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The year of the disappearing lock-up
4 January 2022, 11:24 pm ·5-min read
That startup founders are in the driver's seat has been plain for a while now. Consider the extent to which funding has soared, with investors reportedly plugging a record $93 billion into early-stage U.S. startups last year -- triple what they raised five years earlier. Consider that the median valuation for seed- and early-stage startups doubled over the same period.
Consider also the continued rise of dual-class shares that provide founders with outsize voting power. Almost 30% of IPOs between 2017 and 2019 had dual-class structures, and that number likely increased between 2019 and the end of last year.
A less discussed proof point that underscores how far founders can currently push their investors -- and eventually bankers -- centers on lock-up periods. Typically a 90- to 180-day window after a company begins to trade publicly -- time during which founders, investors and employees agree not to sell their shares to show their faith in the company and instill confidence in new shareholders -- lock-ups are starting to disappear, and somewhat quickly. According to new research from Renaissance Capital, which manages IPO-focused exchange-traded funds, early lock-up provisions "exploded" last year.
More LP transparency is overdue
By the numbers, fully one-quarter of the year's IPOs (or 91 offers) had provisions that allowed for early lock-up releases. That's more than five times the number in 2020. Unsurprisingly, tech IPOs accounted for 60 of the new issuers with early lock-up provisions, or 66% of the group.
You might recall reading at the time about some of these offerings, including that of Coupang and Robinhood. In the case of Coupang, South Korea's biggest e-commerce retailer, it announced an early stock lockup agreement release for about 34 million shares just one week into its March debut on the NYSE based on a specific condition -- that its stock needed to close at or above its IPO price of $35 -- that was quickly satisfied. (The shares today trade at roughly $26 apiece.)
When Robinhood began trading at the end of July, employees were allowed to sell 15% of their holdings immediately and another 15% three months later.
Other companies to loosen lock-ups include Snowflake, the data warehousing company that went public in the fall of 2020 and allowed employees to sell as much as 25% of their vested stock three months afterward; Airbnb, which went public in December 2020 and allowed employees to sell up to 15% of their shares in its first seven trading days; and DoorDash, whose underwriters similarly agreed to cut in half the company's 180-day lockup agreement for some shares after it also went public in December 2020.
Dutch Bros., Allbirds, The Honest Company, TuSimple and Affirm also featured early lock-up provisions, notes Renaissance's report.
Lock-up periods have never been required by the Securities and Exchange Commission but were long considered a good faith sign to outsiders -- and even helped some public market shareholders plan their stock purchases. (Often, a company's shares will fall in price following a traditional lock-up as early investors unload their shares en masse, driving up the supply of available shares. When Uber's lockup period ended in 2019, for example, its shares dropped to 43% below their IPO price as newly sold shares flooded the market.)
So what's going on exactly? A number of trends have since conspired to whittle away such measures, from the longer stretch that many companies now operate as privately held concerns (creating greater demand for liquidity by insiders), to the advent of direct listings. Just one of 12 direct listings to date has featured a lockup, that of Palantir.
The rise last year of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, is yet another factor. As The New York Times reported last spring, many related deals contain language that restricts sponsors from selling shares for a year from the day the deal is completed, but there are much faster ways out. According to one popular provision, if a SPAC's shares trade slightly above their initial pricing for more than 20 days in a 30-day period, the lockup provision vanishes. Sometimes, the terms are even more porous. Indeed, when ride-hail giant Grab began to trade publicly last month following a tie-up with a blank-check company, more than 20% of shares held by company shareholders were immediately tradable after the merger.
The unifying thread here is that all involve founding teams who demanded, and received, more flexible lock-up terms from their investors, who also largely benefit from the trend. (What VC would prefer to have his or her hand's tied for three to six months after a public offering?)
In the meantime, as Renaissance notes in its new report, lockups aren't just fewer in number, but they're becoming more difficult to track. As the report observes: "Instead of a simple reduction in lock-up days, early releases are now regularly based on earnings dates or blackout periods that are undetermined at the time of the IPO. The release date may also be a moving target, dependent upon the share price hitting a certain threshold (for example, once shares are 33% above the IPO for 10 out of 15 consecutive trading days)."
More, it adds, "Early releases are often buried in complex legalese, and may be vague regarding the actual number of shares released . . ."
The big question is whether public market shareholders care about the increasing disappearance of lock-up periods, and right now, there isn't a strong case to make why they should. While SPACs have significantly underperformed typical IPOs, direct listings -- perhaps because they are far fewer in number -- have performed better.
As for the broader market, U.S. stocks enjoyed a record-setting year in 2021, so investors aren't likely to push back on much until that changes. After that, all bets are off.
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Deadly Saudi-led strikes on Yemen's Sanaa
An air strike has killed about 14 people in a single building in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, residents say, among strikes across the city by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group.The alliance strikes on Houthi-held Sanaa followed a rebel attack on Monday on coalition partner the United Arab Emirates.
Former Ukraine president lands in Kiev
Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko has landed in Kyiv to face treason charges in a case he says was trumped up by allies of his successor, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.In a brief stand-off at border control after arriving on a flight from Warsaw on Monday, Poroshenko accused border guards of taking away his passport.
WA events cancelled amid Omicron fears
Western Australia's government is facing fresh calls to release updated COVID-19 modelling as community events are cancelled ahead of the border reopening.Less than three weeks remain until the February 5 border transition plan, which is underpinned by projections made before the Omicron variant emerged.


