Come enjoy a Christmas concert by the Greensboro Chamber Choir! Yes, the same choir that took Carnegie Hall by storm in November 2017 with their performance of Handel's Messiah is coming to Highgate on December 1. This an event for the whole family, with Christmas Cookies, Popcorn and Apple Cider being served before the concert. For the adults, there will be a cash bar for an additional bit of Christmas cheer.


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Q: How to retain data gained from multiple requests in EF Core? I have asp.net core web api with React client. I'm adding data through my user interface created in React. In my api, Db context is added as scoped service, and each time my request finishes and new one is started, all my data from previous request is lost.
This is how my Configure services looks like:
 services.AddDbContext<TicketingContext>(o=>o.UseLazyLoadingProxies().UseSqlServer(connectionString));

Controller method for posting data looks like this:
 [HttpPost("{id}/tickets")]
    public IActionResult CreateNewTicket(string id,
        [FromBody] TicketForCreationDto ticketForCreation)
    {
        if (ticketForCreation == null)
        {
            return BadRequest();
        }

        var ticketEntity = _mapper.Map<Ticket>(ticketForCreation);
        _ticketRepository.AddNewTicket(ticketEntity);
        _ticketRepository.AddTicketToClient(id, ticketEntity);
        if (!_ticketRepository.Save())
        {
            throw new Exception("Creating ticket failed on save");
        }

        var ticketToReturn = _mapper.Map<TicketDto>(ticketEntity);

        return CreatedAtRoute("GetTicket", new {id=id, ticketId = ticketToReturn.Id }, ticketToReturn);
    }

and methods in repository like this:
AddNewTicket:
  public void AddNewTicket(Ticket ticket)
    {
        if (ticket.Id == Guid.Empty)
        {
            ticket.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
        }

        var dispatcher = AssignTicketToDispatcher(ticket);
        if (dispatcher == null)
        {
            throw new Exception("There are no dispatchers matching this ticket");
        }

        dispatcher.UserTickets.Add(new UserTicket()
        {
            IdentityUser = dispatcher,
            Ticket = ticket,
            UserId = dispatcher.Id,
            TicketId = ticket.Id
        });

        _context.Tickets.Add(ticket);
    }

AddTicketToClient:
  public void AddTicketToClient(string id, Ticket ticket)
    {
        var client = _identityUserRepository.GetClient(id);
        if (client == null)
        {
            client = _context.Users.Where(u => u.UserName == "username").FirstOrDefault();
        }
        client.UserTickets.Add(new UserTicket()
        {
            IdentityUser = client,
            Ticket = ticket,
            UserId = client.Id,
            TicketId = ticket.Id
        });
    }

Save:
 public bool Save()
    {
        return (_context.SaveChanges() >= 0);
    }

I want to be able to store data gained through multiple requests.
Does anyone have idea how to do that?

A: Use the database as it's the best method you have for persisting your data.
So When you do a request - at the end of the request, after your latest data is saved - query for the data from previous requests that you need and return it.
e.g. retrieve the last 5 requests saved newest first (where id is example for your primary key field):
var latestSaved = _context.UserTickets.OrderByDescending(x => x.id).Take(5);

Or amend to return all relevant data for e.g. active user by passing a user id stored client side.
Pass through any params you need to request the relevant data.
Use joins / includes set up in your entities. Whatever you need to do - make use of your entity relationships to get what you need from you database. Why try and replicate what it already does? :)

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The culture of Belarus is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors. These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians (the merger of Slavic newcomers with Baltic natives); the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a link to the Byzantine literary and cultural traditions; the country's lack of natural borders; the flow of rivers toward both the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea; and the variety of religions in the region (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam).

An early Western influence on Belarusian culture was Magdeburg Law—charters that granted municipal self-rule and were based on the laws of German cities. These charters were granted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by grand dukes and kings to a number of cities, including Brest, Grodno, Slutsk, and Minsk. The tradition of self-government not only facilitated contacts with Western Europe but also nurtured self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and a sense of civic responsibility.

In 1517-19 Francysk Skaryna (ca. 1470–1552) translated the Bible into the vernacular (Old Belarusian). Under the communist regime, Skaryna's work was vastly undervalued, but in independent Belarus he became an inspiration for the emerging national consciousness as much for his advocacy of the Belarusian language as for his humanistic ideas.

From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, when the ideas of humanism, the Renaissance, and the Reformation were alive in Western Europe, these ideas were debated in Belarus as well because of trade relations there and because of the enrollment of noblemen's and burghers' sons in Western universities. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation also contributed greatly to the flourishing of polemical writings as well as to the spread of printing houses and schools.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Poland and Russia were making deep political and cultural inroads in Belarus by assimilating the nobility into their respective cultures, the rulers succeeded in associating "Belarusian" culture primarily with peasant ways, folklore, ethnic dress, and ethnic customs, with an overlay of Christianity. This was the point of departure for some national activists who attempted to attain statehood for their nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The development of Belarusian literature, spreading the idea of nationhood for the Belarusians, was epitomized by the literary works of Yanka Kupala (1882–1942) and Yakub Kolas (1882–1956). The works of these poets, along with several other outstanding writers, became the classics of modern Belarusian literature by writing widely on rural themes (the countryside was where the writers heard the Belarusian language) and by modernizing the Belarusian literary language, which had been little used since the sixteenth century. Post-independence authors in the 1990s continued to use rural themes widely.

Unlike literature's focus on rural life, other fields of culture—painting, sculpture, music, film, and theater—centered on urban reality, universal concerns, and universal values.

Music

The first major musical composition by a Belarusian was the opera  by Antoni Radziwiłł. In the 17th century, Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko composed many operas and chamber music pieces while living in Minsk. During his stay, he worked with Belarusian poet Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich and created the opera Sialianka (Peasant Woman). At the end of the 19th century, major Belarusian cities formed their own opera and ballet companies. The ballet Nightingale by M. Kroshner was composed during the Soviet era.

After World War II, the music focused on the hardships of the Belarusian people or on those who took up arms in defense of the homeland. This was the time period that Anatoly Bogatyrev, the creator of the opera 'In Polesia Virgin Forest', served as the "tutor" of Belarusian composers. The National Academic Theatre of Ballet, in Minsk, was awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse in 1996 as the top ballet company in the world.

Popular Soviet Belarusian music was composed by several prominent bands, many of whom performed Belarusian folk music. Folk rock act Pesniary, formed in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin, became the most popular folk band of the Soviet Union, and often toured over Europe. Pesniary's example inspired Syabry and Verasy to follow their way. The tradition of Belarus as a centre of folk and folk rock music is continued today by Stary Olsa, Vicious Crusade and Gods Tower, among others.

Rock music of Belarus arose in Perestroika times. Bands like Bi-2 (currently living in Russia), Lyapis Trubetskoy, Krama and ULIS were founded in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Though rock music has risen in popularity in recent years, the Belarusian government has suppressed the development of popular music through various legal and economic mechanisms. Because of these restrictions, many Belarusian bands prefer to sign up to Russian labels and to perform in Russia or Ukraine.

Researchers Maya Medich and Lemez Lovas reported in 2006 that "independent music-making in Belarus today is an increasingly difficult and risky enterprise", and that the Belarusian government "puts pressure on 'unofficial' musicians - including 'banning' from official media and imposing severe restrictions on live performance." In a video interview on freemuse.org the two authors explain the mechanisms of censorship in Belarus.

Since 2004, Belarus has been sending artists to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Dress

The traditional two-piece Belarusian dress originated from the time of Kievan Rus', and continues to be worn today at special functions. Due to the cool climate of Belarus, the clothes were made out of fabrics that provide closed covering and warmth. They were designed with either many threads of different colors woven together or adorned with symbolic ornaments. Belarusian nobles usually had their fabrics imported and chose the colors of red, blue or green. Males wore a shirt and trousers adorned with a belt, while females wore a longer shirt, a wrap-around skirt called a "paniova", and a headscarf. The outfits were also influenced by the dress worn by Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians and other European nations and have changed over time due to improvements in the techniques used to make clothing. Embroidery plays an important role in Belarusian traditions.

World Heritage Sites
Belarus has four World Heritage Sites, with two of them being shared between Belarus and its neighboring countries. The four are the Mir Castle Complex, the Nesvizh Castle, the Białowieża Forest (shared with Poland), and the Struve Geodetic Arc (shared with Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Moldova, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine).

Literature

Belarusian literature began with 11th- to 13th-century religious writing; the work of 12th-century poet Cyril of Turaw is representative. Rhyming was common in these works, which were generally written in Old Belarusian, Latin, Polish or Church-Slavic. By the 16th century, Polotsk resident Francysk Skaryna translated the Bible into Belarusian.  It was published in Prague and Vilnius between 1517 and 1525, making it the first book printed in Belarus or anywhere in Eastern Europe. The modern period of Belarusian literature began in the late 19th century; one important writer was Yanka Kupala. Many of the writers at the time, such as Uładzimir Žyłka, Kazimir Svayak, Yakub Kolas, Źmitrok Biadula and Maksim Haretski, wrote for a Belarusian language paper called Nasha Niva, published in Vilnius. After (Eastern) Belarus was incorporated into the Soviet Union, the government took control of Belarusian culture, and until 1939 free development of literature occurred only in the territories incorporated into Poland (Western Belarus). Several poets and authors went into exile after the Nazi occupation of Belarus, not to return until the 1960s. In post-war literature, the central topic was World War II (known in Belarus as the Great Patriotic War), that had particularly left particularly deep wounds in Belarus (Vasil' Bykaw, Ales Adamovich etc.); the pre-war era was also often depicted (Ivan Melezh). A major revival of the Belarusian literature occurred in the 1960s with novels published by Vasil' Bykaw and Uladzimir Karatkievich.

