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Britain pressed US to join Iran coup against Mosaddegh
Financial Times | David J Lynch: The British government in 1952 repeatedly asked the US to join in a coup aimed at toppling Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran's prime minister, according to newly declassified State Department documents.
The files offer "the first officially-released confirmation of Britain's expressed aim in late 1952 to persuade Washington to help oust Mosaddegh," according to two scholars affiliated with the National Security Archive, the private non-partisan research organisation that obtained the documents.
The "Top Secret" State Department memoranda — including one entitled "British proposal to organise a coup d'état in Iran" — also offer fresh insights into London's assessment of Iranian politics and the threat to British interests that eventually led to the August 1953 coup.
That anti-government uprising, backed by Britain and the US, toppled Mosaddegh, ushered in more than two decades of authoritarian rule by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and embittered relations between Tehran and the west.
In 1952, Winston Churchill's British government was desperate to regain control of Iran's oil industry, which Mosaddegh had nationalised the year before, "by virtually any available means, including military action," write Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archive and Tulane University's Mark Gasiorowski.
Beginning in October, British and US officials met at least three times to discuss prospects for toppling the Mosaddegh government. Sir Christopher Steel, the No 2 official in the British embassy in Washington, pitched the idea to reluctant US officials.
In recent years, the British government has repeatedly pressed US officials to shield from public view any official confirmation of London's efforts to oust the Iranian government.
The documents made public on Tuesday were left out of a recent 1,007-page State Department volume released as part of its continuing "Foreign Relations of the United States" series. Mr Byrne and Mr Gasiorowski appealed against the government's decision to keep the documents classified.
Before receiving an official reply, Mr Gasiorowski discovered the records at a government archive in College Park, Maryland. A November 26, 1952 coup memo had been declassified on May 17, one month before the new State Deparment volume was published.
A related December 3, 1952 memo bore markings indicating that it would not be declassified until the British government approved, or 2025. The scholars complained that the British government was controlling what the US public could learn about its own government's involvement.
It is not clear whether London was consulted about the release of the 1952 documents, they added. The Truman administration had balked at Britain's initial calls to act against Mosaddegh, who had expelled British diplomats and intelligence officials several months after nationalising the oilfields.
By late 1952, the British had modified their sales pitch, stressing the need to take out Mosaddegh to combat "Communism in Iran," the documents show. President Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, secretary of state, still refused to back a coup, preferring to work with Mosaddegh.
But Paul Nitze, who headed State's powerful policy planning staff, suggested that the Iranian coup plotters first mount a "campaign" against Ayatollah Abolqasem Kashani, a leading opponent of British involvement in Iran's oil industry, and the communist Tudeh Party.
British officials politely rejected that proposal and, while recognising that the Truman administration was in its final weeks, pressed the US for a decision. "The best time for a coup would be in the spring," Sir Christopher said, according to the December 3 memo.
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'Robotic blacksmithing': A technology that could revive US manufacturing
by Glenn S. Daehn, The Conversation
Robots already assemble and weld products in factories. Can they make the components parts themselves, too? Credit: Factory_Easy/Shutterstock.com
Although it may not be obvious, there's a close link between manufacturing technology and innovation. Elon Musk often talks of the "machines that build the machines" as being the real enabler in both his space and automotive businesses.
Using less-expensive, more scalable processes allows Space X to launch missions on budgets and with speed that would be unthinkable using NASA's old-school manufacturing methods. And the new Tesla Cybertruck's unorthodox design appears to take advantage of a simplified manufacturing process that does away with "die stamping" metal in favor of bending and folding metal sheets.
Now a new manufacturing method dubbed "robotic blacksmithing" has the potential to revolutionize the way high-quality structural parts are made, resulting in a new class of customized and optimized products. I am part of a loose coalition of engineers developing this process, a technique I believe can help revive U.S. manufacturing.
Today's technologies
Metal parts are used in all kinds of high-performance and safety-critical applications in transportation, mining, construction and power-generation equipment such as turbine engines. Most are made using one of a small number of classical manufacturing processes that haven't changed much in decades.
Machining cuts away raw material to get a desired shape; casting involves pouring molten metal into a mold; and forming or forging deforms and squeezes metal into new shapes. Casting and forging to shape usually needs custom molds or dies that can take considerable time and expense to design and manufacture, but once running are very productive; parts are inexpensive with highly reproducible properties. This is why nuts and bolts can be cheap and reliable.
Starting shortly after World War II, digital manufacturing ushered in more agile production, first with computer numeric control machining that cuts components of all kinds of shapes from metal blocks. Producing a different component was as simple as launching a new computer program. One common downside of computer numeric control machining is a low "fly-to-buy" ratio, where a 1,000-pound titanium block might be carved away to produce a 100-pound aerospace component. This is expensive and environmentally wasteful, but no new investment is needed and lead times are short.
Traditional metal manufacturing techniques. Credit: Glenn S. Daehn, CC BY
Right now, there is also deserved enthusiasm about making such parts by 3-D printing, also referred to as additive manufacturing. This process also makes parts from a computer file on demand by building a part one layer at a time. Shapes that are impossible to make by machining can be printed, allowing new shapes that, for instance, have internal passages for cooling or communication.
While these techniques have their advantages, they also have drawbacks. They often don't produce the highest levels of strength or toughness and these processes are wasteful.
Robots plus blacksmithing
Metal implements made by blacksmiths oftentimes have legendary strength because the working of the metal, like kneading of dough, makes its structure finer, more homogeneous. As the material is shaped, it develops directional strength, much like wood is stronger along the direction of its grain. However, no human blacksmith can deal with parts the size of aircraft landing gear or have the reproducibility and stamina to make the parts needed for our economy.
The idea of robotic blacksmithing is to extend the blacksmith's art with new digital capabilities. Parts are shaped by repeatedly and incrementally forming a piece of metal which is precisely positioned into a press. This powered press or hammer system will interchange tools depending on the shape needed.
By automating the process of shaping a part, but using the basic approach of a blacksmith, a machine can treat larger parts and be more efficient and reproducible than a human ever could.
This new approach has the potential to efficiently and consistently make the structural 'bones' inside aircraft, ships, submarines and locomotives. Or the concept could be scaled down to make small individualized medical implants.
A proof-of-concept demonstration of a robotic device forming a raw material by closely controlling deformation of the material and position of the machine.
Where will technology take hold?
The basic concept for robotic blacksmithing, formally called metamorphic manufacturing, was demonstrated in 2017 when a team of undergraduates from The Ohio State University added hardware and software to a conventional computer numeric control milling machine to adapt it for controlled deformation. The work was in response to a US$25,000 challenge by the government-funded consortium LIFT (Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow) to demonstrate the key concepts of digitally controlled deformation-based shaping.
But that was just a start. Today, much research and development remains before we have autonomous machines shaping metal into unique safety-critical items.
Fully developing the robot blacksmith requires a synthesis of technologies. The system must be able to know the shape, temperature and condition of the material at each location of the part being formed. Then it must be able to control the temperature to produce the right structure and properties. The press must squeeze the component where needed with robotic control, deforming the part bit by bit. And, a computer must make decisions on how to move and strike the part next in order to optimize shape and properties, often learning from how previous parts were made.
All of these base technologies are progressing rapidly, and there is no reason they cannot be quickly melded together as a useful and practical manufacturing technology, as a recent roadmapping study has shown.
History shows that when diverse groups come together to form a new industry, the birthplace of that innovation (turning the idea into businesses) reaps the long-term benefits. Detroit with automobiles and Silicon Valley with computers are obvious examples but there's also glass manufacturing in Toledo, polymer engineering in Akron and medical device engineering in Minneapolis. The more recent examples of thriving technical clusters are often outside the U.S., with personal electronics manufacturing centered around Shenzhen, China, and advanced semiconductor devices in Singapore. The early clusters were serendipitous. The later ones are usually the result of deliberate and smart policy decisions.
There are already many examples of great technology that is born in the United States, then manufactured elsewhere. For example, many of the core technologies in smartphones were developed in labs in the U.S. but production is now spread across the world. The next wave of innovation will likely be located where skills are deep due from staffing and improving current factories. Robotic blacksmithing provides an opportunity for the United States to be the leader if it wants to. The core in keeping this virtuous cycle going in any location is in developing the factories, or the machines that build the machines.
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Another thing that travelers love about Sarasota is that it has more upscale communities compared to the encompassing areas. It tends to become a favorite spot for tourists who want to experience a great and comfortable travel. One of its main airports is the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport or SRQ for short. SRQ is located across the Sarasota border and along Bradenton. It is also close to the Sarasota County and Manatee County. It serves the top tourist destinations in Florida, namely Fort Myers and Tampa.
This airport is placed a short 4 miles northwest of Sarasota, next to Whitfield, Ballentine Manor, Matoaka and Kensington Park. It serves both international and domestic routes. Ten miles south of the airport is Bradenton close to Sarasota Bay and the University of South Florida. This university has over 45, 000 students. SRQ has 2 terminals and over a million passengers every year. It boasts more than 15,000 air operations per month within the winter months when the city holds a surge of tourism fairs and activities.
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SRQ boasts several food and drink outlets as well as shopping centers. Its terminal facilities include luggage trolleys on the ground floor, Wi-Fi Internet access, and baby changing facilities including disabled facilities, a conference room and mail drop facilities. At the southern part of SRQ is the Naples City. To the east is Orlando, which is full of attractions that are remarkable to kids like Disney and the roller coasters of Universal Studios. Sea World and its Shamu shows are also worth visiting after at the airport.
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Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is located near the Tampa and St. Petersburg area and has some of the best beaches and entertainment in Florida. Sarasota has the second softest beach sand in the world. It has a vast amount of islands and is well known for its popular tourist attraction at Longboat Key.
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The Sarasota area has many upscale neighborhoods and historical buildings throughout the city. There are some great places to visit while you are in the city but one of Sarasota's biggest attractions is the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus which has a museum you can take your family can walk through and learn about the history of this famous circus and its members.
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Aside from the outdoor adventure, Sarasota can offer you its notable Sarasota Classic Car Museum, Sarasota Jungle Gardens and for many other good places for the whole family to enjoy and have fun with.
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Texas liquor chain Spec's Wines, Spirits, & Finer Foods is hitting back at the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC), which had targeted the 177-store chain with sanctions and fines for alleged transgressions in recent years. Spec's was cleared last year of the TABC's charges—which included alleged illegal payments from a wholesaler and fellow retailer and illegally negotiated wine prices—and is now firing back at the agency with a federal lawsuit asserting "abusive regulatory overreach." The Texas Tribune reported that the lawsuit was filed in late August but only recently unsealed.
Spec's is reportedly seeking unspecified damages and reimbursement of more than $1 million in legal fees. In response, the TABC has asserted that it has "sovereign immunity" and is therefore impervious to such suits.
The TABC initiated an audit of Spec's in 2013, and subsequently charged the retailer with a number of offenses, eventually threatening to rescind the chain's permits and impose fines of more than $700 million. But in 2017, a pair of Texas administrative law judges tossed the TABC's case and instead recommended that Spec's receive a warning for the late payment of an invoice from a wine supplier back in 2011, and not be fined.


