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Document: U.S. Navy Surface Force Strategy
The following is the U.S. Navy's new Surface Force Strategy, which was released on Jan. 9, 2016. Read More →
New Strategy Emphasizes High-end Surface Warfare
Guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG-72) conducts a replenishment at sea with Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Kanawha (T-AO-196) on Dec. 28, 2016. US Navy Photo
A new strategy for the surface force – released today – creates an outline for a navy that anticipates a return to high-end warfare it hasn't known since the Cold War. Read More →
Raytheon to Manufacture Naval Strike Missile Launchers in Kentucky
A Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is launched from the littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) during missile testing operations off the coast of Southern California in September 2014. US Navy photo.
LOUISVILLE, KY. – Raytheon is set to build launchers for the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile at its facility where it constructs the SeaRAM and Phalanx close-in weapon systems, company officials told USNI News on Tuesday. Read More →
Raytheon, Kongsberg Ink Deal to Build Naval Strike Missile in U.S.
U.S. missile maker Raytheon has finalized a deal to build the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile and its launcher at its facilities in the U.S. for domestic and international sale, company officials told USNI News on Wednesday. Read More →
WEST: U.S. Navy Anti-Ship Tomahawk Set for Surface Ships, Subs Starting in 2021
USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) on Sept. 23, 2014. US Navy Photo
SAN DIEGO – Any U.S. Navy ship or submarine capable of firing a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) could be armed with an 1000-nautical mile anti-ship cruise missile in less than a decade, service officials told USNI News on Wednesday during the West 2016 conference. Read More →
Navy Aims to Install Over-the-Horizon Missile on Littoral Combat Ship by End of 2016
By: Megan Eckstein
A Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is launched from the Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) during a Sept. 23, 2014, test off the coast of Southern California. US Navy photo.
PENTAGON – The Navy hopes to have an over-the-horizon missile on a Littoral Combat Ship by the end of the year, the service's surface warfare director told USNI News on Thursday. Read More →
Essay: Taking Distributed Lethality to the Next Level
By: Scott C. Truver
USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) left,the guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) on Feb. 19, 2014. US Navy Photo
The evolving Distributed Lethality (DL) concept ––announced last year –– offers a new approach for how the nation might use its naval surface forces as potential adversaries acquire naval capabilities designed to control the sea. Read More →
Essay: How Offering Tomahawks for Foreign Military Sales Will Strengthen Allies and Deter Adversaries
By: Robert Crumplar
USS Barry (DDG=52) fires Tomahawk cruise missiles in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 11, 2011. US Navy Photo
The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) has long been a mainstay of the U.S. strike weapon inventory. Launching from ranges out to 1,000 miles and armed with a 1,000-pound warhead, it is the Navy's "Kick Down the Door" weapon, attacking well-defended high-value land targets. The BLK IV missile is the latest variant in a steady progression of capability, incorporating mission planning, navigation and guidance, and command and control upgrades designed to improve responsiveness and target flexibility. Combat-proven and operationally reliable, Tomahawk remains a weapon of choice for planners and commanders alike. The FY 2016 budget maintains production and inventory levels, reflecting a continued high demand signal. Read More →
Navy: Raytheon Tomahawk Likely to Compete in Next Generation Anti-Ship Missile Contest
A Tomahawk cruise missile hits a moving maritime target Jan. 27 after being launched from the USS Kidd (DDG-100) near San Nicolas Island in California. US Navy Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Raytheon's Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) will be a likely competitor in the Navy's search for a next generation anti-ship missile to replace the 1980s era weapons widely in use in the service, the deputy chief of naval operations warfare systems (N9) said Wednesday. Read More →
Navy Issues RFI for New Frigate Anti-Surface Missile
An artist's representation of a Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile. Boeing Image
The Navy has issued a call to industry for options for an over-the-horizon anti-surface missile for the service's future frigate design, according to a notice from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) posted on FedBizOpps. Read More →


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Salah ready to sacrifice Champions League dream for domestic glory
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Soccer Football - Champions League - Liverpool Training - Melwood, Liverpool, Britain - March 12, 2019 Liverpool's Mohamed Salah during training Action Images via Reuters/Carl Recine
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah is willing to put his Champions League ambitions on the back-burner to help the Merseyside club claim their first English league crown in 29 years, the Egyptian forward has said.
Liverpool are second in the Premier League with 73 points, one point behind defending champions Manchester City with eight matches remaining in the season.
Juergen Klopp's side are also competing for silverware in the Champions League where they visit Bayern Munich on Wednesday for the return leg of their last-16 tie, after the sides played out a 0-0 draw at Anfield last month.
"I'll be honest with you, the most prestigious competition for me is the Champions League," Salah told a news conference at Anfield on Monday.
"But the dream for the city and the club is the league. So, I'm happy to sacrifice my dream for their dream but if we win both that would great and this is what we are trying to do."
Salah, who suffered a shoulder injury in last year's Champions League final defeat by Real Madrid, later said Liverpool were mentally prepared to take advantage if City lose their way in the home stretch of the domestic season.
"The competition is very tough and we have difficult games left as do they," the 26-year-old added.
"All you can do is win your games and hopefully they will fail in one so we can win the title. My mind is sharp and there is pressure but I'm strong mentally and we have to keep going.
"We will see what we can do at the end of the season but mentally I am ready for everything."
After Wednesday's clash at Bayern, Liverpool return to league action with a trip to 19th-placed Fulham on Sunday.
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Dena Anuk$a releases wavey visuals for 'Shine'
Dena Anuk$a calls for authenticity and encourages shared success in latest visuals.
Belfast MC Dena Anuk$a is back with visuals for her newest track 'Shine'. Having released numerous singles in the past eight months whilst leading the Belfast division of Gxrl Code it's been a busy 2019 for Dena. Continuing her rich vein of form, she has brings her trademark melodic vocals helped with a healthy dose of rapping in the newest effort.
Created as an ode to other women and to highlight the importance of supporting one another Dena said, "The song was inspired by a red table talk episode where Jada Smith spoke about women shining through each other and being happy for each other's success. I feel like this is something that we lack in Northern Ireland and the music industry as a whole, which is what our collective Gxrl Code is also trying to change."
Reasserting her consistent affirmations of the importance of staying true to yourself in the track Dena is keen to work with those close to her in order to execute her vision.
"The video is shot by my home girl (and housemate) KT, she nailed the wavey alternative bitch vibe I had envisioned for the song."


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Abdelilah Fadual El Akil (Tetuán, 1969) es un ciudadano marroquí que estuvo acusado de haber participado en la célula terrorista que cometió los atentados del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid.

Se le acusó por la Fiscalía de colaborar en la obtención de los explosivos utilizados en el atentado. Fue detenido a principios de abril de 2004 en Ceuta, ingresó en prisión y el 6 de marzo de 2006 se le prorrogó dos años más la prisión condicional.

Durante el juicio por los atentados se solicitó una condena de 12 años por pertenencia a banda armada. La Audiencia Nacional lo condenó a 9 años, pero el Tribunal Supremo, al resolver los recursos de casación contra la sentencia en julio de 2008, lo absolvió del delito.