Theater
Belarusian theater also began to gain popularity in the early 1900s, with Ihnat Bujnicki considered to be its founder. However, some prominent plays like Dunin-Marcynkevič's Pinskaja Šliachta [Pinsk Gentry] were written in the 19s century. One of Belarus's most famous plays, Paulinka (written by Yanka Kupala), was performed in Siberia for the Belarusians who were being sent to the region.  Documentation of Belarusian folk music stretches back to at least the 15th century. Prior to that, skomorokhs were the major profession for musicians.  A neumatic chant, called znamenny, from the word znamena (Russian: знамёна - signs), meaning sign or neume, was used until the 16th century in Orthodox church music, followed by two hundreds of stylistic innovation that drew on the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. In the 17th century, Partesnoe penie, part singing, became common for choruses, followed by private theaters established in cities like Minsk and Vitebsk. Popular music groups that came from Belarus include Pesniary, Dreamlin and NRM. Currently, there are 27 professional theater groups touring in Belarus, 70 orchestras, and 15 agencies that focus on promoting concerts.

In 2005, playwrights Nikolai Khalezin and Natalya Kolyada founded the Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre project dedicated to resisting pressure and censorship by government of Belarus. The group performs in private apartments and at least one such performance was broken up by special forces of the Belarusian police  The Belarus Free Theatre has attracted the support of notable Western writers such as Tom Stoppard, Edward Bond, Václav Havel, Arthur Kopit and Harold Pinter.

Puppet theatre
Batlejka, an amateur puppet theatre, became popular in Belarus in the 16th century, with the peak of its popularity falling on the 18-19th centuries. The first professional puppet theatre, the Belarusian State Puppet Theatre () was established in Homiel in 1938.

Russian impact
Following the Partitions of Poland, Imperial Russia enacted a policy of de-polonisation of the Ruthenians. However, even after many cases when the Belarusian peoples were subjected to what some call Russification, it was clear that this created a distinct ethnicity and a distinct culture that was neither Polish nor Russian. In 1897 census most of the population referred to their language as Belarusian rather than Ruthenians (and interpreted as Russian by Tsarist authorities), as they did during Polish rule.

It was the 20th century that fully allowed Belarus to show its culture to the world. Notable Belarusian poets and writers included Yanka Kupala, Maksim Bahdanovič, Vasil' Bykaw, and Uladzimir Karatkievich. Also helped was the korenizatsiya policy of the Soviet Union which encouraged local level nationalism. The Belarusian language was numerously reformed to fully represent the phonetics of a modern speaker. However, some contemporary nationalists find that the Russian influence has taken its toll too much. At present the Russian language is being used in official business and in other sections of Belarusian society.

Festivals

The Belarusian government sponsors many annual cultural festivals: Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk; "Minsk Spring"; "Slavonic Theatrical Meetings"; International Jazz Festival; National Harvesting Festival; "Arts for Children and Youth"; Competition of Youth Variety Show Arts; "Muses of Nesvizh"; "Mir Castle"; and the National Festival of the Belarusian Song and Poetry. These events showcase talented Belarusian performers, whether it is in music, art, poetry, dance or theater. At these festivals, various prizes named after Soviet and Belarusian heroes are awarded for excellence in music or art. The contemporary nationalists argue that most of these sponsored events have nothing to do with the Belarusian culture, let alone the culture as such, however all the events are subject to the expertise of the Belarusian Ministry of Culture. Several state holidays, like Independence Day or Victory Day draw big crowds and include various displays such as fireworks and military parades. Most of the festivals take place in Vitebsk or Minsk.

Sport

From the 1952 Helsinki Games until the end of the Soviet era, Belarus competed in the Olympic Games as part of the Soviet Olympic squad. During the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Belarus competed as part of the Unified Team. The nation's athletes competed in an Olympic Games as Belarusians for the first time during the 1994 Lillehammer Games. Belarus has won a total of 52 Olympic medals; 6 gold, 17 silver and 29 bronze. Belarus's National Olympic Committee has been headed by President Lukashenko since 1997; he is the only head of state in the world to hold this position.

The national football team has never qualified for a major tournament; however, BATE Borisov has played in the Champions League. Receiving heavy sponsorship from the government, ice hockey is the nation's most popular sport. The national hockey team finished fourth at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics following a memorable upset win over Sweden in the quarterfinals, and regularly competes in the World Championships, often making the quarterfinals. Numerous Belarusian players are present in the Kontinental Hockey League in Eurasia, particularly for Belarusian club HC Dinamo Minsk, and several have also played in the National Hockey League in North America. Darya Domracheva is a leading biathlete whose honours include three gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Tennis player Victoria Azarenka became the first Belarusian to win a Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open in 2012. She also won the gold medal in mixed doubles at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Max Mirnyi, who holds ten Grand Slam titles in doubles. Aryna Sabalenka won the 2018 Wuhan Open singles tournament.

Other notable Belarusian sportspeople include cyclist Vasil Kiryienka, who won the 2015 Road World Time Trial Championship, and middle-distance runner Maryna Arzamasava, who won the gold medal in the 800m at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics.

Belarus is also known for its strong rhythmic gymnasts. Noticeable gymnasts include Inna Zhukova, who earned silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Liubov Charkashyna, who earned bronze at the 2012 London Olympics and Melitina Staniouta, Bronze All-Around Medalist of the 2015 World Championships. The Belorussian senior group earned bronze at the 2012 London Olympics.

Andrei Arlovski, who was born in Babruysk, Byelorussian SSR, is a current UFC fighter and the former UFC heavyweight champion of the world.

Belarus featured a men's national team in beach volleyball that competed at the 2018–2020 CEV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup.

See also
 List of museums in Belarus
Belarusian folk dance

References

External links
 Literarure
 Belarusian Writers And The Soviet Past
 Belarus, Ukraine, Russia React To Alexievich's Nobel Prize
 "Second-Hand" Coverage: Alexievich's Nobel Prize In The Belarus' Media
 Art
 Contemporary Belarusian Art and Painting
 National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus
 Performance biennial International
 Travelling
 Belarus – Why Visit?
 Why Do So Few Tourists Visit Belarus?
 Eastern Belarus: What To See And Do
 Western Belarus: What To See And Do

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The first involves a Michigan Supreme Court case that may provide an opportunity for families to maintain a low property tax base on the family cottage for generations and the other involves the repeal of the Michigan Business Tax ("MBT") that may allow some older, closely held C Corporations the opportunity to save some income taxes.
This is a Michigan Supreme Court opinion ruling on a property tax "uncapping" case revolving around the question of whether the creation of a joint tenancy allowed the local assessor to "uncap" the property. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court held that neither the creation of a joint tenancy nor the termination of that joint tenancy would create an uncapping event. *Caveat – this is a simplification of the holding for purposes of highlighting this planning opportunity.
Property Tax Capping – Where did it come from and why is it important?
The issue of capping and uncapping of property taxes stems from the 1995 Amendments to the General Property Tax Act (GPTA) of the State of Michigan which put a cap on the amount of increases that an assessor could add to the taxable value of a piece of property. The cap was set at the lesser of 5% of the assessed value of the property for the previous year, or the increase in the rate of inflation from the previous year. Although this does not become much of an issue for the first several years of ownership typically, if a family has owned a desirable and quickly appreciating property (typically a lake cottage) for a long time, then it is likely that the cap on assessment of property tax may play a significant role in the family's ability to continue to own the property after transfer from the first generation. For example, a lake cottage that was purchased 25 years ago for $250,000 may, because the increase in taxes have been capped, be taxed at the equivalent of a $400,000 property value, even though the actual value of the property may be closer to $1,250,000. So, if the transfer to the next generation "uncaps" the property, then instead of being taxed like a $400,000 house, the property would be taxed like a $1,250,000 house, more than tripling the annual tax payments on the property. Often, this uncapping event makes it impractical, if not impossible, for the family to continue to own and use the lake cottage as a family cottage, and necessitates the sale of the family cottage in order to get out from under the heavy property tax obligation.
Family Cottages. The Kloostercase provides a potential planning opportunity to avoid the uncapping of the property tax on the Family Cottage through the creation of an ownership with the next generation through joint tenancy instead of straight gift from the parents' (the original owners) trust or estate. The Klooster case interpreted the creation of joint tenancies by original owners to avoid an uncapping event. So, if one of the parents (the original buyer/owner) creates an ownership by joint tenancy with one of their children and then the parent dies, the property tax would remain capped even though the original owners (the parents) no longer own the property. This scenario should also work with multiple children becoming joint owners, but would also create additional estate planning issues that should be dealt with at the same time.
Third Party –Step Transaction. The case also appears to open the door for a third party step transaction whereby an unrelated third party could "buy" a joint tenancy interest in the property (creating a joint tenancy with the original owner) and then at some later date (maybe the next day) buy the remaining joint tenancy interest from the original owner (thus terminating the joint tenancy). It appears from the Klooster case and the GPTA that neither of these separate transactions would uncap the property, which would have the effect of continuing the low property tax rate on the property for as long as the buyer owned the real estate. This type of transaction stretches the holding farther than the Family Cottage example.
It must be noted that this change in the case law has not yet been thoroughly tested. It is always possible that either the courts will reverse themselves, or the legislature will step in and revise the underlying statute. However, at the moment it appears that this case provides significant opportunity to structure real estate transactions in such a way to maintain a low property tax basis for at least one additional generation.
The repeal of the Michigan Business Tax was a great relief for pass through entities (LLC's and S-Corporations) throughout the State of Michigan. The Michigan Business Tax will be replaced by the Corporate Income Tax (the "CIT"), which will levy a tax only on C Corporations within the State of Michigan. Since we are now entering a period where only C Corporations are taxed at the state level, it may be a good time for some older, closely held C Corporations to again review whether converting to an S Corporation may be beneficial. If the owners of the C Corporation are all individuals, and the C Corporation does not have any NOL carry-forwards on its books that it needs to use, it may be beneficial in avoiding the CIT to convert to an S Corporation as of January 1, 2012. Your accountant should be able to help you run the numbers on this situation to see if such conversion would be of benefit to you.
We are always willing to help our clients take advantages of the planning opportunities presented by changes in the law. Call us for a consultation.


