There are many options (and opinions) when it comes to budgeting apps for Mac users. We've put many of them through the ringer and believe Banktivity 6 (formerly iBank) has the right blend of powerful features and ease of use that can help just about anyone take control of their finances.
When it comes to personal finance software, there are a lot of options available, along with a lot of very strong opinions on which one is the best.
The ability to add transactions quickly and seamlessly.
The ability to import/sync bank and credit card statements.
The ability to review accounts and financial status at a glance.
You will find these key features at the heart of just about every personal finance app. The difference is usually in how they are implemented, and in this review we compared them side-by-side to see what worked…and what didn't.
When it comes to your financial future, failing to budget is setting yourself up for failure. One of the quickest ways to run out of money is to not have a plan for how you're going to spend it. And if you want to improve your plan for how you manage your money, you have to first know how you're currently spending it. In the past, this meant that you had to spend hours collecting old statements and cross-checking a spreadsheet that you had to meticulously maintain yourself. Fortunately, there are quite a few great software options available to make the job a lot quicker and easier.
Despite the thousands of books and blogs dedicated to the task, when you get down to it, budgeting is quite personal — it's just you and your money. Hopefully you have a system that works already, but if you've never done a budget before, you need to. You need to plan for the future and the rainy days that will come your way. Even though budgeting can be one of the most stressful aspects of financial planning (especially if you already feel overwhelmed as you watch the bills pile up), it's vitally important to your financial health.
It's important that we have a firm grasp on the concept of budgeting before we can accurately evaluate personal finance apps. We asked Andrew Carroll, a CPA in California, to help us define budgeting and what he believes a budgeting app should do.
The Sweet Setup: Do you recommend that people use a budgeting app to manage their finances?
Andrew Carroll: Absolutely. Budgeting is all about data. The better your data, the better your decisions will be. Spending time collecting and processing data, however, does not add much value. Let the computers do that work.
TSS: What advice would you give someone budgeting for the first time?
Double your expected expenses. You spend a lot more money than you think you do.
From another perspective: Don't worry about getting the numbers perfect, especially right out the gate. The fact that you did ANYTHING is good. This is just like exercise. You cannot expect to be a hard body CrossFit hero because you spent all day Saturday working out. Being a master at something requires that you build a habit of doing it all the time. There is no shortcut to 10,000 hours. So spend a little time, each week, and build the habit. Before you know it, you will have an awesome grip on how the money in your world works.
TSS: What, if any, differences exist between budgeting and financial planning?
HUGE difference. Budgeting is about your income and expenses, or inflows and outflows. It is all about managing your personal income statement.
Financial planning, primarily, is about managing your balance sheet. How do we deal with our existing assets and liabilities to maximize our net worth. Budgeting becomes an input for financial planning since "profit" (or money earned over what you spent) becomes savings, which should be directed into one of your assets or to one of your liabilities as per the financial plan.
TSS: What is the most misunderstood aspect of budgeting?
That the point of budgeting is to get all the numbers accounted for. It's not.
My favorite mantra at my office, which, ask my staff, I repeat ad naseum, is "It's not about the numbers." Which is an odd thing to say in an office full of number crunchers, right? But it gets right to the heart of the issue. If you think the purpose of budgeting is to make sure that all the numbers get in their proper box, you missed the point. The point of budgeting is to understand, generally, how your money is being spent and where it's going. You probably only need 90 – 95% accuracy in your budgeting to get a good idea of where the money went.
The point of budgeting is to get information — information that you can act on and make good choices with.
TSS: How have free apps like Mint influenced public perception when it comes to budgeting?
Optimist: People now realize that, and this is not exclusive to budgeting per se, any activity that used to be cumbersome because of the data manipulation involved, is no longer so. Budgeting apps, and our internet connected world, has allowed people to do more because they remove those data manipulation burdens.
Realist: As a general rule, people are pretty dumb when it comes to money. They tend to make emotional decisions and let their behaviors be guided by psychological factors, not data-driven factors. That was true 100 years ago when we had no computers and will continue to be true 100 years from now when we fill in our budgeting apps by blinking our eyes. People will always be people.
TSS: What features do you believe are most important to a budgeting app?
Importing. The second most import would be importing. and third? The ability to import cleanly and easily.
If you can't give the app the username and password for all your bank and credit card accounts and have it go scoop the data for you, don't bother with it. All you have done is make budgeting a data entry job for yourself and you will fail at it because no one likes doing data entry.
TSS: How do budgeting / accounting apps help people when it's time to do taxes?
If your return is a normal W-2 only return, not much. But that is because we don't need much data from you.
If you have a business, a little bit of work each week means taxes are a breeze. Do a little work here and there and at year end, you can do a corporate and personal tax return in 40 minutes flat. It even leaves time for lunch and beers. Which would you rather have? Lunch and beers, or a two-hour tax appointment?
TSS: What resources would you recommend to people looking to improve their budgeting habits?
The single best resource is your time and attention. 20 minutes a week from you will make a bigger impact than any other app, program, service, or professional.
With that being said, I recommend whatever app, service, or idea helps you spend that 20 minutes and build that habit.
For help getting out of debt and getting off the ground with budgeting and investing, we also highly recommend Total Money Makeover, The Intelligent Investor, If You Can, and Money for Something.
Side note: some of these are native Mac apps, but some of them are online services. In selecting the best personal finance app, we want to take into consideration all of the possible software and service-based options for people to use when tracking finances on their Mac. Since there are some very strong service-based options available, this review would be incomplete if we neglected to take services like Mvelopes, YNAB, EveryDollar, and Mint into consideration.
Ease of Use – Managing your personal finances is difficult enough without having an application interface that works against you instead of for you. The app or service that you choose to use needs to make it easy to navigate to and find the information that you need, when you need it.
Overall Design – The personal finance app you decide to use should also be well-designed. This goes hand-in-hand with being easy to use, but some of the apps we looked at definitely had an extra coat of polish that made them much more inviting and enjoyable to use.
Ability to Import/Sync Transactions – As Andrew said, this is a critical feature for making sure that your financial information is up to date. Some apps pull in all your transactions automatically, which makes it easier to reconcile your accounts and makes sure your information is current, but can also skim over the actual impact of your transactions. Some apps are built around the philosophy of "feeling the pain" of every transaction. We'll try to take this into consideration and point it out where necessary.
The Ecosystem – While this article is written through the lens of our favorite personal finance app for the Mac, we realize that not all financial management activity will take place there. In fact, our survey showed that only 46% of respondents preferred to track expenses on their Mac. Since the right tool for the job is the one that you have with you, we also take into consideration the other platforms these tools exist on and the ease with which the data syncs between them.
Reporting Options and Data Consumption – A very important aspect of personal finance management is being able to step back from the transaction level and look at the big picture. Graphs and charts that display macro-level information (i.e. end-of-year reports and tracking spending over time) can be very useful in identifying spending habits, tracking investments, etc.
Goal Setting/Management Tools – Some personal finance apps have tools to help you go above and beyond basic budgeting needs and allow you to set and achieve financial goals. These can be very useful, but also require a bit more understanding and add some complexity to the application (but when implemented correctly, it's totally worth it).
Customer Support/Coaching – There is monetary value in having the peace of mind that comes with knowing that there is a friendly and helpful support staff ready to assist you if something breaks. Some services/apps take this a step further and also offer additional coaching/training options to not only support the software they develop, but also to educate their customers on basic money management and budgeting principles so they are ultimately more successful with their finances.
Accessibility – If you live outside the USA & Canada, there's a pretty good chance your financial institution might not be supported. Some personal finance apps offer much better support in this area than others, but if you find yourself in a situation where you use a non-North American bank, your options might be limited. We try to take this into account when picking our recommended personal finance application.
Price – While most personal finance apps are built on the same core principles, they are not all priced similarly. Some applications offer additional features, so you'll have to weigh whether that additional functionality justifies the additional cost.
