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The End of the Honeymoon for Obama: What's Next
Barack Obama is going gray, and no wonder. He said a while back that it was hereditary, but weeks like this one must be accelerating the process. Even before Friday's dramatic shootout and manhunt in Watertown, it had been a remarkably stressful few days for the President.
On Thursday morning, barely twelve hours after standing in the White House Rose Garden and consoling some of the Newtown parents who had come to Washington in a futile effort to put pressure on Congress to introduce tougher gun laws, he departed for Boston, where he told an interfaith service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, "Every one of us stands with you." His speech was artful and heartfelt, as were his remarks in the Rose Garden. But in Washington, they don't give out many marks for artistic impression, and they don't suspend politics for memorial services. By Thursday evening, when Obama returned to the White House, Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, two of the most widely read journalists in the capital, had posted a lengthy article entitled "Behind the Curtain: Obama, boxed in," which read like an early obituary for his second term:
Obama, regardless of the personality and political approach he displays on any given day, keeps running into the same wall of insurmountable opposition. The cold, hard reality is that the president is trapped in a very frustrating box: He realizes that the vast majority of Congress is as impervious to his pressure as it is his charm. He is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't — and he knows it, several of his friends tell us.
The article cited Obama's inability to win the support of red-state Democrats like the four senators who voted against enhanced background checks for gun buyers, his likely failure to get anywhere with Republicans on the budget, and the opposition to his Social Security proposals from liberal Democrats. The White House's spinmeisters will doubtless dismiss the Politico article as overwrought, which it was.
Three months into a four-year term is too early to reach any definitive judgments. In a previous post, I argued that over the long term, the N.R.A.'s blatant power play could end up backfiring, as angry citizens assert their democratic rights. Nonetheless, VandeHei and Allen have a point. In the past couple of weeks, Obama's second-term honeymoon has come to an end. With the hostile reception to his budget proposal and his defeat on gun control, the underlying weakness of his position, which the White House had managed to mask for a while, has become clearer.
Of course, Obama's predicament isn't his own fault. Because of the outrageous filibuster, to get almost anything done in the Senate he has to win over four Republicans and keep all the Democrats in line. In the House, the Republicans have a majority of thirty-one votes. Given this arithmetic, anybody who expected great things from Obama's second term was being delusional. Absent a surprise Democratic sweep in the 2016 midterms, it was always going to be a four-year slog. That's the way Presidential second terms usually turn out, as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all discovered.
For a while there, though, the White House seemed to have gained the initiative. It used the fiscal cliff deadline to force Republicans in Congress to accept higher taxes and then called their bluff by allowing the sequester to go into effect. Whether this was the right thing to do for the economy remains to be seen, but it certainly put the G.O.P. on the defensive. With at least some Republicans eager to present a more moderate image to the public following their defeat in November, there appeared to be room for further deals on gun control and immigration. And by making an overture on entitlement reform, the White House made clear it still hadn't given up its hope of achieving a "grand bargain" on taxes and spending.
At least for now, depending on how the reaction to what's happening in Boston shakes out, immigration reform is still alive—partly because the Republican Party needs Latino votes, and partly because many of the business interests that bankroll and support it are pro-immigration. But, if Obama wants to get much more done, he's going to have to work the system more successfully than he did on gun control. Ultimately, all of his stumping and speechifying didn't work. Even with the Newtown families and archconservative Republican Pat Toomey on his side, he couldn't win over enough votes to pass a very modest bill. Inevitably, more questions will be raised about his inability, or unwillingness, to court and cajole members of Congress. Again, that's a bit unfair. Short of kidnapping their children, it's hard to see how the White House could have won the votes of Max Baucus, Mark Pryor, and Mark Begich, all Democratic senators in red states who are up for reëlection next year. As for Republicans, asking them to defy the N.R.A. is largely a lost cause.
The consoling news for Obama is that, to some extent, gun control is sui generis. For almost twenty years after the losses sustained in the 1994 midterms following Bill Clinton's push on assault weapons, the Democratic Party as a whole considered it such a toxic issue they wouldn't go anywhere near it. After the Newtown massacre, Obama decided to try and take a stand. Even after the loss, when the history books are written, that will be a big mark in his favor.
The other issues he has to deal with now are less polarizing. But the fact remains that the President's strategic position is weak, which leaves him with two options: look for crumbs or go big.
The first strategy would involve continuing to search for legislative deals with the Republicans on issues like the budget, and, where they aren't possible, using executive orders to advance a progressive agenda in modest ways. On the environment, for example, the executive branch can use its administrative authority to toughen up the rules for power plants, cars, and other polluters. The new standards for fuel economy that Obama introduced in his first term show that such changes can have a significant impact. But incrementalism would be the order of the day.
The second strategy would be more ambitious, and riskier. It would involve finally abandoning efforts at bipartisanship, declaring war on the Republican obstructionists, and going all out to overturn their majority in the House in November, 2014. As my colleague Ryan Lizza noted last month, when the latest round of budget negotiations broke down, "A fundamental fact of modern political life is that the only way to advance a coherent agenda in Washington is through partisan dominance." While incumbent parties usually do badly in midterm elections, the Republican majority is small enough, and the party's approval rating is low enough, that winning the seventeen seats the Democrats would need to take the House isn't wholly out of the question.
Which way will Obama go? As long as there is still a good chance of immigration reform passing Congress, he will surely continue to work with Republicans who are willing to coöperate. But if immigration reform goes down, too, what point is there of sticking with this strategy? The anger Obama exhibited following the Senate votes on gun control showed another side of his personality—a tougher, more combative side, a part of him willing to label his opponents scoundrels and liars. With the Super PAC that supports him, Priorities USA Action, already preparing to raise—and spend—more money, the President may be coming around to the view that going into battle is his best option.
Read more of our coverage of the recent events in the Boston area.
Photograph of Barack Obama exiting after speaking on Thursday at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, by Spencer Platt/Getty.
John Cassidy has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. He also writes a column about politics, economics, and more for newyorker.com.
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CHANGES TO NSW LEGISLATION … WITH sinister Planning Minister set up in a Planning Ministers Corporation as NSW Treasurer pushes "Build to Rent" for Sydney Millennials | COMMUNITY ACTION ALLIANCE FOR NSW (CAAN): HOUSING INEQUALITY WITH AUSSIES LOCKED OUT!
IT appears that with Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her minions, having sold off many of our State assets, they are looking for new things to sell.
Further, the Planning Sinister has set himself up in a Planning Ministers Corporation.
Perhaps took lessons from Wa$teCONNex when they set up SMC?
Treasurer Dominic Perrottet pushes 'build to rent' for Sydney millennials … see transcript below!
IT is the NSW LNP Government (2011 – to date) in concert with the Turnbull Government (following the Howard Government in 2004) during which period a whole Cohort of Australians have been locked out of home ownership.
shepherd Australians into rental accommodation?
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is pushing to overhaul state and local planning rules to kick start the "build to rent" apartment market to ease Sydney's housing affordability problem, in a move that could create a new investment asset class for superannuation funds.
On a trade mission to the United States last week Mr Perrottet scoped out the burgeoning build to rent sector that has delivered 18 million US residences underwritten by institutional investors.
Greystar, America's largest operator and with 435,000 units globally, has set up in Australia and aims to begin the country's first build-to-rent project later this year in Sydney or Melbourne.
In Washington DC, Mr Perrottet toured the firm's 307-unit "Anthology" apartment block, replete with communal bar, BBQ area, gym, swimming pool, family room and dry cleaning service.
"This is the type of environment that is entirely unique and Millennials want to live in developments like this," the 35-year old Treasurer told The Australian Financial Review in Washington.
The housing affordability debate, he said, was too narrowly focused on home ownership and that 20-somethings were prepared to rent in attractive areas before buying later in life than their parents did.
The build to rent system works by developers building residential complexes specifically for renters, with projects funded by long term institutional capital.
The model is mature internationally and Greystar has $US23 billion of rental assets across the US, United Kingdom, China, Germany, Spain, Mexico and Chile.
The typical tenant age in the US is 22-35, plus some baby boomers and retirees downsizing from family homes.
In a blow, Mr Perrottet's push for federal government tax breaks for developers in the build to rent sector was swiftly slapped down by Treasurer Scott Morrison.
Greystar chief executive Bob Faith wants more flexible rules on the size of units and bedrooms, the number of units on a floor and the scale of complexes.
"It's about adding to the supply and building affordable housing for 20 years from now," Mr Faith said.
Australia's Lendlease, which is building a 160 unit building in New York that the NSW Treasurer toured, is pressing for tax issues to be fixed at home.
"Based on our international experience in the US and UK, Lendlease is very supportive of build to rent and would like to see it overcome various hurdles to become established in Australia," said Lendlease executive Kylie Rampa.
NSW has set up an industry working group and Mr Perrottet has lobbied Mr Morrison to extend existing managed investment trust tax breaks for social and affordable housing to the build-to-rent industry.
Mr Perrottet flagged that NSW would seek to reform state and local planning and zoning rules to enable a more flexible system to get projects off the ground around Sydney.
"Governments get it wrong when we become so prescriptive on the planning side," he said.
The projects are financed by long-term institutional capital and Australian superannuation funds are seen as a natural investor base due to their desire for steady long-term income streams. One Australian fund already invests in Greystar's US projects.
Rental yields, taking into account all costs, are typically about 4.5-5 per cent in the US.
In Australia yields are lower at about 2.5 per cent, due to landlords betting on strong price appreciation and negative gearing.
Wes Fuller, the executive helping Greystar's expansion into Australia, said the rules needed to recognise that the economics of a for-rent project were different to developers building properties to sell to owner-occupiers or investors.
In return the company typically offers discounted rents to a set proportion of units, roughly about 10-15 per cent, so the community in the building is diverse from school teachers to bankers.
Prospective renters can sign a lease midway through construction, as early as six months from scheduled completion. They do not pay a deposit or contribute directly to the building cost, other than a usual rental bond and monthly rental payments.
Leases typically run for 12 months.
Mr Faith said the recent state stamp duty surcharge's on foreign buyers and other tax issues had "inadvertently" deterred offshore investors in long-term build-to-rent projects.
He hopes to announce a project in Sydney or Melbourne this year, begin construction in 2019 and have renters move in around 2020.
COMPULSORY ACQUISITION & LAND AMALGAMATION, HOUSING Affordability: Australians Locked Out!