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June 2, 2020 May 28, 2020 Doing History in Public2 Comments on The Hanging Baskets of a Medieval German Prague: English Travel Literature from 1815 to 1848
The Hanging Baskets of a Medieval German Prague: English Travel Literature from 1815 to 1848
By Jana Hunter @janakhunter
At the heart of Europe lies Prague: a city centred around the River Moldau, embodying antiquity, mysticism and the sublime. Its imposing and grandiose scenes received little attention from travel writers up until the Napoleonic Wars. Through travel literature, Prague emerged as a fantastical city providing escapism, both physically and mentally, for travellers. Mapped like a medieval German city, and located in Central Europe, Prague was home to a dynamic cultural milieu. Yet, it was also deemed to be uncivilised, possessing an Oriental grandeur. This contentious portrayal epitomises the difficulty travellers had – and continue to have – in defining the city and challenges the powerful concept of a binary Europe.
In the eye of the traveller, Prague was revered as a German city but located conceptually outside of Germany. Subject to a strong current of Germanisation by Emperor Joseph II, Prague was imbued with 'Germanness'. Charles Sealsfield, writing in 1828, extolled Prague as 'one of the most picturesque and noble cities on the Continent; far more interesting than Berlin, or any other capital of Germany'.[1] Sites of interest and monuments were also contextualised as German, with John Strang depicting Charles Bridge as a 'magnificent stone structure [..] the longest in Germany'.[2] Conceptually, however, Prague fell into the sphere of 'non-European Othering', illuminated by travel writers when they were faced with an unknown element. John Aiton wrote that 'Sclavonic was entirely an unknown tongue', associating it with the lowest strata of society.[3] The presence of Bohemian(s), both as a language and people, dislocated the conceptual 'Germanness' of the city and as such, an Oriental depiction of the city emerged.[4] Located on the threshold of the East and the West, Prague was distanced from the idea of a modern German state, while its Bohemian expressions fostered a Euro-Orientalist perception.
The description of Prague as an 'Asiatic splendour' was circulated by travel writers. The panoramic view of Prague inspired a sense of the Oriental; George Gleig and Aiton comment on the 'hanging gardens' alluding to the ancient tale of the 'Hanging Baskets of Babylon', an infamous Oriental motif.[5] Prague's Orientalism is curious: arguably, the Oriental demeanour these writers imposed was an emblem for Bohemia's 'non-European otherness'.[6] Ezequiel Adamovsky suggests that Romanticism had an 'admiration for the Orient and its alleged ancient wisdom and social harmony'.[7] This splendour became associated with the 'exotic and sublime' transforming into a 'metaphor for the beauty of Prague'.[8] It was a way of regenerating an old and decadent Europe; the city was depicted as a cultural bastion, while also fitting it into the travellers' wider civilising mission.
Travel writers were determined to illustrate its 'wild and ungovernable' appearance.[9] Women and the poor were subject to cumbersome examinations by travellers, in an effort to civilise them and allow for the cultural rebirth of the city. Strang labels the 'lower classes' as a 'band of hungry tatterdemalions' nearly tearing him to pieces, before claiming that in comparison 'Swift's Yahoos might be said to have been well-behaved, civilised beings'.[10] The eroticisation of women can be encountered in the writers' dialogue and is a tradition rooted in the Grand Tour.[11] Gleig and Strang are enamoured by the women, describing them as 'Bohemia's fairest and noblest daughters', boasting 'all the elegance of contour which distinguishes the finest of female forms'.[12] This sexualisation pervades travel literature, with women's permissiveness anticipated. Strang illuminates their 'youth, beauty, and grace' making them 'irresistible' to the male gaze.[13] He then, however, intertwines their beauty with the immorality of Prague, 'their morality, indeed, if we are to pay any attention to the statistics of the town, is really at a very low ebb'.[14] These barren illustrations were entwined with the travel writers' Oriental representations, reinforcing their civilising mission and giving them a sense of authority in Prague.
Prague was – and still is – a timeless city of the past, allowing for a fantastical escape. There was a medieval spirit in the capital, embodied by its architecture and streets. Aiton's description of the city captures the impression it left on the travellers, 'But wherever the eye is turned, you see objects which carry your recollections far back into the past'.[15] A city characterised both as German and Oriental, the simplistic notion of a binary Europe is challenged. Prague – on the edge of the Slavic Orient – emerged as a target for the travel writers' wider civilising mission, but also presented an escape from the advances of the modernising West.
[1] Charles Sealsfield, Austria as it is: or, Sketches of continental courts, by an eye witness, (Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828), p. 87.
[2] John Strang, Germany in 1831, Volume 2, (Macrone, 1836), p. 278; John Murray, A handbook for travellers in southern Germany, Salzburg, Styria & the Austrian and Bavarian Alps and The Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea, including description of the most frequented baths and watering places; the principal cities, their museums, picture galleries, etc, the great high roads, and the most interesting and picturesque districts, also directions for travellers; and hints for tours, (John Murray and Son, 1837), p. 324.
[3] John Aiton, Eight Weeks in Germany: Comprising Narratives, Descriptions and Directions for Economical Tourists, (William Whyte and Company, 1842), p. 276; George. R. Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837, Vol 2, (John W. Parker, 1839).
[4] Peter Bugge, 'Something in the View Which Makes You Linger': Bohemia and Bohemians in British Travel Writing, 1836–1857', Central Europe 7, (2009), p. 16.
[5] Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, p. 287; Aiton, Eight Weeks in Germany, pp. 273 – 274.
[6] The idea of 'non-European Otherness' pertains to the notion that anything that was not of Western European tradition was 'Othered'.
[7] Ezequiel Adamovsky, 'Euro-Orientalism and the Making of the Concept of Eastern Europe in France, 1810 – 1880', The Journal of Modern History 77, (2005), p. 605.
[8] Bugge, 'Something in the View Which Makes You Linger', p. 16.
[9] Johan Georg Kohl, Austria. Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube, and the Military Frontier, (Chapman and Hall, 1843), p. 51.
[10] Strang, Germany in 1831, p. 189.
[11] Kay Dian Kriz, 'Introduction: The Grand Tour', Eighteenth-Century Studies 31, (1997), p. 88.
[12] Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, p. 289; Strang, Germany in 1831, p. 191.
[15] Aiton, Eight Weeks in Germany, p. 274.
Image: Prague Castle Courtyard circa 1830, http://www.fotohistorie.cz/FullFoto.aspx?photoID=38762
Categories Doing history in public, Research, UncategorizedTags Europe, Orientalism, Prague, Travel literature, visual culture
2 thoughts on "The Hanging Baskets of a Medieval German Prague: English Travel Literature from 1815 to 1848"
4namesfairgame June 2, 2020 — 6:51 pm
Really interesting topic and a brilliant read, thank you!
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Awareness of occupational hazards and utilization of safety measures among welders in Kaduna metropolis, northern Nigeria.
Sabitu K1, Iliyasu Z, Dauda MM.
Welders are exposed to a variety of occupational hazards with untoward health effects. However, little is known of welders' awareness of health hazards and their adherence to safety precautions in developing countries. This study assessed the awareness of occupational hazards and adherence to safety measures among welders in Kaduna metropolis in northern Nigeria.
A structured questionnaire was administered on a cross-section of 330 welders in Kaduna metropolis in northern Nigeria. Information was sought on their socio-demographic characteristics, their awareness of occupational hazards and adherence to safety measures.
All welders were males with a mean age of 35.7 +/- 8.4 years. The illiteracy rate was 7.6%. Overall, 257 (77.9%) of the welders were aware of one or more workplace hazards. This was positively influenced by educational attainment, age, nature of training and work experience. Of the 330 respondents, 282 (85.3%) had experienced one or more work-related accidents in the preceding year. The most common injuries sustained were cut/injuries to the hands and fingers (38.0%), back/waist pain (19%), arc eye injuries/foreign bodies (17.0%), burns (14.0%), hearing impairment (7.0%), fractures (4.0%) and amputation (1.0%). Only 113 (34.2%) welders used one or more types of protective device with eye goggles (60.9%), hand gloves (50.3%) and boots (34.5%) being more frequently used. Regular use of safety device, shorter working hours and increasing experience were protective of occupational accidents.
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Remarks At Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honorable Daniel Rooney as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
Treaty Room
Well, good afternoon, and welcome to the State Department. I came off the injured reserve list – (laughter) – in order to officiate at this ceremony because I could not be more delighted than to make official what is going to be so well received in Ireland and means so much to Americans, not only Irish Americans but all Americans, and that is the swearing-in of our new ambassador to Ireland.
Now, we do have special guests with us, and I thank the Irish chargé d'affaires for being here, Mr. McDaid, and I thank Mrs. Collins for being here as well. Her husband, the ambassador, is in Ireland as we speak. And having Senator Robert Casey, my colleague, here, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder is a special treat.
Now, I'm not sure that we specifically mentioned all of the Rooneys who are here. Please forgive us if we forgot anyone. But this is just a representative sampling of the Rooney family. (Laughter.)
You know, we may be meeting in Washington, but the city at the heart of today's celebration is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And in recent years, Pittsburgh has staged a remarkable comeback. It has made such great strides in transforming its economy and developing its high-tech sector, and those are accomplishments that led President Obama to select Pittsburgh as the site for the meeting of the G-20 this September.
Pittsburgh is rich in arts and culture, and, of course, it continues to shine in sports. It is, I think, an understatement to say that with the Pittsburgh Penguins winning their third Stanley Cup, and, of course, the Steelers winning the Super Bowl for a record-breaking sixth time, the site of Pittsburgh is not only a great place to showcase business, but also the success of American sports as well. (Applause.)
And today, we are celebrating the man behind the Steelers, one of Pittsburgh's leading citizens and our next ambassador to Ireland, Mr. Dan Rooney. Ambassador Rooney is assuming this post at a crucial time. Ireland is one of our closest allies. Our countries are connected by political, economic, cultural, and certainly familial ties. And we share a deep and rich history, one that continues today. It is sustained and enhanced by the millions of people in both nations whose family and loved ones live in the other. And I witnessed that firsthand when I marched in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh last year. I never saw so many people – until, of course, I got to Scranton, Bob. (Laughter.)
Forty million Americans boast Irish heritage, and I expect we have a few in the room today in addition to the Rooneys. And as every American can attest, those of our neighbors and friends who are sons and daughters of Ireland are fiercely proud of their ancestry. And we are so grateful to the Irish immigrants who sweated and sacrificed to build this country and who broke down barriers at every level of society.
The friendship between Ireland and the United States is vital to both of our nations, and President Obama and I are confident that it will deepen with Dan and Patricia Rooney in Dublin. We have a great team here together. This is a partnership. These are civic leaders and successful people who are also lifelong supporters of Ireland.
In the early 1970s, after a trip to Ireland in which Ambassador Rooney saw for himself the destructive effects of deprivation and division, he founded the American Ireland Fund. Today, the Ireland Funds operate in 11 countries worldwide, uniting people of Irish descent to further progress in their ancestral homeland. And as Dan Rooney knows, the children and grandchildren of immigrants often have a deep desire to contribute to the nation where their families got their start.
And so today, Chargé McDaid, we are sending you one of our very best. There is no greater champion of Irish-American relations than Dan Rooney. And in the months ahead, as we work together to address the many challenges we face, from the global economic downturn, to the threat of terrorism, to climate change, to the development of clean energy sources, as well as to our continuing emphasis on the peace process in Northern Ireland, I am confident that with Dan Rooney as our ambassador, our partnership will thrive, and that will benefit Ireland, the United States, and all the world's people.
So Ambassador Rooney, if you're ready, I am ready to administer the oath. Please raise your right hand.
(The Oath of Office was administered.)