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How to Stop the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque
Posted on May 28, 2010 | Comments Off on How to Stop the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque
Expose Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's history, his statements in Arabic, and his organization's appallingly incomplete tax filings.
Pajamas Media | May 28, 2010
by Alyssa A. Lappen
On May 25, Manhattan Community Board 1 gave their nod of approval to construction of a highly contested, 15-story mega-mosque at the former Park Place Burlington Coat Factory—600 feet from Ground Zero.
But this is hardly a final word on the matter.
New York City community boards function as mere advisory bodies, with no authority to make legally binding decisions for or against any proposed New York City structure. And while a motion to postpone the vote was defeated, the approval hardly represented resounding community support: only one board member voted no, but ten members abstained.
Nevertheless, the matter concerns far more than New York City planning, zoning, or community board politics. Following jihad doctrine, 19 Muslims attacked the U.S., as a nation, on 9/11. They attacked all nations whose citizens were among the nearly 3,000 murdered. Not surprisingly, the Muslim Gulf states are carefully watching the debate.
Obviously, this matter is no less Earth-shattering to Americans than the erstwhile plans of President Obama to conduct Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial in a New York City federal civilian court. The nation spoke in a unified voice against that plan, and stopped it cold. The nation, with a unified voice, can stop construction of any mosque near Ground Zero as well.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, in planning for this 15-story mosque, casts a gauntlet to America—the center of the war against radical Islam.
In 2004, this man assumed trusteeship of land at 96th Street and 3rd Avenue near New York's Islamic Cultural Center (ICC). Rauf is also an ICC permanent trustee. Until Sept. 28, 2001, the ICC employed Imam Sheik Muhammad Gemeaha, an Al-Azhar University envoy to the U.S. One week later, from the "safety" of Egypt, Gemeaha said "only the Jews" could have perpetrated September 11. If Americans knew, "they would have done to Jews what Hitler did." Allah says Jews "disseminate corruption in the land" and spread "heresy, homosexuality, alcoholism, and drugs," he added.
Gemeaha's successor at ICC was no better: Omar Saleem Abu-Namous saw no "conclusive evidence" proving Muslims responsible.
These pronouncements represent institutional discriminatory precepts embedded within Sharia law. Rauf's associates, who operated under his trusteeship at the 96th Street mosque, uttered them, and not surprisingly, they mirrored Rauf's own hateful post-9/11 comments.
In March, Rauf stated in Arabic: "I don't believe in interfaith dialogue."
On May 26, Rauf gave an interview to Sa'da Abdul Maksoud on the well-trafficked Hadiyul-Islam website:
"Throughout my discussions with contemporary Muslim theologians, it is clear an Islamic state can be established in more than just a single form or mold. It can be established through a kingdom or a democracy. The important issue is to establish the general fundamentals of Sharia that are required to govern.
Rauf's statements in Arabic directly contradicted his statements to English speakers—i.e., that the U.S. Constitution is Sharia-compliant:
"New laws were permitted after the death of Muhammad, so long of course that these laws do not contradict the Quran or the Deeds of Muhammad—so they create institutions that assure no conflicts with Sharia.
Consider the relevance of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood membership of Rauf's father alongside Rauf's own deceptive behavior and speech. In 1965, Muhammed Abdul Rauf (1917-2004) bought two-thirds of the bloc at 96th Street and 3rd Avenue with $1.3 million in funding from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Libya. Rauf withheld information on the Islamic donors until 1984. Only after wrangling for permits for 20 years did Rauf begin construction—at that point, funding sources no longer mattered as construction became a fait accompli. Similarly, upon the 1992 dedication of the 96th Street mosque, founders revealed its $17 million in financing from 46 Islamic nations, all members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Another fait accompli, including plans for an apartment building restricted to Muslims alone. By 2010, the enormous Islamic complex had added two more buildings.
Saudi Arabia founded the OIC in 1969 to promote the "struggle for Islam," and has been its chief sponsor since. The OIC's charter includes all Muslim Brotherhood precepts, the foremost being to spread Sharia worldwide. With headquarters in Jedda "pending the liberation of Jerusalem," the OIC in 1973 established the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) "according to Islamic Sharia principles," and through it, launched the petrodollar-based Islamic financing market as another way to stealthily spread Islam and Sharia worldwide.
"[A]n Islamic organization must serve God—and ultimately sustain—the growth and advancement of the Islamic way of life," writes Nasser M. Suleiman in "Corporate Governance in Islamic Banking." Certainly the 46 OIC members had those Sharia principles in mind when they funded construction of New York's Islamic Center.
Secrecy surrounding the land purchase and construction financing of the 96th Street mega-mosque emulate the teachings of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, a colleague of Rauf's father, who taught Al Azhar University—Islam's closest equivalent to the Vatican. Rauf fled Egypt's 1948 crackdown on the MB. His eldest son Feisal was born in Kuwait that year.
MB doctrines require "flexibility"—adapting to each environment on local terms, especially in North America—to force Islamic law on the masses globally. Hiding financing sources are perfect examples of taqiyya, a theologically encouraged practice of deception to advance theocratic, fascist Islamic doctrines.
Like his father, Rauf is probably a stealth Muslim Brother, as are most MB members.
The Muslim Brotherhood founded virtually all Islamic terror organizations operating worldwide today, including al-Qaeda and Hamas. Thus, only propaganda and recruitment chiefs like Alabama-born Omar Hammami—and shills hoping to convince useful idiots the Brothers are genuinely peaceful—advertise their affiliation.
Rauf established ASMA's Cordoba Initiative in Colorado in 2004, but registered the non-profit in New York only in April 2009. His financial statements look mysterious, too. A Cordoba Initiative project, since at least 2006, has partnered with the Gallup Organization and "a team of Sunni and Shi'a scholars from Morocco to Indonesia" to create "an Islamic legal benchmark for measuring 'Islamicity' of a state," available both publicly and to pundits "and state officials in both the Muslim and Western worlds."
If the U.S. is Sharia-compliant, and Rauf supports Western democracy and mosque-state separation, why has his New York-based institution initiated this project, funded by Malaysia and many other Muslim nations in the OIC?
Malaysia is not a secular democracy. Its federal government maintains a Department of Islamic Development (JAKIM) charged with promoting "the development and advancement of Islamic affairs," including formulation of "policies for the ADVANCEMENT of Islamic affairs in the country and to safeguard the sanctity of the aqidah and the teachings of Islam." (Emphasis in original.)
Rauf may well get Saudi funding too: In February 2001, the IDB established its U.S. dollar-denominated Awqaf Properties Investment Fund (APIF) to "develop and invest in accordance with 'Islamic Sharia [principles], in Awqaf real estate properties' in [IDB] member countries—and Islamic communities in non-member countries." Financing applications go—where else?—to OIC founder and chief IDB backer Saudi Arabia, which has worked tirelessly for decades to advance Islamic communities in the most influential non-Muslim nation, the U.S.
OIC countries financed the 96th Street mosque. Why would Rauf not approach them again, particularly since an IDB financing mechanism for projects like his is already in place?
At Tuesday's meeting, a 9/11 survivor, along with relatives, parents, and dear friends of victims, all spoke eloquently against the mosque. Bereaved mother Cynthia Kane honored her son, firefighter George Kane, and his hundreds of brave colleagues who died fighting to save lives. Another victim's father poignantly noted that bodily remains of 997 people are still missing. "Where the hell do you think they are? They are on that [holy] ground—and building a mosque over them is truly insensitive." 9/11 Families leader Debra Burlingame professed happiness that the controversy might encourage Americans to finally ask: "What is Sharia?"
