Sankar is leading Acuité's transformation from a full service credit rating agency to a technology and innovation driven knowledge company. Sankar has more than two decades of experience in developing and selling data, analytics, risk management, and financial research solutions. Sankar is an Independent Director on the Board of Indian Oil Corporation. He is a member of the Working Group constituted by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India for recommending the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. He is also a member of FICCI's Capital Markets Committee and IBA's Standing Committee on MSMEs. Sankar holds a Master's in Business Management and is a Graduate in Physics.
Sankar's hobby is travelling & photography. He loves to read about science, psychology & the economic history of India.
Suman Chowdhury leads the bank loan and bond rating operations. Prior to Acuité, Suman has worked in the credit ratings industry in various capacities including leadership roles for around 18 years. He has also worked as a Group Head and Deputy General Manager (DGM) in the Credit Risk Management Group of ICICI Bank, overseeing both SME and corporate portfolios. Suman is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Kolkata and a B-Tech (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
His hobbies include reading and travelling.
Antony leads the Centre of Excellence and Rating Operations. He is responsible for improvements in existing operations and processes with an aim to deliver better quality in our services.
He has an overall work experience of over 18 years of which more than 14 years have been with the Ratings industry. He holds a Masters in Business Management.
Antony is an avid reader, loves to watch movies, and is a swimmer.
Vinaya is heading the Operations at Acuité and leads the HR, Administration, IT Infrastructure and Internal Processes. She also leads projects to streamline the sales processes and bringing about optimal productivity and efficiency for the company.
Vinaya has over 2 decades of developing and selling research and credit rating solutions to decision makers in BFSI and Corporate community. In her previous assignment, she also managed a team of 250 sales people. During her two decade long career, she has developed work flow processes and automated systems, organized world class knowledge sharing events and handled marketing and communication activities.
Vinaya is a pet lover and an avid traveller.
Deepak heads the Finance function at Acuité. He holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce, an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Treasury and Forex Management. He has twenty years of experience in the fields of finance, accounts, reporting and audits.
During his two decades of work, Deepak has led teams that automated processes, streamlined workflows and has also led several litigation efforts.
Deepak is a sports lover and follows Football, Cricket, Tennis and Badminton. He loves listening to old Bollywood music.
Karan Mehrishi is the Lead Economist at Acuité. He is the author of the business book, "The India Collective: What India is really all about", published in the year 2014. In the year 2013, he was adjudged a Prize Finalist for the prestigious IE Business School Prize for Economic Journalism in Asia, a Prize sponsored by the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). His opinions have appeared in the Nikkei Asian Review, The Diplomat, The New Indian Express, Forbes among several other business publications. Karan was a Hearst Fellowship Fund Scholar as well as John Curley Annual Fund Scholar at the Columbia University. He received his MA. in the Business and Economics concentration from Columbia University, New York. He also holds an MBA in International Management from the House of Finance (HoF) at Goethe University, Frankfurt, spending a semester at Tongji University, Shanghai.
Karan's hobby is reading about combustion engines and automotive engineering.
Chitra Mohan has been with Acuité since its inception in 2005. An associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), she has over 12 years of experience in the field of secretarial, legal and corporate compliance. Apart from being a Key Managerial Personnel, she is primarily responsible for overseeing and managing corporate and regulatory compliance matters as well as internal policies and procedures.
Her hobbies include reading, listening to music and travelling.


That's right - if you didn't know this day was a "thing," then now you do. National Walk Around Things day is observed every year on April 4th. What better way to celebrate than by sharing an article that highlights how safety accidents can be prevented by pretrip walk-around vehicle inspections?
If you would like to join in on the fun, make it a point to walk around things today. You can also use the hashtag #WalkAroundThingsDay to post on social media.


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<?php
class clsPaypal extends AbstractPaymentGateway
{

    function StatusCodes()
    {
        if(count($this->status_array) > 0)
        {
            return $this->status_array;
        }

        $this->status_array[] = "Canceled_Reversal";
        $this->status_array[] = "Completed";
        $this->status_array[] = "Created";
        $this->status_array[] = "Denied";
        $this->status_array[] = "Expired";
        $this->status_array[] = "Failed";
        $this->status_array[] = "Pending";
        $this->status_array[] = "Refunded";
        $this->status_array[] = "Reversed";
        $this->status_array[] = "Processed";
        $this->status_array[] = "Voided";

        return $this->status_array;
    }

    /**
	 * Initialize the Paypal gateway
	 *
	 * @param none
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function __construct()
	{
            parent::__construct();

        // Some default values of the class
		$this->gatewayUrl = 'https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';
		$this->ipnLogFile = 'payment_logs/paypal.ipn_results.log';

		// Populate $fields array with a few default
		$this->addField('rm', '2');           // Return method = POST
		$this->addField('cmd', '_xclick');
	}

    /**
     * Enables the test mode
     *
     * @param none
     * @return none
     */
    public function enableTestMode()
    {
        $this->testMode = TRUE;
        $this->gatewayUrl = 'https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';
    }

    /**
	 * Validate the IPN notification
	 *
	 * @param none
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	public function validateIpn()
	{
		// parse the paypal URL
		$urlParsed = parse_url($this->gatewayUrl);

		// generate the post string from the _POST vars
		$postString = '';

		foreach ($_POST as $field=>$value)
		{
			$this->ipnData["$field"] = $value;
			$postString .= $field .'=' . urlencode(stripslashes($value)) . '&';
		}

		$postString .="cmd=_notify-validate"; // append ipn command

		// open the connection to paypal
		$fp = fsockopen($urlParsed[host], "80", $errNum, $errStr, 30);

		if(!$fp)
		{
			// Could not open the connection, log error if enabled
			$this->lastError = "fsockopen error no. $errNum: $errStr";
			$this->logResults(false);

			return false;
		}
		else
		{
			// Post the data back to paypal

			fputs($fp, "POST $urlParsed[path] HTTP/1.1\r\n");
			fputs($fp, "Host: $urlParsed[host]\r\n");
			fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
			fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($postString) . "\r\n");
			fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
			fputs($fp, $postString . "\r\n\r\n");

			// loop through the response from the server and append to variable
			while(!feof($fp))
			{
				$this->ipnResponse .= fgets($fp, 1024);
			}

		 	fclose($fp); // close connection
		}

		if (eregi("VERIFIED", $this->ipnResponse))
		{
		 	// Valid IPN transaction.
		 	$this->logResults(true);
		 	return true;
		}
		else
		{
		 	// Invalid IPN transaction.  Check the log for details.
			$this->lastError = "IPN Validation Failed . $urlParsed[path] : $urlParsed[host]";
			$this->logResults(false);
			return false;
		}
	}

    function validate_pdt($paypal_transaction_token,$auth_token){

  /*         Part - 1 */
                $req = 'cmd=_notify-synch';
		$req .= "&tx=$paypal_transaction_token&at=".$auth_token;  // test key