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Atentados del 11 de marzo de 2004
Nacidos en Tetuán

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NBNK Investments plc was a UK-based financial investment company formed by Lord Levene and a consortium of senior business figures in 2010. The aim of the company was to build a new large UK retail bank primarily through the acquisition of other banks.

 the company had failed to acquire any banking assets and had considered winding up as it had been unable to acquire any it had been interested in.   However, after new investment from W.L. Ross in 2012 it continued to operate and in May 2014 said that it was still looking for potential acquisitions.
By 2016 NBNK had still failed to acquire any target companies, and in June 2016 it entered voluntary liquidation.

History

Foundation
The company was formed by Lord Levene and a consortium of City executives as a vehicle to acquire UK banking assets in domestic banking and eventually wealth management. On 2 July 2010 the company was incorporated under the name of De Facto 9999 plc, and a month later on 2 August the company name was changed to NBNK Investments plc. The company name, NBNK, is a portmanteau of "New Bank" (NewBaNK), and the company website primarily used the colour purple.

The company was listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange on 20 August and has major advisers and investors on-board including Aviva, Invesco and F&C Asset Management. People involved in the consortium include Peter Levene, chairman of Lloyd's of London, Sir David Walker who has been chairman of Morgan Stanley, Charles McCreevy former European Union internal markets commissioner and politician John McFall.

Attempts to purchase assets
In July 2010 it was reported that the nationalised British bank Northern Rock was a prime target for NBNK Investments. UK Financial Investments Limited, owners of Northern Rock, had been briefed on the proposals. On 4 November Gary Hoffman left Northern Rock to become CEO at NBNK Investments on 1 May 2011. Due to Hoffman's previous position NBNK Investments could not table a bid for Northern Rock for a period of 12 months. In November 2011 it was announced that Virgin Money would be buying Northern Rock.

In September 2011 NBNK announced that trading in its shares would be suspended until takeover talks with an unnamed bank had been concluded. In November 2011 it was revealed that NBNK and the Co-operative Banking Group were the final two bidders for 600 or more of the branches of Lloyds Banking Group. In December 2011, Lloyds said its preferred option for the sale of 632 bank branches was to sell them to the Co-operative Group. That deal between Lloyds and the Co-operative fell through itself and the branches went on to form TSB Bank.

2012 – 2016
NBNK announced on 27 June 2012 that the company would be wound down, as a result of the continuing talks between Lloyds Banking Group and the Co-operative Banking Group and the failure of the company to acquire a bank. At the time of the company winding down it had made three attempts to acquire banking assets, and they concluded that there were no other UK assets for sale that would have met the company's objectives. The company expects to return approximately 40% of the shareholders initial capital. On 28 June the company was restored to trading on AIM.

In July and August 2012 Lord McFall of Alcluith resigned from his post as a Non-Executive Director and Sir David Walker resigned as Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director respectively; Walker became Chairman of Barclays.

However, in late 2012 the company's direction changed again after W.L. Ross & Co Group made an offer to inject new capital into NBNK, take a stake in the company and maintain NBNK as an AIM listed company. W.L. Ross own a stake in Virgin Money, the company that bought Northern Rock which had been a target of NBNK. On 8 January 2013 shareholders agreed to Wilbur Ross' company. At that time 3 members of the board stood down and Wilbur Ross was appointed Chairman of NBNK. Lord Dan Brennan remains as a director. Due to his commitments with the Bank of Cyprus Wilbur Ross resigned as Chairman of NBNK in late 2014 and was replaced as chairman by Stephen Johnson. The policy was to maintain the Company at minimal cost while appropriate opportunities to make an acquisition in the financial services sector were sought. In the event, no such opportunities arose. In June 2016 following an AGM, a decision was made to return funds to the shareholders and the company entered voluntary liquidation.

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Financial services companies established in 2010
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Áquila de Sinope foi um nativo da cidade de Sinope, na província romana do Ponto, conhecido por ter produzido pela tradução literal que ele fez da Bíblia hebraica para o grego por volta de 130 d.C. Ele era um prosélito judeu.

Tradução da Bíblia
Epifânio de Salamina (De Pond. et Mens. c. 15) preservou uma tradição de que ele seria parente do imperador romano Adriano, que empregou-o na reconstrução de Élia Capitolina (a cidade fundada pelos romanos após a destruição de Jerusalém na primeira metade do século II) e que ele teria se convertido ao cristianismo, mas, ao ser admoestado por praticar a astrologia pagã, se converteu ao judaísmo. Diz-se que a versão de Áquila era utilizada nas sinagogas no lugar da Septuaginta. Os cristãos, em geral, não gostavam da versão alegando, sem fundamento, que ela teria traduzido passagens (como ) incorretamente, mas Jerônimo e Orígenes falaram muito bem dela, sendo que este último a incluiu em sua Hexapla.

Acreditava-se que a Hexapla era a única cópia da tradução de Áquila existente, mas, em 1897, fragmentos de dois códices foram levados para a Biblioteca da Universidade de Cambridge. Desde então eles tem sido publicados: os fragmentos contendo  e  por F. C. Burkitt em 1897, e os fragmentos com parte dos Salmos 90-103 por C. Taylor em 1899.

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Primeiras versões da Bíblia
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Author(s): Loviglio, M.N.; Leleu, M.; Mannik, K.; Passeggeri, M.; Giannuzzi, G.; Werf, I. van der; Waszak, S.M.; Zazhytska, M.; Roberts-Caldeira, I.; Gheldof, N.; Migliavacca, E.; Alfaiz, A.A.; Hippolyte, L.; Maillard, A.M.; Dijck, A. Van; Kooy, R.F.; Sanlaville, D.; Rosenfeld, J.A.; Shaffer, L.G.; Andrieux, J.; Marshall, C.; Scherer, S.W.; Shen, Y.; Gusella, J.F.; Thorsteinsdottir, U.; Thorleifsson, G.; Dermitzakis, E.T.; Deplancke, B.; Beckmann, J.S.; Rougemont, J.; Jacquemont, S.; Reymond, A.; Vulto-van Silfhout, A.T. ; Schouten, M.I.; Pfundt, R.P. ; Leeuw, N. de ; et al.
Copy number variants (CNVs) are major contributors to genomic imbalance disorders. Phenotyping of 137 unrelated deletion and reciprocal duplication carriers of the distal 16p11.2 220 kb BP2-BP3 interval showed that these rearrangements are associated with autism spectrum disorders and mirror phenotypes of obesity/underweight and macrocephaly/microcephaly. Such phenotypes were previously associated with rearrangements of the non-overlapping proximal 16p11.2 600 kb BP4-BP5 interval. These two CNV-prone regions at 16p11.2 are reciprocally engaged in complex chromatin looping, as successfully confirmed by 4C-seq, fluorescence in situ hybridization and Hi-C, as well as coordinated expression and regulation of encompassed genes. We observed that genes differentially expressed in 16p11.2 BP4-BP5 CNV carriers are concomitantly modified in their chromatin interactions, suggesting that disruption of chromatin interplays could participate in the observed phenotypes. We also identified cis- and trans-acting chromatin contacts to other genomic regions previously associated with analogous phenotypes. For example, we uncovered that individuals with reciprocal rearrangements of the trans-contacted 2p15 locus similarly display mirror phenotypes on head circumference and weight. Our results indicate that chromosomal contacts' maps could uncover functionally and clinically related genes.