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For the yellow stars that fall at night, see Fallen Star.
Stars (or Soul Cakes during Halloween and Sugar Plums during Christmas) are common powerups that can be dropped by any enemy (8.3% if you are below max mana). It is not an inventory item, but is instead instantly consumed and restores 100 mana. Stars are as common as Hearts, but only drop when a nearby player is below full mana.
It is also possible to spawn Stars (and their seasonal counterparts) with a Star Statue.
Soul Cakes are likely a reference to an older Halloween tradition called soul cakes, which is a small round cake which is traditionally made for All Saints Day or All Souls' Day to honor the dead. They were often simply referred to as souls, and were given out to children and the poor (known as soulers), who would then go from door to door on Halloween singing and saying prayers for the dead. Each cake eaten would represent a soul being freed from purgatory. The practice of this is often seen as the origin for modern trick-or-treating.
Although mana stars are instantly consumed on pickup, it is possible to hack in mana stars into your inventory through the use of editors. The hacked-in mana stars still act like normal mana stars, and will still be consumed on pickup.
Fixed bug where monsters that don't really die (Slimer, Mother Slime, Corrupt Slime) drop hearts and mana stars on shapeshifting (dying).
Desktop 1.2.2: Sugar Plums introduced.
Desktop 1.2.1: Soul Cakes introduced.
Desktop 1.0.6: Stars now give 100 mana instead of 20.
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The long-awaited Mass Effect: Andromeda is out now! Featuring an entirely new setting and story, Mass Effect: Andromeda is an ideal entry-point for franchise newcomers, presenting fresh story-led, action-RPG gameplay set hundreds of years after the events of the original Mass Effect Trilogy.
Below you can check out the graphics settings for the PC version, view four 4K screenshots captured at max detail levels using NVIDIA Ansel, and watch an exclusive 4K HDR video. And over here you can download the Mass Effect: Andromeda Game Ready driver, which optimizes performance and enables Ansel and SLI in the game.
If you've played other Frostbite Engine games, such as Battlefield 1 and Mirror's Edge Catalyst, you'll know that titles built on DICE and EA's engine run well and feature a good range of graphics options. Unsurprisingly then Mass Effect: Andromeda continues the trend, enabling you to scale image quality and performance to suit systems old and new.
As you can see below in screen captures of the graphics menu, Mass Effect: Andromeda gives you options for Ambient Occlusion, Anti-Aliasing, Chromatic Aberration, Effects Quality, Film Grain, Lighting Quality, Mesh Quality, Post-Process Effect Quality, Resolution Scaling, Shader Quality, Shadow Quality, Terrain Quality, Texture Filtering Quality, Texture Quality, and Vegetation Quality.
In total there are 16 options that affect image quality, most of which have several detail levels. Additionally, Mass Effect: Andromeda players with a HDR television, or a G-SYNC HDR monitor, can enable the best implementation of HDR seen to date on PC with one flick of a switch in the Video menu. Check out an exclusive first look at HDR in our 4K HDR video below:
For playing Mass Effect: Andromeda on PC, here's what BioWare and Electronic Arts recommend for Minimum settings at 1280x720, and High settings at 1920x1080:
Mass Effect: Andromeda Minimum System Requirements For 1280x720
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 or AMD FX 6350
GPU: GeForce GTX 660
OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
HDD: 55GB free space
Mass Effect: Andromeda Recommended System Requirements For 1920x1080
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, or GeForce GTX 970
If you wish to crank those 16 options to their maximum levels, or run at higher resolutions with higher framerates, you'll want to equip your system with a faster GPU, such as the GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1080, or newly-released GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
With enough horsepower you'll be able to run Mass Effect: Andromeda at 4K with maximum settings, an experience exemplified by the exclusive PC screenshots below. Each is captured at max settings at 4K using NVIDIA Ansel, with no additional post-processing or Photoshopping.
If you've not heard of NVIDIA Ansel before now, it's a powerful screenshot tool that enables you to capture unique, professional-grade 2D, 360° and Virtual Reality 360° screenshots on GeForce GTX graphics cards. During gameplay simply press Alt+F2 and you'll be able to frame and capture your own screenshots, and render them to your PC at resolutions up to 63,360 x 35,640, 33 times higher than 1920 x 1080.
If you're not geeking-out about all these graphics settings and features, and just want to play the game with a good framerate on your available hardware, load GeForce Experience and apply its one-click Optimal Playable Settings for the best possible experience from the second you load Mass Effect: Andromeda. GeForce Experience will automatically determine and apply the best settings for your CPU and GPU, whilst targeting a smooth 60 FPS.
With GeForce Experience you'll also be able to update your Game Ready drivers for improved performance, capture and share gameplay videos and screenshots, share NVIDIA Ansel screenshots, stream to Facebook Live, Twitch and YouTube, and play Mass Effect: Andromeda on your big-screen TV at up to 4K 60 FPS, with HDR, via GameStream.
If you want to know more about Mass Effect: Andromeda's single-player and multiplayer modes be sure to check out the game's official website. And before you start playing be sure to update to the Mass Effect: Andromeda Game Ready driver.