Banktivity is the right blend of powerful features and ease-of-use to help just about anyone improve how they manage their personal finances. Importing transactions is a breeze, and it offers flexible budgeting tools to help you stay on track and make sure you meet your financial goals. And with the release of version 6, it's even better.
The Banktivity Dashboard has been updated for version 6 and looks a little bit cleaner, but it still offers easy access to all of your financial information. A sidebar on the left gives you access to your accounts, budgets, reports, and even websites for when you need to confirm transaction details from within the app.
From the sidebar, you can also quickly access scheduled transactions, categories, tags, accounts, securities, and even currencies by clicking the Settings icon in the bottom-left. The summary of your financial health has been moved to the Summary in the main window, which keeps the sidebar looking tidy.
The main window displays the selected information, like your transactions or your budgeting categories. This information changes based on which sidebar item you have selected, but the sidebar remains in place throughout your interaction with the app so you can quickly jump to the different parts of the application with ease.
Drag an item from the sidebar onto the right edge of the window.
Hold down the option key when viewing a report or budget and click an item to drill down.
At first glance, this may not seem revolutionary, but it's actually incredibly useful. For example, you may want see an account register next to your budget to see how your spending affects your budget. Or if you need to verify something in your bank website, you can drag the website over from the sidebar next to your account register.
Banktivity makes it really easy to import and sync data online. You can sync data using one of three methods: Direct Download, web download (through an in-app browser window), and IGG Software's own "Direct Access" that includes unlimited syncing between accounts and devices for a $40 yearly fee.
While we had some trouble syncing certain types of accounts in previous versions of iBank, this seems to be largely resolved with the release of Banktivity. When testing the new version, we encountered zero issues using Direct Access. While Direct Download is free and may serve your needs if your bank supports it (and you live in North America), Direct Access is a private sync service that can actually access "thousands of banks worldwide," so it's a great option if your bank isn't located in the US or Canada, or doesn't support Direct Download.
Banktivity also offers support for many different types of accounts. Checking, savings, cash, credit cards, loans, assets, liabilities, lines of credit, money market, investments, and 401k accounts can all be managed in Banktivity. Managing all of these things in one place is convenient because it can give you a more complete financial picture.
Managing accounts with Banktivity is easier than just about any other app we tested. While it's not the prettiest user interface, the learning curve in Banktivity is very manageable. There's a lot of attention to detail here that makes it easy to get up and running. For example, if you have multiple transactions from the same payee and you change the category on one transaction, Banktivity will ask you if you want to change it for the other transactions as well.
This may not seem like a huge thing, but it's very important that you categorize your transactions correctly in whichever application you decide to use. If you don't, your reports will not be very useful because you won't be able to discern where or how you're spending money. In order to accurately identify trends and really know if you are hitting your financial targets, you have to do some setup work. Fortunately, Banktivity remembers these values once you put them in, so after you do it once it makes it much simpler in the future.
Banktivity also syncs all your accounts automatically if you are using Direct Access or Direct Download, so they are always up-to-date — no need to manually refresh your accounts.
You can probably see the problem here — there's no way to pull out the vacation transactions from everything else. The solution is to use tags. For example, if you use a #vacation tag on your vacation expenses, you can easily access a report based on that tag to see all your vacation expenses together.
For any of these reports, you can choose which accounts you want to include in the reports, and you can select from a number of pre-defined or custom date intervals. You can create just about any report you can imagine inside of Banktivity, and if you've taken the time to categorize your spending, you can get this information quickly and easily.
In addition to providing a lot of detail, Banktivity's reports are also interactive. Instead of just showing that you spent $1,000 going out to eat last month, you can actually click on that section of the report and see all the transactions that meet that criteria. This allows you to really dig in and better comprehend how your money is being spent (all those $6 lattes add up).
And if all these detailed reports weren't enough, reports got even easier in Banktivity 6 with the addition of Quick Reports. Quick Reports allow you to instantly drill down into transaction categories and view reports on everything inside. To access Quick Reports when looking over transactions, just click Report On and select a category to access the custom report, then click the three vertical bars at the top of the report and drag it to the sidebar so you can keep tabs on it. For example, if you want to see how much you spend on fancy coffee, you can view the report by the category and then just drag the report to the sidebar. Now you can access the report again at anytime from the sidebar simply by clicking it, making it easy to track your hipster caffeine cravings.
Banktivity does have iOS apps, but you have to purchase them separately. While the iPhone version is free, the iPad version is $19.99 and the Mac version is $64.99. That means that it is almost $85 just to access your information on all your devices, and that doesn't include the additional purchase of the Direct Access add-on.
The iOS apps are well-designed and sync easily with the Mac version using your Banktivity Cloud Sync ID. You can use the app to access just about anything you can in the Mac version. There's a big button to quickly add a transaction, but it's a very full-featured app that allows you do a lot of what you can do in Banktivity for the Mac while you're on the go.
A lot of people were upset when YNAB switched to a subscription-based pricing model. I was one of those who audibly groaned when YNAB announced they were moving to a subscription model, but I see that it is pretty easy to justify the $5/month (or $50/year) expense. In fact, YNAB says on their homepage that the average YNAB user saves over $200 the first month and over $3,300 the ninth month. If you're not sure it will work for you, they offer a free trial so you can try it out. Given YNAB's goal of helping you save more money, this is one app that easily justifies the price they ask consumers to pay on a regular, ongoing basis.
YNAB applies a digital version of the envelope system to personal budgeting, so if you don't like that approach, you probably won't like YNAB. If you've tried it before and never gotten it to work for you, YNAB offers many training resources to help make your system "sticky," including live classes and several helpful training guides to help you give every dollar a job. The new web app does a great job of guiding you through setting up everything from your very first budget, planning a month ahead, setting long-term savings goals, and more.
In short, they not only give you the tools to manage your money successfully, they'll walk you through it step-by-step. This makes YNAB a great starting point for people just dipping their toes into the personal finance waters as it is incredibly easy to use.
YNAB can import bank transactions, but it doesn't automatically download and categorize them the way other services like Mint or applications like Quicken do. This is a little bit more inconvenient, but it's by design as YNAB requires you to manually approve each transaction. The reasoning for this is that they want you to "feel" the impact of each transaction. It's easy to get in the habit of just swiping your credit card, and manually entering transactions into YNAB makes it painfully obvious what you're spending your hard-earned money on.
YNAB has a companion iOS app that's free and is great for manually entering transactions since that's at the heart of the YNAB model. Both the web app and the iOS app are very well-designed, but the number of banks that YNAB will sync with is limited. There's a good chance that if you use banks outside the US or Canada that YNAB may not be able to import your transactions for you, which makes it much more difficult to use and maintain.
Of all the apps we looked at, MoneyWiz is easily the most beautiful (even with the improvements to the Banktivity dashboard with version 6). It looks and feels like a native Mac app (it even has TouchBar support), but lacks some of the more powerful features that are in our favorite app, Banktivity.
One major plus for MoneyWiz is the accessibility for international readers. Many personal finance apps support "hundreds of banks" using the OFX format, but MoneyWiz supports over 16 thousand banks in over 40 countries. For our readers outside the United States & Canada (regions most other apps are limited to), that makes MoneyWiz a very strong option (and maybe your only option).
MoneyWiz also has a unique pricing structure as you can choose to either buy the application outright or subscribe monthly to receive free updates. The standalone version of MoneyWiz is $24.99 for the Mac version and $4.99 for either iOS or Android, but to unlock online banking it's an additional $4.99/month or $49.99/year. Major updates (i.e. MoneyWiz 3) are paid updates for the purchased version. The alternative is to download an ad-based, free version of MoneyWiz, and if you decide to upgrade (which you'll need to do to unlock online banking), it's slightly more expensive than with the paid version ($5.99/month, $59.99/year). With a subscription, though, you don't have to pay for individual versions and can download whatever version you'd like for free. Once you've downloaded a new version, just log in with your credentials to upgrade.
And lastly, MoneyWiz is now part of the SetApp service, so if you are willing to pay the $9.99/month fee you can get access to MoneyWiz and a bunch of other awesome apps as well (like Ulysses, our favorite Pro Writing app for the Mac).