 /*         Part - 2 */

                 $paypal_url = parse_url($this->gatewayUrl);

		$ipnexec = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_URL, "https://".$paypal_url['host']."/webscr&");
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Server Software: '.@$_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].' PHP Version: '.phpversion());
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_REFERER, $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].@$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $req);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt($ipnexec, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
		$ipnresult = trim(curl_exec($ipnexec));
		$ipnresult = "status=".$ipnresult;
		curl_close($ipnexec);

                /*         Part - 3 */
		$parameter_value_array = explode("\n", $ipnresult);

		foreach ($parameter_value_array as $key=>$value) {
			$key_values = explode("=", $value);
			$this->ipnData[$key_values[0]] = $key_values[1];
		}

            return $this->ipnData;
   }

}

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Q: Axiom support within Spring WS Spring has removed the AxiomSoapMessageFactory in latest version of Spring Web Service JAR. We have our existing app which uses previous version of Spring WS. Please let me know what options I have when I upgrade Spring for backward compatibility.
I googled and didn't see any possible options. If you could recommend one.

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February, 2010: A Combination of Conditions Making it Impossible to Work in Maine
This month's hard-earned success story involves Andrea, who is a very kind woman and deserving woman in her mid-forties who is experiencing a great sense of relief as a result of the receipt of her fully favorable decision. Andrea had a long and consistent work history in a variety customer service and cashier type positions who began to struggle with her work after a series of losses in her life that affected her very significantly in terms of her emotional health. At the same time, she was experiencing significant difficulties with rheumatoid arthritis for which she was treating with her rheumatologist.
Andrea initiated her Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income claims without the benefit of a Social Security disability lawyer by filing her claim with the Saco, Maine Social Security field office. Upon receiving her initial denial, Andrea did file her request for reconsideration and, upon receiving a denial of her claim once again upon review by Disability Determination Services (DDS), she contacted our office to assist her with the filing of her Request for Hearing.
Certainly, Andrea's struggles were not helped at all by the Social Security Administration's multiple denials of her claim. As part of this process, we were able to work with her treatment providers (her long-standing rheumatologist who had been treating her for many years along with her primary care physician, counselor and psychiatrist) to ensure that there was compelling evidence provided as to the extent of Andrea's difficulties. Andrea had treated for quite serious Rheumatoid Arthritis issues, which carried with it the need to take medications with very serious side effects. Unfortunately, at the prior agency level, no evidence had been obtained from the rheumatologist to address the objective findings he noted from his evaluations, which included findings that she had bouts of obvious swelling in her hands, knees and feet, along with her wrists and fingers, which he noted would make it difficult for her to both ambulate and use her hands meaningfully during these periods of time. He was likewise kind enough to address the fact that she was suffering from severe mental health problems that resulted from years of abuse earlier in life which further impacted her mental health such that her high levels of anxiety was causing her emotional paralysis during the day.
Moreover, it was helpful to her claim that for each of her severe conditions she was in treatment with specialists. She maintained treatment both with a counselor and psychiatrist who detailed the effects which Andrea's physical problems and family problems had been impacting her emotionally. Because her counselor and psychiatrist had gotten to know her over a lengthy period of time, they knew her well and were sympathetic to her circumstances: they were more than willing to address the nature and severity of her condition by way of a mental impairment questionnaire that served to support her claim that she remained simply too debilitated by her medical conditions to be able to attend to work. In Andrea's case, the extent of her mental health problems as addressed by her treatment providers made it clear that she met a medical listing of impairment.
We worked with Andrea to prepare her for the hearing before a very kind and understanding Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the Portland, Maine Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Within a short time following her hearing, she did receive a fully favorable decision from the ALJ.
I am thankful that Andrea placed her trust in my office and saw her claim through with us to a favorable conclusion. While I know she continues to deal with an awful lot in terms of her mental and physical health, I feel better knowing that has been provided with the benefits she needs and deserves.
If you or someone you're close to is suffering from significant mental health or physical disabilities and need assistance with your long-term disability claim, contact the Law Offices of Russell J. Goldsmith at 1-800-773-8622 now so as to provide you with some advice and assistance that can help address your concerns.

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Loveland Mayor Jacki Marsh cruises to re-election
Jacki Marsh will serve a second two-year term. The Ward 2 council race was too close to call on election night.
Loveland Mayor Jacki Marsh cruises to re-election Jacki Marsh will serve a second two-year term. The Ward 2 council race was too close to call on election night. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/11/05/colorado-election-2019-loveland-mayor-city-council/4158840002/
A volunteer accepts ballots from a driver in the drive-thru ballot drop off across from the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
Colorado Election Day 2019: Voters do their civic duty by bike, by car
PEA President Tom List thanks campaign members and volunteers during a 4A watch party at C.B. & Potts in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
A man drops off his ballot at the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
A woman drops off her ballot at the drive-thru ballot drop off across from the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
PEA President Tom List, center, waits for results during a 4A watch party at C.B. & Potts in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
State Rep. Jeni Arndt, left, thanks PEA President Tom List during a 4A watch party at C.B. & Potts in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
Volunteers work the drive-thru ballot drop off across from the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
A poster displays several names and messages during a 4A watch party at C.B. & Potts in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
Volunteers slide ballots into a container for drivers in the drive-thru ballot drop off across from the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
School board member Nate Donovan speaks during a 4A watch party at C.B. & Potts in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
Supporters wait during a 4A watch party at C.B. & Potts in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Bethany Baker/The Coloradoan
A volunteer accepts ballots from a driver in the drive-thru ballot drop off across from the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.
Rebecca Powell, Fort Collins Coloradoan Published 9:53 p.m. MT Nov. 5, 2019 | Updated 3:53 p.m. MT Nov. 6, 2019
Loveland Mayor Jacki Marsh will hold onto her seat, according to preliminary voting results from Tuesday night.
Marsh had the lead over current council members Dave Clark, in second place, and Kathi Wright, in third place.
The mayor serves a two-year term.
In Ward 1, as the top vote getter, Richard Ball was re-elected to another four-year term. Robert Molloy was elected to a two-year term, filling the remainder of former council member Jeremy Jersvig's team. Lenard Larkin was in third place.
In Ward 2, the race was too close to call. Just one vote separated Anita Samson and Nita Starr, who was in the lead, as of a Wednesday afternoon update. The candidates are vying for the seat being vacated by Leah Johnson, who decided not to seek re-election.
COLORADO ELECTION 2019: Live results and updates
In Ward 3, council member John Fogle had a sizable victory over John Dixon in second place and Elizabeth Hughes in third.
In Ward 4, council member Don Overcash retained his seat, staving off a bid by Bill Jensen. Rian Fierros was still listed on the ballot but withdrew from the race last month.
Rebecca Powell is a content coach at the Coloradoan. If you know of an impactful story you believe needs to be reported, send it to RebeccaPowell@coloradoan.com.
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 It grew so great that it reached all the way to the army of the heavens, and it caused some of the army and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down.
was taken away, and the established place of his sanctuary was thrown down.
because of transgression; and it kept throwing truth to the earth, and it acted and had success».
he will speak astonishing things. And he will prove successful until the denunciation comes to a finish; because what is determined must take place.
 He will show no regard for the God of his fathers; nor will he show regard for the desire of women or for any other god, but he will magnify himself over everyone.
** This means that from Aureliano on (mentioned in the book "Pay attention to Daniel's prophecies!" Starting on page 240) all the reconstructions would be wrong because absolutely arbitrary.