The best route to stopping construction may be through the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service. According to a Certified Public Accountant and Act for America member, available American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) tax filings raise several red flags.
Very little ASMA information is available on the non-profit organization from Guidestar, a commercial service that provides 990 filings from thousands of tax-exempt charitable organizations, many much smaller than ASMA. However, the CPA reports that many documents required for public examination are missing from Guidestar's ASMA files. Federal law requires ASMA to provide tax returns for public inspection, but evidently it has not done so, the CPA says.
Director since 2005, Daisy Khan—Rauf's interior designing, Kashmir-born wife—apparently never filed a required informational return or regular annual reports: "shocking for a charity with over $1 million in grants just last year."
Several other issues indicate ASMA's financial statements are not "in accordance with accounting standards for nonprofit organizations." An organization established in 1998 should have two-year comparisons, not the one-year comparison provided in the fiscal 2009 statement. Failing that, ASMA must provide comparative statements in its notes or a letter to stakeholders—which it also does not do.
Likewise, ASMA claims to be a 501(c)3 organization. They do present a letter of determination (albeit, misstated as being granted in "1988"). But ASMA financial statements do not specify under which code ASMA's tax-exempt status falls.
ASMA also fails to list required future lease payments, although its auditor reportedly specializes in non-profit groups and purports to follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). "I'm shocked by all these" oversights, said the CPA, who has merely begun to list GAAP requirements on which ASMA flunks.
Maybe there's just too much information Rauf and ASMA don't want the public to know. Perhaps the IRS should institute a new taqiyya-busters division. Meanwhile, the public can shower the IRS with complaints on these evidently numerous tax-code violations.
(Click here to watch Walid Shoebat expose the Ground Zero mosque on PJTV.)
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Alyssa A. Lappen is a U.S.-based investigative journalist. She is currently Managing Editor at the Leeb Group. A former Senior Fellow of the American Center for Democracy (2005-2008); she is also a former Senior Editor of Institutional Investor (1993-1999), Working Woman (1991-1993) and Corporate Finance (1991). She served six of her 12 years at Forbes (1978-1990) as an Associate Editor. Ms. Lappen was also a staff reporter at The New Haven Register (1975-1977). During a decade as a freelance, her work appeared in Big Peace, Pajamas Media, Front Page Magazine, American Thinker, Right Side News, Family Security Matters, the Washington Times and many other Internet and print journals. Ms. Lappen also contributed to the Terror Finance Blog, among others. She supports the right of journalists worldwide to write without fear or restriction on politics, governments, international affairs, terrorism, terror financing and religious support for terrorism, among other subjects. Ms. Lappen is also an accomplished poet. Her first full-length collection, The Minstrel's Song, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in April 2015. Her poems have been published in the 2nd 2007 edition of Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and both 2007 issues of Wales' award-winning Seventh Quarry: Swansea Poetry Magazine. Dozens of her poems have appeared in print and online literary journals and books. She won the 2000 annual Ruah: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry chapbook award and has received a Harvard Summer Poetry Prize and several honorable mentions. Alyssa A. Lappen can be reached at alyssaalappen@alyssaalappen.org
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One night as we were moving we came across a whole column of Germans; there must have been hundreds of them. There were trucks and tanks and column after column of soldiers with all their personal equipment rattling and their bob-nail boots hitting the road. They made some racket!
Soon it was morning again and I had the 1st Scout position, and for a 2nd Scout I had a Tech. Sgt. named Joe Ganz [no known name match]. I believe he was from Headquarters Co, of our Battalion. The fields that we were crossing weren't too deep and they were bordered by huge hedgerows.
At times I would be two hedgerows in front of my 2nd Scout. Then it happened — I walked across this field, about two-thirds of the way, on a beautiful sunny early afternoon, and without a modicum of warning someone right in front of me behind the next hedgerow opened up with a Schmizer [Schmeisser] sub-machinegun right at me. I have often thought of that happening, and one of my regrets is that I did not have it on film. I started to run a broken field that in my mind would have made Tommy Harmon or Red Grange look like old men [even] in their prime; five yards right, two yards left, three right, six left, etc. All the while the machinegun bullets were snapping all around me. There was a wide white plank swing gate in the right rear, corner of the field. In full stride with my rifle held stiff arm over my head, I made one leap head first and went sailing through the air, just skimmed the top plank, and landed in a heap on the other side. After that we tried an alternate route.
Another time it was early morning and we were all in a heavily wooded area resting. I think we might have been there during the night and stayed until morning. Everyone was just sitting around half dozing. It was a relaxed atmosphere. The Colonel and Lt. Quade decided to send a patrol out to try and find other paratroopers who were lost like us, and, or some equipment bundles that were dropped by chute the night of the Invasion, which might have contained automatic weapons, mortars, radios, food, etc. Lt. Quade asked me if I wanted to go on the patrol with him, which I considered an honor, considering all the Sergeants and other Non-Commissioned officers that were in the group.
Well, three of us started out — Lt. Quade, Pasodas [Pesados] and myself. It was a very bright sunny morning, and every field we crossed took us further arid further from our group. I, started to get anxious, wondering if we would ever find our way back. Then we came to a field with several equipment bundles lying on the ground. A road was very close to the field, and for a section of about twenty feet there was no vegetation between the road and the field. Each was in full unobstructive [sic] view of the other. We were opening a bundle and it was, mostly machine gun ammunition in canvas belts. I remember telling Lt. Quade that though we didn't have a machinegun we could take the belts and use the bullets In our M-1s if we got surrounded and ran out of ammo.
We made it back to our group in the woods with the help of Lt. Quade's compass reading expertise. We just about sat down when the Colonel suggested that a mortar that was firing in our vicinity might be Lt. Beaver's Mortar Platoon from Hdq. Co. of our Battalion. The mortar shells were not landing anywhere nearby; they were firing at some remote target. Well, I was told by the Colonel to take someone with me and find out if it was friend or foe. I took Sgt. Ganz [Philip Gantz], and his sentiment, as was most of the people, was that it had to be a German Mortar Co. It was firing with impunity being there was no small arms fire attacking it. So, on we crept through the woods until we came to a road, and the mortar was on the other side. We couldn't see it, but it was in heavy woods about 30 yds. away. I motioned to Ganz that we would cross the road, and he, with some justification, was a little reluctant, he said something to the effect that it had to be German, and if we crossed the road we'd get into a fire fight, probably get killed, and might probably violate the integrity of our fighting group, but "I" was the one the Colonel told to find out who was firing the mortar, and I wasn't going back unless I knew positively that it wasn't ours, even if I got killed trying. Just at the moment I was about to cross the road, two German soldiers came walking down the road from our left, pushing two flatbed wheel barrows filled with mortar shells and talking a blue streak. Undoubtedly, the timing of their arrival was perfect; it confirmed the mortar was German without giving our position away, or our getting involved in a one sided fire fight.