iFinance is a full-featured personal finance app from German developers, Synium Software. This app has been around awhile, and it shows in the refinement and attention given to even the smallest details. It's a very mature and well-thought-out application, and the feature set shares a lot in common with Banktivity. iFinance even has some additional features that Banktivity lacks, and for German Mac users it offers built-in support for German banks using the Financial Transaction Services (FinTS) protocol.
Even though version 4 of iFinance now supports the OFX format and can sync with hundreds of US banks, it's still significantly less than the thousands available using the Direct Access service in Banktivity. The reports are also not as in-depth as Banktivity (the interactive reports in Banktivity were by far the best we saw in our testing).
iFinance is a strong option for budgeting on the Mac, and if you want more customization options you should definitely give it a look. It takes a little-bit-different approach to how data is displayed, but gives you more flexibility as well.
Moneydance, by The Infinite Kind, is another full-featured native Mac app that has been around for awhile. A couple of the reviews featured on their website were actually published in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and The Infinite Kind have built on the solid foundation of the app which now offers features like online banking and bill pay.
The user interface is nice, but we didn't like the layout quite as much as Banktivity. It does offer more widgetized areas to provide you additional financial information (like exchange rates), but some of this may be unnecessary. There's a lot of reports available that offer some level of additional detail (a pop up will show you the contents of a category when you hover over it with the cursor, for example), but they're still not as nice and don't offer the full control of the interactive reports in Banktivity.
One very interesting feature of Moneydance is the developer API, which allows developers to extend the Moneydance functionality and use the information from Moneydance in creative ways. They even offer some sample Python scripts on their developer page. If you really want to tinker with how things work under the hood, Moneydance gives you that ability.
Fill your expense buckets when you get paid.
Assign your spending to buckets.
Stop spending when your buckets tip over.
If you take the time to really figure out MoneyWell, it's a really powerful application. It does take awhile to set it up correctly, though, and it only has minimal support for investments. If you want to track something besides basic savings/checking accounts and credit cards, it's not really the app for you. It's great for budgeting and the reporting tools are solid, but if you want to track investments you'll have to do that elsewhere.
Quicken is one of the most popular finance and budgeting apps of all time, used by millions of people to manage both personal and professional finances on a daily basis for years. Odds are you've seen or used Quicken before in either a personal or professional capacity.
Unfortunately, Quicken for Mac disappoints in many ways. Many of the features that Quicken pioneered are now available in other Mac apps and are often implemented much better. Quicken 2018 for Mac is now only available as a yearly subscription, and it feels clunky and cumbersome to use. With Quicken 2018, you can only download the app directly from Quicken's website. Previous versions of Quicken for Mac were riddled with bug reports in the Mac App Store reviews, and the iOS version of the app is currently rated at less than two stars. Pricing tiers range from $34.99 per year ("Starter"), $49.99 per year ("Deluxe"), or $74.99 per year ("Premier"), and all offer different levels of features. Since Quicken 2018 is fairly new, the Deluxe and Premier tiers are currently 40% off for a limited time.
Quicken also has a history of forcing people to upgrade versions (which is unavoidable now with a subscription model), and it seems like these upgrades often create problems. This is unacceptable when you're talking about people's financial data, especially given that the Quicken developers control the standard data type that the software uses. In our opinion, it's inexcusable that one version of Quicken data wouldn't import successfully to an upgraded version (even as recent from 2015 to 2016) when other third-party apps are able to import it without issue in our testing.
Quicken 2018 has some nice features like online bill pay (which requires the top level "Premier" subscription) and the ability to export your data to TurboTax, but technical issues seem common. This wouldn't be so terrible if they had phenomenal support to help you fix things, but we found customer support lacking as well. One user reported an average wait time of 60 minutes for phone support, and 30 minutes for even basic chat support. Quicken does offer a 30-day money back guarantee, however, if you want to give it a shot.
There are quite a few web services to choose from, and more are added every day. Cloud-based personal finance software can provide easier access to your financial data since you can log in securely from any web browser and you're not tied to a specific access point. For people who move around a lot and need to access their data from multiple devices or locations, this can be a better option than standalone software as all your settings and preferences will sync with you. Here are our impressions of a couple of the more notable ones.
EveryDollar is a new online option created by financial guru Dave Ramsey. It has a great user interface and allows you to manage Dave Ramsey's "debt snowball" approach, but it does have some downsides.
For one thing, if you don't want to manually enter each and every transaction by hand, it's very expensive. While EveryDollar Basic is free, if you want to import bank and credit card information into the app, it requires the Plus version (which is $99/year). This is significantly more expensive than almost every other option out there, and the cost is not justified in our opinion. Mint actually does this for free, and even with the full purchase price of our recommended native Mac app (Banktivity) and the optional yearly Direct Access fee to automatically import transactions ($39/year), it's still less than one year of EveryDollar Plus.
Mint is the ultimate tool for the "knowing where your money went" crowd. It's free, and because it's owned by Quicken, it can get around charging for direct access to financial institutions. This is great when it works, but, unfortunately, it's fairly common for accounts to become "disconnected." When this happened in our testing, the way to fix it is to go back in and re-configure them in order to get them working again. This can be a bit of a pain, but it's not a huge deal.
Mint does offer a bunch of great features for managing your finances online. Mint's budgeting tools have become significantly better over the years and are very easy to use. The app also offers customized tips for helping you reduce fees and save money. Mint can even send you alerts for unusual account charges if you'd like.
Everything Mint offers is completely free, so if you are looking for the cheapest option to get started with budgeting, this is it. Mint's mobile apps are very well-designed and also provided for free. You might be wondering how Mint makes money if everything it offers is free. Mint actually sells your aggregate financial (not individual data) to third parties and uses it to provide customized offers as a way of helping you save money. When they recommend a service and you sign up for it, they get a referral fee. Since no private data is shared and the Mint servers are secure, this isn't really a big deal in our opinion, but just know what you're getting into. If you get annoyed with "ads" (even ones that can help you save more money), you might not like Mint, but that's how they keep the lights on.
A free personal finance aggregator that shows you all your information.
A paid advisory service to help you manage your money.
The free tools are very powerful, and include features like budgeting tools, a retirement planner, and even a 401(k) fee analyzer. The personal tools are easy to use and well-designed, and there's no need to use the paid advisory service if you don't want or need to. In our experience with the app, we found almost no mention of the upsell, so you don't have to worry about being bombarded with offers (obviously, that can change).
Personal Capital has some great features, but it's not for everybody. It has a heavy emphasis on tracking investment portfolios, so if all you're looking to do is to create a basic budget, it might be overkill.
Finicity's Mvelopes is a web-based service that aims to help people get out of debt. Mvelopes helps you look at the future and manage your spending accordingly by strictly adhering to the envelope budgeting system (as the name implies).
Mvelopes has been updated and no longer offers a free plan, but all the paid plans do offer a 30-day free trial. The Basic edition is $4/month (or $40/year) and gives you unlimited accounts and spending envelopes. The Plus edition is $19/month (or $190/year) and gives you additional debt management tools and video training resources. The Premier edition is $95/month and is customized for individual needs, offering 1-on-1 coaching as well as phone support. The upgrades can be a bit pricey, but Mvelopes's basic tier is more than enough for most users.
While Mvelopes has both iOS and Android apps, it doesn't have a Mac client. The web interface has been updated and no longer requires Flash to log in, but it's still got a ways to go compared to the other cloud-based options on the list.
Ultimately, the right personal finance application for you is the one that makes sense and is easy for you to use. The measure of effectiveness is the amount of time it saves you and how easily it integrates into your personal finance workflow.
For most people, Banktivity is going to provide a full feature set and powerful reporting tools to help manage their money more effectively. And with the addition of Workspaces, Tags, and Quick Reports in version 6, Banktivity continues to lead the pack in innovative features while still being accessible and easy to use.
For people just starting out, YNAB is a great option as it walks you through the budgeting basics and helps you start saving money right away. And if you rely on having access to international banks and neither of those will work for you, MoneyWiz is a solid alternative with a great user interface and access to vastly more financial institutions than any other app we looked at.