Jack Hammer has been single handedly ripping it up for quite some time. Now this IPA, has spawned four hammer head off-springs.
Chili Hammer is the third of our super-charge hyped up hybrids. Chili and American hops combine for a flavour bigger than Texas. A star spangled burst of citrus, with grapefruit and mango, finally succumbs to a smooth chili kick. Let this hot tempered brute devour your senses.
Ingredients: water, barley, hops, chilli, yeast.
Earned the Raising the Heat (Level 25) badge! Earned the Highlander (Level 11) badge!
Earned the Bar Explorer (Level 23) badge! Earned the Hopped Up (Level 21) badge!
Old Rate: Smell is mango with slight dankness. Golden orange colour. Taste is peach with a considerable kick. Hotter the more you drink.
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Under the legal structure of the World Trade Organization, the designation of China as a "non-market economy" allows its trading partners, including the United States, to use a special framework to determine whether China's exports are being sold at unfairly low prices and, if that is found to be the case, to apply additional anti-dumping duties. Since 2001, China has been subject to a special presumption that it is a non-market economy (NME) under Article 15 of the protocol by which China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). This presumption expired on December 11, 2016, and China believes that it must now be accorded market economy status. The U.S. argues that China is not automatically eligible for market economy status and has commenced a procedure to determine, under U.S. domestic law, whether China is still a non-market economy.
At the core of the issue is whether China may be subjected to more stringent treatment than other countries in calculating anti-dumping duties.
International trade law allows countries to apply special anti-dumping duties, above normal tariffs, to imports that are sold at less than the price in the exporting country, less than the cost of production, or, in certain circumstances, less than third country prices. The purported goal of anti-dumping duties is to reduce the impact of artificially low pricing of exported goods on firms in the importing economy.
For purposes of calculating anti-dumping duties, prices in the exporting country are used as benchmarks for exporters from countries that are market economies. In a NME, prices may be controlled by the state and therefore are not necessarily a reliable benchmark. For this reason, WTO law allows consideration of third-country prices when attempting to determine whether a NME is dumping its goods in an importing country. For example, as Chad Bown has noted, when United States manufacturers of hydrofluorocarbons complained that imports from China were being sold in the United States at unfairly low prices, United States authorities were able to use information from Mexico to estimate Chinese production costs and set anti-dumping duties of more than 100 percent on imports from China.
An importing country has greater flexibility to use arbitrarily-selected high third country prices as a reference for determining dumping by exporters from NMEs than it does for exporters from market economies. This greater flexibility makes the comparison with import prices more likely to result in a higher dumping margin and, consequently, allow for a higher anti-dumping duty.
China was subject to a special NME regime from its accession to the WTO in 2001. Under that regime, the burden of proof was on Chinese producers to show that market economy conditions prevailed in their industry. This aspect of the regime expired on December 11, 2016. The next day, China began a WTO dispute settlement proceeding against the United States and European Union practice of applying NME methodology to China in anti-dumping cases. The question raised by the dispute is whether the expiration of the provision means that Chinese enterprises are conclusively entitled to market economy status, or whether they remain subject to a determination of NME status by the administering authority of the importing state—in the case of the United States, the Department of Commerce. On April 3, 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it is reviewing China's NME status. If the U.S. continues to classify China as a NME, it will be permitted to disregard Chinese prices and costs and instead use third country prices to calculate dumping margins.
Even if China is not, as it argues, conclusively entitled to market economy status, it may not meet the requirements for NME treatment. The WTO Appellate Body, in its 2011 decision on EC—Fasteners, noted that the test for NME status under an addendum to Article VI of the WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) requires a very high level of state control. It refers to a "country which has a complete or substantially complete monopoly of its trade" and "where all domestic prices are fixed by the State." Under these conditions, China does not appear to meet the standard for NME treatment. The United States argues that importing countries have broader leverage to assign NME treatment to exporting countries.
At the core of this issue is whether China may be subjected to more stringent treatment than other countries in calculating anti-dumping duties. It is difficult to determine that a price is "artificially low" without a market benchmark, and the control exercised by the Chinese government over the Chinese economy suggests that domestic prices are not pervasively set by market forces. When China entered the WTO in 2001, it was expected that its economy would be further liberalized by now. But even though China's control of prices is still significant, the WTO definition of NME, allowing use of a different benchmark, seems to depend on whether prices are pervasively set by the government. Therefore, even if China loses its argument that the Protocol of Accession now conclusively prohibits NME treatment of China, it would not be likely to be found to be a NME. Regardless of how this litigation turns out, and it is likely to drag on for years, this is an instance in which a special regime applied to China would continue to make sense, assuming an antidumping regime is desired. The treatment accorded China should be carefully designed to address the special nature of the Chinese economy, without further disadvantaging China. As the WTO Appellate Body more recently noted in a 2016 iteration of the EC—Fasteners decision, anti-dumping duty calculation requires a "fair comparison" of prices. But it should also be noted that the calculation of anti-dumping margins always has an element of arbitrariness, especially for countries with NME status, and worldwide price variation may be perfectly justified from a business standpoint.


Simi Garewal worked with Shashi Kapoor in 1972 film 'Siddhartha'.
Veteran actress Simi Garewal gave a touching tribute to the late "perfect co-star" Shashi Kapoor, with whom she featured in Siddhartha, which was screened for cinephiles here at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM).
"Shashi was my friend and fellow actor and it is very common in India to praise someone after they've gone, but I have always said this that Shashi Kapoor was the perfect co-star. You don't want someone to interfere, you want someone to support you when you're acting. You want someone well-behaved, punctual, who is polite and courteous with everyone and he was exactly like that," Simi said here on Monday.
Shashi Kapoor died last year. He was 79.
Simi said he was very professional and had no ego at all.
"He would shake hands with everyone -- from the lighting technician to everyone else. He was amazing that way and I don't know another actor in the world who would work in commercial cinema, earn money from there and take it and put it into meaningful films like 'Kalyug', '36 Chowringhee Lane' and more. But he had a passion for real cinema and he put his money where his mouth was. He started the parallel cinema. We never had it before," she added.
The 1972 American movie is based on the novel of the same name by Hermann Hesse, and directed by Conrad Rooks.