The DBMS_XDB_REPOS package provides an interface to operate on the Oracle XML database Repository.
The DBMS_XDB_REPOS package lets you operate on the Oracle XML DB Repository to create, modify and delete resources, including managing security based on access control lists (ACLs). The interface provides both query and DML functions. Using a combination of PL/SQL packages - DBMS_XDB_REPOS, DBMS_XDBZ, and DBMS_XDB_VERSION - you can create, delete, and rename documents and folders, move a file or folder within the folder hierarchy, set and change the access permissions on a file or folder, and initiate and manage versioning.
Owned by XDB, the DBMS_XDB_REPOS package must be created by SYS or XDB. The EXECUTE privilege is granted to PUBLIC. Subprograms in this package are executed using the privileges of the current user. Subprograms that operate on the XDB Configuration will succeed only if the current user is SYS or XDB, or the current user has the XDBADMIN or DBA role.
The DBMS_XDB_REPOS package uses the constants shown in Table 185-1, "DBMS_XDB_REPOS Constants".


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This made me realize that in order to be healed of our various sins, faults and weaknesses (whatever they may be), we need to be willing to look directly at them, to REALLY see them. Our tendency is to look the other way, to pretend we don't see anything wrong with us, or to see only what we want to see. Sometimes, we think we see our faults, when in reality we're only seeing part of the true problem. For example, we may see our angry words in response to someone who criticizes us – but we fail to see that beneath the anger lies our pride, our belief that we are above criticism of any kind. The anger will remain unhealed as long as the pride is unhealed. The only way to be healed is to look directly and honestly at the true fault, acknowledge it, and turn it over to God who has the power to remove it.
Let us ask the Lord to give us the courage to look directly at our weaknesses and accept His healing in our lives.
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Ex-cop's kidnapping trial continues today
Published:Monday | September 28, 2015 | 9:32 AM
The kidnapping trial of former policeman, Alpheus Wade enters its third week in the Home Circuit Court downtown Kingston today.
Wade is charged with the June 2011 kidnapping of businessman Marc Frankson.
The Crown has been presenting its case and it's expected that it will finish this week.
Last Friday, Detective Inspector Colin Campbell testified that the police recovered marked money from the motor vehicle belonging to the ex-cop which was reportedly used in the kidnapping case of Frankson.
In a police caution statement presented last Tuesday Wade confessed that he was involved in the kidnapping of the businessman.
The accused indicated that he was contacted by two men who told him that they had kidnapped Frankson.
However, he said he told them not to harm the businessman.
Frankson was rescued unharmed 16 hours after being taken.
His captors had demanded US$500,000 for his release.
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The distribution of personal information comes full circle each time someone is to deposit money on a fantasy sports website. This instantly transmits personal information across streams of internet information. While many sites have placed security measures to protect this information, no insurance can be completely guaranteed when money changes hands online. This is where Blockchain technology comes into play.
This cryptocurrency does not have an intrinsic value, meaning it cannot be exchanged for physical goods. This leaves the networking systems of transactions in a secure place. It also prevents from indecent exposure to personal banking information, personal credit cards, and other such saved information. This system is creating a transparent form into the way fantasy sports operates. Below is a detailed description of how this service works for the fantasy sports industry.
The main basis of operation for the Blockchain system occurs via Bitcoin technology. Bitcoins are forms of online currency, that can be exchanged for online services, online games, and other such industries.
This is where the notion meets the fantasy sports world. Previously, users would be prompted personal phone number, and all your personal card information. In the hands of the to enter debit/credit card information, which would create a direct link to a home address, wrong individual, this information could expose individuals to fraud and puts them at risk of a cyber-attack. The Bitcoin replaces this personal information with an account that does not display or require such provided details for operation. The separate entity of the account creates a block against obtaining these personal information details.
This alternative format will create a whole new exchange entity. Users will never be forced to produce personal information, nor will they have debit, credit, or PayPal funds travel through a stream of different entities. This newly found service will house their digital currency and nothing more, meaning less monitoring from threatening sources and increased security measures. The data stream and data collection also become more public and readily available. These data sets will be available to the world, the user, and the Blockchain company. This information will transmit across different sources and information streams, leaving little to hide from the fantasy industry and the Blockchain company. Leaving information out in the open will create transparency with an industry that has often taken some heat for previous foul play scandals. No longer will individuals be able to cheat the system or find loopholes into different information schemes. This is a positive notion that keeps the partnership between Blockchain and fantasy sports a solid, single entity.
The implementation of Blockchain technology will initially begin with Fantasy 6 Sports. Fantasy 6 offers daily fantasy sports contests, head-to- head competitions, and other such formats players have come to love. This technology will replace measures used in the past. Additionally, Blockchain will be working with a company called SecurePlay. Together they will produce this proprietary software and create a new format for how fantasy sports are operated, regulated, and tracked. While this start offers a small sample size for players and network popularity, it represents a step in the right direction. The software being implemented will change the way daily fantasy sports are operated. The daily contests and transactions will be changed completely with the implementation of these new services.
The end hope is to transmit this technology to sources all over the world. To date, DraftKings and FanDuel remain the largest operating daily fantasy sports entities. With the pending fusion of these two entities looming, this could be the breakthrough they need to make it happen.
Blockchain is open to lending these services to other entities in hopes of revolutionizing the fantasy sports world. The trial run of this technology is set to kick-off within a few weeks, leaving the results some time from entering the market. With the change from collected data sets and information to the real- time format, users and speculative individuals will be able to locate and track results in quick fashion.
This will help the market decide if this is a format that can be utilized moving forward. The initial recommendations and changes represent a new security platform that better protects the players. With money becoming an omitted entity, users can create better protection measures with ease and simplicity. This will hopefully draw more individuals to this industry that already has millions and millions of subscribers and followers. Within a few years, the way fantasy sports are optimized, tracked, and players will be safe for the millions of users participating in this continuously trending industry. With Blockchain, SecurePlay, and the players, fantasy sports can remain safe and fun for all involved.


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"Pilot," Written by Jess Oppenheimer & Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr.
Aired: CBS, 1951-1956
Though the show won an Emmy as Best Comedy, the writers were never so honored (in fairness, the Emmy for sitcom writing didn't exist until 1955). The five writers Jess Oppenheimer, the writing team of Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll Jr., and later the team of Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf churned out 181 episodes. Tom Gilbert, writing in The New York Times after Davis' death in 2011, noted that as the lone "girl writer," Davis had to type up scripts but was also called on to test out some of Lucy's more outlandish stunts (think a chocolate dipping assembly line). Of the relationship between Davis and Lucille Ball, Gilbert wrote: "They were for the purposes at hand the perfect complement to each other."
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Il plesso corioideo o coroideo è una struttura, presente all'interno dei ventricoli cerebrali, dove viene prodotto il liquido cefalorachidiano. Il plesso coroideo è costituito da cellule ependimali modificate.

Etimologia
Il termine plesso coroideo deriva dalla lingua latina. La parola corion fu usata da Galeno per riferirsi alla membrana esterna che racchiudeva il feto. Il significato del termine plesso è 'pieghettato' o 'intrecciato'. Sia l'uso del termine coroide o corioide è accettato ed utilizzato nei testi anatomici.

Struttura

Posizione
Ci sono quattro plessi coroidei nel cervello, uno in ciascuno dei ventricoli.

Il plesso coroideo è presente in tutti i componenti del sistema ventricolare ad eccezione dell'acquedotto cerebrale, del corno frontale, del corno occipitale dei ventricoli laterali.
Il plesso coroideo si trova nella parte superiore del corno inferiore del ventricolo laterale. Segue lungo questo confine, continuandosi nella zona inferiore del corpo dei ventricoli laterali. Passa nel forame interventricolare ed è presente nella parte superiore del terzo ventricolo.

Esiste anche un plesso coroideo nel quarto ventricolo, nella sezione più vicina alla metà inferiore del cervelletto.

Microanatomia
Il plesso coroideo è costituito da uno strato di cellule epiteliali cuboidali che circondano un nucleo di capillari e tessuto connettivo lasso.
L'epitelio del plesso coroideo è continuo con lo strato di cellule ependimali dei ventricoli, ma a differenza dell'ependima, lo strato epiteliale ha giunzioni strette tra le cellule sul lato rivolto verso il ventricolo (superficie apicale).
Queste giunzioni strette impediscono alla maggior parte delle sostanze di attraversare lo strato cellulare in direzione del liquido cerebrospinale (CSF). Quindi il plesso coroideo agisce come una barriera tra sangue e CSF (barriera emato-liquorale - BEL). Il plesso coroideo si piega in molti villi attorno a ciascun capillare, creando processi simili a "fronde" che si proiettano nei ventricoli cerebrali.

