” mean Regency Centers, L.P. and its controlled subsidiaries. The term “the Company” or “Regency” means the Parent Company and the Operating Partnership, collectively.
The Parent Company is a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) and the general partner of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership's capital includes general and limited common Partnership Units (“Units”). As of December 31, 2014, the Parent Company owned approximately 99.8% of the Units in the Operating Partnership and the remaining limited Units are owned by investors. The Parent Company owns all of the Series 6 and 7 Preferred Units of the Operating Partnership. As the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership, the Parent Company has exclusive control of the Operating Partnership's day-to-day management.
The Company believes it is important to understand the few differences between the Parent Company and the Operating Partnership in the context of how the Parent Company and the Operating Partnership operate as a consolidated company. The Parent Company is a REIT, whose only material asset is its ownership of partnership interests of the Operating Partnership. As a result, the Parent Company does not conduct business itself, other than acting as the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership, issuing public equity from time to time and guaranteeing certain debt of the Operating Partnership. The Parent Company does not hold any indebtedness, but guarantees all of the unsecured public debt and approximately 15% of the secured debt of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership holds all the assets of the Company and retains the ownership interests in the Company's joint ventures. Except for net proceeds from public equity issuances by the Parent Company, which are contributed to the Operating Partnership in exchange for partnership units, the Operating Partnership generates all remaining capital required by the Company's business. These sources include the Operating Partnership's operations, its direct or indirect incurrence of indebtedness, and the issuance of partnership units.
Stockholders' equity, partners' capital, and noncontrolling interests are the main areas of difference between the consolidated financial statements of the Parent Company and those of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership's capital includes general and limited common Partnership Units, as well as Series 6 and 7 Preferred Units owned by the Parent Company. The limited partners' units in the Operating Partnership owned by third parties are accounted for in partners' capital in the Operating Partnership's financial statements and outside of stockholders' equity in noncontrolling interests in the Parent Company's financial statements. The Series 6 and 7 Preferred Units owned by the Parent Company are eliminated in consolidation in the accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Parent Company and are classified as preferred units of general partner in the accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Operating Partnership.
In addition to historical information, the following information contains forward-looking statements as defined under federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include statements about anticipated changes in our revenues, the size of our development and redevelopment program, earnings per share and unit, returns and portfolio value, and expectations about our liquidity. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the real estate industry and markets in which the Company operates, and management's beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such risks and uncertainties are described further in the Item 1A. Risk Factors below. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto of Regency Centers Corporation and Regency Centers, L.P. appearing elsewhere herein. We do not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to such forward-looking statements to reflect events or uncertainties after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of uncertain events.
Regency Centers began its operations as a publicly-traded REIT in 1993, and currently owns direct or partial interests in 322 shopping centers, the majority of which are grocery-anchored community and neighborhood centers. Our centers are located in the top markets of 23 states and the District of Columbia, and contain 38.2 million square feet of gross leasable area, or 28.4 million square feet when including only our pro rata share of the 120 centers partially owned through co-investment partnerships.
Creation of superior growth in shareholder value.
Engage a talented and dedicated team that operates efficiently and is recognized as a leader in the real estate industry and sustainability initiatives.
Opportunistically upgrade our portfolio by acquiring high quality shopping centers with superior upside in NOI growth funded from the sale of low growth assets.
Fund development program primarily from the sale of low-growth assets in the existing portfolio.
Maintain a well laddered debt maturity profile.
Believe in unwavering standards of honesty and integrity and build our reputation by maintaining the highest ethical principles.
Offer a challenging, safe and dynamic work environment and support the professional development and the personal life of each employee.
Encourage employees to achieve their personal health goals through a robust wellness program focused on education, awareness and prevention.
Contribute to the betterment of our communities by supporting philanthropic programs with employee contribution matching and paid time off to volunteer.
We recognize the importance of operating in a sustainable manner and are committed to reducing our environmental impact, including energy and water use, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste. We are committed to transparency with regard to our sustainability performance, risks and opportunities, and will continue to increase disclosure using industry accepted reporting frameworks. We believe our commitment to sustainability supports the Company in achieving key strategic objectives, leads to better risk management, enhances our relationships with key stakeholders, and is in the best interest of our shareholders.
Our headquarters are located at One Independent Drive, Suite 114, Jacksonville, Florida. We presently maintain 17 market offices nationwide, where we conduct management, leasing, construction, and investment activities. As of December 31, 2014, we had 370 employees and we believe that our relations with our employees are good.
or are currently undergoing varying levels of environmental remediation, known environmental remediation is not currently expected to have a material financial impact on us due to insurance programs designed to mitigate the cost of remediation, various state-regulated programs that shift the responsibility and cost to the state, and existing accrued liabilities for remediation.
Our executive officers are appointed each year by our Board of Directors. Each of our executive officers has been employed by us in the position indicated in the list or positions indicated in the pertinent notes below. Each of our executive officers has been employed by us for more than five years.
(1) Ms. Palmer served as Senior Manager of Investment Services in 1996 and assumed the role of Vice President of Capital Markets in 1999. She served as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets from 2003 to 2012 until assuming the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in January 2013.
Our website may be accessed at www.regencycenters.com. All of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) can be accessed free of charge through our website promptly after filing; however, in the event that the website is inaccessible, we will provide paper copies of our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, the most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q, current reports filed or furnished on Form 8-K, and all related amendments, excluding exhibits, free of charge upon request. These filings are also accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Our registrar and stock transfer agent is Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo Shareowner Services”), Mendota Heights, MN. We offer a dividend reinvestment plan (“DRIP”) that enables our stockholders to reinvest dividends automatically, as well as to make voluntary cash payments toward the purchase of additional shares. For more information, contact Wells Fargo Shareowner Services toll free at (800) 468-9716 or our Shareholder Relations Department at (904) 598-7000.
Our annual meeting will be held at The Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, 200 Ponte Vedra Blvd, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
A shift in retail shopping from brick and mortar stores to internet sales may have an adverse impact on our revenues and cash flow.
Many retailers operating brick and mortar stores have made Internet sales a vital piece of their business. Although many of the retailers in our shopping centers either provide services or sell groceries, such that their customer base does not have a tendency toward online shopping, the shift to internet sales may adversely impact our retail tenants' sales causing those retailers to adjust the size or number of retail locations in the future. This shift could adversely impact our occupancy and rental rates, which would impact our revenues and cash flows.
Downturns in the retail industry likely will have a direct adverse impact on our revenues and cash flow.
Consequences of any armed conflict involving, or terrorist attack against, the United States.
To the extent that any of these conditions occur, they are likely to impact market rents for retail space, occupancy in the operating portfolios, our ability to sell, acquire or develop properties, and our cash available for distributions to stock and unit holders.
Our revenues and cash flow could be adversely affected if economic or market conditions deteriorate where our properties are geographically concentrated, which may impede our ability to generate sufficient income to pay expenses and maintain our properties.
The economic conditions in markets in which our properties are concentrated greatly influence our financial performance. During the year ended December 31, 2014, our properties in California, Florida, and Texas accounted for 30.6%, 11.3%, and 10.0%, respectively, of our net operating income from Consolidated Properties plus our pro-rata share from Unconsolidated Properties ("pro-rata basis"). Our revenues and cash available to pay expenses, maintain our properties, and for distributions to stock and unit holders could be adversely affected by this geographic concentration if market conditions, such as supply of or demand for retail space, deteriorate in California, Florida, or Texas relative to other geographic areas.
Renews at lower rental rates.
Some anchors have the right to vacate and prevent re-tenanting by paying rent for the balance of the lease term. Vacated anchor space, including space owned by the anchor, can reduce rental revenues generated by the shopping center because of the loss of the departed anchor tenant's customer drawing power. If a significant tenant vacates a property, co-tenancy clauses in select centers may allow other tenants to modify or terminate their rent or lease obligations. Co-tenancy clauses have several variants: they may allow a tenant to postpone a store opening if certain other tenants fail to open their stores; they may allow a tenant to close its store prior to lease expiration if another tenant closes its store prior to lease expiration; or more commonly, they may allow a tenant to pay reduced levels of rent until a certain number of tenants open their stores within the same shopping center.
A significant percentage of our revenues are derived from smaller shop tenants and our net income could be adversely impacted if our smaller shop tenants are not successful.
A significant percentage of our revenues are derived from smaller shop tenants (those occupying less than 10,000 square feet). Smaller shop tenants may be more vulnerable to negative economic conditions as they have more limited resources than larger tenants. Such tenants continue to face increasing competition from non-store retailers and growing e-commerce. In addition, some of these retailers may seek to reduce their store sizes as they increasingly rely on alternative distribution channels, including internet sales, and adjust their square footage needs accordingly. The types of smaller shop tenants vary from retail shops to service providers. If we are unable to attract the right type or mix of smaller shop tenants into our centers, our net income could be adversely impacted.
Although minimum rent is supported by long-term lease contracts, tenants who file bankruptcy have the legal right to reject any or all of their leases and close related stores. In the event that a tenant with a significant number of leases in our shopping centers files bankruptcy and rejects its leases, we could experience a significant reduction in our revenues and may not be able to collect all pre-petition amounts owed by that party.
Our real estate assets may be subject to impairment charges.
Our long-lived assets, primarily real estate held for investment, are carried at cost unless circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets may not be recoverable. We evaluate whether there are any indicators, including property operating performance and general market conditions, that the value of the real estate properties (including any related amortizable intangible assets or liabilities) may not be recoverable. Through the evaluation, we compare the current carrying value of the asset to the estimated undiscounted cash flows that are directly associated with the use and ultimate disposition of the asset. Our estimated cash flows are based on several key assumptions, including rental rates, costs of tenant improvements, leasing commissions, anticipated holding periods, and assumptions regarding the residual value upon disposition, including the exit capitalization rate. These key assumptions are subjective in nature and could differ materially from actual results. Changes in our disposition strategy or changes in the marketplace may alter the holding period of an asset or asset group, which may result in an impairment loss and such loss could be material to the Company's financial condition or operating performance. To the extent that the carrying value of the asset exceeds the estimated undiscounted cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized equal to the excess of carrying value over fair value.
The fair value of real estate assets is subjective and is determined through comparable sales information and other market data if available, or through use of an income approach such as the direct capitalization method or the traditional discounted cash flow approach. Such cash flow projections consider factors, including expected future operating income, trends and prospects, as well as the effects of demand, competition and other factors, and therefore are subject to management judgment. Changes in those factors could impact the determination of fair value. In estimating the fair value of undeveloped land, we generally use market data and comparable sales information.
These subjective assessments have a direct impact on our net income because recording an impairment charge results in an immediate negative adjustment to net income. There can be no assurance that we will not take additional charges in the future related to the impairment of our assets. Any future impairment could have a material adverse effect on our net income in the period in which the charge is taken.
Adverse global market and economic conditions could cause us to recognize additional impairment charges or otherwise harm our performance.
assurance can be given that we would be able to recover the current carrying amount of all of our properties and investments in the future. Our failure to do so would require us to recognize additional impairment charges for the period in which we reached that conclusion, which could materially and adversely affect us and the market price of our common stock.
Unsuccessful development activities or a slowdown in development activities could have a direct impact on our revenues, revenue growth, and/or net income.
The lack of cash flow during the construction period.
Our acquisition activities may not produce the returns that we expect.
We may not be able to integrate an acquisition into our existing operations successfully.
We may experience difficulty or delay in renewing leases or re-leasing space.
We derive most of our revenue from rent received from our tenants. We are subject to the risks that, upon expiration or termination of leases, leases for space in our properties may not be renewed, space may not be re-leased, or the terms of renewal or re-lease, including the cost of required renovations or concessions to tenants, may be less favorable than current lease terms. As a result, our results of operations and our net income could be adversely impacted.
We may be unable to sell properties when appropriate because real estate investments are illiquid.
Real estate investments generally cannot be sold quickly. Our inability to respond promptly to unfavorable changes in the performance of our investments could have an adverse effect on our ability to meet our obligations and make distributions to our stock and unit holders.
Geographic concentration of our properties makes our business vulnerable to natural disasters and severe weather conditions, which could have an adverse effect on our cash flow and operating results.
A significant portion of our property gross leasable area is located in areas that are susceptible to earthquakes, tropical storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other natural disasters. As of December 31, 2014, approximately 23.6%, 15.0%, and 10.5% of our property gross leasable area, on a pro-rata basis, was located in California, Florida, and Texas, respectively. Intense weather conditions during the last decade have caused our cost of property insurance to increase significantly. We recognize that the frequency and / or intensity of extreme weather events may continue to increase due to climate change, and as a result, our exposure to these events could increase. These weather conditions also disrupt our business and the business of our tenants, which could affect the ability of some tenants to pay rent and may reduce the willingness of residents to remain in or move to the affected area. Therefore, as a result of the geographic concentration of our properties, we face risks, including higher costs, such as uninsured property losses and higher insurance premiums, and disruptions to our business and the businesses of our tenants.
enter, which could adversely affect the results of our expansion into those markets, and we may be unable to achieve our desired return on our investments in new markets. If we are unsuccessful in expanding into new markets, it could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
An uninsured loss or a loss that exceeds the insurance coverage on our properties could subject us to loss of capital or revenue on those properties.
We carry comprehensive liability, fire, flood, extended coverage, rental loss, and environmental insurance for our properties with policy specifications and insured limits customarily carried for similar properties. We believe that the insurance carried on our properties is adequate and consistent with industry standards. There are, however, some types of losses, such as losses from hurricanes, terrorism, wars or earthquakes, for which the insurance levels carried may not be sufficient to fully cover catastrophic losses impacting multiple properties. In addition, tenants generally are required to indemnify and hold us harmless from liabilities resulting from injury to persons or damage to personal or real property, on or off the premises, due to activities conducted by tenants or their agents on the properties (including without limitation any environmental contamination), and at the tenant's expense, to obtain and keep in full force during the term of the lease, liability and property damage insurance policies. However, our tenants may not properly maintain their insurance policies or have the ability to pay the deductibles associated with such policies. Should a loss occur that is uninsured or in an amount exceeding the combined aggregate limits for the policies noted above, or in the event of a loss that is subject to a substantial deductible under an insurance policy, we could lose all or part of our capital invested in, and anticipated revenue from, such properties, which could have a material adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition, as well as our ability to make distributions to stock and unit holders.
Loss of our key personnel could adversely affect our business and operations.
We depend on the efforts of our key executive personnel. Although we believe qualified replacements could be found for our key executives, the loss of their services could adversely affect our business and operations.
•adversely affect our ability to minimize our expenses of operation.
Costs of environmental remediation could reduce our cash flow available for distribution to stock and unit holders.
Under various federal, state and local laws, an owner or manager of real property may be liable for the costs of removal or remediation of hazardous or toxic substances on the property. These laws often impose liability without regard to whether the owner knew of, or was responsible for, the presence of hazardous or toxic substances. The cost of any required remediation could exceed the value of the property and/or the aggregate assets of the owner or the responsible party. The presence of, or the failure to properly remediate, hazardous or toxic substances may adversely affect our ability to sell or lease a contaminated property or to use the property as collateral for a loan. Any of these developments could reduce cash flow and our ability to make distributions to stock and unit holders.
All of our properties are required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), which generally requires that buildings be made accessible to people with disabilities. Compliance with ADA requirements could require removal of access barriers, and noncompliance could result in imposition of fines by the U.S. government or an award of damages to private litigants, or both. While the tenants to whom we lease properties are obligated by law to comply with the ADA provisions, and typically under tenant leases are obligated to cover costs associated with compliance, if required changes involve greater expenditures than anticipated, or if the changes must be made on a more accelerated basis than anticipated, the ability of these tenants to cover costs could be adversely affected. In addition, we are required to operate the properties in compliance with fire and safety regulations, building codes and other land use regulations, as they may be adopted by governmental entities and become applicable to the properties. We may be required to make substantial capital expenditures to comply with these requirements, and these expenditures could have a material adverse effect on our ability to meet our financial obligations and make distributions to our stock and unit holders.
If we do not maintain the security of tenant-related information, we could incur substantial costs and become subject to litigation.
We have implemented an online payment system where we receive certain information about our tenants that depends upon secure transmissions of confidential information over public networks, including information permitting cashless payments. A compromise of our security systems that results in information being obtained by unauthorized persons could adversely affect our operations, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and could result in litigation against us or the imposition of penalties. In addition, a security breach could require us to expend significant resources related to our information security systems and could result in a disruption of our operations.