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import groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.FieldNode;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.*;
import org.codehaus.groovy.transform.GroovyASTTransformationClass;
import org.codehaus.groovy.transform.LogASTTransformation;
import org.objectweb.asm.Opcodes;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.util.Locale;

/**
 * This local transform adds a logging ability to your program using
 * Apache Commons logging. Every method call on a unbound variable named log
 * will be mapped to a call to the logger. For this a log field will be
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 * @author Hamlet D'Arcy
 * @author Matthias Cullmann
 * @since 1.8.0
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@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@Target({ElementType.TYPE})
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    String value() default "log";
    String category() default LogASTTransformation.DEFAULT_CATEGORY_NAME;
    Class<? extends LogASTTransformation.LoggingStrategy> loggingStrategy() default CommonsLoggingStrategy.class;

    public  static class CommonsLoggingStrategy extends LogASTTransformation.AbstractLoggingStrategy {

        private static final String LOGGER_NAME = "org.apache.commons.logging.Log";
        private static final String LOGGERFACTORY_NAME = "org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory";

        protected CommonsLoggingStrategy(final GroovyClassLoader loader) {
            super(loader);
        }

        public FieldNode addLoggerFieldToClass(ClassNode classNode, String logFieldName, String categoryName) {
            return classNode.addField(logFieldName,
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                            "getLog",
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            return methodName.matches("fatal|error|warn|info|debug|trace");
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                    logVariable,
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                    ArgumentListExpression.EMPTY_ARGUMENTS);

            return new TernaryExpression(
                    new BooleanExpression(condition),
                    originalExpression,
                    ConstantExpression.NULL);
        }
   }
}

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Striving in Allah's Path Through Our 9 to 5 Jobs | The Humble "I"
Very beautiful answer and reflection. May Allah reward you and draw us unto Him in the ways which are most pleasing to Him. Ameen.
Baraka'Llahu fikum for your kind comment; and amin to your beautiful du'a.
Baraka'Llahu fikum for such a beautfiful article…i have a question where i send my question?
What are your thoughts on what we hear from scholars and preachers of the need for "vision"?
You might have a vision to be a pilot to help people go Hajj, connect with family, etc. Then you become blind. Clearly your vision changes with circumstances. The whole point of a vision is that like the American thing of chasing your dream, no matter what, you pursue it regardless. And that's the thing. How much of this talk about "vision" is influenced by American self-help culture projected onto Islamic motifs. America is doing well. They have a culture of productivity. Ummah needs to do well. Hey, let's adopt their culture of productivity. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps Islam has an inherent culture that can be called "productivity". That there is nothing wrong adopting these kind of practices.
We are told for women to be a good mother is the best vision for them. Being a good father? Is that a good vision for men? Or is it to become doctors to help people? Because I think most doctors would tell you their job doesn't actually holistically help people, just provide temporary relief in a systemically unhealthy environment and economy. A job isn't khidmat. Khidmat is what you do in your spare time. Perhaps a job done with ihsan or with voluntary hours is khidmat. But on the whole a job is a job. And who has spare time for khidmat if they are doing those good jobs we are told to aspire to as Muslims? To be moral requires money: organic halal meat, ethically manufactured clothing, private tutors to teach Islam, and so on. To do the job needed to have the cash to be a good Muslim doesn't leave much time for khidmat. But I guess "fear Allah as much as you can".
So these are some thoughts I've been thinking about pertinent to this blog post. I hope you can shed some guidance too.
Wow, those are quite some thoughts! I'm not sure if I can respond to all the issues you raised or want me to shed light upon – at least not in written form. If, however, you wish to discuss some of these issues over a phone call, or face to face, I'd be more than willing insha'Llah.
You've raised many pertinent concerns and there is always the wisdom that states that we should generally begin with the end in mind. Notions of "vision" and "productivity" can't really be discussed without narrowing down what one means by such terms; especially in a religious context.
But as I said, these are matters which we can discuss at some appropriate time or occasion. Please let me know if you're up for a chinwag on these matters.
Here's another suggestion: let's discuss this on your podcast that way others can benefit from your research, insight and advice.
On 'vision', I recently read the books 'Productive Muslim' by Mohammed Faris and 'Agenda to Change' by Hamza Yusuf and Zaid Shakir. They are books that should be included with annual ISOC/MSA fresher packs.
Both books impart an urgency for personal organisation and long-term strategising aligned with the interests of the global collective body of Muslims – which is all easier said than done.
The idea of a podcast is a good idea. It would certainly be an interesting one. Thanks for the idea.
Sheikh Abu Aaliyah, you have been responsible for so much good in my life. May Allah fulfil your needs, wants and ambitions.
Since you are more likely to respond via replies here than my essay-length Whatsapp messages, I continue our correspondence for the benefit of others – may Allah shield my sins and shortcomings.
According to the respected authors of "Agenda to Change", critical change will come when a critical mass of Muslims reach the fourth and fifth levels of taqwa (which I translate as 'sacred mindfulness'), that being zuhd ('worldly detachment') and mushahadah ('spiritual witnessing'), as described by Imam Ibn Juzayy – may Allah be merciful with him – which you have commented on in one of your blog pieces.
The authors have advised a series of eight 40 day exercises (i.e. ten and a half months if completed successfully back-to-back with time for Ramadan and allowing for some set backs) to achieve this on an individual level accompanied with 18 practical suggestions for collective change. You are covering these points in your blessed majlises at your home – may Allah protect it – and the Facebook broadcasts.
I want to know – like the questioner in the above blog piece – how I can structure my 'religious' life with measurable goals for the next forty years until the end of my natural life span according to statistics?