consist of two rings; and two pyrimidines, cytosine and thymine, which consist of a single ring (figure 2.23). Each of these bases is linked to the same carbon atom (C1) of deoxyribose as occurs in sugar-sugar bonds.
These four bases are named after the original source from which the base was isolated. Adenine was isolated from the pancreas and is derived from the Greek word for gland. Guanine was isolated from bird guano (excrement). Thymine was isolated from the thymus gland, and cytosine was isolated from cells. Cyt is derived from the Greek word for cell.
The nucleotide subunits are joined by a covalent bond between the phosphate of one nucleotide and the sugar of the adjacent nucleotide (figure 2.24a). Thus, the phosphate is a bridge that joins the number 3 carbon atom (termed 3') of one sugar to the number 5 carbon atom (termed 5') of the other. The result is a molecule with a backbone of alternating sugar and phosphate molecules. The two ends of the molecule are different. The 5' end has a phosphate molecule attached to the sugar; the 3' end has a hydroxyl group (figure 2.24b). Accordingly, the end of the chain that grows by adding more nucleotides is always the 3' end. The synthesis of DNA is covered in chapter 7.


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Clutch, a B2B market research firm, recently released an annual report on the top performers in advertising and marketing, and Location3 is thrilled to be recognized as a Global Leader based on digital marketing expertise and exceptional customer service.
As a ratings and reviews platform, Clutch ranks and evaluates technology service providers and solutions to help business buyers identify a company that meets their needs. Their directory includes companies spanning multiple categories, including SEO services, paid search, content marketing, and digital marketing. With Clutch's continued partnership, we've maintained a strong reputation for our versatile services locally and abroad, and continue to build strong and transparent partnerships with our clients.
In a post for the International Franchising Association, Location3 Sr. Director of Marketing Josh Allen notes that about five years ago, franchisors and their marketing teams were hiring a disjointed army of service-specific agencies and vendors for a variety of marketing needs – ultimately hoping that each partner would contribute their service expertise as part of a broader franchise marketing plan.
If your business often finds itself in the path of inclement weather, you probably have a plan to protect your store and your employees, but did you know you also can use your Google My Business listing to keep your customers safe as well? Creating a Google Event Post can help warn your customers of changing store hours, stock, and other crucial information.
As Hurricane Florence approached North Carolina in September, a national chain of hardware supply stores was preparing for an influx of customer activity along the southeast coast. Customers were sure to have plenty of questions, but the stores wanted to prompt them to call before they ventured out into the harsh weather conditions.
Google Event Posts was a perfect way to get their attention. The Post position is near the top of the listing along with a clear headline and clickthrough button, which prompted all potential customers to call first before making any decisions. The post launched September 13th and ran until September 20th to ensure visibility just before Hurricane Florence hit, allowing stores time to regroup in the aftermath.
Read the full post to see how the Event Post increased overall engagement.
Some SEO professionals are discouraged by clients that run PPC campaigns, says Dan Taylor via Search Engine Journal, but that shouldn't be the case. Both sides use the same tools and the same results to guide their decisions, and that should be enough to forge an alliance that can benefit all. So how can the two sides work together when it comes to keyword research?
Search Intent vs. Search Volume: Using search volume to identify big terms is important, but greater focus should be put on intent. Ask yourself what's more useful: targeting a 50,000 search volume keyword for discovery, or targeting a 10,000 search volume keyword for intent to buy.
Competition in PPC can highlight SEO competition: If you find low-competition keywords in PPC research, it could be a highly sought after target for the SEO team. This relationship works both ways with SEO teams relieving costly PPC efforts with a long-term strategy.
For more analysis, read "How to Survive the Ongoing Confusion with SEO" by Jodi Harris via Content Marketing Institute.


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Площа Героїв Майдану — один з майданів Луцька.

Історія
До 1 березня 2014 року являв собою безіменну площу на перехресті проспекту Соборності та проспекту Молоді як продовження останнього, обмежену з двох боків житловою забудовою, з третього — будівлею РАЦСу. Рішенням міської ради від 26.02.2014 № 55/17 «Про надання назви площі міста» площі надано назву Героїв Майдану на честь загиблих учасників Євромайдану. Крім того, тим самим рішенням скверу за будівлею РАЦСу надано назву Героїв Майдану.

Пам'ятники
У серпні 2008 року на площі було встановено камінь, на місці якого в майбутньому планується спорудження пам'ятника Степану Бандері.

Установи
 Відділ Реєстрації Актів Цивільного Стану Луцького Міського Управління Юстиції

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Героїв Майдану
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The moment your kids are born, you don't matter. They are the first priority.
You will stop a train with your face, you'll take a bullet in your chest, you will have every organ in your body transplanted to theirs if it meant they would survive. It's unconditional love, and it's instinctual.
This unconditional sacrificing by parents for children also applies to chocolate.
The chocolate that's around the house at Christmas. The chocolate that's around the house at Halloween. The chocolate that's around the house at Valentine's Day. The chocolate that's around the house right now.
It is a right of parents to eat the chocolate so that the kids don't. We're eating it to save the health of our children. What I've done tonight isn't a crime, it's instinct.
As I write this, my kids have been asleep for about 45 minutes and I haven't stopped stuffing my face with their bounty. I've bitten ears off rabbits, feet off chickens, and my computer sits in a puddle of shredded foil (I can never get it off in one piece).
I don't need Jimmy Kimmel to convince me to eat all your candy, I'll do it on my own thank you very much. I paid for it, I'm going to eat it.
I'm lucky, my kids enjoy the hunt more than the spoils. My oldest son won't eat fish he catches, but he loves fishing. He won't eat the chocolate he catches, but he loves the hunting. So I will eat all the chocolate, most likely by the end of tonight.
'fess up. How much of your kids' Easter haul have *you* stolen?


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Ottawa Car Company Streetcar, 1894, Saint John Railway Co. Car #40
Historic Land Vehicles
Date of Issue June 8, 1996
Quantity 1,000,000
Perforation or Dimension 12.5 x 13
Series Historic Land Vehicles
Printer Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited.
Large Pane of 25 Stamps
Uncut Sheet
Electric streetcars were developed in the 1890s, replacing the horse-pulled tramcars. Saint John began modernizing its system in 1894 and placed an order for streetcars from the Ottawa Car Company. Car #40 was included in the second shipment and remained in service for 25 years. The Ottawa company ceased production in 1947 when most cities abandoned trams in favour of buses. Today, Toronto has the only regular streetcar service in Canada.
Designed by Joseph Gault. Designed by Tiit Telmet.
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Posted on June 8, 2007 by Lloydville
Someone once remarked that there's no such thing as a bad film noir. It's a strange propostion and the strangest thing about it is that it's pretty much true.
I've just watched over 30 films noirs
and none of them was anything less than a wondrously entertaining
B-picture. There are some clunkers that are labelled films noirs but really aren't — like Otto Preminger's Whirlpool,
for example, which is in fact a Hitchcockian suspense thriller made by
a man who had no clue as to how Hitchcock created suspense . . . but even among the faux noirs, films that are noirish only in visual style, for example, most have dialogue and images that are thrilling.
I'm not sure how to explain this consistency of quality except by suggesting that noir
represented such a release from the thematic and stylistic conventions
of the traditional studio product that filmmakers responded with an
outburst of pent-up creativity and daring. They must have known
that they were inventing a new kind of film, even if it didn't have a
name yet, and the fact that there were no set rules for this kind of
film made it hard for the studios to wrestle it into a set
formula. Films noirs
were relatively cheap to make, and people couldn't seem to get enough
of them, so the studios stepped back and let the experimentation
continue — for almost 20 years.
The first film that displayed the characteristic visual style of the noir was a fairly routine murder mystery called I Wake Up Screaming (above) from 1941. Double Indemnity, from 1944, gave us protagonists who were morally currupt to the core. Neither was, to my way of thinking, a genuine film noir, but Double Indemnity
was a radical indication that a change was on its way — that audiences
could accept a darker view of the world than the Hollywood studios had ever been
willing to embrace.
As early as 1945, in Edgar G. Ulmer's no-budget thriller Detour,
the combination of an exaggerated, expressionistic visual style and a
sense of the world as morally unhinged at its core produced a template
for the classic film noir, a vehicle for the subterranean mood of existential dread that gripped America in the wake of WWII.
None of the movies made about the war itself ever expressed as
eloquently its psychic cost to a generation of Americans as did the
movies we now call film noirs.
They crackle with the excitement of artists suddenly allowed to deal
with truths that couldn't be addressed in the official view of
things. Corporate entertainment tends to gravitate towards the
official view of things but there are times when the official view of
things diverges so radically from the actual mood of the audience that
accommmodations have to be made. Film noir was one of the most radical of those accommodations.
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Q: Wrapping title attribute Firefox does not wrap words in a title attribute:

Is there a way to do word-wrapping in that case? I tried with:

but it does not work.
Chrome, instead, automatically wraps.

