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Ropes & Gray Represents Aquarion Company and Eversource...
Ropes & Gray Represents Aquarion Company and Eversource Energy in Acquisition of New England Service Company
December 2, 2021 Practices: Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Ropes & Gray represented Eversource Energy and its subsidiary Aquarion Company in acquiring New England Service Company (NESC). Through the acquisition, NESC is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aquarion. The acquisition adds nearly 10,000 former NESC customers to Aquarion's base of 216,000 customers with all NESC employees being retained. The transaction was completed on December 1.
Aquarion is a water supply company and holding company based in Bridgeport, Connecticut providing regulated water service to customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. NESC is a holding company based in Plainville, Connecticut providing regulated water service to customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
The acquisition was executed through a stock-for-stock transaction structured to be a tax-free reorganization. Through the acquisition, NESC stockholders received 0.51208 shares of the common shares of Aquarion's parent, Eversource Energy, in exchange for each share of NESC common stock. In connection with the exchange, Eversource Energy issued approximately 463,000 shares of Eversource Common Stock at closing.
The Ropes & Gray team that represented Eversource and Aquarion was led by mergers & acquisitions partner Marko Zatylny, tax partner Pamela Glazier, tax counsel Michael Mendelevich and mergers & acquisitions associates Joseph Markel and Taylor Gorman (all of Boston).
Marko S. Zatylny
Pamela L. Glazier
Michael M. Mendelevich
Joseph Markel
Taylor H. Gorman


Donald J. Trump, the garrulous real estate developer whose name has adorned apartment buildings, hotels, Trump-brand neckties and Trump-brand steaks, announced on Tuesday his entry into the 2016 presidential race, brandishing his wealth and fame as chief qualifications in an improbable quest for the Republican nomination.
Mr. Trump declared his candidacy in the atrium of the Trump Tower, the luxury skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in New York City, proclaiming that only someone "really rich" — like himself — could restore American economic primacy.
Mr. Trump, 69, has long toyed with running for president as a Republican, boasting of his credentials as an entrepreneur and mocking the accomplishments of prominent elected officials. He has used the platform of a reality television show, NBC's "The Apprentice," to burnish his pop-culture image as a formidable man of affairs.
In the past, Mr. Trump's presidential posturing has seldom been taken seriously, and for good reason: Before the 2000 and 2012 elections, he hyped up the possibility of seeking the White House before abandoning the idea.
Mr. Trump's remarks in Midtown Manhattan were unlikely to allay suspicions that he is entering the race mainly to appear in debates and win attention from the media. He bragged extensively about the golf resorts he owns ("I have the best courses in the world") and a hotel he is developing in Washington.
Over the course of a more than 40-minute speech, Mr. Trump warned that the stock market may collapse again and ridiculed Secretary of State John F. Kerry for having broken his leg in a bicycle accident.
But Mr. Trump and his allies insist that he is serious about the race. He said he would file all the financial disclosure forms required by the Federal Election Commission, without requesting any extensions from the government. At one point, Mr. Trump held up a one-page document — compiled, he said, by a prominent accounting firm — purporting to show his net worth at around $8.7 billion, with nearly all of his estimated assets in the form of property and licensing deals.
A spokeswoman said he would fill out the election commission paperwork in full, though it is unclear whether Mr. Trump will make a more complete disclosure of tax returns, as is customary for credible presidential candidates.
Associates say Mr. Trump is willing, even eager, to spend his fortune in the race, and has hired staff in the early nominating states. "He has said a couple of times that he could easily put $100 million into the race and that he feels that would not impact him financially," said Christopher Ruddy, a friend of Mr. Trump's.
Mr. Ruddy, who is chief executive of Newsmax, the conservative magazine and website, said Mr. Trump would bring an unaccustomed level of glamour to the Republican field.
Geraldo Rivera, the veteran broadcaster who was a finalist on "Celebrity Apprentice," said Mr. Trump would quickly leave a mark on the race thanks to his ability as a showman.
But as well-known as he is, Mr. Trump is also widely disliked: A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that about seven in 10 voters nationally hold an unfavorable view of him, including 52 percent of Republicans.
Mr. Trump has shown he is eager to scuffle with other Republicans, including Mr. Bush. He has spoken contemptuously, in public and private, about the former Florida governor, and swiped at him repeatedly during the kickoff event.
Mr. Trump's policy views can be just as provocative as his demeanor. In the past, he has called climate change "a hoax" and said he has a "foolproof" plan to defeat the Islamic State, which he will not reveal so as not to tip off the group. On Tuesday, he vowed to build a "great wall" on the Mexican border to keep out rapists and other criminals, who he said were sneaking into the United States in droves.
Until now, Mr. Trump may be best known politically for his outspoken skepticism that President Obama was born in the United States. After his insistent demands during the 2012 race that Mr. Obama release his birth certificate, the president ultimately did just that, confirming he was born in Hawaii.
Mr. Trump has donated money to both parties, including to Democrats such as Hillary Rodham Clinton. When he last entertained a presidential bid four years ago, the conservative Club for Growth labeled him a liberal for his views on trade and his past support for universal health care, and accused him of having exploited government powers, including the use of eminent domain, to expand his real estate holdings.
If Mr. Trump's ideology has proved flexible, the cornerstone of his worldview has not: He has consistently been a passionate believer in Donald Trump, and his own capacity to bully and badger his way into the best possible deal. That skill set, Mr. Trump has argued, would be an asset to America.
At present, Mr. Trump said, rivals on the world stage do not take the United States seriously.
"They say: that is a group of people, and that is a nation, that truly has no clue," he said.


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Q: How to remove unwanted architecture x86_64 from Xcode build? I am trying to recompile someone else's code. The code includes a reference to a third party library myLib.a, which has two slices:
Architectures in the fat file: myLib.a are: armv7 arm64

I get this warning, following by a bunch of link errors:
ld: warning: ignoring file myLib.a, missing required architecture x86_64 in file myLib.a (2 slices)

Now, I know this library is not intended to work in a simulator. So I want to throw the simulator away from build. I don't really understand build targets, so I did this:

Still, same error. What am I doing wrong?
Xcode 7.3

A: I answered this question here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65307436/5303139
Same anwser
For an iOS project, you have the following architectures: arm64 armv7 armv7s i386 x86_64
x86_64, i386 are used for the simulator.
What could be your problem is the framework you are using was build for iOS and not a simulator.
To fix this issue you can bypass the build framework and use lipo command lines.
First: lipo -info [The library.framework location]
Example Usage : lipo -info /Users/.../library.framework/LibrarySDK
Example output :
Architectures in the fat file: /Users/.../library.framework/LibrarySDK are: i386 x86_64 armv7 arm64

You will get the list of architecture used for that framework.
Second: we need to strip the framework from the simulator architecture and make 2 versions of that framework (1 is used for iOS Device and 1 for the simulator)
using:  lipo -remove [architecture] [location] -o [output_location]
Example: lipo -remove i386 /Users/.../SDK -o /Users/.../SDK_Output_Directory
Go to your chosen output directory to get the new generated SDK without the removed architecture to verify you can use the lipo -info command same as above
You can use the same lipo remove command on the newly created SDK but with another architecture
lipo -remove x86_64 ... and you will get an SDK only for iOS devices
Third: Take that final SDK and rename it "SDK_Name_IOS" and use it.
Happy coding!!