Dying Light 2's big name writer is Chris Avellone, but it takes more than one person to put down all the words necessary to fill a game of this scope. Those additional writers include the people responsible for The Witcher 3's best story – the Bloody Baron quest.
The sequel to Dying Light is set to be an intricate, branching story with plenty of far-reaching consequences for all your actions. That sounds a lot like the Bloody Baron story to me, which also had the tremendous benefit of believable characters making bad decisions in terrible situations.
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They liken their narrative design to a "puzzle," and the branching choices were a big part of what they showcased in their reveal video, which you can see below.
We don't have much clue when the Dying Light 2 release date is coming – the gameplay that's been shown looks impressively polished, though we haven't seen much more since the Xbox press briefing. We do know the Dying Light 2 setting is meant to be "four times larger" than the first game's, which is a big undertaking.


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How do you define "marital property" in a high-asset divorce?
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Friday, March 15, 2019.
When New Jersey residents are involved in a high-asset divorce, one question may override all others: who gets what? But, to solve that problem, exact legal terms will come into play, none more important than the term "marital property." So, how do you define "marital property" in a high-asset divorce?
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Thursday, January 17, 2019.
By now everyone in New Jersey knows about the online retailer Amazon. The use of this service is becoming so prevalent that the company is becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world. That has made the owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, a very wealthy man. Some say Bezos is the richest man in the world, with a fortune estimated at $136 billion. While most would think that life must be pretty good for Bezos, even the richest man in the world is not immune to relationship problems.
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Thursday, January 10, 2019.
Everyone knows that a divorce ends a marriage so that the two people involved in the relationship can, hopefully, move on to a better life. However, a divorce is more than just an opportunity to get out of a relationship that isn't living up to expectations. For couples who have considerable wealth, understanding the implications of a high asset divorce is crucial.
Should you settle your divorce case quickly to save money?
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Thursday, November 8, 2018.
Divorcing couples in New Jersey often have a wide variety of questions about how the dissolution process will work. Each divorce case is different, but many will involve common issues: child custody and support, alimony and property division. For some couples in a high asset divorce, property division and alimony might be the most important issues of all. But, just because a divorce involves a significant amount of assets, does that mean that the sides should push for a quick resolution of the case to save money?
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Thursday, October 25, 2018.
No two divorce cases in New Jersey are the same. Some are amicable, in which the couple can agree on most of the terms of the divorce out-of-court and submit an agreement to the court for approval. Others are contentious, seeing the couple fight over every detail of the dissolution proceeding, from child custody and support to alimony and property division. However, oftentimes the biggest difference between any two cases is the amount of assets involved.
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Thursday, August 23, 2018.
Celebrity divorces always seem to make the news, and there always seem to be a number of them going on at the same time. Right now, one of the most heavily-covered high asset divorces is the one that Matt Lauer is involved in with his wife.
On behalf of Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith, P.A. posted in high asset divorce on Thursday, August 16, 2018.
Thousands of divorce cases go through the New Jersey court system every year. However, not all of those cases involve high asset divorces, in which the couple going through the divorce has accumulated quite a bit of assets throughout the course of the marriage. In a high asset divorce, your life will change both during and after the case is over.
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A previous post discussed how the ordinary means of finding out about a spouse's assets and debts in the process of a divorce or bed and board divorce is to use the various means of legal discovery provided under New Jersey law.


On January 17, the Swiss Federal Council issued a draft bill containing the proposal of converting all companies' bearer shares into registered shares. A consultation was also opened and it will last until April 24. The draft bill will be discussed in Parliament as early as Autumn 2018.
According to the bill, all bearer shares will automatically convert into registered shares when the law, if approved, will enter into force - possibly not before 2019.
The procedure provides that the company shall, at that date, hold a register containing the names of all notified owners of bearer shares and that holders of bearer shares who have not yet notified the company need to comply within the term of 18 months, or they will lose the right in their shares. Finally, the company is required to withdraw all bearer shares and destroy them.
It is worth noting that failure to notify the company or to correctly issue a register of the owners are set to become criminal offences, leading to conspicuous fines.
The case of bearer shares has been debated at length - notably, the bill has been issued in order to implement some recent recommendations from the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. The main concern related to bearer shares is the one of transparency: bearer shares could be held anonymously, hence they are more prone, at least in theory, to cover or facilitate money laundering activities.
Since 2015, when art. 697i et seq. of the Swiss Code of Obligations came into force, all buyers of non-listed bearer shares had the duty of identifying themselves, communicating their name, address and ID documents to the company within a month from the purchase, otherwise, they would be prevented from exercising some of their rights, notably their voting rights and the right to dividends. These provisions have drastically reduced the danger of anonymity. According to these rules, however, a bearer shares holder who may not wish to identify themselves, may do so - their rights would only be temporarily suspended, and could be reactivated once the identification process is complete. This "anonymity option" fell under the scrutiny of the Global Forum.
With the new proposed legislation, bearer shares would simply be abolished and ex lege turned into registered shares. Will Switzerland follow the route of countries like the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Belgium, Isle of Man, Austria and the USA?
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The greening of the Emerald Isle: Dublin's divestment decision
In the case of Ireland, the divestment will happen "as soon as is practicable" rather than immediately. Some fossil fuel exposure will continue in the fund—which had already begun reducing exposure to some fossil fuel-heavy companies before the law was passed—through hedge funds and exchange traded funds.
The divestment route is an intuitive way to address carbon exposure in portfolios, but it's not the only option and represents the end of a spectrum. Through our work with asset owners around the world we are seeing a range of other approaches being adopted by investors seeking to minimize carbon exposure.
More asset owners are engaging with companies in carbon intense industries, such as oil and gas, to catalyze changes to their business models and consider the transitions required to address climate risks. For example, one leading effort has been the Transition Pathway Initiative, a global initiative of asset owners in collaboration with FTSE Russell (as TPI's expert data partner) working alongside the Grantham Institute of the London School of Economics, and the Principles of Responsible Investment. Since the launch in January last year, the TPI has now grown to have over £7 trillion in AUM behind the initiative.
FTSE Russell has also seen clients adopting more nuanced and holistic approaches that alter weights by tilting exposure to climate risks, and seek to capture the broader industrial transition to a green economy such as the rise of new green industrial sub-sectors.
The performance of indexes aligned with both the divestment approach and the divest-invest approach show that each of these approaches has outperformed their respective parent indexes over the past five years.
Ireland's decision, along with the growing numbers taking action, indicate that for many asset owners, the divestment dilemma is no longer about whether to address the investment implications of climate change, but how to do so.
For more information on FTSE Russell's integrated approach to climate change risk, please see our FTSE Global Climate Index Series.
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We are delighted that Carol Monaghan MP has managed to secure a debate in Parliament on Thursday afternoon, 24th January. This debate has been confirmed by the Backbench Business Committee and will take place in the Main Chamber. Carol Monaghan has been pushing for a Main Chamber debate since the success of her previous debates. These have both been debated in Westminster Hall focussing on the PACE trial and biomedical research and treatments of ME. Each debate has attracted increasing interest, understanding and support from MPs across the political spectrum and we need to make sure this debate is the best so far!
Now is when the ME community must come into its own urging MPs to attend the debate and vote. It is the power of the grassroots that has built so much interest and attention from MPs. Take action now!
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The motion is as follows:
"That this House calls on the Government to provide increased funding for biomedical research into the diagnosis and treatment of ME, supports the suspension of Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy as means of treatment, supports updated training of GPs and medical professionals to ensure they are equipped with clear guidance on diagnosis of ME and appropriate management advice to reflect international consensus on best practice, and is concerned about the current trends of subjecting ME families to unjustified child protection procedures".
Carol Monaghan MP made her application for the debate on 30th October 2018 supported by Nicky Morgan MP, Steve Pound MP and Kelvin Hopkins MP. You can read our summary and watch the 10 minute application here. Or read the full transcript from Hansard here (starts at Q11).
The rate at which MPs are engaging with ME is hugely exciting. Thank you to everyone who has already contacted their MP to explain how ME has affected your life and how you need immediate change. By sharing your experience a growing number of MPs are gaining confidence to speak out on your behalf.
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6 comments on "Take Action Now! The UK debate on ME has been granted"
Colette O'Brien says:
I have had ME since the birth of my first son in 1988, before this I travelled Europe and did a six months working in the outback of Australia. I worked full time and did my degree course in the evenings. I did not think about my energy, how precious it was, now energy is the holy grail.
My daughter who is now 13 years old has had ME since she had a bad virus at the age of 5. She gets home tutored of 2 hours a week. Desparately misses her friends, she is so sociable, and that is the hardest part for her. She has no chance of getting any GCSE, she has been unable to go to school since she was 5 years old,
Unless some strong research into the root cause of ME, I see an unlife for my daughter. Social stigma and misunderstanding is huge, even within families, which is heartbreaking and soul destroying. I understand suidice numbers are much above average within the ME community. Hope is in very short supply. Interesting I am meeting many more people suffering from ME. Please support ME research.
Vic Edwards says:
As a grandparent of a 18 year old granddaughter I urge MP's to support this debate and the actions called for on the treatment for sufferers and the education of healthcare professionals.
My granddaughter has been virtually immobile for three years and still awaits diagnosis and treatment in order to live
a normal life.
Linda Edwards says:
My granddaughter is bed bound completely with ME
There is no help or support whatsoever please please please vote for more action on the issue of ME
The theory of the two treatments are not acceptable. Get and cbt they don't work
She is pushed from
One doctor to another
She is bed bound in terrific pain always and there is just nobody out there to help . She is 18 and been in bed fir four years 24 hours a day
Sarah Lawry says:
I'm wondering why there is no mention regarding the infectious/ transmissible nature of ME in the briefing. This would seem to be an important point. Is anyone at MM capable of rectifying this apparent oversight?
Our granddaughter has ME
There is NO help or support sge is 18 years of age and been in bed for four years all the time
The gradient exercise does not work or CBT the GP 's do not understand the illness the drugs don't work fir the pain she has been pushed from
Pillar to post for years
It is sole destroying as we never get anywhere . No support for my daughter she had to fight for drugs referrals all the time
Exercise does not help whatsoever
We need more research and doctors need to
Be educated so they can deal with the illness as at the moment nobody knows what they are doing
lee a greenan says:
No doubt you're 100% accurate. Educating the world about the multi-system, full body decay is CRITICAL. Identifying the source and how ME spreads systemically and becomes permanent and 100% debilitating disease that very few doctor's are educated to address.
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If a Trust is private, how would others know it exists if I pass away?
Typically, your assets, such as a home, bank account, life insurance policy, or retirement account, are somehow connected to the trust, either through the way these assets are owned, or through death beneficiary designations. This alerts family to the existence of the trust. We recommend that if you have a Trust, you tell your Trustee where you keep the Trust and how to contact your attorney in an emergency.