We rely extensively on computer systems to process transactions and manage our business and disruptions in both our primary and secondary (back-up) systems could harm our ability to run our business.
material interruption in both of our computer systems and back-up systems may have a material adverse effect on our business or results of operations.
We do not have voting control over our joint venture investments, so we are unable to ensure that our objectives will be pursued.
We have invested substantial capital as a partner in a number of joint venture investments for the acquisition or development of properties. These investments involve risks not present in a wholly-owned project as we do not have voting control over the ventures, although we do have approval rights over major decisions. The other partner may (i) have interests or goals that are inconsistent with our interests or goals or (ii) otherwise impede our objectives. The other partner also may become insolvent or bankrupt. These factors could limit the return that we receive from such investments or cause our cash flows to be lower than our estimates.
The termination of our co-investment partnerships could adversely affect our cash flow, operating results, and our ability to make distributions to stock and unit holders.
If co-investment partnerships owning a significant number of properties were dissolved for any reason, we would lose the asset and property management fees from these co-investment partnerships, which could adversely affect our operating results and our cash available for distribution to stock and unit holders.
Higher market capitalization rates for our properties could adversely impact our ability to sell properties and fund developments and acquisitions, and could dilute earnings.
As part of our funding strategy, we sell operating properties that no longer meet our investment standards or those with a limited future growth profile. These sales proceeds are used to fund the construction of new developments, redevelopments and acquisitions. An increase in market capitalization rates could cause a reduction in the value of centers identified for sale, which would have an adverse impact on the amount of cash generated. In order to meet the cash requirements of our development program, we may be required to sell more properties than initially planned, which could have a negative impact on our earnings.
To qualify as a REIT, the Parent Company must, among other things, distribute to its stockholders each year at least 90% of its REIT taxable income (excluding any net capital gains). Because of these distribution requirements, we may not be able to fund all future capital needs with income from operations. We therefore will have to rely on third-party sources of capital, which may or may not be available on favorable terms or at all. Our access to third-party sources of capital depends on a number of things, including the market's perception of our growth potential and our current and potential future earnings. Our access to debt depends on our credit rating, the willingness of creditors to lend to us and conditions in the capital markets. In addition to finding creditors willing to lend to us, we are dependent upon our joint venture partners to contribute their pro rata share of any amount needed to repay or refinance existing debt when lenders reduce the amount of debt our joint ventures are eligible to refinance.
In addition, our existing debt arrangements also impose covenants that limit our flexibility in obtaining other financing, such as a prohibition on negative pledge agreements. Additional equity offerings may result in substantial dilution of stockholders' interests and additional debt financing may substantially increase our degree of leverage.
Without access to external sources of capital, we would be required to pay outstanding debt with our operating cash flows and proceeds from property sales. Our operating cash flows may not be sufficient to pay our outstanding debt as it comes due and real estate investments generally cannot be sold quickly at a return we believe is appropriate. If we are required to deleverage our business with operating cash flows and proceeds from property sales, we may be forced to reduce the amount of, or eliminate altogether, our distributions to stock and unit holders or refrain from making investments in our business.
Our ability to make scheduled payments or to refinance our indebtedness will depend primarily on our future performance, which to a certain extent is subject to economic, financial, competitive and other factors beyond our control. In addition, we do not expect to generate sufficient funds from operations to make balloon principal payments on our debt when due. If we are unable to refinance our debt on acceptable terms, we may be forced (i) to dispose of properties, which might result in losses, or (ii) to obtain financing at unfavorable terms, either of which could reduce the cash flow available for distributions to stock and unit holders. If we cannot make required mortgage payments, the mortgagee could foreclose on the property securing the mortgage.
Our unsecured notes, unsecured term loan, and unsecured line of credit contain customary covenants, including compliance with financial ratios, such as ratio of total debt to gross asset value and fixed charge coverage ratio. Fixed charge coverage ratio is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") divided by the sum of interest expense and scheduled mortgage principal paid to our lenders plus dividends paid to our preferred stockholders. Our debt arrangements also restrict our ability to enter into a transaction that would result in a change of control. These covenants may limit our operational flexibility and our acquisition activities. Moreover, if we breach any of the covenants in our debt agreements, and do not cure the breach within the applicable cure period, our lenders could require us to repay the debt immediately, even in the absence of a payment default. Many of our debt arrangements, including our unsecured notes, unsecured term loan, and unsecured line of credit are cross-defaulted, which means that the lenders under those debt arrangements can put us in default and require immediate repayment of their debt if we breach and fail to cure a default under certain of our other material debt obligations. As a result, any default under our debt covenants could have an adverse effect on our financial condition, our results of operations, our ability to meet our obligations, and the market value of our stock.
Although a significant amount of our outstanding debt has fixed interest rates, we do borrow funds at variable interest rates under our credit facilities. Increases in interest rates would increase our interest expense on any variable rate debt to the extent we have not hedged our exposure to changes in interest rates. In addition, increases in interest rates will affect the terms under which we refinance our existing debt as it matures, to the extent we have not hedge our exposure to changes in interest rates. This would reduce our future earnings and cash flows, which could adversely affect our ability to service our debt and meet our other obligations and also could reduce the amount we are able to distribute to our stock and unit holders.
We may acquire properties or portfolios of properties through tax-deferred contribution transactions, which could result in stockholder dilution and limit our ability to sell such assets.
not yield the economic benefits we anticipate, which could adversely affect us.
arrangements may not be effective in reducing our exposure to interest rate changes. There can be no assurance that our hedging arrangements will qualify for hedge accounting or that our hedging activities will have the desired beneficial impact on our results of operations. Should we desire to terminate a hedging agreement, there could be significant costs and cash requirements involved to fulfill our obligations under the hedging agreement. Failure to hedge effectively against interest rate changes may adversely affect our results of operations.
Changes in economic and market conditions could adversely affect the market price of our securities.
These factors may cause the market price of our securities to decline, regardless of our financial condition, results of operations, business or prospects. It is impossible to ensure that the market price of our securities, including our common stock, will not fall in the future. A decrease in the market price of our common stock could reduce our ability to raise additional equity in the public markets. Selling common stock at a decreased market price would have a dilutive impact on existing stockholders.
We cannot assure you we will continue to pay dividends at historical rates.
If we do not maintain or periodically increase the dividend on our common stock, it could have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock and other securities.
Changes in accounting standards may adversely impact our financial results.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB"), in conjunction with the SEC, has several key projects on their agenda that could impact how we currently account for our material transactions, including lease accounting and other convergence projects with the International Accounting Standards Board. At this time, we are unable to predict with certainty which, if any, proposals may be passed or what level of impact any such proposal could have on the presentation of our consolidated financial statements, our results of operations and our financial ratios required by our debt covenants.
involve questions of interpretation. For example, to qualify as a REIT, at least 95% of our gross income must come from specific passive sources, like rent, that are itemized in the REIT tax laws. There can be no assurance that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) or a court would agree with the positions we have taken in interpreting the REIT requirements. We are also required to distribute to our stockholders at least 90% of our REIT taxable income, excluding capital gains. The fact that we hold many of our assets through co-investment partnerships and their subsidiaries further complicates the application of the REIT requirements. Furthermore, Congress and the IRS might make changes to the tax laws and regulations, and the courts might issue new rulings, that make it more difficult, or impossible, for the Parent Company to remain qualified as a REIT.
Also, unless the IRS granted relief under certain statutory provisions, the Parent Company would remain disqualified as a REIT for four years following the year it first failed to qualify. If the Parent Company failed to qualify as a REIT (currently and/or with respect to any tax years for which the statute of limitations has not expired), we would have to pay significant income taxes, reducing cash available to pay dividends, which would likely have a significant adverse effect on the value of our securities. In addition, we would no longer be required to pay any dividends to stockholders. Although we believe that the Parent Company qualifies as a REIT, we cannot assure you that the Parent Company will continue to qualify or remain qualified as a REIT for tax purposes.
Even if the Parent Company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes, we are required to pay certain federal, state and local taxes on our income and property. For example, if we have net income from “prohibited transactions,” that income will be subject to a 100% tax. In general, prohibited transactions include sales or other dispositions of property held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of business. The determination as to whether a particular sale is a prohibited transaction depends on the facts and circumstances related to that sale. While we have undertaken a significant number of asset sales in recent years, we do not believe that those sales should be considered prohibited transactions, but there can be no assurance that the IRS would not contend otherwise.
Subject to limited exceptions, dividends paid by REITs (other than distributions designated as capital gain dividends or returns of capital) are not eligible for reduced rates for qualified dividends paid by "C" corporations and are taxable at ordinary income tax rates. The more favorable rates applicable to regular corporate qualified dividends could cause investors who are individuals, trusts and estates to perceive investments in REITs to be relatively less attractive than investments in the stocks of non-REIT corporations that pay dividends, which could adversely affect the value of the shares of REITs, including the shares of our capital stock.
A foreign person disposing of a U.S. real property interest, including shares of a U.S. corporation whose assets consist principally of U.S. real property interests is generally subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain recognized on the disposition. This tax does not apply, however, to the disposition of stock in a REIT if the REIT is "domestically controlled." In general, we will be a domestically controlled REIT if at all times during the five-year period ending on the applicable stockholder’s disposition of our stock, less than 50% in value of our stock was held directly or indirectly by non-U.S. persons. If we were to fail to qualify as a domestically controlled REIT, gain recognized by a foreign stockholder on a disposition of our common stock would be subject to U.S. federal income tax unless our common stock was traded on an established securities market and the foreign stockholder did not at any time during a specified testing period directly or indirectly own more than 5% of our outstanding common stock.
The REIT provisions of the Code limit our ability to hedge our liabilities. Generally, income from a hedging transaction we enter into either to manage risk of interest rate changes with respect to borrowings incurred or to be incurred to acquire or carry real estate assets, or to manage the risk of currency fluctuations with respect to any item of income or gain (or any property which generates such income or gain) that constitutes “qualifying income” for purposes of the 75% or 95% gross income tests applicable to REITs, does not constitute “gross income” for purposes of the 75% or 95% gross income tests, provided that we properly identify the hedging transaction pursuant to the applicable sections of the Code and Treasury Regulations. To the extent that we enter into other types of hedging transactions, or fail to make the proper tax identifications, the income from those transactions is likely to be treated as non-qualifying income for purposes of both gross income tests. As a result of these rules, we may need to limit our use of otherwise advantageous hedging techniques or implement those hedges through a taxable REIT subsidiary, or TRS. The use of a TRS could increase the cost of our hedging activities (because our TRS would be subject to tax on income or gain resulting from hedges entered into by it) or expose us to greater risks than we would otherwise want to bear. In addition, net losses in a TRS will generally not provide any tax benefit except for being carried forward for use against future taxable income in the TRS.
Restrictions on the ownership of the Parent Company's capital stock to preserve its REIT status could delay or prevent a change in control.
The issuance of the Parent Company's capital stock could delay or prevent a change in control.
The Parent Company's articles of incorporation authorize our Board of Directors to issue up to 30,000,000 shares of preferred stock and 10,000,000 shares of special common stock and to establish the preferences and rights of any shares issued. The issuance of preferred stock or special common stock could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control. The provisions of the Florida Business Corporation Act regarding control share acquisitions and affiliated transactions could also deter potential acquisitions by preventing the acquiring party from voting the common stock it acquires or consummating a merger or other extraordinary corporate transaction without the approval of our disinterested stockholders.
Certain Consolidated Properties are encumbered by mortgage loans of $541.6 million, excluding debt premiums and discounts, as of December 31, 2014.
The weighted average annual effective rent for the consolidated portfolio of properties, net of tenant concessions, is $18.30 and $17.40 per square foot ("SqFT") as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Certain Unconsolidated Properties are encumbered by mortgage loans of $1.4 billion, excluding debt premiums and discounts, as of December 31, 2014.
The weighted average annual effective rent for the unconsolidated portfolio of properties, net of tenant concessions, is $17.85 and $17.34 per SqFT as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
(1) Stores owned by anchor tenant that are attached to our centers.
Our leases for tenant space under 5,000 square feet generally have terms ranging from three to five years. Leases greater than 10,000 square feet generally have lease terms in excess of five years, mostly comprised of anchor tenants. Many of the anchor leases contain provisions allowing the tenant the option of extending the term of the lease at expiration. Our leases provide for the monthly payment in advance of fixed minimum rent, additional rents calculated as a percentage of the tenant's sales, the tenant's pro-rata share of real estate taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance (“CAM”) expenses, and reimbursement for utility costs if not directly metered.
(2) Minimum rent includes current minimum rent and future contractual rent steps, but excludes additional rent such as percentage rent, common area maintenance, real estate taxes and insurance reimbursements.
During 2015, we have a total of 909 leases expiring, representing 1.8 million square feet of GLA. These expiring leases have an average base rent of $22.07 per SqFT. The average base rent of new leases signed during 2014 was $22.02 per SqFT. During periods of recession or when occupancy is low, tenants have more bargaining power, which may result in rental rate declines on new or renewal leases. In periods of recovery and/or when occupancy levels are high, landlords have more bargaining power, which generally results in rental rate growth on new and renewal leases. Based on current economic trends and expectations, and pro-rata percent leased of 95.4%, we expect to see an overall increase in rental rate on new and renewal leases during 2015. Exceptions may arise in certain geographic areas or at specific shopping centers based on the local economic situation, competition, location, and size of the space being leased, among other factors. Additionally, significant changes or uncertainties affecting micro- or macroeconomic climates may cause significant changes to our current expectations.
See the following property table and also see Item 7, Management's Discussion and Analysis for further information about our Consolidated and Unconsolidated Properties. | 2019-04-20T04:38:50 | http://investors.regencycenters.com/node/7866/html |
Come make your own loom and learn to knit with it. All materials will be provided by the library. Recommended for ages 7 and up. Registration is required for this program. | 2019-04-24T14:13:13 | https://www.lllcf.org/program/kids-make-your-own-loom/?print=true |
Would you like to help provide people nighttime shelter during the cold months?
Would you be interested in joining members of Troy Downtown-Area Churches and Joseph’s House & Shelter in their efforts to do just that?
Every night up to 15 guests of Joseph’s House, accompanied by a staff member and at least one, preferably two, volunteers sleep overnight in a local church hall to make space at our busy shelter. If you are available for a few over-night shifts between November 12, 2018 through April 11, 2019, please get in touch. You need to be available between the hours of 9:30PM and 7:30AM. Beds and linens are provided, and guests are encouraged to play cards or a game, or chat with our guests, over a snack. If you cannot stay overnight, you can also support the program by providing snacks.
On the coldest nights, the off-site emergency shelter is especially important because it means we more space for Code Blue guests at our Ferry Street shelter. Contact Janet Douglass, 518-272-2544 jdouglass@josephshousetroy.org for more information about “Inn From the Cold”, a volunteer program providing temporary additional shelter in space supplied by downtown Troy Churches during the coldest 5 months of the year. | 2019-04-24T12:14:17 | http://josephshousetroy.org/help/inn-from-the-cold |
Appointments offered the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month from 8am to 4pm. For referrals or questions, please call (563) 659-4326.
Genesis Medical Center, DeWitt is excited to welcome Richard Maynard, CRNA. He specializes in pain management and has experience treating both chronic and acute pain. Maynard and his team work together to address your individual needs with the goal of treating your pain while educating you about its source. | 2019-04-21T18:27:42 | https://www.genesishealth.com/facilities/location-public-profile/gmc-pain-clinic-dewitt/ |
You can’t send Easter eggs - so send a fresh bouquet of Easter flowers instead! Kaylynne's Briar Patch Florist, LLC has the best and brightest flowers for Easter. Send Easter flowers to Asheville, NC or nationwide for a joyful Easter celebration. | 2019-04-25T16:43:23 | https://www.ashevillesbest.com/easter/cat1170001 |
Berardi provides all types of treatments and processes on screws, bolts, and metal hardware to satisfy every application need.
Some of the most commonly requested treatments are burnishing, phosphate coating, GEOMET®, brass-plating, copper-plating, galvanizing, and zinc-nickel.
is a treatment for the dark surface colouring (tending towards black) of metal material, which can be done using different methods. It is used to slightly protect the metal from oxidation and to give the product a certain appearance.. Burnishing of stainless steel is also called NERINOX..
This is a chemical process that alters the surface of a metal through the creation of phosphate crystals, improving its resistance to corrosion and facilitating subsequent painting processes.
It can be performed with zinc or manganese.
Water-based coating containing zinc and aluminium in sheet form used to give very high protection to metal materials against environmental corrosion.
Resists temperatures up to 300° and no HYDROGEN fragility.