A: You did set architect to armv7, arm64 so just change Build Active Architecture Only to YES in debug mode:
debug mode: YES
release mode: NO (default value)
So when debug you will build only for current device

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Inverness Electricity Rates
Commercial Electricity in Inverness
^ The average commercial electricity rate in Inverness, FL is 10.25¢/kWh.[1]
Residential Electricity in Inverness
^ The average residential electricity rate in Inverness, FL is 13.17¢/kWh.[1]
Industrial Electricity in Inverness
^ The average industrial electricity rate in Inverness, FL is 9.14¢/kWh.[1]
Inverness, FL Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in Inverness
The average commercial electricity rate in Inverness is 10.25¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in Inverness is 6.11% greater than the Florida average rate of 9.66¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in Inverness is 1.59% greater than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in Inverness
The average residential electricity rate in Inverness is 13.17¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in Inverness is 15.32% greater than the Florida average rate of 11.42¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in Inverness is 10.86% greater than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in Inverness
The average industrial electricity rate in Inverness is 9.14¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in Inverness is 13.68% greater than the Florida average rate of 8.04¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in Inverness is 37.03% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
Florida Electricity Rates & Consumption
Commercial electricity in Florida
Commercial electricity rates in FL [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Florida is 9.66¢/kWh, which ranks 19th in the nation and is 4.26% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in FL [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Florida averages 6,609 kWh/month, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 5.95% greater than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in FL [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Florida is $639, which ranks 15th in the nation and is 1.59% greater than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Florida
Residential electricity in Florida
Residential electricity rates in Florida [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Florida is 11.42¢/kWh, which ranks 22nd in the nation and is 3.87% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in FL [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Florida averages 1,081 kWh/month, which ranks 13th in the nation and is 19.71% greater than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in FL [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Florida is $123, which ranks 9th in the nation and is 14.95% greater than the national average of $107 per month.
Learn more about residential electricity in Florida
Industrial electricity in Florida
Industrial electricity rates in Florida [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Florida is 8.04¢/kWh, which ranks 12th in the nation and is 20.54% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in FL [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Florida averages 78,603 kWh/month, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 29.92% less than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in FL [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Florida is $6,316, which ranks 30th in the nation and is 15.6% less than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Florida
Household Income in Inverness, FL
Inverness, FL Income Breakdown [4]
Income Summary for Inverness, FL
Electric bills: The average residential electricity bill in Florida is about $123/month, ranking 9th in the U.S. and 14.95% greater than the national average of $107.[5]
Income: Inverness vs. Nation [4]
Additional information about Inverness
About Inverness
Inverness is a city located in Citrus County in the state of Florida, and has a population of approximately 7,210.[6]
More about Inverness utilities
For more information about Inverness electricity, or for additional resources regarding electricity & utilities in your state, visit the Energy Information Administration.
In the U.S., electricity plants use more than 900 million short tons of coal to produce electricity every year.
Additional Cities in FL
Local Electricity Rates in Inverness, FL

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We've moved our kids club and youth group to the weekdays instead of having them on Saturdays. It's a nice change and we would love to be able to keep things this way but school vacations are only for about 3 weeks. We let the kids and youth pick the day and time they wanted to come. Praise the Lord for 18 at kids club! We had 2 show up for our youth club. That was a little discouraging, especially since the youth picked the day and time they wanted to come. We praise the Lord for the 2 that came though.


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Force majeure is a common clause in contracts that frees parties from legal obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance occurs.

Force Majeure may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature
 Force Majeure,  a 2007 novel by Daniel O'Mahony
 Force Majeure, a 1991 novel by Bruce Wagner

Music
 Force Majeure (band), an English new wave group, formed in 1983
 Force Majeure (Doro album), 1989
 Force Majeure (H.E.A.T album), 2022
 Force Majeure (Tangerine Dream album), 1979

Television
 "Force Majeure" (Millennium), the thirteenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium
 "Force Majeure" (The Unit), an episode of the television series The Unit
 "Force Majeure" (Under the Dome),  the third episode of the second season of the CBS drama series Under the Dome

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 Force Majeure, an Australian contemporary dance collective
 Force majeure, a 1989 film by French director Pierre Jolivet
 Force Majeure (film), a 2014 Swedish film
 Force Majeure (tour), the title of comedian Eddie Izzard's 2013 world tour

Other uses
 Force Majeure Vineyards (wine), a boutique winery in Washington state

See also
 Act of God
 Force (disambiguation)
 Major Force
 Natural disaster

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Think of the best communication that you ever delivered. I imagine you prepared well for it.
And when something didn't go as planned? I guess you could have prepared better.
..."I thought it would be ok"?
To tweak a famous phrase: 'some communications are more equal than others'. You have to prepare for these. You've seen preparation works for you in the past. Don't fall into the trap of thinking: "preparation worked so well last time, I never did it again".
Like actors who don't fully know their lines, if you're concentrating too much on what words come next, you're not concentrating enough on the audience. So, identify your next key communication, and diarise enough prep time for it.


Disney Princess fans, rejoice! The Walt Disney Company is bringing its classic animated princess movies back to the big screen for a limited time this fall — and tickets are on sale now.
As part of the "Dream Big, Princess" campaign, the five-week movie marathon is a partnership between Disney and AMC Theatres. The campaign, which began in 2016, is designed to inspire girls in particular, and kids in general, "to realize their full potential and dream big." The initiative celebrates with new themes each month tied to the Disney Princesses, such as kindness, friendship and adventure.
The movie marathon takes place at 304 theaters across the country, including AMC Dine-In Disney Springs 24, AMC Universal Cineplex and AMC Altamonte Mall 18 in the Orlando area. Each week a new movie will be shown with two daily showtimes of 2 and 6 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at the AMC Theatres website.
The "Dream Big, Princess" campaign launched last year with stories of real girls who share the qualities of other strong women, the Disney Princesses, and are role models themselves. The slogan is "For every girl who dreams big, there's a princess to show her it's possible." The stories were showcased on the Company Clips channel at Disney Parks hotels and cruise ships.
The campaign has its own website, which features videos that highlight the positive qualities of each Disney Princess, quizzes to see how well readers know each princess, tutorials that show how to make Disney-themed foods and crafts, and links to purchase Disney Princess movies, costumes and toys.
Families can follow the Disney Princesses on Instagram (@thedisneyprincesses) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DisneyPrincess/) for inspirational images, videos and messages. Look for the hashtag #DreamBigPrincess on Twitter, too.
Disney used #DreamBigPrincess to promote the news it has inked a three-year partnership with England's Football Association, the governing body of association football (or soccer, as we call it in the United States) in England. The partnership aims to increase girls' participation in the sport. The campaign tweeted it was looking for followers to share motivational images of girls, sparking a debate over what a modern-day princess really is. You, too, can join the conversation online using #DreamBigPrincess.


When it comes to the South Bay, you don't have too many options when it comes to venues. At least that's been the case for a girl who spent more time during college going to shows than class.
With a lack of venues readily known, the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center known to me as the Long Beach Arena was always there for us when it came to larger events. Taste of Chaos was perfection there as were shows from Korn and Panic! at the Disco.
An arena that can pack in over 13,000 people in their seats and on the floor – hearing that many people sing along to a song is immaculate. However, concerts aren't the only thing this place puts on. In the coming months they'll have an array of conventions, pageants and holiday celebrations.
While Taste of Chaos was always fun when it was indoors, one of my favorite shows down at the arena in Long Beach was Panic! at the Disco. It was memorable for a multitude of reasons. First and foremost this was back when I was about a decade younger and could stand to sit outside in line all day. So you had the entertainment of that; board games, the journey of finding a public bathroom, and of course the middle school kids adorned in their best Ryan Ross makeup. It was also the show me and my bestie met some of our favorite friends in line right before. Of course there was the show as well. Panic was at their best. They were still touring off their debut and the entire performance was like a circus; amazing.