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Betterment ("Betterment", or the "Company), is an online investment adviser providing investment advice and diversified, fully automated investment management to customers for less than the typical cost of a traditional financial adviser or wealth manager. The company was founded in August 2008 and launched in May 2010 at TechCrunch Disrupt, where it was named "Best Start Up in New York City." The company is headquartered in New York, NY.
Betterment's investments are not share-based, but rather goal-based; it diversifies every penny invested through proprietary software, and deploys dollar cost averaging. It is a portfolio comprised of the most efficient ETFs, allowing for liquidity. They currently manage over $1.4B of assets.
Marlin & Associates advised global private equity firm Francisco Partners on strategy and valuation on their investment, resulting in a $60M commitment. Francisco Partners led the financing, which includes participation from previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Northwestern Mutual Capital.
Francisco Partners specializes in investments in technology companies. Since its launch fifteen years ago, FP has raised approximately $10 billion and invested in more than 150 technology companies, making it one of the most active investors in the industry. The firm invests in transaction values ranging from $50 million to over $2 billion.
Marlin advised Francisco Partners on its investment in Betterment. Marlin provided detailed insight into the space, competitors, and potential follow-on acquisition opportunities.
Betterment Raises $60M in Growth Funding
New Round Will Accelerate Growth and Product Development
NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Betterment, the largest and fastest growing automated investing service, today announced the close of a $60 million round of growth funding. Global private equity firm Francisco Partners led the financing, which includes participation from previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Northwestern Mutual Capital.
"Our growth has continued to accelerate," said Jon Stein, Betterment Founder and CEO. "More people are becoming Betterment customers every day, and our existing customers continue to invest more with us. This new capital will allow us to grow even faster and increase the development of new products that will continue to reinvent investing around what customers want: a seamless, personalized experience that is aligned with their best interest and optimized for the highest expected returns net of all costs."
Launched in 2010, Betterment manages more than $1.4B of assets in tax-efficient, personalized portfolios for more than 65,000 customers, by far the largest customer base of any automated investing service. The company offers a seamless, technology-enabled platform that helps people better manage, protect, and grow their wealth.
"We've created a new product category over the last five years," Stein added. "While we're excited with where we are today, we're really just getting started. There are millions of people in need of better financial advice and services, and we're building the smartest technology and making it accessible to anyone."
In addition to raising the new round of funding, Betterment is welcoming Peter Christodoulo of Francisco Partners to its Board of Directors. Francisco Partners brings significant experience in financial technology, with previous investments that include Prosper Marketplace, eFront, PayLease, Paymetric, Avangate and Hypercom among others.
"We have long felt that the wealth management space was overdue for a solution that could better serve the majority of Americans through smarter technology," Christodoulo said. "Betterment's unique, vertically integrated architecture allows its platform to be lightning fast, which is proving to be compelling with customers as thousands fund new accounts each month."
In the past year, Betterment has unveiled a variety of new features to help improve investor returns, including Tax Loss Harvesting+TM and Tax Impact Preview. The company also recently unveiled Betterment Institutional, a digital solution that allows financial advisors to better serve their clients and make their practices more efficient.
For more information, please visit www.betterment.com and follow @Betterment on twitter.
About Betterment
Betterment is the largest automated investing service, helping people to better manage, protect, and grow their wealth through smarter technology. The service offers a personalized, goal-based, globally diversified portfolio of ETFs, designed to help provide you with the best possible expected returns for retirement planning, building wealth, and other savings goals. Betterment is a CNBC Disruptor 50 and Webby award winner and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. Betterment helps people to achieve a smarter financial future with minimal effort and for a fraction of the cost of traditional financial services.
About Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners is a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology companies. Since its launch fifteen years ago, FP has raised approximately $10 billion and invested in more than 150 technology companies, making it one of the most active investors in the industry. The firm invests in transaction values ranging from $50 million to over $2 billion, where the firm's deep sub-sector knowledge and operational expertise can help a company realize its full potential.


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Mark Edgar Nichols (February 11, 1873 – May 1, 1961) was a Canadian newspaper journalist and editor.

The son of Thomas Nichols and Elizabeth Graham, both natives of Scotland, he was born in Bronte, Ontario. Nichols was first a proofreader and then a reporter for the Toronto Telegram. In 1897, he became parliamentary reporter in Ottawa for the paper. Nichols went on to be writer and editor for The Toronto World, president and editor for the Winnipeg Telegram and president for the  and the Montreal Daily News.

