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Royal Profile: Marcus Adams
His name may not be as well known as Cecil Beaton, Patrick Lichfield, or Snowdon, but as a photographer Marcus Adams did his part in contributing to royal iconography.
Marcus Adams was born in 1875, the seventh child of Walton Adams, a pioneer photographer in the 1860s. His studio in Reading was renowned for its portraits of English and European royalty and he could count amongst his clientele Queen Victoria and General Charles Gordon. Marcus came from an artistic family, his elder brother Christopher was a portrait painter and distinguished minaturist, and his sister Lilian was a well-known painter.
Marcus left school in 1890 and joined the Wesleyan Church, becoming attached to the Methodist religion. By day he worked in a solicitor's office copying documents. He was trained in art at Reading Art College and later in Paris. In 1892 he apprenticed at his father's Reading studio, polishing the floor and brass, preparing negatives for proofing, eventually graduating to proofing and retouching. He was also commissioned to take photographs and assisted in producing illustrations. His first royal photography was a commission of a visit by King George V to the Sutton seed factory.
During his years in his father's studio, he gained a reputation for portrait photography. However, Marcus had a particular talent for photographing children, possessing an affinity and rapport with children rare at the time in photographers. In 1911 his first portraits were accepted by the London Salon of Photography and two of his studies were published in Photograms. During the First World War, when business photographing children was slow, he photographed men in the services, as well as drawing and painting aircraft in battle.
In 1919 he decided to leave his father's studio and with Bertram Park, and his wife Yvonne Gregory, formed the "Three Photographer's" Studio in London. While Bertram Park concentrated on photographs of society beauties, Marcus' Nursery Studio focused on children.
Although he would gain some reknown as a photographer of royal children, he refused one of his earliest royal commissions. When the Countess of Strathmore, mother of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon asked him to photograph her daughter, he declined because she was over sixteen. But, he said "if she marries and has children then I should be delighted to photograph her with her children." In 1926 he would take the first official photographs of Princess Elizabeth with the Duchess of York. His portraits of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were reproduced throughout the world in magazines, stamps and commemorative items. His career as a royal photographer would last thirty years and span four generations, ending with portraits of Princess Anne in 1956.
He and his wife, Lily Maud, had a son named Gilbert, born in 1906, who would become successful in his own right as a photographer, specializing in photographing the ballet. Gilbert would also direct the lighting in Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
He travelled extensively with his wife and sometimes with his brother Chris. Gardening was a passion, he planned and landscaped gardens and planted tress wherever he lived, and won prizes for his sweet peas. He had a studio workshop where he would manufacture his own woodwork tools and he carved, sculpted stone, painted in oil, watercolor and pastel. He had an interest in phrenology and palmistry, as well as psychology, something which was particularly helpful in working with his young subjects. In his later years he spent many hours at his home, Lavender Cottage, near Wargrave, Berkshire, designing pictures made from his collection of wildflowers and grasses.
He died at the age of eighty-four in 1959.
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Chameleon Street est un film américain réalisé par Wendell B. Harris Jr., sorti en 1989.

Synopsis
Le film est basé sur la vie du réalisateur quand il était arnaqueur professionnel à Detroit.

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 Titre : Chameleon Street
 Réalisation : Wendell B. Harris Jr.
 Scénario : Wendell B. Harris Jr.
 Musique : Peter S. Moore
 Photographie : Daniel S. Noga
 Montage : Matthew Mallinson
 Production : Dan Lawton
 Société de production : Gathsemane 84
 Société de distribution : Northern Arts Entertainment (États-Unis)
 Pays :
 Genre : Comédie dramatique
 Durée : 94 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
 :  (Festival international du film de Toronto)

Distribution
 Wendell B. Harris Jr. : William Douglas Street
 Timothy Alvaro : Brian
 Dave Barber : lui-même
 Marti Bowling : Marti
 Alfred Bruce Bradley : Smooth
 Mano Breckenridge : Neelish Ratnayaka
 Anthony Ennis : Curtis
 Amina Fakir : Tatiana
 Anita Gordon : Darlene Street
 Gary Irwin : Dr. Hardy
 Davon Kiley : Dr. Hand
 Dan Lawton : Aldo « Jerry Lewis » Falco
 Angela Leslie : Gabrielle
 Bryan McCree : Sam
 Dimitri Muganias : Robespierre
 Shonda Thurman : Starletta
 Henry Watkins : Eugene Raymond

Distinctions
Le film reçoit le Grand prix du jury au festival du film de Sundance 1990.

Notes et références

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Film américain sorti en 1989
Comédie dramatique américaine
Escroquerie au cinéma
Grand prix du jury au Festival de Sundance - Fiction américaine

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Patrik Auda: "Time for me to move on"
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As expected, Patrik Auda has signed a professional basketball contract in Europe and will not return for his postgrad season at Seton Hall.
The 6-foot-9, 235-pound power forward, who averaged 9.6 points and 4.5 rebounds in 24 minutes per game this past winter, inked a deal with a team in Poland as he prepares to represent his native Czech Republic during next month's qualifying rounds for FIBA Eurobasket 2015.
"You know I will be a Pirate for life," Auda tweeted Monday afternoon. "But it's time for me to move on and start a new chapter of my life as a professional basketball player."
He added, "Just wanted to take a minute and say THANK YOU to everybody who supported me on a way to my dream!"
Indicative of his versatility, Auda shot .536 from the field, .758 from the free-throw line and .333 from 3-point range as a redshirt senior at Seton Hall. He missed seven games with a foot injury but came on strong at the end of the season, averaging 12 points over the final four contests.
Auda's most valuable contributions went beyond numbers, however. Tough and smart, he was the Pirates' top frontcourt defender and would have been the primary post protector on a 2014-15 squad that was already going to be thin up front. Auda also possesses a guard's passing vision and touch, which coupled with his size make him an excellent press-breaker.
Off the court, he was a perennial scholar-athlete honoree and a double-major in finance and business administration.
Fellow Seton Hall graduate Fuquan Edwin also signed a pro contract over the weekend. Edwin, who was named Big East Defensive Player of the Year in March, will play for a Tuscany-based team in Italy's top league, Serie A.