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Lessons from past crises
Today we are launching our "The COVID-19 crisis: Economic impact and policy responses" chart book, which is available here: https://blogs.deloitte.co.uk/mondaybriefing/2020
/03/the-covid-19-crisis-economic-impact-and-policy-responses.html. The report will be updated weekly and aims to provide a graphical overview of the key economic developments of the COVID-19 crisis. Do feel free to use any of the charts in your own presentations.
The speed and scale of the economic downturn generated by the coronavirus are unprecedented. There may be no template for today's crisis, but the past shines light on the choices we face today. History, Mark Twain is thought to have said, does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
The policy response to the global financial crisis of 2008-09 offers important lessons. In the weeks after the failure of Lehman Brothers it became apparent that the damage to the financial system could push the world into a 1930s-type depression. The then UK chancellor, Alistair Darling, said in 2018 that Britain came within hours of "a breakdown of law and order" the day the Royal Bank of Scotland was bailed out. That policy response came quickly and was substantial. Central banks collapsed interest rates, pumped liquidity into the financial system and bought private sector assets.
The conditions of extreme uncertainty at the height of the financial crisis have something in common with those in a war or, indeed, today. Some of the normal rules of good government have to be eased. The emphasis is on speed and scale in the response. Cost becomes a problem for later. Decisions have to be made on the basis of imperfect and changing information. This requires improvisation and an acceptance that most decisions will be imperfect, many will fail and some, even, will prove counter-productive.
With hindsight the decision not to bailout Lehman Brothers in 2008 might be thought an epic mistake. (It has been reported that at the time officials concluded Lehman might well have sufficient assets to warrant an injection of public funds. The analysis never reached those who made the decision to let Lehman fail.)
In their response to today's economic threat policymakers seem, consciously or not, to have absorbed many of these lessons. The fiscal and monetary interventions have been on a huge, and in some areas, unlimited scale. UK Treasury officials are unable to cost a raft of new measures to support households because they are dependent on demand, and are open ended. The US Federal Reserve has said it will buy US treasury bonds in unlimited quantities. And, in radical departure, the Fed will, for the first time, buy corporate debt.
Policies have been rolled out at speed, in much the same way that the allies' wartime economy often prioritised volume over quality. (Russian and American tanks were of variable design and quality, but they were produced in far greater numbers than Germany could manage.) A national emergency robs decision makers of the luxury of time.
In war the winner is said to be the side that makes the fewest mistakes. In reality the path to victory is strewn with errors. The Battle of Britain is more remembered now than British military defeats such as the Norway campaign or the fall of Singapore.
Today there is an acceptance, as Britain's chancellor, Rishi Sunak said last week, that we cannot allow "the perfect be the enemy of the good". There also seems to be a recognition that inefficiency is the price that must be paid for a comprehensive response. As Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed, told The Wall Street Journal: "If a bunch of businesses get help that didn't need it, that's fine, that's much better than taking a decade to rebuild the labour market….We just have to get over it, err on the side of getting more help out there".
The battle against coronavirus is a more unifying cause than the efforts to arrest the global financial crisis. Bailing out banks and supporting financial markets was hardly popular. The mobilisation of the state today, and the expansion of its role, have so far proved uncontroversial. Politicians seem more likely to stand accused of doing too little. Today's expansion of the state currently commands not just the consent but the active support of the public (700,000 people, for instance, signed up for the UK government's NHS volunteer scheme in less than ten days, almost three times the original target).
Popular support, as in wartime, gives the government the scope to act on a significant scale. With much private sector activity suppressed, public spending will is needed to sustain household incomes and support business. Government activism, whether in expanding the NHS, taking over capacity in the private health sector, the suspension of rail franchises or a vast scheme of income support, is the order of the day.
Public spending will soar. Last week's US $2tn stimulus package is equivalent to almost 10% of GDP. The Financial Times estimates that the increased public spending announced in the UK in the last two weeks amounts to over £60bn, or 3.0% of UK GDP. Public borrowing in 2020-21, which two months ago looked likely to come in at around £50bn, could now hit £200bn according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Countries have always run up huge debts fighting wars and countering recessions. In the UK the financial crisis lifted debt from 40% to more than 80% of GDP. In coming months government spending will be the prop holding up economies across the West. Tax revenues will plummet. Levels of public debt seem likely to rise above the peaks seen during the financial crisis.
Crises or wars can shape economies in other ways. The financial crisis revealed deep fragilities in the financial system. Policymakers today are less tolerant of financial risk and banks face far greater regulatory scrutiny. In the UK, the mass mobilisation of the second world war helped create a consensus in favour of big government, with the creation of the welfare state, widespread nationalisation and activist economic policies. The war helped popularise the idea of the state as a guarantor of welfare and economic security.
The current crisis has revealed unforeseen weaknesses in food supply chains, medical supplies, healthcare provision and many other areas. What is highly efficient in normal times – such as just in time food supply – can become a vulnerability in a crisis. Governments and voters may be unwilling to return to the status quo ante. The step change in health spending now underway may never be unwound. Switzerland, which for decades has seemed slightly idiosyncratic in its commitment to maintain strategic stockpiles of food, now looks like an exemplar.
Pandemics have long been seen as possible 'black swan' events – unexpected negative shocks with major consequences. But for the public and private sectors they have tended to rank low down a long list of threats. This is likely to change, just as Hong Kong and Singapore's experience of SARS has shaped their health policy and their response to the coronavirus. What is happening today seems sure to establish pandemics as a core risk for large businesses, along with the likes of cyber-attacks, terrorism or climate change.
Often the long term effects of an external shock exceed the immediate effects, sometimes in quite unexpected ways. Thanks, in part to the vigorous response of the Fed, the 9/11 terror attacks did not knock the US economy off balance. But the attacks transformed America's defence and foreign policy, triggered two long wars and changed the balance of power in the Middle East. The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 led to the closure of the country's entire civil nuclear programme and a surge in fossil fuel imports and in electricity prices. Economists at the US National Bureau of Economic Research have found that higher energy prices squeezed spending on heating, causing a surge in deaths far larger than had been seen in the original nuclear disaster.
In dealing with pandemics, societies face a trade-off between human health and economic activity. The 1918 flu epidemic killed over 50m people globally and almost three quarters of a million Americans. Many Americans carried on working because, in the absence of social security, they had no other source of income. Concern about the economic impact of restrictions on movement meant some US cities were slow to act and suffered far higher casualties than those which moved quickly. Remarkably, the US federal government had little formal role in combating the 1918 flu epidemic and President Woodrow Wilson never publicly mentioned the disease. Richer societies, with more extensive systems of welfare and government, have far greater capacity to control diseases.
The restrictions on movement introduced across the West testify to a collective willingness to trade economic activity for human health. The loss of activity in the near term will be significant. Second quarter GDP in the US, EU and UK is likely to contract sharply. Last week Professor Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University updated his earlier analysis of the effects of a flu pandemic. He estimated that in the initial quarter of a pandemic GDP was likely to contract by 30%. This is at least three times as much as any other forecast I have seen, but it testifies to the potential impact of social distancing on activity.
In one important respect what we are seeing today is different from anything that has preceded it in modern times. In past crises governments have sought to boost economic activity, whether to fight wars or counter the effects of a natural disaster or a downturn. This time governments are suppressing economic activity, through restrictions on movement, in order to slow the progress of the coronavirus. The vast interventions by central banks and governments are designed not to stimulate activity, but to preserve jobs and businesses for the upturn.
In that endeavour policymakers seem to have been guided by the experience of earlier crises. They have acted swiftly and on a large scale. Conventional wisdom has been pushed aside, the normal rules of government suspended or altered. This is all to the good. The immediate effects of this crisis are immense. History suggests that it is will have profound long term consequences too.
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A Concept Note is the shortest expression your project idea given on paper to a donor. It is a summary of a proposal containing a brief description of the idea of the project and the objectives to be pursued.
It is usually requested by the donor in situations where no proposals have been solicited from NGOs.
Most of the donor agencies prefer to understand the project through a Concept Note rather than a full-fledged proposal.
What should be the size of the Concept Note?
This depends upon the donor requesting the Concept Note.
However, it is the shortest possible text for our project idea. The shorter the better.
Most donor agencies request a minimum of one page to a maximum of three pages.
Is there a specific format for writing the Concept Note?
Usually donors do not have a format for a Concept Note as they have for a full proposal.
But, there are some agencies, which issue solicitation for Concept Notes based upon a basic format given in the guidelines.
Is the Concept Note useful for NGO applying for funding?
A Concept Note has many advantages for NGOs seeking funds.
It gives a framework for ideas when they are organized on paper.
It is also the first expression of the project and gives the flexibility for the organization to work and re-work on idea before presenting it to the donor.
What are the contents of the Concept Note?
9. Innovation: How different it is for other or earlier projects?
10. Organizational Background, including the expertise and experience.
13. Complete Contact Information of the NGO with the name of the Contact Persons.
Me from Nepal, a under developing country in the world would like to put a curiosity regarding funds for NGOs working in Nepal. My NGO named of Center for Chure (Inner Hilly Forest)Conservation National Concerned-Nepal, 2016 currently working to aware the people of local areas to save the ecological bio-diversities and natural resources with DRR programs. We are also going to work for extremely poor people of these areas to empower their socioeconomic condition, health and education, gender violence and girls trafficking by increasing their income sources. So, can we apply for the funds? If we can, please guide for further processes, if not, suggest me for another links available with you. You know very well that Nepal is poorest of poor countries in the world and we need some funds. Thank you.