During World War I, he served two years as head of the Canadian Department of Public Information. Next, Nichols served as vice-president and managing director for the Winnipeg Tribune for 15 years. He was one of the founding members of the Canadian Western Associated Press in 1907 and served as its first president. In 1917, he was a founder of The Canadian Press, serving as a director for 15 years and as its president from 1931 to 1932. Nichols served as publisher for the Vancouver Province, He retired from journalism in 1945.

Nichols died in Vancouver at the age of 88.

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Budapest, March 15 (MTI) – Andras Schiffer, co-leader of the green LMP party, marked March 15, Hungary's national holiday and warned that "a new dependence will not eliminate another, but will steer the country into a fatally vulnerable situation".
In his address, delivered at a commemoration organised by his party, Schiffer also said that "a nation whose leaders negotiate deals in other countries at the expense of their own citizens cannot protect their country's independence.
Schiffer said some politicians attempt to contrast freedom with national sovereignty whereas "the two are not in conflict with each other". He said the latter is regarded as an obsolete, nationalistic feature by some, while others believe freedom and local communities' right to self-determination can be sacrificed for the sake of national sovereignty.
Centuries of experience have shown that internal and external dependence go hand in hand, Schiffer said, adding that there is no democracy where "the country's energy supply is consigned (to a foreign power)" based on a pact classified for thirty years.
Akos Hadhazy, the party's anti-corruption spokesman said the prime minister may have lost his sound judgment when he says things like there is zero tolerance for corruption in Hungary or that there will be full employment in the country by 2018.
Andras Schiffer, when will you and your offshoot party from the socialists start waking up? You all live in a dream world and do not understand the absolute meaning of independence. This country of ours, Hungary, up to five years ago was living under a regime of post communism called socialism, which almost led this country into bankrupsy. The new regime since 2010 under FIDESZ, has become a safeguard for the countries independence and security. Paks,and the proposed gaz pipeline from russia are just two of the things that puts Hungarys independence and security right for the future. Without these provisions, where would Hungary get its energy from for the future, no matter where or how it gets here? FIDESZ is doing the right thing dealing with Russia on these issues. Peace and security are the things people survive on, not arguments and discontentment, the very things you and the opposition socialist are doing and creating. Political opposition in this country is reckoned to be the worst in europe and possibly the world. All the socialist opposition parties, including you and JOBBIK, need to change your ideas, treat FIDESZ as a party trying to do its job for the country, and stop all this arguing and bickering against them. Work in peace together for the good of the people and the country. I am a Brit, and have been living in Hungary for a few years, married to a wonderful Hungarian lady, and I am proud of my new found country-but, I am not proud of the senseless way you and the socialists disrupt the minds of its people. Talk and discuss things in parlament, and try to put constructive suguestions forward for discussion. Orban Victor is doing wonders for this country and tries to succeed in everything he and the FIDESZ does for the good of the people of our Homeland.


2015 saw us (JustAnotherCyclist and VeloReviews) recovering and retooling after devoting almost all of our resources into a bike shop and bicycle retail in 2014. After some serious soul searching and deciding how to proceed, there is a great plan in place to take us forward into 2016.
Continuing our focus on bicycle lighting products with reviews of Monkey Lights, a couple of different economy bike rack mounted tail lights, as well as the 1500 lumen Oculus headlight by Barry Beams.
Continue to tell the story of Eloise the Motobecane's transition for urban single speed to full-fledge touring/camping bike. Follow along as we tackle the conversions and upgrades in building the ultimate forrest service gravel road touring bike.
Full reviews of all of the products that go into the Eloise conversion.
Thinking seriously about a new podcast to fill the void created after we stopped recording the VeloReviews podcast. Thinking about it seriously enough that a new microphone and some acoustic shielding are already identified and ready to be ordered.
Some new bike tattoos. Just because.
Getting back behind the camera to bring more cycling photography.
I'll stop ignoring my mountain bike.
Getting back to the roots of JustAnotherCyclist and VeloReviews by (re)focusing on building great online content and a vibrant online cycling community.
And last but not least, I feel like I've exercised the ghost of Lance Armstrong that was haunting my thoughts every time I watched racing so … a return to racing coverage.
So get out there and ride! And let's talk about it next year.


How could a nation founded on a Declaration that "all men are created equal" permit slavery? Nowhere was this contradiction starker than in federal courts before the nation erupted into Civil War. In this documentary, we consider several historical flashpoints.
In one case, historians, legal scholars, and actors re-create the fugitive slave trial of Anthony Burns, a teenager born as a slave in Virginia. After escaping on a boat to Boston, he was apprehended and forced into federal court where under the Fugitive Slave Act he could be ordered back to slavery. The federal court proceedings that followed his arrest provoked the largest abolitionist protest the nation had ever seen. In the end, Burns, then 20 years old, was marched through the city in chains and deposited on a boat, which would take him back to cruel punishment as a slave. The judge, Edward Loring, later faced strong ostracism and was eventually removed from his other post as a state judge.
In the solitude of my spirit, I see clouds of dust raised on the highways of the South; I see bleeding footsteps; I hear the doleful wail of fettered humanity, on the way to the slave-markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder. There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice, and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight.


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Lacunaria crenata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ochnaceae, native from Central America to Brazil. It was first described by Edmond Tulasne in 1849 as Quiina crenata.

Distribution
Lacunaria crenata is native to Central America (Costa Rica, Honduras and  Nicaragua and Panama) and northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru,Suriname and Venezuela).

Subspecies
, Plants of the World Online accepted two subspecies:
Lacunaria crenata subsp. crenata
Lacunaria crenata subsp. decastyla (Radlk.) J.V.Schneid. & Zizka

Conservation
Lacunaria panamensis was assessed as "endangered" in the 1998 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama. , L. panamensis was regarded as a synonym of L. crenata subsp. crenata, which has a much wider distribution, being found throughout the range of L. crenata.

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Flora of Brazil
Flora of Colombia
Flora of Costa Rica
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of French Guiana
Flora of Guyana
Flora of Honduras
Flora of Nicaragua
Flora of Panama
Flora of Peru
Flora of Suriname
Flora of Venezuela
Plants described in 1849


I would like to welcome you to the website of the Programme Office of the Council of Europe in Venice. The Programme Office supports Headquarters in the organisation of activities that span from culture and cultural heritage to training on human rights and democracy. I kindly invite you to surf through our website. Here you will find information on our past and present activities, news and articles about the Office and the Council of Europe.
Venice is a significant cultural pole in Europe. It has been a crossroads of commerce and civilizations. It is one of the most visited cities in the world and a meeting point of peoples, countries and traditions. It is also an important academic center as it hosts three Universities, numerous international foundations and research centers.
Venice is actively involved in Council of Europe activities. Venice is a member of the Council of Europe Intercultural Cities Network. The network supports cities in reviewing their policies through an intercultural lens and developing comprehensive strategies to help them manage diversity positively. Venice is also one of the four Faro Convention laboratories in Europe. Here the Council of Europe is testing how civil society and local authorities put into practice this relatively young Convention on democratic participation to cultural heritage. Venice participates in the Jewish Heritage Route. This important European cultural route certified by the Council of Europe, goes through the city and stops at its 500 years old ghetto and historic Jewish cemetery. In other words, Venice is a workshop and a test site for significant Council of Europe policies and programmes. Furthermore, the European Commission for Democracy through Law - better known as the Venice Commission, as it meets in Venice - is the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters.