Is there any more quintessential winter object than a snow globe? There is something about these tiny snow-covered winterscapes that fills us with a sense of nostalgia and wonder. Making your own is easy and fun, and all you need are a few simple materials that you may already have around the house. This project is fun for kids and adults to make and having your very own personalized snow globe feels magical no matter what your age.
First, choose the objects you want to use and try setting them up different ways until you get the scene you want. Try holiday or winter themed items or objects in red and green for a Christmassy snow globe. Or do something wild and unexpected, like a tropical scene. It's completely up to you! I chose garden-related objects with a holiday theme.
Position your objects on top of the plastic canning lid the way you want them to be laid out inside the snow globe.
Keep your scene small enough that everything fits easily on the center of the lid. The glass of the Mason jar will magnify the scene, making the snow globe look fuller once it is all put together.
Use the waterproof adhesive to glue down the objects in the positions you want them in.
Allow the adhesive to dry for a few hours to make sure it is completely set.
Glue the plastic lid down onto the underside of the snap lid, making sure not to get any adhesive on the orange ring around the outside edge of the lid. The orange ring is the seal, which will not work to keep liquid inside if it gets glue on it. Some waterproof adhesive expands when it dries, so keep that in mind and give yourself some extra room around the snap lid's seal.
Fill the jar with water, glycerin, and some glitter. The consistency of the mixture will be different depending on how much glycerin you add (the glycerin makes it thicker so that the glitter falls slower), so start with mostly water and add glycerin gradually until you like how the liquid moves the glitter when you shake it up.
I used fairly small glitter, but not superfine. It clumped together a bit, which made it look more like snow.
Now it's time to put the snow globe together! Add a bit more water to the jar so that it is very full. You'll want to do this next step over the sink as there will likely be some spillover. Carefully screw the lid onto the jar so that the miniature scene stands up inside it. If your jar has writing or patterning on one side, try to position the scene so that it faces the part of the jar that is completely clear and smooth to give you the best possible view.
Wipe off any liquid that spilled over the sides, seal the lid with waterproof sealer so that the ring stays in place permanently. Turn the jar upside down, and you have a whimsical snow globe ready to set somewhere in your home or give as a gift.
This is a great gift idea, Stephanie! Kids will also like helping with this project, I think.
My wife and I made snowman snowglobes one winter for my daughter's playgroup, using the ready-to-use formula bottles that we collected from when my daughter was a baby. We used styrofoam balls for the body, small beads for the eyes and mouth and a cutoff toothpick for the carrot nose. And a scrap piece of felt for the scarf.
They turned out great and everyone we gave them to loved them!


J.B. Connoley of KRES contributed to this story.
A northern Missouri Republican state Representative who calls a proposed statewide expansion of charter schools "an attack on rural districts" says compromise is a possibility, as long as rural schools aren't harmed. State Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville) says Lee's Summit Republican state Rep. Rebecca Roeber's legislation in its current form would impact those districts.
Roeber also says compromise is possible, but contends that rural schools would not be harmed under her proposal. She says about 500 students would be required in order to launch a charter school.
"Nobody is wanting to end rural schools. We all know how important they are to rural communities. I'm a public school educator. I taught for 18 years. My grandson lives with us and is in a public school. I don't have anything against public schools. It's just not every public school is working well and not every kid fits in a square peg," says Roeber.
She goes on to say that not every charter school has been successful and those schools have been closed. According to Roeber, charter schools operate on a five year contract with certain benchmarks that must be met in order to continue to operate.
Charter schools are currently limited to the St. Louis and Kansas City school districts, and any that are unaccredited. Roeber says charter schools in St. Louis and Kansas City have helped to improve statewide test scores for public schools there.
"Competition is a wonderful thing. They are competing for those students and I think it can rise the boat for everybody. That's what we're trying to achieve here," says Roeber.
Walker does not think there's enough committee support yet to allow consideration by the full House. Support from House Republicans and Governor Eric Greitens (R) makes Roeber optimistic that her bill will make it out of committee this year. During a recent address to the NAACP, Greitens praised charter schools.


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Charles H. Brower II
Brower and Acomb co-moderated a panel discussion entitled, "Current Issues in International Commercial Arbitration," sponsored by the Program for International Legal Studies at Wayne State Law School
Current issues in international commercial arbitration will be the topic of a panel discussion Thursday, Oct. 2, sponsored by the Program for International Legal Studies at Wayne State University Law School.
The event will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium at the law school, 471 W. Palmer St. The event is free, and lunch will be provided after the program. No registration is necessary. Parking will be available for $7 (credit or debit cards only) in Parking Structure No. 1 across West Palmer Street from the law school.
Arbitration clauses are increasingly part of every international contract, a trend that has required lawyers to become familiar with the enforcement of agreements to arbitrate, arbitration procedures and the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. In recognition of the trend, the American Law Institute is finalizing its first Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration.
Panelists who will discuss these issues will be:
Jack Coe, who is faculty director of the master of laws concentration in international commercial arbitration at Pepperdine University School of Law. He is an associate reporter for the Restatement (Third) on the Law of International Commercial Arbitration. He earned his law degree from Loyola Marymount School of Law and master of laws at University Exeter. He holds the diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law and a doctorate from the London School of Economics. He consults with governments and multinational corporations on commercial and direct investment disputes under NAFTA and bilateral investment treaties. Coe has authored numerous articles; is a regular speaker in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and has helped organize numerous conferences and programs on international dispute resolution.
Jeremy Sharpe, who is chief of investment arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He represents the United States in investor-state and state-to-state disputes arising under U.S. international investment agreements and advises on the negotiation of such agreements. As an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, he teaches courses on international dispute resolution. He previously practiced arbitration with White & Case in Washington, D.C. He earned his law degree from New York University School of Law and master of laws from Harvard Law School.
Abby Cohen Smutny, who is a partner of White & Case and recognized as one of the world's leading experts in international arbitration. She has represented clients in dozens of arbitrations before all major arbitral forums. She handles commercial contract disputes, as well as disputes arising under various trade agreements and treaties. She is senior vice chair of the International Trade Administration and a member of the executive committee of the American Society of International Law. She earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Moderators of the panel will be:
Frederick Acomb, who is chairman of the International Dispute Resolution Section at Miller Canfield in Detroit. Over the past decade, more than 95 percent of Acomb's caseload has focused on litigation or arbitration on behalf of or adverse to corporations headquartered outside the United States. He has appeared before arbitration tribunals in multiple continents, including Asia, Europe and North America. He also serves as a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and as a member of the External Advisory Committee for Wayne Law's Program for International Legal Studies. He earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Charles Brower, who is a Wayne Law professor and who is of counsel with Miller Canfield in Detroit. He has taught and written about human rights, international business transactions, international commercial arbitration, the law of armed conflict and public international law for more than 15 years. Before joining Wayne Law in 2012, he was Croft Professor of International Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He is an arbitrator on the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Association and vice chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.