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As has been widely reported, on the evening of March 25 or early morning hours of March 26, 2015, an individual or individuals entered the Statler Amphitheater and accessed a computer they were not authorized to access. Cornell University officials lodged a complaint with the Cornell University Police, which investigated the matter as a burglary after examining physical evidence and obtaining witness statements.
"In my recent campus activities my intention was to bring to the attention of the Trustees the important grievances of students, which I felt were being ignored. I did not damage property or harm anyone. Nor did I engage in any criminal acts whatsoever. I do now realize I violated the Campus Code, however, and I accept responsibility."
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Review: Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón's triumph is an invigoratingly clean, elegant display of action choreography, a La Région Centrale you can still take grandma to see.
Eric Henderson
Photo: Warner Bros.
For every dozen observations on the experience of entering outer space akin to John Glenn's ("To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible. It just strengthens my faith."), there's an astronaut whose subjectivity hews closer to that of Werner Herzog assessing the chaos and brutality of nature in Grizzly Man. Such as Loren Acton musing, "Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty—but no welcome." Or Charles Walker admitting, "Close to the window I could see that this Pacific scene in motion was rimmed by the great curved limb of the Earth. It had a thin halo of blue held close, and beyond, black space. I held my breath, but something was missing. I felt strangely unfulfilled. Here was a tremendous visual spectacle, but viewed in silence. There was no grand musical accompaniment; no triumphant, inspired sonata or symphony."
Alfonso Cuarón's brilliant, terrifying adventure Gravity drives home the primal dread that informs the two latter quotes right from its opening titles, explaining that in space there's no air pressure capable of carrying sound, no oxygen capable of sustaining life—an assurance that also opens most versions of the movie's sound effects-laden trailers, an indulgence on Warner Bros.'s part. The vastness of space doesn't bring this film's astronauts closer to God; it brings them further from their grasp of humanity, a perspective that even without the first-act events that set the rest of the film into motion would be hard for almost anyone to process. Sandra Bullock is Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer who's been recruited by NASA to assist on a mission to replace parts on the Hubble Space Telescope. Working alongside Stone is Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), a veteran shuttle commander who's basking in his final run of a long and storied career. Kowalski is understandably glib and chatty, torturing ground control with the same inane stories he's subjected them to for decades, whereas Stone is focused and cagey as the two work to complete their mission in the dead, weightless lurch of orbit some 370 miles above Earth.
The entire setup for Gravity is contained in a single, unbroken shot that signals the paradoxical lack of the titular force (the Explorer takes a good three or four minutes to move across the frame from imperceptible blip near the Earth's horizon to the eventual close-up) against the unthinkable velocity of orbit speed—17,200 mph near the International Space Station. Comparative momentum becomes the movie's guiding principal when debris from an exploded Russian satellite leads to a chain reaction of catastrophic collisions and sends shards of metal slamming into the Explorer with Stone and Kowalski still outside the ship. Their only hope to get back to Earth is to make their way to the ISS and board one of its Soyuz escape modules. And Stone's oxygen is running low.
Stripped down, lean, and taut, Cuarón's film may be either the most expensive avant-garde movie ever made or the most approachable, mass-appeal experimental work of art—like WALL-E's "define gravity" dance writ on the scale of Erich von Stroheim. If seeing Earth from above for the first time left astronauts like Glenn feeling like they'd just been born again, Gravity's simple muscularity restores wonder to cinematic representations of outer space and reinstates the integrity of blockbuster filmmaking. Cuarón accomplishes his effects by apportioning the barest elements of pop filmmaking into categories that can be defined by their relative absence or their heightened presence. Trimmed away are the simple carbs of traditional narrative arcs, character development, and unnecessary editing. Saturated to the hilt: ambulatory cinematography, myriad trajectories of physics, pulsing music cues from neophyte Steven Price, astonishing negative space. Would that Manny Farber could still be alive today to drink this in.
If all Cuarón managed to accomplish with Gravity was an invigoratingly clean, elegant display of action choreography, it would still be a benchmark and a startling synthesis of outré and popular models: a La Région Centrale you could still take Grandma to see. But Cuarón's tangle with the coldness of the infinite isn't just a formal exercise. It's also an existential reckoning of the tension between deific presumptions and the silence mankind deeply hopes is just a test of faith. The movie's most inscrutable and eerily beautiful image doesn't even involve zero-gravity obliteration, but rather the slowly flowing rotation of Stone in fetal position after she's reached ISS and removed her spacesuit in the airlock. Suspended in nothingness, she resembles nothing so much as Stanley Kubrick's Starchild—one of a few subtle parallels Gravity makes with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Having been robbed of her daughter years earlier in a mundane accident, Stone has been disabused of her role as a perpetuator of human life, a link in the chain of God's great plan, and thus her will to survive registers as a new form of consciousness. If Kubrick insinuated mankind's evolution belongs within a narrative orchestrated by a higher power, Gravity's draining, disorienting final scenes suggest humanity's will to survive amid theistic doubt is just as cosmic.
Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma, Amy Warren, Basher Savage Director: Alfonso Cuarón Screenwriter: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón Distributor: Warner Bros. Running Time: 90 min Rating: PG-13 Year: 2013 Buy: Video, Soundtrack
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Hemileuca grotei, or Grote's buck moth, is a species of insect in the family Saturniidae. It is found in North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Hemileuca grotei is 7733.

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These two subspecies belong to the species Hemileuca grotei:
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 Hemileuca grotei grotei Grote & Robinson, 1868

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One huge summer blockbuster movie usually scares away smaller films from even attempting to open up on the same week. The same thing often (though not always) applies to the music industry: When Jay-Z dropped Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail last week, he faced no major competitors. A total of 4.84 million albums were sold this week, and over 10 percent of those were Jay-Z's new disc. It wasn't enough to stop the steady decline of the music industry, though – overall sales are still down 13 percent when compared to the same week in 2012.
HOV HAS THE LAST LAUGH: It turns out Jay-Z isn't having such a bad month after all. His new LP Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail has generated mixed reviews, and fans who attempted to download the album early with Samsung smartphones were confronted with overloaded servers and aggressive demands that they share personal information. Samsung paid him $5 million to offer the album to users five days early, but Billboard refused to count the million albums that the company bought.
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Billboard also notes that this is Jay-Z's 13th Number One album. That's a record for solo acts, though he has six more to go until he matches the Beatles.
THE RETURN OF CIARA AND THE RISE OF SKYLAR: Ciara scored the number two album this week by moving 58,000 copies of her fourth disc. The album marks Ciara's first disc for Epic and her reunion with producers Rodney Jenkins and Jasper Cameron, the team responsible for many of her early hits. The formula worked – the album sold 21,000 more copies in its debut week than her last disc, 2010's Basic Instinct.
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I have not yet used this service but as soon as I do I will update this article with my thoughts. Just by looking at the app it looks like it is pretty straightforward process. You select a location, pick up time and then select your food from the menu. I am told by another guest that there is a separate mobile order window at each eatery to basically skip the regular line to get your food.
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Fold in one egg white (beaten stiff) and add the sauteed mushrooms. Drop the mushrooms, a few at a time, into a deep fryer set at approximately 350F and fry until golden. Salt and pepper to taste.


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Began serving on the board of directors in 1955 and became president in 1961-1962. Following his presidency, Lester served an additional 10 years as a director on the board.