For a while now, manufacturers of children products and services have developed numerous exclusive designs of products for children specially designed to make our everyday life less complicated. One of the best examples of these are child pushchairs. The best pushchairs available nowadays come in a lot of unique styles and accommodate a variety of different demands. Considering that parents live their life's in different ways compared with families from years gone by, buying for a baby pram has become somewhat easier, but also in certain ways more difficult. With so many styles and shapes, you can easily select your individual version of child pushchairs that accommodate your own targeted specifications and preferred options at the same time, although you need to first be familiar with what to look for. It implies realizing what you are looking for in a pram.
When deciding on a pram, you have to think about your way of life first. Designs of good baby pushchairs will meet the specifications of its expected user perfectly. To get a thought of which brand's model you are looking for, firstly think about your routines and day-to-day plans and consider when your baby will probably be joining you. Then you definitely must determine when you will should carry one or more children at the same time inside your new pushchair. You'll find a lot of designs accessible for single baby pushchairs, thus you shouldn't be without alternatives with regards to just one baby. For twins or triplets, you could choose either the wider model with child seats next to one another, or perhaps a tandem model with seats opposite the other.
Some parents prefer their children to look at them when walking outside, whilst some want their infants to look at the front side so the baby can observe everything as they go by. There are baby pushchairs designed for these functions and you can find also some pushchairs which have reversible car seats in case you need both of those features.
Definitely take into account the wheels of the child pram you are looking at buying. Many pushchairs have three wheels whereas others have four. However when you are a parent who always wants to bring your baby to the park, consider a pushchair with tougher and bigger wheels for convenient ride through rocky surface areas. Check the wheels for locking purposes and also the rotating ability of every wheel for simple rotation.
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As we've noticed briefly, selecting the perfect infant pushchairs for your baby is not very hard if you have your every day needs to mind. Just focus on identifying your options to start with and your options should become a good deal clearer for you.
A baby pram is one of the most significant buys that you will need to make for your newborn baby. Although, as you will find a great amount of prams on the market to buy, it is very important that you look for a item that's both comfortably and safe for your child. This short article gives handy details so that you can make the right purchase.
Child prams come in a number of different kinds for example traditional prams, lightweight 'strollers', flat-folding, umbrella-folding, three-wheeler and twin prams simply to name some. You can observe a few samples online.
To help you make the best selection, it's essential for you to get rid of the several available possibilities so that you could focus exactly on what you would like.
– How many times do you plan to utilize the pram?
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For your baby's protection and security it is crucial that you just get a pram that's durable enough to carry them. It can be as well necessary to understand if you are planning to utilize it regularly or just once or twice a year. If you intend to utilize the pram to take your child from your car to the stores then the necessary longevity and sturdiness will be a lot higher.
A baby pram which has fixed wheels is a commonly used pram which you can use on almost any bad road with snow. It really is a great pram for the baby since it is a lot more sturdy, the wheels have a wide base and so they can go on any type of ground. The baby pram with swivel wheels can be adjusted and can move in tiny rooms like shops or narrow streets. The lock system on the swivel wheels is the enhanced function that allows the pram for the child to move offside occasionally.
– You'll find baby prams that have a facility of turning baby 's seat either facing you or away from you. A new born child feels more safe if he or she is facing you whereas a toddler is thrilled to look around while sitting on the pram. So, you are able to change the seat unit based on your convenience and comfort of your baby.
In case you are the parents of twins or perhaps 2 kids having very less age difference, then a double pram that is also known as twin pram could be convenient for you. It becomes really simple to put twins in a twin pram which is either side by side or in the same line (front and back).


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Qiu Deshu
Works Exhibitions Biography Press
Qiu Deshu was born in 1948 in Shanghai. He founded the Shanghai Grass Grass Society in 1979, bringing up the concept of "independent spirit, unique technique, original style". In 1982, Qiu received inspiration from a crack on an old slate by chance, which is when he started to create works for his Fissure Series. He has continued to study the techniques and deepened its themes in the past two decades.
By ingeniously integrating rice paper with canvas, ink wash with oil paint, painting with sculpture, Qiu made a bold breakthrough to traditional techniques and rules of Chinese ink art. Not only has he found a way to represent the era in constant fissure by means of ink and wash, he also has managed to create a unique sense of beauty – the "beauty of fissure". From the language to the pattern and from the outside to the inside, the subtleties and diversities of the beauty of "fissure" are manifested fully and vividly, imbuing his work with distinct characteristics as well as strong visual impact. During his thirty-year career as a professional painter, he has always been committed to furthering the exploration, research, practice and development of the art of "fissure".
Qiu's works have been widely exhibited both at home and internationally. Nearly sixty museums, galleries and institutes have collected his work.
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How Do You Start A Windstorm With Two Years To Go In A Lease, And Is It Worth It?
December 23, 2012 By Ira Meislik Leave a Comment
Leases frequently provide that either party can terminate them if damage is caused by a casualty in the last two years of the lease term. This could serve as an incentive for such a "casualty" to take place, and hence the question we ask. Yes, a cheap trick.
Last week, we opened this topic by ruminating about the "measure" to be used when figuring out just "how badly" a building or the leased space had been "damaged" in the context of whether either a landlord or its tenant can "bail out" of a lease. We suggested that the measure should be based on how long it would take to repair, not how much of the property or the leased space was affected (or even how much it might cost). While one reader asked, legitimately we might add, "why should a landlord be able to terminate the lease at all," no one asked whether there was some threshold of physical damage, such as 50%, that would "change the game" such that it would be reasonable to relieve a landlord from the obligation to rebuild for the tenant. Other than what we'll cover as today's specific issue, we'll try to cover those questions next time, pausing now only to say that we aren't unaware of the impact of zoning or building code changes that might have taken place after a building was first put up.
Today, we're going to look at only one facet of the "should a landlord ever be able to terminate the lease" question. It deals with the last "two" years of the lease term. That could be the last year or the last three years or whatever time period you'd like. In fact, the suggestion we'll be making takes that selected period into account.
A good way to illustrate the reason why Ruminations thinks a landlord should be able to terminate a lease based on serious fire or similar damage toward the end of the lease term is the following. Suppose a building and the leased space within it are damaged by fire with only six months left in the lease term and it will take five months to restore them. At that point, the tenant will have but one month to go and it might take a month or more for the tenant to get ready to reopen, even if needing to do nothing more than re-fixture and restock. Does it make sense to rush the rebuilding to get it done in five months? Does it make sense to be locked into the "old" configuration for the building and leased space with only a month to go? Of course not – it would be an economic waste.
On the other hand, if the fire happened with two years to go, and it took a month to restore, there would still be 23 months of usable space. Even if the fire happened at the six month mark, if it would only take two weeks to restore the space, it seems pretty logical that the lease should continue.
Commonly used "lease language" doesn't really handle these scenarios very well. What we usually see is something like this: "Either party can terminate this Lease if either the Demised Premises or the Building is damaged by fire or other cause within the last two years of the Term and the damage is to more than 40% of either the Building or the Demised Premises." As we pointed out last week, you can flood 100% of the leased space and get back in business in five days. At the other end of the possible hypothetical situations, you can have damage to 35% of the leased space (assuming you can figure out what that really means) happening six months before the end of the lease term where it takes five months to restore the space. That's what we described two paragraphs above.
So, what does Ruminations suggest? Try the following:
X. If, within the last two (2) years of this Lease: (a) the Building (including the Demised Premises) is damaged by fire or through any other cause; and (b) in the written opinion of a [Name of State] licensed architect who has at least fifteen (15) years' experience in the design and architectural supervision of retail [or industrial, if applicable] buildings it would take more than twenty five percent (25%) of the number of days remaining in the Term (measured from the date of damage) to repair or restore the Building when acting diligently, then at the option of either Landlord or Tenant, which shall be exercised by notice in writing given to the other within thirty (30) days after occurrence of such damage or destruction, this Lease shall terminate and no rent shall be paid by Tenant for the period subsequent to the date of such damage or destruction; provided, however, that if at the time Tenant receives Landlord's notice of termination pursuant to the preceding sentence Tenant shall have an option to extend the current Term for a period of at least five (5) years and if Tenant so exercises its option to extend within sixty (60) days after receipt of Landlord's notice of termination, this Lease shall not terminate and Landlord shall be obligated to repair or restore as aforesaid (but subject to the provisions of [possible other limitations in the Lease – not any that say the tenant can't exercise its option "too soon"]). If this Lease shall terminate as aforesaid and any rent shall have been paid in advance, Landlord agrees to refund to Tenant all rent so paid applicable to the period subsequent to such damage or destruction. Upon any such termination, Tenant and Landlord each shall be released from any further liability under this Lease for anything accruing or first occurring after the event of damage or destruction. In the event Landlord terminates this Lease as hereinabove provided and thereafter restores the Building within one (1) year from the termination of this Lease, Landlord hereby grants to Tenant the right to lease the Demised Premises for the balance of the remaining Term of this Lease, plus any unexercised extension rights set forth in this Lease, on the same terms and conditions as set forth in this Lease. Landlord shall notify Tenant when the Building is substantially restored and Tenant shall have thirty (30) days to notify Landlord of its election to lease the Demised Premises.
We are well aware that elements of our sample lease provision raise important business issues, such as the right to reoccupy some later constructed or restored leased space if the landlord terminates the lease (as a pretext to shed two years of less than market rent). Readers can "play with those."
Astute followers of Ruminations will note that while the language suggested above is informed by last week's suggestion that the obligation to restore be measured by the time it takes to do so, using a test measured by the number of days that would be left in the lease term incorporates an economic rent-based concept. We think that using this formula to determine how many "days" to use impliedly takes into account how much rent will be payable once the premises are restored. Factoring in the "economic" burden makes sense to us. Where there is a lot of time to go in the lease term, we believe the tenant has the greater economic interest in the space – it has built a business and had bargained to use this particular location until a given date. The value to the tenant of being able to stay in the space diminishes as the "end" of the term approaches. After all, the tenant's amortization of improvements and locational good will are diminishing. If there isn't a lot of time left in the lease term, it will have to move anyway. On the other hand, the landlord is being asked to restore the leased space as it was. If that costs a lot to do, its "economic" interest in when the lease ends increases as the expiration date looms. Basically, we see it as a balancing test of the two parties' respective interests.
So, that's why we have "switched" to "hybrid" test. We think there is a point in time in the critical analysis when "money" starts to play a meaningful role. Our approach today also respects the "time" element by using "time" as the trigger for the "switch." It doesn't have to be at the two year point. Though that is a common "trigger," there are properties and situations where a shorter or longer "switch" point would make sense.
As always, Ruminations invites, yea urges, readers to pipe in by clicking where it says "comments" just below the headline to today's posting.
Filed Under: Retail Leases, Retail Real Estate Law Tagged With: Agreements, Casualty, Drafting, Landlords, leases, negotiation, Restoration, retail real estate law, Tenants