We aim to develop testable hypotheses about how humans and their microbiome interact, and strive to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes that influence community assembly, maintenance, and function within a host. Ultimately, this knowledge will be used to discover disease mechanisms, identify predicative and diagnostic biomarkers of disease, and develop tools to treat disease through manipulation of the microbiome.
The gut microbiome is a complex and dynamic community with an incredible metabolic potential. The makeup of the microbiome (i.e., its constituent species and their genes) is influenced by multiple processes including selection by the host, interactions between the microbes, and (my focus) exposure to environmental compounds such as toxins and drugs. The metabolic capabilities of the microbiome influence how such environmental compounds are processed within the host: potentially mitigating or exacerbating toxic effects. My goal, using observational studies in humans and experiments in model organisms, is to ascertain how the environment influences the metabolic potential of the microbiome, and in turn, how the microbiome alters the effects of environmental compounds on the development and health of the host.
Holly is a DVM / PhD student at the Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine and Sharpton lab. Broadly, she is interested in developing bioinformatic analyses of the microbiome as a diagnostic test in companion animals or to improve productivity of food animals. Her current research project is to integrate both microbial phylogenetic information with microbial community data to improve disease detection in companion animals. An ongoing goal of the work is to understand if there are particular clades of microorganisms which are preferentially recruited to the mammalian gut, and clarify physiological functions these clades of microbes provide to the host.
Culturable bacteria represent a small fraction of the total microbial diversity found in nature. As a result, I'm interested in leveraging computational techniques to glean insight into microbial systems. While high-throughput sequencing technology drives this field, the impact of using these short sequences is poorly understood. My current research focuses on how sampling techniques influence phylogeny and thus our interpretation of evolutionary history and diversity in microbiomes.
My research interests surround the ecology and interactions of microorganisms in varying ecosystems. Currently, I'm considering research questions regarding the role of microbes in shaping psychological phenotypes. My main project is investigating the link between gut microbial composition and aggression in dogs.
The goal of my research is to develop the next generation of high throughput cultivation methods for understanding microbial communities. I am focusing on methods for quantifying enrichment culture composition in a high throughput format that can be automated and applied to low cell density cultures. I am employing this method to study the zebrafish gut microbiome and dark ocean bacterioplankton.
I combine culture based and computational techniques to understand the microbial diversity of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) gut microbiome.


With this album Cypress Hill turned towards a more tranquil, sedate, slower, spooky sound with beats. The dark mood of this album reflects the strife within the band during this era, when member Sen Dog temporarily left the band to pursue other projects.
On this album both Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and U-God make appearances on "Killa Hill Niggas". Also notable was track "No Rest For The Wicked" which ignited the feud between Cypress Hill and rapper Ice Cube, who they claimed, stole material from the band.
Music On vinyl is proud to announce yet another Cypress Hill classic which has easily stood the test of time.


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The woman at the center of Duke's investigation into a 1999 sexual assault told friends that Corey Maggette is the basketball player who she says raped her, according to a report by the New York Times.
The lawyer for Meredith Watson said in a statement Friday that Watson had been raped by a former Duke basketball player but did not identify the player. The Times reported Monday that both a childhood friend of Watson's, and Facebook messages Watson exchanged with another friend, identified the player in question as Maggette, who went on to play 14 years in the NBA after attending Duke for one year.
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The 200,000 bees that live in the hives on the roof of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris appear to have survived the fire disaster that led to the collapse of much of the roof and spire, it has emerged.
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Nokia G50 phone is the company's latest affordable 5G offering
Nokia has a new 5G smartphone making its way stateside soon.
Announced on Wednesday, the $300 Nokia G50 is the brand's latest affordable 5G phone that Nokia is billing as future-proof. Apart from 5G, the midrange line comes with a 6.82-inch HD+ display, three rear cameras and a large battery compatible with fast-charging.
The launch of the G50 phone lineup marks Nokia's expansion of its budget-friendly 5G portfolio. In April, Nokia's exclusive brand license, HMD Global, unveiled even cheaper Nokia-branded lineups: The C and midrange G series, which come in between $100-$200, as well as the the Nokia X20. But affordable 5G is a hotly contested arena, and Nokia's recent entrants will likely face stiff competition from Samsung's wide-ranging smartphone offerings.
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The Nokia G50 runs on the modest Snapdragon 480 processor, which is backed up by 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a microSD card slot. Nokia says the G50 will with Android 11 out of the box, and promises three years of monthly security up dates and two years of OS upgrades. It's also worth nothing that G50 will run on T-Mobile's slower but more reliable 5G Sub 6 network, but not Verizon's ultra-fast but less reliable mmWave network.
US pre-orders started Wednesday on Nokia's website.
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We've had a somewhat wet summer here in Northern Ireland, fortunately we can always find plenty to do as we are gallop towards our first 2017 – 18 Guild meeting on Saturday 2nd September.
August is Craft Month and we have been enjoying many exhibitions, workshops and talks all over Northern Ireland – too many wonderful projects to mention and there's still a wee bit of time in the month to catch something else.
Days of blue skies and fluffy clouds and sunshine. as evidenced thanks to an Instagram photo from @alkisti_hou, have been punctuated with rain, as of just now, at the time of writing, the rain is pouring down, or 'bucketing' as we call it.
Luckily there is no shortage of things to do, including the odd excursion to one of the many establishments serving refreshments. Such as "The Dark Horse" near the Cathedral Quarter and the tenth establishment to receive one of the special Game of Throne's doors.
Not that everyone in Northern Ireland is "Game of Thrones" mad, though it may appear that way and if you follow on, you will see why it is being mentioned in connection with the first Guild meeting of our season.
It is impossible to live in Northern Ireland and not be aware of GoT and it is so exciting to see the many visitors coming to here to visit GoT film locations and we hope enjoy our hospitality.
The Dark Hedges, Ballymoney. 18th Century Avenue of Beech Trees. Aka Kingsway in Game of Thrones.
What are the Game of Throne doors?
One of the most iconic scenes and most visited site is the Dark Hedges, aka Kingsway to GoT fans. Locals have always known and loved this avenue. The beech trees are 300 years old, so no surprise to hear that some were felled during fierce storms. A sad demise for such proud trees, and a dilemma of what to do with them. Someone came up with the idea of using the fallen trees to carve out scenes from each of the GoT series. Ten in total.
The intricately carved door depicting scenes from the final dramatic moments of Series 6. Location : The Dark Horse.
These, such as the one above, have been placed in different locations throughout Northern Ireland. In April 2017 Tourism NI launched a "Journey of Doors passport" – visit the 10 Game of Thrones Doors across Northern Ireland and collect a unique stamp at each of the locations.
Why all this talk of GoT? During the summer some of our members have been engaged, under Valerie Wilson's direction, in embroidering the Game of Thrones tapestry now hanging in the Ulster Museum.
Jayne McClenaghan is the link between GoT and our forthcoming programme, about which, we are very excited; a varied and interesting series of talks and workshops.
Jayne's talk is entitled 'Improving lives through craft', intriguing? Find out more about her at her blog One Day At a Time. This gives you a glimpse into her life: in addition to working part time as a nurse, embroidering GoT, and teaching patchwork and quilting, she volunteers at the National Trust property Mount Stewart . Where she finds the time for all her activities is a puzzle. Jayne certainly proves the truth of the old adage: "if you want something done give it to a busy person".
The committee has been working hard to make the programme current, varied and related to NIPG interests and activities. There will be a mixture of talks, short afternoon workshops, and all day workshops. Also a few Friday workshops which proved so popular last year.
We apologise for the delay in posting our forthcoming programme. In addition to confirming speakers, venues have to be confirmed. Though we are indeed fortunate to have our base in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, at times they need the space we use for events they are organising. We will be posting our programme very soon so keep your eyes peeled and enjoy the last few weeks of summer.
NB Header photo shows a few of the quilts seen in situ on the beds in various cottages in the Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra.