Have you ever heard of the hotel chain Hotels & Preference? 150 hotels and 20 destinations? Cyril Vaussard, a Vatel in Paris alumnus, class of 1991, co-founded it in 2000 and will answer our questions today.
I'm the General Manager and Co-Founder of the hotel chain Hotels & Preference in Paris. H&P is mainly made up of four and five-star hotels in over twenty different destinations. The diversity of our member hotels is one of Hotels & Preference's main strengths. This is a response to expectations of our customers who appreciate luxury hotels that have a cozy, friendly and intimate atmosphere. Each hotel must comply with high quality standards, whatever type of hotel it is.
After having obtained my technical high school diploma in Hotel Management in Le Touquet, in the north of France, I wanted to go to Paris and continue my higher education in the hospitality field.
I've got lots of good memories of Vatel: very dynamic professors, colorful Carnival celebrations, strong friendships with my classmates with whom I'm still in touch.
Could you tell us about something that was done or said while you were attending Vatel (either in your theoretical and practical courses or during an internship) that still influences you today in your professional life?
Our Math, Statistics & Probabilities course was early on Friday mornings, at 8:30. So you could easily imagine that this would be a bad memory, as Thursday evenings were generally students' nights out. Could you believe it if I told you that we were all there on time and waiting for the course to start because the professor was simply extraordinary?
After graduating from Vatel and finishing my military service (true), I was hired as the Management Auditor in Frontenac Group which owns four four-star hotels near the Champs Elysees in Paris: the Splendid Etoile, the Rochester, the Franklin Roosevelt and the Chateau Fronenac Hotel. I did this job for four years and then was hired as Regional Manager for the Maeva / Pierre & Vacances group.
In 2000, I co-founded Hotels & Preference with Yannick Gavelle, a Vatelien from the same class. In 2005, I opened my first office in the USA working with Jerome Serot, who is also a Vatelien, and I also launched the Preference Gift Cards and Packages.
We soon opened offices in Milan, Barcelona, London, Helsinki, Stockholm, Moscow and Hong Kong.


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ConCourt expected to rule on municipal debt liability
The Constitutional Court is expected to make a groundbreaking ruling that could affect the entire country, from the banking system down to ordinary tenants, trying to make ends meet.
It will decide on Tuesday over whether or not property owners should be liable for previous owners' municipal debt.
This means ordinary ratepayers will now know their rights when it comes to coughing up cash to cover a previous tenant or owners municipal debt.
The case involves litigation between municipal debt specialist, New Ventures Consulting and Services (NVC) and the city of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and the Minister of Co-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
NVC has spearheaded the legal bid in this pioneering case since 2013.
Africa Melane spoke to the company's Peter Livanos.
The whole concept of our Constitutional Court case that we have been driving is that when a purchaser buys a property he should buy wit with a clean slate he shouldn't inherit the debt of others.
— Peter Livanos, New Ventures Consulting & Services
I am hoping that the judgement will come out shortly, but I have no doubt that the Constitutional Court will uphold our case...The whole credit of our country can be dramatically affected. The repercussions are terribly profound.
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Chikane: Renewal at state institutions key for ANC to achieve January 8 promises
Party president Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the ANC's January 8 in Kimberley over the weekend. Rev Frank Chikane shares his thoughts.
Mabuza's resignation as Eskom chair long overdue - Cosatu
Cosatu has called on other Eskom board members to step down and for action to be taken against the Public Enterprises Minister.
Supporters fill up stadium for ANC 108th birthday bash
ANC supporters are expected to turn out in their numbers to hear what party president Cyril Ramaphosa has to say.
Didintle Khunou ready to deliver 'fresh take' on Rocky Horror Show's Janet
1 December 2019 1:18 PM
The award-winning actress talks about the new production of the iconic musical and her love for theatre.
New property owners no longer liable for previous owner's debt
8 November 2016 12:56 PM
The Pretoria High Court has declared the Section of Local Government Municipal Systems Act constitutionally invalid.
Property owner? Better sit down; you're now liable for 30 years' municipal debt!
16 February 2016 7:03 PM
New property owners can now be held liable for municipal debts dating back three decades. Fair Credit's Stephen Logan explains...


With pianist/compositionist Willerm Delisfort, vocalist Alexa Barchini, trumpeter Philip Dizack, saxophonist Brent Birckhead, organist Luke Carlos O'Reilly, bassist Jonathan Michel, drummer Jonathan Barber, and percussionist Cedric Easton.
Pianist, organist, and composer Willerm Delisfort is a versatile musician and a go-to bandmate across jazz, gospel, R&B, hip hop, soul, and all sorts of fusions. In addition to leading the Willerm Delisfort Project, Delisfort's stylistic breadth has led him to work with artists such as Fareed Haque, T-Pain, Lauryn Hill, Kirk Whalum, Louis Bellson, Lew Soloff, Calvin Newborne, Corey Wilkes, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath, David Sanchez, Jennifer Holiday, George Freeman, Red Holloway, and many more. His band tonight features a group of similarly openminded musicians: Alexa Barchini, Philip Dizack, Brent Birckhead, Luke Carlos O'Reilly, Jonathan Michel, Jonathan Barber, and Cedric Easton. Enjoy new arrangements of modern standards and a vast array of original repertoire with the Willerm Delisfort Project.


For the last five years Christiaan Kuitwaard (NL) has been painting weekly a 'White Box Painting', a still life of an object placed in a white box. Gradually this project has been growing bigger and better known due to a weekly updated blog , bust mostly due to an exhibition of 160 White Box Paintings in Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen in 2014. Kuitwaard is painting his still lives from direct observation, without forestudy or photo, and mostly without optical aids.
In 2016 the book on this special project has been published by 99 Uitgevers/Publishers with text by Han Steenbruggen, director of Museum Belvédère.
In 2015-2016 the work by Kuitwaard was on view as part of the Turner exhibition at the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. In the spring of 2017 he will hold a solo exhibition at the Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen.
Light Cube will be presenting the book and the selection of the 'White Box Paintings' from 23 October till November 27, 2016 at the upper floor of the gallery.


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BBVA Podcast Act. 02 Apr 2020
Noam Chomsky: It's time to teach children to understand the world
Noam Chomsky is one of the frequently cited intellectuals in history. Considered the founder of modern linguistics, he has written numerous essays that made their way around the world. In the field of linguistics, he introduced the 'Chomsky hierarchy', generative grammar and the 'universal grammar' theory.
Noam Chomsky began working as a linguistics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) in 1952. He has been a member of the University of Arizona's Linguistics Department since 2017, where he is Emeritus Professor.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). He is the author of more than 100 books and has received many awards. In 2019, he was recognized by the BBVA Foundation with the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his incalculable contribution to the study of human language.
All BBVA podcast episodes are available in the following platforms: iVoox, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast and bbva.com.
Podcast: "Being creative is not being original", Austin Kleon
Podcast: "The millennial philosophy that helps you live today", Massimo Pigliucci
Podcast: "Knowledge is useless if you don't share it", Michio Kaku
Podcast: Wendy Suzuki: The importance of saying 'I love you', according to neuroscience
Podcast: Empathy: Your children learn from what they see in you
Podcast: "Learning how to learn is more important than ever", Jimmy Wales
Podcast: Blue School: from Broadway to the classroom, Matt Goldman
Podcast: "Help your children discover their passions", Richard Gerver
Podcast: Educating children in an 'I can' mindset, Kiran Bir Sethi
Frontiers of knowledge
Noam Chomsky recognized by Frontiers of Knowledge award for his contributions to the study of human language
The BBVA Foundation has recognized the U.S. linguist with the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences Category, a new category included in this year's edition for the first time ever. Chomsky's research opened up new paths in multiple fields of humanities, especially in the study of the human mind and the cognitive systems that comprise it.
BBVA Foundation President Carlos Torres Vila presents Noam Chomsky the Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Noam Chomsky received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences in a ceremony at his home in Tucson, Arizona. BBVA Foundation President Carlos Torres Vila made the special trip to present him the award, as the U.S. linguist was unable to attend the award ceremony in Bilbao last June. "This is a recognition to your unparalleled contributions to the understanding of human language, which have had a tremendous influence in so many fields," said Torres Vila.