Among the different types of GEOMET® available, GEOMET® 321 and GEOMET® 500 contain a built-in lubricant.
The main application methods for GEOMET® are by immersion or spraying.
zinc coating applied to metal mainly as protection from galvanic corrosion. There are different types and chromate treatments, from the classic and more commonly used white to iridescent and even black.
Application of a thick zinc layer on a ferrous base by direct immersion of the parts in molten zinc (therefore “hot”). It significantly changes the size of the parts, which must be taken into account.
After many years and the arrival of new methods, it is still considered one of the most efficient and durable protections.
Innovative electrolytic process based on the deposit of a 12-15% zinc and nickel alloy on a ferrous base; natural grey, semi-gloss colour with the possibility of black passivation.
Extremely more protective than the traditional commercial electrolytic galvanizing.
Berardi Bullonerie can also provide products subject to processes and coatings for aesthetic reasons or for traceability of individual parts such as brass-coating, marking, and laser incision.
It is a coating process used to obtain items with a special decorative appearance: a bright gold-yellow, natural appearance.
precise and clean process that does not damage the surface, used mainly for identification, traceability, and coding of products.
When the security of the fastening becomes extremely important, Berardi suggests the application of systems that fulfill the task of ensuring locking and anti-loosening, such as the pre-application of locking systems.
The pre-applied products increase the stability of the joint in the presence of vibrations or dynamic stress. There are different types that vary in function from braking to locking..
Pre-applications prevent the long, tedious liquid applications performed manually in line by the operators who assemble the parts. Consequently, besides better fastening, pre-applied systems reduce and simplify assembly time.. | 2019-04-23T23:58:23 | https://www.gberardi.ru/services/treatments-and-processes/ |
Next to Hyderabad, Warangal is the second biggest city of the Telangana state. Most of the present Telangana state’s heritage symbols, Kakatiya Gate, and its tank based irrigation system go back to the history of Warangal, which, in the medieval and pre-medieval Telugu, was known as Orugallu. After this town became the capital of the famous Kakatiya dynasty in the thirteenth century, that area seems to have undergone a big change.
The Kakatiyas built several tanks including the two biggest ones of the present Telangana state called Ramappa and Pakal that irrigate thousands of acres. That irrigation system gradually tuned Warangal into a feudal land lord bastion.
In 1972, the first Dalit collector, Kaki Madhava Rao, took charge as Collector of Warangal dist. I was in my under graduation at Warangal Arts and Science college, that was in between the collector’s majestic residence and the old Nizam model office in Subedari.
He was almost an everyday news maker. That he was a Naxalite collector and that he was sleeping in the hearts of land lords (in Telugu, bhoosamula Gundello Niduristunna collector) .
The Reddys were the main landlords of the area who controlled most of the land , except one big Kalleda Velama landlord family. The Janna Reddys, Nookala Reddys, Pingili Reddys, Yepuri Reddys and so on, were well known landlord families. All elected posts were in their hands—MP, MLA, MLC Panchayat raj bodies and so on. My village was under the Dwaraka Pet Mahaboob Reddy family, which almost was losing its feudal control by then.
Those were times of transition for the landlords as the 1973 Land Ceiling Act of Andhra Pradesh came during Madhava Rao’s stay there. The Reddy landlord were dead against P.V.Narimha Rao, the then Chief Minister ,who got that Act passed and also posted Madhava Rao in the most powerful feudal district as collector around that time.
When I first saw Madhava Rao in a public meeting in the Arts and Science college auditorium, I was surprised that he was very young, tall, thin, with an impressive face cut, and well combed thick hair. His looks had never shown his Dalitness.
I thought this collector post is mightiest of all I know, because he was shaking many mighty landlords, who could kill anybody and get away with. All the villagers used to shiver the movement any land lord’s name came up for discussion in the village adda meetings under the trees or at racha banda (dispute resolution place). The final word was that of the landlord.
The Dalits I know in that area and in my village were Madigas, who had no property and starved in summer days. They would have good feast only when a dead bull/cow/buffalo is given by the farmers. All castes above them, including my caste people, not only treated them as untouchable but did not even call them by name. Are-Ture (most demeaning way of addressing human beings) abusive language against them was very common cultural norm. Even the children are taught to address them like that.
This collector came from that background and was making the richest landlords of the district shiver in their dhotis (not many were wearing trousers among them then).
His English and mode of communication was much better than that our of college principle, Prof.Janardhan Reddy, who himself came from a landlord family of that area.
Education and good English made him collector and that position made a Dalit the ruler of the landlords. This was something unbelievable for many. It was a miracle constructed by democracy and reservation.
He consciously gave every single policy and scheme of the Government, a poor man’s orientation. The limited supply of fertilizers were made available to poor SC,ST, and OBC farmers. The limited draught funds were spent in digging irrigation wells in Government land assigned to landless SC,ST people through Cooperatvie farming societies. Restored the lands of small farmers which were forcibly held by the landlords.
Several such measures made the landlords angry and dubbed him as the Naxalite collector in their everyday language.
But it is the formation of Toddy Tappers’ Co-Operative Societies and giving them toddy tapping rights that shook the feudal power.
Excise rules of the Government empower the excise dept to auction tapping rights of all trees located in both Government and private lands.
Land owners can seek exemption from tapping trees located in their Patta lands if their needs were genuine. But in most cases they deceived the tappers. Madhava Rao used the Government rules and the exercise auction procedures to change situation.
The Government rules provide for giving tapping rights on nomination basis if the tappers form a cooperative society. Madhavarao advised Inuguti (Gandu) Ilaiah, who was known for his activisim among the tappers, to organise cooperative societies in all the villages in the district. Sensing the danger, the landlords intimidated the tappers not to form cooperative societies and even went to the High Court. The collector fought all their machinations by using the Government rules and the tappers’ rights. The tappers formed societies.
Not willing to forego their illegitimate fight, the dogged landlords threatened tappers of their respective villages that they will shoot down the toddy pots.
The collector personally went to the most troublesome villages with the District Superintendent of Police and jeeps full of armed constables. The troublesome landlords were lined up, shown the armed police and were told that the pots of tappers are as valuable as heads of Doras ( landlords). The landlords gave up.
The collector applied the ‘land to the tiller’ concept to the given situation and defined “tree to the tapper”.
The result of this struggle was that the tappers in the district are still enjoying their tapping rights on nomination basis.
For the first time a collector’s office created a movement and also produced a great leader in the community from among the very oppressed communities. Many years later Ilaiah was killed by the landlords in a train when he was travelling to Hyderabad.
Toddy was a most popular drink among the poor and rich in Telangana.
The occupation was very hazardous with a moku-mutthadu technology of climbing tree to tap the kallu (toddy) with feet and palms getting pressed to the tree. Several men would fall from the top of the tree and die or become disabled without any source of livelihood to his family. The Formation of the societies improved their life.
Once the the Agriculture Land Ceiling Act, got enacted the landlords of the state were to lose their surplus land. Bowing to landlord pressure the Congress made PVNR to resign. President’s rule was imposed.
The Warangal landlords used this opportunity and submitted a written complaint to the President of India that their collector is a Naxalite. An IB enquiry was ordered against Madhavarao. He survived because of the massive support of poor people.
Yet another major project of Madhavarao was the formation of more than ten large scale Agriculture land Co-Operative Societies.
The Jalli Society near my village, was one of them. The collector allotted large patches of several hundreds acres of Government land to Dalits, tribals and BCs in the surrounding villages. Land was not parceled to individuals but all families should cultivate collectively and take equal share from the produce. That was the first experiment, that too by all lower castes.
Seen in the light of the Soviet and Chinese co-operative agrarian operations, and the 1973 Land Reforms Act of Andhra Pradesh, the landlords of the district were fear stricken.
This collector gave an instruction both in the office and residence, that the poor will have unhindered darshanam. For the rich , appointment was a must! There was poignant joke about the collector, “if one wants meet the collector without appointment, one must go in rags”.
In those days, poor people falling on the feet of landlords and officers was very common. Madhava Rao would order the poor not to touch his feet. If anybody did so, he would slap him.
He would insist on the poor sitting on the chair before giving his petition.
These policies of the dalit collector turned the administration by 180 degrees. If this is not a Naxal…who else is Naxal? The Naxal collector’s style was talk of every household.
After this mighty administrative jerk the feudalism in that district was never the same again, though other struggles and administrative reforms followed.
PVNR refused transfer him but Jalagam Vengal Rao , who succeeded him hounded out him within weeks of his becoming CM. He was known as Emergency CM.
In due course PVNR moved on to become the Prime Minister of India and and Madhavarao moved on to become the first Dalit Chief Secretary of the united Andhra Pradesh.
What made this young Dalit officer shake the feudal system of a district, where he was the ruler? What he did was a job of meritorious man or not? Is there no relationship between his labouring childhood life, back home in a Dalit family ( as he was from a first generation laboring Dalit family of Krishna district) and his understanding of changes coming in Soviet Union and China?
Was he right or wrong in doing so?
What lesson should the young IAS trainees of today’s India take from this experiment of a young officer, way back in the 1970s? | 2019-04-24T23:00:20 | https://indianculturalforum.in/2019/03/18/first-dalit-collector-who-changed-a-feudal-district-in-the-1970/ |
Spain has been a full member of the European Union (EU) since 1986 and the euro was adopted as the single currency, replacing the Spanish Peseta in January 2002. It has the fifth largest economy within the EU and the twelfth largest in the world. After 15 years of solid GDP growth, thanks largely to the construction sector, Spain‘s economy was hard hit by the global financial crisis and entered into recession in the second quarter of 2008.
Housing sales and construction have declined dramatically and in 2010 the unemployment rate was 20.1 percent, the second highest in the EU. The government introduced the first austerity reforms in May 2010, aimed at reducing its large budget deficit which, at 9.2 percent of GDP in 2010, was the third largest in the eurozone after Ireland and Greece. While the economy is expected to post positive growth in 2013, this will be constrained due to public spending cuts. It is estimated that the Spanish economy will grow by 0.5 percent in 2013.
Manufacturing accounts for 12.6 percent of GDP and the key industries are automobiles (Spain is the world’s eighth largest manufacturer of motor vehicles), food and beverage products, leather goods and metal-based manufacturing. Spain’s construction, infrastructure development and real estate groups were among the largest in Europe, but both industries have now contracted significantly. The services sector accounts for 65.6 percent of GDP, with tourism being an important industry. Spain is the world’s third largest recipient of foreign tourists. Agriculture’s share of GDP has fallen, but continues to be a valuable sector, with Spain exporting fruits, nuts, olives, tomatoes and peppers.
Exports are an important part of the Spanish economy. In 2010, around three-quarters of the country's total exports went to the EU, with France being the single largest export destination receiving 18.3 percent of exports, followed by Germany (10.5 percent), Portugal (8.9 percent) and Italy (8.8 percent). As with exports, the primary sources of Spanish imports are the EU nations, mainly Germany, France and Italy.
As part of the EU, Spain has favourable policies towards foreign direct investment (FDI). The largest investors in Spain are the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Over 50 percent of Spanish merchandise exports are produced by foreign multinationals located in Spain.
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, with the head of state being the King Juan Carlos I. Executive power in Spain lies with the Council of Ministers. It is headed by the President of the Government (Prime Minister) who is elected by the lower house of parliament and then confirmed by the king. The current Spanish President, Mariano Rajoy, was elected in November 2011. The Spanish national parliament (the Cortes) is made up of two houses.
Elections are held every four years and the next elections will be in 2015. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions or provinces. Each region has a Regional President, who reports directly to the President of the Government.
Due to its mild climate, the diversity of its geography and the large number of tourists visiting the country every year (51 million approximately), outdoor activities and sports are very popular in Spain (skiing, golf, climbing, biking, etc.). Spanish consumers pay high prices for quality sports gear and fashion items, and a number of American and Australian firms are already present in the market.
Over 200,000 Spanish students travel abroad every year to undertake secondary, tertiary or summer-course studies, the most popular destinations being the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, France and Germany. Countries such as New Zealand, Australia and Canada are also growing in popularity.
As the world´s second largest producer of solar power and third in terms of wind energy, Spain has become a global leader in renewable energy technology and infrastructure. Large resources allocated recently to Spain’s environmental budget confirm increasing investment in pollution control and water resources equipment. Specific plans and projects at a national and regional level support Spain’s environmental policy. Water is an increasingly scarce resource in Spain due to the impact of climatic change, and a major concern for industry and Government.
Waste treatment is a rapidly growing sector in Spain and Portugal, pushed by increasing amounts of waste being generated as the economy expands and pulled by growing green consciousness, the economics of materials recovery or energy conversion and EU / Kyoto legislation. EU structural funding is also available for major environmental projects.
Spain is the second largest EU country in terms of sheep and cattle numbers, and it also has large pig, goat, poultry and beef industries. Livestock, dairy and poultry have traditionally been the most important sectors in terms of value of agricultural production in Spain, while horticultural crops (citrus, olives, vegetables, etc) account for 70 percent of Spain's agricultural exports.
One of the most notable features of the Spanish market is the importance of its tourist industry. Spain receives 51 million tourists per year, resulting in significant demand for high-value and consumer ready products from the Hotel Restaurants and Institutional (HRI) sector during the summer months. Also, as in many EU countries, there is an emphasis on more natural, sophisticated and healthier food items.
There are opportunities for Korean exports in the telecommunication sector, including new technology, equipment and software. Spain’s national telecommunications market was liberalised in 1999. The Spanish telecommunications sector has shown record growth in the cellular phone and internet application sub sectors, digital networks and associated technologies.
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Samsung Display maintains its leadership in the market for smaller screens in the 2nd quarter. | 2019-04-22T02:05:05 | https://www.camaracomercioespanacorea.es/en/information-of-spain.html |
As part of maintaining NYS PCMH Recognition each year, practices undergo an Annual Reporting process. This demonstrates that your ongoing activities are consistent with the PCMH model of care. You will attest to continuing to meet PCMH criteria and submit data and documentation. This new process is not as involved as initial recognition, but it maintains a practice’s recognition and encourages continuous improvement.
When Does Annual Reporting Begin?
Your Annual Reporting date is 30 days prior to your recognition anniversary date. All Annual Reporting requirements (data and documentation) must be submitted no later than 30 days prior to your recognition expiration date. Practices that are a part of a multi-site organization share the same Annual Reporting date, unless otherwise requested. The Annual Reporting date is based on the date the first practice achieves recognition.
Attest that they continue to meet PCMH requirements and perform a self-assessment to verify that they have continued core activities of the medical home.
Demonstrate that they are embracing measurement and quality improvement. In some cases, practices must submit documentation using the Q-PASS system.
Provide measurement data, if necessary.
To see the requirements and options for Annual Reporting, download the Annual Reporting requirements.
What Information Will I Need to Show NCQA?
Practices are also required to submit data and documentation for 12 additional criteria required by New York state.
Embrace PCMH and quality improvement.
After you earn recognition, continue to follow the PCMH model and activities. Continue with your quality improvement and performance measurement efforts. This will help during next year’s Annual Reporting.
Download the Annual Reporting requirements. Look at what’s expected after recognition.
Identify the requirements to submit ahead of time. Some requirements have a list of options that the practice may choose. Discussing and selecting submission options will help your team create work plans, and will help your practice perform well throughout the year.
Don’t wait until the month before your anniversary to submit. You can upload and enter—or submit—Annual Reporting requirements at any time during the year. If you can build submission into existing processes, it becomes part of your quality improvement activities. | 2019-04-19T05:13:52 | https://www.ncqa.org/programs/health-care-providers-practices/state-and-government-recognition/nys-patient-centered-medical-home/annual-reporting/ |
Diplomacy is often confined to high-level talks between world leaders. But improving relations between the United States and China needs a grassroots approach, and students will play a vital role in bringing the two global powers closer together. That was the message at a recent event held at American University’s School of International Service (SIS).
American University President Neil Kerwin kicked off the event and mentioned AU’s role in promoting student-to-student exchange. “As we speak, 22 of our students are studying in China. Since 2010, we’ve had 148 students from American University studying in China,” he said, adding that China is the largest contributor of international students to AU.
“We want our students going abroad, studying other cultures,” said SIS Dean James Goldgeier.
Several speakers emphasized the immense value of cross-cultural exchange between the two countries. Norman Francis, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, compared sending more American students to China to President John F. Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon. “We are involved in something in human capital and in human dimensions that I don’t think we fully realize,” Francis said.