Kristen and Aljon have interviews from the of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, celebrate Cinco de Mayo and Revenge of the Fifth day with the Three Caballeros and talk about their TOP 5 Star Wars villains! BONUS - This episode contains extended interviews with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Kurt Russell, and writer/director James Gunn not broadcast on Sorcerer Radio.


Mother Nature's Abstract Series - Art Prints On Acrylic, Bamboo, Aluminum & Dibond.
Some of the most beautiful abstract art is created by the hands of Mother Nature herself. Here we have highlighted a few of our favorites. These would look awesome with our very popular acrylic face mounts!
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Oh love is in the air… I have to say I love this time of year (no pun intended) because there are pink and red hearts everywhere. Yes, it might be a very over-priced time of year and the commercialism doesn't need to take away from the meaning of it… love is love. Valentine's Day can be celebrated in so many ways. From celebrating it with your partner to celebrating it with girlfriends. I love celebrating it with both, any excuse to have a celebration, hehe! It doesn't have to be anything fancy, whether it's a homemade dinner like my 'Pretty Pink Vegan Pasta' or a binge night of Netflix, the celebratory thing to do is to have a cocktail!
For my Christmas cocktails I talked about Eau Claire Distillery and their limited edition Christmas Gins. I have been dying to get my hands on their Cherry Gin and experiment with it. The Cherry Gin used to be a seasonal product, but due to the popularity of the gin they are now going to have it as a permanent item year round! Make sure you give it a try! It can be purchased through their website or at Alberta liquor stores.
I don't know why, but when I think of special occasions I tend to gravitate towards prosecco. Even when it comes to picking between champagne and prosecco, I always do prosecco… I find it less sweet. I wanted to mix the Cherry Gin with prosecco to create a twist on the French 75 cocktail. Since nothing says love like pink and red tones, I wanted to create my own syrup to add at the bottom of the glass (which is how I got the pink tones in the drink). Making the syrup is super easy, and it is a great way to add that special touch. Creating this cocktail was very quick, and it provides the perfect way to start off the evening.
Love at first sip! This sweet bubbly cocktail is the perfect celebratory drink.
RASPBERRY SYRUP - In a saucepan, mix the raspberries, water and sugar and bring to a boil. Once it is boiling bring down to a shimmer for about 10 - 15 minutes. Strain the raspberries and let the syrup cool. I kept some of the original syrup and added to the bottom to create a bit of texture to the drink.
COCKTAIL - In your glass add at the bottom 1-2 tablespoon of your raspberry syrup. Then add an ounce of the cherry gin and finish topping it up with the prosecco.
GARNISH - Add fresh raspberries and dried rose petals for garnishing.
Another delicious drink for your repertoire! This one with a little extra love involved. If you decided to get those creative juices moving, let me know if you created it and your thoughts on how the drink tastes. Also, I always love seeing your pictures from your creations, comment with them below!


Eliza Sydnor Dressage trains horses out of Braeburn Farm, located in Snow Camp, NC, owned by Charles & Cindy Sydnor. Braeburn Farm is a 500+ acre family farm with rolling hills and endless acres of pastures, ponds, and woods. It is really a "horse paradise" and gives us plenty of options for training our horses.
We believe strongly in letting horses live like horses, which means close to 24/7 turn out, access to fresh water and forage at all times, and always allowing horses to have "friends" in small to medium size social groups. Horses are very social creatures, and we like to let them express that. We have one large pasture (about 20 acres) where up to 9 horses live happily together, both mares and geldings. Then we have four smaller paddocks (about 1.5 acres each) where horses live in pairs. We are very careful when introducing new horses to each other and do not accept stallions on the property.
Another wonderful feature of Braeburn Farm is our access to working the horses outside of the arena. Both horse & rider get bored with too much arena work, and here we have access to beautiful fields and wonderful hills. We work the horses in the fields, where we can work on improved stamina with longer sets of trot and canter in very open spaces, as well as allowing them to get used to working on slightly uneven surfaces, which improves the strength of tendons and ligaments. All of our working fields have been carefully cleared of rocks and holes. Our hills allow us to really strengthen the horses. They learn to love trotting and cantering up the hills, which builds hindquarter muscle and strengthens them all over, especially the stifles of young horses.
Gracie & Eliza in front of the mirrors in the early morning.
Other features of Braeburn Farm include a 20 x 60 meter rubber and sand arena with excellent drainage and a mirrored short side by C. The barn has a wide central aisle with 9 12x12 box stalls with Dutch doors. There is a feed room and tack room with bathroom. We have a bunkhoue by the barn where working students live and visiting students can stay for short stays. It has central heat and AC, a full kitchen and bath, and wireless internet.
The "other side" of Braeburn Farm is very busy with sustainable agriculture - raising grass fed beef as well as other enterprises. You can read more about that here.


Microsoft is definitely looking to build pre-order sales ahead of the Halo 5 release date. In a week that's already stuffed with Halo 5 related news, YouTube content makers are starting to publish Halo 5 gameplay videos taken right out of the game's multiplayer experience.
YouTube channel ReadyUpLive began posting Halo 5 gameplay videos early this morning. At the same time, a new interview with executives inside the studio that's creating the games reveals more about the studios future plans and how they plot out the series in general.
Earlier this week Microsoft began posting new episodes of its HuntTheTruth podcast, teasing what players can expect in Halo 5's campaign experience. Fully titled Halo 5: Guardians, it's one of three big-name games that are only coming to Microsoft's Xbox One this fall and holiday shopping season. Exclusive titles that gamers can't get on other systems is key to Microsoft's Xbox strategy. The Halo 5 videos themselves include footage from a few different multiplayer modes and some new maps. One of the videos shows teams killing each other as much as they possible in Slayer mode on a map called The Rig Arena.
Other new Halo 5 gameplay videos posted to the channel within the last day or so include Capture The Flag on a map called Coliseum, Breakout is on a map called Altitude and on another map called Gambol. The channel has spent the better part of the last two days releasing Halo 5 gameplay videos for other maps. There's some Halo 5 campaign footage taken from the game's story mission on the ReadyUpLive YouTube Channel.
Unfortunately, there aren't any new videos of Warzone, the massive battle simulation that's included in Halo 5: Guardians along with the traditional multiplayer experience.
Read: Which Halo 5 Guardians Edition Should You Buy?
It's in an interview GamesRadar that 343 Industries executives discuss how they're approaching future Halo titles. 343 Industries took over the development of Halo games after series creator Bungie parted ways with Microsoft. Many of the people working on Halo 5: Guardians worked with Bungie on the original series of games, that includes Frank O'Connor, who is the studios franchise development director.
According to O'Connor, 343 Industries is already planning for the next major release saying, "We're doing serious real planning and even some writing on the next game already." He goes on to say that his team wasn't always able to look that far into the future on story decisions and ideas. O'Connor is careful to note that nothing is set in stone, "If you start making those stepping stones too rigid, then you're not being realistic about the game development process," he says. The full interview with O'Connor and 343 Industries head Bonnie Ross will appear in the Ultimate Guide to the Halo Universe on October 30th.
Halo 5: Guardians doesn't focus on Master Chief John 117 only. It also expands the role that other characters play in the first-person shooting game. Besides playing as John 117, Halo 5: Guardians players will spend time as agent Jameson Locke, a new character added to the franchise with the Halo Nightfall television series. Locke and his team of Spartans are assigned to track down the Master Chief and his Blue Team, it seems. Players can actually give members of their team orders to carry out. These team mates will also revive them if they are down.
Halo 5: Guardians is available for pre-order right now at GameStop and other retailers for as little as $59.99. The game launches on October 27th and won't come to the Xbox 360 or Windows PCs.