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Q: How does Jfrog Pipelines' GitRepo Include and Exclude files works? Which takes precedence? I want to create a GitRepo resource in my pipelines but want to use combination of include and exclude files. But I am unclear on precedence!
If the pattern I give matches with both include and exclude - how does it work?
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A: The current behavior for GitRepo resource in pipelines is as follows:

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*Take all files impacted by the commit

*Remove all files that DON'T match the included pattern

*Remove all files that DO match the excluded pattern

*If any files are left, the resource is updated

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Q: NetSuite PDF file from Sales Order cannot be printed I have the following error popping up after clicking on the print function in one of the invoices.
The template cannot be printed due to the following errors:
Error on line 242, column 51 in template. Detail... For "...(...)" callee: Expected a method, but this has evaluated to a string (wrapper: f.t.SimpleScalar): ==> record.duedate?string [in template "template" at line 242, column 53] ---- FTL stack trace ("~" means nesting-related): - Failed at: ${record.duedate?string("dd MMM yyyy")} [in template "template" at line 242, column 51] ----
Error on line 285, column 73 in template. Detail... For "...(...)" callee: Expected a method, but this has evaluated to a string (wrapper: f.t.SimpleScalar): ==> record.duedate?string [in template "template" at line 285, column 75] ---- FTL stack trace ("~" means nesting-related): - Failed at: ${record.duedate?string("dd MMM yyyy")} [in template "template" at line 285, column 73] ---- Please contact your administrator.
Can someone explain the error and also explaining the way to access the script to fix the error?

A: It looks like your issue is in the Advanced HTML/PDF template associated with the form you are trying to print. ${record.duedate?string("dd MMM yyyy")}  should be ${record.duedate?string["dd MMM yyyy"]}
A couple more notes on formatting dates are available here: How do I change the date format from mm/dd/yyyy to mm-dd-yyyy

A: I would concur with the other answer here about formatting it with brackets rather than parentheses—string["dd MMM yyyy"]. The language being used is FreeMarker, and the help documentation about date conversion can be found here.
Assuming you have NetSuite admin access, you can probably locate the PDF file by navigating to Customization > Forms > Advanced PDF/HTML Templates. From there, you can pinpoint which file is showing that error. Then just enable the "Source Code" switch and repair the line causing the issue.


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Kelly Hood...painter of the natural world, is a full-time artist who works in oils and mixed media. She has developed her own unique style of photo-realism and pays extreme attention to detail.
" I am a contemporary realist painter with a constant need to paint the things in life that go un-noticed and which are often most interesting and beautiful. I believe that if we took the time to look more closely at things we would truly have our eyes opened to the beauty in even the most mundane".
"I believe in painting what I see, catching a beautiful scene for my clients to cherish for life. I spend long hours in my studio and I am building a reputation as an artist who pushes super-realism to the extreme, with great attention to detail while catching the light and beauty in each piece of work I do".
I began painting professionally in 2001 and I am exhibiting and selling my work since. I paint in Oil paint & Mixed Media (Flint, Zinc Flakes, Italian Marble and pumice) on Linen Canvas, in a style that is realistic and inspiring.


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Q&A with Stanley Fink
Hedge fund pioneer says a global carbon trading system would be "extraordinarily valuable'
Friday December 4, 2009 4:39 pm
Stanley Fink, former chief executive of FTSE 100 hedge fund specialist Man Group, was an early convert to the importance of dealing with climate change. Speaking to Financial News ahead of the Copenhagen summit, he argues for broadly-based solutions, including carbon taxes.
Financial News: What result would you like to see from Copenhagen?


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Difficult to source and harder still to harvest, Spot Prawns are a uniquely scrumptious wild shellfish full of sweet flavor combined with rich umami savoriness and a beautiful white texture that is firm to the bite without being chewy.
Festive recipe using peeled and boiled prawns provide an exciting and talked about delicacy of the ocean that remains wildly abundant in in Southeast Alaska. Harvested using pot trap gear, spot prawns are managed for generations of sustainable seafood resource access.
Seasoned Prawns Boil: Approximately 1 cup of liquid for every 6 prawns.
In a large sauce pot, combine all ingredients except prawns, cover and bring to a boil. Add prawn shells to the pot and stir. Add prawns to the pot, cover and cook until done. Approximately 10-15 minutes. Give the prawns a stir to make sure all tails are curled slightly, fully cooked and opaque throughout. Remove from the heat. Allow to cool slightly and refrigerate in a container until ready to serve, at least one hour a head.
Prawns can be peeled up to 6 hours before cooking. Prawn shells are optional in this recipe and can be frozen raw and boiled at another time to make stock for rice or soup. To make a stock from prawn shells repeat the recipe above except omitting the prawns and allow stock to cool completely before straining the stock to remove all of the ingredients except its liquid.
Best Homemade cocktail sauce: 4 parts ketchup, 1 part horseradish, 1/2 part fresh lemon juice, 1/8 part Worcestershire sauce or chopped anchovies. Serve chilled. May be made up to 1 day ahead.
Community Supported Seafood 2018 Summer Harvest Programs for sockeye, coho and king salmon deliver in September 2018. Arrival Notifications are emailed. Delivery is available every Tuesday and Thursday once the salmon is available for distribution.
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Contact Otolith to place an order today for your FREE delivery of superior wild seafood.
Or spend less and get more with Community Supported Seafood. CSS 2015 salmon harvests deliver in October through December and provide discounted access to responsible harvest wild seafood every season. Otolith connects your power with our knowledge and uses our combined interest to generously support the harvesters who work on our behalf.
Contact Otolith to place an order today for your superior halibut, sablefish and rockfish fillets.
Or spend less and get more with Community Supported Seafood. CSS 2015 Fall harvests deliver in December and provide discounted access to responsible harvest wild seafood every season via wwwcommunitysupportedseafood.com . Otolith's connects your power with our knowledge and uses our combined interest to generously support the harvesters who work on our behalf.
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Otolith's hands on sushi lesson event includes an introduction to the art and preparation of sushi, instruction and demonstration for rolling your own Uramaki, Hosomaki and Futomaki, condiments, tools and ingredients such as King salmon, Dungeness crab, Sablefish and assorted vegetables necessary for each participant to roll and make three individually designed sushi rolls plus warm organic green tea and mochi ice cream dessert. All participating guests are welcomed to keep their sushi rolling mats and chop sticks.