I villi, unitamente ai microvilli, aumentano notevolmente l'area superficiale del plesso coroideo. Il fluido cerebrospinale si forma quando il plasma viene filtrato dal sangue attraverso le cellule epiteliali. Le cellule epiteliali del plesso coroideo trasportano attivamente gli ioni sodio nei ventricoli e l'acqua segue sospinta dal risultante gradiente osmotico. Attraverso il plesso corioideo si svolge anche il trasporto attivo di molte sostanze, dentro e fuori dal fluido cerebrospinale.

Funzione
Oltre alla produzione di fluido cerebrospinale, il plesso coroideo agisce come un sistema di filtrazione, rimuovendo rifiuti metabolici, sostanze estranee e neurotrasmettitori in eccesso dal liquor. In questo modo il plesso coroideo ha un ruolo molto importante nell'aiutare a mantenere il delicato ambiente extracellulare richiesto dal cervello per funzionare in modo ottimale.

La barriera sangue-fluido cerebrospinale è una coppia di barriere che separa il sangue periferico e cerebrale dal liquido cerebrospinale (CSF). Questa barriera è composta dalle cellule epiteliali del plesso coroideo, al confine tra sangue periferico-CSF, e dalla membrana aracnoidea al confine tra sangue cerebrale-CSF.
La barriera sangue-CSF ha lo stesso scopo della barriera emato-encefalica, ma facilita il trasporto di svariate sostanze nel cervello a causa delle caratteristiche strutturali distinte tra i due sistemi di barriera.

Significato clinico
Cisti del plesso coroideo
Durante lo sviluppo embriologico, in alcuni feti si possono formare cisti del plesso coroideo. Queste cisti piene di liquido possono essere rilevate da un esame ecografico già a partire dal secondo trimestre di gravidanza. Il riscontro è relativamente comune, con una prevalenza di circa l'1%. Le cisti del plesso coroideo sono di solito un reperto isolato. Le cisti di solito scompaiono più tardi durante la gravidanza e sono generalmente innocue. Non hanno alcun effetto sul bambino e sullo sviluppo della prima infanzia.

Le cisti comportano un rischio dell'1% di aneuploidia fetale. Il rischio di aneuploidia aumenta fino al 10,5-12% se vengono rilevati altri fattori di rischio o altre anomalie ecografiche. Dimensioni, posizione, scomparsa o progressione, così come la presenza di cisti su un solo o su entrambi i lati non influenzano il rischio di aneuploidia. Il 44-50% dei casi di sindrome di Edwards (trisomia 18) presenta cisti del plesso coroideo; ciò avviene solo nel 1,4% dei casi di sindrome di Down (trisomia 21). Circa il 75% dei cariotipi anormali associati ai cisti del plesso coroideo sono soggetti trisomia 18, mentre i rimanenti sono trisomia 21.

Altro
Ci sono tre tipi di tumori del plesso coroideo, che colpiscono principalmente i bambini piccoli. Queste neoplasie maligne sono rare.

Anatomia
È costituito da una fitta rete di vasi sanguigni localizzata all'interno di ciascun ventricolo. I vari ventricoli sono connessi tra loro tramite canalicoli, in cui il liquor scorre, uscendo quindi, a livello del quarto ventricolo, nello spazio subaracnoideo.

Il plesso coroideo è costituito da un ciuffo di vasi piali che sospingono verso l'interno l'ependima che riveste i ventricoli. L'affrontarsi dell'ependima con l'endotelio dei vasi provenienti dalla pia madre costituisce la barriera emato-liquorale (BEL).

Dal momento che il fluido cerebrospinale viene prodotto in continuazione, deve avvenire un costante assorbimento di questa sostanza (normalmente nel sistema nervoso circolano fra gli 80 e i 150 ml), che avviene a livello dei villi aracnoidei.

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Stocks fall, S&P 500 and Nasdaq post worst week since late May
Published Fri, Jul 19 20192:10 AM EDT Updated Fri, Jul 19 20194:06 PM EDT
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Munster: This is a transition quarter for the big cap tech stocks
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Stocks fell on Friday and posted weekly losses as investors digested a slew of corporate earnings reports and remarks from a top Federal Reserve official.
The S&P 500 closed 0.6% lower at 2,976.61 while the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.7% to 8,146.49. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 68.77 points, or 0.3%, to close at 27,154.20 after rising more than 100 points earlier in the session. The indexes lost most of their earlier gains after Iran said it captured a British oil tanker.
For the week, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell more than 1% each, notching their biggest weekly loss since late May. The Dow lost 0.6%. The indexes' losses come after reaching all-time highs earlier this week.
"This has been a struggle this week," said Dan Deming, managing director at KKM Financial. It feels like the market ran out of momentum after Microsoft released earnings" and New York Fed President John Williams spoke on Thursday.
Microsoft shares hit a record after the tech giant posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analyst expectations. The company's results were driven by a 39% year-over-year surge in cloud revenue. The stock closed just 0.15% higher, however.
At times of market turbulence, investors tend to flee to assets expected to either retain or increase in value — such as gold, the Japanese yen and government bonds.
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American Express, another Dow component, also reported better-than-expected earnings. However, the company's stock dropped more than 2.5%.
More than 15% of S&P 500 companies have reported earnings thus far. Of those companies, 79% have posted a better-than-expected profit, according to FactSet data.
"So far, there have been no surprises," said Jeff Zipper, managing director of investments at U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management. "Most of the times when the bar is set so low, the results are likely to be in line or slightly better."
Entering the earnings season, analysts expected S&P 500 earnings to have fallen by around 3%, according to FactSet data. Next week will be busy for investors as about 25% of the S&P 500 is slated to report quarterly results.
"Little is expected from the current earnings season," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group, in a note. However, there are "two favorable aspects impacting corporate profitability which may be underappreciated."
"Many believe CEO outlooks have been severely shaken by ongoing uncertainties, but 'behavioral indicators' suggest CEOs remain more confident than perceived," he said. "Second, the economic slowdown this year has produced an overlooked silver lining for earnings—it has enhanced the potential for renewed profit margin expansion as costs across the spectrum (labor, capital and materials cost) have declined."
Stocks eked out small gains in the previous session after New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said the central bank needed to "act quickly" when the economy was slowing and rates were low, adding in a speech that it is "better to take preventative measures than wait for disaster to unfold."
Those comments led traders to price in a greater possibility that the Fed would cut interest rates by 50 basis points at the end of the month.
However, a spokesperson for the New York Fed moved to cool the speculation arising from Williams' comments, telling CNBC that he was drawing from academic research, not hinting at potential policy actions at the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.
"Maybe the New York Fed is walking it back a bit because they don't want to prejudge what will happen at the [July] meeting," said Brent Schutte, chief investment strategist for Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management. "But I believe that if they're going to do it," the Fed should be cutting rates by 50 basis points.
"They really need to convince guys like me and the people that control a lot of the money on Wall Street that they are truly serious about reinflating the economy," he said.
—CNBC's Elliot Smith contributed to this report.
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Today, I'm pleased to interview Barbara Carole about her memoir Twelve Stones which tells the story of an intensely personal, unorthodox journey to faith. Gritty, plain-spoken and fast paced, this book reads like a novel – with vibrant characters, dialogue and action on three continents – but it is all true.
Barbara, a Fulbright scholar and graduate of the University of Wisconsin with B.A. and M.A. degrees in literature, lived in Paris for several years as a translator and assistant editor at the Paris Review before returning to the USA to teach French and French literature at UCLA.
Subsequently, she was a writer and researcher for undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, working in Los Angeles and Monaco, France.
Barbara worked for 20+ years as a marketing executive before leaving the corporate world to focus on her writing. For more on her background and on the book, visit www.barbaracarole.com.
Christopher Zoukis: Barbara, Twelve Stones is a very intimate story. How does it feel to have such personal details of your life in print for everyone to see?
Barbara Carole: Ha! A lot of people ask me that. Telling it all honestly wasn't easy, but I wanted the reader to know me exactly as I was, with no sugar coating. Because the whole point of the story is that imperfect people can find perfect love. Even ordinary people who make poor decisions, can experience extraordinary miracles.
Silky Thomas' real name was Shane Anthony Thomas. His nickname was courtesy of his friends, who called him Silky because he was so slick and smooth. Silky was a member of – and the leader of – a gang called the Ridgeway Bloods, which was part of the United Blood Nations, one of the ten most feared gangs in North America.
Silky relates his story in his recently published memoir, which is entitled Unstoppable. The title is appropriate. For when he was a criminal, Silky was unstoppable. Later, after he altered his lifestyle, Silky remained unstoppable. Relentless would be a good word to describe Silky's personality.


