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Into the future and beyondfor St Philip's Christian College
Nelson Bay (Tomaree Peninsula areas)
by NOTA - December 21, 2016
Building of the new state of the arts senior school building will commence in 2017. Photo supplied
We come to the end of our four-part series on St Philip's Christian College, Port Stephens and at this stage we see the College propel into a new season of growth and success.
Last year the College was in a fortunate position with a HSC Student, Brandon Smith, making the "HSC All Rounder" list.
The Board of Studies rewards students with the honour of being on the "All Rounder" list if they obtain a Band 6 across 10 units.
This year the College has the pleasure of announcing back-to-back success with the news of Grace Kim being on the All Rounder list for 2016, joining the top students of NSW in this honour.
"It is a great encouragement to the staff at St Philip's to see students perform at that level," Principal Dr Tim Petterson told Bay News Of The Area.
"Even more satisfying is seeing students achieve a higher level of success than they previously thought they would," Dr Petterson said.
"Helping students to realise their potential is a key driver of what we do here at the College," he added.
When it comes to success, the college is seeing many new plans unfold including the opening of "Narnia" a Christian Preschool and Early Learning Centre, scheduled for opening on January 16, 2017.
With the motivation of the College being whole-of-life educators, Narnia will educate the children from 0-5 years.
This means St Philip's Christian College now has the opportunity to educate the children from 0-18 years old.
In 2017, the College has plans to begin the construction of a state-of-the-art building designed specifically to meet the needs of Senior Students.
At a cost of 7.5 million dollars, the three-storey building will be situated behind the current basketball court.
The top level will consist entirely of a study common room for the Year 11 & 12 students with panoramic views over the surrounding bushland.
The second level will consist of eight senior classrooms.
The ground level will contain a Café and a two-storey lecture theatre equal in comparison to any modern university as well as an undercover seating area.
"There is a master plan written for the next season of the College and that is to accommodate 1200 students over the next 10 years," Dr Petterson said.
"It is something we are very excited about not just for ourselves but for the families of Port Stephens," Dr Petterson added.
One thing for sure is that the best is yet to come in the life of the College, and it will be wonderful as a local community, to be eyewitnesses to its journey.
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It's nearing the end of the year…can you believe it?!!
In the lead up to Christmas remember that it doesn't need to be a time to stuff yourself silly on foods that make you feel bloated and yuck. It can be a healthy, delicious and enjoyable time with loads of whole food treats and meals to share of greater nutrition value and flavour without the awful feeling post meal. Please come in and see me for an appointment or ask if you are wanting help to ensure that you can enjoy your Christmas without the feeling of being bloated and hungover on sugar.
I'm really excited that I have been invited to assist in facilitating a juice fast in Bali, with Tyler Tolman and Don Tolman, before the year is out. Wow! What an opportunity! This father and son pair have a passion for whole foods and fasting with an emphasis on the 7 principles of health. Don has spent many years researching different cultures and their practices surrounding health. Both have the most amazing knowledge and brains. A wealth of information!
I leave for Bali tomorrow and I have been working my body towards a juice fast over the last 3 days. These initial steps of transitioning to raw allow the body to begin detoxing with lighter, cleaner foods before stepping in to the realm of just juice and water. For the first 2 days I have eaten only raw foods (eg. raw zucchini pesto pasta, lots of fresh fruit (watermelon, peaches, pineapple), dairy free/sugar free smoothies, acai bowls, lightly steamed broccoli, kombucha, etc). Today I have transitioned on to juices and will continue on that while taking a colon cleanse powder blend with bentonite clay in it, to assist in drawing toxins out. It goes without saying that hydration is key also! I always have 1L of water upon waking and ensure that my fluids are kept up during the day. I am consuming an easy 3L plus per day at the moment.
I will stay on this juice cleanse prior to arriving in Bali as I am wanting to be at my best to assist in the facilitation of the juice fast (i.e. I don't want to be detoxing myself). I am there to support others during their fasting experience and therefore want to be feeling on top of things by Saturday. It is common to find the first 3 days of juice fasting the most challenging, hence why I have started on raw and transitioned to juice in the week leading up to the community juice fast in Bali, beginning on Saturday.
The group of people gathering together in Bali will be from all walks of life, with different health histories and different daily practices. The detox symptoms of each and every one of them will be different. If you are choosing to join us via the virtual online juice fast, please remember this and be kind to yourself. We are all unique.
Fasting gives the digestive system a break allowing it to rest and repair. This regenerates the organs and gives the body an opportunity to cleanse. With the emphasis on the 7 principles of health (hydration, air, exercise, whole foods, passions, relationships and sunshine) along with enemas the body is able to cleanse and repair. A can't wait to support and share in this experience with others, over the next week!
I am looking at facilitating a juice fast in Cairns next year. It is such a perfect location surrounded by delicious tropical produce. If you are interested in joining the juice fast or have a great idea for a venue please reply below, comment on my Seeds Of Health Facebook page, email (janellecarolyn@gmail.com) or call me (0438 733 103).
Tyler and Rachelle Tolman have hosted many online juice fasts this year allowing the online community to grow with 1700 members currently. It is a place where you can ask questions and share your thoughts. A perfect platform to fast from if you are unable to join us in person. Good luck if you're choosing to join us on this amazing journey of fasting, which starts this Saturday!