A boat on fire in the Hastings River and a sinking boat off Plomer kept volunteers with Marine Rescue Port Macquarie very busy on March 16. Around 8 am on Saturday, an emergency call was placed to the first responders on the water to help a boat on the Hastings River which was on fire.
As two Marine Rescue vessels were dealing with that situation a second emergency call out was received from a boat which was sinking off Plomer, said unit commander, Greg Davies. "We have had a very busy morning with two of our vessels, PM 30 and PM 20, called out to two emergency situations," Mr Davies said. "Shortly after 8 am we sent PM 30 and PM 20 to a vessel near the Pacific Highway Bridge with smouldering electrical wiring.
Mr Davies praised the efforts of both boat crews as well as the radio base crew for their professionalism and dedication to ensuring everyone returned home safety."I am so proud of all the volunteers who helped make sure both rescues were safe and we all arrived back to shore," he said.
Shortly after 3pm Marine Rescue Port Macquarie received yet another call for help from a broken down boat off the coast of Port Macquarie. Just before 3.30pm the volunteers were called to a fourth job from a vessel requiring assistance.


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Q: Check if any object in array has value true? I have an array that looks like this simplified:
[{one: false,two: 'cat'},{one: true, two: 'dog'},{one: false, two: 'ball'}]

I want to check if any of the one, values are true. The solution I can think of is something like
var truthness;
array.forEach(function (element, i, array) {
 if(element.one){
    truthness = true
    break;
 }
}

if(truthness){
  //code
}else{
  //other code
}

is there a better way to do this?

A: Arrays have a method .some, which returns true if the callback returns true for any element in the array, or false if it returns false for every element in the array.
var truthness = array.some(function(element) {
    return element.one;
});

A: What you are doing would work perfectly one small optimization might be to use a while loop.
var i = array.length;
while (i--)
    if (array[i].one)
        break;

if (i >= 0) {
    //truhness
} else {
    //other code
}

it basically does what you did just with possibly a little faster loop.

A: You could also use Array.some:
var arr = [{one: false,two: 'cat'},{one: true, two: 'dog'},{one: false, two: 'ball'}];

var truth = arr.some(function(elem) {
    return elem.one;
});

From MDN:

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A: The same as you are doing but maybe a little neater (YMMV), you could use some to check if any of the values are true. The beauty of some is:

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The copy we are selling is similar to the one pictured above.
Nearly White Hot Stamper
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Side One: Mint Minus Minus
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A STUNNING copy with Nearly Triple Plus (A++ to A+++) sound on both sides - just shy of our Shootout Winner
Very hard to find in this kind of audiophile playing condition -- we must look at ten for every one we buy
Here is the Classic A&M Sound we love - big, rich and Tubey Magical, yet still clean and clear, with the singers present and very, very real
"We've Only Just Begun" and "Close to You" are two of the better tracks here; perhaps you're familiar with them?
4 stars: "Close to You is a surprisingly strong album, and not just for those hits. Richard Carpenter's originals "Maybe It's You" and "Crescent Noon" are superb showcases for Karen Carpenter's developing talent, the latter a superbly atmospheric, hauntingly beautiful art song of the kind that Judy Collins was doing well at the time, and gorgeously arranged."
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These Nearly White Hot Stamper pressings have top-quality sound that's often surprisingly close to our White Hots, but they sell at substantial discounts to our Shootout Winners, making them a relative bargain in the world of Hot Stampers ("relative" meaning relative considering the prices we charge). We feel you get what you pay for here at Better Records, and if ever you don't agree, please feel free to return the record for a full refund, no questions asked.
The classic Wrecking Crew rhythm section of Hal Blaine and Joe Osborn are here on practically every track. Where would the pop world be without them? (I highly recommend the 2012 book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" for those who would like to know more about their contribution to pop music.)
This vintage A&M pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing signs of coming back. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to "see" the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. It's what vintage all analog recordings are known for -- this sound.
If you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. Old records have it -- not often, and certainly not always -- but maybe one out of a hundred new records do, and those are some pretty long odds.
What The Best Sides Of Close To You Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear
The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space
The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1970
Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low
Natural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre
Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space
No doubt there's more but we hope that should do for now. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.
What We're Listening For On Close To You
Energy for starters. What could be more important than the life of the music?
Then: presence and immediacy. The vocals aren't "back there" somewhere, lost in the mix. They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt would put them.
The Big Sound comes next -- wall to wall, lots of depth, huge space, three-dimensionality, all that sort of thing.
Then transient information -- fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to these LPs.
Tight punchy bass -- which ties in with good transient information, also the issue of frequency extension further down.
Next: transparency -- the quality that allows you to hear deep into the soundfield, showing you the space and air around all the instruments.
Extend the top and bottom and voila, you have The Real Thing -- an honest to goodness Hot Stamper.
Mint Minus Minus is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)
Those of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of other pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful recordings.
If you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise.
We've Only Just Begun
Love Is Surrender
Maybe It's You
Reason to Believe
(They Long to Be) Close to You
Baby It's You
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
Crescent Noon
Mr. Guder
I Kept On Loving You
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Hurriedly put together in the wake of the success of the title song... and containing the follow-up hit "We've Only Just Begun," Close to You is a surprisingly strong album, and not just for those hits. Richard Carpenter's originals "Maybe It's You" and "Crescent Noon" are superb showcases for Karen Carpenter's developing talent, the latter a superbly atmospheric, hauntingly beautiful art song of the kind that Judy Collins was doing well at the time, and gorgeously arranged. There's also a Swingle Singers-style number, "Mr. Guder," showing off their paired vocal talents and more of Richard's arranging talents.
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The conference aimed to address the central goals of the TEPE Network which relate to: Advancing research in and on Teacher Education, Increasing mobility and extending the European Dimension in Teacher Education, Enhancing quality through the renewal of evaluation cultures in Teacher Education.
The TEPE Network was formally established at its inaugural meeting at Tallinn University in February 2007 with an overarching aim to develop Teacher Education (TE) policy recommendations at institutional, national and European level.
The conference involved Working Groups organised around the following themes: Initial Teacher Education, Induction to the Profession, Continuing Professional Development, Post Graduate Studies in and on Teacher Education.
EERQI was represented by the speech "Improvement of Educational Research and Improvement of Teacher Education: two sides of one coin" by Ingrid Gogolin.