My Love Dare with God is not a quick fix for your relationship with God…it's a kickstart of sorts – committing 12 weeks of your hectic life to God; to openly look at your love for Him and seeking to grow in His Word. Hopefully this study will propel you into a lifestyle of daring to love God at a new level each and every day with the excitement and anticipation of the many ways in which He will reveal Himself – His love, to you in a unique way.
For some time, I recognized my need to be more consistent in every facet of my relationship with God. But I'm so easily distracted! It was quite frustrating – I knew what I needed to do; I knew what I should do, yet I so easily diverted my attention to other things and I wasn't sure exactly how to grow my relationship.
Duh…pray about it! In a different context of course – actually I was praying for guidance about another relationship – what steps to take. I awoke the next morning with two words front and center: Love Dare. Love Dare??? Really????
The book was highlighted in the movie Fireproof (aslo by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick) and obviously planted a seed in me – and I'm single!
I'm a gal who loves a plan, so instead of patiently waiting for God to reveal His plan, what did I do? Yep…off I went into "planning" mode… Thankfully, God readjusted my overly complicated plan and took me back to basics: First and foremost, God wants a relationship with me; what better way to enhance that relationship than daring to love Him at a new level?
Please note: This study does not intend to take any credit for the incredible works of Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick, nor am I a biblical scholar.
For whatever reason, God directed me to The Love Dare as a tool to grow me in unexpected ways – my desire is to share the experience in a way that will fuel others to deepen their relationship with Him as well.
I went through The Love Dare in 40 days – it is doable, but I've found with most studies it takes more time to allow principles to take root. Instead of the original 40 days, I've broken the study into 12 weeks – averaging 3-4 days of the original Love Dare per week. Discussions start with topics addressed in the book, and then changes the "dare" perspective from a spouse to God.
It's important to not get caught up with the idea to finish the study in a certain period of time – it truly is all about the journey, so work at your own pace, but be steady; be diligent; most importantly, DON'T GIVE UP! Your hard work will reap a harvest you can't begin to imagine as you move forward in living out your Love Dare with God.


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EAW Anya Declared "Indispensable Technology" At 2014 Parnelli Awards
In Industry Newsby tfwm December 3, 2014
Anya™, the mainstay of EAW's Adaptive Performance™ Series, received the Indispensable Technology (IT) Award for Audio at the recent Parnelli Awards in Las Vegas.
The awards were created in 2002 by Timeless Communications (publishers of FOH and PLSN magazines) to recognize excellence in the people, companies and products in the event production industry. In 2009 the awards were expanded to include the Indispensable Technology awards, added to honor groundbreaking new products in the fields of audio, lighting, video and staging.
"Anya combines an array of breakthrough technologies to deliver breathtaking acoustics and an unprecedented level of control," explains Jeff Rocha, EAW President. "Adaptive systems provide software based three-dimensional control of the system polar response. Production teams can perfectly match the coverage of the system to the audience in minutes, minimizing the impact of room acoustics and eliminating the environmental impact on neighbors. And that's just scratching the capability surface. We believe that Adaptive Technology will profoundly change the world of sound reinforcement. Winning this award demonstrates that the industry reinforces this belief."
Parnelli Award nominations and winners are chosen in a peer-to-peer process, from the readership of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines. Hundreds of industry luminaries gathered at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas for the 2014 Parnelli's.
Nominees in the Audio Indispensable Technology award category were Eastern Acoustic Works' Anya, L-Acoustics' K2, Meyer Sound's LYON, Rational Acoustics' Smaart 7.5, and Yamaha's QL Console Series.
For more information visit www.eaw.com


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Back to School Review: Five Days of Education Policy in Pennsylvania – Day 2
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By David Lapp, Director of Policy Research
Each day this week I'm highlighting one of the issues in Pennsylvania education policy that I'll be following closely this year, with some editorializing for good measure. Click here for Day 1.
Day 2. Freedom to teach accurately about racism:
The past year has been fraught with attacks against the 1619 Project and misinformation about critical race theory (CRT) in k-12 schools, presenting CRT as something other than an effort to more accurately understand history and social policy. These attacks feel particularly notable with the recent passing of James Loewen, author of the seminal Lies My Teacher Told Me. Some policymakers apparently want teachers to keep telling those lies.
Legislation has been introduced in several states including Pennsylvania that, as historian Jelani Cobbs explained are "ultimately concerned with an imaginary world in which white people were actually the victims in need of protection from racism." Several Pennsylvania school districts have issued their own curriculum bans.
This is occurring in a state where 94% of teachers are white and at a time when nearly half of students nationally already have little to no opportunities to discuss racism in the classroom and more than one-third have been taught little or nothing about the history of racism. In some communities, it is students themselves who are pushing back on these bans against learning. Even if these bills or local bans do not find traction, they create a chilling effect on accurate teaching about racism and American history.
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David Lapp serves as RFA's Director of Policy Research where he oversees a range of projects at the nexus of education research and policy. He leads RFA's Pennsylvania Clearinghouse for Education Research (PACER) project to inform state education policy discussions through objective research and analysis. He also provides oversight direction to RFA's ACER project (Allegheny County Education Research), a local education policy research project. Lapp recently oversaw creation of RFA's Educational Opportunity Dashboard, a tool to examine disparities in access to 14 indicators by race and income from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
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Test your knowledge of Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the greatest leaders of 20th century America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., challenged the United States to uphold the promise of the Declaration of Independence that all men be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
During his 13 years of service in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King held true to that American promise and espoused Christian nonviolent resistance to combat racism.
The quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of Dr. King and the modern Civil Rights Movement as we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 16.
1. Who was the first advocate of nonviolent resistance in the modern Civil Rights Movement?
A. Bayard Rustin
B. Martin Luther King Jr.
C. Bob Moses
D. Rosa Parks
2. After which major civil rights victory did Dr. King rise as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement?
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Integration of Little Rock High School
C. Montgomery Bus Boycott
D. Civil Rights Act of 1964
3. Which civil rights organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help found and lead?
A. NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
B. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
C. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
D. SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
4. Whose criticism was Dr. King responding to in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
A. Birmingham's businessmen
B. Local religious leaders
C. White, moderate liberals
D. Black activists
5. Of the events below, at which one was Dr. King not present?
A. Sit-in at a Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
B. The Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama
C. The March on Washington
D. March across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
6. What do Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common?
A. Followers of the Nation of Islam
B. Advocates of nonviolent resistance
C. Belonged to the Communist Party
D. Protested America's involvement in the Vietnam War
7. Martin Luther King Jr. marched alongside which man in the "March Against Fear" when he coined the term "Black Power!"?
A. Huey Newton
B. Stokely Carmichael
C. Bobby Seale
D. Malcolm X
8. Where was Dr. King assassinated?
A. Birmingham
B. Atlanta
C. Memphis
D. Jackson
9. Which president signed the legislation establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday?
A. Ronald Reagan
B. Jimmy Carter
C. Bill Clinton
D. George H.W. Bush
10. Which other civil rights advocate also was slain in 1968?
A. Robert Kennedy
B. Malcolm X
C. Medgar Evers
D. Huey Newton
1-A, 2-C, 3-D, 4-B, 5-A, 6-D, 7-B, 8-C, 9-A, 10-A
Emily Hess is a visiting assistant professor of history and an academic adviser for the Ashbrook Center's Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University, where she teaches courses focused on 19th and 20th century African-American history, the Reconstruction era and the Civil Rights Movement. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.