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The St. Matthew's Project started life in the summer of 2004 and has developed, literally, from a kick-about in Brockwell Park for young people from one estate in Brixton, St. Matthew's. The origins of the project are linked to an even smaller 'community' – Springett House – a large L-shaped block on the southern edge of the estate, backing onto Brixton Water Lane. The young people from Springett House were initially extremely reluctant to interact with their peers from the rest of the estate but barriers were broken down by organising a series of football sessions and matches and the creation of 'Springett F.C', the forerunner of today's St. Matthew's F.C.
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Definition of global catalog in The Network Encyclopedia.
A Microsoft Windows 2000 service and store that contains a partial replica of Active Directory information from all domains in your enterprise forest. The global catalog enables users to easily locate objects in any domain with maximum speed and minimum network traffic.
In effect, the global catalog acts as a kind of index for looking up objects stored in Active Directory anywhere on your network. You can search the global catalog for Active Directory objects by using the Find dialog box in Active Directory Users and Computers.
The global catalog resides on a selected group of the domain controllers in your Windows 2000 enterprise called global catalog servers. The administrative tool Active Directory Sites and Services is used to specify which domain controllers will host the global catalog - that is, which will be configured as global catalog servers. The global catalog is automatically created the first time you run the Active Directory Installation Wizard, and it is installed on the first domain controller in your root domain by default. The directory replication process controlled by Active Directory creates and maintains the contents of each global catalog server.
Every directory object in the entire enterprise is represented in the global catalog, but only a subset of the properties of each object is stored in the catalog. The properties represented are those most likely to be used as search attributes, such as the user's first or last name. However, administrators can specify storing additional object attributes in the catalog if desired. Having the global catalog store only a subset of an object's attributes in Active Directory improves the response time for performing search queries on Active Directory.
You can modify which attributes are represented for objects in the global catalog by editing the schema of Active Directory, but you must do so with care. The global catalog also includes the access permissions for directory objects, so if you search for an object and it doesn't show up, you probably do not have permission to access the object.
In a geographically distributed enterprise, each physical site should have at least one domain controller to speed network traffic. Most Active Directory–related traffic is the result of queries on Active Directory, so the domain controller for small sites should also be configured as a global catalog server. This will reduce traffic over WAN links to other sites by allowing the global catalog server to locally resolve queries for information on directory objects from other domains.


Every year since 2008 our office has been going to Port-au-Prince and Jacmel in order to provide free dental services to communities with limited access and funds to quality dental care. This project is undertaken in collaboration with Patrick Charles from Prophalab S.A., a pharmaceutical and laboratory supplier based in Haiti.
We offer free dental services to all residents of the YWCA Arise Women's shelter. All services excluding laboratory fees are complimentary.


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U.S dollar reversed its losses against the Japanese Yen on Monday trading after the comments of Treasure secretary with Financial Times that strong US dollar is good in long term periods. Dollar is recently up 0.3% against the Yen after hitting five month lowest level in earlier sessions.
On the economic front U.S consumer prices decline 0.3% in March versus the 0.0% expected as compared to 0.1% in February, retail sales fell 0.2% in March versus -0.1% as compared to -0.3% in February. According to New York Fed's Empire state manufacturing survey, general business condition index is at 5.2 for April which is much lower than 15 expected as compared to 16.4 in March.
Dollar sharply fell after US president Donald Trump comments in an interview with the wall street Journal that "Too strong" dollar is hurting economy and made it difficult to compete with other countries in trade.
Investors are also sidelined ahead of French presidential election next week, where populist from the far left and far right loom larger than before. Geopolitical politics also affecting the investors decisions with escalating issues between USA and North Korea. A failed ballistic missile test by North Korea also prompted US officials to warn the country's provocative behavior couldn't continue. Further escalation should keep the U.S dollar under pressure, especially in scenario of relatively quiet economic calendar this week.
Australian dollar is down in today's session on dovish comments by central bank and affirmation of need of strong US dollar by US treasury secretary. New Zealand also down but it is expected to rebound in a weak due to solid dairy prices and rising inflation.