Jai Bhavani Gram Vikas Bahuuddeshiya Sevabhavi Sanstha, Sangvi (Benak) Tq. Mukhed Dist. Nanded visualizes to create a society based on justice, peace and quality irrespective of caste, creed and gender. There will be no hunger, exploitation of subjugation or subjugation in any form in this society where people will live in peaceful coexistence with nature, people will love, respect and cooperate with each other for self-reliance and prosperity of the society as a whole. Empowerment of the poor in general and that of the scheduled castes (SCs), Scheduled tribes (STs) and women in particular through conscientization, organisation, social action, education and asset creation. Promotion of people's participation in development efforts; and Provision of education, health, nutrition community services necessary for the development of the poor children, the disadvantaged and the aged. The Organization takes a keen concern on animal welfare.
To facilitate the process of empowerment of the poor, the marginalized, youths and the women who are the poorest among the poor and help them to come out of the vicious cycle of poverty, injustice, exploitation and deprivation of basic human rights and to encourage peoples participation in the process of their own development in sustainable manner though promotion of people's organization.


Just days after a pair of researchers outwitted major Windows 7 defenses to exploit Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox, Microsoft said the measures aren't meant to "prevent every attack forever.
At the same time, it defended the security measures, saying they remained an effective way to hinder exploits.
Pete LePage, a product manager with IE's developer division, stood up for DEP (data execution) and ASLR (address space layout randomization), the security features that two hackers sidestepped to win $10,000 each at the high-profile Pwn2Own hacking contest last Wednesday.
"Defense in depth techniques aren't designed to prevent every attack forever, but to instead make it significantly harder to exploit a vulnerability," LePage said, referring to DEP, ASLR and another feature specific to IE, called Protected Mode.
DEP, which Microsoft introduced in 2004 with Windows XP SP2, is designed to prevent attack code from executing in memory not intended for code execution. ASLR, a feature that debuted with Windows Vista three years ago, randomly shuffles the positions of key memory areas, such as the stack, to make it more difficult for hackers to predict whether their attack code will run. Protected Mode, a sandbox-like technology in which IE runs with restricted rights, is designed to reduce the ability of attack code to "escape" from the browser to write, alter or delete data elsewhere on the PC.
All three anti-exploit features are also found in Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system.
Peter Vreugdenhil, a freelance vulnerability researcher from the Netherlands, and a German researcher who only goes by his first name of Nils, each bypassed Windows 7's DEP and ASLR when they successfully attacked IE8 and Firefox 3.6, respectively, at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge.
LePage's comments Friday were the first from Microsoft on the DEP and ASLR circumventions since Pwn2Own concluded.
In a post to the Windows Security blog LePage used the analogy of a fire-proof safe, equating its ability to withstand fire and heat with Windows' security. "Without defense in depth techniques, a fire-proof safe may only protect its contents for an hour or two," LePage said. "A stronger fire-proof safe with several defense in depth features still won't guarantee the valuables forever, but adds significant time and protection to how long the contents will last."
Microsoft has made the point before that DEP, ASLR and other defensive measures don't guarantee that Windows can withstand attack. Last summer, for example, Robert Hensing, an engineer in the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), said, "DEP by itself is generally not a robust mitigation."
But in the same post to Microsoft's Security Research & Defense blog|Security Research & Defense : Understanding DEP as a mitigation technology part 1]] , Hensing also said, "DEP and ASLR used together are very difficult to bypass."
Microsoft's LePage said much the same last Friday. "Defense in depth features, including DEP and ASLR, continue to be highly effective protection mechanisms," he claimed.
Vreugdenhil, who exploited IE8 on Windows 7, didn't seem to think they were that difficult to elude. "It took me six or seven days to get everything to work," he said last week in an interview after his Pwn2Own victory. Although he didn't reveal the two exploits he used to bypass DEP and ASLR, then hack Microsoft's browser -- by the rules of the contest, he's not allowed to talk in detail until the flaws are fixed -- Vreugdenhil posted a paper ( download PDF ) where he explained how he evaded Windows 7's protections.
Charlie Miller, another Pwn2Own winner who bypassed DEP and ASLR defenses in Apple Update's Snow Leopard operating system to hack Safari last week, sided with Microsoft on the measures' anti-exploit skills. "It's more difficult [to exploit vulnerabilities] than it was before," Miller said. "Before, any of the 20 bugs I found would have been fine for winning," he continued, referring to his recent discovery of 20 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, Safari, Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader. "But this year, it took a better bug, a best of breed bug. Now you really need a very special, well-behaved vulnerability [to win]."
Miller is the only researcher to "three-peat" at Pwn2Own, having won prizes in 2008, 2009 and again this year.
One reason why it's more difficult now, Miller said, is because of DEP and ASLR, both of which Mac OS X also uses, though the latter is only partially implemented by Apple's operating system. But he also argued that their presence is a double-edged sword, and a dull one at that.
"With ASLR, exploiting was supposed to be harder, but I still win [at Pwn2Own]," Miller said. "Then they added DEP and I still win. People don't think we need to find bugs now that there's mitigation. But that's not the case. [DEP and ASLR] are just one piece to security, and they don't work as well as people think they will."
In fact, earlier this month, a Google engineer and a former Microsoft security engineer, posted proof-of-concept code for bypassing DEP. At the time, a Microsoft spokesman declined to commit to a revamping of the security feature, instead asserting that any skirting of DEP could not compromise a computer by itself.
Other researchers were confident that the code's publication meant DEP circumvention would increase. "This can be used to further enhance exploits, and I expect that we'll start seeing it being used within exploits fairly soon," said David Sancho, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, in an interview four weeks ago.
"Even as security improves, researchers end up winning," Miller said. "We're obviously in better shape [in terms of security], but it's still true that you can't feel totally confident in a full-patched computer."


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Peanut crop is gaining ground in Mississippi
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MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Mississippi producers are showing that working for peanuts is not a bad thing.
The state produced the second highest per acre peanut yield in the country in 2005 with between 1.7 and 1.8 tons grown per acre. Since 2001, Mississippi jumped from obscurity in peanut circles to No. 9 in the nation on the strength of about 17,000 acres of the crop. Peanut acreage is expected to increase about 10 percent this year.
Mike Howell, Mississippi State University Extension Service southeast district area agronomist, said the 2002 Farm Bill opened the door for the crop in Mississippi.
"When the quota system was eliminated, it became possible for a lot more farmers to grow peanuts," Howell said. "The interest really sparked in the southeast corner of the state where a few farmers had already been growing peanuts for several years. Peanuts now are grown there, throughout the Delta and in the northeast part of the state."
Diseases can transfer between peanuts and soybeans, but peanuts make a good rotation crop for corn or cotton. Peanuts can be grown on any soil type, although they perform best on sandy soils. Heavy soils make harvest difficult for this belowground crop.
"We can find sandy spots in most counties in Mississippi," Howell said. "The southeast part of the state will probably remain the best part of the state for peanuts, but peanuts can be grown anywhere there is sandy soil, such as along rivers and creek bottoms."
Howell said the state has high yields because it has low disease pressure.
"You have to rotate peanuts because of disease pressure," Howell said. "We're on new soils so we don't have the disease pressure now that other state's face, but we probably will in five or six years."
Peanut harvest equipment is significantly less expensive than harvest equipment for corn or cotton, and peanut inputs match cotton's input cost of $500 to $600 an acre. With good per acre yields and a minimum price of $355 per ton, Howell said peanuts are as economically attractive as cotton grown on good land.
George County in southeast Mississippi leads the state in peanut acreage with more than 2,000 acres in 2005 and 2006. Mike Steede, George County Extension director, said he expects no real change in peanut acreage in his county until a new Farm Bill changes farm policy again.
"Peanuts perform well in this area, and do fairly well in a drought situation compared to other crops," Steede said.
Ken Hood, Extension agricultural economist, said peanuts' estimated value of production was $7.83 million in 2006.
"I expect this to increase in 2007 if weather during the growing season is normal," Hood said. "Prices have held steady, but if speculation is correct about large tracts of Georgia peanut acreage moving to corn this year, we may benefit as buyers offer premiums over the loan rate."
Hood said total peanut acreage nationwide has steadily declined since 2002. Peanut stocks are down from 2006, and it appears that national peanut production will decline again in 2007.
"Buyers may try to lock in supply with spring contract prices above the loan rate," Hood said.
A bill is pending in the Mississippi Senate to impose a $2.50 per ton check off on peanuts. Howell said the state's peanut grower's association is trying to establish this program to fund research and promotion of the crop in Mississippi.
Howell said peanuts grown in the southeastern United States are of the highest quality in the world, and most Mississippi peanuts end up in candy, peanut butter or packaged as snacks.
In 2006, MSU entered the peanut retail market with 18-ounce cans of crunchy and smooth peanut butter, and 1-ounce foil packages and 12- and 60-ounce cans of roasted peanuts. Each of these products is available for purchase on campus in the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Sales Store, also known as the MSU Cheese Store.
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Home/American Shipper/MISC crew rescues fisherman stranded for 20 days
MISC crew rescues fisherman stranded for 20 days
American Shipper Staff Wednesday, May 30, 2018
A lookout spotted the man more than 400 nautical miles off the Philippines coast.
A Filipino fisherman adrift in the North Pacific Ocean for 20 days was rescued Saturday by the crew of the MISC LNG vessel Seri Begawan.
A lookout on duty on the navigation bridge spotted the fisherman in a small boat more than 400 nautical miles off the Philippines coast during Seri Begawan's voyage from Gladstone, Australia to Beihai, China. The vessel is operated by MISC's integrated marine services arm, Eaglestar.
Following his rescue, the 39-year-old Filipino was provided with food and medical attention. He reportedly was lost at sea when his boat was separated from the mother vessel during bad weather.
The fisherman disembarked Seri Begawan near the coast of the Philippines on Sunday and the ship resumed the voyage to China.
The Philippines Coast Guard presented the Seri Begawan crew a letter of commendation for the exemplary humanitarian action.