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'Hell's Kitchen' turns 100
February 25, 2010 | 10:13 am
"Hell's Kitchen" overlord Chef Gordon Ramsay is celebrating 100 episodes in the can. That's 100 episodes of berrating, threatening, cajoling, shaming, humiliating — and inspiring chefs to culinary heights.
Chef Ramsay racked up other notable "HK" numbers: Eight seasons, 116 chefs, 13 medical emergencies, including one person (Robert) hospitalized twice, 10,000 guests who have walked through the doors of "Hell's Kitchen" for a live dinner service — although not all of them ever get their food. And about 2,500 filets of Beef Wellington cooked — but only about five that actually made it into the dining room.
But no recap of 100 episodes of Fox's hit cooking competition would be complete without recalling the heated, expletive-laden showdown between Chef Ramsay, who stood his ground, unflinching, as he was charged by a former Marine, Joseph, and challenged to a fight out in the parking lot. Instead, Chef Ramsay just booted him out the door.
Chef Ramsay, who joked, "Let's make one thing clear, I'm nobody's ..." -- fans who watched that episode know what word the Michelin-starred chef used, but alas we cannot -- said that he was actually sorry to see Joseph go in such a manner. He clearly had talent, he presumably had self-discipline (not that it was exhibited during "HK") and had a chance at going far in the competition, the chef said. But he lacked an ability to keep his mouth shut. "It was a shame, really," Chef Ramsay said of the ouster.
Chef Ramsay said that the format of "Hell's Kitchen" appears to be working just fine — competitors scramble to survive Ramsay's boot camp for a shot at a high-profile, high-paying job in the restaurant industry. And Ramsay said he never decides who will get kicked off until the very moment that he blurts out the name and orders him or her to "Take off your jacket and leave 'Hell's Kitchen,' " because it adds to the palpable tension in the room. But he said he still wants to shake things up and introduce new challenges. He also wants to see a live finale where viewers get to choose the winner. "I want a live final ... I want to hand it over to them ... and give them that level of responsibility." (I offered up one suggestion: Chef Ramsay doing some more cooking in front of the cameras.)
Next up for Chef Ramsay is "Master Chef," which takes people who have a passion for cooking -- but no formal training -- and trains them. "That's my next ambition," said Chef Ramsay, who called it a chef's version of "American Idol."
The show's executive producers, Kent Weed and Arthur Smith, said some things will never change about "Hell's Kitchen" -- a live dinner service, which ratchets up the tension, prizes and punishments, and the blindfold challenge, which truly separates the chefs from the wannabes. But they are tinkering with the format in some ways. Also one possibility on the horizon: a "where are they now" show.
The men said it's unclear whether "Hell's Kitchen" will have syndication legs. And they said that they, too, were sad to see Joseph go. (Let's face it, continuing fireworks between Chef Ramsay and Joseph, the first "HK" contestants who had no problem backtalking, made for great TV. "We were on the edge," Smith said. "We had no idea ... it was intense."
But arguably the most startling moment to come out of the 100th episode celebration, with glasses of Champagne, red velvet layer cake and Chef Ramsay's casually elegant wife, Tana, and their four young children in attendance, was Chef Ramsay striking a note of humility: "It's not me, I can assure you," Chef Ramsay said of the show's success. "I'm backed up by the most amazing team," he said, motioning to the Fox honchos, executive producers and the crew surrounding him. "Without you guys, I'm nobody."
— Rene Lynch
On Twitter @renelynch
Photo credit: Rene Lynch / Los Angeles Times


Seeing her smiles fills my heart with joy.
There was a ring at the door, and then she walked in.
Peter bought a diamond ring for his girlfriend.
The children formed a ring around the teacher.
The phone has just rung.
Your sentences should be short and meaningful.
Tom received a five-year prison sentence.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Stop making noise! I'm studying.
The pub was crowded and noisy.
Hang up your coat after you take it off.
The painter coated the door with red paint.
Put on your raincoat. It's raining outside.
I took a picture before the grand palace.
We saw a grand performance at the theater last night.
The temple is decorated grandly.