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August 26, 2010 by Sean Lawson
U.S. Strategic Command – 2010 Cyberspace Symposium: Keynote – USSTRATCOM Perspective
Speech by head of STRATCOM, Gen. Kevin Chilton. STRATCOM is the parent organization of USCYBERCOM.
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Insiders Doubt 2008 Pentagon Hack Was Foreign Spy Attack (Updated) | Danger Room | Wired.com	Annotated
A story from Wired Magazine's Danger Room blog that is getting a lot of attention. It calls into question the claims made this week by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III about a 2008 cyber attack against the Department of Defense.
tags: cyberwar	cyberwar-skepticism	cyber attack
The worm, dubbed agent.btz, caused the military's network administrators major headaches. It took the Pentagon nearly 14 months of stop and go effort to clean out the worm — a process the military called "Operation Buckshot Yankee." The endeavor was so tortuous that it helped lead to a major reorganization of the armed forces' information defenses, including the creation of the military's new Cyber Command.
n 2007, the security firm Symantec rated SillyFDC as "Risk Level 1: Very Low."
The havoc caused by agent.btz has little to do with the worm's complexity or maliciousness — and everything to do with the military's inability to cope with even a minor threat.
But what spy service would launch such a lame attack?
"It isn't the most capable threat, I agree with that," Lynn replies. "But that kind of makes the point. If you had something of the kind of capability you described and we suffered a compromise as the result of it, it clearly means that we need to have a new strategic approach and that's what started a couple years ago. I've tried to lay out where we're going going forward."
So let's get this straight. DoD found itself vulnerable to a "Level 1: Low Risk" threat, the kind of threat that could have been taken care of by one of Symantec's antivirus applications, because it was completely ignorant of its own systems. And instead of bringing its defense up to date, the response has been to create the U.S. Cyber Command with a mission that includes offensive cyber attack against adversaries, as well as calls from prominent individuals in the defense community to "re-engineer the Internet" to eliminate anonymity online. Inappropriate, dangerous overkill anyone?
Gov't hype surrounds "Operation Buckshot Yankee"
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Interview – Tom de Ville
September 6, 2018 Interview – Tom de Ville
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When we are children, our imaginations run wild, weaving in and out of fantasy worlds. A point in development we freely think of possibilities that are boundless, England's Tom de Ville has been fortunate enough to live out those very dreams for a living. Fascinated by the macabre side of storytelling since a young age, de Ville has harnessed that interest into a successful career as a film and television writer. Written for series such as Urban Gothic, NBC's Hannibal, and the 2014 film The Quiet Ones, he continues to work on his writings while eagerly pursuing work as a director. Recently writing and directing the delightful, Dark Fantasy short Corvidae, starring Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams as the lead, the world of Horror and Fantasy are on the verge of seeing a shining new talent emerge. Taking the time to talk about his evolution in filmmaking, de Ville discusses what he has learned, his desire to direct films, plus more.
CrypticRock.com – You have been involved in film and television as a writer for some time now. First, tell us, what inspired you to pursue a career in writing?
Tom de Ville – When I was a kid, I just really liked movies and stories. I would dream about Star Wars and Ghostbusters and the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies, and figure out which stories I would tell in those worlds. At some point I started picking up 'Making of…' magazines and books and they taught me that there were specific jobs you could do to make films, so I started trying to figure out which one I wanted to do. I was immediately drawn to directing, but when I was a kid, I couldn't afford camera equipment. Instead, I picked up a notebook and a pen and started writing.
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CrypticRock.com – Very interesting. It seems that passion has lead you to positive things. Of your writing credits, many are within the Horror and Fantasy genres. Do you enjoy working within these genres?
Tom de Ville – I love genre filmmaking full stop. In many ways it's the purest form of filmmaking, because you're not just writing a script and choosing your shots, you're creating a whole new world for your story to inhabit. In other words, you get to keep on playing the imaginative games you played as a kid and hopefully bring in your crew and actors, and then an audience, to share the experience. There's nothing like that when it goes well.
CrypticRock.com – Absolutely, the possibilities are often limitless. You penned the screenplays behind such bigger-budget films such as 2014's The Quiet Ones. How exciting was it for you to see your work reach such a large audience like that?
Tom de Ville – (Laughs) Unfortunately, for me, that was a time that it didn't go well. I was thrilled that Hammer picked up the script because I have a huge love of their 1950s – '70s movies, and I was thrilled that Jared Harris starred in it because I love his work, but I wasn't happy with the direction they took my script in and the ways they changed my story. It was an experience which taught me that possibly the best way to protect my work was to go back to my original plan and become a director, and so I started working on that.
CrypticRock.com – Understood. Well, if anything, it was a learning experience as you stated. Your latest work is a short film entitled Corvidae starring Maisie Williams. A dark little tale, what inspired this story?
Tom de Ville – I'd read an article about how intelligent crows are, and how, in particular, they can hold grudges. This made me think about what would happen if the hero of my story tried to protect a crow from some bad kids. How would the other crows from its flock (or murder) help her fight back? And what would happen to her after that? I realized that this idea felt like a fairy tale, so I decided to write it like one.
Maisie Williams in Corvidae.
CrypticRock.com – It is quite a fascinating story. Corvidae is one of your first directing credits in some time. Is film directing and production something else you would also like to do more of?
Tom de Ville – Absolutely! Corvidae was a huge challenge, but after making it, as well as a few music videos, I'm completely addicted. I've always approached my screenplays with a very visual sense: I can't write a scene unless I can play it out in my head as piece of film. Directing gives me a way to fully realize that vision and bring the world in my head to life. I still have a lot to learn, but everything I shoot teaches me a little more.
CrypticRock.com – That is exciting to hear. Corvidae is an interesting tale with little dialogue in its 11-plus minutes running time. Have you considered extending the film to a full length?
Tom de Ville – I do have an idea to extend the short into a feature-length film. Now that the short is done and out there, I've started talking with my producers about how we can get it made. Obviously, I need to talk to Maisie about the idea as well, because she's an intrinsic part of the short, and I'd be reluctant to make the feature version without her.
CrypticRock.com – Hopefully something comes from it all. There is a scene where the girl is dreaming of what appears to be her father dying. Without giving too much away, what significance does this have to the rest of the story?
Tom de Ville – I wanted to give a tiny piece of back story about the main character. We see her at home, alone, looking after the crow, but we don't know much else about her life. In that scene, you can see a huge collection of books stacked behind her bed; these are all her dad's books. She's made a nest out of them after his death, because they make her feel safe. In some way, this ties her with the murder of crows who help after the crow she is looking after dies. They are both bound together by the pain of loss.
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CrypticRock.com – That is very interesting and a wonderful subtlety to the story. With Corvidae set to be shown at film festivals, what is next for you? Perhaps some future full-length features?
Tom de Ville – Next I'm planning on making another short, which is also a story that could be fleshed out into a feature. I think shorts can be a great test-bed for ideas, and they're also a great way to learn more technical filmmaking skills. After that, I'm definitely going to try to get my first feature off the ground.
I'm also very busy as a screenwriter. I have a couple of very cool TV projects that are getting some traction, including one that is being executive produced by Neil Gaiman. I still have to pinch myself whenever I tell anyone that!
CrypticRock.com – That is fantastic to hear! There certainly is a lot coming up for you. Judging by your writing, you certainly appear to be attracted to the more macabre and gothic side of Horror. What are some of your influences as a writer?
Tom de Ville – When it comes to genre writers that I love, it's hard to know where to begin, so I might just blurt out a list and let your readers pick and choose: Robert Aickman, Stephen King, Arthur Machen, MR James, Shirley Jackson, HP Lovecraft (minus the racism), Thomas Ligotti, Joe R. Lansdale, John Ajvide Lindqvist, China Mieville, Alan Garner, Sylvia Townsend, Walter de la Mare, Angela Carter.
CrypticRock.com – All very good selections. Last question. What are some of your favorite Horror and Sci-Fi related films?
Tom de Ville – I love the films of Guillermo Del Toro, particularly The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), because they transform Horror into mythic storytelling, which is something that fascinates me.
I have a deep abiding love for weird genre film and TV from the 1950-70s – in particular, Hammer movies, the Quatermass TV show, Sapphire and Steel, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Doctor Who, because the storytelling back then tapped into something weirder and more primal than much of what we have now.
I love the lurid design and frenzied madness of Italian exploitation cinema of the '70s and '80s, particularly anything by Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci or Dario Argento. Lastly, and most importantly, John Carpenter forever!
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State-by-State Guide to Taxes on Retirees - Arkansas
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The Natural State exempts Social Security benefits and up to $6,000 of retirement income from its state income tax. While Arkansas' property taxes are among the lowest in the nation, its sales taxes—which are levied on food as well—are at the top. A plus for veterans: All military pension income is tax-exempt.
State Sales Tax
6.5% state levy. Localities can add as much as 5.13%, and the average combined rate is 9.47%, according to the Tax Foundation. The state taxes food at .125%, and localities can add to that.
Income Tax Range
Low: 0.9% (on up to $4,499 of taxable income)
High: 6.9% (on more than $79,301 of taxable income)
Effective tax rate: 3.56% for single filers, 6.15% for joint filers.
Service pay for active-duty members of the armed forces is completely exempt from income tax.
Benefits are not taxed.
Exemptions for Other Retirement Income
Up to $6,000 of income from private or government employer sponsored retirement plans is exempt. Distributions from traditional IRAs also qualify for the $6,000 exemption if the taxpayer is at least 59 1/2 years old.
Military pensions and Railroad Retirement benefits are fully exempt.
Taxpayers age 65 and older who don't claim a retirement income exemption are eligible for an additional $26 tax credit (2018 amount).
In Arkansas, residents pay an average of $658 in taxes per $100,000 of assessed home value.
Tax breaks for seniors: The taxable assessed value of homes of residents 65 or older, or those who are disabled, can be frozen at the previous year's value unless improvements are made or the property is sold.
Vehicle Taxes
The state sales tax on vehicle purchases over $4,000 is 6.5% (7% for Texarkana residents). Sales below that threshold are tax-free. A local property tax is also levied annually on a car's assessed value. Rates are set at the county level. For example, in Little Rock you pay $64.30 per $1,000. The tax on a $30,000 vehicle would be $1,929.
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Knavs is a Slovenian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aleksander Knavs (born 1975), Slovenian footballer
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs in 1970), Slovene-American former model and First Lady of the United States

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Australia skilled independent migration program is a permanent visa and falls under the Australia immigration points- based system. Application must be able to prove that they possess a qualification or the skills of an occupation on the skilled occupation list. The application has to meet the point's threshold by scoring 60 points and satisfying the basic visa. Criteria. Applicants do not need sponsorship from family or the Australia state/territory government nomination.
It is a multiple visa that is granted for a period of 5 years. permanent residents may also eligible for Australian citizenship.*immigration dept. of Australia announced a new migration model which was implanted from July 2012, following this all the applicants interested in migration visas must file for an expression of interest first and upon invitation on the EOI must proceed with the visa application process. The minimum pass mark set for the visa applicants post july2012 is 60 only which is based on the current lab our market requirement in the country.