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A Risk Management Plan has been implemented at the Dow Corning Corporation Carrollton, Kentucky manufacturing facility. The purpose of this plan is to reduce accidental releases of hazardous materials in order to protect the community, on-site personnel, and the environment.
including fluids, emulsions, rubbers, solids, and greases.
Dow Cornings first commercial product was DC4 Compound, a paste applied to the electrical systems of World War II aircraft to prevent corona discharge during high altitude flight. Today, the companys products include silicones, related specialty chemicals, semiconductor grade silicon, and specialty health care products.
Dow Corning is a member of the Chemical Manufacturers Association and subscribes to the Responsible Care. Codes of Management Practices.
on facility in the world. Certain substances used at the site are regulated under 401 KAR 68 / 40 CFR 68, Risk Management Program.
The site resides on 125 developed acres of a 1600-acre facility. It is located at 4770 U.S. Highway 42 East, Carrollton, Kentucky on the Ohio River three miles east of Carrollton, 50 miles northeast of Louisville, and 50 miles southwest of Cincinnati.
The site mission is "to be a high volume, operationally excellent, world-class site that produces the highest quality methyl silicone products and intermediates in a safe, efficient, cost effective and environmentally acceptable manner; serves as an appropriate demonstration facility for the commercialization of new technology; and values people in every endeavor."
certified by DNV Certification, Inc., allowing it to meet the most stringent international quality standards.
The site voluntarily committed to the Early Reduction Program. Both the EPA and the Kentucky Environmental Protection Cabinet approved the sites efforts to reduce air emissions to one tenth of its 1988 level, and the site continues to reduce air emissions. The site has received its draft Title V Permit and awaits final approval of its Title V Permit application.
Approximately 500 employees work at the site, and a select contractor workforce is utilized during planned maintenance shutdowns and major construction projects. All employees and contractors participate in job-specific training programs.
All areas maintain radio contact with the Safety and Loss Prevention Department and the Site Supervisor. Safety and Loss Prevention Technicians will provide immediate assistance if needed. If an accidental release occurs, the Site Supervisor acts as the Incident Commander and will also dispatch immediate assistance. Using established guidelines, the Site Supervisor will notify the site, community, and proper authorities based upon the severity of the incident.
Dow Cornings Accidental Release Prevention Program and the Emergency Planning and Response Program include policies, procedures, and standards to fulfill the companys commitment to health, environment, and safety. This commitment begins with the Office of the CEO and extends through all levels of the organization. Dow Corning employees are guided by Core Values and a Code of Conduct.
"Safety. Our attention to safety is based on our full-time commitment to injury-free work, individual self-worth and a consideration for the well-being of others.
ommitment to the safe-keeping of the natural environment is founded on our appreciation of it as the basis for the existence of life."
"We are committed to the responsible management of chemicals through our support and practice of the principles of Responsible Care..
"Environmental consideration will be integrated into all appropriate business decisions and will be guided by Dow Corning's Principles of Environmental Management.
"We will continually strive to assure that our products and services are safe, efficacious and accurately represented for their intended uses. We will fully represent the nature and characteristics of our raw materials, intermediates and products  including toxicity and other potential hazards  to our employees, suppliers, transporters and customers.
ental, and health and safety programs."
"Each site that handles or processes toxic or hazardous materials must have a formal program designed to minimize the possibility of accidental spills or releases of those materials to the environment. This program will also include an emergency plan which addresses how the site will respond and report spills and releases which could affect the site or community.
"Emergency plans must be appropriately linked to community emergency services and comply with applicable regulations and Dow Corning Corporate Safety, Health and Loss Prevention Standard ADM-12."
dustrial Hygiene, and safe-guarding the Environment an integral part of our daily activities. While the sites overall performance in 1998 improved from the year prior, we will remain relentless in our pursuit of continuous improvement in all aspects of daily operations. We will provide the necessary resources to maintain compliance with PSM and become fully compliant to all aspects of the RMP regulations as well as pending Title V permit considerations. Our employees, our customers, and the public will be a priority in the manufacture of our products and in the management of our processes. Simply stated our objectives are injury-free work, protection from occupational hazards, and preservation of the environment.
"** The Management Team will provide the resources and support to actively pursue compliance with all legislative and corporate standards.
cognizing, evaluating, and controlling potential workplace hazards.
"** The Environmental Team will facilitate plant wide adherence to all applicable environmental regulations and will assist in prevention of pollution at the source.
"** All Site Employees will demonstrate their individual responsibility and full commitment to safety, health, and the environment by conducting all activities in a responsible manner."
Carrollton site employees operate and maintain the facility in a safe and responsible manner. All employees and contractors are involved in the Accidental Release Prevention Program, which is led by the Process Safety Coordinator. Likewise, all on-site personnel participate in the Emergency Planning and Response Program, and the Safety and Loss Prevention Team Leader leads the program implementation. These programs meet or exceed all internal and external requirements.
7 Aqueous hydrochloric acid in varying strengths up to 42 % is manufactured and used as an intermediate.
7 Anhydrous hydrogen chloride is an intermediate manufactured on-site and purchased as a raw material.
7 Methyl chloride is an intermediate manufactured on-site and purchased as a raw material.
7 Methyltrichlorosilane and trimethylchlorosilane are chlorosilane intermediates manufactured on-site. The majority of these substances is shipped to customers or other Dow Corning facilities.
7 Tetramethylsilane and trichlorosilane are silane intermediates manufactured and used on-site. These substances exist in mixtures only.
7 Hydrogen and chlorine are purchased and used on-site; however, the quantities are below the RMP threshold quantities.
Non RMP regulated substances used on-site include silicon, methanol, sulfuric acid, heptane, catalysts, and processing aids. In addition, the site manufactures other silane intermediates and silicone based products. Although these substances are not regulated by RMP, they are included in the site's Accidental Release Prevention and Emergency Planning and Response Programs.
The RMP rule requires information about worst-case release scenarios. As required, a toxic and a flammable worst-case scenario were developed.
catastrophic event." With the sites comprehensive safety programs in place, these scenarios are considered to be extremely unlikely. Nonetheless, worst-case scenarios provide more opportunities for dialogue regarding accident prevention and emergency response.
EPAs Look-up Tables and rural topography were used to determine potential hazard distances for each scenario. Brief summaries follow, including information about key administrative controls and mitigation measures.
7 The worst-case release scenario for dimethyldichlorosilane, an RMP toxic substance, is the failure of a full storage tank. The containment area and a spill pond were assumed to withstand the scenario; however, no other mitigation measures were considered. This scenario (with a 4.9 ppm endpoint) potentially impacts off-site public and environmental receptors. However, the tank is typically less than half full, significantly reducing the hazard distance.
ntaining tetramethylsilane, an RMP flammable substance, is the failure of a full storage tank. No mitigation measures were considered, and it was assumed that a vapor cloud explosion resulted. This scenario (with a 1 psi overpressure endpoint) potentially impacts off-site public and environmental receptors. However, the tank is typically less than half full, significantly reducing the hazard distance.
Likewise, the RMP rule requires information about alternative release scenarios. As required, an alternative release scenario was developed for each RMP toxic substance, and one alternative release scenario was developed to represent all RMP flammable substances. The site uses information from these scenarios to ensure that the Emergency Planning and Response Program addresses all reasonable process hazards.
rmation about key administrative controls and mitigation measures.
7 The alternative release scenario for 42 % hydrochloric acid, an RMP toxic substance, is the failure of a bottom nozzle on a separator tank. It was assumed that 3450 pounds of material were released from a half-inch hole over a period of 30 minutes. Use of emergency shutdown procedures, containment, a deluge system, and a water curtain were all assumed to be 25 % effective in reducing the severity of the release. The hazard distance (with a 20 ppm endpoint) was estimated to be 0.42 miles, potentially impacting off-site public and environmental receptors.
ease. The hazard distance (with a 20 ppm endpoint) was estimated to be 0.57 miles, potentially impacting off-site public and environmental receptors.
7 The alternative release scenario for methyl chloride, an RMP toxic substance, is the failure of a section of reactor piping. It was assumed that 3700 pounds of material were released over a period of 2 hours and 55 minutes. Use of emergency shutdown procedures, containment, and the addition of water into the reactor system were assumed to reduce the severity of the release. The hazard distance (with a 400 ppm endpoint) was estimated to be 0.06 miles, or 317 feet.
assumed to be 25 % effective in reducing the severity of the release. The hazard distance (with a 2.9 ppm endpoint) was estimated to be 0.13 miles, or 672 feet.
7 The alternative release scenario for dimethyldichlorosilane, an RMP toxic substance, is the failure of a rupture disk on a reactor. It was assumed that 19,600 pounds of material were released over a period of 60 minutes. Use of emergency shutdown procedures, containment, and a water curtain were assumed to be 25 % effective in reducing the severity of the release. The hazard distance (with a 4.9 ppm endpoint) was estimated to be 1.3 miles, potentially impacting off-site public and environmental receptors.