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If ever you have that gut feeling that your relationship is not going steady, then you might be pushed to do something about it. It would be the most perfect time to stop, ponder and reflect on the numerous ways in order to save your relationship. In order to save the special connectionyou have with a certain person, you need to work together and figure out the possible reasons as to why a problem is surfacing. And one of the known solutions in order to save a relationship is through the help of a cell phone monitoring software that will teach you spy on a cell phone for free from computer – especially that of your partner.
This spy cell phone software is a common question known to different individuals who are yet undecided and confused as to the need of using a cell phone monitoring software when tracking someone.
Once you have finished the whole process of downloading and installing the software, you will be directed to an online dashboard where you will know all the activities being done by the mobile phone. You will be able to retrieve information such as text messaging histories, call logs, GPS locations, photos or videos shared online as well as the phone's web viewing history. All of these is available at the online portal of the spy app which can be accessed on any device (be it on a computer, tablet or another mobile phone) just as long as there is internet connection.
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Heinrich Martin Ludwig Hahn (* 10. März 1829 in Breslau; † 1919) war ein deutscher Historiker, Gymnasiallehrer und Autor.

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Der Sohn des Kaufmanns Martin Hahn besuchte das Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau, wo er am 10. März 1849 das Abitur erlangte. Anschließend studierte er Geschichte an den Universitäten Breslau und Berlin. Am 29. Dezember 1853 wurde er in Breslau promoviert. Bis Michaelis 1855 war er als Hauslehrer auf Radaxdorf (bei Leuthen) tätig. Danach absolvierte er das Examen "pro facultate docendi" und von Ostern 1856 bis 1857 das Probejahr an der Luisenstädtischen Realschule in Berlin. Von 1857 bis 1858 nahm er im Auftrag des Königlichen Schulkollegiums eine Stellvertretung am Gymnasium zu Potsdam wahr. Schließlich fand er eine Anstellung am Friedrichswerderschen Gymnasium in Berlin. Ab Ostern 1861 unterrichtete er an der Luisenstädtischen Realschule.

In den Jahren 1907 und 1913 schenkte Hahn seine Sammlung zur Geschichte der Karolinger der Berliner Stadtbibliothek.

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Neben Aufsätzen in den Berliner Blättern für Schule und Erziehung, in der Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen und im Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtkunde sowie Artikeln der Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie schrieb Hahn:

 Qui hierarchiae status fuerit. Pippini tempore, quaestio. Dissertatio inauguralis historica. Sulzbach, Breslau [1853] (; Dissertation, Universität Breslau, 1853).
 Die Reise des heiligen Willibald nach Palästina. eine historische-geographische Abhandlung. Aus dem Programm der Luisenstädtischen Realschule besonders abgedruckt. Petsch, Berlin 1856 (Digitalisat).
 Geographische Fragen zur Anspornung der Selbstthätigkeit für die Schüler der untern Klassen von Gymnasien, Real- und andern Schulenanstalten. Enslin, Berlin 1859.
 Sur le lieu de naissance de Charlemagne. Mémoire présenté à l'Académie Royale de Belgique en réponse à la question suivante: Charlemagne est-il né dans la province de Liège? Dümmler, Berlin 1861 ().
 Jahrbücher des fränkischen Reichs (741–752) (= Jahrbücher der Deutschen Geschichte. Bd. [3]). Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 1863 (Digitalisat).
 Die Söhne Albrechts des Bären, Otto I., Sigfried, Bernhard 1170–84. Theil 1: Ihre Theilnahme an den Reichsangelegenheiten. [Aus dem Jahresbericht der Louisenstädtischen Realschule.] Moeser, Berlin 1869.
 Bonifaz und Lul. Ihre angelsächsischen Korrespondenten. Erzbischof Luls Leben. Veit, Leipzig 1883 (Digitalisat).

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 Hahn, Heinrich Martin Ludwig. In: Franz Kössler: Personenlexikon von Lehrern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Universitätsbibliothek, Gießen 2008 (online; basierend auf  Programm der Luisenstädtischer Realschule 1863).