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Since the discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle in 2012, researchers have toiled away in search of all the particles it might decay into. New research revealed that some 60% of Higgs-Bosons decay into bottom quarks. What does this mean for new research in the field?
Researchers have recently discovered, for the first time ever, that Higgs-Boson particles decay into bottom quarks.
Physics enthusiasts might remember when the Large Hadron Collider found the Higgs boson in 2012. For the uninitiated, the Higgs-Boson is a subatomic particle which gives mass to other fundamental subatomic particles.
The Higgs field acts as an invisible force with highly observable effects. One of our fellow writers, Zayan Guedim wrote a bit about it last year. As the article states, up until that 2012 discovery, science operated on Higgs-Bosons being purely theoretical.
So what does the fact that this particle can decay mean for future science?
Previously, ATLAS experiments at CERN showed that the Higgs-Boson decayed into two tau particles. These belong to a subatomic particle group known as fermions (the ones which make up matter — no big deal).
But now, as of August 28th, 2018, ATLAS and CMS announced together that the Higgs-Boson transforms into bottom quarks when it decays. Researchers predict that this is the most common way that Higgs-Bosons decay.
The two research teams struggled to isolate evidence due to background processes that mimic other signals. After years of refinement, both CMS and ATLAS found evidence for their hypotheses.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued a press release about the discovery yesterday.
This joins the number of around 30% of Higgs-Boson particle decay types scientists can identify. Despite this low number, Viviana Cavaliere, a physicist at the DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory and ATLAS worker, claims that 60% decay into bottom quarks.
These numbers and experiments all follow and extrapolate from The Standard Model.
What's Next for the Higgs-Boson Particle?
According to Giacinto Piacquadio, Stony Brook University physicist and co-leader of the Higgs-to-bottom-quarks analysis group, some Higgs-Boson particles could produce dark matter particles as they decay.
In fact, the evidence that Higgs-Boson particles decay into bottom quarks can help researchers further identify "potentially invisible decays".
As with this discovery, the process to identify new aspects surrounding the Higgs-Boston particle will likely be slow and built on years of work and research.
"We needed to analyze hundreds of thousands of events before we could illuminate this process, which is happening on top of a mountain of similar-looking background events," said Chris Palmer, a Princeton scientist who also worked on the CMS analysis.
Scientists want to increase precision in these measurements moving forward. This will enable greater resolution for study and, hopefully, more insights into what other secrets Higgs-Boson particle may have in store.
What other subatomic particles might the Higgs-Boson decay into?


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Vandals target Glasgow underpass with racist messages
RACIST graffiti featuring reference to the Ku Klux Klan has been found in a city centre underpass.
The disturbing words were discovered by a member of the public this morning while walking through the underpass at Garscube Road, close to Cowcaddens Subway station.
The letters 'KKK' have been scrawled in spray paint on a wall while 'F*** Yer Blacks' has been written on a pillar within the underpass.
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Police have confirmed they have been made aware of the vandalism and have launched a probe.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 10.35am on Thursday, 16 July, 2020 a report was made to police about offensive graffiti written on an underpass in Garscube Road, Glasgow.
"Enquiries are ongoing."
Glasgow City Council has been contacted for comment.
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If your work requires you to step foot in a school then you probably need teacher clearances.
It's important to understand the implications of these laws if you are considering a paid or volunteer position in any kind of educational setting.
Privately run schools have their own set of regulations. The information below applies only to people working at public schools and institutions.
Anyone employed by a public school district needs "teacher" clearances which entail a detailed background check (State of Pennsylvania, 1949). There's a good chance you'll still need clearance for "teachers" in PA even if you aren't employed directly by the state district.
Schools often fall short when it comes to volunteers or even contracted employees like bus drivers. Audit reports from Lancaster (DePasquale, 2018) and Penn Hills (DePasquale, 2016) school districts determined that the schools had employed bus drivers that did not meet employment requirements or had disqualifying criminal convictions.
Even with a prior scandal on its hands, a 2017 audit report (DePasquale, 2017) showed that Pennsylvania State University did not complete adequate background checks for youth camp employees.
The state of Pennsylvania is cracking down on contracted workers like bus drivers – clearance through the company alone is not enough.
What Do School Employee, Volunteer, or Teacher Clearances Entail?
If you work in a school and come into direct contact with students, state law requires the specific clearances for teachers in PA below.
ChildLine is a streamlined reporting system for child abuse operating 24/7. Over 75% of the calls and e-submissions that come through ChildLine come from individuals known as mandated reporters (PA Family, n.d.).
If you work in a hands-on environment with children, you're likely a mandated reporter. As mandated reporters, teachers, coaches, scout leaders, librarians, and anyone working for a school-sponsored activity has a legal duty to report potential child abuse if they see anything suspicious.
This heavy responsibility makes it crucial for anyone working near children to hold clearances for teachers in PA.
As schools hire more privately contracted workers, this process becomes even more cumbersome. Unfortunately, employees often fall through the cracks which leaves students and staff vulnerable while putting schools at risk for lawsuits from parents or the state.
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ADEN, Yemen - Yemen's internationally-backed government declared on Saturday its full support for the ongoing military activities against the Shiite Houthi group in the country's capital Sanaa that killed 80 people and injured more than 120 others.
The government voiced support for the anti-Houthi campaign in a statement, following a closed meeting chaired by President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and attended by senior officials in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh.
Hadi hailed what he described as the "popular uprising" against the Houthi rebels in Sanaa as a "historic moment" to bring back legitimacy to Yemen.
The Yemeni president also extended his hand to the forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and called for "opening a new page with all the political parties in the country and forgetting what happened in the past."
Hadi's Aden-based government also called for "unity and demanded the political parties in Yemen to form a national alliance that overcomes the differences of the past and move on to confront the Iranian-backed Houthi militias."
Earlier in the day, more than 80 people were killed and 120 others injured during fierce armed confrontations between the elite Republican Guard Forces loyal to Saleh and the Houthis in different areas of Sanaa.
The Houthis and Saleh used to be allies during the three-year military conflict with the Saudi-backed government and the newly-recruited forces of Hadi across Yemen.
On Saturday, Saleh delivered a televised speech calling upon Yemenis to rise up and fight against the Houthis.
"I call upon all Yemenis to come together and do their national duty by defending our republic, institutions and freedom against the aggression of the Houthi militias which lasted for three years now," Saleh said.
Saleh also announced his willingness to conduct negotiations with the Saudi-led coalition via the Parliament.
"I also urge the coalition to conduct a ceasefire in Yemen, open airports, allow humanitarian aid into the devastated country. Our hand is extended to them to start a new chapter of relations," he added.
Security sources in Sanaa told Xinhua that intense street gun fights took place between pro-Saleh forces and the Houthi militants using different types of heavy and medium weapons.
Saleh's forces managed to retake the Sanaa International Airport, the 48th military camp, the Presidential Compound, key government institutions and ministries after fierce clashes with Houthi militias.
Sources close to Saleh said that "the popular uprising and the military campaign against Houthis will continue in Sanaa and some neighboring provinces on all different levels."
The sources also said that "Qatar tried to organize desperate mediation to end the clashes in Sanaa. The Qataris attempted to convince Saleh to withdraw his forces from areas under control in Sanaa and negotiate with Houthis to reach a settlement, but he strongly refused and the mediation failed."
On the other hand, the Saudi state media reported that Saleh loyalists freed his rival Hadi's Defense Minister Major General Mahmoud al-Subaihi from a Houthi prison in Sanaa. He was captured by Houthi forces in southern Yemen in mid 2015.
Chief of Houthi Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi gave a speech on Saturday evening saying that "all residents of Sanaa enjoyed peace. But unfortunately, those militants supported by Saleh are seeking to undermine it and spread chaos."
The Houthi leader called for peace and stability and demanded the tribal leaders and others to intervene to stop this sedition and end the escalation of situation in Sanaa as soon as possible.
Military commander loyal to the Houthi group said that the fight for taking full control over Sanaa will continue overnight and claimed they will take back all the neighborhoods in Sanaa within 24 hours.
After the fiery speeches of the two warring rival leaders, Sanaa witnessed a cautious calm that prevailed in the city's neighborhoods despite the sporadic gunfire and explosions that rocked the city in the past hours.
Thousands of terrified citizens and children are trapped in the middle of Sanaa, and each side mobilizes fighters and arms into the diplomatic district in preparation for possible violent confrontations tonight, according to local residents.
The Republican Guard Forces loyal to Saleh announced a curfew, asking people to remain indoor starting from 10:00 p.m. Sanaa time.
In September 2014, the two factions unified and toppled the legitimate government of Hadi and forced him along with his cabinet members into exile in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The fragile alliance between the two parties has faced much trouble over the vying of power.
On Aug. 26, a deadly fighting erupted near the residential house of Saleh's son in the southern part of Sanaa, during which the Houthis killed a senior security official close to Saleh.
Houthis and Saleh's party have since been trading accusations of secret links with the U.S.-backed Saudi-led military coalition.
The coalition intervened in the Yemeni conflict in March 2015 to roll back the Iranian-allied Houthi group and reinstate Hadi into power.