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Amenities at East Pointe Condos Make Best Use of Terraced Design
In Scarborough's West Hill area, Mutual Developments is catering to a wider demographic than typical Downtown Toronto condos at East Pointe Condominiums. On Kingston Road just east of Morningside Avenue, the 11-storey, Kohn Partnership Architects-designed building is set to bring 104 condominium units to a fast-growing neighbourhood attracting post-secondary students and young professionals, offering a range of layouts from 388 to 1,036 ft² in area and spanning one through three bedrooms, with prices starting from the $400,000s.
East Pointe Condominiums, image courtesy of Mutual Developments
The building will boast a selection of amenity spaces appointed by interior designers ESQAPE Design. Carmen Dragomir, Principal at ESQAPE, recently addressed her vision for the East Pointe project, starting with a key goal od creating continuity between indoor and outdoor amenities. "The building has an intricate, contemporary design with interesting architectural features that start right at the entrance and will translate seamlessly into the lobby and beyond. The main indoor amenities are adjacent to the outdoor amenity space creating a continuous functional and visual flow. Located at the corner of the building, there is a lot of natural light that streams through the glazing on the windows visually combining the exterior and interior spaces and creating a vibrant social corner for the residents." The design and flow of these spaces frame what Dragomir describes as "interesting interior amenities to be used as an extension of [residents'] own private unit."
This is evident in a rendering of the building's south side, which we can close-crop for a better look at how this side of the building steps down to meet the adjacent established low-rise community. The podium rooftop supports a spacious amenity terrace, with Dragomir noting that "the terraced design at the back is very appealing and the interior amenity spaces have been thoughtfully designed for students, those working from home, or those who want to entertain in the space," while stressing the importance of residents' connections with the outdoors, such as the various nearby natural amenities like Rouge National Urban Park and Lake Ontario.
Amenity terrace at East Pointe Condominiums, image courtesy of Mutual Developments
Just beyond the glazed walls of the terrace, residents will encounter a party room occupying the corner of the building. "We have created different zones in the party room, from a coffee bar ledge in front of the window, a lounge area with soft seating and a tv feature wall, a kitchen with an island and a dining room, so this space can be used either separately or in conjunction with the outdoor cooking area," said Dragomir. "The space also allows for the furniture to be easily moved around to allow for two or more people to meet together—again easily accommodating a working or social situation."
In realizing the goal to create amenities that function as extensions of suites, ESQAPE looked to the changing times for inspiration to create a co-working space that builds on the features of pre-pandemic co-working environments. "With people spending more time at home now, the amenity space is a true extension of one's suite. Although co-working spaces were available prior to the pandemic, it has become more important now. We have designed individual private nooks for people to do their work and have conferences as well as we have created another room where people can create their own focus group," said Dragomir, "There will also be a boardroom which residents can use on an as needed basis. Technology will be part of every area so people can have proper conference calls with family, friends or co-workers. The co-working space will also have a photocopier and a mini servery area for those working or socializing in the space."
We expect to learn even more about amenities at East Point as more renderings are released. In the meantime, additional information and images can be found in our Database file for the project, linked below. If you'd like, you can get involved in the discussion in the associated Forum thread.
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Sometimes it is what you say. And how you say it.
Every now and then we catch the British Parliament's "Question Time" on C-Span. It's that time when the Prime Minister goes before the Lords and the MPs and answers policy questions, often defending positions he and his government have taken. Sure, it's political.
There are some things that are impressive about these events. Although the questions are often pointed and highly partisan, they are asked with respect for the system. The responses often are greeted with dignified derision that seems completelly foreign to those of us who watch political debate here in the colonies.
Another thing that is interesting to watch is the way the Prime Minister responds. We have never seen a PM flustered. We have never seen one stammer and stumble and let an answer just dribble away.
Jay Nixon would never make it in Question Time. He's great at reading speeches and he has a really good speech writer. But off the cuff? Let's just say it's an adventure for those of us who deal in soundbites to get a clean 20 or 30 seconds that constitutes a complete answer.
Of course, that can be to his advantage when he doesn't want to answer a direct question with a direct answer. It can be to his disadvantage when somebody tries to figure out exactly what he says. Unscripted moments are not his strong suit, and that's not good for someone who (the Capitol rumor mill is whispering) might have national aspirations when his time as governor ends.
We have run across highly-intelligent people, some of whom are accomplished politicians, as Governor Nixon is, who have minds that race far ahead of their vocal cords, where ideas collide before words form, resulting in garbled expressions.
We got a phone call Friday (the 26th) from Nixon spokesman Scott Holste. We've worked with Scott for many years and we've had a good relationship. So when Scott questioned one of our stories, we paid attention. We had reported on the air and on our website that House Speaker Tim Jones said Nixon was not going to comply with a subpoena issued in a southeast Missouri lawsuit challenging the Revenue Department's data accumulation. "That's not true," Scott told us. Scott said Nixon told reporters in St. Charles that he was letting "the lawyers" handle the issue. Scott had recorded the Q&A. I asked him to email it to us. He did.
Scott also called our friend Jim Butler at KMOX to question the story posted on the KMOX website. Some thing. Jim called us. We discussed it. He said KMOX was standing by its story.
Understand that people like the Missourinet and KMOX don't go around misquoting people. Recorders are a great protective tools.
So we listened to the recording. John had listened to a recording in which one of his reporters, Brett Blume, asked Nixon if he was going to appear at the May 3rd hearing the subpoena was for. A lot of crowd noise makes it difficult to pick up every hem and haw and uh and eh in the Governor's response. The Missourinet and KMOX have some electronic editing tools that help us clean up audio so it's easier to understand—–not as sophisticated as some of the stuff we see on the cop shows on the teevee or in spy movies, but it's adequate.
We did some noise reduction work and then tried to amplify a little "bump" after Brett's question before Nixon started stumbling around with "I, I,…" Was that the "no?" Here's the segment after our filtering and our amplification.
So what do you think? It's not unusual for someone in his position to say "no…" at the start of an answer before going on with a more complete and sometimes contradictory answer. It's an almost automatic response. Sometimes, though, the first response is the real response.
We don't know after listening to this recording several times if the governor said "no." His final answer to the question, though, was that he's letting the lawyers handle the situation. That's not an unusual answer., We've covered a lot of political figures who've gotten into some difficulty and sooner or later they tell us they're letting their lawyer handle things.
The rest of the answer to the question, however, was vintage Nixon. Figuring out what he meant, let along what he said, is about as much an exercise in trying to figure out if he said "no." At the end of the ramble, the final answer was that he was letting the lawyers take care of things.
And we'll leave it there, I guess.
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FC Schalke 04 play host to Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a game which could potentially prove decisive in determining which of the two sides clinches a top-four finish at the end of the season.
To get you in the mood for the match check out the video above as the Schalke striker Franco Di Santo faces off with Brazilian defensive specialist Andre Ramalho on EA SPORTS FIFA 16. An interesting way to warm up for a game, but will things play out the same way on the pitch?