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Transgender People Who Have Access to Puberty Blockers Are Less Likely to Have Suicidal Thoughts, Study Finds
By Kashmira Gander On 1/23/20 at 11:19 AM EST
Health LGBT LGBTQ Trans
Transgender people who have access to drugs which prevent the body from going through puberty are less likely to think about taking their lives, a study suggests.
The researchers examined the use of what are known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRH analogues). Also known as puberty blockers, these drugs suppress hormones made by the body to help stop physical changes which can be distressing for some trangender children. The effects of the drugs are reversible if a child stops taking them.
The drugs were developed over the past two decades to help transgender adolescents align their bodies with their gender identities, explained the authors of the paper published in the journal Pediatrics. Experts say they enable the children who need them to continue exploring their gender identities while deciding whether they want irreversible forms of treatment. In the U.S., around 1.8 percent of the population identifies as transgender.
The study involved 20,619 transgender adults across the U.S., who were aged between 18- to 36-years-old. The participants detailed whether they had used puberty blockers. They also answered questions about whether they had ever had thoughts about taking their life.
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3,494, or 16.9 percent, said they had wanted to use the drugs at any point, but only 2.5 percent of those we able to access them. Of those who hoped to take them but weren't able to, 9 out of 10 thought about ending their lives. The study also revealed 45.2 percent of those interested in the drugs were assigned male at birth.
Senior author Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, director of the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute told Newsweek: "We found that youth who desired pubertal suppression and received it had a third the odds of lifetime suicidal ideation when compared to youth who desired pubertal suppression but did not receive it."
Keuroghlian, who is also director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Gender Identity Program, described the rate of suicide attempts among transgender people as a "public health crisis," as one previous study suggested up to 40 percent of such adults have attempted to take their lives at some point.
"We are focused on understanding the relationship of gender-affirming medical care, such as pubertal suppression, to suicide risk among transgender adults," he said.
Dr. Jack Turban, lead author of the study and resident physician in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, told Newsweek: "It was interesting to see that only a minority of transgender people ever desired pubertal suppression. This highlights the diversity within the transgender community and that transition is a very personal experience that is not the same for everyone."
Turban went on: "The research is particularly important now, as several states have introduced legislation that would make pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents illegal. Some of these bills threaten physicians who offer this medical care with jail time." Such states include South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, and Kentucky.
"This study adds to the growing literature that shows that affirmation of transgender youth is associated with better mental health outcomes. The more we collect data, the more we find this consistent pattern: trying to change gender identity is dangerous, and affirming gender identity is protective," he said.
Detailing the approach the team took, Keuroghlian said: "It was important to compare transgender people who desired pubertal suppression and received it with transgender peers who wanted this medical care but did not receive it. We also needed to control for any differences in the level of family support for gender identity, since family supportiveness has a known association with better health among transgender people.
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As with all studies, the work was limited in some ways. Turban acknowledged: "The study was cross-sectional. We hope that ongoing prospective studies will add to our findings and help us to better understand the mental health effects of pubertal suppression for transgender youth."
Commenting more widely on what affects the health of transgender people, Keuroghlian concluded: "Strong family support is a key factor for transgender youth to have good mental health and thrive. Parents of transgender kids ought to connect with local services and programs dedicated to helping families learn to support their child's gender affirmation at home, at school, and in their community."
If you have thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call 1-800-273-8255. The line is available 24 hours, every day.
The Trevor Project, which provides crisis intervention to LGBTQ young people, runs the TrevorLifeline 24/7. If you or someone you know is feeling hopeless or suicidal call 1-866-488-7386. Counseling is also available 24/7 via chat every day at TheTrevorProject.org/Help, or by texting 678-678
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What Cardano's Vasil hard fork means for the blockchain
After several delays and some setbacks, Cardano's long-awaited Vasil upgrade finally went live on Sept. 22. From the outside looking in, the hard fork is designed to help improve the ecosystem's scalability and general transaction throughput capacity as well as advance Cardano's decentralized applications (DApps) development capacity.
To commemorate the event, an announcement was made by blockchain firm Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) — which currently oversees the design, building and maintenance of the Cardano platform — just minutes after the development.
To obtain a more holistic overview of what the upgrade represents and its potential impact on Cardano (as well as the crypto ecosystem at large), Cointelegraph reached out to Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI, a protocol for creating decentralized payment networks and stablecoins. In his view:
"The Vasil Upgrade heralds the dawn of a new era for the Cardano ecosystem and the decentralized finance space at large. The upgrade aims to improve the network's scalability and enhance Cardano's smart contract capabilities."
Bar-Geffen further noted that the hard fork will significantly improve the efficiency of Djed, an algorithmic stablecoin developed jointly by IOHK and the COTI Group, increasing the number of transactions carried out on the Djed platform and thus helping position Cardano as a prime contender for stablecoin transactions.
A closer look at what Vasil has to offer
Before looking at the functional and operational benefits afforded by the Vasil hard fork, it would be best to understand what exactly a hard fork is. In its most basic sense, a hard fork is a network upgrade set in motion when those governing a blockchain platform decide to add or fix certain features to the ecosystem.
In other words, when a hard fork takes place, the network splits into two versions that run separately, where one version follows existing features and rules while the other continues as an upgraded version of the network.
Expounding her view on the technical aspects of the upgrade, Charmyn Ho, head of crypto insights for cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, told Cointelegraph that at the application layer, Cardano's Vasil hard fork aims to bolster the network's current smart contracts to curate a better experience for both users and developers alike, adding:
"This will simultaneously lead to a more efficient building process with regard to applications on the chain. At the infrastructure level, the many upgrades that come with the Vasil hard fork will allow Cardano to increase its block size and TPS whilst maintaining its POS mechanism."
Ho further highlighted that the Vasil hard fork is aimed not just at improving the scalability of the chain and optimizing its existing features but also at bolstering the network's stability and connectivity. "This is a huge and prominent step forward for Cardano as the upgrade is expected to reduce the network's transaction costs while increasing transaction speeds," she added.
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Lastly, it is worth noting that Vasil is not Cardano's first major network upgrade because a year or so ago, the project witnessed the launch of another hard fork called Alonzo, which was designed to allow users to devise DApps using smart contracts. The Alonzo upgrade, alongside many other developments, was Cardano's way of providing users with an attractive alternative to Ethereum, another platform that allows for the seamless development of novel applications using smart contracts.
Why is Vasil so important?
Named after a prominent member of the Cardano community who passed away in 2021, Vasil St. Dabov, the upgrade will enhance the ecosystem's transaction throughput, efficiency and block latency speeds. Furthermore, the hard fork will see the implementation of a technique called diffusion pipelining, which seeks to improve block propagation times while increasing the network's transaction processing capabilities.
The Vasil hard fork will introduce three key Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs), namely CIP-31, CIP-32 and CIP-33. In this regard, CIP-31 will spur the introduction of a new reference input mechanism that will allow DApps to access transactional output data without having to recreate it as before, making the entire process extremely streamlined and time-saving. At the same time, CIP-32 is designed to enhance Cardano's native decentralization levels by introducing an on-chain data storage feature for network participants.
CIP-33 will make transactions lighter by making changes to the system's native programming script, allowing for faster processing as well as reduced fees. Lastly, another improvement called CIP-40 will be introduced as part of Vasil. It will introduce a new output transaction mechanism to help improve block transmission without full validation.
Other updates include an enhancement of Cardano's native smart contract programming language Plutus, which will now be more functionally advanced than its previous iteration. Not only that, Vasil will also improve the platform's security by making it easier to interface with Cardano's UTXO model (which has been built to resemble that of Bitcoin) while keeping its transaction load off-chain.
Potential effects on ADA
While the first round of the hard fork started on Sept. 22, the remaining upgrades are set to take effect on Sept 27. To this point, the second phase of the hard fork will look to redefine Plutus' cost model, which has a direct effect on the processing power and memory fees required to govern Cardano's native smart contracts.
In addition to the Vasil upgrade, the Cardano team revealed that it has been working tirelessly on the development of its layer-2 scaling solution — the Hydra head protocol — which is capable of processing transactions from the Cardano blockchain while still making use of it as its core security and settlement layer.
To this point, a recent update by the Cardano team revealed it had successfully addressed a known issue with Hydra's node framework. As things stand, the protocol does not have a fixed release date. However, the IOHK team has hinted that the offering could make its way into the market sometime in late 2022 or the first quarter of 2023.