This web site aims to provide an overview of resources concerned with probabilistic modeling, inference and learning based on Gaussian processes. Although Gaussian processes have a long history in the field of statistics, they seem to have been employed extensively only in niche areas. With the advent of kernel machines in the machine learning community, models based on Gaussian processes have become commonplace for problems of regression (kriging) and classification as well as a host of more specialized applications.
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning, Carl Edward Rasmussen and Chris Williams, the MIT Press, 2006, online version.
Statistical Interpolation of Spatial Data: Some Theory for Kriging, Michael L. Stein, Springer, 1999.
The Bayesian Research Kitchen at The Wordsworth Hotel, Grasmere, Ambleside, Lake District, United Kingdom 05 - 07 September 2008.
A tutorial entitled Advances in Gaussian Processes on Dec. 4th at NIPS 2006 in VanCouver, slides, lecture.
The Gaussian Processes in Practice workshop at Bletchley Park, U.K., June 12-13 2006.
The Open Problems in Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning workshop at nips*05 in Whistler, December 10th, 2005.
The Gaussian Process Round Table meeting in Sheffield, June 9-10, 2005.
Wikipedia entry on Gaussian processes.
The ai-geostats web site for spatial statistics and geostatistics.
The Bibliography of Gaussian Process Models in Dynamic Systems Modelling web site maintained by Juš Kocijan.
Andreas Geiger has written a simple Gaussian process regression Java applet, illustrating the behaviour of covariance functions and hyperparameters.
An extensive and well documented package implementing Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian inference in neural networks, Gaussian processes (regression, binary and multi-class classification), mixture models and Dirichlet Diffusion trees.
The GPML toolbox implements approximate inference algorithms for Gaussian processes such as Expectation Propagation, the Laplace Approximation and Variational Bayes for a wide class of likelihood functions for both regression and classification. It comes with a big algebra of covariance and mean functions allowing for flexible modeling. The code is fully compatible to Octave 3.2.x. JMLR paper describing the toolbox.
IVM Software in C++ , also includes the null category noise model for semi-supervised learning.
Implements a Gaussian process interpretation of Kernel Fisher's discriminant.
Software implementation of Gaussian Processes for Ordinal Regression. Provides Laplace Approximation, Expectation Propagation and Variational Lower Bound.
A collection of matlab functions for Bayesian inference with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. The purpose of this toolbox was to port some of the features in fbm to matlab for easier development for matlab users.
Approximate online learning in sparse Gaussian process models for regression (including several non-Gaussian likelihood functions) and classification.
Implements sparse GP regression as described in Sparse Gaussian Processes using Pseudo-inputs and Flexible and efficient Gaussian process models for machine learning. The SPGP uses gradient-based marginal likelihood optimization to find suitable basis points and kernel hyperparameters in a single joint optimization.
Tpros is the Gaussian Process program written by Mark Gibbs and David MacKay.
This DEMO works fine with octave-2.0 and did not work with 2.1.33.
Implements Laplace's approximation as described in Bayesian Classification with Gaussian Processes for binary and multiclass classification.
Implements a variational approximation for Gaussian Process based multiclass classification as described in the paper Variational Bayesian Multinomial Probit Regression.
The gptk package implements a general-purpose toolkit for Gaussian process regression with an RBF covariance function. Based on a MATLAB implementation written by Neil D. Lawrence.
The NETLAB package by Ian Nabney includes code for Gaussian process regression and many other useful thing, e.g. optimisers.
See Tom Minka's page on accelerating matlab and his lightspeed toolbox.
Matthias Seeger shares his code for Kernel Multiple Logistic Regression, Incomplete Cholesky Factorization and Low-rank Updates of Cholesky Factorizations.
See the software section of www.kernel-machines.org.
Below is a collection of papers relevant to learning in Gaussian process models. The papers are ordered according to topic, with occational papers occuring under multiple headings.
Several papers provide tutorial material suitable for a first introduction to learning in Gaussian process models. These range from very short [Williams 2002] over intermediate [MacKay 1998], [Williams 1999] to the more elaborate [Rasmussen and Williams 2006]. All of these require only a minimum of prerequisites in the form of elementary probability theory and linear algebra.
The simplest uses of Gaussian process models are for (the conjugate case of) regression with Gaussian noise. See the approximation section for papers which deal specifically with sparse or fast approximation techniques. O'Hagan 1978 represents an early reference from the statistics comunity for the use of a Gaussian process as a prior over functions, an idea which was only introduced to the machine learning community by Williams and Rasmussen 1996.
Exact inference in Gaussian process models for classification is not tractable. Several approximation schemes have been suggested, including Laplace's method, variational approximations, mean field methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo and Expectation Propagation. See also the approximation section. Multi-class classification may be treated explicitly, or decomposed into multiple, binary (one against the rest) problems. For introductions, see for example Williams and Barber 1998 or Kuss and Rasmussen 2005. Bounds from the PAC-Bayesian perspective are applied in Seeger 2002.
The properties of Gaussian processes are controlled by the (mean function and) covariance function. Some references here describe difference covariance functions, while others give mathematical characterizations, see eg. Abrahamsen 1997 for a review. Some references describe non-standard covariance functions leading to non-stationarity etc.
There are two main reasons for doing approximations in Gaussian process models. Either because of analytical intractability such as arrises in classification and regression with non-Gaussian noise. Or in order to gain a computational advantage when using large datasets, by the use of sparse approximations. Some methods address both issues simultaneously. The approximation methods and approximate inference algorithms are quite diverse, see Quiñonero-Candela and Ramussen 2005 for a unifying framework for sparse approximations in the Gaussian regression model.
The papers in this section give theoretical results on learning curves, which describe the expected generalization performance as a function of the number of training cases. Consistency addresses the question whether the solution approaches the true data generating process in the limit of infinitely many training examples.
This section contains a very diverse collection of other uses of inference in Gaussian processes, which don't fit well in any of the above categories.