In 2018 we expect that there is going to be a great deal of opportunities for new and experienced models. Texas offers a diverse set of landscapes as well as people, and this has been recognized by the producers of many local and national campaigns. You may think that Texas is a far cry from the runway shows of New York or Milan, but in reality there is a thriving modeling industry. If you have the hard work and determination it takes to make it as a model and you live in Texas, then you may be in the right place to become the next big thing in the modeling industry. Texas is one of the biggest and most beautiful places in the United States. With that being said, modeling Jobs in Texas are on the rise and in high demand. Advertisers and photographers are both scrambling to book locations and gigs in this beautiful state. You may be thinking that Texas is pretty far from the lime light of New York or Milan, but that does not matter. Models and actors are both being hired on a daily basis for jobs that take advantage of the huge contrast and scale of all the area that Texas has to offer. The scale of the jobs in Texas is also growing. We are seeing a shift from primarily local opportunities to some large international campaigns that are originating right here in Texas. If you think that you have what it takes to become a model of actor and you live in Texas, this is one of the best times for you to break into the industry and start and new and exciting career.


Tracey Waldroup is best known for her abstract works which convey a sense of mystery, primarily through illegible handwriting, buried under layers of acrylic paint and texture. Tracey teaches fearlessness in creating art and living life. She earned her BFA in Art Education and MA in Educational Leadership from The University of Texas at Arlington. Tracey, a born and raised Austinite, now lives and works in Houston, Texas. She lives to travel and experience new cultures and ways of thinking.
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I play games, I make YouTubes. I love technology and science. I'm bisexual, sporadically opinionated, and a #GamerGate supporter. Also...I'm Canadian, eh.
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let's run and eat veggies and be nice to others.


The UAE is expanding rapidly and developing a modern, cultured vision for the Middle East, as its neighbors – especially Iran – increase their grip on the region.
DUBAI – In the wake of Israel's raid on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, president Saddam Hussein gathered together his top scientists and generals.
Saddam's Iraqi army was already a year into what would become an almost eight-year war with Iran.
Initial successes had ground it to a halt and now, his nascent attempts to build a nuclear reactor lay in ruins.
His admonition reminds us how the Middle East has been transformed. Whereas once Saddam's legions were poised inside Iran, today the Islamic Republic's influence stretches from the Bab al-Mandab straits of the Red Sea to Damascus.
The years since Saddam was at the height of his power and acted as a shield for the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia from the power of Tehran have clouded many memories.
Driving down a central avenue last week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a local Emirati recalled the 2011 protests in Bahrain – in which the majority Shi'ite population seemed on the verge of overthrowing the Sunni monarchy.
It worried people. "We see what's happening in the region... How did Hezbollah come to control Lebanon, it was not a Shi'ite country 50 years ago?" asked the local man.
It is widely felt that there has been a quiet Shi'ite demographic increase in some countries in the region, a fact attributed less to religious differences than a quiet program to expand the community's influence and serve as an Iranian proxy. Indeed, when Iranian presidential adviser Ali Younesi said, "All of the Middle East is Iranian" on Tuesday, it merely bolstered the feeling of vulnerability.
On March 4, the headlines in the English-language daily Gulf News described the Iranian takeover of Yemen.
"Houthis drove the Western- and Saudi-backed government out of Yemen's capital... prompting Iranian officials to boast that they now occupied 'four Arab capitals.'" Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani is overseeing Iraq's offensive against Islamic State.
With the second-largest economy in the Arab world, the UAE is not just sitting atop oil wealth, but has made massive investments in infrastructure and attempts to diversify the sectors that feed its GDP. Part of this project has meant that Dubai, which has the largest population of the seven monarchies that make up the Emirates, has been developing economic free zones, special areas for universities and hi-tech.
The Gulf News editorial that same day demanded the US give the Gulf Cooperation Council clarification on any agreement and provide transparency.
It is of particular interest that the Gulf has been watching the Iran negotiations in Washington with the same keen eye as Israel, but without any of the bluster. When one looks at the role Iran has played in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon, it is clear Tehran has not attempted to build up these states and make them economically viable. The opposite: It has no interest in seeing a reborn Iraq.
Whereas the UAE is launching a National Strategy for Empowerment of Emirati Women and women celebrated International Women's Day by completing a 140-km. trek, in other countries the situation is bleak.
So why isn't the UAE speaking up more about showing itself as a model for the region? Obviously, it is a model that cannot be replicated in total because its construction boom has relied on importing cheap labor from abroad; millions of these immigrants stay on, some having generations of families, with no path to citizenship.
One Chinese immigrant explained, "In Dubai there is no politics, so shopping is what people do to feel important." That may be partly true, but at the Emirates Festival of Literature, where some 30,000 people attended five days of panels and meetings with authors, renowned Egyptian feminist author Nawal el-Sa'adawi told the crowd it is the duty of creative people to critique government policies. "If I was in the UAE, I would be against the government – just as I was against the government in Egypt." She received thunderous applause.
But since last year, the UAE has been a key ally in the bombing campaign against Islamic State – by one account, flying more combat sorties than any other of the four Arab participants.
Given the forward-thinking vision of the UAE leaders, the hi-tech and business orientation of the country, and its shared fears of Sunni extremists and Iran, it would seem in Israel's best interests to rekindle relations with the Gulf state.


Categories > Questions, Answers, and Discussion > Moxy on a Long - Slow run.
Getting ready for a 5k this Saturday, so I took a long slow run with Moxy. It worked well to keep my numbers pretty high. You can see my warm up, my training, including a sprint somewhere in the middle, and ended with a warm down.


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Blonay Castle was built around 1175 to the site of fortified building dating from the 11th century. It was built by the Blonay noble family, vassals of Counts of Savoy. The castle was in their hands until 1752 when it was sold to Graffenried family who still owns it.