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OAS Calls For New Honduras Election After Coup-President Declared Winner
By Sarah Kinosian, TheGuardian.com
Above Photo: Juan Orlando Hernández won with 42.95% of the vote in Honduras, compared with 41.42% for runner-up Salvador Nasralla. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP
Electoral observer OAS voices doubts about 'low-quality' election process that does little to clear up critics' doubts
The Organization of American States has called for fresh elections in Honduras, hours after President Juan Orlando Hernández was declared the winner.
Luis Almagro – the secretary general of the OAS, a regional forum that sent an election observer mission to monitor the Honduran poll – said the process was plagued by irregularities, had "very low technical quality" and lacked integrity.
The statement came after the electoral court president, David Matamoros, revealed the winner on Sunday, saying: "We have fulfilled our obligation [and] we wish for there to be peace in our country." It follows three weeks of uncertainty and unrest following the 26 November poll. At least 17 people have died in protests amid opposition allegations of election fraud.
Opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla is in Washington DC and is meeting the US State Department, the OAS and non-governmental organisations to present what he called "numerous" pieces of evidence of alleged fraud.
According to the court's official count, Hernández won with 42.95% to 41.42% for runner-up Nasralla who had challenged the result well before the announcement and said he would not recognise it.
There was no immediate public comment by Hernández, whose sister Hilda Hernández, a cabinet minister, died on Saturday in a helicopter crash.
Interviewed by UneTV during a layover at Miami airport, Nasralla said Hernández's re-election was not legitimate. "The declaration by the court is a mockery because it tramples the will of the people," Nasralla said. He added that "the people do not endorse fraud".
An EU election observer mission has noted issues with the Honduran system that could have favoured Hernández, including disparity of resources and media time, selling of party credentials at voting tables to ensure greater presence of his National party and social programmes that "blurred the line between government and ruling party". The mission noted that several of these problems were covered in its 2013 report, and that no changes had been made for these elections.
Almagro said via Twitter shortly before Matamoros's announcement that election observers had concluded that "serious doubts persist about the results". He asked that no "irresponsible pronouncements" be made before observers could deliver their definitive reports.
After the 26 November poll, the first results reported by the electoral court before dawn the next day showed Nasralla with a significant lead over Hernández with nearly 60% of the vote counted.
Public updates of the count then mysteriously stopped for more than a day and, when they resumed, Nasralla's lead was steadily eroded and ultimately reversed in Hernández's favour.
The electoral court recently conducted a recount of ballot boxes with irregularities and said there was virtually no change to its count. Since then, it has been considering challenges filed by candidates.
Despite widespread suspicions of electoral wrongdoing, Matamoros defended the court's performance. He said it had presided over "the most transparent electoral process ever seen in Honduras".
Hernández, a 49-year-old businessman and former lawmaker, took office in January 2014 and built support largely on a reduction in violence in the impoverished Central American country.
According to Honduras's National Autonomous University, the nation's homicide rate has fallen from 91.6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2011 to 59 per 100,000 — though it remains among the deadliest places in the world.
Corruption and drug trafficking allegations have cast a shadow over his government, and his re-election bid fuelled charges that his National party was seeking to entrench itself in power by getting a court ruling to allow him to seek a second term.
Re-election has long been outlawed in the country, and in 2009 the then-president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a coup ostensibly because he wanted to run again.
Zelaya, who founded the Alliance party that Nasralla was representing, was critical of the president on Sunday.
"The people say: 'You are not our president'," Zelaya tweeted. "We must mobilise immediately to all public places. They are violating the will of the PEOPLE."
Hernández's government recently accused Zelaya and Nasralla of ordering "gangs" to block streets and commit violent acts amid the protests, during which barricades have been burned and clashes taken place between rock-throwing demonstrators and police, with soldiers responding with teargas.
"The generalised crisis that Honduras is experiencing is primarily due to the disagreement there has been between the political parties which, in a democracy, must respect the majority will of the people expressed at the ballot box," the national human rights commissioner, Roberto Herrera, said in a statement.
Zelaya has called for protests on Monday, and the Liberal party has called for protests on Tuesday, after conceding to Nasralla.
Rodolfo Pastor, an Alliance spokesman, told the Guardian: "We will continue to fight against this fraudulent election process."
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Are Your Mobile Landing Pages Really Optimized?
Mobile-first landing page design is nothing new. In fact, mobile traffic surpassed desktop traffic in the beginning of 2015, so mobile optimization should be yesterdays news.
…but simply creating a mobile version of your page is not the same thing as creating a mobile-optimized landing page.
In this article, I'm going to go over a few points in mobile optimization that are often overlooked but can help create a more interactive and seamless experience for your mobile visitors.
Whether your users are on desktop or mobile, your call to action (CTA) is important. It lets your users know what they need to do next and how taking action will benefit them.
However, it's important to remember that when someone is searching online on their mobile device, they are in a really easy position to call you. They literally already have their phone in their hands.
For many businesses, phone call leads even convert better than form leads, so why aren't more people optimizing their mobile pages to have easily accessible click-to-call buttons? Make sure these buttons are obvious, in a good location to reach and large enough for fingers to click without trouble.
Desktop pages can show a lot more information, images and buttons above the fold then mobile. On mobile, it takes a lot more scrolling to see the same content, which means your CTAs can disappear above the fold and never be seen again.
However, by adding a scrolling or fixed CTA to your mobile landing page, you can keep your message in sight during their entire browsing experience. That way, your visitors don't have to scroll back to the top or sift through the entire page to find your CTA.
Testing a scrolling CTA, message, or phone number on your mobile landing pages can be a great way to increase engagement and conversions.
In addition to screen size, mobile users hold and interact with your page differently than desktop users do. Most mobile users are holding their phone in their hand and using their thumb to scroll, click, and interact with your landing page.
As a result, on larger phones, certain areas on the screen are harder to click. For example, the top left corner can be a bit of a reach for right handed mobile users.
With that in mind, it's a good idea to test out different locations for your CTA buttons and phone numbers. You never know, the difference in placement just might help your conversion rate.
Mobile users have also gotten used to certain action buttons in certain mobile screen placements. Keeping your button placement consistent with their expectations will allow users to interact with your page more instinctively.
For example many users are used to the "back" button being placed in the top left corner, if you put another button there users might be more easily confused and even frustrated.
The simpler and easier your mobile landing page is to interact with, the more comfortable they will feel and the more likely they will be to convert.
On desktop, overlays can be a great way to catch a few extra conversions. A unique offer or deal popping up when entering or exiting a page can be the push that some visitors need to convert.
Mobile pop-ups can also be a great way to turn on-the-go casual mobile visitors into higher intent desktop users by capturing their email.
Thinking about your mobile audience and creating custom pop up offers or messages directed towards your audience will help grown conversions for not only your mobile page, but your desktop landing page and email campaigns as well.
The biggest error I see on "mobile optimized" pages is trying to fit all of a desktop page's content onto the mobile landing page.
Typically, content needs to be simplified to create a good mobile user experience. Whether that means condensing content or simply breaking it up into different pages or sections, the best mobile landing pages are simple.
Use visual cues to break up content and stimulate interaction. Things like images, small paragraphs, large indicative headlines, and clear content sections can all help to create a simpler and more user friendly user experience.
Putting together a set of effective mobile landing pages requires more than just a few reformatting tweaks. You have to think about your mobile user experience and modify your page and content to meet their specific needs.
Fortunately, adding click-to-call buttons and scrolling CTAs along with optimizing button placement, overlays and the complexity of your content can do wonders for the performance of your mobile pages.
By the way, if you'd like me to take a look at your mobile landing pages and give you some recommendations, let me know here or in the comments.
How do you improve the performance of your mobile landing pages? Let me know in the comments!