Daniel Russel, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, described the need for first-hand learning in another country. “We have to learn how the world works. Not by watching on TV, not by looking at it through binoculars, but by getting out there and doing things, meeting people, and studying,” he said.
100,000 Strong started out as a State Department initiative announced by President Barack Obama in 2009. In January 2013, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the 100,000 Strong Foundation, which is housed at SIS. The conference, co-hosted by AU, occurred in conjunction with the fourth annual U.S.-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange.
With the goal of getting 100,000 American students studying in China, Chinese students already had a sizable head start. According to some estimates, 200,000 Chinese students come to school in the United States, while fewer than 27,000 Americans are studying in China.
The cost of studying in China can be a deterrent, Tanner said. And there are still cultural barriers and parental concerns, with some mothers or fathers more likely to have studied in Western Europe.
The 100,000 Strong Foundation aims to attract a more diverse group of students than typically study in China. This includes community college students, often with fewer economic resources at their disposal.
There was a strong presence of historically black colleges and universities at the conference. Xavier University of Louisiana is a historically black college, and Francis noted that the number of students taking Mandarin at his school has doubled. “These young people are eager. Eager to see the world, and eager to make a contribution,” he said.
Alyssa Briggs was a student ambassador at the 100,000 Strong Foundation event. She’s a senior international studies major at AU, and she previously studied abroad in Beijing. Briggs admits that she experienced culture shock living in China. But she highlights the people she encountered and learned from. “I got to know my Chinese teachers, and they’re some of the most incredible people I have ever met,” Briggs said.
Chen’s own experience illustrates the benefits of closer U.S.-China ties, and even holding conferences like this one. He ran into his former high school principal in Shanghai, Xiangdong Xu, who just happened to be in attendance at the 100,000 Strong Foundation conference. “I’m really, really happy to see him right here,” he said.
Please read the full article at the American University website. | 2019-04-24T09:48:44 | https://www.100kstrong.org/2013/11/25/american-university-news-strengthening-u-s-china-ties-one-student-at-a-time/ |
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Ok folks, I've thrown my hat in the ring and set up my Donor's Choose page a couple of days ahead of schedule (officially starts on 10/10/10). That means, of course, that we have a couple of extra days to raise money. I've got seven projects listed on my donor page, a few of which are very close to being completed. Let's try to get those knocked out folks, and then we can progress to the larger projects. I have a widget to my project on the right hand side (you may need to scroll down a bit) if you want easy access to my chosen projects. Give early, give often folks.
ETA: HP is going to match all donations up to a total of 50K. Kudos to them.
Thanks for encouraging others to be excited about learning and science. I am a kindergarten teacher and I love science! I think it often gets overlooked but there are so many great things to learn, observe, and experience in this world. Feel free to check out my science project too. It’s almost expired, but I’m not throwing in the towel yet. http://www.donorschoose.org/mrsradke. Check out Jr. Scientists and thanks for doing your part in helping us to teach the next generation! Blessings!
Crystal, I've added your projects to my giving page. Come on folks, let's get these done!
Also, did you know that tomorrow for 10-10-10 there is a donor that is matching donations when you go to a teacher's page and donate from there? For example, if you go to my teacher page via www.donorschoose.org/mrsradke and give from there, the amount is doubled. So, if you give $5, DC will give me $10. That's awesome!
So, all you great people with donating hearts, pick a great project, give tomorrow and it will count as double. Whoo hoo! We couldn't do it without you!!
I'm doing my best to get your projects funded. I saw you have one down, and one to go! $200 in 3 days, should be doable for sure! | 2019-04-20T16:46:12 | http://www.labspaces.net/blog/689/Donor_s_Choose |
Trenton Health Team thanks you for your generous donations. We have several ways to donate including mailing a check to us, employer contribution matching and donating via the web in the form below. Please read below for more information on each to determine which option is best for you.
Please use the form below to make a secure online donation, or if you would prefer to donate by mail, please send your check (and matching gift form, if applicable) to: Trenton Health Team, One West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608. | 2019-04-25T17:45:22 | https://trentonhealthteam.org/donate/ |
2019 Toyota 4Runner Redesign - The Toyota 4Runner has moved toward becoming on the world stage since 1984, the underlying emphasess of it have been only a pickup truck with a fiberglass raise incorporate included. It has the excellent rough terrain capacity there are a few experts available than can get them together extra on the off chance that you want to drive near the world in one.
Styling astute, the 4Runner 2019 will get a modest bunch of updates, specifically, it's viewed as that we'll see enhanced and overhauled LED lights at both the front and back, various guards and obviously, a restyled front grille – all giving the 2019 4Runner another show up in contrast with the antecedent. Suspect seeing a fundamentally the same as lodge (styling sensible) yet with refreshed and higher quality finishing trims, giving the presence of value rather than modest plastic materials.
We imagine that Toyota will shed the outdated 4.0 V6 from the lineup – it just essentially isn't profitable adequate for the present market, so rather we'll see a normally suctioned 3.5 liter V6 with around 300 BHP and 290 lb/ft of torque – enough for most situations, even in a vehicle this size. The motor will be matched to a 6-speed auto transmission and will drive the back wheels as normal with a possibility for driving every one of the four wheels for when the moving turns into a little more troublesome. In an offer to enhance gas mileage, it's viewed as that the 4Runner will likewise dispose of some weight, because of enhancing building parts utilized as a part of the body and suspension.
Literally nothing has turned out to be demonstrated, in any case, and we have not seen any government operative shots of the Toyota 4Runner 2019, however by all adjusts, we trust that Toyota will make a big appearance the 2019 4Runner in the early segment of 2018 at one of the greater automobile fairs, this will achievement the auto dealerships to the finish of 2018, perhaps as the past due as Sept ., without a moment to spare to be badged as the 2019 model.
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Each year, an estimated 5 million older adults are abused, neglected, or exploited. Today is known as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, which is intended to inform communities and individuals about the scope of elder abuse and educate them about how to prevent it.
On this day, communities around the world renew the commitment to preserving the rights of older adults, including the basic human right to live with dignity, free from abuse and neglect. The designation for the day was created in 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization at the United Nations, according to the Administration for Community Living website.
Abuse can take many forms. For example, older Americans lose an estimated $2.6 billion or more annually because of financial abuse and exploitation, losing funds that could be used to pay for basic needs such as housing, food, and medical care. Unfortunately, this abuse occurs in every demographic and can happen to anyone, including family members, friends, and neighbors. It is estimated that only one in five of these crimes are discovered, the website states.
Learn the signs of elder abuse and how groups can solve the issue together.
Prevent isolation. Call or visit older loved ones and ask how they are doing on a regular basis.
Talk to friends and family members about how all people can age well, and discuss how to reduce abuse with programs and services from law enforcement, community centers, and public transportation.
Sign up to be a friendly visitor to an older person in your community.
Send a letter to a local newspaper or radio or TV station suggesting coverage of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day or Grandparents Day in September.
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GRAND burglary Auto IV Complete Edition is an activity enterprise amusement. It is created under the pennant of Rockstar North for Microsoft Windows and other standard stages. It was discharged on second December 2008 and Rockstar Games distributed this diversion. It is the eleventh amusement in the acclaimed GTA arrangement. You can likewise download Grand Theft Auto Vice City.This amusement happens in the anecdotal city named Liberty City and it is 2008. You will play the character of Niko Bellic who is a war veteran. He is endeavoring to have an escape from his darker past. He is additionally facing the weight of advance sharks and the swarm managers. Niko Bellic comes to Liberty City to have his American dream. Additionally he finds the man who had sold out him in the war fifteen years sooner. The story goes ahead with many high points and low points in the life of Niko Bellic. There is an exciting ride in the storyline. GTA V PC Game is another diversion that you can download.
In Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition you will play in third individual point of view. There will be missions and straight situations you need to finish to push ahead in the storyline. As it is an open world amusement so you can move the character wherever you need him to. Player will utilize skirmish assaults and furthermore he can utilize distinctive weapons prepared by the character.
Amid the battle there are cover framework and auto-point which will help the player. Additionally there is multiplayer mode in the amusement. This diversion has numerous new increases in the highlights and furthermore it holds the essential highlights of each GTA portion. Inside and out this diversion is an extremely encouraging expansion in the arrangement and it is its very own entire bundle kind. You can likewise download Grand Theft Auto 3.
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Small, circumscribed, bilateral, beadlike enlargements on the vocal folds caused by overuse or abuse of the voice.
Synonym(s): singer's nodules, speaker's nodules.
Vocal nodules were treated with voice therapy for 6 weeks.
The commonly encountered benign lesions of the larynx are vocal cord polyps, vocal nodules, tuberculosis of larynx, laryngocele, laryngeal web, epiglottic cysts, and subglottic hemangioma.
Vocal nodules are generally caused by vocal abuse, and conservative treatments such as voice therapy have been advocated as a first-choice treatment for vocal nodules.
Such cases are common, for example, after laser resection of vocal nodules.
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Conclusion: Carbon dioxide laser causes early improvement in quality of voice as compared to cold instruments in the treatment of vocal nodules.
Finite element modeling of vocal fold vibration in normal phonation and hyperfunctional dysphonia: Implications for the pathogenesis of vocal nodules.
I have vocal nodules and lose my voice all the time," she explains.
The most common disorders resulting from vocal abuse and misuse are laryngitis, vocal nodules, vocal polyps, and contact ulcers.
As your child gets older, speech therapy may also help with the vocal nodules, which can worsen if your child has a loud or strong style of speech.
The team see cases of vocal nodules as well as swellings and polyps in the vocal folds, but luckily surgery is rarely needed.
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4 ounces weight of unsalted butter, cold!
Pour the sun-dried tomato through a strainer to remove the oil. Pat dry the tomato pieces. We don't need the oil.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
Cube the cheese, about ¼”. Shredding causes the cheese to disappear into the mix too much!
In a stand mixer using the dough hook, or by hand in a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cheese, tomato, and salt. Add cold butter cubes. Mix to work the butter into the dry ingredients, until it resembles coarse crumbs.
Pour in ¾ of the heavy cream, and mix until a soft dough just forms. Add more if needed. Hold back 2 tbs.
Place on a lightly floured surface, knead the dough several times, until it comes together. Roll into a 10” circle, no more than 1/2-inch thick. Too thick and the baking time goes up, to bake the inside.
Cut into 8 wedges and separate them. Place on the baking sheet. Brush some cream over them.
Bake for 20 min, then cover with aluminum foil. Cut a narrow triangle slice from one of the wedges, to see how wet the interior remains. Bake 5-10 min more, until the interior still shows a slight dampness, until the top is firm to the touch and lightly browned.
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With the search for the missing Indian Air Force (IAF) transport plane over the Bay of Bengal continuing without much headway, the Indian space agency has decided to postpone the testing of its air breathing engine to a future date, said a senior official.
“There are no signs of any IAF plane debris on the sea. The search is on,” a senior official of Indian Coast Guard said.
“The testing of the scramjet engine has been postponed without any timeline. We do not want to pressurise since the search for the IAF’s AN-32 plane is on over the Bay of Bengal,” a senior official of ISRO said on the condition of anonymity.
Officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had earlier said the scramjet engine would be tested this week.
During the testing, the air space would be required to be kept clear so that no plane comes in the path of the speeding up rocket and traffic in the sea is also stopped.
Aircraft and ships of the IAF, Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard are searching over the Bay of Bengal for any signs of the missing AN-2 plane, which went missing on July 22 with 29 people on board.
Officials said before the launch of any rocket, IAF, civil aviation and naval authorities would be informed about the rocket flight timings so that the air and sea are clear.
Traffic on the sea is stopped so that ships/boats do not come in the path of the falling burnt out stages/rocket engine or even the rocket when they fall into the sea.
According to ISRO, the scramjet engine will be tested on a RH-560 sounding rocket.
According to the Coast Guard official, there are no traces of oil on the sea surface that could be connected to the missing plane.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to conduct air-breathing propulsion experiment using its RH-560 rocket fitted with a supersonic combustion ramjet (Scramjet) engine on August 28 from Sriharikota.
According to ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar, while the test would take place on August 28, the GSLV-F05 rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engine would lift-off on September 8. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off on September 26. While these three missions would take place from Sriharikota, an Ariane-V launch vehicle from Arianespace will put India’s communication satellite, GSAT-18, into orbit from Kourou in French Guiana on October 4.
ISRO is looking forward to conducting the air-breathing propulsion test. The test was to have been done on July 28 but the search by the Indian Air Force and the Navy for the IAF’s transport aircraft An-32, which disappeared over the Bay of Bengal has delayed it by a month. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, has developed the engines to be used in the RH-560 rocket.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is readying to conduct air-breathing propulsion experiment next week using its RH-560 rocket fitted with a supersonic combustion ramjet (Scramjet) engine.
The air-breathing propulsion test would take place on August 28, The Hindu reported Thursday.Later, the GSLV-F05 rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engine would lift-off on September 8, ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said. Further, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off on September 26, he added.
While these three missions would take place from Sriharikota, an Ariane-V launch vehicle from Arianespace will put India’s communication satellite, GSAT-18, into orbit from Kourou in French Guiana on October 4.
ISRO is looking ahead to conducting the air-breathing propulsion test. The test was to have been done on July 28 but the search by the Indian Air Force and the Navy for the IAF’s transport aircraft An-32, which disappeared over the Bay of Bengal has delayed it by a month.
The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, has developed the engines to be used in the RH-560 rocket.
Chennai, Aug 28 (IANS) India on Sunday successfully tested its own scramjet or air-breathing engine with the launch of a rocket, said a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
"The mission was successful. Two scramjet engines were tested during the flight," the official told IANS.
He said that as scheduled at 6 a.m., the two stage/engine RH-560 sounding rocket took off from the rocket port located at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
He said the two air-breathing engines were like hugging the rocket on its sides and normally when the rocket reaches a height of 11 km the scramjet engines would start breathing air.
The scramjet engine, used only during the atmospheric phase of the rocket's flight, will help in bringing down the launch cost by reducing the amount of oxidiser to be carried, along with the fuel.
Later, the ISRO in a statement said: "With this flight, critical technologies such as ignition of air-breathing engines at supersonic speed, holding the flame at supersonic speed, air intake mechanism and fuel injection systems have been successfully demonstrated."
ISRO's Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV), which is an advanced sounding rocket, was the solid rocket booster used for testing the air-breathing engine.
The rocket weighed 3,277 kg during lift-off.
"India is the fourth country to demonstrate the flight testing of scramjet engine. The successful technology demonstration of air-breathing scramjet engines in flight by ISRO is a modest yet important milestone in its endeavour to design and develop advanced air-breathing engines, including engines for ISRO's future space transportation system," the space agency added.
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successfully testing the scramjet engine.
“The launch marks an important landmark in our space programme and demonstrates, yet again, India's capabilities in space launch technology. With this test, India has joined the select club of nations which have the technology of air-breathing engines,” Mukherjee said.
The ISRO said: "With this flight, critical technologies such as ignition of air-breathing engines at supersonic speed, holding the flame at supersonic speed, air intake mechanism and fuel injection systems have been successfully demonstrated."
India has become the fourth country/entity after the United States, Russia and the European Space Agency to have successfully tested the Scramjet engine. “The Scramjet experiment was conducted for 5 seconds between 55 and 60 seconds of the flight at 20 km height. The results are showing the test was gone as exactly as we predicted,” said K. Sivan, director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
The Scramjet engine designed by Isro uses hydrogen as fuel and oxygen from the atmospheric air as the oxidiser. “At the beginning, the engine was opened to inject the fuel. The Scramjet engine was ignited automatically. The injection of fuel lasted for seven seconds and all the duration the flame sustained at the supersonic speed,” he explained.
“The results showed we achieved the required thrust level. With this experiment, Isro and India can achieve very crucial and critical, complex technology which is useful for space transportation system,” he said.
The Scramjet is expected to bring down rocket launch costs by reducing the amount of oxidiser need to be carried with the fuel. For example, the GSLV rocket’s weight is 400 tonnes, half of which is the oxidiser, that will burn within a height of 50 km. “If we take oxygen from the atmosphere, the rocket’s weight will be reduced, efficiency will be increased as it can carry heavier payloads,” Mr Sivan said.
The total cost of the project will be around Rs 35 crores, while Sunday’s experiment cost Rs 3 crores.
How will it reduce the weight of the rocket?