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IFR Asia - India 2015 By Spencer Anderson
India - High expectations
IFR Asia - India 2015
Such is the shortage of capital at Indian banks that resorting to the public markets may not enough to plug the gap and more radical solutions may be necessary.
By any measure, Indian banks are badly in need of more capital. Fitch Ratings has come up with an eye-popping estimate of US$140bn for all kinds of capital, while Standard Chartered sees the need for as much as US$53.4bn in Common Equity Tier 1.
Indian banks have until 2019 to meet Basel III capital requirements in full. However, the capital shortage has been apparent for years and, to date, there has been little notable progress to remedy the situation. While banks around the world have taken drastic measures to reduce risk-weighted assets and issue various flavours of capital via the public markets, Indian lenders have stayed conspicuously behind. Bankers and analysts blame this partially on frequent managerial changes at some of these lenders, as well as worsening non-performing loan levels, but warn that concrete steps need to be taken over the next 12 months or the capital hole may become even larger.
The Indian government has pledged to inject US$11bn over the next four years, but not many in the market believe this will be even close to enough. In September, the Reserve Bank of India designated only two lenders as domestically systemically important banks (DSIBs) in a move that analysts said only emphasised the scale of the problem. DSIBs are required to have higher capital buffers than smaller lenders. So, the fewer DSIBs there are in the country, the less capital is needed.
"It's hard to know where the equity capital will come from other than the government, other than for a few large public sector banks that have reasonable return metrics."
"The extent of the equity capital requirement is debatable, but these banks will still have challenges obtaining that capital," said Pramod Shenoi, head of capital solutions DCM and FIG at Standard Chartered. "It's hard to know where the equity capital will come from other than the government, other than for a few large public sector banks that have reasonable return metrics. However, the NPL situation is getting worse and the economy is not really moving, only compounding the difficulties for the public sector banks."
The bulk of the capital need is related to India's public sector lenders, which account for 75% of the country's banking assets. Private banks are already reasonably well capitalised. Of the public-sector banks, the smaller and less profitable lenders are seen as those facing the most trouble.
Syndicate bankers say the larger institutions will be able to tap shareholders through rights issues or offerings of Additional Tier 1 or Tier 2 bonds, but smaller lenders will find these avenues difficult to tap. They see lower-tier pubic banks having to pay premiums as high as 100b, and, even then, still struggle to attract investors. Furthermore, if all banks try to access the capital market at the same time, there is a chance that financing will become even more expensive.
On the equity side, Indian law states that public-sector banks must be at least 52% state owned, making share dilution impossible as many of these lenders hover around the threshold.
As tapping capital markets will be difficult, analysts hope that either the government will pledge to inject more capital into the system or Indian banks will begin a long-overdue process of consolidation, with stronger lenders merging with weaker ones.
After years of dithering, the recent deterioration in credit quality may spark some sense of urgency. NPLs at Indian banks hit 13% of total loans this year, according to a recent research note from the RBI. The figure has risen steadily over the last four years from just over 6% in 2011. For private banks, the ratio is a more reasonable 4%.
Analysts point out that this presents the government and the banks with something of a Catch-22 situation. The NPL ratio is rising because of a number of factors, but primarily because a slowing economy is making it harder for companies to pay back debts. Although a faster-growing economy will improve the NPL situation as it will help struggling companies recover, it will also likely cause risk-weighted assets to rise as credit demand grows, resulting in higher capital requirements.
"We believe around 11%–12% of loans are stressed," said Geeta Chugh, a senior direct at Standard and Poor's. "A large part of that is from infrastructure, metals and mining and we're starting to see more NPLs from the sugar and textiles areas. The economic recovery and resolution of policy issues, such as land acquisitions, fuel availability for power projects, appropriate pricing of electricity, are vital for the NPL resolution. Having said that, the economic recovery will likely increase the capital requirements of the banks as it is likely to be accompanied by high credit growth."
As such, many bankers and analysts on the ground say the capital shortfall is merely a symptom of a bigger problem. They argue that further capital injections or fundraisings are merely avoiding the fundamental issue that many of the public-sector banks are not profitable, with a crying need for restructuring, and bleed the government for more funding year after year. Fitch calculates that their overall return on equity has fallen from 17% in 2011 to 8% this year. Many trade below book values.
"At this point, it's obvious to many that we need to see more of these banks go private and for there to be some mergers and acquisitions," said a syndicate banker. "The capital gap is too big for them all to tap the market and the government cannot keep throwing money at this problem."
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Diverse tattoo designs submitted by various tattoo enthusiasts.
A Maori Chief with tattoos (moko) seen by Cook and his crew.
Tattooing has been practiced worldwide. The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally wore facial tattoos. Today one can find Berbers of Tamazgha and Maori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was widespread among Polynesian peoples and among certain tribal groups in the Philippines, Borneo, Mentawai Islands, Africa, North America, South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, Japan, Cambodia, New Zealand and Micronesia. Despite some taboos surrounding tattooing, the art continues to be popular in many parts of the world.
The origin of the word "tattoo" cannot be confirmed for certain but a borrowing from the Polynesian most likely Tongan, Samoan or Tahitian word tatau, "correct or workmanlike." It also signifies the correct quadrangular figures in reference to the fact that Samoan tattoo designs do not include circular lines, although other Polynesian tattoo motifs do. The first syllable "ta", meaning "hand", is repeated twice as an onomatopoeic reference to the repetitive nature of the action, and the final syllable "U" translates to "color". The instrument used to pierce the skin in Polynesian tattooing is called a hahau, the syllable "ha" meaning to "strike or pierce".
The OED gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, etc.) tatau. In Marquesan, tatu." Englishmen mispronounced the word tatau and borrowed it into popular usage as tattoo. Sailors on the voyage later introduced both the word and reintroduced the concept of tattooing to Europe.
In Japanese the most common word used for traditional designs is, "Horimono".
The traditional Japanese hand method is called, "Tebori".
The word, "Irezumi," simply means, "insertion of ink," and could mean tattoos using Tebori, or Western style machine, (or for that matter, any method of tattooing using insertion of ink).
Japanese may use the word "tattoo" to mean non-Japanese styles of tattooing.
Tattoo enthusiasts may refer to tattoos as "Tats", "Ink", "Art", or "Work", and to tattooists as "Artists". The latter usage is gaining greater support, with mainstream art galleries holding exhibitions of both traditional and custom tattoo designs. Copyrighted tattoo designs that are mass-produced to tattoo artists are known as flash, a notable instance of industrial design. Flash sheets are prominently displayed in many tattoo parlors for the purpose of providing both inspiration and ready-made tattoo images to customers.
Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from Ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk on the Ukok Plateau. Tattooing in Japan is thought to go back to the Paleolithic era, some ten thousand years ago. Various other cultures have had their own tattoo traditions, ranging from rubbing cuts and other wounds with ashes, to hand-pricking the skin to insert dyes.
Tattooing in the Western world today has its origins in Polynesia, and in the discovery of tatau by eighteenth century explorers. The Polynesian practice became popular among European sailors, before spreading to Western societies generally.
Tattoos have served as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts. The symbolism and impact of tattoos varies in different places and cultures, sometimes with unintended consequences. Also, tattoos may show how a person feels about a relative (commonly mother/father or daughter/son) or about an unrelated person.