of aqueous film forming foam and a water curtain were assumed to be 25 % effective in reducing the severity of the release. The hazard distance (with an 11 ppm endpoint) was estimated to be 0.067 miles, or 354 feet.
7 The alternative release scenario for a flammable mixture containing tetramethylsilane, an RMP flammable substance, is the failure of a distillation column bottom nozzle. It was assumed that 72,000 pounds of material were released over a period of 10 minutes, resulting in a pool fire. Use of emergency shutdown procedures, containment, a deluge system, aqueous film forming foam, and a water curtain were assumed to be 25 % effective in reducing the severity of the release. The hazard distance (with a 5 kW per square meter for 40 seconds endpoint) was estimated to be 0.28 miles, or 1470 feet.
7 Operating teams led by experienced Shift Leaders monitor and operate processes using written operating procedures, distributed control systems, methyl chloride leak detection systems, video cameras, and routine inspection.
7 Technicians continually monitor loading and unloading operations. Rail stops or wheel chocks prevent unintentional movement of rail cars and tank trucks, and these operations can be shut down at any time using remotely actuated valves.
7 All processes have automated emergency shutdown systems. In addition, Technicians will shut down a process at any time to prevent or mitigate an incident.
7 Containment areas will collect liquid materials that have been accidentally released for proper disposal or recovery.
7 Trained and experienced Crew Leaders lead a maintenance force that performs planned and scheduled preventative maintenance on all safety and environmental critical instrumentation and equipment.
7 Qualified engineering personnel assist with plant operation and maintenance. Specialists will be called to the site at any time.
7 Storage tanks and pressure vessels are designed and constructed in accordance with American Society of Mechanical Engineers standards. Inspections and tests are conducted per American Petroleum Institute standards.
7 Process controls, alarms, and pressure relief valves prevent equipment over-pressurization. Processes are designed for total containment if utilities fail.
7 Critical pumps are backed up by in-line spares.
7 Lighting and radio communication systems have battery backup power.
Process areas have water deluge fire protection systems that can be manually or automatically activated. These systems have backup power sources and can operate if electrical power fails.
7 Fire hydrants are located on the perimeter of each process area. Special nozzles can be used to create water curtains or direct high volumes of water to specific areas. In addition, dry chemical fire extinguishers are located throughout each process.
7 Process designers, site planners, and operating teams work together to minimize hazardous chemical inventories.
7 Safety and environmental recommendations are risk ranked and tracked using a Recommendations Management System. This database allows the site to effectively prioritize resources and provide timely follow up.
7 All employees are subject to random drug testing.
ning of accidental releases. Operating Technicians and Safety and Loss Prevention Technicians automatically receive alarms from these analyzers.
7 Methyl chloride reactors have an emergency cooling systems to halt production during an emergency.
7 Emergency hydrogen chloride vent scrubbers are designed into siloxane manufacturing processes.
7 Nitrogen is automatically added to chlorosilane storage tanks to maintain a moisture-free atmosphere.
7 Tantalum, high performance polymers, glass, or acid-resistant brick linings are used for equipment containing hydrochloric acid to provide corrosion resistance.
7 Fire hydrants can be used to establish water curtains to scrub hydrogen chloride and chlorosilane vapors that have been accidentally released.
7 Chlorosilanes are shipped in tank trucks rated for high pressure, exceeding Department of Transportation requirements and reducing overall transportation risk.
10 % larger payload, reducing the number of truck shipments, saving fuel, and reducing overall transportation risk. In addition, built-in overflow protection prevents spillage during loading.
7 An employee received a drop of hydrochloric acid in his eye while removing his chemical protective goggles in August 1998. His eye was flushed with water, and he received medical treatment. This incident was classified as an OSHA recordable injury, and the employee fully recovered. Corrective actions included improving process area lighting and providing "anti-fog" goggles.
of chlorosilanes during a maintenance activity in September 1997. The mixture was primarily composed of dimethyldichlorosilane. The affected area was flushed with water, and the employee received medical treatment. This incident was classified as an OSHA recordable injury, and the employee fully recovered. Corrective actions included providing awareness training for hospital personnel, hiring an on-site nurse, reviewing safety shower use, and re-evaluating the maintenance activity.
7 An employee was exposed to hydrogen chloride vapor during a process upset in April 1995. Oxygen was administered to the employee following the incident, and two days later he experienced some congestion. The employee received antibiotics from the company doctor and was placed on a temporary work restriction. This incident was classified as an OSHA recordable illness, and the employee fully recovered. Corrective actions included evaluating process design improvements.
ars, an informational call was made to a company located on the sites fenceline to report an accidental release with potential off-site consequences. It was unlikely that either release would have affected that company due to the prevailing wind direction. As a precaution, however, that company invoked their emergency procedures and elected to shelter-in-place. That company has 40 people on-site during the day and 30 people at night. No actual off-site consequences and no injuries resulted from either of these accidental releases.
The site maintains an integrated Emergency Planning and Response Program, which consolidates federal, state, and local regulatory requirements. This program provides information to protect the community, on-site personnel, and the environment during emergency situations. The site is fully prepared with procedures, equipment, and trained personnel to respond to any foreseeable emergency.
n with the Carroll County Emergency Response Plan. The Safety and Loss Prevention Team Leader and a Site Supervisor actively participate on the Carroll County Local Emergency Planning Committee. A mutual aid agreement exists between the site and the county ambulance service.
The site uses an Incident Command System for emergency planning and response activities. All employees receive periodic awareness training, and they participate in either site or county-wide drills. The site conducts quarterly emergency drills. Safety and Loss Prevention Technicians, Operating Technicians, and other employees complete annual HAZMAT and Fire Brigade training. All employees complete hands-on fire extinguisher training as part of their required job-specific training.
The site has an Emergency Notification System, tested weekly, to telephone neighbors within a two-mile radius of the site during an emergency. In addition, the site operates a Federal Alert Alarm System, tested daily, to transmit various alarms and messages.
A member of management supports the Incident Commander during emergency response activities to ensure that appropriate notifications are made, to support recovery planning, and to restore operations.
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Formula One's Doomsday plans
in Formula 1, International, News, Opinion
It has now been one week since the cancelled Australian Grand Prix was set to begin, and the eleventh-hour annulment of the season-opener has played havoc amongst all F1 personnel.
Teams, drivers, race promotors and fans have since largely been kept in the dark as to how the 2020 season will now play out amid the current coronavirus-induced suspension.
"We recognise everyone wants to know what comes next for Formula 1 in 2020," said F1 chairman Chase Carey in a statement on Tuesday.
"We cannot provide specific answers today given the fluidity of the situation.
"However, we plan to get the 2020 championship season underway as soon as it's safe to do so. We are engaging with experts and officials on a daily basis as we evaluate how we go forward in the next few months."
But while F1's chief executives and the FIA continue to explore appropriate alternatives for the season, the sport itself is doing all it possibly can to ensure that a championship season, no matter how shortened or reshuffled it is, shall go ahead.
The Australian Grand Prix was cancelled merely hours before first practice
Earlier this morning, Formula One's motorsport director, Ross Brawn, confirmed the speculation amongst the paddock that the mandatory two-week summer shutdown has been brought forward and extended from August to March and April.
The movement of the factory shutdown would have required all ten teams' unanimous support, a relatively unsurprising move.
A cost-benefit analysis of the situation suggests there is a considerable financial gain for all teams. Closing all teams' factories now in a period of no racing will restrict investment and help save overhead and operational costs.
Similarly, the reshuffling of the break paves the way for 2020 season to race through the August slot, allowing races which were earlier postponed to be rescheduled appropriately. Of course, not all parties are entirely satisfied with the announcement. Race promoters of the Belgian Grand Prix were unhappy with the return of the Dutch Grand Prix to the 2020 calendar as the majority of the race's spectators come from Holland. But now, the freeing up of August provides the opportunity to host a rescheduled race from Zandvoort on back-to-back weekends with the Belgian Grand Prix.
"I think by freeing up the August break, we give ourselves several weekends where we can have a race," Brawn told Sky Sports F1.
"I'm pretty optimistic that we can have a good 17-18 race championship or more."
Brawn also acknowledged that there remains the likelihood of Formula One having two-day race weekends to shorten the workload for teams and make triple headers more practicable.
Finally, a week after Brawn said that no Grand Prix could take place without all ten teams present, he has admitted that the sporting regulations stipulate only 12 cars are required to hold a championship race, a move which he has not yet fully disregarded should some teams withdraw from further races.
"We need 12 cars or more to hold a championship race although that, actually, is at the discretion of the FIA," Brawn told Sky.
"They could choose, in unusual circumstances, to allow less than that. But 12 cars is what's written there."
Formula One has raced with fewer than 12 cars before, with the fewest ever entries in a Grand Prix being ten at the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix.