In a 400-tonne GSLV vehicle, 85% is rocket propellants. 70% of the propellants are oxidizers which will be used to burn the fuel. Most of these oxidizers will be consumed within the 50 km height. The Scramjet engine will use the atmospheric oxygen as an oxidizer in the combustion process and the weight of the rocket at the liftoff stage can be reduced up to 50 per cent. This will reduce the cost of the launches as well. | 2019-04-22T04:46:26 | https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/2016/08/29/6645-raumfahrt---isro-verschiebt-raketenstart-mit-scramjet-engine-test-wegen-iaf-flugzeug-suche/ |
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Thanks for joining Sarah and me for Meatless Monday today. Ever feel like could use a little extra pep in your step in the morning or mid afternoon? Yeah me too! Enter these espresso oatmeal blueberry bites that will rock your world. They are filled with good for you yumminess in the form of oatmeal, blueberry and almonds.
I got the inspiration for these from a recipe I saw in last month’s Runner’s World but I think my version is way tastier. 🙂 These are naturally gluten free (using gluten free oatmeal) as they have no flour at all. These espresso oatmeal blueberry bites are not a muffin but more of an oatmeal bake on the go.
I’ve added instant espresso to give you just a little extra spring in your step and then loaded them up with healthy goodness. You will love this combination of blueberry, oatmeal and almonds as a breakfast on the go or a post workout snack. They can be eaten room temperature or warmed.
I wish you could smell how amazing the cinnamon and oatmeal smelled as it filled my kitchen. I use no added white sugar as these amazing snacks are sweetened with honey and apple sauce only which also keeps them moist.
I just linked up w @deborahbrooks @miss_whisk for @MealtessMonday come join us!
Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with this week! Thanks for joining us today.
I am not the hugest fan of traditionally prepared oatmeal but these are a game changer. Tell me what are you snacking on these days? Oatmeal yes or no?
Love the combo of espresso with blueberries! Bold and sweet all at the same time!
These look great Deborah! Love that they don’t contain any flour.
Oh man this is like my breakfast come true! Love blueberries and espresso!
Wow! These sound really good. I assume you could use regular oatmeal in place of the gluten free?
I tinker with those Runner’s World recipes too. I’ve tried a few of them and they are all a little lacking. Isn’t that weird?
Yes I think so too! And yes you can use any oatmeal just wanted to offer that as an option. thanks!
Ohhh these look delicious! And blueberries are so fresh right now! I need to make these.
These look amazing, Deborah! I love the addition of espresso. I can’t wait to make these!
Interesting idea of mixing espresso and blueberry! But I guess you eat blueberry muffins and coffee together, so why not!
That was my thinking exactly!
Yum!!! These look delicious! I’ve been loving blueberry lately 🙂 Happy Meatless Monday!!!
Those look amazing! I will definitely add this to my recipe list of things to try!
These look fabulous! I am going to make them this week, Yum!!!
Oh yes, what a great way to start the day, and week for that matter! Can’t wait to try these! I use to make mini bites for the girls with just oats, bananas, blueberries, and almond milk and add things into mine. I think I might do the same with these, not that the girls don’t like coffee, but I can do 3/4 of them and then just add in the espresso to the rest of the batter for mine.
Those sound incredibly good!!!! I’ve been on a huge oatmeal kick lately and would love to try those!
Thanks so much hope you enjoy!
These sound so perfect! I can’t wait to try them. Thanks for the link up!
These look amazing! I thought it was a muffin, but either way it’s all good to me! Looks like the perfect meal to start the day – I’ve never added espresso to food but I bet it does the trick!
Wow, I think you could sell those blueberry bites. Every blogger talks about steel cut oatmeal, but I still use the regular variety in cooking. I guess I need to get with it and buy some of that instead. This weekend I was busy making a coffeecake for a fundraiser for the homeless shelter in town and cookies for my book group Monday night. Neither item is healthy but cheating now and then should be allowed!
I am loving that you added espresso to these beauties…can’t wait to try and thanks for hosting another fabulous meatless monday link up!
And I bet they smell wonderful too!
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These sound so amazing! I love the idea of using espresso! It will give it the perfect kick! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for letting me know! I had no idea being able to comment was difficult. Now if you click on the post and scroll to the bottom, there are places to comment. Thanks again! ????
these are sooo cute! they look delicious as well!
I am definitely trying these!! Hopefully tomorrow. I have been trying to think of a healthy snack to take to work and eat that won’t leave a heavy feeling in my tummy after. These might be perfect!
I don’t have the espresso so I am going to try them without it and with the oatmeal in my cupboard. Hopefully that won’t ruin it too much:) Thanks!!!!
You can also use regular coffee or no coffee. Let me know if you like them!
Yum. I wonder if the espresso would get to my kids’ heads. Lol!
Ha ha you can use reg coffee or less coffee or no coffee. Good luck!
Yup. Will be making these this summer.
I wish you could smell them!
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These look perfect. I love the texture….or at least how I think it is. Soft and crunchy. Yumm.
Add these to my must make list.
Thanks Jill hope you enjoy!
The perfect yummy breakfast muffin!
You’ve pretty combined three of my favorite things–oatmeal, espresso, and blueberries! These bites look super yummy–adding vanilla and cinnamon seal the deal. Plus they are GF!
I’m such a fan of your recipes, friend! I have 2 packs of blueberries that I have hidden away in the fridge (I can never keep blueberries – they eat them in one day) because I wanted to make some muffins.
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These looks so tasty. Love the espresso addition!
Oh my gosh, these little Blueberry Oatmeal bites (with espresso!) are going to be my new go-to breakfast! They look so scrumptious! Pinned! | 2019-04-20T14:54:30 | https://confessionsofamotherrunner.com/2016/05/23/espresso-oatmeal-blueberry-bites/ |
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We have a few changes to the training schedule during April / Easter Holidays. See the full training schedule here.
The changes for w/c 25th March (due to Scottish National Age Groups taking place) can be found in the email below and in the attachment.
Normal week for most – but there may need to be a few small changes for ELITE due to British Champs taking place (tbc).
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Can I Buy Real Estate for My IRA?
Can You Use Your IRA to Buy Real Estate?
You can hold real estate in your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). However, just because you can do something doesn't always mean you should. This article explains what you need to know before buying real estate for your IRA.
First, understand that you can't just use any old IRA if you want to include real estate in your portfolio. If you want to invest in real estate, you need a self-directed IRA to get started, and a custodian that allows them.
When you have a self-directed IRA, you can choose from a wide array of investments, including real estate, art, and even race horses. However, if your account is with a bank or brokerage, the most typical IRA account custodians, you're unlikely to have this option.
To make these investments, locate a custodian that allows self-directed accounts. Your account custodian is the financial institution that keeps your account records and sees that you comply with IRS requirements.
If you have a traditional IRA, you can convert it to a self-directed IRA, by finding a new custodian (if necessary) and transferring the account.
You can convert traditional IRAs, SEP IRAs, Roth IRAs, 401(k)s, 403(b)s, Coverdell Education Savings (ESA), Qualified Annuities, Profit Sharing Plans, Money Purchase Plans, Government Eligible Deferred Compensation Plans and Keoghs to self-directed accounts.
Self-directed IRAs are more complicated, so seek a custodian that offers a higher level of service to ensure you meet all aspects of the Internal Revenue Code when buying real estate for your IRA.
When you self-direct and control your own investments, you must report the value of your investment every year to your custodian.
Self-directed IRAs can come with more complicated fee structures. Compare custodians, and make sure that you understand fully what you are paying for and what you'll be getting for your money. These fees affect the return on your investments.
To protect your personal assets from litigation when you hold real estate for investment, you may be advised to establish a limited liability company (LLC) to hold your properties, and that increases your costs.
Most investors buy income-generating rental property for their IRAs. Some choose to sell their primary home (excluding up to $500,000 in capital gains from their taxes) and convert one of their rentals to their primary home once they retire.
Note that your custodian is a neutral party. It can't advise you about what property to buy, so you'll have to do your own due diligence. A skilled real estate agent, attorney and perhaps an accountant or finance pro can be helpful here.
If you want more assistance, enlist a company that specializes in finding real estate for retirement investing. If you plan to buy and flip properties in your IRA, an IRA LLC (set up by an attorney) can facilitate the frequent buying and selling of properties, and even allow you to add and subtract investment partners.
If you need to finance your income property, the mortgage must be a non-recourse loan. That means the lender must not be able to go after you and your assets in the event of a default when the sale of the property doesn't cover the entire outstanding balance.
Many states require that mortgages on primary residences be non-recourse. However, that doesn't generally apply to mortgages on investment property. You can find such financing by asking mortgage lenders for non-recourse IRA loans. You should understand that the mortgage rates on these loans may be higher than current mortgage rates for traditional purchases.
In addition, you can't use any non-IRA funds to close on the mortgage, because it is illegal to co-mingle any of your non-IRA money with IRA account funds or assets. Finally, be cautious about adjustable rate mortgages. If your mortgage payment makes an unexpected jump, your account could end up short of funds and in trouble. A fixed-rate mortgage is a safer option when investing for your retirement.
Buying real estate with self-directed IRA funds is complicated, and managing it is expensive. There must be a compelling reason to jump through all those hoops. Here are the pros and cons of self-directed IRA real estate investment.
The biggest reason you might have for buying real estate with self-directed IRA funds is the potential for tax savings. Putting your real estate into an IRA allows you to defer its income from taxation until you withdraw it. If you put your investments into a Roth IRA, your investment gains accumulate tax-free and you can also withdraw them tax-free.
You have the freedom to buy or sell properties, and you can move funds from one property to another. You can purchase the home you want to live in when you retire, use it as income property for tax-deferred income, and move into it later. This lets you secure your post-retirement residence now, at today's prices, and fix your mortgage at current rates.
Many people prefer to invest in something with which they are familiar, like local real estate, than subject themselves to the fluctuations of the financial markets. While stocks can fall to zero if the company goes under, chances are a house may remain "in business" for many decades after you buy it. And you can insure it to protect yourself from hazards.
Rental real estate delivers income even if its paper value drops, as long as it stays rented. You have two potential income streams in play: the rental income and property appreciation.
You must follow many rules governing IRAs exactly, or you could find yourself paying stiff penalties. For example, you can use your self-directed IRA to buy the home you'll live in after you retire, but you can't live in it until you do.
You also cannot move property that you already own into your IRA. If you purchase an asset like a vacation home for your IRA, you can't use it for your personal benefit. This is called self-dealing, and could kill your IRA's tax status. In a worst-case scenario, the entire IRA becomes taxable. A 10 percent early withdrawal penalty also could apply. This is much harsher than the penalties applied to traditional IRAs, which generally are restricted to a 10 percent penalty on just the withdrawal.
Investment property in an IRA loses some of the tax breaks you might want now. For instance, you can't claim depreciation or deduct property-related losses from your ordinary income.
To take advantage of the IRA's tax benefits and avoid costly penalties, be sure that there is enough in your account to cover the expenses that come with owning rental property. Taxes, maintenance, management fees and other costs must come from funds that are in the IRA, including your annual contribution. Likewise, all income must stay in the IRA account.
Those with self-directed IRAs can earn more on their investments. But real estate, while relatively safe, is not completely fool-proof as an investment.
If investing in property ties up the majority of your IRA, you could find yourself dangerously under-diversified. To minimize risk, your IRA should be spread among several classes of investments -- for example, stocks, bonds, CDs and mutual funds. Real estate is more expensive than most of these other things, and if you tie up all or most of your money in property, you could earn less than you would in a diversified portfolio. | 2019-04-25T11:50:57 | https://www.hsh.com/homeowner/buying-real-estate-for-your-ira.html |
I may have mentioned in the last post that I've been living out of boxes for about two months. I feel like I've worn the same outfits repeatedly mostly because I can't find anything else. The addition of the chest of drawers helped my situation greatly though more organization is needed. Sunday, after we returned from our luau, we built my open design closet.
Initially, we had looked at IKEA for some open closets and even the PAX wardrobe system. I love PAX and all the features it has from lighting to jewelery trays - it's like a boutique in your bedroom. However, our current residence is temporary until we have saved for our forever home and the thought of buying my dream closet only to leave it behind if it didn't fit in the new house (whenever we find it) saddened me. PAX comes in different heights and the basement we're in now has 7 or 8 ft ceilings, which may not be the case at the next place. I'll wait for PAX as I wait for my forever home.
After many designs and redesigns I came to a simple solution: a bar across the wall with a shelf on top. My DIY open design closet was $70 at Lowe's with a 10% off coupon - this includes the brackets (I purchased 5 but only needed 3), the board, closet rod, and 2 types of screws. Still much cheaper than many of the current closet systems.
It's a work in progress but a step in the right direction. I'm also pleased that closet assembly took about 20 to 30 minutes, if that, it went up quickly and without any hiccups. With the extra brackets we plan on making another smaller closet in the room - maybe for coats. In the meantime, I'm gloriously going through boxes and finding all the things I've missed. I seem to need more hangers.
What are your favorite closet solutions or designs? Post below, please! | 2019-04-25T00:55:43 | http://www.misslize.com/2015/07/adventures-in-indiana-open-closet-design.html |
Following the ratification of the double tax treaty (“DTT”) between Cyprus and Spain on March 22nd, the new treaty will come into force three months after the exchange of official notifications and upon completion of the official exchange of the ratified documents between the governments of Spain and Cyprus.
Accordingly, the new agreement is expected to enter into force by this coming June.
The Cyprus tax authorities have indicated the benefits of the new DTT to be applied retrospectively with effect from January 1st, 2014.
Capital Gains from the direct sale of shares in “property-rich” companies will be taxed in the country where the immovable property is situated.
A Limitation of Benefits (LOB) provision was not included in the treaty; however, the Protocol clearly specifies that domestic anti-abuse provisions will apply.
With the new treaty in place, which complies with the international standards on exchange of information, Cyprus will also be removed from the Spanish “black list” of uncooperative jurisdictions. | 2019-04-24T01:55:11 | https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/new-double-tax-treaty-between-cyprus-and-spain-soon-to-enter-into-force/ |
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Office Depot and OfficeMax are now one company. We’ve come together to bring you the best shopping experience possible. OfficeMax at 1541 River Valley Cr N is the place to shop for office supplies, paper, ink & toner cartridges, breakroom & cleaning supplies, office furniture, and school supplies. Or visit us online at www.officedepot.com.
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Making both your job and the job of shopping easier? Now that's multi-tasking..
With a new layout and modern concept, OfficeMax has titled its updated in-store experience as "Advantage." All renovations certainly do work for the customer's advantage, as aisle-free checkouts shorten the lines to many minutes' worth of waiting, and self-serve bulk bins now group office supplies into mini categories for easy selection. However, the biggest advantage is still the OfficeMax stock. From papers and pens to desks and filing cabinets, OfficeMax supplies everything to look the executive part. Cool technology and gadgets give an excuse to play on the job. | 2019-04-24T02:18:10 | https://businessfinder.cleveland.com/officemax-lancaster-oh.html |
A Look at Health Care Spending in U.S.
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While health care spending accounts for roughly one-fifth of the U.S. economy, hospital care is by far the most expensive area, according to an Axios brief citing data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Hospital care on average costs individual Americans $3,357 per year, with professional services trailing behind at $2,733 per year.
According to the data, Americans spend on average about $1,019 for prescription drugs and $286 per year on home health care.
“And the cost isn’t going up because we’re using more health care, but because of the prices we pay for those services,” the Axios report states.
Click here to read more on Axios. | 2019-04-25T04:36:03 | https://www.healtheconomics.com/industry-news/a-look-at-health-care-spending-in-u-s |
My wife and I have been very impressed in our dealings with Kelita, we found her to be very professional, knowledgeable, mindful of our requirements and a real pleasure to deal with. Thank you Kelita!
Zofia was integral part in the sale of our property, she was fantastic throughout the whole process highly professional and motivated. Most importantly she was always communicating the state of progress allowing us to feel more confident and relaxed.
I received an excellent service from the whole team at Milton Keynes, but in particular, from Kelita, who dealt with all the visits, paperwork and calls. I would definitely recommend haart to others.I did in fact, buy the property from yourselves 19 years ago and the service was excellent then too, hence why I came back to you for the sale of it.Thank you all for your hard work making the sale for me.
Ellis, your service was extremely good as usual, always giving me feedback and finding me great long lasting tenants.Thank you for the good ongoing service, very much looking forward to working with you again in the near future.
Excellent service. The house was sold in 4 days for full asking price. Professional and helpful staff. Would most definitely use haart again without hesitation.
Kelita I'd like to thank you for all your support in helping me buy my new home, you personally have been brilliant throughout the entire process, the service you offered was great and very reliable.You always returned all my calls very quickly and never left me out of the loop by giving me updates when necessary.I would definitely recommend you and haart to anybody who is thinking about buying a new home without hesitation. Thanks again.