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Scarlett Johansson And Adam Driver Will Make You Weep In Marriage Story Trailer
The new Netflix film will portray a marriage breaking up and we can tell already it's going to break our hearts
By Lena de Casparis
Netflix have just released a trailer for their big autumn film - Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story - and we can already tell it's going to be a total heart breaker.
Black Widow Scarlett Johansson and Girls' Adam Driver star as married couple Nicole and Charlie. The trailers show the story from his-and-hers perspectives and are both equally as moving. He loves her dancing, she loves that he dresses well, they are very both competitive at Monopoly and are excellent parents to their son.
It's all happily-ever-after, until it's not.
The last few scenes of the trailer show the pair in a divorce hearing at court - and this combined with Otis Redding and Cat Power singing "I've Been Loving You Too Long" - was enough to make us tear up.
They then try to have a conversation about what has unfolded in their marriage, but struggle to find the right words.
First watch, what Charlie loves about Nicole in the video above, then what Nicole loves about Charlie here:
Crying yet? Same.
With a further cast including Big Little Lies hero Laura Dern, Merritt Wever, and Ray Liotta, it's an all-star line-up.
We don't know as yet when the film will be available to stream from our sofas but it will premier in Venice (on August 29), then Toronto (on September 8), and finally in New York (on October 4) before hitting cinemas nationwide late this autumn.
Tissues at the ready.
Scarlett Johansson on the dangerous paparazzi
Scarlett Johansson And Colin Jost Are Engaged
Scarlett Johansson engaged
Wedding bells for Scarlett?
Scarlett Johansson stole my style
Scarlett Johansson on Broadway
Scarlett Johansson Is Beating The Pay Gap
Scarlett Johansson in YSL for Saint Laurent?


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Lauri Ingman's first cabinet was the third Government of independent Finland and the first to be officially designated as Government (valtioneuvosto) instead of Senate (senaatti). The cabinet's time period lasted from November 27, 1918 to April 17, 1919, following the surrender of Germany and the consequent republican transformation of the Finnish form of state.

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1918 establishments in Finland
1919 disestablishments in Finland
Cabinets established in 1918
Cabinets disestablished in 1919


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Les Chlamydodontida sont un ordre de chromistes de l'embranchement des Ciliophora, et de la classe des Cyrtophoria.

Description

Distribution

Liste des familles
Selon  :
 Chitonellidae Small & Lynn, 1985
 Chlamydodontidae Stein, 1859
 Kryoprorodontidae Alekperov & Mamajeva, 1992

Selon  :
 Chilodonellidae Deroux, 1970
 Chitonellidae Small & Lynn, 1985
 Chlamydodontidae Stein, 1859
 Gastronautidae Deroux, 1994
 Kryoprorodontidae Alekperov & Mamajeva, 1992
 Lynchellidae Jankowski, 1968

Systématique
L'ordre des Chlamydodontida a été créé en 1976 par le zoologiste français  de la station biologique de Roscoff.

Liens externes

Notes et références

Classe d'eucaryotes (nom scientifique)
Ciliophora
Parasite (nom scientifique)
Cilié (nom scientifique)


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Lamont's property tax plan faces steep obstacles at outset
Keith M. Phaneuf :: CTMirror.org
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont's plan to spend $400 million on a property tax relief plan is much less grandiose than his GOP rival's pitch to end Connecticut's income tax.
But while Lamont maintains it's the only realistic plan, it remains unclear whether the state could deliver this tax cut — while facing multi-billion-dollar deficits — and sustain it in an age of surging pension costs.
"Decades of fiscal mismanagement mean we can't afford pie-in-the-sky promises, so I'm proposing a smart, achievable commitment to responsibly give middle class families the tax relief they deserve," Lamont wrote this week in a campaign white paper on his tax relief plan.
Hoping to reverse nearly a decade of erosion to Connecticut's chief income tax credit for low- and middle-income families, Lamont pledged to:
Increase the property tax credit within the state income tax from $200 to $300, starting with his second year in office.
Implement an existing state law that allows households without dependents to again receive the credit starting in the 2019 tax year. [The 2017 legislature suspended eligibility for this group for two years to help balance the budget.]
Create a new "targeted relief" credit that provides a supplemental credit for households that dedicate 6.5 percent or more of their income toward property taxes. The average credit would be just under $700, though some households could receive as much as $1,200. This would start during the third year of the next gubernatorial term.
The property tax credit, once adjusted, would assist an estimated 900,000 households, while the "targeted relief" program would provided supplemental aid to roughly 315,000 households.
The Lamont campaign projects these changes, collectively, would cost about $400 million per year.
To pay for them, Lamont would cut about $125 million from spending on prisons and correction programs, and generate an extra $150 million to $200 million in tax receipts by better tax collection and enforcement policies. His plan also calls for collecting $30 million to $50 million annually by regulating and imposing fees on sports betting.
But Lamont faces challenges just raising those funds to pay for his tax relief.
Though Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration already has made strides at reducing crime and incarceration rates, it also has already taken considerable savings in this area.
The $576 million appropriated this fiscal year for the Department of Correction is $31 million less than the agency spent two years ago.
And the other chief component of the "Corrections" portion of the state budget involves the $768 million assigned to the Department of Children and Families — which has been operating for the past quarter century under a federal consent decree that makes it very difficult to reduce spending.
But the largest obstacle facing Lamont's tax relief plan is not the challenge of finding $400 million per year to pay for it. Rather, it's the huge, post-election deficit awaiting the winner, and a dangerously escalating trend involving pension costs. And Lamont may actually need to cut correction spending, improve tax collections, and impose fees on sports betting just to wipe away this red ink.
State finances, unless adjusted, are on pace to run $2 billion in deficit in the 2019-20 fiscal year — the first one the next governor will manage.
That potential deficit swells by another $600 million, reaching $2.6 billion in 2020-21, according to the legislature's nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis.
Even if the next governor and legislature empty the entire $1.1 billion emergency reserve — a one-time fix — that would reduce, not eliminate, the projected shortfalls.
Further complicating matters, the next governor has little legal leverage to cut labor costs.
A 2017 concessions deal between Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state employee unions — which was ratified by the General Assembly — bars the next governor from imposing large-scale layoffs.
So how does Lamont afford to provide tax relief and still close the deficit?
He makes the problem a little easier by phasing in the tax relief.
The changes to the standard property tax credit, which would send about $215 million annually to low- and middle-income taxpayers, don't happen until the second year in office.
And the "targeted relief" plan, which would cost the state another $185 million, would not start until Lamont's third year in office, if he were elected this November.
Still, he would face multi-billion-dollar deficits with just over $1 billion in reserve.
And Lamont also acknowledged it would be difficult to cut traditional municipal grants — which involve about $2.5 billion, or 13 percent, of the $19 billion General Fund — at the same time he is trying to provide property tax relief for residents.
Municipal leaders long have argued that any major cut in state aid would translate into property tax increases at the local level.
"I'm not robbing from Peter to pay Paul," Lamont said. "I've got to find ways to continue the basic level of municipal aid."
That way likely won't involve cutting the fastest-growing segment of state finances.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, governors and legislatures routinely kept overall costs down by under-funding pension programs for state employees and teachers, shifting burdens onto future generations. Because of all of those deferrals, retirement benefit costs are projected to surge dramatically over the next decade and a half.
The $1.3 billion contribution Connecticut makes this year to the teachers' pension fund will shoot up to anywhere between $3.2 billion and $6.2 billion by 2032.
The state employees' pension fund was headed for a matching spike in the early 2030s until Malloy struck the deal with unions last year to smooth out those payments, deferring billions of dollars in costs until after 2032. (To get that relief, Connecticut will ask a future generation to pick up a projected extra $14 billion of today's obligations after 2032.)
Even with that arrangement, however, the annual payment into the state employees' pension will grow 40 percent over the next five years alone, approaching $2.3 billion.
And these costs largely are fixed by contract.
Lamont did acknowledge Friday that his tax relief plan likely does hinge on convincing unions to grant more concessions. Republican nominee Bob Stefanowski and former MetroHartford Alliance President Oz Griebel — who is trying to petition onto the ballot as an independent — also have said they will seek concessions.
"I think that a condition of getting this budget back into balance is getting all of the stakeholders to the table, and that includes labor," Lamont said. "… And I think I'm the only person capable of doing that."
But given that unions already granted concessions in 2009, 2011 and 2017 — and also approved a second deal in 2017 that allows the state to defer billions of dollars in pension contributions until after 2032 — labor leaders have said rank-and-file workers likely aren't disposed to give back again after the election.
"We've stepped up and stepped up and stepped up," Jody Barr, executive director of Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, told The Mirror earlier this month. "Someone else step up."
"Our union members have done more than their part to help elected leaders weather the economic storms of the past 10 years," said Jan Hochadel, president of AFT Connecticut.
Though none of the candidates have worked out all of the details to solve the looming budget crisis, Lamont says his relief plan is realistic, unlike Stefanowski's.
The GOP nominee, who wants to phase out the income tax over the next eight years, has not said how he would accomplish this, though he insists he will dramatically cut spending and stimulate economic growth with tax cuts.
A spokesman for the Stefanowski campaign could not be reached for comment Friday.
Lamont added it would be "naive" to count on huge, short-term economic growth until Connecticut addresses the problems that hinder its economy, such as an unbalanced budget, and a failure to train workers for good-paying jobs.
"I can show the taxpayers we're going to provide real middle class relief," he said.
Keith M. Phaneuf A winner of numerous journalism awards, Keith Phaneuf has been CT Mirror's state finances reporter since it launched in 2010. The former State Capitol bureau chief for The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Keith has spent most of 31 years as a reporter specializing in state government finances, analyzing such topics as income tax equity, waste in government and the complex funding systems behind Connecticut's transportation and social services networks. A former contributing writer to The New York Times, Keith is a graduate of and a former journalism instructor at the University of Connecticut.
New documents suggest Hyde was communicating with someone tracking Yovanovitch
The House Intelligence Committee released new texts from Robert Hyde and an unknown third party that discuss monitoring the diplomat before she was fired by President Donald Trump.
CT's unpaid legislator wants to champion push for lawmaker pay reform
Sen. Norm Needleman, who does not accept compensation from the state, wants to end nearly two decades of no pay raises for lawmakers.
Blumenthal, Murphy step up calls for witnesses at start of Trump impeachment trial
An hour after senators were sworn in as jurors in President Trump's impeachment trial, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will likely force votes on witnesses.
As the workforce ages, lawmakers revisit age discrimination
by Mark Pazniokas
With one in four workers now aged 55 and older, Connecticut lawmakers of both parties are rallying around a relatively modest bill aimed at age-discrimination.
Report: FBI to determine if Hyde had a role in spying on Yovanovitch
CNN reports that the FBI is taking a closer look at Robert Hyde, but he denied attempting to spy on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukrainian Marie Yovanovitch.