Today, people choose to be tattooed for cosmetic, sentimental/memorial, religious, and magical reasons, and to symbolize their belonging to or identification with particular groups, including criminal gangs (see criminal tattoos) and prostitutes (and see 'tramp stamp' further on in the article) but also a particular ethnic group or law-abiding subculture. Some Māori still choose to wear intricate moko on their faces. In Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, the yantra tattoo is used for protection against evil and to increase luck. In the Philippines certain tribal groups believe that tattoos have magical qualities, and also to their bearers. Most traditional tattooing in the Philippines is related to the bearers Accomplishments in life or rank in the tribe.
People have also been forcibly tattooed for various reasons. The well known example is the identification system for inmates/Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust. However, tattoos can be linked with identification in more positive ways. For example, in the period of early contact between the Māori and Europeans, Māori chiefs sometimes drew their moko (facial tattoo) on documents in place of a signature. Tattoos are sometimes used by forensic pathologists to help them identify burned, putrefied, or mutilated bodies. Tattoo pigment is buried deep enough in the skin that even severe burns will often not destroy a tattoo. Because of this, many members of today's military will have their identification tags tattooed onto their chests (these are sometimes known as "meat tags" in the American armed forces). For many centuries seafarers have undergone tattooing for the purpose of enabling identification after drowning. In this way recovered bodies of such drowned persons could be connected with their family members or friends before burial. Therefore tattooists often worked in ports where potential customers were numerous. The traditional custom continues today in the Royal Navy (Great Britain) and in many others.
When used as a form of cosmetics, tattooing includes permanent makeup, and hiding or neutralizing skin discolorations. Permanent makeup are tattoos that enhance eyebrows, lips (liner and/or lipstick), eyes (liner), and even moles, usually with natural colors as the designs are intended to resemble makeup.
Medical tattoos are used to ensure instruments are properly located for repeated application of radiotherapy and for the areola in some forms of breast reconstruction. Tattooing has also been used to convey medical information about the wearer (e.g blood group).
During the first decade of the 21st century, the presence of tattoos became evident within pop culture, inspiring television shows such as A&E's Inked and TLC's Miami Ink and LA Ink. The decoration of blues singer Janis Joplin with a wristlet and a small heart on her left breast, by the San Francisco tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle, is taken as a seminal moment in the popular acceptance of tattoos as art. Tattoos are generally considered an important part of the culture of the Russian mafia.
In Japan, tattoos are strongly associated with the Yakuza, particularly full body tattoos done the traditional Japanese way ("Tebori"). Certain public Japanese bathhouses (sentō) and gymnasiums often openly ban those bearing large or graphic tattoos in an attempt to prevent Yakuza from entering.
In the United States many prisoners and criminal gangs use distinctive tattoos to indicate facts about their criminal behavior, prison sentences, and organizational affiliation. "Tear tattoos", for example, can be symbolic of murder, with each tear representing a death of a friend. Insofar as this cultural or subcultural use of tattoos predates the widespread popularity of tattoos in the general population, tattoos are still associated with criminality. At the same time, members of the U.S. military have an equally well established and longstanding history of tattooing to indicate military units, battles, kills, etc., an association which remains widespread among older Americans. Tattooing is also common in the British Armed Forces.
Although the general acceptance of tattoos is on the rise in Western society, they still carry a heavy stigma among upper- and upper-middle-class socioeconomic groups. Because members of these groups tend to have more conservative and understated tastes when it comes to culture and fashion, they often view the very practice of decorative tattooing as tacky or vulgar in itself. Classism also plays a role, as tattoos are associated with negative working-class stereotypes like the white trash or Guido stereotypes, as well as stereotypes of immigrants and racial minorities.
Tattoos can have additional negative associations for women. The prevalence of women in the tattoo industry itself, along with larger numbers of women bearing tattoos, is changing negative perceptions. A study of "at-risk" (as defined by school absenteeism and truancy) adolescent girls showed a positive correlation between body-modification and negative feelings towards the body and self-esteem; however, it also illustrated a strong motive of body-modification as the search for "self and attempts to attain mastery and control over the body in an age of increasing alienation."
Tattooing involves the placement of pigment into the skin's dermis, the layer of connective tissue underlying the epidermis. After initial injection, pigment is dispersed throughout a homogenized damaged layer down through the epidermis and upper dermis, in both of which the presence of foreign material activates the immune system's phagocytes to engulf the pigment particles. As healing proceeds, the damaged epidermis flakes away (eliminating surface pigment) while deeper in the skin granulation tissue forms, which is later converted to connective tissue by collagen growth. This mends the upper dermis, where pigment remains trapped within fibroblasts, ultimately concentrating in a layer just below the dermis/epidermis boundary. Its presence there is stable, but in the long term (decades) the pigment tends to migrate deeper into the dermis, accounting for the degraded detail of old tattoos.
Some tribal cultures traditionally created tattoos by cutting designs into the skin and rubbing the resulting wound with ink, ashes or other agents; some cultures continue this practice, which may be an adjunct to scarification. Some cultures create tattooed marks by hand-tapping the ink into the skin using sharpened sticks or animal bones (made like needles) with clay formed disks or, in modern times, needles. Traditional Japanese tattoos (Horimono) are still "hand-poked," that is, the ink is inserted beneath the skin using non-electrical, hand-made and hand held tools with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel. This method is known as "Tebori".
The modern electric tattoo machine is far removed from the machine invented by Samuel O'Reilly in 1891. O'Reilly's machine was based on the rotary technology of the electric engraving device invented by Thomas Edison. Modern tattoo machines use electromagnetic coils. The first coil machine was patented by Thomas Riley in London, 1891 using a single coil. The first twin coil machine, the predecessor of the modern configuration, was invented by another Englishman, Alfred Charles South of London, in 1899.
A technique often used for home-made tattoos is "stick and poke" Normally performed by inexperienced artists called scratchers. The tip of a sewing needle is wrapped in ink-soaked thread, leaving only the point protruding. Keeping this simple instrument saturated with ink, the skin is pricked over and over, creating a design. The purpose of the thread is to keep the point of the needle coated in ink, increasing the quantity of ink that penetrates the skin. Inks can be improvised from a number of sources such as coal, ashes or shoe polish, but Higgins "Black Magic" waterproof ink is the brand most commonly cited by collectors of so-called "India ink" or "stick and poke" tattoos in the United States. Sometimes called "prison tattoos", these tattoos are popular with gutter punks and others associated with the modern hobo subculture, who frequently tattoo visible parts of their bodies, including their hands and faces.
According to George Orwell, coal miners could develop characteristic tattoos owing to coal dust getting into wounds. This can also occur with substances like gunpowder. Similarly, a traumatic tattoo occurs when a substance such as asphalt is rubbed into a wound as the result of some kind of accident or trauma. These are particularly difficult to remove as they tend to be spread across several different layers of skin, and scarring or permanent discoloration is almost unavoidable depending on the location. In addition, tattooing of the gingiva from implantation of amalgam particles during dental filling placement and removal is possible and not uncommon. A common example of such accidental tattoos is the result of a deliberate or accidental stabbing with a pencil or pen, leaving graphite or ink beneath the skin.