This semester I'm tutoring a high school student in English language arts and geometry while she's on temporary sick leave. After finishing up with geometry today, which we do using an online curriculum, I took out and leafed through the English text I'd been given by the high school. Saw the unit goals, literary terms to know, ways in which the student was expected to closely read the short stories conveniently printed therein and analyze for tone, characterization, dramatic elements, allusion, point of view, and so on. Bad memories. I confessed to her my view that the least important part of growing in literacy is the formal, analytical, gradable stuff that was therein. Told her that if for some reason her school shut down for a year, she would still grow as a writer by reading, reading, reading good literature, and writing what she wanted to write, just keeping on, practicing what she felt were the best styles and gleaning vocabulary and knowledge along the way. Told her though I loved to read and write myself, that was due to my upbringing, not my formal education, because for the most part I'd hated English class, except for the parts where we memorized Shakespeare or I was told I had written something unique and would I share it. So as a teacher, I wanted to make sure I didn't create or reinforce a distaste for reading good literature, or even studying it, by over analysis.
I told her about the time I'd been about her age and was hanging out with my dad at Uncle Calvin's fishing camp, and that big, burly backwoods river guide's eyes became moist as he and my father recited the poetry they'd memorized in their youth. I told her how I wanted to pass that on, and how my kids would have that look of quiet delight when they recited a Kipling or Frost poem.
And so, I assigned her some small formal analysis activities, and gave her a book of poems so she could choose one to memorize. I promised to bring some books from my library for her to try (and ask her school teacher if there was a course reading list), and encouraged her to get some audiobooks to do her crafts by. I said some things, we'll analyze, and you'll work at learning the terminology for intelligent conversation about literature. But other times, I'll just ask you what you thought of a book, and you can practice talk from your heart about books, making personal connections. I told her I wasn't sure why the teacher had said the class was skipping the short story writing assignment, but that we might do some such writing anyway.
The assignment she was working on when I met with her first was an argumentative essay about the value of a college education. She was to read three articles provided by her textbook, which had been published, I pointed out, by the College Board, which makes bucks every time it sells a test, grades a test, and submits a student's test results to a college. Important to get a feel for likely biases in the material, I said. I asked her to interview a few people informally who might have different views on the question, and develop some nuances to her argument, rather than oversimplifying the issue. It was a tall order, as she's not an avid reader or writer, and hasn't thought about these things much at her age. But I think she's up to it.
I used to read aloud to my kids often, and they all have cherished memories of the books we have shared. But as they became more independent readers and I busier, read aloud times gradually fell by the wayside. Yet reading to my kids is one of my favorite activities, for the atmosphere it creates as the kids listen, work with their hands (on drawing, crafts, or quiet toys), and experience great literature and interesting nonfiction.The curriculum plan I use features a fairly large dose of read alouds, but I was slacking off and assigning these as individual reading, along with the other literature they were expected to read. But often, despite the high quality of the reading selections, my kids slide back into easy stuff and don't get hooked by the more challenging material on the read-aloud list. So I've worked a read aloud time back into our day, and I am so glad.
Having my son and daughter settle down with some quiet hand work is crucial. Lately I've been having them draw portraits of historical figures from prints, color and label maps, and work on simple embroidery. Lego is okay too if they put it on a blanket and don't paw through the parts too much. Meanwhile I read about American history (A History of US series by Joy Hakim) and The Landmark History of the American People by Daniel Boorstin, along with other shorter books that focus on important events and people). I am learning as much as my children, because I grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, never having studied US history, and homeschooled my first two without bothering to cover it (we focused on ancient times). Thus I have no trouble conveying my real interest. Now and then I have them narrate back key parts, repeat and define important terms, and find places on the wall map. I don't let them write, look at other books, talk or even whisper with each other, but they can get up and move about quietly to get a drink or something if they remain in earshot. Usually after a daily read aloud portion, they'll ask me to keep going. When my voice is just about gone, we all take an active recess before getting back to other work. We are all used to the routine now, and it really suits us all in these cooler, darker months. Sometimes we pick it up willingly on weekends, which I can't say of math or grammar.
I also remember times when my kids balked at having to sit down and listen. It usually was during play-outdoors weather, before we'd established hand work as a means of helping them calm down and focus, and when I had neglected to give any warnings ("Reading in ten minutes–everyone finish what you're doing and bring something to do.") or choices ("Do you want to hear a long adventure poem, or a bunch of short ones about nature?"). I might just say something like, "Bring your drawing stuff in the living room and I'll just read the first chapter, and you decide whether you want to hear more." I read in my most captivating manner, and rarely fail to hook them. Even on books they tried, and say they "hate." If we don't like a book, we talk about why, or learn to put up with weak aspects to benefit from the strengths of the piece. I sometimes have them draw scenes from stories.
We especially enjoy poetry read-alouds. My children were brought up on Sandra Boynton and the like, bouncing along to the rhythm on my knee. Later I had them choose poems to memorize, including Frost, Rosetti, and Kipling. We've enjoyed just about everything from Favorite Poems Old and New, the Poetry for Young People series, poems recited by Tolkien characters, and ballads such as "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Occasionally I'll emerge from the bathroom with my old copy of Immortal Poems of the English Language and read what I've found to whomever will listen.
I must confess, I never liked "Language Arts" or English classes. I loved reading, but hated graded school readers with comprehension questions at the end, writing book reports, and reading from the approved list of Canadian literature. The only valuable English class assignment I remember was to memorize and recite passages from Shakespeare (some of which my youngest also picked up from Calvin and Hobbes a few years ago!). Everything I learned about reading, writing, poetry and related topics, I learned from my book-loving parents. They read every chance they could, and brought home piles of bought and library books for us. They are both writers, too. As for poetry, I'll never forget the time my father and his brother got to reciting poems they'd memorized in school (in a small Newfoundland town in the 1950s). My uncle, a tall, imposing man who ran a hunting and fishing camp and guiding service, actually had tears in his eyes. I'd never seen anything like it.
So read the best stuff you can find, don't over-analyze, let your listeners receive and respond in their own way to what they hear. Entice them with treats, give them choices, help them focus, and off you go.