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- 2'X2' Vitrified tile flooring in living, Bedroom & Kitchen.
- beam level Kitchen platform.
- Main door with decorative laminate finish &Internal flush doors.
- Granite frame for all the doors of bath & WC.
- Wooden door Frames for other Rooms.
- Marble frame for all the doors of Bath & WC.
- Marble sill for all the Window of Bath & WC.
- Hot & Cold mixer arrangement.
- Good quality aluminium louvers in Bath & WC.
- 8ft height glazed tiles in Bathroom & Kitchen.
- Internally good quality paint for entire flat.
- Externally good quality semi acrylic paint.
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Weaving from the WorldWideWeb: Margret Eicher - the contract thief
Lady Gaga, Lego soldiers, Joker - united in a frenzy of images, the whole thing a monumental, woven carpet.
27 November 2022 Sunday 07:34
Lady Gaga, Lego soldiers, Joker - united in a frenzy of images, the whole thing a monumental, woven carpet. The 30 meter long media collage Battle:Reloaded by Margret Eicher can be seen in the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle. ntv.de visited the conceptual artist in her Berlin studio.
She unabashedly steals digital imagery for her art. Targets the stars of pop culture and the media. Nothing that buzzes around you constantly and day after day in the news and the endless expanse of the Internet is safe from her. Margret Eicher reassembles these collected images on the computer in complex digital processes, thereby interpreting media reality and having surprising tapestries woven from them in Belgium. The artist calls herself a "contract thief". "I act on my own behalf. Unsolicited images flood me every day, I can't avoid them," she explains to ntv.de during a visit to the studio in Berlin.
It's in the middle of Berlin, on a quiet side street off Kurfürstendamm. She happily opens the door and invites in. Her studio is also her apartment, because a desk with a large computer screen is enough for her. The artist has been working purely digitally for twenty years and has taught herself the craft. "In the beginning I was pretty stupid and produced some nervous breakdowns," she says with a laugh. At that time she was still living in southern Germany and friends who had a communications agency offered her a job.
She now skilfully uses the "infinite cosmos" of digital image processing. Use it to transform your icons, heroes and pathos formulas from the web into irritating weavings. She is interested in the connections, the meaning of certain phenomena and the superficiality of the quick, profane consumption of snippets. Margret Eicher mostly stays on the surface herself: "I don't watch Star Wars or Lara Croft films," she laughs, "but the high level of identification with these characters is exciting. They are idols, just like war heroes in the past, princes or bishops. They are the modern day equivalent, most politicians are too mundane by comparison."
By adding the illustrations, her impressive art is created. And although the material she uses is so traditional and therefore imposing, it is not the textile material that appeals to her. "I'm only interested in the quotation of the pictorial form in the courtly tapestry. Back in the 16th and 17th centuries it was a communication medium at court. Just like the mass media, the press or YouTube are now for our modern, pluralistic society. I could too do a digital print of my work, but that's not enough. I want to make it clear what it's all about."
With the visually stunning collages, she holds up a mirror to media culture. Unmasks their empty icons and the supposedly salutary, virtual future. The highlight: in front of their tapestries, the viewers believe they are standing in front of historical tapestries for a split second. But before you look away, perhaps bored, there are suddenly armies of Lego men. In between there are Pokémons and Ninja Turtles. Isn't that Lara Croft? There Lady Gaga? Beyonce? Where is actress Scarlett Johansson or whistleblower Julian Assange looking? To the audience, to another life?
The figures of the digital world connect the past and the present with Eicher through their iconic potential. "For the viewer, the mass media giants become tradable objects. The collage is democratic and a medium that has come out of protest. In the end, I bring together an aristocratic image medium with a protest technique of the lower class," says the conceptual artist. She works on her collages millimeter by millimeter to take away their photographic effect. This is how the textile painting is created in the end.
Born in Viersen in the Rhineland, Margret Eicher already knew at high school that she wanted to be an artist. At the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the 1970s, as a woman and with her photo-realistic style of painting, it was not always easy for her. "I was surrounded by quite machos and daredevils. I learned more from the aura at the academy than from the conversations there. Snooty, derogatory statements sometimes haunt your head for weeks and in the end get you ahead," she reports with her soft Rhenish singsong in the voice. That 'Wow, you draw great' thing got on her nerves at some point. "I found this limitation to a gifted person very disturbing," she says firmly.
The way out was the 'CopyCollage' that she invented: She produced her pictures semi-automatically with a photocopier. And is successful - her works are bought and end up in collections. She furnishes entire rooms in museums with her ornamental patterns. Already here she extracts images from politics and advertising, deals with codes, norms and stereotypes. It is the power of the images that fascinates her and which she questions. In 2000 she finally dedicated herself to her media tapestry and the pixels. In the meantime, she has asked for coffee in her kitchen. Does she like tidy, structured work on the computer? "Look around, I don't find it difficult to create order. It doesn't matter whether it's about the structure of the picture or about life. Obviously I enjoy structuring and composing." Everything in the kitchen has its place.
On a several-week trip to the Loire in 1999, the artist was initially unsympathetic to the extreme density of medieval tapestries in the castles there. "The spontaneous impression is a bit stuffy at first. At some point I realized that what I do with my CopyCollages can also be found in the tapestries." She means the pattern as a principle, not the aesthetic, but the social, the prototypical pattern. It took almost two years for the first carpet to be implemented. Not only did she have to learn how to use the computer, she also had to find a weaving mill. One or the other in her environment advised her against her plan. But success came again - and stayed.
Margret Eicher used the time during the pandemic for an almost insane large-scale project: for a year and a half she worked on Battle: Reloaded, a 30 meter long and 1.2 meter high picture panorama. It is her paraphrase of the Bayeux Tapestry. The Battle of Hastings in 1066 can be seen on the original, which is more than 900 years old. Margret Eicher is currently showing her version of war, appropriation, violence, disharmony and dystopia in the Moritzburg in Halle. For her "cultural reportage", as she calls it, she mixes narratives from popular culture with quotations from art history. "It's the portrayal of setting out for a battle," she says. The original scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry run along the lower edge of the picture like a story.
But their stars are people with virtual reality glasses, King Kong, Batman and Joker, Lady Gaga in a teleportation device and Julian Assange. The Big Bang or Aztec castles appear, as do listening devices from the Cold War and the globe. Each viewer discovers and decodes something different. Margret Eicher directs her imposing, analogue work of art as personal self-assertion against the blind cult of images, imposed role models and distorted power structures in the virtual world.
Battle:Reloaded. Until January 8, Moritzburg Art Museum, Friedmann-Bach-Platz 5, 06108 Halle. For the accompanying program with public tours here.
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