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Novak Djokovic: Judge raises concerns over tennis star's treatment by border officers
Supporters of Novak Djokovic have been protesting outside the courthouse throughout proceedings
The judge hearing Novak Djokovic's challenge to an order by the Australian government revoking his entry visa has raised concerns over his treatment.
Judge Anthony Kelly said it seemed the tennis star had obtained the necessary exemption to travel restrictions prior to his arrival in the country.
He asked government lawyers what more Djokovic could have done.
The 34-year-old Serbian player flew into Melbourne last week, hoping to defend his Australian Open title.
The trial began on Monday morning after delays caused by technical issues with a live stream of proceedings.
Lawyers for Djokovic have been arguing that the 20-time Grand Slam winner entered the country on the understanding that his exemption from restrictions requiring travellers to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 was valid.
Nick Wood told the court that the exemption had been granted to the player by two separate medical boards following a recent coronavirus infection and that he had presented all the necessary medical evidence to officials.
"He had done absolutely everything. He had engaged with everything that was required of him by Tennis Australia," Mr Wood said.
Judge Kelly appeared to agree with Mr Wood's argument and told government lawyers that he felt "agitated" by what he had heard so far.
"What more could this man have done?" he asked.
Mr Djokovic's lawyers have also argued that his treatment by Australian Border Force officers after his arrival was "manifestly unjust".
After being approached by officials at the airport, he asked to wait until the morning to hear from his team before deciding whether to leave the country. This was initially agreed to by officials.
He then went to sleep, but was woken up around 06:00 by officers who allegedly pressured him to respond "because it was better for him if they made the decision right away".
If Judge Kelly agrees that such pressure was unfair, then it would constitute legal errors by which Mr Djokovic can win his case.
The trial is continuing, with government lawyers presenting their case.
Their representative Christopher Tran argued that Djokovic's recent Covid infection did not qualify him for an exemption from travel rules, and denied there was any unfairness or unreasonableness in the decision.
It is expected that arguments should conclude by 17:00 local time (06:00 GMT), but a verdict may not be delivered until Tuesday.
Ros Atkins on… Djokovic in immigration detention
Meanwhile, it appears that Mr Djokovic has been granted some concessions during the trial.
On Sunday a court official instructed the government to "take all steps and do all things as may be necessary" to bring Mr Djokovic to premises specified by his solicitors to allow him to watch the trial.
But he must return to detention at the conclusion of each hearing.
His legal team have not said where he is, though it is unlikely to be the offices of his law firm, who have a no vaccination, no entry policy.
Arteta apologises and questions Arsenal desire after shock cup loss to Nottingham Forest
Fire destroys hundreds of homes in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camp


ESEDatabaseView is a new utility that reads and displays the data stored inside Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database (Also known as 'Jet Blue' or .edb file). It displays a list of all tables available in the opened database file, allows you to choose the desired table to view, and then when you choose a table, it displays all records found in the selected table. ESEDatabaseView also allows you to easily choose one or more records, and then export them into comma-delimited/tab-delimited/html/xml file, or copy the records to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) and then paste them into Excel or other spreadsheet application.
Be aware that currently ESEDatabaseView is somewhat a Beta version and thus it might fail to read field values with complex data structure.
ESEDatabaseView is available to download from this Web page.
Posted by NirSoft on January 18, 2013 at 11:41 am under Utilities Update.