Think of organisations you've worked for. Which one is your favourite?
What do you remember about it? Your colleagues, the building, the work?
What about your favourite leader? Do you remember how they dressed, what they said or do you remember how you felt when they spoke to you?
Or was it simply the bragging rights from being part of a high performance team, doing things that mattered…how good did it feel to say you worked for 'X' the very first time?
We join organisations for community. We give our best and we stay because of how we feel.
As a leader in your organisation, it is your job to make sure that the emotional experience people have when they engage with your organisational culture is intentional and memorable.
Research by Daniel Siegel, Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute offers insights on how to do this. We derive our sense of identity not just from who we are, but what we are part of. Our brains produce a 'we' map which shows our part in the bigger whole. Leaders who get this connect individuals to a bigger purpose, honour individual differences and proactively build connections between individuals, teams and across the organisation.
This style of leadership fits with our basic human nature to be part of a 'we', rather than a solitary 'I'. It creates an organisational culture where people thrive and engage. Not because they have to but because the organisation has become part of who they are.
Ask yourself how you want your people to feel when they come to work and then ask your people the same question. See if the answers align. If they do you are doing a wonderful job creating your desired organisational culture. If not then you've got work to do because people don't always remember what you achieved, but they always remember how you made them feel.


December 14th is the 348th day of the year, with only 17 days remaining. This notation is written at the top of the page in my diary devoted to December 14th; a similar notation is written on the pages devoted to all of the other days. I have been writing in a diary this year because last year my grandmother died. Until she did, she wrote in a diary every day, every year, for 43 years, which is something like 16,000 pages. Very little about these pages is reflective; mostly they are a record of her activities—loads of laundry washed and folded, shifts at the grocery store worked, meals cooked, visitors to the house, letters in the mail. What happened, but not much of what she thought about what happened. The last day in the diary that she wrote about was not the last day that she lived, and so when she wrote it, she did not know that that page would be the ending of the record she'd been writing for four decades. It was simply the most recent day on which she'd written, and then later, it was the last. The ending of my diary this year will be a record of what activities I do on the year's last day. It will be the last page of the book, but I'm coming to understand that that's different than it being the book's ending.
Grandmothers end just like years end. Countries and movements and religions and languages end, and so do football games, wars, flowers and storms. Even our solar system ends, and a probe we launched in 1977 reached its outer boundary only this year. It is recording its journey on 8-track tape machines, and before it exited our solar system, scientists instructed the probe to erase all of its previously recorded data so that it would not reach the end of its capacity to record. But around the year 2025, the probe's plutonium batteries will end, and while it will continue blazing across interstellar space filling up its 8-track tapes with new findings, when the batteries stop functioning, the probe's ability to transmit those recordings back to Earth will end. Besides diaries, books have endings, like weddings, recipes and theories. The Bible has an ending. The last word of it is "Amen," the same word I was taught to say as the ending of a prayer when I was being taught to pray, which suggests that even extremely long and exquisitely detailed prayers have endings. We already have a few names for the world's ending though it hasn't happened. Even the movie "The Neverending Story" has an ending. The only thing I can think of that has neither end nor ending is time.
Essays have endings, but I wish they didn't, or I wish they didn't have to have them. Because if an essay is an attempt to understand an experience or idea, if it is a recording of the activity of a mind as it thinks over an experience or idea, can that actually end? Could it ever really be finished? It seems antithetical to impose a fixed point on thinking that could go on given more time or new information, and more than that, it also seems untrue—a big problem for a form defined by its truth. Life goes on after writing an essay, and so does thinking, even about the subjects we've written into essays. So how to square an essay needing to end with thinking that couldn't possibly? The only way an essay really could have a fixed point as its ending is, if as soon as the essay was finished, the essayist went brain dead.
When I write essays I have trouble with the endings. More than once (three times) an editor of mine has suggested (one demanded) that I remove the entire penultimate paragraph from an essay. This was suggested each time because these entire penultimate paragraphs were superfluous—they stated what I'd already implied or demonstrated elsewhere. I agreed with these suggestions because as soon as they were pointed out to me, I saw how nervous the paragraphs were. I was trying so hard to create that fixed point of my thinking that I started thinking for the reader too, and these paragraphs were me making sure that everyone was OK right before I, the essayist, slipped out the door.
There is an episode of "The Simpsons" where Bart is being stalked by a dog. The dog is huge, powerful and snarling. He sits at one end of a seesaw and stares at Bart while Bart sits in his classroom, terrified. The dog rings the doorbell, is always behind a blind corner. One day on his way to school, Bart is carrying his textbook, The Second-Best American Short Stories, when the dog tries again to attack. For momentary protection, Bart flings the book into the dog's mouth, the dog's teeth shred it and the last page of a story flies into frame, in close-up. We can read its ending: "All in all, it had been a weird, weird lottery." (Presumably a reference to the last sentence of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, which is actually, "And then they were upon her.") The sentence is a joke because it's so nervous about straightening up before the storyteller closes the door. It's telling the reader to think that the lottery was weird right after the reader has already experienced a really weird lottery. When I think about the endings of essays, I think about the joke sentence on that ripped-out page.
The name of this episode is "The Lastest Gun in the West." (A very old cowboy shows up.) The lastest. That's what I appreciate when an essay ends well—that difference between an essay that has a lastest sentence and an essay that has an ending. It's that orchestration I'm becoming skeptical of—the feeling of inevitability forced, of tidiness, of an insight arrived at just in time. At some point, I started to think of that joke sentence as concluding some imaginary essay, and I changed it to the more widely applicable "All in all, it was a really weird summer." In my teaching and in my writing, "All in all, it was a really weird summer" is the term for the nervous ending – the ending that's a little too ending.
If this is an essay—an essay about attempting to understand the endings of essays—this must be the paragraph that's getting nervous because I haven't finished thinking about endings yet, but the essay itself needs to end. So I could pick up an idea again and ask a startling question about it. I could finally reveal the insight for which I've been quietly laying groundwork the whole time. I could return to an image I referred to earlier in a seemingly offhand way, and show it again, but this time it will encapsulate my primary concern. That probe, for example, hurtling out of our solar system, still recording what it comes upon even though we won't be able to read what it finds for very much longer. I could write something about how the best kind of ending for an essay is one that suggests a mind still thinking even after our moment to see inside that thinking has ceased.
Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now. His work has also been published in journals and anthologies, including Best American Essays. He lives in California and teaches creative writing at The University of San Francisco.
And this one has a perfect ending.