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Vasil was originally slated to go live earlier this year but faced numerous setbacks. Even though the upgrade is live now, the ecosystem continues to reel in from the impact of these delays. For example, since the start of 2020, Cardano's native cryptocurrency, ADA, has continued to witness a dip in its transaction volume. Not only that, but from a purely price-performance standpoint, the upgrade has not been able to do much in terms of spurring ADA's value, with the currency trading down less than 1% on the week.
Despite ADA's price action continuing to remain quite lackluster, the fact that the Cardano ecosystem has made such tremendous strides over the past year shows that the project seems to be primed for big things in the near to mid-term.
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Rebecca Walker, Esq., is a partner in the law firm of Kaplan & Walker LLP, which specializes in corporate compliance and ethics, located in Santa Monica, California, and Princeton, New Jersey.
An interview byAdam Turteltaub, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & International Programs, SCCE & HCCA.
AT: Why should organizations conduct compliance and ethics (C&E) program assessments?
RW: In my view, conducting program assessments is a critically important exercise. When thinking about the preventive nature of much of our work in compliance, I often think of Sisyphus, rolling that big heavy boulder up the hill only to have it roll back down again every time. We in the C&E field toil every day to prevent misconduct, but it is difficult to demonstrate the efficacy of our work. How does one measure the harm (and money) saved in crimes prevented, in investigations not conducted, in business operations not interrupted?
The difficulty in quantifying the value of our work—and the return on investment of compliance resources—can lead to existential doubts of the highest order. Embarking upon an effort to prove that your program is working—to assess its effectiveness, to ascertain whether all those policies, communications, and training are actually reaching hearts and minds—can not only validate a program, it can also validate our C&E profession and our work as C&E professionals. And who doesn't need an occasional dose of validation?
Assessments are also important in that they help us understand where to focus our scarce compliance resources and help us get the (also scarce) attention of boards and senior leadership. In addition, assessments are increasingly a focus of government pronouncements. For example, the recent guidance from the Department of Justice's Criminal Division on Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs asks how often and how the company measures its culture of compliance and what steps the company has taken in response to its measurement of the compliance culture.[1]
AT: When assessing the ethical state of an organization, surveys are very popular. How instructive do you find them to be?
RW: Surveys can be very instructive on a number of levels. For program assessments, there are two primary types of information that surveys can help us explore: (1) the level of awareness of employees regarding various program elements, such as the hotline, the code, policy requirements, etc. and (2) employees' perceptions of important program indicia, such as senior leadership's support of compliance, employees' comfort level reporting concerns, and employees' fear of retaliation. Both of these types of information are useful in assessing a compliance program's efficacy.
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Despite A Promise, Chicago Has Made No Progress On Removal Of Lead Pipes
Last year, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a plan to remove Chicago's toxic lead pipes. But so far, not a single pipe has been replaced.
By Monica Eng
Troy Hernandez, an environmental justice activist with Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization shows a piece of lead pipe obtained from his residence during his home renovation, Friday, April 9, 2021 in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Hernandez recently spent $15,000 to replace the lead service lines bringing water into his home. Shafkat Anowar / AP Photo
Seven months ago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a plan to start removing the city's toxic lead pipes and finally address Chicago's enormous problem with lead in residential water. But Curious City has learned that city officials have made no progress in actually removing these brain damaging pipes, despite a timeline that said removal would start this spring. Now, officials say they are looking at "later this summer" instead.
With about 400,000 lead service lines hooked up to Chicago homes, the city has the largest inventory of these toxic connections in the nation. Chicago's building code required all single family homes, two-flats and sometimes even larger buildings to install lead lines until 1986, when the federal government banned them nationwide. Because of that building code a majority of Chicago homes are still connected to the water main with lead service lines, and at risk of having lead tainted tap water. Voluntary tests have shown lead in the water of more than two-thirds of Chicago homes tested. World health authorities stress that no level of ingested lead is safe. It can cause developmental problems in children as well as heart problems in adults.
So when Lightfoot finally announced a plan to start removing some of these lead lines last September, environmental and health advocates were pleased. Last year it was still unclear where much of the funding would come from for Lightfoot's plan but President Joe Biden recently earmarked $45 billion for lead line replacement in his upcoming infrastructure plan. Additionally, U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have pushed for funding specific to Illinois, which has more lead lines than any other state.
But the city has still not removed a single lead service line since the mayor announced the plan seven months ago.
"They just don't seem to be getting the sense of urgency that this needs or the idea that they need to get started," said Tom Neltner, the chemicals policy director with the Environmental Defense Fund. "You can't begin to solve this problem if you aren't actually removing the lead pipes."
No lead removal more than half a year after announcing plan
Two main tenets of the mayor's plan include:
A program to waive city fees for affected homeowners who want to pay to replace their lead lines.
An Equity Lead Service Line Replacement program to give free replacements to low income residents with high levels of lead in their water.
Still, no Chicago households have had their lead lines removed under these plans so far.
This may be because the city didn't even allow residents to start applying until March 11 of this year, despite assurances from officials the applications would be open before the end of 2020. But it could also be that the eligibility requirements to qualify for the free Equity Removal Program are so burdensome that few residents will be able to qualify.
The program requires that homes show "consistent" lead levels in their water of no less than 15 parts per billion. This is a level three times higher than what is allowed in bottled water, and a level that is in no way considered a "health standard." In fact, the National Institutes of Health say no level of lead exposure is safe. Still, Chicago officials will require homes to show levels of 15 parts per billion or higher in more than one round of testing in order to qualify.
"The conditions for 15 ppb doesn't make sense," said Neltner, who has been studying municipal lead line removal programs at the EDF. He said lead levels aren't always consistent so it's possible a home could show 15 ppb one week and show a lower level a few months later. One test should be enough to get access to the program.
Water Department officials said they expected to replace about 600 lead lines through the Equity program this year using already procured federal block grant money. But they would not tell Curious City how many applications they have received to date nor how many, if any, have actually been approved. Water Department officials did confirm that they have not removed any lead lines under the Equity program yet and would, in fact, not even start until "later this summer." The original timeline, however, said "construction" would start this spring.
Neltner is frustrated by the slow pace of the program, noting that spring and summer are the prime seasons for lead line replacement because "it's a lot easier to do it when the ground's not frozen."
He's also concerned that the equity program bases eligibility on the landlord's income rather than the residents' income, especially in rental units. He believes it will likely result in many low-income renters staying in homes with lead-tainted water because eligibility for the program would require, for example, that the building owner's family of three have an income less than $65,550.
"By conditioning it on income and focusing on single family homes, they are ignoring tenants who are traditionally more exposed to lead because the housing is not in good shape," he said. "So it seems to me they are missing the people who are most at risk for lead."
An analysis by the Metropolitan Planning Council confirmed that in Illinois, low-income people of color reside in communities with the highest rates of lead service lines and thus risk the greatest exposures to lead tainted water.
Crews work in Gary, Indiana to remove old lead water lines as part of a program that will be paid for by all Indiana American Water ratepayers. Monica Eng / WBEZ
Pilot won't launch until a full year after plan
The mayor's plan also promised that the city would launch a separate one-block pilot program to try removing lead lines where the crews are already replacing the water mains. In Detroit, water officials told Curious City they save $1,500 to $2,000 per home by replacing the lead lines at the same time as the water mains. Yet, under Mayor Rahm Emanuel the city refused to take advantage of these savings. Instead city crews replaced hundreds of miles of water mains without doing any proactive line replacements.
Still, water officials tell WBEZ they won't even begin the pilot program until fall of 2021, a full year after the pilot was announced. The original timeline pegged the program for summer.
Why won't they begin sooner?
As of press time, officials hadn't answered Curious City's questions about this.
Chicago will pay five times the average cost
In Detroit, the average lead line replacement costs is $5,000 while Chicago officials estimate costs of $19,000 to $26,000.
Neltner is puzzled about why Chicago's estimates are so high.
"That is a mystery to me. Five thousand is what most communities see throughout the country and Cincinnati has been able to drive the cost to around $3,500 because they have learned how to do it quickly and efficiently," Neltner said.
Megan Vidis at the Water Department said the estimated costs in Chicago are so high because of "the necessity of working around dense underground infrastructure, regulations concerning water and sewer separation, and the costs associated with repair and restoration of the public way. The findings from the first year of the replacement programs will inform efforts to refine and reduce costs moving forward."
But this can only happen if the city actually begins to remove the lead pipes.
Monica Eng is a WBEZ reporter who has been following the lead in water issue for Curious City for several years.
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Lead Pipes? Lessons From Cities Getting It Done
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Зенепе Пиранић (Подгорица, 10. мај 1910 — Скадар, 5. јул 2021) била је албанска суперстогодишњакиња  која је у тренутку смрти била најстарија жива особа у Албанији као и најстарија особа на Балкану. Такође је и најстарија позната особа која је икада рођена у данашњој Црној Гори и која је икада живела у Албанији.