Kelita, as you know we recently purchased a house in Emerson Valley and I just wanted to say a big thank you. We were very happy with the service we received. You made us feel supported and most importantly updated throughout the process. You are very friendly, easy to talk to and at the same time professional. If it was not for you we would not have been able to arrange a viewing for this sought after property. You saw how much I wanted to view the property and made everything possible to find a slot for me to view it. I really appreciate that. Once our offer was accepted, you gave us helpful information regarding haart legal services and kick started the process swiftly.I would also like to thank Charlotte who was involved in the later stages of the buying process. She was very efficient at chasing various parties; our lawyers, vendors' lawyers, etc. Overall we are extremely happy with haart and the service we received and would highly recommend you to family and friends.Thanks again Kelita and keep up the good work.
haart estate agents were very helpful and made the whole process of selling my home completely stress free. I would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for a quick sale for your property. Adam in particular was very helpful and was able to get our house on the market in a very quick time period.
James, just a quick e-mail to thank you for your help and support throughout the selling process of my home, especially your understanding my limitations regarding viewings whilst I was home recovering from surgery.So far everything is proceeding well on my purchase and I will update you as and when necessary.Your help with my mortgage appointments was also much appreciated.Again, thanks for the communication. It helps to ease the stress during what is a very stressful time.
Kelita, I just wanted to say that since we have worked together for the past few years and I have found you to be very professional, helpful and considerate. You have assisted me throughout the whole process of identifying suitable properties, viewing, to the final sale and your support has made this process much easier to manage.Thank you Kelita for your endless enthusiasm and support.
Having never sold a property before I came into the process with lots of questions and no real understanding of how things work. I spoke with many agents in and around the area and I felt talked-at and given a hard-sell for the listing. When Cheralyn came to see the property I could see the difference straight away between haart and the other agents in Milton Keynes. Cheralyn took time to get a feel for the property and understand my reasons for the sale. She has completed thorough research to the area and knew what could be achieved and set my expectation. It put me at ease and I felt haart would be best placed to represent my interests. At this point I met her sales team who took time to come and view the property and understand every little detail which I loved about it which they could use within their viewings. James especially understood why I loved the property and was able to passionately portray this. The property sold within 4 weeks of listing; exactly what Cheralyn said it would for the asking price. All the way through the process I've been kept up-to-date with the process and I will definitely be listing my next property with Cheralyn and team. I couldn't have asked for a better team to represent me during this sale. They say that selling and or moving home is one of the most stressful things you can do, but with Cheralyn and team this couldn't be further from the truth. Thank you guys. I will be using haart Milton Keynes when selling my next property and have already recommended their services to friends and colleagues.
Kelita ,Charlie and James were all so friendly and most helpful with everything that I asked of them. I would highly recommend the all three of them to anyone looking for an agent.
It was a pleasure dealing with haart right from the first initial enquiry. Originally I had decided to go with a different agent but was surprised that Charlotte kept in touch. Which was nice, she wasnt pushy but kept a keen interest as to how my sale was going. When it fell through she was fortunately there to pick up the pieces and put my apartment on sale with you. As she said she would, she sold it very quickly. George showed people round the property and he was also a really nice guy to deal with I had viewed a house through him and he didnt fall short on that side of the fence either. Since then I have had updates regularly from the office with how my sale is progressing which is something I havent had from the agent I am purchasing through. Any emails are answered swiftly and they are always at the end of the phone if I need anything, a great service all round.
I chose haart because Adam, who was my first point of contact, gave me great confidence in haarts ability to market my home. Adam quantified hearts valuation with research of my area and also how my property would be marketed and informed the sales team of my requests.James whom conducted the viewings was extremely professional and personable. There was great communication from the beginning to the end, ensuring a very smooth sale. A very big thank you to all the haart team in Milton Keynes.
Dear all, I wanted to thank you all for everything that you did to help with the sale of my property recently. It was a tricky road but we got there and I know that at times I expected the best and you didnt disappoint me. You were all at some point involved with the sale so a big thank you to you. Polite, friendly, professional and courteous are just 4 of the words that I would use for each of you and I got a real sense that the team were on my side.
Having come to the market with you officially at the very end of April, I just wanted to say how incredibly impressed we are by the members of your team with whom we have had contact so far, especially since three sets of individuals were contacted and followed up and two viewings arranged even before the official start date.
We wanted to mention how particularly impressed we have been with our recent experience of Adam Hicks who has shown enormous persistence and dogged determination in following up interested parties and in obtaining feedback from them. Even after he had a wasted journey to the property this week, when the viewers failed to show, he went to their home address and tracked down their son (the potential buyer) in Hong Kong and continues to press for the viewing despite the rudeness and inconvenience they have caused him.
His description of his personal marketing technique has even ended up being quoted in his dissertation by our son who is at one of the UK's leading business schools, sponsored by Ernst and Young! Graham Nash too has showed real creative thinking and use of the psychology of marketing when describing his approach to us and we look forward to seeing him in action.
When I first spoke to George at haart in Milton Keynes he was very polite and professional and dealt with my enquiries very quickly. George arranged three viewings and always accommodated our wishes with the times of day, he was never pushy and I could always rely on him to call me back.One viewing which was at 7 pm on a Friday, George attended as well really going that extra mile and putting himself out and again on the Saturday we had two viewings. the following viewing resulted in us being offered the full asking price, i was of course delighted.I was also very impressed as George did all of this on a Saturday evening. he also gave me his mobile number and said I could call him over the weekend if I had any questions.
Today, George recommended a firm of Solicitors for us and asked them to e-mail us. I am very impressed with George, he is enthusiastic, professional and friendly and very conscientious in his work. | 2019-04-26T03:39:28 | https://www.haart.co.uk/branch-finder/milton-keynes/estate-agents-milton-keynes/reviews/ |
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It’s Hump Day, the week is half way over but we’ve got another edition of the Summer Mini Concert Series coming up! Tonight we’ll get into the music of Jeffrey Osborne.
Check out Jeffrey Osborne and our very own John Monds with a host of others September 22nd at An Evening of Soul Music Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. For more details visit our Facebook page, just click the link below! See you there!
Click on our Facebook page and share your favorite Jeffrey Osborne songs using the hashtag #MustPlay, we’ll be playing them all throughout the night to bring your evening to a close!
Here’s a LIVE performance from Jeffrey Osborne, it’s all #LoveAndRnB! | 2019-04-22T06:00:53 | https://mymajicdc.com/3801665/summer-mini-concert-series-jeffrey-osborne-2/ |
Discussion in 'Hot Deals - Find a Great Deal? Share It Here.' started by OzRay, May 10, 2014.
Mine arrived today and I discovered the lack of a laptop sleeve. As I never use a laptop in the field, that's of zero consequence to me. I do sometimes carry an iPad for quick postings to social media, there's plenty of room for that in its protective sleeve. It looks like the bag will be useful for days when I want to carry too much.
I put an E-M1 II with the 40-150 (+MC14) which can have the HLD-9 grip attached plus an E-M1 (ungripped) with with the 12-40 attached & other odd inclusions which can include the 60mm macro lens etc. And then there’s is room for other items in the front such as lunch etc as well. A tripod can be added (for pianos or selfies) & of course a drink bottle, like on this occasion. No tripod here though.
They're a damn good bag at that price and can take some hammer too.
While brousing EBoy I came across several great deals.
Just got a brand new HDL-9 for $149 (free postage) but also found this that someone may be interested in.
Good price! I've been out today with that combo and enjoyed myself apart for getting peed wet through with sweat!
Would they be grey or just a clearance name for a regular store? If a regular retailer then those HLD-9 grips could be left over bonus grips. I've seen grips go like that before.
Think he is a regular dealer/store with 100 percent rating and located in Melbourne and active since 2005. Just recently they were selling the mark II with free battery HDL-9's and these may be left-overs.
I remember buying the HLD-7 at a reduced price & then they were being cleared out at least $100 cheaper. Unfortunately, I seem to jump too soon & miss out on some of those bargains.
Hey, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have the E-M1II and HLD-9 for the grand total of AU$1550.00! I didn't notice the cashback until you pointed it out.
Beers all round if you're ever in Perth.
Half your luck! My wife has reminded me I'm not getting anything more (this year).
Lenses are in my sights though.
Digidirect have stock of the EM1X arriving tomorrow. $4399 with 2 X 32gb uhsii cards, a Sirix monopod and card wallet. Crikey.
Not sure why the monopod. The IS is so good!
Panning, support the weight of a 300mm?
Panning for car racing etc could be useful, but more likely with the new 150-400 lens since the 300 lens is not excessive in weight (I got to test one out recently).
DigiDirect now shows it as In Stock.
Went and had a hold at lunch time. Feels so good in the hand, much more natural than a gripped E-M1 mk II. Will have a play when I have more time.
Keep an eye on the Touch & Try dates (down the page) for one near you if you haven't been able to put your own SC card in yet.
Sweet deal with 24 months free at DigiDirect.
Congratulations. I wish I could cave for that & the 300 F4 lens too. | 2019-04-21T06:15:27 | https://www.mu-43.com/threads/for-australian-buyers.64346/page-46 |
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You make really nice photos, Valerie. It’s hard shooting in that bright desert sun!
Thanks, Tynan! I’m finding the only thing harder than midday dessert is midday ocean. So much glare. | 2019-04-18T15:31:14 | https://lavalerosa.com/2015/01/14/nothing-scares-me-anymore/ |
Obama Clinton both campaigned on protecting borders. Remember? I do!
Previous Post Left Democrat’s already losing control. | 2019-04-25T16:20:11 | https://dolly-world.com/2019/01/06/obama-clinton-both-campaigned-on-protecting-borders-remember-i-do/ |
As the basketball season comes to a close here in South Korea, I wanted to post a montage of two games we attended. I’ve even included footage of our home team, the Daegu Orions, winning one of those games — a rare sight indeed! The video also features my favorite parts of basketball in Korea: the strange mascots, generous audience contests and always entertaining cheerleaders. | 2019-04-22T20:31:59 | https://alexpickett.com/alex-and-chickpea-do-korea/a-look-at-the-daegu-orions-basketball-team-video/ |
DCViews: The first public demonstration of CCD-based Kodak Truesense technology integration will be shown at Kodak's exhibit at the Vision 2009 trade show held November 3 - 5 in Stuttgart, Germany. The demonstration is based on the currently available 1080p format KAI-02150 Image Sensor combined with TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern adding panchromatic, or “clear“ pixels to the red, green, and blue elements that form the image sensor array. Kodak claims a 2x to 4x increase in light sensitivity (from one to two photographic stops) compared to a standard Bayer color sensor.
Update: Here is the official Kodak PR.
Yahoo: Omnivision introduced its OV7675 VGA sensor to deliver optimized performance at a competitive cost for the high-volume OEMs developing mobile handsets for Indian and Chinese markets.
The 1/9-inch OV7675 uses 2.5um OmniPixel3-HS pixel with sensitivity of 1800 mV/lux-sec, significantly reduced noise and improved color reproduction. The OV7675 SOC sensor offers the full functionality of a complete VGA (640x480) camera, and is capable of operating at 30fps in full resolution. Its small form factor offers easy design integration for 6.5 mm x 6.5 mm drop-in replacement of VGA modules in existing handset designs.
The OV7675 comes in OmniVision's lead-free CSP3 packaging and is currently shipping in high volume quantities.
On March 6, 2009, Panavision Imaging, LLC, or Panavision, filed a complaint against [OVTI] alleging patent infringement in the District Court for the Central District of California. The case is entitled Panavision Imaging, LLC v. OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc., Micron Technology, Inc. and Aptina Imaging Corporation, Case No. CV09-1577. In its complaint, Panavision asserts that we make, have made, use, sell and/or import products that infringe U.S. Patent Nos. 6,818,877 (“Pre-charging a Wide Analog Bus for CMOS Image Sensors”), 6,633,029 (“Video Bus for High Speed Multi-resolution Imagers and Method Thereof”) and 7,057,150 (“Solid State Imager with Reduced Number of Transistors per Pixel”). The complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages, fees and expenses and injunctive relief against us. We expect to vigorously defend ourselves against Panavision’s allegations. The Court has scheduled a claim construction hearing for December 10, 2009.
Here used to be a link to the presentations from the recent Intertech-Pira Image Sensors 2009 conference (San Diego Oct. 13-16). A lot of interesting stuff!
Don also presents many other observations, some of them quite paradoxical. One of the graphs shows that Microsoft has filed about 10 patent applications on BSI technology. Personally, I have not seen any of them.
Another interesting presentation comes from DxO Labs on camera module self calibration. It presents very nice features but no word is said about the price to implement them in silicon - an important omission. Also, Gr/Gb imbalance section excessively downplays the alternative approaches to the problem.
On the marketing side, there is an interesting presentation by Sanyo on digital camera market, product trends and adoption rates. Toshiba presentation mainly talks about the market consolidation trend. The Strategies Unlimited presentation disappointed me a bit, as its many data labels from the charts are removed - looks like a teaser for the paid reports.
Toshiba announces its first BSI sensor. The 1/2.3-inch 14.6MP sensor is targeted to DSC and camera phones with video capability. The sensor is based on 1.4um pixels. Its video frame rate is 60fps at 1080p and 720p formats.
BSI approach is said to boost "light sensitivity and absorption by 40% compared to existing Toshiba products". Given already excellent QE numbers of Toshiba FSI sensors, I wonder how they can be improved by so much.
Sampling of the new sensor will begin in December and mass production will follow from the third quarter of 2010 (July—September). The new sensor will be produced at Toshiba's Oita Operations 300mm wafer lines deploying 65nm process technology. Initial production will be at a volume of 500,000 sensors a month.
Toshiba will continue to develop BSI products as a mainstream technology. CMOS image sensors are a focus product of Toshiba's System LSI business. Until now, their main application has been in mobile phones. With the new BSI sensors, Toshiba plans to expand their applications to include digital cameras.
Embedded: Toshiba team talks about importance of having a convenient GUI interface to camera module calibration. It appears that the article is supposed to promote Toshiba's ImaTuning tool, even though it's not called by name.
Digitimes reports that Nanya has been in talks with Aptina, Himax, Omnivision and Pixart for the possible release of foundry orders. Nanya is looking to maximize the utilization of its two 8-inch fabs by manufacturing image sensors.
Digitimes reminds that Powerchip and ProMOS have both stepped into CIS production at 8-inch fabs, both not very successful. ProMOS has been rumored to cease its image sensor activities, while Powerchip reportedly produces a small fraction of Omnivision products.
Digitimes: OmniVision has notified its customers to expect limited supply of its image sensors due to strong iPhone 3GS demand for the end-year holiday season, according to Digitimes' sources. Tight supply is not expected to ease until late November 2009.
Apple has increased Q4 orders for the iPhone 3GS to its Taiwan-based manufacturing partners Foxconn and Primax by 17-20%, noted the sources. Notebook vendors are gearing up to introduce new models following the launch of Windows 7 which will also tighten the supply of CIS, the sources added.
Yahoo, VentureBeat: Canesta announced it has raised $16M in additional capitalization. Joining returning investors Carlyle Growth Partners, Hotung Venture Group, and Venrock are two new strategic investors – Quanta Computer, the world’s largest manufacturer of notebook computers, and SMSC, a mixed-signal ICs vendor.
“The emergence of 3-D ‘natural’ interfaces in PCs – such as ‘touchless’ gesture controls – as well as other immersive applications, has been inevitable,” commented Jim Spare president and CEO of Canesta. “The implied endorsement and strong interest in 3-D imaging technology by the world’s largest personal computer ODM will encourage other players to adopt this game-changing technology,” said Spare.
In February this year, Hitachi and Canesta demonstrated a television with 3-D interface and natural “gesture-based” controls (ISW link).
For several video examples, see Canesta videos. The news log about Canesta can be found here.
Update: SMSC has invested $2M in Canesta. SMSC and Canesta have agreed to collaborate in the definition of 3-D camera solutions whereby SMSC can combine its connectivity technologies and systems expertise with Canesta 3-D sensor devices and software to accelerate the adoption of this technology. The two companies intend to create economic, integrated solutions to add 3-dimensional depth-perception to automotive, PC, TV, consumer electronics and other communications devices.
Electronic Design published Tessera team article describing reliability challenges with many TSV processes, while proposing Tessera CSP solution as a proven alternative.