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Keys to the Game Bulls vs Nets (01.06.19)
For the second time this season the Chicago Bulls host the Brooklyn Nets at the United Center, but on this occasion it's a Sunday afternoon matinee.
In the first contest Brooklyn held off a hard-charging Chicago squad to win 96-93 to extend a then-season high seven-game winning streak. Spencer Dinwiddie stormed off the bench to score a game-high 27 points to lead the way. Chicago's Kris Dunn led the Bulls with 24 points while Bobby Portis added 16 points and 11 rebounds before having to leave early with a badly sprained ankle that has kept him out of action ever since. However, there could be some good news on the Portis front as the team announced Friday that there's a good chance he could return today after missing the Bulls' last seven games.
This afternoon's contest is the middle match of a three-game road trek for Brooklyn as they'll immediately fly to Boston afterwards to battle the Celtics tomorrow. As for Chicago, today ends a three-game homestand as they tip-off a two-week West Coast road swing in Portland on Wednesday. The Bulls won't return to the UC until January 19th to face the Miami Heat in what will likely be Dwyane Wade's final Windy City appearance as an NBA player.
Prior to their Friday game against Memphis, the Nets had won 10 of 13. The team's turnaround is primarily due to fifth year point guard D'Angelo Russell's breakout season, as the former Ohio State All-American comes in averaging 18 points and 6.3 assists in 29.4 minutes, while backcourt mate Joe Harris posts 13.6 points while shooting a blistering 48.9% from behind the 3-point arc.
Brooklyn's second-year, 20-year old starting center, Jarrett Allen, has also been an impact player. The 6'11 former Texas Longhorn ranks 11th in the league in shooting (.579) and 20th in blocks (1.4). So far he's posted a team-high 13 double-doubles, which is also second-most in the league for a player 20-and-under. Overall Allen's contributing a solid 11.6 points and 8.2 rebounds in 27 minutes a night.
Another key player is sixth man Spencer Dinwiddie, who had a brief stay in Chicago with the G League Windy City Bulls in 2016. The 6'6" combo guard averages 17.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 28.8 minutes.
Dinwiddie is the embodiment of grit. In college he suffered a torn ACL and later began his NBA career as an end-of-the-bench, practice scrub with Detroit before the Bulls acquired him via trade prior to the start of the 2016-17 season. At the end of training camp in late October Chicago opted to officially release Dinwiddie, but quickly re-signed him to play for their G League team, where he immediately caught fire and opened eyes all throughout the league. It didn't take long before the Nets decided to take a chance and inked him to an NBA contract.
For the Bulls to give themselves a shot of coming out on top this afternoon they're going to need to keep all five players on the floor involved in the action at both ends of the court.
Offensively they cannot allow their gameplan to become a succession of ball-stopping, one-on-one battles. The ball needs to freely skip from player-to-player and from side-to-side to force the Nets' defense to expend energy and open driving lanes and free looks at the rim. Whenever those opportunities present themselves the Bulls need to then aggressively attack the rim and make their way to the free throw line.
Chicago also has to be smart with the ball by limiting turnovers. The Bulls have to avoid risky passes that can be picked-off and fire up the Nets' already potent offense by allowing them speed up the pace of the game.
Another important defensive factor will be limiting Brooklyn's opportunities at the 3-point arc.
Coming into the weekend the Nets rank 7th in 3-point attempts (33.8 per game), and 4th in makes (12.3). The first option they usually look to employ offensively is to fire away from behind the arc. The Bulls simply cannot allow them to do so without consistently putting a hand in the face of every Brooklyn sniper. In fact, Chicago must put forth a concerted effort to run them off the arc at every opportunity. Russell (6.7 3FGA / 35.2%), Dinwiddie (5.5 3FGA / 37.7%) and Harris (5.1 3FGA / 48.9%) are their primary deep threats. If the Bulls are slow to react and defend the bend, it will likely turn out to be a bad day for the home team.
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Faith, Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century
Faith, religion, and spirituality are all important aspects of human life and continue to play a significant role in the 21st century. However, the ways in which these concepts are understood and practiced have changed in many ways over time. Here is a look at the current state of faith, religion, and spirituality in the 21st century:
Increased diversity: The 21st century has seen an increase in religious and spiritual diversity around the world. Many people now identify with multiple religions or spiritual traditions, and there is a growing interest in non-traditional spiritual practices such as mindfulness and yoga.
Digital age: The rise of the internet and social media has had a significant impact on religion and spirituality in the 21st century. Many religious and spiritual communities now have a strong online presence, and people can access information about different religions and spiritual practices from anywhere in the world.
Secularization: Some experts argue that the 21st century is witnessing a process of secularization, with fewer people identifying with traditional religious institutions and more people identifying as spiritual but not religious.
Interfaith dialogue: The 21st century has also seen a growing emphasis on interfaith dialogue, with many religious and spiritual leaders working to build bridges between different faiths and traditions.
The role of science: The 21st century has seen a growing interest in the intersection of science and religion. Some scientists and theologians argue that science and religion can be complementary, while others argue that science has the power to explain away religious beliefs and practices.
The role of social justice: Many religious and spiritual groups in the 21st century have focused on social justice issues, such as poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, as an important aspect of their faith or spiritual practice.
In conclusion, faith, religion, and spirituality continue to be important aspects of human life in the 21st century. However, they are understood and practiced in a variety of ways, with increased diversity and the rise of technology and science playing a significant role. Interfaith dialogue, social justice and the role of science are also important aspects in the 21st century.


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Hadith No: 48
Narrated/Authority of Abu Umamah
From: Sunan Ibn Majah. Chapter 1, The Book of the Sunnah
"The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: 'No people go astray after having following right guidance, but those who indulge in disputes.' Then he recited this Verse: "Nay! But they are a quarrelsome people.'"(43:58) (Hasan)
Hadith No: 2041
Narrated/Authority of Aishah
From: Sunan Ibn Majah. Chapter 12, The Chapters on Divorce
the Messenger of Allah said. "The Pen has been lifted from three: from the sleeping person until he awakens, from the minor until he grows up, and from the insane person until he comes to his senses."In his narration, (one of the narrators Abu Bakr (Ibn Abu Shaibah) said: "And from the afflicted person, until he recovers" (1)
Hadith No: 104
Narrated/Authority of Ubai bin Kab
"The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "The first person with whom Allah will shake hands will be Umar, (and he is) the first person to be greeted with the Salam, and the first person who will be taken by the hand and admitted into Paradise.'" (Daif)
Narrated/Authority of Umm Salamah bint Abi Umayyah
From: Sunan Ibn Majah. Chapter 8, Chapters Regarding Funerals
the wife of The Prophet (saw): "At the time of the Messenger of Allah (saw), if a person stood to pray, his gaze would not go beyond his feet. When the Messenger of Allah (saw) died, if a person stood to pray, his gaze would not go beydon the place where he put his forehead when prostrating. Then Abu Bakr died and it was Umar (the caliph). So, when any person stood to pray his gaze would not go beyond the Qiblah. Then came the time of 'Uthman bin 'Affan, and there was Fitnah (tribulation, turmoil), and the people started to look right and left." Daif
Narrated/Authority of Abu Hurairah
From: Sunan Ibn Majah. Chapter 9, The Book of Fasting
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "Every good deed of the son of Adam will be multiplied manifold. A good deed will be multiplied ten times up to as many as seven hundred times, or as much as Allah wills. Allah says: 'Except for fasting, which is for Me and I shall reward for it. He gives up his desire and his food for My sake.' The fasting person has two joys, one when he breaks his fast and another when he meets his Lord. The smell that comes from the mouth of a fasting person is better before Allah than the fragrance of musk." Sahih
Narrated/Authority of Abu Qatadah
"Umar bin Khattab said: 'O Messenger of Allah! What about a person who fasts two days and does not fast one day?' He said: 'Is anyone able to do that?' He said: 'O Messenger of Allah! What about a person who fasts one day and not the next?' He said: 'That is the fast of Dawud.' He said: 'What about a man who fasts one day and does not fast the next two days?' He said: 'I wish that I were given the ability to do that.'" Sahih
Narrated/Authority of Musab bin Saad
From: Sunan Ibn Majah. Chapter 39, The Chapters on Tribulations
that his father, Saad bin Abu Waqqas, said: that his father, Saad bin Abu Waqqas, said:"I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, which people are most severely tested?' He said: 'The Prophets, then the next best and the next best. A person is tested according to his religious commitment. If he is steadfast in his religious commitment, he will be tested more severely, and if he is frail in his religious commitment, his test will be according to his commitment. Trials will continue to afflict a person until they leave him walking on the earth with no sin on him.'"
Narrated/Authority of Ubaidullah bin Abdullah
"I asked Aishah: 'O mother! Tell me about the sickness of the Messenger of Allah (saw).' She said: 'He felt pain and started to spit (over his body), and we began to compare his spittle to the spittle of a person eating raisins. Like a person eating raisins and spitting out the seeds. He used to go around among his wives, but when he became ill, he asked them permission to stay in the house of Aishah and that they should come to him in turns.' She said: 'The Messenger of Allah (saw) entered upon me, (supported) between two men, with his feet making lines along the ground. One of them was 'Abbas.' I told Ibn 'Abbas this Hadith and he said: 'Do you know who the other man was whom Aishah did not name? He was Ali bin Abu Talib.'" Sahih
Narrated/Authority of Anas bin Malik
"The Prophet (saw) did not visit any sick person until after three days." Daif
Narrated/Authority of Usamah bin Sharik
From: Sunan Ibn Majah. Chapter 24, The Chapters on Blood Money
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "No person will be punished because of another's crime." Sahih
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Rabah and Ubaydullah ibn Abi Abdullah Salman al-Agharr from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "A pray ..
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لا إلهَ إلاّ اللّه, وحدَهُ لا شريكَ لهُ، لهُ الملكُ ولهُ الحَمد، وهوَ على كلّ شيءٍ قدير، لا حَـوْلَ وَلا قـوَّةَ إِلاّ بِاللهِ، لا إلهَ إلاّ اللّـه، وَلا نَعْـبُـدُ إِلاّ إيّـاه, لَهُ النِّعْـمَةُ وَلَهُ الفَضْل وَلَهُ الثَّـناءُ الحَـسَن، لا إلهَ إلاّ اللّهُ مخْلِصـينَ لَـهُ الدِّينَ وَلَوْ كَـرِهَ الكـافِرون
None has the right to be worshipped except Allah, alone, without partner, to Him belongs all sovereignty and praise and He is over all things omnipotent. There is no might nor power except with Allah, none has the right to be worshipped except Allah and we worship none except Him. For Him is all favour, grace, and glorious praise. None has the right to be worshipped except Allah and we are sincere in faith and devotion to Him although the disbelievers detest it.
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A full service lease most commonly means a lease in which the rent includes all building services/utilities, save the telephone lines(you will have to pay your provider to give you a number, hook up, and service.) You should be mindful of how the rent is calculated and ask for estimates/actual costs on all services of the landlord. You should also contrast this to a triple net lease, or NNN, in which all operating expenses of the landlord are passed through to the the tenant either as additional rent or built into the base.
Full service leases are typical of executive suites or other office leases. The times when I have seen a full service lease was when I was an office broker and the landlord would charge a set fee which covered; rent, utilities, water, gas. Some times I saw landlords include internet, phone, drinking water, use of confrence room. Make sure you clarify before you sign as "full service" will vary in everyones perspective because some landlords are more generous than others.
In retail I only do NNN leases which are described by the other broker. Sometimes we do Modified Gross leases which are the Base Rent plus a Common Area Maintenance fee which is normally a set fee per square foot unless the lease term is long and then the fee may either increase annually at a predetermined amount or based on an index.