A: No, you cannot make Firefox deviate from its way of rendering title attribute values; cf. to How can I use a carriage return in a HTML tooltip?
The tooltips created by using title attributes are of questionable usability (tiny font that cannot be easily increased by the user; disapperance after some seconds; etc.), so they are suitable (at most) for short advisory titles (mainly for links), which not cause a need for wrapping.
For longer tooltips, consider using CSS techniques. Or just put the tip into the text proper.

A: For what it's worth, the only part of the HTML5 specifications that deals with line breaks in title attributes states:

If the title attribute's value contains U+000A LINE FEED (LF) characters, the content is split into multiple lines. Each U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character represents a line break.

So you could break up the title attribute on the server-side, although this is unlikely to be a desirable solution. Alternatively, you can try inserting zero width spaces, though browser support for this may also be inconsistent.

A: Use escaped n, example:
<input type="text" title="first line \n second line"></input>

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Daraz officially announced its Black Friday 2017, offering discounts up to 86%. VEON will be the title sponsor for the event while bringing special discounts for VEON users.
Cosponsored by Xiaomi, L'Oreal Paris, Unilever, and Tarzz, Daraz Black Friday is expected to be the biggest event of the year, going live on the 20th of November and running through a week of heavily discounted deals; flash sales and special offers.
Each day of the 7-day mega sale event will see new categories unlock.
Customers should expect new launches such as Mi Mix 2, as well as amazing discounts on Samsung K5000 – HD LED – 40″ – Black, Sony PS4, Mate 10 lite and Apple iPhone 8 plus – 5.5″ Display – 3GB RAM – 256GB ROM and more.
The sale this year is a week-long event starting November 20. November 20 to November 23, a new category will be unlocked every day; post November 24, everything will be on sale.
Exciting news comes from event sponsor VEON, offering exclusive deals and discounts on the VEON app.
"By partnering with Daraz to transform the biggest sale of the year to VEON Black Friday, we are committed to offer great value to our customers through strategic partnerships. Through this collaboration, our users will be able to avail premium discounts and get access to exclusive deals through VEON," said Aniqa Afzal Sandhu, Chief Digital Officer, Jazz.
Daraz has also partnered with banks and payment gateways such as Allied Bank, HBL, Silk Bank, Jazz Cash, Standard Chartered Bank, Easypay and Keenu that are offering additional discounts to their customers.
Faisal Nadeem Siddiqui, Group Head – Digital Banking said, "Allied Bank has always played its part in bringing in new technologies and has recently embarked upon digitization of payments.
Daraz is keeping a closed lid on the precise mechanics of its deals for now, but rest assured it will be the biggest retail event Pakistanis have seen to date.
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How about we stop throwing a hissy fit over colour coordinating days and focus on more important issues? Like loadshedding, unemployment, poverty, pollution, smog, mass corruption, current crime and murder rate in the country, do any of these ring a bell?
Besides, not everything that's black is bad, you idiots. Stop being crybabies.
Aur tumhain nahi milta is liay against ho….
Yes Ishopping calls it as fridaybazaar like sunday bazzar.
Ab Khana Ka'aba ke ghilaf ka color bhi change karvane ka keh de.
Nikami behas karne ka koi faida nhin. Black Friday ho, Red Friday ho, Yellow Friday ho, Friday ki fazilat par koi farq nhin parta. Ye masla sirf vo log bnate hain jinhe lagta hai k unho ne Islam ka theka utha rakha hai.
Jee blkl. Humare hafte ke 7 mein se 4 din Hindu astrology pr named hain. Hamare han Hijri ki bajaye Gregorian calender use hota hai. In se Islam par koi farq para? To bhai saal mein aik bar agr Black Friday ho jaye to log jumme ki namazen parhna chor dein ge?? Aur jate jate, Friday is not the Islamic name of the day – it is al-Jummah. Friday is named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess, Frig.
Another thing is, no one is even bothered to research the 'black' in 'Black Friday'. It's actually used by business owners to signify that this Friday after their thanksgiving is the most profitable one in their entire year of business.
To simplify, it was a common practice for business owners to write their losses in red and their profits in black ink. Thus the 'Black' in 'Black Friday' came into existence just to state that this day and a few days afterwards are the most profitable ones for shop owners and they only use 'black' ink (metaphorically speaking).
So keeping this in mind, Black Friday is actually a good day for them. No need to lose our cool over this. Sure 'black' as a colour is used sometimes to point out calamites but not so in this case.
Good name. and i think we should celebrate it before our Eid just like Black fridays comes before Christmas. We instead raise prices by 3x before Ramzan and Eid to make max profit.
boycott black friday. give it new name which is suitabel for our culture.
Lagta hai Telemart ne tujhe apni sponsorship ke liye rakha hai.
Tum jesey molvi net pe kia kar rahey hain ? Ye bhi to yahoodion ki eejad hai, is ka bhi bycott hona chahiye, sirf black friday hi kiun.
So they put Xiaomi prices originally at 20% higher so people enjoy buying phones on black friday at 20% discounted price which should have been the original price in the first place.
That discount will not be applied to the most products, not even on Xiaomi or Huawei phones. So useless for me.
Please boycott these blackfriday slogan culture totally. It should be a rejected term in our society.
Kala dil us ka hota hai jo hate karta hai. Aur is case men kala dil tera hai, molvi.
Jazzcash max discount is Rs. 1500 not 7500 – please correct your post.