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What Are the Criminal Penalties for a First Offense DUI in California?
Some states call it DWI, or "driving while intoxicated." Others, like California, use the acronym DUI for "driving under the influence." Whichever term you use, the bottom line remains the same: drugged or drunk driving in California is a crime. Even for a first offense, a California DUI conviction can result in fines, jail time, the suspension of your driver's license, and other costly consequences. If you or one of your family members was arrested for DUI in Ventura County, you need to approach the charges with help from an experienced California DUI lawyer.
CA Fines and Jail Time for Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
A person can be charged with DUI in California for operating any vehicle with a BAC ("blood alcohol content") measuring 0.08% or greater. For operators of commercial vehicles, such as professional truck drivers, the BAC threshold decreases from 0.08% to 0.04%. In addition to prohibiting drunk driving, state laws also:
Ban driving "while under the influence of any drug."
Ban anyone "who is addicted to the use of any drug" from driving a vehicle.
Penalties for a first offense DUI in California can include:
Up to six months of jail time. As an alternative, the offender could potentially be sentenced to work release, which is similar to community service.
Anywhere from $390 to almost $5,000 in fines, depending on the situation.
Three to five years of formal probation, which involves a mix of written reports and in-person meetings with probation officers. You will be expected to comply with certain rules while you are on probation, including avoiding additional arrests for DUI or any other offense.
Participation in courses like the AB-541 Program, a three-month program for first-time DUI offenders which involves weekly classes, group sessions, individual interviews, and mandatory participation in Alcoholics Anonymous or equivalent programs. You will have to pay a fee to participate in the program.
Your driver's license will be suspended for four months. The arresting officer will confiscate your license. He or she is required by law to notify the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) by sending the DMV a copy of the Order of Suspension. At this point, you have 10 days to request an administrative hearing, where you will have the opportunity to challenge the suspension or revocation of your license. If your license was suspended or revoked without reason, your license will be returned to you. Otherwise, your license may be reinstated once the suspension period ends, provided you file the necessary documents and pay the reissue fee ($125 for drivers over the age of 21). You should receive a temporary license, which will allow you to drive for 30 days from the date the Order of Suspension was issued.
Aggravating Factors That Enhance Penalties for Intoxicated Driving
It's important to keep in mind that the penalties described above can increase substantially if there are aggravating factors, such as:
Causing death or injury, which could also lead to being charged with manslaughter, as well as a civil suit independent of any criminal charges.
Committing child endangerment. Vehicle Code § 23572(a) is very clear in establishing that additional penalties may be imposed when a person commits DUI with a minor under 14 years old in the car.
Committing DUI with a high BAC (0.15% or greater).
Committing "hit and run," which means leaving the scene of an injury accident without disclosing information, notifying law enforcement, and calling for medical help.
Committing other crimes or traffic violations while committing DUI, such as excessive speeding, reckless driving, or possession of controlled substances.
Refusal to submit to a breathalyzer test, blood test, or urine test. Such refusal, while technically within your rights, constitutes a violation of the "implied consent" you gave to be tested when you first received your driver's license. If you refuse the test, the license suspension period triples from four months to one year.
Violating your probation or parole for an earlier offense.
It's also important for defendants to be aware that Ventura County is extremely aggressive when it comes to enforcing tough penalties for DUI offenders. While some California counties tend to avoid imposing jail time, Ventura County often takes the opposite approach.
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The Medium is a character mod for the game Slay the Spire, a roguelite deckbuilder. The medium has a form-switching mechanic that requires careful card sequencing in order to take advantage of each forms' strengths and mitigate their weaknesses. The goal was to enable the player to be flexible in deck building and playstyle by having many different deck archetypes including archetypes that rely on staying primarily in one form, fast form switching, or even other game mechanics that are under-explored in the base game like potions. This mod was a semester long project made with a team as part of Game Creation Society, a game development club at Carnegie Mellon University. I worked on card design and character mechanics. While the team and I were unable to finish implementing the mod before the deadline, the entirety of the character's cards and mechanics were designed and design process was an enlightening experience.
Roles: Game Design
Platform: Slay the Spire (game)
Completed: Mod unfinished, card and character design finished April 2019
Written in Java
Download: GCS Page
The Medium Devblog
The design of the medium started with the whole team discussing what the general theme and mechanic of the character was. The team settled on a form-switching character who swaps between a more logical, reason-based form and a more instinctive, passion-based form. After the general basis of the character was set, the team split into sub-teams. Adrian Mester and I formed the design sub-team, which worked on the specifics of the character's form-swapping mechanic and card design.
We started the design process by first writing down any ideas, themes, and mechanics we would associate with either of the two forms (with input from the rest of the team).
This gave us a starting point for what kind of mechanics we might want to use for each form's cards, as well as general themes that we could use for top down design. From there, we began to narrow down a small set of mechanics and themes we want to see for each form and began brainstorming deck archetypes and synergies built from those mechanics and themes. At this point, we also began to figure out how the form-switching itself would work.
We wanted swapping forms to depend on the player's actions and to incentivize careful card sequencing and planning. Our initial idea was to have the character switch forms when the player played a certain number of skill cards or attack cards, with playing skill cards switching to reason mode and playing attach cards to passion mode. In addition, we wanted the passion-based form to feel more powerful, but with less control, and the reason-based form to feel weak, but with more control. As a result, we decided each form would have a passive when the character was in that specific form. The initial idea for the passion-based form was to give it increased power and defense through additional strength and dexterity, but with the tradeoff of having attack targets randomized. The reason-based form was much hard to settle on an idea, as I thought that giving an extra card draw or energy would be too powerful. We eventually settled on having the character retain one card per turn, but as the project went on, it became apparent to me that the retain was not useful most of the time. However, we ended up not having the time to revisit this mechanic and design a better passive.
While we started designing some of the simpler, more basic cards, we also went to work fleshing out the entirety of the deck archetypes and synergies for the character.
Once we had a rough outline of all the archetypes and synergies, we then spent most of our time designing cards. By having archetypes and synergies outlined out, we could design cards that fit into specific archetypes or that work in multiple archetypes. As we designed cards, we kept track of whether we thought a particular archetype had enough cards or not and tried to fill out archetypes that had too little cards.
Unfortunately, the programmers were only able to implement some of the cards designed, so we were unable to actually test the cards in-game. As a result, I believe a good portion of the cards designed are unbalanced or may synergize or interact in unintended ways. In one example, a card that was implemented that stunned an enemy ended up being too strong in practice and was only apparent once someone playtested the character. In the end, the mod was overscoped for the typical semester long project done in the club. While I was willing to continue to develop and refine the mod over summer break, it was difficult to keep other members of the team together and motivated, so the mod was ultimately left unfinished.
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Philip Woodall, Vaggelis Giannikas, Wenrong Lu and Duncan McFarlane were proud recipients of the best paper award and a cheque for 1000 Euros from the 2016 International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ).
They were awarded for their paper: Data State Tracking: labelling good quality data to improve warehouse operations. The paper describes how disruptive situations in warehousing operations can be avoided by recording the potential problems with the data in the warehousing information system.
The system helps to avoid misalignments between the actual location of an item and where the information system records the item to be. The research was done as part of the ITALI project funded by YH Global. The conference was held in Ciudad Real in Spain on 21st to 24th June where leading experts and researchers in the area of data and information quality from all over the world presented their research.