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Tapia (Spanish: Tapia de Casariego) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, on the east by El Franco, on the south and west by Castropol.  Tapia is also the name of one of the parishes inside the municipality.  Its capital is Tapia.  The capital is 127 km from Oviedo, 122 km from Gijón, and 97 km from Lugo.

Geography
The council is divided into parishes, formed in turn by places or neighborhoods (small groups of widely scattered houses) throughout the territory. This is due to land ownership typical in the Autonomous Community: smallholder highly fragmented into small parcels.
The terrain is gentle enough altitudes into the interior of the municipality are the most noteworthy pointing the Grandela (348 m) and the hill of Posadoiro (600 m).
The Council has diverse beaches among which are found, the Penarronda (shared with the council in Castropol), Santa Gadea, Serantes, Los Campos, Porcía (Shared with the council of El Franco).

History

The council was established in 1863 when several parishes of the councils of Castropol (3) and El Franco (1) separated. The main driving force behind the creation of the new council was Fernando Fernández de Casariego, Marquis de Casariego. In recognition and appreciation, the Tapia council completed its name as 'Tapia de Casariego'.

In the 10th century the king Ramiro II, donate to the Bishop of Oviedo the territory between the Eo river and Navia and that is including the current council Tapia de Casariego. This grant is ratified by King Alfonso VII in the 12th century, which confirms that the territory Oviedo is the Obispalia in strong conflict with that of Lugo Salave retaining possessions and Villamil.

Economy

Currently, the primary sector remains the greatest number of jobs generated, with just over 41% of the total. While agriculture, livestock and fisheries are in a slow decline in the tertiary sector.

The secondary sector is the least influence on the town, representing 18% of local jobs. The construction industry is one that generates more jobs, with some also representing the food industry and processing of metals.

The tertiary sector represents about 41% of the local economy, due to tourism in the area.

Population
From: INE Archiv

Parishes
Mantaras
Campos y Salave
La Roda
Serantes

References

Official website of the Council of Tapia de Casariego
Asturian Federation of Councils
Asturian Federation of Councils

External links

Official website of the council of Tapia de Casariego
Asturian Federation of Councils
Guide to the West. Tapia de Casariego

Municipalities in Asturias

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Some hue of pink is always to be found in Pantone's seasonal palettes - it is a trademark of not one or two tasteful weddings, and for a good reason! It is the colour of blushing cheeks - the very epitomy of the bridal syndrome!
As oranges can be tricky to handle on a big scale such as the one required for wedding, some hues, like the peachy Peach Echo, can grant friendliness, warmth and accessibility to the overall colour scheme.
Soft and icy blues still continue to be a trend in 2015 and 2016 - a weightless, airy hue that adds a peaceful, calm touch to the wedding palette. It is a soft pastel with an inherent strength of its. It can be tricky to combine with a stronger colour but give it air to breathe and add just a bit of cocoa or coral red, and you'll bring the entire landscape to life!
This one is from the family of navy, yet very light and happy! It looks absolutely gorgeous in striped, dotted or tartanesque designs - a great way to combine white and blue for a wedding and make it surprisingly not-boring.
A fresh crisp hue, Limpet Shell is both energising and tranquil, a perfect combination for a spring wedding that wants to embrace the clarity and newness of each and every shoot!


2018 has brought this country tax reform with the recent passage Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Called to be one of the most sweeping tax policy changes in the US in more than 30 years, the Act will have a major impact on the construction industry, presenting expanded opportunities to defer taxable income, free-up cash flow, and even pay tax at lower rates. But with all good things come a few things to be aware of. Some of the historical go-to deductions for the industry have been nixed! Below are just a few of the changes and their impact. We highly recommend you seek the advice of an accountant or financial planner to review all of the changes and how they may directly impact your business.
As has been the general rule, the taxable income from long-term contracts was generally computed using the percentage-of-completion method of accounting. Construction companies with average annual gross receipts of less than $10 million were exempt from this rule for projects expected to be completed within a two-year timeframe. Now, with an increase in the exemption level to $25 million, even more companies will get to take advantage of a more tax-friendly accounting method. This is a positive since the prior cap was established in 1986 and had never adjusted for inflation.
With most construction firms operating in some form of a pass-through structure, many will qualify for the new pass-through entity deduction. A taxpayer whose taxable income does not exceed certain thresholds may claim a deduction equal to 20 percent of QBI (comprised of certain items of income, gain, deduction or loss) generated by the qualifying business. However, once those taxable income thresholds are exceeded, then the calculation becomes much more complex, as it may be adjusted by wages paid, property owned or losses incurred.
Boosting the benefits of the accounting changes to long-term contracts, is the repeal of the corporate AMT. Long-term contracts are required to be reported using the percentage-of-completion for AMT. With the repeal, there should come an elimination of the significant swings in tax liability resulting from the use of the completed-contract method for regular tax and the percentage-completion method for AMT purposes.
C-corporation income will now be taxed at a flat rate of 21%. Since the legislation was enacted before year-end, corporations with a December year-end calendar will need to adjust their deferred tax assets and liabilities shown on their 2017 financial statements.