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United Kingdom. Directed by Jeremy Lovering, 2013. Starring Alice Englert, Iain de Caestecker, Allen Leech. 85 minutes.
Tom (Ian de Caestecker) and Lucy (Alice Englert) are heading up to Ireland for a weekend music festival. It's their first trip together as a couple, and Tom booked a room at the secluded Kilairney House Hotel to mark the occasion. Problem is, they can't seem to find the place: the signs contradict each other, the map is no help, and their cell-phone reception is poor. Weirder things begin to happen as day turns into night, and it soon becomes clear that someone is fucking with them. Who are they, and what do they want?
I'll get the plot out of the way first, because it's the weakest aspect of the production. The script, written by Jeremy Lovering (who also directed), is a familiar slice of middle-of-nowhere horror. This is not a film that remixes its tropes in new and novel ways; instead, it telegraphs early on what kind of movie it is, so once you've you know what you're in for, you can adjust your expectations, settle in and enjoy. Lovering offers no surprises, and the one thing he offers that comes anywhere near to being a plot twist is so obvious that I'm not going to feel bad about spoiling it. This may seem a dire flaw in the production but it isn't really. While the characters suffer from the occasional bout of Stupid Horror Movie Character Behavior Syndrome and the first act drags on a bit too long, Lovering keeps the beats coming at a steady pace so the suspense rarely lets up.
Plus, the other strengths of the film more than make up for the story. The performances are all very strong. The standout is Allen Leech, who plays Max, a young local who seems to know what's going on. It will shock absolutely no one that Max turns out the villain of the piece, and he digs into the role with relish. Max is a sick sociopathic fuck who gets off on screwing with people's lives, and Leech knows how to play the role and be the most memorable character in the film without going over the top and stealing scenes from the stars.
One of the things that comes from a story with a bad guy like Max is that the protagonists, almost by necessity, are less interesting as characters but Englert and De Caestecker have an easy chemistry with each other that compensates for that. In the past, I've been very cynical about the effect the widespread adoption of the Final Girl trope has had on the genre, but Englert embodies the grit, determination, relatability and charisma that made that archetype so powerful to begin with.
To top it all off, Lovering's direction is excellent. The control he exerts over the physical environment amazed me; he makes the warren of barely-paved back-country roads feel constricting and claustrophobic during the daytime scenes and like an infinitely expansive labyrinth in the dark. He also brings a lot of atmosphere to the proceedings. There were one or two scenes where I don't think his visual storytelling was coherent enough, but overall this is a fine début.
In Fear is the horror-movie equivalent of comfort food. That might not seem the most enthusiastic endorsement, but think of it this way: sometimes you're in the mood to try something new, bold and different, and sometimes a taste of the familiar is exactly what you need. And that's what the film provides: a classic story told well.
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White-tailed eagle gathering in Oder Delta presents magnificent spectacle
September 12, 2018 | News
Attracted to fish stranded in the Stettin Lagoon by August's low water levels, the huge gathering of eagles drew crowds of photographers and nature lovers. The presence of so many of these majestic birds bodes well for rewilding efforts in the area.
The European Rewilding Network welcomes a new member from Italy
Rewilding Europe is delighted to welcome a new member from Italy to the European Rewilding Network. Working to protect wolves in the Italian Alpine Arc region, the Return of the Wolf project takes the number of network members to 63, distributed right across Europe.
Rewilding Stories: People Power
September 4, 2018 | Blog
Rewilding isn't only about nature – it's about people too. The support, trust and passion of local communities will always be vital to the success of rewilding projects, regardless of scale and location. Gaining that support means ensuring that people can earn a fair living from the wild, and reaching out and building relationships through effective stakeholder communication.
Tauros herd transported from Taurus Foundation to the Auerrind Project
September 3, 2018 | News
Cooperation between a member of the European Rewilding Network (the Auerrind Project) and partner of Rewilding Europe (the Taurus Foundation) saw eight Tauros translocated between the Netherlands and Germany in August. A significant milestone in the development of the Auerrind Project, the translocation will help with the back-breeding of aurochs.
European Rewilding Network membership to help protect Albania's threatened Vjosa River
August 21, 2018 | News
Rewilding Europe is delighted to welcome an important new member to the European Rewilding Network. Working to protect the Vjosa River, Save the Blue Heart of Europe – Albania is overseen by the NGO EcoAlbania and is the first project to join from this country. The addition takes the number of network members to 62, distributed right across Europe.
The power rangers of Poiana Ruscă
July 24, 2018 | Blog
As rangers at the second European bison reintroduction site in the Southern Carpathians rewilding area, the efforts of Marius Gârdean and Roland Hauptman have been vital to the success of the project. On the occasion of World Ranger Day, Rewilding Europe caught up with them to thank them for their ongoing support, and to learn more about their lives and work.
Rewilding Stories: Enterprising Endeavour
Rewilding Europe's enterprise work is now seeing nature-based businesses mushroom across Europe. The economic prosperity they are generating is benefitting people and wild nature on a growing scale.
Electric fences promote peaceful human-bear coexistence in the Central Apennines
By distributing electric fences, safeguarding livelihoods and establishing trust, the Rewilding Apennines team and local partner Salviamo l'Orso are showing how humans and bears can live side by side.
European Safari Company supports nature-based tourism in Slovenia
By adding new Slovenia-based offerings to its growing portfolio, the European Safari Company will contribute to bear conservation and drive nature-based tourism development in the country's Kočevje region.
Rewilding Rhodopes Foundation launches new website
July 9, 2018 | News
Boosting rewilding activities through strengthened communications, the new site will showcase the rewilding activities of the Rewilding Rhodopes team to a regional and global audience.


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Islington Gazette > Lifestyle
Closure threat to Finsbury sex cinema after inspector was touched
Fantasy Video on City Road - Credit: Archant
'Propositioned' official saw bawdy behaviour during visit
A sex cinema could be shut down after an official was touched on the thigh and saw men pleasuring each other during an undercover visit.
Fantasy Video, in Old Street, Finsbury, faces an Islington Council licensing committee on November 18 after the town hall official found customers engaging in "obscene and disorderly" conduct on the premises.
One neighbour has also complained that the sexual activity shown on films can be heard through the walls of the cinema as there is no sound isolation in the building.
During a visit on March 13, the officer said he "observed six men standing in the cinema masturbating and other men masturbating each other". He was also "touched on the thigh by a customer", according to his report.
The licensing team has also raised concerns about membership and pricing at the Fantasy Video – men are charged £12, while women and couples get in free.
The council has received anonymous allegations that women prostitutes are brought to the area – but the owner has not been questioned about this. Fantasy Video is one of three sex cinemas under threat at the meeting after the investigation by the council.
At Abcat Cinema, in Caledonian Road, King's Cross, which is not a licensed sex establishment, an officer found "three men standing at the back masturbating and two men in the back row with one masturbating the other" during a secret visit.
Meanwhile at Oscars, in nearby Northdown Street, officers found "men kissing and fondling each other" and he was sold an x-rated DVD called Meet the Barebackers II.
Cllr Paul Convery, Islington Council's executive member for community safety, said: "It's toe-curling stuff.
"Anyone reading these reports will find themselves feeling pretty hot under the collar. It's not nice at all.
"More importantly, its absolutely not what they are licensed to do.
"We are not prudish, but we are clear there are limits to what people are entitled to do in a licensed setting.
"That's why there is a regime and why we are looking very closely at existing sex establishments. it seems pretty straight forward to me why we want to revoke their licence."