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Why Kentucky Basketball Star Oscar Tshiebwe Plays to Honor His Earthly and Heavenly Father
Photo from Oscar Tshiebwe's Instagram
By Movieguide® Staff
Oscar Tshiebwe and the Kentucky Wildcats are ready for their first game in the NCAA Tournament March Madness on March 17.
The team extended their national record for most March Madness appearances to 59 and received the No. 2 seed in the East Region.
Leading the way for the Wildcats this season is their 6-foot9-inch center, Tshiebwe, who won SEC Player of the Year.
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However, with hopes of making it to the NBA, Tshiebwe knows that he cannot win alone.
"That's why – God – and I told him, 'I want to be NBA player. I want to get there. I want to help other people and help my family. But I cannot get there by myself,'" he told CBN.
Tshiebwe said that his father modeled service and selfless giving, despite their humble means while living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"I used to ask him, 'You don't have enough, why you trying to help everybody like them?' He said, 'No, because that's what God want us to do because everything I have, I'm not going to take anything. I gotta help.'"
Although soccer sparked Tshiebwe's love for sports, he credits God for steering him towards basketball.
"I grew up with soccer. It's the most popular sport in Africa. I play since I was a kid and I had a, like dream, myself might become big one day in soccer. But it turned out from something else, God had something else bigger than what I was thinking."
Tshiebwe's faith not only helped him to trust God with his career, but also supported him through the great tragedy of losing his father.
In 2012, Tshiebwe learned that his father had been murdered.
"The day, what I remember, because he told me a lot of good things before he passed, like 30 minutes before he passed he said, 'Grab a chair.' I grab a chair and I sit right there and he started talking to me," Tshiebwe recalled. "He said, 'Don't ever forget about God no matter where you go because – don't lose God because when you lose God, you lose your life. Always listen to what I'm telling you. You gotta take care of your family.' I was like, 'why are you telling me all this?' But he was like – 'I'm just telling you because you are the only kid always listen to what I'm telling you.'"
Despite his father's wisdom, Tshiebwe said that his initial response was anger towards God for his father's death.
"I was mad at God. I asked God, 'Why this has to happen?' I said, 'If God, He really want good people to help each other. So why you taking my dad so fast?' because my daddy was helping a lot of people that did not have enough," he said. "I was mad, but the more I spent time with God, asking God questions, He revealed, like He told me why He always taking good people and He always let bad people to live longer."
He continued: "I said, 'No, maybe I need to give my heart to God. Maybe I need to pay attention,' because my daddy always told me, 'No matter what happens in your life, don't let that thing affect your relationship with God, because God has great plans for your life and your dream,' because he use to tell me, 'His purpose for your life is to give you hope and good future.'"
Ever since his conversion, Tshiebwe held onto the words of his earthly father and the words from his heavenly father.
"I say, 'What is the – why the Bible say, anything is possible, but everybody here told me it's impossible for me to get there?' I say, 'I will stick with the Word of God. I don't care what people say. I'm going to stick with the Word of God. If I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail with the Word of God,'" he said when people told him he would never make Kentucky's team.
"When I stuck with the Word of God about everything is possible to those who spend the time, work harder, and believe in God, I'm in Kentucky right now," he added. "That's why I know I can do more things with God because everything God has given us is possible."
As Tshiebwe seeks to succeed in this year's NCAA Tournament and eventually the NBA, he said that he wants to honor God above all else.
"Beside playing in NBA, doing everything like -I want to be a speaker. I want to speak for God," he said. "I want to stand and like, help a lot of different people. I want to go back home and help. Help. I want to be the example of what my daddy did. My daddy did from not having a lot of money, but if I have money, I think I can do better. I can do better. I'm going to help somebody else. I'm going to – I'm going to try to change the world."
Tennessee Volunteer Basketball Player Jahmai Mashack Wants to 'Bring Others to Christ'
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PM Wants to Liberate Gujarat!
... India Wants to be Liberated From Congress Misgovernance
"The time has come to liberate Gujarat from this type of politics and not let these people come back to power, who have been trying to get votes by dividing society and the country". - So stressed the Prime Minister at an election speech in Gujarat. People of Gujarat hopefully do not think so.
But many people in India would like to interpolate/extrapolate and retort:
"The time has come to liberate India from Congress misgovernance and not let these people come back to power, who have been trying to get votes on the strength of captive vote-banks of Indian Muslims by creating fear and insecurities and the apex leadership ignoring monumental political corruption under their rule"
Politics in India has stooped to such levels where even the mightiest in the land resort to untruths and inaccurate allegations all in the name of politics.
From 1947, it was Nehru who as India's first Congress Prime Minister perceptionally started this sordid game of generating fear and insecurity amongst Indian Muslims by propagating that they could be safe only under Congress rule. Nehru forgot the fact that out of the about thirty million Muslims only eight million Muslims opted to migrate to Pakistan. The majority of India's Muslims willingly opted to stay in independent India secure in the belief that India's centuries-old "existential secularism" as I would like to term it, guaranteed enough security.
Six decades later, regrettably India still witnesses Congress Prime Ministers involved in dividing India by playing "Communal Cards" in election politics.
Written endlessly in my earlier Columns has been the fact that the Congress in the absence of any credible political programmes to offer to the people of Gujarat has been constantly demonising the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi.
Modi as per many political surveys and polls carried out by the media has emerged as the biggest threat to the Congress Party's dynastic succession plans.
Gujarat and the Muslims of Gujarat have moved ahead, far ahead of 2002 events. It is the Congress Party and a handful of social activists, existing on funds from God knows where, are beating the drums of 2002.
By the same token should the people of India and especially the Sikh community, not keep reminding the Congress Party and its apex leadership of the "1984 Genocidal Massacres "indulged by Congressmen in Delhi and elsewhere in India - over 3,000 Sikhs killed in Delhi and 7,000 all over India, as stated in independent media reports?