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The Reds - who beat the same opponents 5-0 on aggregate in the round-of-16 last season - looked like they could be on course for a similar rout when Naby Keita gave them the lead after only five minutes. It's nothing to criticise but it was obvious, and 2-0 is still a good result.
It's worth acknowledging that Heung-min Son, who has arguably been Tottenham's best player this season, scored the victor after Kane left the pitch, but it's also worth acknowledging Kane was replaced by Lucas Moura.
MF Jordan Henderson, 8 - Terrific ball to release Alexander-Arnold in the buildup to the second goal and also set up Firmino for a good opportunity that he couldn't take.
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"I think Liverpool at Anfield are so strong, so in control, I can't see any team in Europe coming here and dominating that". Keita took a touch and fired past Iker Casillas, his strike aided by a deflection from Oliver Torres' sliding challenge.
And, while Klopp would argue that the creativity instead comes from the full-backs - evidenced by another assist for young Alexander-Arnold here - Liverpool's lack of goals from midfield is nevertheless a weakness.
Sadio Mane had an effort ruled out for offside three minutes after the interval, but apart from another Marega effort in the 69th minute there were few clear-cut chances in the second half.
"Porto aren't a bad side, we know that, they're in the quarter final but you'd expect Liverpool to come through that".
"We have good memories of beating them by a large margin [but] that was past year". It's a lovely, lovely team goal. It was pretty much clear, and we scored two wonderful goals.
Porto: Tough task. A draw, especially one with goals, will feel like a win. In stoppage time, with Liverpool looking worn out after their efforts throughout the game, it was Keita still charging forward, bursting past a couple of opponents into the box.
"Hendo is a brilliant player". Rather, it is a role to which he was not particularly suited but one that he was prepared to fill because Jurgen Klopp needed him to.
"He likes the position obviously", smiled Klopp. It wasn't as conclusive as previous year, but it will be hard for Porto to overturn a 2-0 deficit in the second leg, you feel.
FC Porto won their previous match as they Boavista at home.
The Belgian has netted league goals at a steady rate since joining Chelsea from Lille in 2012, hitting double figures in five of his seven seasons at Stamford Bridge.
The poll body's advisory comes days before the first phase of Lok Sabha elections is to be held on April 11. Those to be dismantled include groups involved in Kashmir .
The tennis player did not confirm that the pregnant friend is in fact Meghan Markle , 37, but her comments led to fans speculating.


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The Games Art Historians Play: Online Game-Based Learning in Art History and Museum Contexts.
Below I've gathered the suggestions from the recent discussion on the CAAH listserv as well as other interesting examples the application of game-based learning, and gamification broadly defined, to art history.
CASE STUDIES FROM ART HISTORY COURSES
Elizabeth Goins, Rochester Institute of Technology, overviews her recent projects on her academia.edu site. She has other, more recent projects going on too such as a game based on Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (discussed in her blog), and developing assignments in which the students create games.
Anne McClanan (this site's owner), Portland State University, developed game-based structure for the research projects in her upper level medieval art history classes, Medieval Marketplace.
Keri Watson, University of Central Florida, is working on both a RPG (role-playing game) and an ARG (alternative reality game)
The RPG is a Reacting to the Past game set in Paris in 1888 and 1889. The RTTP pedagogy was developed by Mark C. Carnes and the particular game she used was created by Gretchen McKay. RTTPs were created for use in first year seminars at small liberal arts colleges. She employed the game three times while teaching at Ithaca College and wrote about her experience for the Art History Teaching Resources website.
The ARG is called "Secret Societies of the Avant-garde," and was created with Anastasia Salter, a colleague in digital media. This game is still in development, but their first prototype was deployed this past spring in an upper-level 20th-c. art course. This research will be published in the conference proceedings of the recent Games+Learning+Society conference.
Hubertus Kohle, University of Munich, Artigo. Artigo is based on the "games with a purpose" model, being a crowd-sourced image annotation game.
CASE STUDIES FROM ART MUSEUMS
Susan Edwards, Hammer Museum, Serious Games 2013 Conference presentation, What Museums Learn By Building Games
Wiki for an ongoing conversation about games in art museums, Lift your (museum) game
Susan Edwards, while at the Getty, did a Game Jam in which students in USC's game program were challenged to create games that encouraged close looking at the art (i.e. visual analysis). There were some great ideas and approaches generated that she describes in this blog post, which describes all the games that came out of that project.
Portland Art Museum Mythos Challenge
Key features of this project organized by the Portland Art Museum was that high school students created video games and digital storytelling projects connected with the visiting exhibition, Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Gamification in Museums, upcoming exhibition
Ghosts of a Chance
This was a ground-breaking ARG run through the Smithsonian Art Museum in 2008-2010 and engaged over 3,000 people,with materials archived on the site.
INSPIRATION FROM OTHER AREAS OF GAME-BASED LEARNING/ PEDAGOGY
The Serious Games Association Directory, includes, games and related materials both for commercial and academic audiences
Tracy Fullerton, UCLA, is working on a large, NEH-funded project based on Thoreau's Walden, described in this LA Times article. Here's the Walden trailer.
James Paul Gee's classic book, What Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Jane McGonigal, well-known figure in Serious Games movement, check out her TED talks and book, Reality is Broken.
Classcraft
Fantasy Collecting, an open-source, browser-based game from the Duke University Art, Law, & Markets Initiative
VIDEO AND OTHER COMMERCIAL GAMES WITHIN A COURSE
Assassin's Creed: David Boffa, Beloit College, Using "Assassin's Creed" video game series to give students an idea of a built space (e.g., Hagia Sophia)
Crusader Rex: Anne Harris, DePauw University, offers a reflection on her use of this game on pages 14-16 of the Fall 2014 ICMA Newsletter, including some of the prior scholarship on game-based pedagogy.
Exploring Artists' Use of Games
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Man Ray & Sherrie Levine: A Dialogue Through Objects, Images & Ideas


I'm embedded, at the end of this post, some responses I received on Twitter.
Here's a photo I snapped recently of the top of a metal post built next to a fire hydrant here in New York City.
The post is one of several I've seen that are positioned as barriers to protect fire hydrants from cars, much like the two posts in this photo.
Why does this post say Thailand on it?
I've done some searching online, and can't find any references to a company called "SA" (or with any name that would be abbreviated SA).
Could this simply be a straightforward — though somewhat odd — case of New York City officials purchasing less expensive goods from abroad rather than paying more for American-made items, as seemed to be the case with the NYC manhole covers from Kolkata?
@newley @thailandvoice Thaksin's behind it!
Actually, it's rather prosaic. By law, the Country of Origin must be on items purchased by the City of New York. In your travels, you'll see manhole covers labeled "India". The poles you've found are called 'bollards'; they protect the hydrant from errant vehicles.
Might be something related to 'Siamese twins' hydrant?
Thanks, Sutht. I just embedded some Tweets at the end of the post in which folks make the same observation.