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Trial / Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé
March 16, 2016 September 14, 2020 by Antoine Panaïté
Emmanuel Altit: The Gbagbo / Blé Goudé Trial has a "Fundamental" Relationship to France
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé, Summary
Claver N'Dry, Patriotic Galaxy, Geert-Jan Knoops, Andreas O'Shea, Sam-the-African, P-44, French army, Africa Cup of Nations, Desire Tagro
The hearing on Wednesday saw the completion of Sam-the-African's cross-examination by Laurent Gbagbo's defense and the beginning of cross-examination by Charles Blé Goudé's defense. The role of France was again discussed.
Sam-the-African was wrong. Therefore, when the hearing resumed, he wanted to correct something he had mentioned the day before: the "more than 80 dead" he had talked about were not people who were shot by the French army in November 2004, but people who had died in the bombing of President Laurent Gbagbo's office in April 2011 (again French bombs). After this correction by the witness, cross-examination resumed.
The lead counsel for Laurent Gbagbo, Emmanuel Altit, asked Sam-the-African about a meeting with Desire Tagro, Gbagbo's Interior Minister. Tagro allegedly told the witness, during the crisis, that Gbagbo should step down because the country was rife with rumors that the opponents wanted to "dislodge Gbagbo by all means." However, Tagro, as well as the Defense Minister of the time whom he met later, told him that he was not to worry, that everything was under control.
Witness P-44 also returned to what happened after the African Union (AU) meeting in Addis Ababa in March 2011. At that time, he said, Gbagbo could have chosen to become Prime Minister. "I think that was the problem," he said, referring to his previous statement that Gbagbo wanted to resign at that time but was prevented from doing so by the people around him. However, Sam-the-African added: "But he is a man, he feared for his life."
France is still on the agenda
After a moment, the topic of "France" and the role of the international community were back on the table. Altit asked the witness: "How could France's intervention exacerbate violence or even generate it?" Eric MacDonald, the lead prosecutor, objected that the witness had already answered, and he felt that the defense wanted to put France in the dock. In response to this objection, Altit stated that the relationship to France is "fundamental" and "essential on both military and political levels."
Judge Cuno Tarfusser pointed out that this is not about "putting France or the European Union or the United Nations on trial" and that the witness "must talk about facts" and that there is no need to "go very deep into his own opinions."
Gbagbo "is not a racist"
Andreas O'Shea, the Irish Counsel for Gbagbo, ended cross-examination by the defense of the former President of Côte d'Ivoire. This is where Sam-the-African repeated once again all the good he thinks of Gbagbo: a "generous" man, "very kind," and "not a racist." On this last point, the witness added that he considers that in Côte d'Ivoire, "there is no political ethnic group," churches and mosques coexist everywhere, and one can find any ethnic group in any political party.
Then Charles Blé Goudé's defense began its cross-examination. Geert-Jan Knoops, a Dutch lawyer, spoke first. However, before he started, Judge Tarfusser warned: things should move fast and the witness should not have to repeat what he has already said.
This cross-examination highlighted the term "guerrilla" before finally focusing on the famous barricades, which are an essential part of the Blé Goudé defense strategy. Knoops therefore examined the witness on this and insisted that these barricades had been in existence for a long time and originated in popular initiatives. "Each side put up roadblocks to protect itself" Sam-the-African said.
And regarding 2004 and the popular uprising, the witness says: "This has nothing to do with Gbagbo…We cannot let an army [the French army] from another country come to the President's residence!"
The slogans? More festive than offensive
A video was also presented by Knoops. It showed Blé Goudé on France 24 in January 2011. In this excerpt, the "Patriotic Galaxy leader," said, referring to Ouattara, that "dialogue is not his forte" and that with "Soro and Choi, they had a secret roadmap" to seize power.
Jean-Serges Bougnon, a counsel for Blé Goudé, was the last to speak in today's cross-examination. He showed three videos of the group "Les Galliet:" two clips / songs for the Africa Cup of Nations (1992 and 2005), where singers cite the players of the national football team, and another video, already presented to the court, with the famous "there's nothing in front, it's an easy job" where Gbagbo supporters' names are mentioned. This comparison aims to highlight the festive nature of the latter song, as the witness says once again, and he thinks this is merely "to amuse the gallery."
Then, Judge Tarfusser ended the hearing for the day. Claver N'Dry, from the Blé Goudé defense team, concluded the day by requesting a private session. He needed to address an "urgent point." It is not known what was discussed.
Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé are charged with four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, and other inhumane acts, or – in the alternative – attempted murder and persecution. The accused allegedly committed these crimes during post-electoral violence in Côte d'Ivoire between December 16, 2010 and April 12, 2011.
This summary comes from Ivoire Justice , a project of Radio Netherlands Worldwide(RNW), which offers monitoring and commentary on the ICC's proceedings arising from the post-election violence that occurred in Cote d'Ivoire in 2010-2011. It has been translated into English for use on International Justice Monitor.
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February 18, 2020 February 18, 2020 Doing History in Public1 Comment on Irish politics: past, present, future?
Irish politics: past, present, future?
By Aoife O'Leary McNeice (@aolmcn)
For the past one hundred years, Irish parliamentary politics has been dominated by two political parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. This is now no longer the case. Ireland's recent general election saw the left wing party Sinn Féin emerge as the third 'big party' in Irish politics, gaining more first preference votes than either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael (both centre right). Witnessing the frustrations of an electorate faced with a housing crisis and overcrowded hospitals during a period of alleged economic recovery, pundits and politicians alike identified a thirst for change. The election has produced a complicated political landscape, in which no single party has enough seats to form a majority. Weeks if not months of coalition talks are now likely. And whilst many are more focused on the future than the past, these three parties share a complicated, overlapping history. This shared past may still impact upon their ability to form a government together.
The ideological similarities between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have long been remarked upon. Moreover, for the past four years, Fine Gael's minority government has been supported by Fianna Fáil in a confidence and supply agreement, further blurring the lines between these two centre right parties. It is the history of these two parties, rather than their ideologies, which fundamentally separates them.
The three biggest political parties in Ireland all trace their lineage to the first iterations of Sinn Féin. The party began as a relatively obscure group founded by Arthur Griffith in 1904, which sought political autonomy for Ireland in the form of a dual monarchy. Sinn Féin gained popularity and notoriety following the 1916 Easter Rising, which was mistakenly dubbed the 'Sinn Féin rising' by the British Press. The party subsequently became the political wing of the Provisional Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence. In the 1918 general election, it won 47% of the vote.
However, Sinn Féin and the Irish independence movement splintered during the Civil War (1922-23). The war was fought over the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which had brought to an end the War of Independence (1919-21). People like Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith supported the Treaty, whereas leaders like Eamon DeValera and Constance Markievicz were opposed. The civil war was eventually won by pro-treaty forces. It was a bitterly fought conflict which divided friends and families, leaving an embattled political landscape in its wake. In the years after the civil war, the supporters of the Treaty formed Fine Gael, and its opponents formed Fianna Fáil.
Cumann na nGeadhal was the political body of the pro-treaty forces and the first party to govern in the Irish Free State, remaining in power until 1933. Sinn Féin became the political home for the Treaty's opponents, who abstained from taking their seats in the Free State parliament. However, DeValera became frustrated with Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy. He and many other members of Sinn Féin left the party to found Fianna Fáil in 1926, framing it as a republican party that would take its seats in the Dáil (the Irish parliament). Fianna Fáil went on to become the most successful political party in Irish history, entering government in 1932 and remaining in power for the next sixteen years. The ease of their victory was not taken for granted. Some Fianna Fáil TDs (members of Parliament) famously had 'revolvers in their pockets' on their first day in government, fearing a coup d'état. In the event, Cumann na nGeadhal relinquished power peacefully.
Fine Gael was founded in 1933, when Cumann na nGeadheal merged with the National Centre Party, a party promoting the interests of rural Ireland, and an Irish fascist organisation known as the Blueshirts. The nickname 'blueshirts' is still used to describe members of Fine Gael.
DeValera's departure severely weakened Sinn Féin, and it fell into relative obscurity and infighting. During the troubles which erupted in northern Ireland during the second half of the twentieth century, the party was essentially the political wing of the provisional IRA. Over the last twenty years, leaders like Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams have been instrumental in steering the party – and indeed the whole republican movement – away from violence and towards peace. Yet questions remain, especially regarding Adams's involvement with the IRA and the murder of Jean McConville. Even in this latest election, the party's ambivalent response to the 2007 murder of Paul Quinn dominated the last few days of the campaign. Yet Sinn Féin's resounding success at the polls suggests that this recent history is not necessarily the electorate's primary concern. This may be due to the fact that Sinn Féin's new leadership, particularly the party President Mary Lou McDonald, is less tainted with the violence of the Troubles.
Perhaps this latest election suggests that the Republic of Ireland's voters care less about the past than the present or future. Ireland's political parties are being judged on their present policies rather than their ancestors, be they from a century or a decade ago. However, the parties themselves still care deeply about their past, whether it be the civil war or the more recent Troubles. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael still bristle at the idea of forming a coalition government. Sinn Féin's exuberance at their electoral success was characterised by outbursts republican songs. One newly elected TD gave a speech linking his victory to that of the IRA member, Sinn Féin MP, and hunger striker Bobby Sands, and concluded by exclaiming 'up the RA!' (a pro-IRA slogan). Sinn Féin may be seen as a party in transition, moving from a violent, unconstitutional past into a parliamentary present, not unlike Fianna Fáil when they were first founded almost a century ago.
Figure 1: President De Valera and the Fianna Fáil Cabinet, 1932. Printed poster, Dublin. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Figure 2: Leader of the Blueshirts, Eoin O'Duffy leading meeting of the organisation, 1933/34, Concern Illustrated Daily Courier – Illustration Archive – Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Poland
Figure 3: Bobby Sands mural on gable wall of Sinn Féin offices on Falls Road, Belfast. Shermozle 09:09, 26 October 2005
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Corelli: Opus 2 & 4: Chamber Sonatas
The Avison Ensemble: Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Caroline Balding (violin), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paula Chateauneuf (archlute), Roger Hamilton (harpsichord)
Catalogue No: CKR413
Label: Linn
Corelli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin)
The Avison Ensemble
Beznosiuk offers lyrical, intuitively musical performances, imbued with a placid, unpretentious grace, while his spontaneous ornamentation adds a dash of Baroque bravura. Beznosiuk is well matched... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 18th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: CKD412
Series: Avison Corelli Series
Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
Corelli: Church Sonatas Opp. 1 & 3
Violinists Pavlo Beznosiuk and Caroline Balding have a clear tone and easy style of playing that fits these works perfectly. The intonation is excellent, and the straight tone allows for Corelli's... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…
Release Date: 21st Apr 2014
BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Chamber Choice
Corelli: Concerti grossi, Op. 6
The Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Beznosiuk
the Avison Ensemble eschews the flashy bravura of some of its competitors in favour of a subtle graciousness that seems to capture essence of Corelli's polished style. They point up the fleet... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Corelli: Opus 1 & 3: Church Sonatas
The Super Audio Collection Volume 7
Karen Cargill (soprano), Ingrid Fliter (piano), William Berger (baritone), Sivan Magen (harp), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Peter Whelan (bassoon), Daniel Hyde (organ), Katherine Bryan (flute), Dougie MacLean (vocals), Amy Duncan (vocals), Fiona Rutherford (harp), Brian Schiele (viola), Su-a Lee (cello),...
Release Date: 21st Jul 2014
Catalogue No: AKP459
Series: Super Audio Collection