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Der Río Altamachi ist einer der Flüsse im Oberlauf des Río Beni und liegt an den Osthängen der Anden-Kordilleren in dem südamerikanischen Staat Bolivien.

Verlauf
Der Río Altamachi trägt seinen Namen ab der Vereinigung des Río Misicuni mit dem Río Totorani bei der Ortschaft Altamachi in der Cordillera de Cocapata, er hat eine Länge von 149 Kilometern und gehört zum Flusssystem des Amazonas. Der Río Altamachi fließt auf den ersten 78 Kilometern weitgehend in nordöstlicher Richtung, trifft dann auf die Serranía de Mosetenes und folgt dann dem Verlauf dieses Höhenrückens in nordwestlicher Richtung. Nach insgesamt 149 Kilometern mündet der Fluss in den Río Santa Elena, der  weiter in nordwestlicher Richtung fließt und sich mit dem Río Cotacajes zum Río Alto Beni vereinigt.
Der Fluss fließt durch weitgehend menschenleeres Gebiet, er liegt im Municipio Morochata in der Provinz Ayopaya und bildet über weite Strecken die Grenze zum östlich anschließenden Municipio Villa Tunari in der Provinz Chapare.

Weblinks
 Reliefkarte der Region Morguicho 1:100.000 (PDF; 11,3 MB)
 Reliefkarte der Region Quebrada Laboreta 1:100.000 (PDF; 12,3 MB)
 Satellitenkarte der Region Santa Elena 1:100.000 (PDF; 3,6 MB)
 Unknown "Altamachi" Virgin River 8. Oktober 2013 (englisch)
 Shari Yee: Bolivia's Rio Altamachi by Makeshift Raft 30. März 2011 (englisch)
 Grupo de Exploradores Mosetenes (spanisch)

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The Neopian Times isn't a "them," Snargan. The Neopian Times is the official news source of people in Neopia Central, like me.
"You mean that poor excuse for a Lenny we bashed back in 'Merry Daisies'?" the Aisha mocked. "You would risk your lives for that impudent girl by challenging me, Hamar Loreanon and my Wailing Devils? Very well then..."
"Since you are this month's random winner, you will be receiving our mystery prize! Come to the Ice Caves on the 22 day of the month of eating to claim your reward!"
How can the sky fall?


Pat Cummins will miss the final two ODIs against Pakistan after the star quick was put on a plane back home to rest before a gruelling winter.
Cummins will be vital to Australia's World Cup and Ashes hopes - the World Cup runs from the end of May to mid-July, while the Ashes Test series runs to mid-September.
The 25-year-old sat out the opening two matches of the Pakistan series in the UAE - however, he returned for the third match on Wednesday and grabbed man-of-the-match honours with 3/23 as the Aussies sealed the series.
He earlier got his game-time wish as he played in all five ODIs and two T20Is in Australia's successful tour of India earlier this month.
However, with one eye on the retaining both the World Cup and the Ashes, the Aussies are taking no risks with Cummins.
Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jason Behrendorff and Kane Richardson now have a chance to put their hand up for the World Cup squad with two ODIs against Pakistan remaining.
Cummins has a history of injuries - most recently, he missed last year's tour to the UAE after he picked up a back injury.
However, he returned (and how) to make himself an indispensable member for Australia in all formats.
He is Australia's top-ranked bowler in Tests and ODIs, and has been the No. 1-ranked Test bowler since February following a career-defining summer.
In six Tests against India and Sri Lanka, the right-armer took 28 wickets at 17.78.
As the summer wore down, and with a monster winter approaching, a candid Cummins conceded he wants to play as much cricket as possible.
"After the [Canberra Test] there are two ODI tours and hopefully I am on them and a couple of T20s as well," Cummins said in February.
"ODIs are a lighter load than Tests and then most of April is off leading into the English summer so we'll wait and see.
"Hopefully I will play most of those but I had a good two-week break after the last series so I feel pretty fresh."
Cummins joins fellow quick Jhye Richardson in returning home from the UAE early.
The 22-year-old WA paceman injured his shoulder after an unfortunate incident during the second ODI in Sharjah.
Frontline quicks Mitchell Starc (pec) and Josh Hazlewood (back) are also close to returns, and will be pushing for World Cup selection.
Starc is aiming to return during Australia's World Cup training camp in early May, while Hazlewood is eyeing off warm-up games in England in late May.
However, there have been whispers that Hazlewood may skip the World Cup and focus on the Ashes.
Earlier this week, Cummins himself insisted Hazlewood was "right on track" to be part of Australia's World Cup plans.
"He's had another scan recently and he's happy with how that went," Cummins said.
"They've both been smashing themselves in the gym and running back home in Sydney. They're doing everything they can to be right [for the World Cup]."


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V411 Возничего (), HD 32447, HD 282867 — двойная звезда в созвездии Возничего на расстоянии приблизительно 2269 световых лет (около 696 парсеков) от Солнца. Видимая звёздная величина звезды — от +8,35m до +8,24m.

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Первый компонент — оранжево-красный гигант, пульсирующая медленная неправильная переменная звезда (LB:) спектрального класса M0, или M3, или K, или K7. Масса — около 3,589 солнечных, радиус — около 76,59 солнечных, светимость — около 1005,657 солнечных. Эффективная температура — около 3714 K.

Второй компонент — коричневый карлик. Масса — около 44,27 юпитерианских. Удалён на 2,29 а.е..

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