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Could Another Round of QE be in the Cards?
Markets have been wrestling with numerous issues in recent months. The ongoing war on trade, rising interest rates, Brexit, the continuing government shutdown and other geopolitical concerns to name a few.
During that time, stock markets have come under pressure and recently flirted with bear market territory. A sharp rise in volatility didn't help matters either, and investors have been left wondering if a market top has been reached.
Much has been made of the mixed messages from the Fed. Not long ago, Fed chief Jerome Powell suggested that rates had a way to go before finding a 'neutral" level. Then the central bank implied that rates might be closer to neutral than previously thought. The latest release of the FOMC meeting minutes had a very different tone, and now the Fed appears to be content to hold steady-for the next few months anyway. The Fed does, however, still have two more hikes penciled in for this year, although those hikes may not take place until later in the year if at all.
Some traders have suggested there is a good possibility that the central bank could start cutting rates again this year. Although this idea may seem a bit far-fetched, it is entirely plausible and would likely depend on several key factors. If the trade war continues…If the shutdown drags on…if the effects of tax cuts begin to rally fade…These are all issues that could force the Fed's hand.
The Fed has a little problem however: If the global economy does slow to the point that intervention is necessary, the central bank is limited in what it may be able to accomplish through interest rates alone. As the Great Recession got going, the Fed was able to quickly lower the key rate from 5.25% all the way to 0% in a short period of time. With current rates at less than half of those previous levels, the Fed may not have that luxury.
If the economy begins to sputter sharply, the Fed could look to a fresh round of QE in order to keep borrowing costs down and to spur growth. If the Fed were to decide to crank up the printing presses once again, it could have a significant impact on the dollar.
The simple laws of supply and demand would dictate that more dollars flooding the market could take the currency-unit value lower. As the dollar sinks, so does the amount of goods and services that each dollar can buy.
In other words, your purchasing power would decline.
The currency cycle is arguably getting very long in the tooth, and the next recession could be closer than anticipated. Whether that recession occurs this year, next year, or even in the next few years, the Fed could be left with little choice but to print money and weaken the dollar.
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Muscle fatigue is a complex phenomenon that has been defined as a reduction in the force-generating capacity regardless of the task performe.
Excessive workloads can increase physical fatigue, resulting in diminished physical endurance and performance and, ultimately, a reduction in productivity. In addition, a combination of muscular fatigue and general subjective fatigue may also manifest itself by causing temporary interference with the functioning of the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the peripheral nervous system. As postural stability is maintained by the CNS as well as the peripheral nervous system, modifications in its performance may diminish one's ability to sustain balance.
In recent years, a well publicized area in the literature is the relationship between postural control and fatigue. Specifically, postural control can be defined as either static (maintaining equilibrium with minimal movement), semi-dynamic (maintaining equilibrium while the base of support moves), or dynamic (maintaining a stable base of support while completing prescribed movement).
The purpose of this study is to examine how dynamic postural control as measured by the Star Excursion Balance Test, is affected by an activity related fatiguing protocol performed with the upper extremity and simulating the surfboard paddling performed previous catching the wave and how peripheral and central fatigue can affect this postural control.
In this paper the main interest lied in the interaction between Group (fatigue and control) and Time (pre and post fatigue). We wanted to know whether dynamic postural control of fatigue or control group depended on or was influenced by the pre or post fatigue condition, since significantly interaction was found (P = 0.013), we can say that our main findings were that the fatigue group decreased significantly with respect to reach distance on the posttest than on the pretest and decreased significantly with respect to reach distances compared with control group in the posttest. Our overall findings demonstrated a decrease in dynamic postural control as a result of fatigue as measured by SEBT.
A decrease in postural stability after fatigue has been found in previous studies using both central and local means of fatigue. Our protocol was designed to replicate the fatigue surfboard riders would experience during the course of a paddling action used to pass over the wave breaking section and then "catch" the wave. We feel confident that the changes in RPE scores demonstrated that our subjects were fatigued to a level representative of working at more than 100% of maximal heart rate or maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and that this fatigue elicited dynamic postural control during posttest.
Our group studied previously the effects of upper body fatigue in static balance (measure by the Romberg test), it must be known that this paper is the first one to report an activity related fatiguing protocol in the upper body and dynamic postural control, since most sports are dynamic in nature we think that postural control should be assessed using dynamic test to ensure the application of results. We feel confident that SEBT do not mimics surfing action completely, because there is not surfing action performed in a single-leg stance, but it gives us a valid score of dynamic postural control which is critical for success during surfing once the individual is standing on the surf board.
Most of the previous studies found a decrease in balance performance after fatigue protocol, although our fatigue protocol did not include the same type of exercise, our results immediately after the end of our fatigue protocol concur with those of previous researchers with respect to balance performance. In addition the results of our previous study using the same fatigue protocol and Romberg test to assess balance (static balance test) concur with our present results as well.
The present findings that balance decrease after fatigue has been demonstrated in investigations using various methods of causing central fatigue and different measures of postural stability, using varied fatigue protocols, several authors have found decrease in postural stability as measure by stabilometry. Nardone et al. noted significant increases in sway path in both eyes-open and eyes-closed conditions and increases in sway area in eyes-closed conditions only after a 25-minute treadmill run. In addition, a 25-minute cycle-ergometer exercise elicited a significant increase in sway path with eyes open, but to a lesser extent than after the treadmill exercise. A subsequent follow-up investigation using a 25-minute uphill treadmill walk also demonstrated an increase in sway path and sway area in both visual conditions after the exercise.
Our findings show a decrease reach distance in SEBT immediately after the fatigue protocol, demonstrating that balance ability diminished. The surfboard riders should improve their paddling capacity in order to avoid or delay fatigue during wave riding. Future investigators should find a more surfboard-related test to investigate if the decrease in balance ability really affects the wave riding itself. In the other hand it would be good to use surfboard riders as subjects since they must be used to the paddling exercise and the effects can be different. Our findings suggest that during surfboard training, surfboard riders should pay more attention of paddling performance in order to avoid the effects of fatigue achieved during the paddling action on the wave riding. We suggest that trainers should include in their programs some paddling related exercise such as swimming or rowing as well as paddling muscles working out.


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L'Agenès (en occità Agenés, en francès Agenais) és una comarca de Guiena a Occitània, que té per capçalera la ciutat d'Agen. Està situada a la vall de la Garona.

Història
Havia estat territori dels gals nitiobroges, la capital dels quals era Aginnum. Els romans l'atribuïren a l'Aquitània Secunda. En el  s'hi constituí un comtat, i com la resta del ducat de la Nova Aquitània, del qual formava part, fou atribuïda als comtes de Poitiers el 1038. Cap al 1152 fou entregada als Reis d'Anglaterra com a dot de la filla de Ramon VI de Tolosa quan es casà amb Ricard I d'Anglaterra, i el 1196 als comtes de Tolosa. Durant la croada albigesa del 1212, l'Agenès fou ocupat per Simó de Montfort i la ciutat d'Agen, que no va abraçar la causa albigesa, acollí Simó abans que aquest ataqués Pena d'Agenès, cap del comtat.

Del 1259 al 1444 restà sotmesa novament al rei d'Anglaterra, i fou un punt de fricció entre les corones de França i d'Anglaterra durant la Guerra dels Cent Anys. Finalment, el 1444 fou incorporat definitivament a França, qui la va incorporar a la governació de Guiena fins que, després de la Revolució Francesa, formà el departament d'Òlt i Garona.

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When I was a little girl, I learned to wink, snap, and whistle just like everyone else.
I loved learning all of these milestones.
I always thought my whistle was a fail, until last week.
Lo and behold, I can actually whistle quite well. I just couldn't hear it.
What was once a very faint whistle now sounds to me much like all of the birds I'm now hearing.
Snapping my fingers was hard too. I could not snap.
I learned to snap in a fort that my best friend and I made from the tall grass in an empty lot near our houses.
That night, after long day of learning to snap, I went home, and went to bed.
I practiced my snapping until I fell asleep.
It wasn't a loud snap, but I was proud I could do it at least a very little bit of a snap with my right hand.
My left hand was another story. I tried, but for some reason, I just could not get my fingers to snap at all on my left hand.
I never gave up trying.
For years, when I would go to bed, I would practice snapping my fingers!
I finally accepted that I was snapping deprived in my left hand.
As I grew up, and people would share quirky things about themselves, I would share that I was unable to snap with my left hand.
After I got my hearing aids, I was dancing to music, and I snapped my fingers!
What a shock to hear what a snap really sounds like!
Not only that, but both hands could snap!
This morning, while I was getting ready for the day, I had my hearing aids out.
I decided to snap to see what I could hear.
I could hear my right hand slightly snap. Not like I hear it with hearing aids, but exactly like I heard it my whole life.
I snapped my left fingers.
I did this over and over.
So I put my hearing aids on, and sure enough, each of my different hands have a different snap sound.
My left one must fall into the pitches I can't or nearly can't hear.
All that practice paid off all those years.
When I snapped my fingers this morning without hearing aids, it brought me back to my childhood, in my bed, falling asleep, where I never gave up trying.
* I have three residual sounds in my right ear that I can hear in the low tone. These residual did all of the work for me my whole life. My left hand the sound likely falls into the deaf sounds and my right hand must have some of the residual sounds that I was able to sort of hear. Cool stuff now that I understand it all better as time has gone by.
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Il 4 agosto 2015 viene acquistato dalla squadra albanese del , con cui firma un contratto triennale con scadenza il 30 giugno 2018.