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How 'Little Women' Star Florence Pugh Paid Tribute to Late Nick Cordero Following His Death
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Actor and musician Nick Cordero recently passed away. To honor the death of the Broadway star, Florence Pugh, from "Little Women," shared a clip of one of his last performances.
Hollywood mourns the death of 41-year-old Nick Cordero, who suffered complications following his treatment of the coronavirus.
Pugh's post featured Cordero on stage, entertaining a cheering audience. Her caption gave an insight into the events surrounding the deceased and his family before his death.
Nick Cordero and Amanda Kloots at the 2017 Drama Desk Awards on June 4, 2017. | Photo: Getty Images
Pugh first called Cordero one of the "great ones," and a "friend," then she shared how the Broadway star and his wife of three years, Amanda Kloots battled the virus since March.
Though Kloots tested negative, she has been at her husband's bedside for about 90 days, and through the different stages of his health after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The caption under the post revealed that the 41-year-old had no pre-existing condition and that during his April performance showed via the clip, his woman, who was 7-months pregnant at the time, enjoyed her husband's onstage performance. In conclusion, she said:
"It is so shocking and devastating to see one of your own come down as hard as he did...What can WE do to help?… Help the world by continuing to take this virus seriously."
Pugh advised her Instagram followers to wear their masks, practice social distancing, and regular hand washing. Sources reported that Cordero died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, on Sunday at 11.40 am.
His wife shared an emotional post of her deceased husband, who is also the father of her 1-year-old son, Elvis Eduardo.
A GoFundMe account was set up to take care of her husband's medical expenses.
Her post showed that she was grieving on the inside, as she mentioned this, but also felt peace as she believes Cordero is in heaven. Kloots stated that he was a fantastic entertainer and father. She went on to thank those who have supported her family.
The mother of one has been consistent in filling the public in on details concerning her husband's health right from day one when he was admitted to the medical center.
Amanda Kloots Says Husband Nick Cordero Is out of Coma
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As time went on, Cordero's situation in the hospital became critical. He suffered two mini-strokes and had some of his body parts amputated. Kloots' family got the deserved support from fans, and a GoFundMe account was set up to take care of her husband's medical expenses.
Around the country, celebrities and friends have shared their pain in the heartbreaking news and have tried to reach out to Cordero's wife.
We at news.AmoMama.com do our best to give you the most updated news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, but the situation is constantly changing. We encourage readers to refer to the online updates from CDС, WHO, or Local Health Departments to stay updated.Take care!
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At least 32 killed in car bomb northeast of Baghdad
Hospital officials, victims say it appears chlorine gas used in attack as many casualties having difficulty breathing and seeing.
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A parked car bomb exploded near a market in a Shiite enclave northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and wounding 50, police said Wednesday. Hospital officials and some of the wounded said it appeared that chlorine gas was used in the attack, but police denied the reports. The attack occurred about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday in the village of Abu Saydah in the volatile Diyala province, local police said, giving the casualty toll. The wounded were taken to hospitals in nearby Muqdadiyah and the main Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad. Hospital officials and victims said it appeared chlorine gas was used in the attack as many of the wounded were having difficulty breathing and had their sight affected. But officials at provincial the joint coordination police center denied the toxic gas was involved. One man had a white cloth across his eyes as he lay in his hospital bed; others were bandaged from head to toe. Abu Saydah is a mainly Shiite village about 40 kilometers northeast of the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Baqouba, the capital of the province that has seen a recent spike in violence largely blamed on terrorists who fled Baghdad ahead of a US-Iraqi security crackdown. Kadim Hussein, a 45-year-old farmer who was taken to the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, claimed the hospitals in Baqouba would only accept Sunnis. "My eyes became puffy due the chlorine gas that was packed in the car bomb," he said, adding he also had difficulties breathing. "Also I had many pieces of shrapnel in my chest and right shoulder." A hospital official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media, said the facility had received three bodies and 11 of those wounded who all showed symptoms of chlorine poisoning.


Kevin and Jo show a few Lindy Hop moves.
Leaders, make sure that when you lead the jump steps that you do not pull or rip too hard on your follower's arm.
There is a lot to take from this video; we're sure that advanced dancers will get inspired by this.


Discoveries America, Special Edition focuses on an extraordinary element of American culture. Talented people, interesting places and unusual things. Producers Jim and Kelly Watt introduce you to gifted musicians they encountered while filming the award winning Discoveries America DVD and Television series. Experience the unique thrill in the diversity of music all over the USA. Music defines this country's social and cultural identity through class, race, ethnicity, geography, religion, language and gender. This program celebrates the remarkable variety of music and musicians all over America.


A little note to Walter Allen. Right out of the gate, the federal reserve doesn't deal in cheques. So, using a fake one to buy 2 Bentleys is a bad idea.
If you're going to use a fake cheque, don't use your real driver's license.
And while I'm at it, what the hell was a notary public doing coming down with him to the dealership to try and lend some validity to the whole thing? And why wasn't he charged?
Apparently this isn't Allen's first fake cheque, and it probably won't be his last. Hey, maybe he'll try and write a fake cheque for the $30000 needed to spring him from jail.


Kapoor And Sons (2016) Lyrics: Starring Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan in lead roles. The film directed by Shakun Batra and produced by Karan Johar. The song composed by Amaal Mallik, Arko & Nucleya while lyrics written by Kumaar, Manoj Muntashir, Dr. Devendra Kafir, and Abhiruchi Chand.


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Nicole Richie, The Situation, and more: 'Criminality' is where reality TV and criminal activity intersects
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Meet us at the corner of reality TV and criminal activity with "Criminality." Every other Friday, Melissa and Rebekah are bringing you the juicy stories from both worlds combined. They are sharing the true stories that the tabloids won't tell you behind reality TV personalities that have found themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Lisa Lampanelli, Brandi Glanville, and more chat with Dax Holt & Adam Glyn on 'Hollywood Raw'
Like our hosts said on this week's episode of Podsauce, there is no murder here, but instead cases of fraud, scandal and more. It's not all champagne problems with these stars, but it's also not always as salacious as it seems. Something that "Criminality" prides itself on is humanizing it's subjects, telling their real back stories leading up to the scandals they got wrapped up in.
From Mike "The Situation" of Jersey Shore to even Ryan Lochte getting caught in a lie at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the ladies meticulously research the cases and give background on the stars who were caught with a hand in the cookie jar. Learn about the life of Nicole Richie, the daughter of a musical legend who had to go through all of the good, bad and ugly of growing up in Hollywood.
Filled with actual case files and empathetic research, hear about what exactly went down in court. Like the tragic case of Bachelor Chris Soules' accident that took another man's life. The Bachelor Nation star known lovingly as Prince Farming was found guilty of fleeing the scene of a fatal traffic accident in Aurora, Iowa. While he was not charged with a DUI, court documents said he was in possession of alcoholic containers at the time of the crash. His lawyers managed to stall criminal proceedings, trying to keep a trial from happening at all and keep Soules' reputation unmarred. But his day in court came.
#SpookySZN: 'The Sneak' investigates athletes caught up in their shocking crimes
Or the deeply buried, odd story that is Real Housewives of Orange County star Elizabeth Lyn Vargas-adjacent. After a strange confession she made to another housewife on the show, Rebekah dug deep and found strange stories about Elizabeth's grandmother, Dorothy Mae Bell, and her leadership of two fringe family cults, with crimes including concealment of a dead body, and kidnapping charges.
Anything reality TV-adjacent will face it's maker in "Criminality." From the reality celebrities of Pawn Stars to the Kardashians, any of the Real Housewives to Olympic athletes, it's not all champagne problems. Hear about the wild crimes that managed to evade the headlines and the true stories of the reality stars we've twisted into anti-heroes with "Criminality."