Yahoo: CMOSIS disclosed that it uses Tower 0.18um process for its first off-the-shelf sensor CMV2000. CMOSIS selected Tower’s 0.18um process for its aggressive layout rules, allowing a novel pixel structure featuring a pixel size of 5.5µm x 5.5µm which is needed to stay close to a 2/3" optical format with 2.2M pixel resolution and form factor. The CMV2000 combines a pipelined global shutter operation that allows true correlated double sampling and a full-frame rate of 300fps.
CMOSIS estimates its target machine vision sensor market at ~$200M (CCD and CMOS combined).
Law360: Accolade has dismissed the claims of patent infringement against Aptina.
IEEE Spectrum put a special page with collection of articles and podcast about the controversy around the CCD invention in Bell Labs.
Yahoo: HDcctv Alliance receives the security industry's first license to SMPTE HD-SDI Standards, bringing the HDTV digital technology for video delivery over coaxial cable to the HDcctv Specification. The HDcctv Alliance members include CSST, Gennum, Stretch, AltaSens, blueCaps, Comart, COP UK, EverFocus, theHDcctv.com, OmniVision, Ovii, and Pixim.
Yahoo: ST unveiled its new 5MP CMOS image sensors family based on 1.4um pixels. The 1/4-inch sensors are based on 65/45nm process and said to utilize ST's unique pixel-isolation techniques to maximize the sensor's SNR.
The sensors allow 5MP cameras within dimensions of 6.5 x 6.5mm and a low module height of typically 5mm to enable ultra-low-profile handset designs. From the announcement it's not clear if EDoF and ISP are integrated onto the sensor die or they are separate. It appears that ST prepares a large product family with different types of integration and feature sets, including EDoF and AF VCM drivers.
All the sensors will include single-line or dual-line 1GHz Camera Serial Interface (CSI-2), as defined by the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) alliance, and the 650Mbit/s Compact Camera Port (CCP2) interface defined by the Standard Mobile Imaging Architecture (SMIA) group.
ST will offer standard-die and Through-Silicon Via (TSV) packaging in the 5MP family. The standard packaging will support cameras combining Chip-On-Board (COB) sensor connection and discrete optical components. TSV enables emerging technologies such as Wafer-Level Camera (WLC).
Engineering samples of the first of these sensors are available now, and the roadmap will continue with new product introductions throughout the remainder of 2009.
Reportedly these ST's 45/65nm based FSI pixels deliver better QE and SNR10 performance than BSI. This presents a problem for Omnivision to justify the added BSI complexity.
Stanford University held Symposium and Workshop on High Dynamic Range Imaging in September 2009. The selected presentations form this event are available on-line.
Thanks to S.S. for sharing the link!
Does CCD Idea Really Belong to Smith and Boyle?
IEEE Spectrum Tech Talk blog has two posts questioning Smith’s and Boyle's ownership of the CCD idea (Post #1, Post #2 with comments). The posts suggest that the idea originally came from their Bell Labs collegue Eugene Gordon.
Thanks to E.F. for sending me the link.
Update: As said in comments, there is another post saying that the CCD idea originator is Michael F. Tompsett.
The Engineer Online: UK Oxford University researchers presented Fast Pixel Shutter Imaging (FPSI) technology. They demonstrated the technology using a prototype built out of a digital micro-mirror array comprising a vast amount of individually moveable mirrors measuring 10um each. The mirrors can be toggled on and off and used as pixel-level optical switches. So each pixel gets individually controlled exposure.
Oxford group is working with researchers at Nottingham University on fashioning the technology into a single CMOS chip that could be integrated into small electronic devices, including mobile phones. Within six months they plan to unveil a mobile-phone-sized camera that can demonstrate FPSI.
In an interview with EE Times, Jérôme Meniere, chairman and CEO of DXO Labs, shrank the field of view and focused on DXO Labs' solutions for camera phones, and unveiled future research directions. DxO Labs also provides the calibration and tuning tools which allow the configuration of the ISP to be done more easily and at a lower cost.
Another marker of differentiation is DxO Labs' EDoF technology. DxO Labs said PalmPre smartphones and Nokia cell phones integrate its EDoF design.
Looking ahead, Meniere said he identifies several directions: "There are huge opportunities to help camera module manufacturers reduce their costs. The idea is to loosen some constraints that we recover and use at the image processing level. Typically, you can have a yield drop because the optic has been badly tuned. We can recover modules that otherwise would be thrown away, and here lies a huge gain."
Another direction concerns very high ISO, probably with associated noise reduction. Other possible directions were described in very general words, so I do not quote them.
DxO Labs, formerly known as DO Labs SA, was founded in 2002 as a spin-off of Vision IQ, a company in the field of computer vision. It currently employs about 100 people, including 60 percent in R&D, and has filed about 40 patent families.
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Electronic Design: Addressing lower-cost optical image stabilization (OIS) as a major goal, InvenSense has unveiled the first digital dual-axis pitch and roll (X and Y) gyroscope for camera phones and digital still cameras. The original announcement from over a month is here. The IDG-2000 family offers the smallest such devices on the market, housed in a 4- by 4- by 0.9-mm quad flat no-lead (QFN) package and integrating 16b ADcs. The IDG-2000 measures hand jitter across a wide frequency range of 0.1 Hz to 20 Hz with noise 0.033°/s-rms.
The 20Hz upper range looks too low to me, especially for zoom equipped cameras. However, it should work fine for wide angle low light situations.
EETimes talks about new Silicon Image camerIC-18 ISP IP core targeted to camera phones with resolutions from 5MP to 18MP. Ron Richter, director of business development at Silicon Image, tells all the nice stories about the new ISP capabilities while saying very little about small pixel-specific artifacts. I doubt that stand-alone ISP companies can survive in the small pixel times without a deep knowledge of this kind of stuff.
Update: Here is the official Silicon Image PR.
Update #2: EETAsia: Meanwhile TI has introduced two new members of its OMAP-DM5x family of coprocessors that claim to deliver 20MP capability and and 720p HD video functionality. The new OMAP-DM515 and OMAP-DM525 coprocessors offer 8MP shot-to-shot speed of 1.4fps in high-quality mode and 2fps in burst mode.
EETimes: In 2005, realizing that it needed a new engine for growth, Tessera has embarked on a bold but little-understood strategy that could pay huge dividends--or may simply fall flat. Since 2005, it has acquired five separate companies in the imaging and optics arena (Shellcase, Digital Optics, Eyesquad, FotoNation and Dblur). Call it Tessera's big gamble: It hopes to replicate success in DRAM IP, by assembling the pieces to boost the imaging quality and functionally for camera-based handsets.
But the company has already seen a slight setback for its Imaging and Optics division. Citing a fall in capital equipment spending, the Imaging and Optics group is projected to exit the year with about $12 million in sales for 2009, significantly down from $23 million in sales last year. The group missed its forecast in other respects. At one time, the Imaging and Optics division projected that its sales would hit $100 million by 2010. The group has now pushed out those ambitious $100 million sales targets to 2011.
With Nokia--ST's largest camera module customer--pushing for very low-cost modules and wafer level camera technology adoption, ST also began developing wafer level optics. In light of the challenges, checks suggest that the ST's wafer level camera was not reaching the same level of image quality, causing Nokia to become less aggressive in pushing its vendors to adopt a wafer level camera approach.
Digitimes: iSupply predicts image sensor market to grow from 1.3B units in 2009 to more than 2B in 2012. Shipments of image sensors to the automotive market are expected to more than triple, rising from 4.2M in 2009 to 14.6M units in 2013. In 2010, more than one billion image sensors will be shipped to the handset market, iSuppli predicts.
One can see that the photodiode extends well underneath the transistor region. Apparently, Omnivision did a great job to achieve lag-free operation with such a complex shape of the fully depleted photodiode.
The earlier Omnivision BSI applications, such as WO/2009/099483, WO/2009/09949, WO/2009/099494, WO/2009/099491 do not mention the extended photodiode profile. By the way, the last of these has an interesting part describing optimizations of the backside implant and the sensor's substrate thickness.
Tech-On: Sony single-lens 3D camera is based on the concept that it is possible to achieve enough stereoscopic and depth effects with an interocular distance of several millimeters. The concept, which is called "microstereopsis," was announced in 1995.
There are two major advantages in using the new monocular video camera. First, it does not cause disagreement between the focal point of the eyes and the intersection point of the lines of sight (accommodation-vergence conflict), which is typical of normal 3D images. Second, though it requires special glasses to view 3D images, the images do not split into two even without the glasses.
Carnegie Mellon University group spent some time on microstereopsis principle research at the beginning of this decade. The approach relies on human vision perception psychology when surprisingly small disparities between left and right eyes are adequate to stimulate binocular stereopsis. So, even if the stereo base is much smaller than 6.5cm, typical for human eye-to-eye distance, a good 3D perception can be achieved.
Albert Theuwissen publishes a nice blog post on CCDs in our personal and professional lives.
EETimes: Philips Research group integrated 8,188 single-photon avalanche detectors (SPAD) on a single die so that each SPAD is individually addressable. The Philips chip is a digital design with an integrated 8ps timer. It does not need a separate digital readout ASIC today's analog SPAD arrays require.
Philips engineers hope to use the chip as a block in a larger 8x8 array they plan to prototype by the end of the year. Such arrays could be used in medical PET scanners, new automotive night vision systems or high throughput DNA testers.
New Scientist: A team led by Edoardo Charbon, a professor from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (EPFL) in Lausanne presented their so-called "gigavision" sensor at an OMNIVIS 2009 workshop on Oct. 4 in Kyoto, Japan.
While Charbon's idea is new and has a patent pending, the principle behind it is not. It has long been known that memory chips are extremely sensitive to light. The charge stored in every cell corresponds to whether that cell is in a light or dark area. Memory cell is small, so for every pixel on one of today's sensors, the memory-based sensor could have 100 pixels. A chip the size of a 10MP camera sensor will have 100 times as many sensing cells if implemented in memory technology - hence the choice of the gigavision name.
Unlike the pixels in a conventional sensor, which record a greyscale, the cells in Charbon's memory-chip sensor are simple on-off devices: they can only store a digital 0 or 1, for which read either light or dark. To build a sensor that can record shades of grey, EPFL engineer Feng Yang, who presented the Kyoto paper, is developing a software algorithm that looks across an array of 100 pixels to estimate their overall greyscale value.
On the surface this sounds a lot like Eric Fossum's Digital Jot idea. Once EPFL patent application is published, one can see what is the difference. I'm almost sure that EPFL team is aware of the prior art and did something different.
Comments to the New Scientist article point that using of RAMs as sensors is known since 70s, so this part of the work is hardly new.
EETimes: Image sensor foundry HH NEC merges with Grace Semiconductor (buys Grace according to another article). Grace also has some image sensor history, when Cypress unsuccessfully tried to transfer its image sensor process to Grace few years ago. Since then Grace reportedly abandoned its attempts in image sensor area. On the other hand, HH NEC has entered image senors recently.
EETimes: At last week's GSA Expo Dongbu has quietly devised a CMOS image sensor and LCD driver IC that is being marketed under its own brand name. So, now Dongbu goes to compete with its own customers, such as SETi and Siliconfile.
Kodak: The 4MP KAI-04050 CCD, based on 5.5um Interline Transfer Platform, sets a new benchmark for 1" optical format devices, featuring full resolution frame rate up to 32fps. A Region of Interest (ROI) mode supports partial readout at even higher frame rates, such as 3MP in a 16:9 aspect ratio at 40fps, or standard VGA at over 90 fps.
The KAI-04050 will be available in both color and monochrome configurations. Engineering grade devices are currently available, and production availability is planned for Q4, 2009.
Kodak PluggedIn blog talks about the whole 5.5um pixel family, which includes 5 CCDs now.
Yahoo: CCD inventors Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics with the fiber optics inventor Charles K. Kao. The award's 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) purse will be split between the three with Kao taking half and Boyle and Smith each getting a fourth.
In its citation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Boyle and Smith "invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD."
Boyle, in a phone call to the academy, said he is reminded of his work with Smith "when I go around these days and see everybody using our little digital cameras, everywhere. Although they don't use exactly our CCD, it started it all."
He added that the biggest achievement resulting from his work was when images of Mars were transmitted back to Earth using digital cameras. "We saw for the first time the surface of Mars," Boyle said. "It wouldn't have been possible without our invention."
Yahoo: EV Group (EVG) announced that it has completed the installation of two automated fusion bonding systems for 300-mm wafers at a leading semiconductor foundry and at a major consumer electronics manufacturer. The GEMINI FB automated production fusion bonding systems will be employed for the production of BSI CMOS image sensors ranging from ultra-compact wafer-level cameras for mobile phones to larger form factor high-end image sensors.
Electronics Weekly: Samsung has licensed an image processing core from London-based IP developer Apical. Apical has developed Iridix imaging technology which provides local DR correction on per-pixel basis. The licensing agreement entitles Samsung LSI to integrate the latest version of Iridix into any of its semiconductor designs.
AZOM.com: Custom sensors design house CMOSIS has announced its first standard product. The 2.2MP CMV2000 imager is based on 5.5um pixel and designed to run at a frame rate of more than 300fps at full resolution. A unique feature of the CMV2000 is its novel pixel structure, which combines pipelined global shutter operation with CDS. This technique, pioneered by CMOSIS, yields a low noise level below 18 e-.
The CMV2000 integrates a high-performance 10bit column ADC on-chip. The ADC features a slow 12bit mode and multiple HDR modes.
Samples of the CMV2000 are currently released to certain CMOSIS customers. Full production will ramp up in early 2010. A 4MP version of the new sensor, named CMV4000, will be available to camera manufacturers beginning May 2010.
It came to my attention there is a new image sensor startup in France. New Imaging Technologies (NIT) is a fabless company providing both standard products, custom design and technology consulting-licensing. NIT is a spin-off from the French National Telecommunication Institute. Lead by Professor Yang NI, the research team has worked since 1991 on CMOS smart imaging devices for a large variety of scientific, industrial, automotive, biometrics and optical communications applications. Several tens of CMOS application oriented smart sensors have been designed and delivered.
The company has been granted with a R&D contract from the French Ministry of Defense through its DGA operation. NIT will design a specific CMOS imaging sensor using its proprietary wide dynamic range technology (so called MAGIC) to be coupled with an image intensifier for night vision application.
Also, NIT won a design contract with an unnamed major Japanese firm for designing a smart imaging sensor for mass market application. The sensor is said to use a 0,18um process from a large silicon foundry.
Thanks to J.B. for letting me know about the new startup.
MuTaka has brought to my attention a DPNet article in Chinese on organic image sensors - see comments to Tessera post. Unfortunately, I'm unable to understand most of the article, other than seeing that Fuji is making a good progress in the organic sensors.
Potentially, multi-layered organic sensors can over-perform BSI by a big margin. Their biggest advantage is that the dye absorption could be tuned to have very high QE in each of three colors, crosstalk can be minimized and each pixel location can detect and process all three color signals. Bayer sensors, on the other hand, get only one color per pixel, effectively discarding 2/3 of the incoming signal.
Process reproducibility and reliability. So far thin film organic photodiodes experience large variation, in comparison with silicon photodiodes.
Noise, primarily kTC noise. It appears that generic 4T pixel architecture used for kTC noise suppression is not applicable for organic sensors. Other techniques for the noise reduction should be developed for them.
If these challenges are solved, multilayered organic sensors would enjoy a bright future.
Yahoo: Omnivision announced that its OV9712, a native 720p wide-screen HD video image sensor, was selected by Microsoft for its next generation webcam. The 1/4-inch OV9712 uses a 3-micron OmniPixel3-HS pixel architecture. The sensor supports 30fps speed.
Yahoo: Tessera one more time announced its FotoNation FaceRecognition. Tessera acquired Fotonation at the beginning of 2008 for $29M (plus another $10M if some goals are met). By that time Fotonation already had face recognition product for sale.
I guess this announcement relates to an improvement version of it, although it's not clearly stated. The technology appears to be software based and available for a number of platforms, including COACH and ARM. No recognition speed or number of simultaneously recognized faces is mentioned, both being very important merits of the algorithm.
Sony announced the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording 3D images of fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at 240fps. A prototype camera incorporating this technology is to be demonstrated at at "CEATEC JAPAN 2009" in Chiba city, Japan, from October 6.
In existing 3D camera systems have separate lenses for the left and right eyes. However, when operating the zoom and focus functions of such systems, a complex technology is required to ensure that each camera lens is closely coordinated, and there are no discrepancies in the optical axis, image size, and focus. The human eye is very sensitive to differences in the size and rotational movement of dual images, as well as any vertical misalignment or difference in image quality. The introduction of a single lens system is said to resolve any issues that may occur as a result of having different optical characteristics for each eye.
The main idea appears to be that the images from left and right sides of the single lens are split, so one sensor gets the image from the left half of the lens, while the other sensor gets the right half image.
It looks to me that Sony could make much more compact design on the same principle, if it used a single stereo image sensor, such as one described in a recent Kodak patent application US20090219432. Kodak relies on exotic lenticular microlens in this invention, but the same idea can be easily implemented with regular microlens, although the exact reference to this implementation escapes me.
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You’ve no doubt heard this before. Someone facing a challenge or a crisis has done all they can do. And then it is said (often with some resign), “Well, it’s in God’s hands now; all we can do is pray.” But, what does the Bible teach us about prayer? Is prayer our last line of defense?
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Besides extending financial help to charitable organizations of all branches of medicines for various purposes in order to benefit the poor people, SJF has established many charitable hospitals in Bangalore and healthcare related schemes to address the need of proper and scientific health care among people.
The modern Indian naturopathy has evolved out of Ayurveda to which it owes its basic tenets that "All healing powers are within one's body" and that human body is a powerful living dynamo capable of self-preservation, without any help from external agents. Indiscriminate drugging as such does more harm than good, with its dangerous side effects."
This age old line of medicine though prevalent is not widespread; in order to spread awareness, educate and serve the people in a drugless manner, SJF established Jindal Naturecure Institute (formerly INYS) in 1979. It is a matter of satisfaction that our humble attempt in the shape of Jindal Naturecure Institute has achieved recognition par excellence world over with regard to drugless healing.
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Manav Charitable Hospital is a full-fledged allopathic general hospital mainly for outpatients established to meet the medical needs of rural BPL patients around the vicinity of Jindal Nagar. It is well equipped with latest and sophisticated diagnostic equipments including a modern pathological laboratory. Well trained medical and para-medical staff render services in various specialties like eye, ENT, dental, skin, orthopaedics, gynaecology etc. The hospital is well equipped to take care of even certain emergency. Several thousands of people living in neighbouring villages who were so long deprived of basic medical facilities are benefited. Services like consultation, dispensing of medicines, operations etc. are given free regardless of caste, creed, religion, status etc. Eye operations are also done free of cost. Eye glasses and IOL are also provided free of charge. In addition, the hospital is rendering complimentary services in the field of family planning, child immunization and health education. Presently there is a turnout of nearly 1000 out patients per day.
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This website is operated by Belle Garden Estate, LLC 1639 Poteet Rd. Wirtz, VA 24184. All other feedback, comments, requests for technical support and other communications relating to the Sites should be directed to: hello@bellegardenestate.com. Thank you for visiting the Sites! | 2019-04-24T06:15:42 | https://www.bellegarden-estate.com/terms-and-conditions |
The Tropenmuseum is an ethnographic museum founded in 1864. One of the largest museum in Amsterdam, it accommodates 8 permanent exhibitions a year. Not only does the museum have permanent exhibitions but also has an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions, including modern and traditional visual art.
The museum houses 175,000 objects, 155,000 photographs, and 10,000 drawings, paintings, and documents. These objects are split up into many collection and from many geographical areas such as Asia, Africa, Latin American and so forth. The photography collection consists mainly of historical photographs of the former Dutch Colonies from 1855–1940.
As part of the Dutch Museum of World Cultures, the museum is one of three museums that aids the in artistic development and celebration in the Netherlands. | 2019-04-23T12:37:42 | https://museumnetwork.sothebys.com/en/museums/tropenmuseum |
Saturday evening, police met with a woman in reference to a juvenile runaway.
The woman told police that her son, who is a juvenile, had been missing from home since Friday, Feb. 10. The woman said the last time she saw the child was at lunch time at WO-S High School.
The woman stated when she returned home after work, she noticed the juvenile was not home, and that she called her sister, who stated she last saw the juvenile at a home on Ruby Ln. at approximately 5:00 pm.
When asked, the woman stated that she believed the juvenile had gone to a friend’s house in Kirbyville. At this time, she completed paperwork reporting her son as a missing person.
Officer Jeffery Busby later spoke with an adult at the residence in Kirbyville. That person told police that she had the juvenile in her custody, and would take him to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office and release him to them.
The juvenile was later released to his mother. | 2019-04-25T23:56:52 | https://therecordlive.com/2012/02/13/missing-orange-teen-turns-out-to-be-runaway/ |
This house / villa (country house) contains 4 rooms including 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. it is equipped with a fitted and with a cellar. heating : collective. | 2019-04-18T23:22:04 | http://en.action-habitat.com/annonces/achat/maison/najac-12/134816861.htm |
People Are Fleeing California and Going To THIS State! Can You Guess Which?
Do you think taxes and housing costs are playing a BIG role in why people are moving?
America is going through some serious challenges today. The wealth gap has never been great. The amount of billionaires continues to expand and the amount of people sleeping on the streets does as well. The stock market is looking shaky and so does housing. After a decade on non-stop gains, why then are pension funds going broke along with most major cities and states? Something isn’t right.
Does anyone realize that there is currently a globalized movement to ban memes? | 2019-04-25T04:13:04 | https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/people-are-fleeing-california-and-going-to-this-state-can-you-guess-which/ |
Amped & Co® is now offering a 30 day return policy for new and unused items purchased directly from ampedandco.com, ampedandco.ca or mycinemalightbox.com.
A refund or exchange on your purchase is available for all regular priced items, excluding sale items and promotional periods. Discount codes used at check-out are included.
Refunds are applied within 7-10 business days of receiving the return. We will contact you directly with the email address provided in your RA or support ticket. Amped & Co reserves the right to approve or reject refund requests at their discretion if returns fall out of policy. Please follow steps under the return policy to initiate an RA.
For damaged and used product refund requests: please provide proof of defect when requesting a refund on opened and used products. Contact support with video or photo evidence of damages or defects within the warranty period. Refunds will only be generated, once approval is confirmed.
All product exchanges on new/unused items requested within the 30 days of the policy will be accepted. We get it, sometimes you change your mind and prefer something else! Review the return policy for return for more info and contact support to start the exchange process.
c) Photo of the product code for replacement. On lightboxes this will be found on the back of the product. For other items on the packaging.
d) Keep all packaging, receipts, packing lists, and shipping box until the claim is resolved.
To be eligible for a qualified return, your item must be unused, and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.
Our fulfillment centre does not accept opened or used product, and we will not be notified of returns that are not added back into inventory. A refund or exchange on a return will be generated once the unused item has been received and processed back into inventory.
Please allow 10 business days for order processing and $2.95 per item restocking fee. Extra shipping costs are non-refundable.
Amped & Co is not responsible or liable for items returned in open and/or used condition. Items that are not in resellable condition and cannot be returned to inventory are destroyed.
If a neon product has been opened and not re-packaged perfectly, there is a high possibility that your return will arrive broken from damage in transit. We limit the returns to unused products. If any product is returned in unsellable condition we reserve the right to forfeit a refund. Please use the same packaging, or if not possible, ensure the box is stuffed well with no room for movement in the shipping box when sending back a return. Void fill all empty spaces. For all real neon returns, we recommend taking a photo showing the glass in the foam (not broken) prior to shipping. In case it is broken on inspection, we can open a shipping damage claim with Canada Post.
All returns must be authorized through the help desk support ticket system. We will provide you with an RA (return authorization) number and return address instructions.
Please note, in most cases the buyer is responsible for paying return shipping costs. Due to our limitations with fulfillment we are unable to provide pre-paid return labels at the moment. If this is a concern please contact customer service, we are here to help! Shipping costs are non-refundable. A trackable shipping service is recommended, without proof of a return we cannot guarantee that we will receive your returned item. | 2019-04-25T19:41:10 | https://ampedandco.com/pages/return-policy |
High quality, aromatic oil with a slight garlic flavour obtained from pressing olives and garlic jointly at low temperatures. This oil combines the nutritional benefits of both ingredients in one dressing.
Especially recommended for salads, toasts, soups, pasta, stews and other dishes you want to refine with garlic flavour. | 2019-04-18T22:26:13 | https://oliveolives.com/en/product/la-masrojana-garlic/ |
The GeoCat Models are dewatering boxes that use disposable filter media. The GeoCat is designed to be used with sticky, slimy, slightly oily, non-uniform, non-specific, colloidal, or simply hard to dewater sludge where flocculation is not an option. The GeoCat is also useful for dewatering operations in which the residual sludge cake would present a clean-up issue, as the disposable filter is discarded with the filter cake.
They are a cost effective way to collect, dewater, transport and dump all kinds of sludges, slurries, and wet solids. | 2019-04-23T12:47:26 | http://parkprocess.com/index.php/products/dewatering/entwaesserungsanlage/geocat |
Dr. Barrington’s primary appointment is as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychosocial & Community Health in the School of Nursing and also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Services as well as Interdisciplinary Faculty in the Nutrition Sciences Program in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. The focus of her research is to evaluate to what degree social position, structures, and systems perpetuate cancer health disparities via screening, stress, obesity, and related behaviors. Dr. Barrington’s research falls within two main schema: promoting healthy communities and racial disparities in clinical outcomes. She is using advanced methods including multilevel modeling and causal mediation analyses to explicate these relationships and is engaging in community-based participatory research to promote the health of vulnerable communities. Dr. Barrington teaches Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity as part of the core curriculum for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program as well as Introduction to Epidemiologic Methods as part of the Master’s in Public Health program. | 2019-04-21T10:07:51 | http://cpcrn.org/2018/04/02/wendy-barrington-phd-mph-university-of-washington/ |
A marketing and sales consultancy.
We’ll bring your audience to life. Through audience workshops, interactions, and a bit of supporting data, MarketLogic will help you dig a little deeper. It’s imperative you know your audience intimately before you can expect to attract – and retain them. We will summarize their demographics, we’ll tell you their interests, how they spend their free time, where they go to look for information. And we’ll launch them to your internal team. Learn more.
For marketers and business leaders looking to develop or augment their sales and marketing plan to reach their organizations’ goals and objectives, MarketLogic is the only consulting agency in the area that focuses solely on the planning and acquisition process. MarketLogic provides its expertise in marketing and sales strategy, providing businesses – both small and large – with a plan for execution – no strings attached. Unless you want them. | 2019-04-22T22:15:37 | https://marketlogic.blog/what-we-do/audience-personas/ |
Why are there barriers in entrance and exit of the motorway?
Motorway fees are calculated according to the distance covered. There are barriers in the entrance for passenger who wish to pay in cash to purchase tickets and for passengers who have problems with their OGS/HGS cards to be able to pass through. On the exit points, there are barriers to ensure controlled passage especially in cash tolls and to prevent passengers who experience problems with their OGS/HGS cards (due to unsufficient balance or electronic problems) being subject to unauthorized passage penalty.
Can I pay the motorway fee with my Credit Card or Debit Card?
Of course, depending on the distance covered, you can pay with your Credir Card, Debit Card or in cash?
Is there any speed limit when passing through the tolls?
Speed limit at tolls is 20 km/s. You should maintain the following distance with the leading vehicle in case that it suddenly stops.
How can I calculate the fee to be paid according to the distance covered?
Go to www.ysskoprusuveotoyolu.com.tr to calculate the current motorway fees by using the Fee Calculator on the home page.
What happens if I can’t pay when passing through the tolls? What should I do afterwards?
In such case, you will be issued a Illegal Pass Notification for your vehicle. In order not to face a 4-fold penalty, in addition to the regular passage fee, you should make payment by visiting any of the branches of Ziraat Bankası or Halkbank within 15 days by presenting your “License Plate Number” and “Illegal Pass Number”, if any.
For more information call our call center at “0850 502 7100” or go to www.ysskoprusuveotoyolu.com.tr to use Illegal Pass Query and Online Payment system.
What happens if I am not able to pay the fee indicated on the Illegal Pass Notification on time?
If you are not able to make the payment by visiting any of the branches of Ziraat Bankası or Halkbank within 15 days following your exit the motorway, you will be subject to a penalty of 4-fold of the passage fee + the regular toll passage fee, Notification Fee, Attorney Fee and other expenses. For instance; 10 TL passage fee + 40 TL penalty and you need to pay 50 TL. In addition, if legal proceeding was initiated, counsel fee, docket fee, notification fee, stamp duty and legal interests will be added to this amount of 50 TL.
I do have an OGS/HGS card (automatic passage). Can I pay using my OGS/HGS card?
We do have OGS tolls on the motorway. You can use OGS or HGS lanes on the motorway according to your ticket type. When you exit the motorway, your OGS/HGS balance will be inquired and payment provision will be received from your bank, allowing you to pass the toll. Please lower your speed under 20 km/s and maintain the following distance with the leading vehicle. If no provision is received for any reason (unsufficient balance, communication error etc.), plase wait on the exit lane and you can pay by using your Credit Card or Debit Card or in cash with the assistance of our toll officer.
I do have OGS/HGS card. What should I do if the barrier at the entrance doesn’t open?
All of the entrance tolls have ticketing system. In this case, press the button on the ticketing machine to take your ticket and continue your trip on the motorway. On this ticket, your license plate, code of the entered toll, date and hour of entrance will be indicated. On the exit, you should proceed to the cash tolls and pay your fee with your Credit Card, Debit Card or in cash. If you experience the same problem continously, you need to change your OGS/HGS ticket.
How can I pay the passage fee on the motorway?
If you have OGS/HGS card, according to your ticket type, you can pay by using the dedicated OGS or HGS tolls. If you do not have an OGS/HGS card, please take your ticket at the cash tolls to enter and pay the passage fee with your Credit Card, Debit Card or in cash at the cash toll before you exit.
Is there any help line which I can call in case of emergency on the motorway?
In case EMERGENCY when travelling on the motorway, including accidents, injuries, fire etc., you can call 161 Motorway Emergency Help Line which operates 24/7 to ask for help. This is a free line. You can also call for free 112 for Emergencies, 155 for Police and 156 for Gendarmerie.
What type of vehicles are required to use the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge and Northern Marmara Highway?
As per the decree of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Transport Coordination Center dated 19.08.2016 No:2016/5-1; vehicles carrying chemical substances and vehicles of class 2, 3, 4 and 5 are required to use the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge. | 2019-04-19T19:20:58 | https://www.ysskoprusuveotoyolu.com.tr/EN/icerik/sss-58 |
You will really have some problems if you are experiencing a leaking tap or a jammed pipe. You can just imagine having to be up early in the morning because of a leaking tap. You will really be having a lot of stress and be really frustrated when that day will happen. The problem will really get worse if you will not find someone that can help you with the problem. However, you should not worry about a thing. | 2019-04-18T10:30:42 | http://www.topbiz.us/category/internet-services |
In this paper, we consider a sensor network with limited sensing range and present a sensor selection algorithm for multi-target tracking problem. The proposed algorithm is based on the multi-Bernoulli filtering and a collection of sub-selection problems for individual target. A sub-selection problem for each target is investigated under the framework of partially observed Markov decision process. Each sub-selection problem is solved using a combination of information theoretic method and limited sensing range. Numerical studies validate the effectiveness of our method for multi-target tracking scenario in a sensor network.
Kim, D.Y. and Ma, L. and Jeon, M. 2015. Multi-Bernoulli filter based sensor selection with limited sensing range for multi-target tracking, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS), Oct 29-31 2015, pp. 74-79. Changshu, China: IEEE. | 2019-04-20T18:38:03 | https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/14146 |
Are you and your partner drifting apart? Do you lack time together? Are you having issues with trust and honesty? Do you feel that you have different priorities? Do you need more support? Do you lack intimacy? Are there issues with aggression?
Getting married? Anxious about the big step you are about to take? Do you wonder? Is this the right decision for me? Can I live with this person for the rest of my life? Have we discussed our plans for the future? Are we compatible?
Do you struggle to get out of bed? Find it hard to concentrate, focus and have a poor memory compared with before? Do you feel down more days than not? Find it hard to eat or eat for comfort? Experience sleep disturbance?
Are you worried all the time? Feel your heart racing, find it hard to breath? Do you feel butterflies, sweaty and tense when you have to face certain situations? Do you avoid certain situations as they seem terrifying or make you feel panicky?
At Creating Change, we provide psychological intervention and counselling for adults, adolescents (16 yrs), couples and families using a skill based, supportive and non-judgemental approach. We will explore strategies to better manage symptoms and identify and address barriers towards your progress. | 2019-04-21T02:24:01 | https://www.startlocal.com.au/health/psychology/nsw_sydney/Creating_Change_Psychology_Counselling_2851018.html |
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