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Devon Dudley
The Dudley Boyz were never supposed to be the most successful tag team of all time. When a family of bumbling, bespectacled Dudleys debuted in ECW during summer 1995, they were a goofy alternative to the Philadelphia-based organization's more hardcore fare. But in November of that year, the Dudley clan gained a bruiser in Bubba Ray.
Bubba Ray and his "brother" D-Von ran roughshod over the ECW tag team division throughout the duration of their four-year run with the organization. They won the ECW World Tag Team Championship an astounding eight times and became the vilest villains in the company's history.
In 1999, Dudleyville uprooted itself to the center of the WWE Universe, where Bubba Ray and D-Von continued to flourish as a unit. Now squaring off in iconic matches and rivalries with the likes of Edge & Christian and The Hardy Boyz, the most decorated team in ECW history soon became the most decorated of all time. Even after WWE acquired WCW in 2001, an influx of new talent couldn't stop The Dudleys from winning.
The duo captured eight World Tag Team Championships in WWE — one more than Edge & Christian — plus one reign as WWE Tag Team Champions when they became the first team to hold both of WWE's sanctioned tag titles. Bubba and D-Von also unified the WCW and World Tag Team Championships in late 2001 and are recognized as the final WCW Tag Team Champions.
Bubba and D-Von left WWE in 2005 and fans didnt see either in a WWE ring until 10 years later when The Dudleys reunited on the Raw after SummerSlam and ushered in a whole new era of Extreme. Though they left WWE once again in 2016, they have created an unparalleled legacy in tag team wrestling. Because of that, the 18-time tag team champions will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018.
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Sudan protests continue as security forces appear split
Some soldiers reportedly protect anti-government marchers from other units
Jason Burke Africa correspondent
Mon 8 Apr 2019 13.06 EDT First published on Mon 8 Apr 2019 05.30 EDT
Sudanese soldiers reportedly protecting anti-government protesters amid violent crackdown – video
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Sudan on Monday, amid signs of growing divisions among security forces that could pose a serious challenge to the repressive rule of the president, Omar al-Bashir.
Crowds of demonstrators braved searing temperatures and marched across Khartoum, the capital, to join many more who have been camped for 72 hours in front of a heavily guarded complex of military installations and offices in the centre of the city.
There were also reports of dozens of smaller protests around the country.
Attempts by security forces to clear peaceful demonstrators with teargas and rubber bullets on Sunday night and Monday morning failed. Reports said some soldiers had sought to protect protesters against other units under the direct command of the presidency.
One soldier was killed in clashes, witnesses and civil society groups said.
The demonstrators are calling for Bashir, who seized power in a military coup in 1989, to resign.
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Protesters outside army headquarters in Khartoum chant "The people want to bring down the regime!" "Just fall!" and "Up, up, our Sudan up!" April 8, 2019 pic.twitter.com/1qlkmkXj0Y
Handing over power may be first steps to change in Sudan
Ahmed Soliman, an analyst at the Chatham House thinktank, said: "The numbers haven't been there until this point … and there are unconfirmed reports that the army is acting to protect protesters … This would be a very key development."
Six protesters were killed on Saturday when huge crowds surged through the centre of Khartoum, and a seventh died elsewhere in the country, the interior minister, Bushara Juma, said.
Activists said the number of casualties might be much higher. Civil society groups have said they fear a "massacre".
Protests first erupted on 19 December after a government decision to triple the price of bread. The unrest quickly evolved into nationwide demonstrations against Bashir's rule.
In recent weeks, the momentum of the protests appeared to have slowed, in part because of a state of emergency imposed in February and fierce repression, but thousands flooded the centre of Khartoum on Saturday.
Though riot police and agents of the powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have cracked down on demonstrators, the army has so far not intervened.
Reports of exchanges of fire between military units that appeared to be protecting the demonstrators and other security forces suggested that the ruling elite and security establishment might be fracturing.
Events are still unclear, but witnesses said several vehicles carrying NISS personnel and riot police arrived early on Monday at the protest site in Khartoum and fired teargas. The clash with regular army units appears to have happened around 8am.
The dead Sudanese singer inspiring revolt against Omar al-Bashir
The group spearheading the protests appealed to the army for talks on forming a transitional government.
"We call on the Sudanese armed forces to talk directly with the Alliance for Freedom and Change for facilitating the peaceful process of forming a transitional government," said Omar el-Digeir, a senior member of the group.
Digeir said the protest organisers had also formed a council to initiate talks with security forces and the international community aimed at agreeing a transition that gives power to a "transitional government that represents the wish of the revolution".
"We reiterate our people's demand that the head of the regime and his government have to immediately step down," Digeir said.
Reading from a statement, he also called on the armed forces "to withdraw their support for a regime that has lost its legitimacy" and to support the "people's alternative for a transition to a civilian democratic government".
Officials say 38 people have died in protest-related violence so far, while Human Rights Watch has put the death toll at 51 from December to the end of January alone. Hundreds have been arrested and jailed after summary trials.
The British embassy in Khartoum issued a statement saying that demands for change from protesters were "serious and legitimate".
The demands "must be respected by government & security forces. Peaceful protest a fundamental right. Violence must not be used to disperse the protests, nor should provision of food & water be blocked. The world is watching," the embassy said on Twitter.
A report released last week by the US-based NGO Physicians for Human Rights said authorities had used "unnecessary and disproportionate force against … citizens, illegally attacked medical responders and facilities, and tortured detainees".
The sit-in protests recall those during the Arab spring of 2011, when demonstrators in Cairo and other capitals camped out in public squares for days demanding change.
Observers have pointed to possible inspiration from Algeria, where weeks of peaceful popular protests forced Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in power since 1999, to resign as president this month.
Some observers say the ability of demonstrators to gather outside a high-security military complex, which houses both the ministry of defence and the presidential residence, may suggest that support for Bashir among powerful senior officers is weakening, or that the military may be hoping to use the protests to put pressure on factions within the ruling elite.
"So far we have seen a sustained protest movement but without a trigger to push it further," said Soliman. "It has certainly had an impact but there is a focal point now, a physical location where a large number of people are and a kind of stand-off and that takes things up another notch.
"The international community hasn't really been very strong in terms of message. So far we've seen a security response that, despite numerous arrests and casualties, has been contained to a certain degree. It could certainly get a lot worse. It is extremely unpredictable."
Profile: Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan
Bashir, 75, faces genocide charges at the international criminal court relating to extensive human rights abuses perpetrated by Sudanese forces against civilians in Darfur, the western region gripped by conflict since 2003 when rebels took up arms against the government, accusing it of discrimination and neglect.
The UN says 300,000 people have died in the conflict and 2.7 million have fled their homes.
Bashir earned international opprobrium for his generous hospitality towards violent extremists such as Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal in the 1990s. But he has been welcomed by leaders across Africa and contact between Khartoum and the EU has also been intensifying, prompted largely by concerns over immigration.
In October 2017, the US eased sanctions against Sudan, citing improved humanitarian access, the mitigation of conflicts within the country and progress on counter-terrorism. The move was condemned by human rights organisations.
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Sudanese military and protesters sign power-sharing accord
General hails signing as 'historic moment' in Sudan after weeks of stalled talks
Sudanese protesters demand justice following mass killings
Crowds gather in Khartoum and other cities after deaths of over 120 peaceful demonstrators
Sudan's military leaders accused of ordering massacre
BBC investigation includes testimony from soldiers who attacked peaceful protesters
Sudan's ruling military council reports it has survived coup attempt
Top general says plotters were trying to disrupt recent truce between army and protesters
Sudan's military rulers and opposition reach power-sharing deal
The secret Sudan safe house where injured protesters are treated
Scores of protesters wounded and seven dead on Sudan's streets
Sudan's Bashir appears in public for first time since being ousted


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Martin UAV Contracted to Support Deployed Marines
Martin UAV has been awarded an Other Transaction for Prototype Agreement with the Marine Corps Systems Command to support the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's Organic Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (Airborne) effort with a Contractor Owned/ Contractor Operated V-BAT UAV system.
The Martin UAV V-BAT UAV will facilitate the Marine Corps objective to develop Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for V-BAT operations in an operational environment over an extended period.
Martin UAV's CEO Ruben Martin commented, "The V-BAT was purpose-built from the ground up to support deployed operations and simply has no equal in the maritime domain. We are excited to hear what the Marines and Sailors in the Amphibious Ready Group think about employing the system, and to see what novel uses they come up with. I have no doubt they will think of things that haven't occurred to us."
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