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Рођена је у Подгорици, 10. маја 1910. године. Према писању албанских медија, у Скадар је дошла из Црне Горе 1926. године, заједно са још четири сестре и родитељима. Верила се врло млада, са 16 година, удала и остала у Албанији, а након рата њена породица се вратила у Црну Гору, где и данас живе потомци њених сестара. Преживела је два светска рата, али и две светске пандемије. Рођена је две године пре него што је настала држава у којој је живела. Супруг Хасан јој је преминуо 2001. године, након чега је остала сама, нису имали деце, живели су заједно од 1926. године, пуних 75 година.

Почетком марта 2021. године, у доби од 110 година, примила је вакцину против вируса Ковид-19, што је чини једном од најстаријих особа на свету које су је примили. Истог месеца посетио ју је и премијер Албаније Еди Рама.

У последње две ипо године о њој се бринула организација задужена за бригу о старим лицима са територије града Скадра која ју је и сахранила.

Зенепе је преминула у Скадру, 5. јула 2021. године у доби од 111 година и 56 дана.

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Рођени 1910.
Умрли 2021.
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Trump Says He 'Never Met' Author Who Has Accused Him of Sexual Assault
By Brian Bennett
Updated: June 21, 2019 6:12 PM ET | Originally published: June 21, 2019 5:56 PM EDT
President Donald Trump said Friday that he "never met" a New York advice columnist and author who claims that he sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a high-end New York department store in the 1990s.
In a statement, Trump said "there is zero evidence" to support longtime Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll's account of a chance meeting with Trump at Bergdorf Goodman that she says ended with assault.
Carroll recounts the episode in an upcoming memoir, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, an excerpt of which was published in New York magazine earlier in the day.
"I've never met this person in my life," Trump said in the statement. "She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section."
The article includes a photo of Trump and Carroll, along with their then-spouses at an NBC party around 1987.
In the book, Carroll says that she ran into Trump while shopping in the fall of 1995 or spring of 1996, and he asked her for advice on a gift "for a girl," joking with her about a lacy bodysuit as she heads toward the dressing room.
"The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips," she writes.
She added that he then unzipped his pants, "forcing his fingers around my private area" and "thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I'm not certain — inside me."
Read More: These Are the Women Who Have Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct
Carroll's allegations are the most serious yet against Trump of sexual misconduct. Eighteen other women have come forward to publicly describe incidents in which Trump kissed them without their consent, grabbed their breasts or put his hand up their skirts, at times with little warning and in public places.
Trump called his accusers liars and threatened to sue them after the election. He did not, though he currently faces a defamation suit from one of the women, former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos.
In the statement, Trump argued that false sexual assault allegations are "an epidemic," an argument that he made during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, when he said that it was a "a very scary time for young men in America."
"Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda," he said in the statement. "It's just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence. Worse still for a dying publication to try to prop itself up by peddling fake news — it's an epidemic."
Shortly before the election, the Washington Post obtained a tape of Trump with "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush in which Trump said that his celebrity has given him an opening to assault women.
"I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," Trump was recorded saying. "Grab them by the p—y. You can do anything." During the second presidential debate on Oct. 10, 2016, Trump described his words on the tape as "locker room talk," and apologized to his family and the American people. "I'm not proud of it," he said.
Read a Transcript of Trump's TIME Interview


My mom and step-dad took my baby brother and I to a Steelers pre-game last night (an early birthday present for me. They had an extra ticket and I had never been to a game.) The traffic was incredible. We left an hour early, jumped out of the car on the ramp half a mile away from the stadium (leaving my stepdad to wait in the huge line to go park), kick off happened while we were still waiting at the gate. My step-dad didn't get there for another 30 min. or so.
It was a stunningly perfect day for a football game, especially for early August. Perfect jeans and t-shirt weather with a beautiful sunset, only needing jackets towards the end. We were on the top floor (whatever they call them) though our seats were on the low side.
In fact, we were abuot halfway up in the middle of the picture above.
And see what I mean about the sky?
You see those cars, over there by the river? Those are all cars WAITING TO PARK! A lot of the people standing over on the ramp are people who hadn't gotten to their seats yet and decided to wait and watch from there.
Yes, I believe I took more photos of the Pittsburgh skyline than of the game but it was stunning!
Oooo, the llights are coming on.
And tho whole time my baby brother was elbowing me, flicking me, and trying to distract me from the awesome view, or maybe he wanted me to be quiet and watch the game. This is just before they got a field goal. Did I mention that they won?
16 to 10 against the Philadelphia whatever they are called.
See, I don't know how this couple who was sitting below us is going to make it–he is for the Phili guys and kept screaming about them, and she is for the Steelers and screeamed when he wasn't.
Then there was this guy, Mr. Bullhorn-voiced-shouty-pants. He ony shouted something about efen which we finally realized was "defense" and he was sure that they could hear him all the way down on the field, or at least he was intent on trying. He was 5 seats behind us, and everyone who could moved further away.
The sheer quantity of people was absolutely amazing. We got to walk all the way to the car, which was nice after sitting so long.
It was a fun time and I got to pick on my baby brother a lot and keep an eye on Mom, who broke her wrist, has it in a cast and can't bump it or anything or they will have to do surgery. Thanks Mom and Churck!
Looks like you all had a fun time!
WOW those are terrific pictures. How fun, I love footbakk but have never been to a game.
I've always thought a professional football game would be fun. We've gone to professional baseball games in the past and I've always enjoyed them and I am not even a baseball fan.
Great pictures, that looks like a lot of fun and looks like you had a great view of everything!!
Awesome to go to a winning game!! Look at all that black & yellow! Gorgeous skylines–that alone was worth the trip.
I am so jealous. We saw this game on tv. What a treat to actually be there in the middle of the action. Wanted to give you a heads up that we are, indeed, coming home to PA. We will be packing up the truck on the 18th and hopefully pulling out on the 19th. Say a little prayer for us. There are still lots of lose ends to tie up, but we are trusting that everything will fall into place.


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David Cherry may refer to:

 David A. Cherry (born 1949), American artist, author, and illustrator
 David Cherry (rugby union) (born 1991), Scottish rugby union player


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Following a successful supperclub back in January, Dining with BPR has decided to add one more date for the month of April.
You will be asked to pay £20 deposit to secure a seat. The remaining £40 can be paid cash on the day itself.
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