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Jake Gibb 'dead' serious about…
Jake Gibb 'dead' serious about playing beach volleyball in fourth Olympic Games
AVP Tour: Gibb and partner Taylor Crabb are seeded No. 1 in this weekend's Huntington Beach Open
Jake Gibb prepares to serve during a men's beach volleyball qualifying match at Rio de Janeiro during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. At 43, Gibb hopes to take a run at playing in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Photo by LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
By Robert Morales | rmorales@scng.com | Press Telegram
Jake Gibb is serious about making a run at a fourth Olympic Games. How serious?
"Dead," he said.
That wouldn't happen until next year at the 2020 Tokyo Games. But those aren't that far away, and Gibb and partner Taylor Crabb are setting the table for that move.
The duo is currently the highest-ranked U.S. team on the FIVB world tour – tied for 10th – so his age of 43 notwithstanding, this is no pipe dream for Gibb.
Gibb and Crabb, 27, first have other business to attend to, such as this week's AVP Tour season opener – the Huntington Beach Open. They will be the top seed in the tournament that Gibb, originally out of Utah, calls his favorite stop.
"Oh, yeah, a hundred percent, because I've lived here for the last 17 years of my life and it's where I call home," said Gibb, who won this tournament in 2014 and 2016 with Casey Patterson. "It's where I go down on the weekend and try and play co-ed with my wife (Jane).
"Now I'm playing short-court with my son (Crosby), who is 7 years old."
Main draw matches begin Friday with action continuing Saturday into Sunday's championship matches.
Gibb played in the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Games with Sean Rosenthal, falling in the quarterfinals both times. Gibb and Rosenthal were FIVB champions in 2012. Gibb partnered with Patterson in the 2016 Rio Games, but they did not make it out of pool play.
Besides his international success, Gibb has 28 AVP victories. Not too shabby for a guy who didn't take up volleyball until he was 21.
"If I'm honest, I surpassed any sort of hopes or dreams that I had when I was 21," Gibb said.
He said he went from just wanting to qualify for local tournaments in Utah, to wanting to qualify for an AVP event. The more he did, the more he wanted.
"My goals have changed throughout my career," Gibb said.
Donald Sun, managing general partner of the AVP, is more than a little impressed by Gibb's accomplishments.
HUNTINGTON BEACH OPEN
When: Friday through Sunday
Where: Huntington Beach Pier
Start times: Friday, 9 a.m. opening rounds; Saturday 9 a.m. elimination rounds; Sunday 9 a.m. final roundsParking: Main Street structure, other lots, street
"Well, from my vantage point, he's definitely got some raw talent," Sun said. "It's carried on since he started. I mean, I think we all know the history of it, that he didn't even start until well past the ripe age of when people usually start playing volleyball, let alone beach volleyball."
Sun said, of course, being 6-foot-7 is a big help to Gibb, who has beaten testicular cancer as well as melanoma. Still, he can see that Gibb works hard to maintain his overall health.
"He keeps himself in such good shape and condition and, obviously, has a great partner in just scraping up everything that's left over in the backfield – it just makes a really, really good tandem," Sun said.
Gibb believes things are changing, that the days of athletes in their 40s being too old to compete are disappearing.
"It's going to continue to change, the more we find out about health and diet and strength training and everything we could do to prolong staying healthy," Gibb said. "I think it's the year of the 43-year-old. Tiger Woods just won again at 43, Tom Brady won at 43 (actually, 41) and I think you're going to see that.
"I think 20 years from now, you're going to see 48-, 49-year-olds competing in the NFL and NBA and AVP, whatever."
Gibb said staying competitive at his age takes a lot of work off the court, but that he doesn't feel his age while playing, only while recovering.
Indeed, Gibb has served himself well in this sport. The only thing that has evaded him is a medal in the Olympics. That would be the ultimate.
"It would obviously be huge to do it," Gibb said. "It would be just one of the biggest moments of my career. It's something I'm pushing for, for sure."
Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena will be seeded second this week. For the women, the top two seeds are April Ross-Alix Klineman and Summer Ross-Sara Hughes, respectively.
Sun is excited about the season bell-ringer.
"There's this nervous anticipation that's a caged-tiger kind of feeling from everybody," he said, summing up the emotions of he and his AVP staff. "And, finally, we're all here on the sand and I can just see the enthusiasm of everyone just finally getting this thing started."
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After the deaths of Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey, it appeared that the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s had finally been suppressed. But the opposite was occurring, evident in the popularity of transformational festivals like Burning Man and BOOM!, the media coverage of ayahuasca use, and the growing number of celebrities and Silicon Valley billionaires readily admitting the benefits of microdosing. Along with the return of university research, the revival of psychedelic philosophy, and the increasing popularity of Visionary Art, these changes signify a widespread psychedelic cultural revolution.
Speaking from the forefront of this new revolution, James Oroc explores 21st-century psychedelic culture through three of its main post-1960s architects: chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, mycologist-philosopher Terence McKenna, and visionary artist Alex Grey. Examining their work in depth, he also explores the work of DMT researcher Rick Strassman, MAPS founder Rick Doblin, consciousness researcher Stanislav Grof, author Daniel Pinchbeck, and new visionary artists such as Amanda Sage and Android Jones. He investigates the use of microdosing in extreme sports and the transformed understanding of spirituality that arises from the psy-trance festival experience. He presents a "History of Visionary Art" from its roots in prehistory and antiquity, to Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of the Fantastic, to contemporary psychedelic art and its importance to visionary culture.
The author explains how psychedelics are powerful tools to examine the Ego and the Shadow and induce transpersonal experiences. Building on anthropological evidence for the role of plant-entheogens in the development of human culture, he proposes that our ongoing psychedelic revolution is seeding the beginnings of a new Visionary Age.
For those unfamiliar with the effects of psychedelics (or more specifically of LSD and psilocybin mushrooms) at a wide range of dosages, the title of this chapter may seem like an obvious contradiction--for what connection could there possibly be between these infamous "hallucinatory" compounds and the obviously highly coordinated physical pursuit of the unfortunately named "extreme sports"? Based on the tangled reputation that LSD has had since the mid-1960s it would seem impossible to believe that various experienced individuals have climbed some of the hardest big walls in Yosemite, heli-skied first descents off Alaskan peaks, 3 competed in world-class snow-boarding competitions, raced moto-cross bikes, surfed enormous Hawaiian waves, flown hang-gliders above 18,00 feet, or climbed remote peaks in the Rockies, the Alps, the Andes, and even above 8,000 meters in the Himalayas--all while under the influence of LSD. However in the often outlaw underground culture of extreme sports, the use of LSD or psilocybin mushrooms while skiing, snowboarding, mountain-biking, surfing, skateboarding, and so on, is in fact common throughout North American ski-and-sports towns, where they enjoy an almost sacred reputation. According to the legends of this tight-knit underground, many incredible feats have been accomplished by modern extreme-athletes whilst under the influence of psychedelics--a fact, which for obvious reasons, generally never gets recorded in the record books.
The reason for this radical disparity between the popular perception about the disabling effects of psychedelics and their apparent common usage amongst the fringes of the extreme sports community is mostly a matter of dosage and historical familiarity. LSD is extraordinarily potent, effective on the human physiology in the millionths of grams (μg), and very small differences in dosage can lead to dramatically different effects. In the first decade of LSD research it was commonly known and accepted that there was a wide-range of "LSD intoxication" that occurred across the range of dosage (20μg –1500μg+), with only the mid-tohigher dosages producing what became known as "psychedelic" effects. At the lower dosages, a state known as "psycholotic" was also recognized, where in many cases cognitive functioning, emotional balance, and physical stamina were actually found to be improved.
This recognition of the varying effects of LSD was lost after the popular media demonized LSD with the help of the various myths and excesses of the '60s "Love Generation." When LSD made the jump from the clinic to the underground, its early explorers were 4 universally fascinated with the higher dosage entheogenic experience, while the more subtle effects at lower dosages were largely forgotten or ignored. The first "street" LSD in the 1960s was thus generally between 250μg and 500μg, a potency powerful enough to guarantee the casual user a truly psychedelic experience. LSD is somewhat unusual however in that a user can build a fast tolerance to the compound after regular (daily use), and while one's initial experiences on even a single dose can be dramatic, before long veteran "acid-heads" may be increasing their own dosage ten-fold--thus requiring much stronger hits than the average user. It was the high dosage of this early street acid, in combination with the complete ignorance of its early users, that would be responsible for the high number of "acid-casualties" that gave LSD is fearsome reputation. However, by the 1980s both Deadheads and the Acid-House generation had realized to drop the dosage of street acid to between 100-125 μg. These days a hit may be as low as 50 μg … or as little as 10 percent as powerful as a hit of 1960s acid, which is a dosage well below the true psychedelic threshold for most people and, for an experienced user suitably inclined, can certainly fall within the psycholotic category.
There was always a strong contingent of experienced psychedelic users among the extreme sports community due to the little realized fact that the seeds of the extreme sports revolution were actually planted with the dismantling and dispersal of Psychedelic Culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As countless numbers of counter-culture refuges left the major cities and moved out to small towns in the country in the Back-to-the-Land movement, most were looking for new paths to fulfillment after the spectacular promises of the brief Psychedelic Age had failed and a new age of uppers and downers was emerging.
At the same time as this sudden influx of these "freaks" to the beaches, deserts, and mountains of the world, technological advances in minor cult-like sports were suddenly allowing ordinary individuals unprecedented access to the wildernesses of the world--in the mountains, the ocean, and even the air--as a new kind of athlete took the concept of "finding oneself in the wilds" to a whole new definition. The invention of these highly individualistic sports (such as surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, BASE jumping, tow-in surfing) that sought to use existing terrain in new and inventive ways generally raised the ire of the status quo, and so most extremesports begin life as "outlaw sports" of some kind or another, with their participants regarded as rebels. The attraction of these types of sports for the newly arrived psychedelic-era refugees is obvious, and most of the leading figures of this era were clearly cultural rebels living well outside of the norms of society. For this particular branch of the psychedelic tree, the oceans, deserts, and great mountains of the world were now being recognized as the ultimate "set and setting"--a realization common to mystics and sadhus since the beginning of recorded time.