Prague Internet World Trade Show Successful - InternetNews.
In its second year, approximately 6,000 people visited the trade show Prague Internet World during three days of exhibition, from March 30 to April 2, 1999.
Media Internet Agency (MAI), the agency that held the fair in cooperation with Internet.com LLC, said that it is satisfied with the attendance. There were more visitors this year to the exhibition itself, though conference attendence was poor compared to last year.
"We have put the emphasis on education, on sharing experience as well as on the examples of entrepreneurial activities on Internet," said Lenka Nedvedova, marketing director of the M.I.A. agency.
The trade show was focused in the first place on the decision makers, higher and middle management, technical specialists and the members of local governments.
This year's Prague Internet World took place under complicated economical circumstances, with the Czech economy now possibly in the worst slump since 1990. IT and Internet companies, two of the decade's highest performing industries, now faces a dearth of prospective investors.


If you're a business owner, you probably know something that most people don't. You probably provide a service, an idea, or a product in a way that no one else can. This is good.
Unfortunately, this knowledge comes with a problem.
The more specialized your knowledge becomes, the more difficult it is for you to communicate in laymen's terms.
The end result? Your customers don't want to listen.
Your customers have taken the first option, they do not have the same specialized knowledge that you have developed through your experience. With that in mind, you must take the second option, and transform your ideas.
Think of yourself as an elementary school teacher.
Pretend you need to explain to a group of students how to multiply 2 by 4. There are two main options: the abstract approach, or the direct. More than likely, as the teacher, the first thing that comes to your mind is the abstract: a multiplication table. This works great for you, but terribly for them. Who wants to pay attention to a multiplication table?
Your secondary option is to be direct. Line up 2 rows of candy in 4 columns. Have the child count those candies (and then eat them.) Now they'll want to know why 2 pieces multiplied by 4 pieces means they eat 8 pieces of candy. You have spoken in the child's language of candy in order for them to understand your ideas, multiplication tables. Perhaps most importantly, you've made them hungry for more.
Turn your ideas into candy.
Now take your own situation. You have a wealth of information that you could tell a customer, but stop and think about it. How much of this information is really necessary or even helpful for them? Will your customer want to listen to it?
You must distill your ideas into an easy to follow message that a customer will actually understand and be interested in. Your message should tell the customer what you need to tell them in a way that is interesting and fun for them. The idea is to leave them hungry for more.
In the next article of our Small Business Marketing 101 series we'll go into much further detail and walk you through the process of turning your ideas into your customers language. Subscribe to our blog to make sure you don't miss anything.


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Q: Is there any way to completely remove the focus border of a wxTextCtrl object on OSX? I am building a project in OSX (Yosemite) with wxWidgets 3.0.2.
I can remove a blue border around the wxTextCtrl window by using wxBORDER_NONE. But when I put it in a sizer, it has a 3 pixel grey border that I just can't get rid of. What's the point of having 2 borders, one of which cannot be removed? Surely people want to customise more than that?
Is there any possible way to remove it? I don't really want to hack at the wx source, but I will if I have to.
Or is there another way of controlling layout without using sizers, than might cause the border not to appear?

Update: It seems to be the focus highlight border. I don't want it.

Is there any way of disabling the border around the focused UI object? It's so frustrating because it is such a minor thing, but my program is useless if can't remove it.

A: In case someone else stumbles into this post, this answer is for the updated question:

Update: It seems to be the focus highlight border. I don't want it.
Is there any way of disabling the border around the focused UI object?

Using wxWidgets APIs, NO, there is no way to remove it, since it's a behavior of the native NSTextField class. I was only able to remove it by editing the wx source itself to set the focusRingType property of the underlying NSTextField object to NSFocusRingTypeNone:

File: core/textctrl.mm
Func: wxWidgetImpl::CreateTextControl
NSTextField* v = nil;
if ( style & wxTE_PASSWORD )
    v = [[wxNSSecureTextField alloc] initWithFrame:r];
else
    v = [[wxNSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:r];

...

// remove glow/border when textfield gets focused
[v setFocusRingType:NSFocusRingTypeNone];

I've also set BORDER_NONE on my wxTextCtrl.
Of course, this sort of changes the standard OS X look-and-feel, so maybe that's why this wasn't exposed as a wxTextCtrl API? Or it breaks something else? But so far it's working OK on my end. Plus, my app needs to have its own custom theme that doesn't go well with the glow border.
I'm using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (cloned from their repo) and OS X 10.12.

A: This worked for me -on Windows-:
First --> bind the EVT_SET_FOCUS to a styling method.
Second --> reset the fg and bg colours to your original design.
Python code:
button_1.Bind(wx.EVT_SET_FOCUS, focus_without_border)
def focus_without_border(evt=None):
    element = evt.GetEventObject()
    element.SetForegroundColour( wx.Colour( 241, 241, 241 ) )
    element.SetBackgroundColour( wx.Colour( 40, 41, 42 ) )

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It takes a certain volume of customers for any business to survive. And Mark Biviano wasn't certain his new venture—Loka Leaf Tea Lounge—would be able to draw enough from the small town Cazenovia, NY, population when he opened in 2015. Afterall, coffee was the preferred beverage to sit, sip and savor.
Four years later, he'd seen enough. He was ready to buy the building he'd rented over that time knowing that Loka had made its way into the hearts of his customers. His patrons lauded his attention to detail as he provided a unique experience with each visit that was curated just for them. Unfortunately, he struggled to get that same attention from other banks when trying to secure a loan. So, he turned to Barbara Houghton at Community Bank.
"When I went to Community Bank, they made the appointment immediately to come and see my place," he said. "We traded paperwork, had some tea, and then, within a few short weeks, I owned the building. How wonderful is that?"
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S Korean boat sinks off Antarctica
At least five sailors are dead and 17 are missing as deep sea trawler, with 42 crew members on board, sinks.
At least five sailors have been killed and 17 are missing after a South Korean deep-sea trawler with 42 crew members on board sank off Antarctica, maritime authorities have said.
"The vessel is believed to have gone down at 6.30am, about 1,000 nautical miles north of McMurdo [Antarctic base]," Ross Henderson, spokesman for Maritime New Zealand, told the AFP news agency on Monday.
"We have 20 alive, four deceased and 18 missing."
Henderson said all vessels in the remote area had been asked to steam to the site where the 614-tonne Number One Insung went down to assist the search for survivors.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion plane was also being sent to the area, he said.
Henderson added that New Zealand authorities received no distress call before the ship sank, and he did not know how the survivors were rescued.
Details 'unclear'
"Whether it's in lifeboats, whether they've been picked up by other vessels is unclear," he said.
"Details are very scant at this stage."
A coastguard spokesman in the southern South Korean port of Busan, where the ship is based, said that there were eight Koreans, eight Chinese, 11 Indonesians, 11 Vietnamese, three Filipinos and one Russian on board.
Another South Korean fishing boat was involved in the rescue after reporting the accident to its home port, the spokesman said, and it also asked for help from New Zealand.


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Q: customize deserialization sample in C#? I am looking for a sample, which could let me deserialize an XML stream encoded in UTF-8 into a field of a class. More specifically, I have a class like,
class Foo
{
    string abc;
    byte[] bcd;
}

and abc maps to XML element "Abc" and bcd maps to XML element "Bcd", and I want to get the stream for bcd and retrieve bytes (from XML stream for related element "Bcd" directly) to manipulate manually/in a customized way.
I am looking for a sample, but failed, could anyone help to point me to a related sample or wrote some pseudo code?
Edit: the XML is SOAP reaponse from server, in the response there is one response XML element (element Bcd in my sample) which is encoded by UTF-8 from server side, but since Http Web Services will use base64 at client side, so each time I receive such "bytes" at client side and the automatically generated web services proxy will throw exception says invalid XML element in base64 encoding. So, I am thinking about how to overwrite the default using base64 encoding to decode the bytes, and this is why I ask this question. If there could be a way to accept stream or something similar represents the on-wire bytes of the related response elements (Bcd in my sample) and let me manipulate, it will be so great!
thanks in advance,
George

A: IXmlSerializable is one option (but not much fun), but it feels like in this case properties offer most of what is wanted without extra work:
[Serializable]
public class Foo
{
    public string Abc {get;set;}
    private byte[] bcd;
    public byte[] Bcd {
        get {return bcd;}
        set {/* your code (with `value`) here */ }
    }
}

Re the wire format (base64 etc); have you tried just running it through xsd.exe? It might surprise you and get it right... but yes; within IXmlSerializable you will have your choice of ReadContentAsBase64, ReadContentAsBinHex, etc. But it is very ugly; something like (for a simple version):
[Serializable]
public class Foo : IXmlSerializable
{
    public Foo() { }
    public Foo(string abc, byte[] bcd)
    {
        Abc = abc;
        Bcd = bcd;
    }
    public string Abc { get; private set; }
    public byte[] Bcd { get; private set; }

    XmlSchema IXmlSerializable.GetSchema()
    {
        return null;
    }

    void IXmlSerializable.WriteXml(System.Xml.XmlWriter writer)
    {
        if (Abc != null)
        {
            writer.WriteElementString("Abc", Abc);
        }
        if (Bcd != null)
        {
            writer.WriteStartElement("Bcd");
            writer.WriteBase64(Bcd, 0, Bcd.Length);
            writer.WriteEndElement();
        }
    }
    void IXmlSerializable.ReadXml(System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
    {
        reader.ReadStartElement();
        reader.ReadStartElement("Abc");
        Abc = reader.ReadString();
        reader.ReadEndElement();
        reader.ReadStartElement("Bcd");
        MemoryStream ms = null;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
        int bytesRead;
        while ((bytesRead = reader.ReadContentAsBase64(
            buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
        {
            if (ms == null) ms = new MemoryStream(bytesRead);
            ms.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
        }
        if (ms != null) Bcd = ms.ToArray();
        reader.ReadEndElement();
    }
}


We are lucky to be part of an era where technology has served us in unimaginable ways. Our previous generations could not even have imagined that something like wireless technology would come into existence. Nowadays, being wireless is a norm. Bluetooth is part of the wireless technology which makes connection between two or more devices easier and more convenient without any hassle associated with wires.
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Mezzofanti is invited to Paris at the court of Napoleon, where his fellow country men Volta and Galvani where already living. He turns down the invitation and stays in Italy.
In the midst of these cares and occupations, Mezzofanti was surprised by a flattering invitation to transfer his residence to Paris, with a promise of patronage and distinction from the Emperor Napoleon, who was at this time eagerly engaged in plans for the development of the literary and artistic glories of his capital. More than one of Mezzofanti's countrymen, were already in the enjoyment of high honours at Paris. First among them may be named Volta, for many years Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pavia. More pliant than his great fellow-discoverer, Galvani, or perhaps more favourably circumstanced as not being, like him, a member of a Papal University, he had escaped the proscription which brought Galvani to his grave— one of those victims of loyalty whom Petrarch declares
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Con la lor poverta, che Mida o CrasSo
Con l'oro, ond' a virtu furon ribelli;—
Volta was called from Pavia to Paris, where he was rewarded with distinctions, emoluments, titles, and, more flattering than all, with the personal notice and patronage of the great conqueror himself, who was often present at his experiments, and displayed a warm interest in the results to which they led. Note 1
Such were at this period the tempting rewards of scientific or literary eminence in France. Moreover, Count Marescalchi, in whose family Mezzofanti had acted as tutor and librarian during the years of his deprivation, was now Resident Minister of the Kingdom of Italy at Paris. The Count's intercourse with Mezzofanti was but little interrupted by their separation; and, even during his residence in Paris, the latter continued to correspond with him ; chiefly on matters connected with the education of his children, or with the completion or extension of his noble library. The extent of their intimacy indeed may be inferred from one of Mezzofanti's letters to the Count dated September 16, 1806, in which we find him freely employing the services of the minister in procuring books at Paris, not only for himself but for his literary friends in Bologna. Note 2
It was through this Count Marescalchi that the invitation to Paris was conveyed to Mezzofanti, and it cannot be doubted that it was accompanied by a warm recommendation from the Count himself. No trace of this formal correspondence is now discoverable ', but probably far more interesting, as it is certainly far more characteristic, than the official letter or reply, is the following playful letter to one of Count Marescalchi's sons, Carlino (Charlie), Mezzofanti's former pupil—now the representative of the house—who had written a special letter, to add the expression of his own wishes to those of his father, that his old instructor should join them once again at Paris.
Bologna, September 16, 1806.
But three letters, dearest Charlie, in an entire year—two from Lyons, and one from Paris—to cheer my regrets in being separated from you ! If I were to take this as the measure of your love for me, I should indeed have reason to be sad. But I have abundant other proofs of your feelings in my regard; and at all events, I am not one who can afford to be too rigid in insisting upon the frequency of correspondence, unless I wish to furnish grave grounds of complaint against myself.
Few, however, as your letters have been, I am deeply grateful for their warm and affectionate sentiments which carry with them such an evidence of sincerity as to leave me, even when you do not write, no ground for doubting what your feelings still are towards me. I am not sure whether in your regard I shall be equally fortunate; for I am fully sensible that I have not the power of infusing into what I write all the warmth and sincerity that I really feel. However, you are not dependent on my words, in order to be satisfied of the truth of my affection ; and, knowing it as you do, even a lesser token of it than this will suffice to convince you.
I am still here at Bologna following the same old round of occupations. Nor am I dissatisfied with my lot, for I am quite sensible of my inability to take a loftier flight. I feel that the shade suits me best. Were I to go to Paris, I should be obliged to set myself up upon some candlestick, where I should only give out a faint and nickering gleam, which would soon die utterly away. Nevertheless £ am not the less grateful for your advice; though I perceive that you are dissatisfied with me because 1 am such a little fellow.
A thousand, thousand greetings to your dear little sisters. Renew my remembrance to your father, and when you have an occasional moment of leisure from your tasks, pray bestow it upon
Your sincere friend,
D. JOSEPH MEZZOFANTI.
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It was on occasion of one of Volta's demonstrations that Napoleon made the comparison which has since become celebrated. "Here, doctor," said he, to his physician Corvisart, pointing to the Voltaic pile ; " here is the image of life! The vertebral column is the pile : the liver is the negative, the bladder, the positive pole." See Whewell's Inductive Sciences, III. 67. 12
For instance among the books which he asks the Count in this letter to send, are the works of " I'immortale Haüy ;"—the celebrated Abbe Haiiy, who after Romè de l'Isle, is the founder of the science of Crystallography, and who at this time was at the height of his brilliant career of discovery. (Whewell's "Inductive Sciences" III. 222.) Haiiy's works were intended for his friend Ranzani.
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LUKE Winsper's quest to get match fit following his injury nightmare is well and truly underway.
The Weymouth midfielder spent a total of seven months on the sidelines with a foot problem that required an operation back in June.
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"I want a couple more games for the reserves and want to get 90 minutes in first.
"There have been a few clubs interested to be honest and it's been a decision to make over the last month.
"But Sherborne looked after me last year, played me, I know Jamie (Manley, manager) and I know all the lads there. It makes sense to go there and it is 10 minutes from my house as well.
"I will still be training with the (Weymouth) first-team and will still be with the lads keeping up to their pace.
"I will probably be at Sherborne on dual registration for two or three months. I will be coming back to Weymouth for the cup games and, you never know when I could get my chance."


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3M's V.A.C. Therapy hits 2,000 medical journal studies mark
V.A.C. Therapy. [Image from 3M]3M (NYSE:MMM) Healthcare's Medical Solutions Division announced the surpassing of 2,000 published studies for its V.A.C. Therapy.
Maplewood, Minnesota-based 3M's V.A.C. delivers negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). The company said it's the only NPWT tech to hit the milestone of 2,000 published, peer-reviewed medical journal studies.
According to a news release, V.A.C. therapy accounts for more than 75% of published NPWT clinical evidence.
"Clinical evidence has always been a foundational element to establishing credibility for V.A.C. Therapy and our NPWT products in the wound care community," said Dr. Ronald Silverman, M.D., 3M Health Care SVP of clinical affairs and CMO. "Published studies have also helped to promote adoption of NPWT and spur therapy innovations, including 3M Prevena therapy for incision management, 3M Veraflo therapy for instillation therapy for open wounds, 3M AbThera…
3M announces upgrades to wound therapy tech
A VAC Ulta therapy unit [Image from 3M]The 3M (NYSE:MMM) Health Care's medical solutions business announced upgrades to advance the delivery of certain wound care technologies.
A new 3M Veraflo Cleans Choice Complete dressing kit and a software upgrade for the 3M VAC Ulta therapy unit were introduced at no increased cost to the customer.
3M said in a news release that the new offerings help to simplify the care delivery processes for clinicians using Veraflo negative pressure wound therapy with installation and help to make dressing changes easier, faster and less painful for patients when compared to previous Veraflo therapy dressings.
Veraflo therapy is used for patients with open soft issue wounds to help cleanse and stimulate the formation of granulation tissue. The company pointed to a recent publication — titled Effects of Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy with Instillation versus Standard of Care in Multiple Wound Types: Systematic Literature Rev…
3M Health Care to become standalone company
3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today that it plans to spin off its Health Care business by the end of 2023.
The new Health Care business will be a roughly $9-billion-a-year company with a focus on wound care, oral care, healthcare IT and biopharma filtration. 3M officials argue that the transaction will better position Health Care to innovate. 3M will retain a 19.9% stake in Health Care that it will monetizedover time.
"Today's actions advance our ability to create value for customers and shareholders," 3M CEO Mike Roman said ina. news release. "Disciplined portfolio management is a hallmark of our growth strategy. Our management team and board continually evaluate the strategic options that will best drive long-term sustainable growth and value. The decision to spin off our Health Care business will result in two well-capitalized, world-class companies, well positioned to pursue their respective priorities."


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Dawn of Electronics
This 1850s Medical Device Was Said to Cure Toothache, Gangrene, and Ennui
Many leading scientists of the day vouched for the healing power of electricity
By Allison Marsh
These 3 Electroceuticals Could Help You Heal Faster
Olympic Athletes Are Electrifying Their Brains, and You Can Too
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Shocking Grasp: In the mid-19th century, this electrotherapy machine was popular among patients who decided it was better to be shocked than be in pain.
It is easy for us today to look at 19th-century medical devices as nothing more than quackery, the ineffective tools of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. But the actual history is a bit more complicated.
In the 1850s, leading scientists and medical professionals endorsed Davis & Kidder's Patent Magneto-Electric Machine for Nervous Diseases [above], and the ubiquity of the devices in museum collections is a testament to their popularity. So was it quackery or a pioneering innovation?
The machine's inventor was Ari Davis, who was granted U.S. patent 11,415 on 1 August 1854. Davis was not a medical doctor, nor was he a scientist investigating the properties and uses of electromagnetism. Rather, he was a skilled machinist who had patented another device (U.S. patent 10,788) earlier that year for making wooden boxes with metal-reinforced dovetailed corners.
With these two inventions, Davis built an electrotherapy medical device that was compact, lightweight, durable, efficient, portable, and above all, cheap. Although those are all fine attributes for success, it also had a lot of competition. Decades earlier, scientists and doctors had recognized that electricity could cause involuntary muscle contraction and set about investigating it for treating all sorts of ailments. By the time Davis patented his device, electrotherapeutics was a burgeoning field, with its own professional journals and many treatments and devices on offer.
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Currents of Cure: This 1818 satirical illustration by George Cruikshank shows patients receiving the then-fashionable treatment of electrical shocks.
Within a year, Davis sold both patent rights to Walter Kidder, reportedly for US $4,000 (about $115,000 today). Unlike Davis, Kidder was a medical doctor. A year later Kidder sold the rights to his brother-in-law, William Henry Burnap, a marketing whiz who became the manufacturer and popularizer of the device.
In a practice common in the 19th century, Burnap included a lengthy label inside the box lid. He initially branded the machine with both Davis's and Kidder's names and highlighted its patented status. Detailed instructions explained how to use the device and its myriad applications. Among the nervous diseases it claimed to treat were toothache and "female hysteria."
The patient held a metal electrode in each hand while the operator turned the crank. The crank engaged a series of gears, which in turn rotated a rod that was attached to two solenoids. The solenoids spun parallel to a large horseshoe magnet, thus producing an electrical current. There was also a handle to change between DC and AC, or what Davis called in his patent "to-and-fro" current. Although the level of current was uneven, the operator could adjust the strength by moving the rod. The operator could also place wet sponges on the electrodes, which helped reduce the unpleasant prickling sensation of being shocked. Doctors were advised never to pack the wet sponges back in the box and to oil the machine occasionally.
Burnap advertised the product widely, including in the American Phrenological Journal and the Water-Cure Journal. At the time, both phrenology (the study of the shape of the skull as a predictor of intelligence and personality) and hydrotherapy (the treatment of disease through bathing) were popular and regarded as scientifically sound.
Of course, today those fields definitely fall into the category of quackery. Electrotherapy, on the other hand, is not as clear-cut. Throughout the 19th century, doctors and scientists investigated electrical stimulation as a treatment for all manner of physical and mental disorders, including nervous diseases (such as ennui and hysteria), muscular atrophy, and even toothache. Burnap capitalized on these demands with ads claiming that Davis and Kidder's machine could treat all of those ailments and more. Later versions of the device were marketed to invalids who were suffering from rheumatism and various other complaints.
These ailments are real and can be painful to the point of debilitating, with effective treatment often elusive. It's no mystery why patients would try even the most experimental practices to find relief.
But did it work? The machine came with two extremely persuasive endorsements from Benjamin Silliman and Charles Grafton Page, both of whom were leading scientists of the day.
Silliman, one of the first science professors at Yale College and one of the founding faculty members of its medical school, had gotten a sneak peek at Ari Davis's device a few months before the patent was conferred. In a letter to Davis, he wrote that Kidder had shown him the machine, and he offered an appreciative assessment: "For neatness, compactness, and facility and energy of operation, it is far superior to any instrument of the kind which I have seen. For medical applications, it possesses very decided advantages."
Page, an equally credentialed doctor, electrical experimenter, and professor at Columbian College (now George Washington University), also gave a glowing endorsement. A former patent examiner and consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, he was an outspoken critic of the misappropriation or fraudulent use of science—what we would call pseudoscience. If prestigious, serious-minded men like Page and Silliman were willing to give the invention their mark of approval, it had to be effective—right?
Again, we have to consider the device as a product of its times. In 1855, the French neurologist Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne had published a textbook outlining his diagnostic principles and his use of electrical current for treating disease. Duchenne had wide-ranging research interests, but much of his fame came from using localized electrical shocks to map muscle control in the human face. A supplement to the second edition of his textbook included photographs depicting various reactions to stimuli, making it the first neurological text illustrated with photographic evidence.
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The Body Electric: French neurosurgeon Guillaime-Benjamin Duchenne [left] explored the physiological and therapeutic effects of electricity on the human body.
Few Americans knew of this work until Silas Weir Mitchell, George Read Morehouse, and William Williams Keen published their 1864 textbook Gunshot Wounds, and Other Injuries of Nerves, which described and affirmed most of Duchenne's views. They introduced their chapter on the use of electricity in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of nerve injuries by stating that electricity was the "most overrated and underrated of all the medical armamenta." They recommended the creation of an electromagnetic instrument in which the current was produced by a clockwork device.
Davis and Kidder's machine clearly fit the bill. Thousands of the machines were eventually made, and a number of them have found their way into museum collections around the world. Curators now have to decide how to interpret the device. Was it complete fraud, or did it bring patients comfort and relief from pain? Lack of patient records or double-blind clinical trials make it difficult to draw any direct comparisons to today's standards. As our understanding of what even constitutes science and medicine continues to evolve, museum visitors are challenged to think about the historical context of these medical instruments and their uses.
The device pictured at the top is currently on display at the Science Museum of London in its Making the Modern World gallery, where the device is deemed "little more than medical quackery." Virginia Commonwealth University, which has one in storage, took a similar path, referring to it as a "quack instrument." But the National Museum of Civil War Medicine was not so quick to dismiss its place in medical history, instead tracing its ties to earlier treatments as well as modern-day devices.
So, effective treatment or utter quackery? You can always try it out for yourself. Davis and Kidder's machines come up for sale on auction sites regularly, and apparently some are still in working order.
Or you could stop by your local pharmacy and pick up the 21st-century equivalent: a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (or TENS) device. These battery-operated gadgets provide an electrical current to mitigate pain. Although they have been shown to be effective in some clinical trials for acute pain, it's less clear how individuals respond to TENS treatment for chronic pain.
Sometimes, history refuses to reveal itself. This is one of those cases. When I started researching Ari Davis, I kept coming across his name in reference to another famous inventor, Elias Howe, who is often credited with inventing the lockstitch sewing machine.
Ari Davis owned a shop in Cambridge, Mass., that repaired small machines such as clocks, watches, and surveying instruments. He employed Howe as a machinist. According to one tale, a customer came into the shop trying to perfect a knitting machine. Davis asked why he didn't just build a sewing machine, and boasted that he could do so himself. Howe overheard the conversation and took on the challenge, which became the lockstitch sewing machine.
But was this Ari Davis the same Ari Davis who invented the electrotherapy machine? The patents for the electrotherapy and its box list Davis as a resident of New York City and Washington, D.C., not Cambridge. My cursory review of city directories and census records yielded nothing definitive.
The plot thickened when I tried to find out how Davis may have known Walter Kidder. Kidder resided in New York from about 1852 to 1856, which spans the time of Davis's two patents. And Kidder spent most of his life in Lowell, Mass., which is just 43 kilometers from Cambridge.
Then I found an advertisement in the 6 December 1855 New York Times announcing that auctioneer Albert H. Nicolay had listed Davis's two patents for bid later that day. So it is quite possible that Kidder never knew Davis and just bought the patents at auction. And it's also quite possible that there were two Ari Davises tinkering with instruments—one in New York, the other in Massachusetts. If any reader can help me tie up this historical loose end, I would be grateful.
An abridged version of this article appears in the March 2019 print issue as "Shock Your Way to Good Health."
Part of a continuing series looking at photographs of historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.
Allison Marsh is an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina and codirector of the university's Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society.
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Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America to Recognize Contributions and Success of Two Industry Leaders
CONTACT: Jeff Solsby / jeff.solsby@wswa.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / March 18, 2014
Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America to Recognize
Contributions and Success of Two Industry Leaders
Rocky Wirtz & Max Shapira to be Honored at WSWA 71st Annual Convention & Exposition
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)—The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) will salute the long records of business success, leadership and community service achieved by two industry veterans at its 71st Annual Convention & Exposition to be held April 8-10 in Las Vegas.
W. Rockwell (Rocky) Wirtz, President of Wirtz Beverage Group of Chicago, Ill., will be recognized by WSWA with the Lifetime Leadership Award, presented each year to a wholesaler whose contribution to the association, the community and the beverage industry defines excellence, inspires loyalty and exemplifies leadership.
Max L. Shapira, President of Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., of Bardstown, Ky., will be presented by the WSWA Educational Foundation with the Sidney Frank Award, which is given to a person who has made exceptional contributions to the industry in addition to noteworthy philanthropic and community service contributions. The award is named for Sidney Frank, a leading innovator in the beverage industry who built a number of successful brands and set records for philanthropic contributions and service.
"Rocky and Max have achieved great success in their business careers and have worked equally as hard as philanthropists and community leaders. On behalf of WSWA and our members, we are proud to recognize these two giants in the industry and look forward to saluting them at our upcoming convention," WSWA President and CEO Craig Wolf said.
Wirtz Beverage Group is a leading national distributor of wine, spirits and beer brands. The company is headquartered in Chicago with interests in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Wisconsin and Canada. Rocky also serves as President of Wirtz Corporation, with holdings in the insurance, real estate, entertainment and financial services sectors, and as Chairman of the Chicago Blackhawks.
Rocky is deeply committed to public service and philanthropy. In addition to significant financial and community contributions made by Wirtz Beverage, he also oversees Chicago Blackhawk Charities. Originally founded by his father, today the Foundation donates millions of dollars to organizations for youth programs, health and wellness, education and housing. He also established the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Endowment for Visiting Artists at Northwestern University, his alma mater.
Heaven Hill Distilleries began as a family-owned bourbon maker following the repeal of Prohibition. Under the leadership of Max and his family, the company has experienced a period of rapid expansion with extensive internal product development and brand acquisitions. Today, Heaven Hill is the country's sixth largest distilled spirits producer and marketer by case volume with a portfolio including Evan Williams and Elijah Craig bourbons, Burnett's Vodka line, Christian Brothers Brandy line, Admiral Nelson's Rum and Hpnotiq Liqueur. It is the nation's largest independent family owned and operated distilled spirits company and the world's second largest holder of aging bourbon.
Max Shapira is the only son of Ed Shapira, one of the five brothers who founded Heaven Hill. After graduating from Washington and Lee University and earning an MBA at Harvard University, Max spent four years on Wall Street before returning to the family business in 1970. In 1996 he became president following the death of his uncle George, the last survivor of the original five brothers. Today, he and his wife Ellen are actively engaged in dozens of community and charitable activities throughout Kentucky.
Wirtz and Shapira will be recognized during an awards presentation Tuesday, April 8 at the WSWA 71st Annual Convention & Exposition at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.
WSWA is the national trade association representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry. With 350 member companies across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, WSWA is the voice for wholesalers in Congress, the executive branch, the courts, with the news media and in communities across America. Member firms represent 80% of the total U.S. wine and spirits market. Information about the association is available at www.wswa.org.


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East End records highest percentage of children in poverty, study shows
Published: 6:00 AM October 19, 2020 Updated: 8:21 PM November 27, 2020
The latest child poverty statistics have been released. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Images - Credit: PA Wire/PA Images
The East End has the highest percentage of child poverty in the country, a study shows.
Figures released on Wednesday, October 14 by the End Child Poverty coalition reveal that a total of 55 per cent of children in Tower Hamlets were in poverty in 2018-19.
This puts the borough ahead of every other UK local authority, including second highest Newham (50.3pc) and third highest Barking and Dagenham (49.9pc).
The Loughborough University research shows that even before the pandemic London boroughs dominated the list of UK authorities where child poverty is highest, with 14 of the top 20 hotspot boroughs in the capital.
Anna Feuchtwang, who chairs End Child Poverty, said: "This new data reveals the true extent of the hardship experienced by families on low incomes – the overwhelming majority of which were working households before the pandemic.
"The children affected are on a cliff edge, and the pandemic will only sweep them further into danger."
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson said: "There are 100,000 fewer children living in absolute poverty than in 2009/10 and making sure every child gets the best start in life is central to our efforts to level up opportunity across the country.
"We have already taken significant steps to do this by raising the living wage, ending the benefit freeze and injecting more than £9.3billion into the welfare system to help those in most need."
While Tower Hamlets saw the highest percentage, the borough has the second highest number of children in poverty in London (35,725) behind neighbouring Newham with 39,638.
Anna Feuchtwang from End Child Poverty and the National Children's Bureau. Picture: ECP - Credit: Archant
London's child poverty rate rose to 39pc in 2018-2019 up from 37pc the year before. It is the highest of any UK region.
The study shows that the cost of housing is a driver of child poverty in the capital
If housing costs are ignored, the child poverty rate in Bethnal Green and Bow is 30pc. However, if they are factored in the rate soars to 61pc.
This puts the area at the top of a table of child poverty by constituencies, ahead of fourth placed West Ham (52.5pc), Poplar and Limehouse (52.4pc) in fifth and eighth placed East Ham (51.3pc).
Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, said: "The soaring levels of child poverty in Poplar and Limehouse is further evidence of the Tories' chilling disregard for our communities' suffering."
The research used data from the Department for Work and Pensions, Valuation Office Agency and Understanding Society survey.


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On September 3, 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress promulgated the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Four Laws Including the Law of the People's Republic of China on Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprises (the "Decision"). The Decision provides for record-filing in lieu of administrative approval in the case of foreign invested enterprise establishment and alterations for foreign invested enterprises ("FIEs") not subject to special administrative measures.� On October 8, 2016, the Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") issued the Interim Measures for Record-filing for the Establishment and Alteration of Foreign-invested Enterprises (the "Interim Measures").� On the same day, MOFCOM and the National Development and Reform Commission ("NDRC") jointly issued a statement (the "Joint Statement"), which clarified that the special administrative measures to be implemented in this case are the restricted and prohibited industry category provisions as well as encouraged industry categories having shareholding and executive management requirements prescribed in the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (2015 Edition)(the "Catalogue").� The Joint Statement also stated that the relevant provisions currently in force will apply in the case of establishment and alterations resulting from foreign mergers and acquisitions.� Based on the foregoing, the Decision-mandated record-filing system now has a clear package of supporting measures, thus making official the implementing of the "pre-access national treatment plus negative list" administrative regime.
The record-filing process applies to the establishment and alterations of FIEs not subject to� special administrative measures for foreign investment. Based upon MOFCOM's interpretation of the� Interim Measures, record-filing administration is a notice filing and the filing receipt is not a� prerequisite for enterprises to apply for other procedures. FIEs and their investors are� responsible for the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of the filing information. The� record-filing authorities will only examine the form of the filing information, and collection of� the filing receipt after the completion of record-filing is not mandatory.��� Of particular note is� that, for establishment filing,�� the Interim Measures currently only apply to FIEs resulted from greenfield investment.� Foreign� investors will continue to be subject to the approval system under the Provisions on Mergers and� Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (MOFCOM, 2009 Order No. 6) in the case of� foreign mergers and acquisitions that result in establishing FIEs or transforming existing� enterprises into FIEs, regardless of whether or not such FIEs are subject to special administrative� measures.
The Interim Measures apply to enterprises that include the three traditional forms of FIEs (WFOE,� EJV and CJV), and also include PRC enterprises set up by investment-type FIEs (holding companies� and venture capital enterprises) within China. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan investors are also� subject by reference to the Interim Measures (except that Hong Kong and Macau service providers� that establish service trade enterprises under the CEPA will continue to comply with the Provisions� for Hong Kong and Macao Service Provider Mainland Investment Record-filings (for Trial� Implementation)). The types of filing enterprises include limited liability companies and companies� limited by shares. The Interim Measures apply nationally, and the Administrative Measures for Pilot� Free Trade Zone Foreign Investment Record-filings (for Trial Implementation) (MOFCOM, 2015 Order� No. 12) is thus repealed.
The Interim Measures stipulate that the events subject to record-filing include all applicable� FIEs' establishments and alterations. The Interim Measures cover most of the alterations that� previously required MOFCOM approval to implement, including increases and decreases to registered� capital, changes to equity, entity conversions, changes to business scope, consolidations,� separations and terminations. It is worth noting that the Interim Measures do not include FIE� equity pledges, which differs from the earlier comment draft version. We understand this to mean� that MOFCOM will no longer regulate equity pledges, either by way of record-filing or approval. In� addition, for FIES publicly listed or traded over the National Equities Exchange and Quotations,� only when the cumulative shareholding ratio of the foreign investor changes greater than 5% or the� foreign investor experiences a change of control position in the FIE, the filing for basic� information of the foreign investor or the shareholding change will be needed, further reducing� administrative burden on the enterprises.
The Interim Measures stipulate that all record-filing can be undertaken on a post-event basis.� Establishment record-filings can be undertaken before establishment (upon pre-approval of the� enterprise name and before issuance of the business license), or within 30 days of the issuance of� the business license. Enterprise alterations are to be filed within 30 days following occurrence of�� the event. If laws or regulations have requirements for the effectiveness of an enterprise� alteration, the alteration is deemed to have occurred when such legal or regulatory requirements� are satisfied.
For other alterations that involve a resolution of the highest authority of an FIE, the time the� resolution is adopted is when the alteration occurs.
All filings are to be made online. Filers complete and submit forms and supporting documents� through the comprehensive foreign investment management system. The record-filing authorities can� provide online feedback in case any record-filing information is incomplete or inaccurate, or if� additional information is required. The results of the filing information are published through the�� filing system.
While the pre-event approval system is abolished, MOFCOM has strengthened the oversight and� administration of record-filing. The competent MOFCOM department may carry out oversight and� examinations through conducting random inspections, based on tips, and upon their own initiative,� etc. The competent MOFCOM departments will share information with other administrative departments� and timely inform such departments of illegal conduct for which the departments are responsible.� Information regarding the integrity of the FIE and its investors will be entered into the foreign� investment credit file system. The Interim Measures provide that FIEs and their investors who� violate filing obligations, invest in restricted or prohibited areas, or refuse to cooperate with� inspections will be subject to legal liability, and filers who do not cooperate with inspections or� who refuse to comply with punishment decisions will be publicized.
The issuance of the Interim Measures marks the beginning of the formal implementation of the� negative list system on a national basis. Since that time, FIE establishments and alterations that�� are not subject to special administrative measures have been changed from an "case-by-case� approval" to a more standardized and convenient filing process. FIEs covered under the record-� filing system can undertake business activities upon obtaining a business license and no longer� require authorization from the competent MOFCOM department. The FIE approval certificate that has� been in place for many years will also be replaced by a FIE establishment filing receipt and a FIE� alteration filing receipt.