The ASEC minutes of Thursday, October 18, 2012, were approved as distributed.
Paul has not received a response to his telephone call to Elizabeth Bolt, Associate Dean at the School of Medicine and Public Health. He feels that this is a boundary issue, and as such should be reconsidered. SMPH has not checked into the ramifications of non-compliance and the deadline of December 1, 2012, which is of immediate concern. The Center for Disease Control has policies and should also be consulted as to how to manage and give guidance on areas of personal conflict. That being said, the timing is late for the flu vaccine issue.
The committee has reported and written a comprehensive document on what UW Madison's responsibilities are. If you have an issue here at UW – it must be reported. A training module will be web-based and is 90% done. This order will touch all areas: campus website, deans and directors, department chairs, individual mailings to employees. Formal communication may come directly from the Chancellor and the deadline is December 1, 2012.
Paul asked that ASEC email any communications on the President's recent visit to Vince Sweeney. There is general displeasure with the process of ticket distribution, and he discussed some question as to how the location was chosen as well as the amount of information required when requesting a ticket. However, this was a tremendous opportunity for our UW students as well as an opportunity to display our campus.
· Last summer it was announced by the governor and Kevin Reilly that a flexible degree program would be developed; with the goal to offer a degree from a UW institution in a flexible format. The timing of this announcement was not ideal, but the interest has been strong; intent is to create quality educational options with strong learning goals.
· The program's name is confusing in that this is really a flexible option to existing degrees and not a new flexible degree. The degree will be standard (including shared governance approvals), but attained in a flexible manner.
· The intended rollout for this program will be next fall and institutions will formally announce commitments sometime after November 5, 2012.
ASEC commented that student services will be an important part of this program and advisors will have a critical role. ASEC recommended that students would make an important contribution to this program and asked about the faculty/staff over-site role.
Jeff Shokler asked Aaron to return in the Spring and update ASEC on this important program.
§ The committee would like this document supplied with the layoff notice letter.
§ They would like prominent placement of this document on the academic staff website.
§ Question raised by Daña Alder as to why someone would not be compensated for their last day of work (see which page three. No answer known on this question.
- Jeff Shokler received this document on the part of ASEC and it will now be placed on ASEC's agenda for formal approval next week. Jeff thanked this committee for all of their hard work.
- Brian informed ASEC of the districting process as it is currently and the new proposed process.
- Question arose as to whether this work should be moved to the Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff rather than overseen by a standing committee.
- Test on this system should take place in December; formal announcement not made until testing completed.
- Question arose as to whether server location should change. DRC is re-doing many processes with regard to this issue.
- 3270 transactions will no longer be visible in the new system; however, this should not be a problem.
- Gene Masters will take Mark Werner's position; Jeff asked that this committee think about the sustainability issue.
- Discussion regarding quality and accuracy of data supplied took place. Brian stated that data should not be via email, but rather by supplying as 'snapshot' from a server.
- Robert stated that the committee needs an example of white paper as a new subject rather than a 'response white paper'.
- Question arose as to composition of this committee because some of the members thought that faculty would be part of the committee. Jeff will look into this.
- Voter registration will be something we can work on in time and a university policy is needed.
- UW System Conference date is July 25/26, 2012.
- Jeff met with Dan Koetke, Vice Chancellor for Administration, who has been assigned to us as HR Design project liaison. He will not replace Steve Lund, but will provide an additional resource and support in communicating with academic staff. He will offer help in augmenting our communications. Jeff will be meeting with the Communications Committee to enlist their help as well.
- Jeff spoke with Mark Cook of University Communications; we are planning a joint University Communications/ASEC joint meeting in November before the Assembly Meeting: November 12, 2012 – 1:30-3:00 PM. Multiple roles will be among the topics discussed.
- Michael Feldman has agreed to speak at the Academic Staff Institute on March 1, 2013.
- Vice Provost for University Libraries Committee has selected finalists.
- Discussion of addendum; edits/changed. Will finalize for adoption at next week's ASEC meeting.
- Discussed questions for next week's Chancellor's visit. One possible question: what could we have done to help the Chancellor.
Respectfully submitted by Mary Johansen, Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff.