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The Skints – Live Review
Posted on June 2, 2013 by Stephanie
The East London quartet brought their summery and fresh vibes to the Exeter Phoenix on Friday as well as bringing along some glorious weather which perfectly matched the vibrant burst of tunes that filled the venue.
Performing to a sold out crowd, the ears of the Exeter audience were in for an auditory delight. As soon as The Skints launched into their first song Rise Up, the audience were hooked, already moving in sync to the rhythmic beats pumping through the room. Each member of the band contributed something unique to the performance with Josh Waters Rudge providing solid vocals and Jamie Kyriakides mastering the difficult task of simultaneously playing the drums and providing vocals. Also the bassist Jon Doyle provided a steady and hearty bassline which contributed to the rich sound emanating from the band.
However, Marcia Richards stood out in particular by showcasing her musical talent from singing to effortlessly switching to the keyboard, flute, saxophone and then a melodica. The ability of Marcia to play and produce such a variety of sounds ensures that The Skints create a sound no other band can currently emulate.
As the lead guitarist and vocals Josh mentioned part way through the show, they aren't here to put on a punk or a reggae show; which was reflected in their choice of support acts Gecko and Current Swell, who put on some fantastic performances as well. (On a side note, I always think it is worth checking out support bands if you can as they are often a great way to discover good quality and new music.) Instead of a genre specific show he stated that they just want to give the audience a good time and that is certainly what The Skints did, with every person in the room singing and dancing to the non-stop flow of songs the band delighted the audience with.
Their show ensured that the hardcore Skints fans that have been there from the beginning would be satisfied by playing tracks from their first album such as the classic Live Breathe Build Believe as well as playing the guaranteed crowd pleaser, Katy B cover, On a Mission. They also treated the Devonshire audience to a few new tracks, as well as their current single Out My Mind which looks set to be a sure fire hit in the near future.
The Skints have often been referred to as a' punk rock band that play reggae' but that description doesn't seem apt to me, as they combine a fusion of sounds from ska, blues, rap and dub, as well as punk and reggae. Their unique sounds also bring together a diverse audience from young teenagers to those who are of a more mature age. However, they were all united in their love of The Skints and there was certainly an air of good will amongst the gig-goers.
They may Live East but their music certainly won't die young as they seem to be going from strength to strength in creating polished songs and engaging audiences with their live presence. This was the last stop of their tour and they ensured that they put their all into it and in the process cemented themselves as one of the best live acts on the UK circuit.
This review can also be viewed at: http://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/entertainment-reviews/skints-live-review
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2 thoughts on "The Skints – Live Review"
eddylacey says:
Would like to see Skints live, especially seeing this positive review! Think it is good that bands such as them and Fat Freddy's Drop are able to bring something new to the table whilst still keeping that reggae vibe
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slec250 says:
Glad you liked the review, definitely worth seeing if you get the chance.
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May 13, 2008 - Doctor Sued for Unauthorized Disclosure of Patient's HIV Status
A Boston man claiming that a Carital St. Elizabeth's emergency room doctor accidentally disclosed he was HIV-positive is suing the hospital and the doctor for negligence. The man, identified only as John Doe in his civil lawsuit filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court, alleges that he overheard Dr. Angela Sweeney disclose to his boss that he had tested positive for HIV when he was treated for unrelated illness in 2005.
Massachusetts law forbids a physician from disclosing a patient's HIV/AIDS status without written consent.
"It's surreal. My life hasn't been the same," said Doe. "I had no intention of telling anybody until I was ready," Doe said. "I've lived my life as an openly gay man, but this was not part of the plan."
Doe's attorney received a letter in July 2007 from a hospital claims management director, stating, "We are of course very sorry this unintentional disclosure involving Mr. (Doe) happened."
The disclosure happened when Doe's supervisor was wearing "a white Oxford shirt and a tie" in the emergency room when Sweeny, assuming Doe's boss was another doctor, allegedly began discussing Doe's HIV/AIDS status.
"When something like this happens, the public's trust is eroded. People will not receive testing and HIV will spread," Doe's attorney said yesterday.
"HIV is an incredibly personal medical condition," he said. "The release of HIV information can be devastating. The bias and stigma attached to it changes people's lives."
In addition to unspecified damages, Doe is asking the court to order Caritas St. Elizabeth's to "review and implement safeguards against wrongful disclosure of patient information," as well as "requiring badges or other identification that provides assurance that the individual receiving such information is a physician or healthcare provider."
"Walking up to a stranger in an emergency room is not sufficient," Doe's attorney said.

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Last Sunday, 17 March, saw the prizegiving of the Paraguayan National Championships of the Optimist and Europe Classes.
The Championship was run over a six race series over two weekends.
The wind conditions during both regattas were excellent, with constant wind direction between 8-15 knots.
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Etixx – Quick-Step Shows the World How to Launch a Cycling Team
January 15, 2015 Peloton Magazine
January 14, 2015 – For the third season Etixx – Quick-Step eschewed the stage and microphone approach to launching its cycling team. Instead they rode bikes. In Gent, Belgium at the Eddy Merckx Velodrome, instead of looking uncomfortable in lycra the members of the 2015 Etixx – Quick-Step squad actually raced their bikes. Mark Cavendish emerged as the winner over Belgian favorite Tom Boonen and new World Champ Michal Kwiatkowski after numerous races on a evening that was more exhibition than real elbow-to-elbow racing but still seemed to excite the sold-out audience.
Images courtesy of Etixx – Quick-Step and Tim De Waele
The team came up the idea years ago while training at the velodrome according to Tom Boonen, ""I think it's a special team presentation. Not every team has the possibility to do this kind of thing, but as a Belgian team we train a lot here in Gent in the Winter, two times a week. That is actually how the team came up with the idea for this kind of event and three years later, here we are with a big success. I think everyone loves it. If you go to a normal team presentation riders go up on stage and talk about themselves, and that's it. But here it's like a six-days feeling. It's a more relaxed and fun atmosphere than you would have at a typical presentation. Plus, because we are all competitive. Boys will be boys. Give them a bike and they want to go fast. That's a recipe for entertainment. The fans get really enthusiastic about it and for the riders it's also fun. It's nice to have interaction this way. "
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Ireland's Hidden Gems: The Towers Loop Trail
November 24, 2015 By Julie
What a find! Kids of Ireland, do you know how lucky you are?! I grew up in the Las Vegas desert where a decent chunk of my outdoor time was spent with friends building hideouts in massive tumbleweed thickets and illicitly running through forbidden drainage culverts (very dangerous – not wise!). It was barren, dusty and prickly but it was ours and we could make forts and chase each other through dark tunnels so it was cool. But not as cool as this, not by a longshot. Kid here can explore woods with wild abandon then storm a bridge or sneak along a path to attack castles with towers and battlements and rooms with moss-covered stone walls. Hidden in the woods as they are, these ruins have a fairy-tale quality that practically beg you to play make-believe.
The Servant's Tunnel, a warm-up for what's to come.
The Ballysaggartmore Towers only exist due to one couple's petty jealousies. As the story goes, Arthur Kiely-Ussher inherited an estate at Ballysaggartmore when his father died. Arthur had a brother John, and the two brothers married two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Arthur and Elizabeth were envious of Strancally Castle, John and Margaret's palatial residence, so Arthur set out to one-up him. He was only able to build two entrances (The Grand Lodge and The Towers) and the Servant's Tunnel before running out of money.
The Towers – wow! There's also a small waterfall nearby.
To make matters worse, the country was in the grips of the Great Famine and while many landlords reduced rent, Arthur evicted tenants who couldn't pay rent and then knocked their houses down. He was so disliked, a group tried (unsuccessfully) to assassinate him. Arthur eventually died in 1862 and would probably loathe the fact that his "folly" is available for anyone and everyone to enjoy!
The Grand Lodge, a bit further along the path.
The structures in the woods aren't castles of course, but elaborate entrance gates. To reach them, follow The Towers Loop Trail, a wide, flat trail just 2 km long. The path follows a gentle grade up to the Towers and Grand Lodge, and has a few strategically placed benches along the way.
Lismore Castle
The trail is a 5-minute drive from Lismore, a lovely Tidy Town winner. We didn't spend much time in town, but had lunch, saw Lismore Castle (the garden is open to the public but not the castle itself) and St. Carthage's Cathedral. To cap off the day, we took a breathtaking drive on 668 north through the "Vee Gap" in the Knockmealdown Mountains. I felt guilty that Chris (who was driving) couldn't take in more of the spectacular views!
St. Carthage's Cathedral has a light, airy feeling
The drive along 668 north between Lismore and Clogheen. This photo is a pale imitation of reality!
Location: 3.5 km northwest of Lismore, County Waterford; GPS: 52.14685, –7.9673.
Hours: Access is not controlled; hike whenever you like
Mileage: 2 km (1.2 miles)
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No company is an island. Organizations collaborate with other businesses to promote and sell their products, expand their reach, and boost profits. Channel marketing enables companies to team up with channel partners to reduce marketing costs, find more prospects, and improve customer satisfaction.
Before all this can happen, companies need to build a marketing plan with clear benchmarks. Finding, evaluating, and retaining the right channel partners are crucial to success. Partners need to be clear about their expected roles and responsibilities. Part of reaching clarity is establishing specific goals for everyone involved.
Channel alignment is probably the area where most channel marketers make mistakes. They assume that their partners are tightly aligned with them in terms of their financial and business interests.
In some cases, that's true. We see some organizations where channel partners make most of their income directly selling their channel partners' products and services. In other cases, we find it's quite the opposite: Partners make all their money providing services to existing customers.
Both of those models, and anywhere in between, can work perfectly fine. You need channel partners that can handle different aspects of the end-to-end process. However, you really need to understand that those are very tightly aligned.
Channel marketing is much easier, and it's a more straightforward process. To achieve alignment, you need to think through in detail how to create programs and strategies so that you can market jointly with your channel partners. Keep in mind that your channel partners make a lot of their income outside of selling your product.
The best way to understand how tightly aligned you are is to sit down with your channel partners and map out the income over the course of three years for a given net-new customer.
Map out all the income that the companies derived from that customer, where that income got spread out between you and your partner, and, finally, what the margins are. There might be a high degree of income but a low margin. You want to make sure you take that into account.
After you establish common goals, you need to determine if you are meeting your goals. You should put in place a system for evaluating the performance of your partnerships. In the next chapter, we will discuss some factors to consider when evaluating your strategy.
1) Who are you targeting in terms of customers?
When you look at who you are targeting, you want to examine size, industry, type of company, and functional titles within the company and then build out your personas.
2) Why are you partnering with channel partners and channel resellers?
There may be accounts you want your direct teams to handle and accounts you want your channel resellers to handle. Any model can work, but clarity is important, both for your direct side and for the channel side.
3) Which companies will you partner with?
Figure out which companies will prioritize promoting your products. Examine performance metrics and take a deeper dive into what the numbers mean so you can decide how to invest your marketing funds.
4) What goals shape your overall strategy?
Set benchmarks so you can gauge your progress and adjust your strategy. Determine what KPIs you need to set and monitor once your strategy is in place.
5) Which roles and responsibilities go to you and your partners?
Determine roles and responsibilities at different stages of a customer's life cycle. For example, is demand generation your responsibility or that of your channel partner?
6) Who are you targeting within demand generation?
Are you targeting net-new customers for both you and your partner, or are you looking to cross-sell into one partner or another's existing customer base? Again, both models can work perfectly fine. Clarity is important.
7) Who is responsible for closing the deal?
8) How will customer engagement be mapped out?
You need to consider customer management, customer upgrades, and customer fulfillment. In some cases, you may be excellent at closing deals, and your partners may be fantastic at filling, or it could be the other way around. It's very important from a channel strategy perspective to map that out ahead of time.
When companies start conversations about channel marketing programs, many times they aren't sure what they want to accomplish. When setting a vision for channel marketing, there are certain metrics you should focus on.
First is total partner revenue, and you want to look at this in aggregate. Look at how much revenue you are generating in the channel in aggregate against the entire investment that you're making in the channel from a marketing perspective.
Then, look at it at a partner-over-partner level. You may have fluctuations year over year, depending on the type of partner and renewal cycles. So you may want to look at revenue for one year while also computing rolling three-year averages. The key is to look at total partner revenue and year-over-year growth.
Next, you need to examine margins. Is that partner creating more or less margin for you year over year? Are higher-margin products being sold or just ones that continue to sink in terms of your total margin?
Partner loyalty can be a little more difficult to measure, but it is hugely important. Are all the marketing efforts you're making creating more or less partner loyalty? In other words, do partners appreciate what you're doing and reward you for that?
You can look at things such as wallet share. Of the investments that partners or their customers make, are we getting more or less out of them year over year? How much partner spend goes to you versus your competitors?
Brand advocacy can be even more difficult to measure than loyalty. Are partners' reps promoting you? Are partners promoting you on social media platforms? When there's a competitive bid, are partners going to bring you up and advocate for you over your competitors or just sell whatever is the easiest thing to sell?
You always want to look at channel marketing spend ROI. Of the dollars you spend, can you tie a return to that?
ROI is a very important metric, but it should be looked at and viewed as a subset of total partner revenue. You may only be able to tie a low direct ROI to your investment of marketing dollars.
But if a partner is selling a lot more year over year, you should ask which of your efforts are helping to boost sales. If certain investments aren't helping, you can take them away.
There are certain investments that help increase partner revenue but don't yield a direct ROI. These investments could be in things such as partner enablement, helping partners with marketing plans, and marketing training. You might have to stretch a little bit to try to figure out how you really get ROI on those.
You may tell your partner that you're going to invest in some things but you're not sure if you can measure return on those. Then ask, "If we give you these three things, which would you like the most for even money?" Then the partner can tell you, "Hey, look I really love that training you're doing," or "Hey, I really like the planning you're doing." Your partner might say, "Yeah, if it's free we'll take it, but we don't get much value out of it."
Those are the sort of things you can look at in terms of asking partners how much value they have. Tying a direct ROI to that spend can be very difficult, so the overall partner marketing revenue is a much more important metric than the channel marketing ROI.
Because this will limit the sort of things that you do, you should focus on high-yield activities for the partners that can typically close the best net-new business versus overall business.
How do you make sure you will be successful at realizing your channel marketing vision? Carefully designing a joint marketing plan will enable you to increase revenue year over year, gain higher margins, and see both direct and indirect ROI for the investments you make in your channel partners.
To create a successful joint marketing plan, you need to lay a sound foundation. A lot of times, people want to jump right into the tactics required to create leads and create demand and awareness but don't spend enough time getting the foundations correct. This is like perfectly executing a tactical plan while targeting the wrong segment.
You want to do a thorough SWOT analysis of both companies together and independently and determine where they overlap. For marketing, pay attention to the skills of both partners. Partners with skills that overlap reinforce each other. Those with different strengths complement each other.
When conducting a SWOT analysis, you can get into things like technical skills for overall planning. But from a marketing plan perspective, let's focus on sales skills and marketing skills.
Sales skills are important to marketers. A lot of times, marketers may create a plan that assumes that there are certain sales skills at the backend. You don't want to make that assumption. Find out what skills each partner has and will bring to the joint relationship.
So how do you get accurate information about sales skills? Ask partners to tell you about their sales team. How much of the team's quota is on net-new business? How much net-new business was generated last year? This would be brand-new customers that didn't come from a referral.
Often you will find out that partners think their teams can sell net-new business, but in reality their reps achieve 100% of their quota on existing customers. If you get the sales rep something early in the sales process, he or she is not going to spend the time on it. It's not going to be of interest to the rep, and your entire plan — which may very well be a great marketing plan — is going to fail when it hits the sales level.
Then, you want to assess marketing skills. If a partner has robust marketing skills, developing a complex and exciting plan is highly possible. But if another partner has basic skills, you're going to be better off designing a simple plan. Simple can sometimes be better when you have minimal skills on the marketing side.
How you segment your marketing plan will depend on your perspective. If you're a product manufacturer, you will want to focus more on what you're selling. A services company may focus on who it's supporting.
Spend some time locating commonalities with your partner. Maybe you're providing unified communications services and you want to help organizations with their communications needs. If your partner also wants to help companies with their communications needs, then you're very tightly aligned.
Maybe you're selling business analytics software and you want to sell to financial organizations. If you partner with somebody who's looking to support financial decision-makers within large insurance companies, you are closely aligned.
Look at what type of business you want to generate for specific customers. You can target customers that are net-new to both partners. You can also target cross-selling, in which one partner is selling into the other partner's install base. You can also look at an upgrade for a joint customer that may have older products.
Next, look at the channel partner value proposition. You might think going to market under that joint value proposition is a given. You don't necessarily have to go to market with a joint value proposition. Your choice is going to depend on who you're selling to. In some cases, you can make a sequential value proposition to a customer.
For example, you may have a partner that's more of a fulfillment partner. In this case you're going to do most of the selling. Once you've convinced a customer to buy your product, you're going to bring your partner in to help implement the product. To make the final sale, you're highlighting the value prop of yourself first and then your partner.
Of course, there are many times when you do want to go to market on that joint value prop, but keep in mind that sometimes the best partnerships are ones where partners help fill in for process or capability gaps of the other.
You're also going to want to set your pipeline goals. Pipeline goals are important to establish so you have estimates of how much pipeline is needed to meet your closed-business goals. How many leads do you need to get enough customers? Remember, you won't close every lead. Your deal size will also influence how much pipeline you need.
If you're establishing these goals for the first time, you may not know your close rates or deal sizes. It's important to have a measurement system in place so you can see how well you did or where you fell short. Now let's talk about measuring and analyzing performance.
You can learn a lot from marketing metrics, but they can also be misleading. Let's take a deep dive into analyzing some numbers from two sample partners.
Let's see how much the pipeline generates in win revenue.
Say you have a partner that is generating 50x what you invested in its pipeline. In other words, for every dollar you gave the partner for marketing, $50 of pipeline revenue was generated. Of that $50 of pipeline revenue, the partner closed $10 in win revenue.
At first glance, these metrics look great. The partner is generating revenue, and it's generating pipeline. You may be tempted to invest as much as you can in this partner. However, a little knowledge can be dangerous. Let's dive deeper into these numbers.
Start by looking at total revenue growth for this partner. In this case, this partner's revenue with you declined by 15%. You might say, "Well, how is that possible?" This partner is doing great from a channel marketing perspective but declining in revenue.
The partner may be losing customers at an alarming rate after sign-up because better post-sales support is needed.
The partner may not be focusing on churn or upselling into its existing customer base, so after initial contract terms, the customers may be re-signing their contract with the same solutions but at a potentially lower margin or just leaving due to a bad (or mediocre) experience.
This partner is only generating 30x pipeline, which isn't a bad number. But in comparison to the partner at 50x, it is much lower. This partner has generated 5x the revenue, much lower than Partner #1. So if you looked at just those two, you might want to invest all your dollars with Partner #1.
When we add in the total revenue growth, we see Partner #2 is growing at 30%, while Partner #1 is declining at 15%. How is that possible? If you're generating less closed business here, how is it possible that you are generating more revenue?
This partner is bad at coding. The sales team is generating lots of pipeline, and there's lots of revenue out there, but the partner is not necessarily coding revenue back to marketing activities. Requiring your partners to use your CRM or deal registration with the related campaign/marketing code may help to resolve this issue.
This partner is going after net-new customers, which you would expect to have a lower marketing close rate. In aggregate, it's working well because the partner has been generating net-new customers year over year. The partner is going back and expanding accounts.
The worst-case scenario is that maybe there's a lot of channel shift. So, if you are not generating the number through marketing, where's the revenue coming from? In some cases, business can be moved from your direct team over to your channel team. You're not increasing anything; you're just moving it from one channel to another. This channel shift might boost that number.
You can't always take top-level ROI numbers at face value. Sometimes a deeper dive into some of your other KPIs is going to be important when looking at year-to-year revenue.
Looking at deal sizes on an individual basis and very large or small deals could skew numbers.
Reporting systems may not be accurately registering wins and losses.
Your partners may be focused on new customers but ignoring their base. Churn is sometimes the biggest factor in declining revenue.
Make sure your team dives deep into the numbers. Don't reach a false conclusion by looking at simplistic numbers such as pipeline and revenue. These are very important, but you want to dive a lot deeper than just those two numbers.
Understand that marketing and channel marketing affect the entire business. They don't just generate marketing-oriented revenue. You can do things from a marketing perspective to help grow revenue. Maybe you're building great awareness in accounts that your sales team is already trying to progress. Maybe you're providing great materials that help the sales team to progress and close deals. Those are examples of things that you can do to help impact total revenue growth that may not necessarily tie revenue to a campaign.
Pay close attention to the lifetime value of a customer. If you are going after some net-new customers and you're offering cloud or a SaaS offering or something that needs to be regularly upgraded or added to, then that first customer may end up having a lot bigger value down the road than these numbers would indicate on their own.
Focus on your channel partners that are your advocates: those that lead with your solutions and services for both current and new customers. Net-new revenue does not tell the whole story. Not all partners are created alike!
Making channel marketing work is a process of planning, setting goals, and evaluating results to determine which channel plans and partnerships work the best. Taking a deep dive into your metrics will help you make changes based on successes and failures and adjust your partnerships to achieve long-term success.
TSL Marketing has been helping technology companies build channel marketing strategies and partnerships since our founding in 1999. We've seen firsthand the benefits that can come from developing successful channel strategies and understand the hard work it takes.
These plans aren't built overnight. Marketing plans involve analyzing value propositions, mapping business alignments, setting revenue goals, and evaluating KPIs. These aspects of marketing strategy are something our team works on every day to achieve continuous improvement.
Contact us to learn more about how we can help you with your channel marketing initiatives.


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Standing 7-feet, 6-inches, Freddy, a Great Dane, is the world's largest dog. He loves chicken and peanut butter — and has destroyed 23 sofas.
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Every time I walk past this shop window I fall in love. Little macaroons (which everyone keeps raving about), very delicate pastries and gorgeous looking cakes. The price is pretty up there and after a few days of indulging in the Cake Boss TV series, I really really wanted me some delicious bakes. But I was disappointed. When I get an impulse I'm sure my friends and family could tell you that theres no stopping me, even money is no boundary. I just go a bit crazy. And so I did. I spent £22 on these desserts, which with my student budget is probably why I was so disappointed. More to the point, I got there 1 minute before they closed and luckily they let me in, so I didn't really have many options to choose from at 6pm on a Friday night. But hey, I was there and had some major cravings. So I picked the prettiest looking and of course the infamous macaroons. (I did try to bake these before as so many bloggers have) Let me tell you. They may look great in pictures, but the truth is in the bite. They need to be crunchy on the outside and a viccy sponge texture in the middle. These were as such, but wow was it an almond overload. Very bitter and I didn't realise these were stuffed with some strange fillings. To say the least I don't like macaroons. As cute as you are little fellas, I wont be ordering any more. Although I must say they are beautifully packaged.
I'm not slating this bakery. Being myself only an ammeter baker at best, their cakes and bakes are amazing. Very well executed with what you can see is a lot of skill and attention to detail. But they just weren't to my taste. The chocolate or what the lady described to me as a ferrero rocher type cake, was just not. It was made with a very rich dark chocolate, which I'm not really a fan of. Then filled with a crunchy almost kit-kat like texture. The crunch was gorgeous, the mouse light and fluffy. But just too bitter for me. On to the cherry layered cake, it was so well made. The butter cream on top had a sharp distinct cherry flavour which I love! I'm a big fan of meringues and never really seen any sold just separately like this. So I had to see. I'm not quite sure how I was supposed to eat this one, so I just took it as it was. Stabbed in my teaspoon, the outside was amazingly crisp but the inside gooey and filled with nutty praline. A definite winner to share with coffee.
Have you tried any new patisseries lately, which are your favourites?
oooh they look yummy. I haven't tried anything from a patisserie recently, but I am just about to eat an apple crumble. Enjoy your treats!


Stir fried cabbage or popularly known as "cobi no sambharo" in Gujarat, is the very easy to make dish, yet very fulfilling and tasty. If you don't like raw cabbage in salad, just stir fry it, and within minutes a low cal , healthy and tasty dish is ready for you.
Shred the cabbage and chop the chillies very finely.
Now heat the oil in pan and add mustard seeds.
When seeds start to crackle, add asafoetida, roasted fenugreek seeds or powder, and turmeric powder in oil.
Then add cabbage and mix well. Keep stirring cabbage that it does not stick to the bottom of the pan while keeping the full flame of stove.
Aft 4-5 minutes off the heat and do not cover the lid, to retain the cabbage crunchy.
Make it just before serving and serve hot immediately.


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Israel can no longer ignore Arab voters
Naim Mousa on September 30, 2019 4 Comments
Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi, from April 2019. The two men are now leaders of a Joint List of four Palestinian political parties. (Photo: Hadash)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reign as the country's longest-serving premier may come to an end in the next few weeks. News outlets in Israel were abuzz over the weekend when sources in his Likud party said he is on the brink of telling the president he cannot form a coalition, which would give challenger Benny Gantz an opportunity to oust Netanyahu.
What's not to be lost regardless of the outcome is the historic role Palestinian citizens of Israel played in shaping the election and weakening Netanyahu.
The Joint List, a coalition of four Arab factions, impacted the course of the election when party head Ayman Odeh of the Hadash faction (the largest single Palestinian party in Israel), said he would recommend Gantz as Israel's next Prime Minister. This marked the first time for such an endorsement since the late Yizhak Rabin narrowly became prime minister in 1992 thanks to the backing of Arab parties.
Faction leaders within the Joint List made clear they would not ask to join the government and would remain in the opposition. In the Israeli electoral system, parties that support a candidate to become prime minister traditionally join the governing coalition, but it's not required. However, it is important to note that Odeh did propose that the Joint List would join a center-left governing coalition provided certain demands were met, including the repeal of both the Jewish Nation-State Law and the Kaminitz Law, which limits construction in Palestinian communities, and steps toward the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Occupied Territories and the creation of a Palestinian state. Still, Gantz continued to give the Joint List the cold shoulder and vehemently refuses to even sit down with the leadership of the Joint List.
Knesset member Ahmad Tibi, who leads the Ta'al faction in the Joint List, told President Rivlin that Gantz is "not our cup of tea," adding that "our voters wanted this historic moment after a leader systematically incited against us as if we are an enemy." Tibi also indicated that the Joint List may cooperate with a center-left government formed with Haredis (ultra-Orthodox). Tibi further clarified that the Joint List would support a government "from the outside," meaning it wouldn't actually be a part of the coalition but provide votes needed to maintain a majority.
One notable objection to the Joint List's recommendation is one of its own factions, Balad, signaling there is still division that comprises the full impact of Arab parties on Israeli politics. Balad's leadership insisted on not endorsing Gantz due to his background. He is the former commander-in-chief of the Israeli military from 2011 to 2015, meaning he was the highest official in the armed forces during the last war in Gaza. For Balad, as for all other factions in the Joint List, there is little daylight between him and Netanyahu.
However, Balad's position is more tactic than ideology, and as a tactic, it is a harmful appeal meant to appease their base.
Balad's popularity has waned over the past few years among Arab voters and especially following the breakup of the Joint List prior to the April elections, a development many hold Balad accountable for. In addition, during the 2018 municipality elections, Balad lost almost all of the mayoral offices they held to Hadash and others, most notably losing the mayoral elections in the Arab city of Sakhnin to a Hadash candidate. Furthermore, Balad's power was significantly weakened in city councils across Israel. Therefore, following a very turbulent election in 2018 and 2019, Balad is looking to regain its power and influence among Arab voters.
Although the Joint List was in a difficult position, the decision it made reflected the message of many Arab voters when they went to the polls: take an active part in the government. Had Balad done that, it would have tipped the scales to Gantz to form a coalition and not Netanyahu.
Still, Balad chose to use the opportunity to win a favorable position among Arab voters, rather than do the correct political move which would have carried out sweet revenge on Netanyahu and his party. Therefore, Netanyahu still had a 55-54 majority in recommendations, which gave him the first shot at forming a coalition government. Thanks to Balad's inaction, Netanyahu was able to extend the interval in which he is still the person who should lead the government.
A good portion of Palestinian citizens of Israel have long boycotted Israeli elections since the state was founded in 1948, but the Joint List changed that when it was established in 2015. In two national election results, it was voted in as the third-largest party in the country. Hence, it is only fitting that the Joint List decided to take an active part in determining who will form the next government.
This is a golden opportunity for the Joint List to gain massive influence in the Knesset. The Joint List must utilize its newly gained status as a major force in Israeli politics to project its power and legitimacy. For example, if Gantz and Netanyahu do form a unity government, that would make Odeh, as head of the Joint List, the leader of the opposition, which would mean that he would be briefed on any and all military operations that Israel carries out– even covert operations such as assassination attempts or targeted strikes. Moreover, if the Joint List becomes the largest party in the opposition it would mean that, come the distribution of committee assignments, many Arab members of Knesset would end up receiving assignments in committees they never had access to, such as Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, where Israeli officials discuss highly sensitive issues that most likely involve Palestinians.
It is also worth noting the response from Gantz's party, Blue and White, following the Joint List's recommendation. In a statement, Knesset Member Moshe Ya'alon, head of the Blue and White delegation, said: "all Zionist parties" are welcome in the coalition – a statement clearly leaving out Arab parties, sending yet another message to them indicating Gantz's unwillingness to even meet with them.
The choice at the end of the day is quite simple. There are two candidates for prime minister. One incites violence against Arabs and constantly carries out racist policies, and the other does the exact same but is called Gantz. Whoever ends up as prime minister, be it Gantz or Netanyahu, will not bring any change to the Palestinian community in Israel and will have no incentive to do so. Therefore, by recommending Gantz and ousting Netanyahu, the Joint List will at least get some retribution.
JaapBo on September 30, 2019, 3:09 pm
Even if the Joint List would become the biggest opposition party I don't believe it would get the influence mr. Mousa is describing. None of the Jewish parties wants it, so they would find a way.
echinococcus on October 1, 2019, 12:11 am
Strange, I had like the impression that the entire existence of what you call "Israel" is exclusively based on ignoring , decimating and when possible totally disappearing all Arab (and other) Palestinians, including most of the old Palestinian and Arab Jews.
That "can no longer ignore" line is a feel-good statement and one wonders where it has any factual basis, not yet anyway. If you are talking about the current Joint List minus Balad trick, at least wait until the Gantz-Yahoo horsetrading session closes. Yes, you are on site, you have skin in the game and even though Odeh is certainly a thoughtful and resourceful politician whom one should not try to second-guess from outside, still the form book says a hundred to one Zionists are uniting against you guys with a vengeance, and a million to one that they are already solidly united for making you disappear completely — never mind "ignoring".
I'll bet you something else, from afar: Odeh's offer will come bite him in the tail soon and Balad will emerge much more prestigious among Palestinians than it ever was. Not everyone, as we hear, is enthralled by the wisdom of taking down the Yahoo to replace him by his twin, even though it's understandable as a frustrated reaction.
Congratulations, though, for the wording "more tactic than ideology, and as a tactic, … a harmful appeal meant to appease their base" to speak of the rather wide approval that seems to have met the Balad policy.
tony greenstein on October 1, 2019, 9:37 am
Naim Moussa is wrong, very wrong. The problem isn't Netanyahu but the Zionist system in Israel. To endorse one war criminal over another is self defeating. Gantz has made it clear he will wage war on Gaza. You may find out that Netanyahu was more pragmatic as Leiberman has said.
This idea of good and bad Zionists is an old game and it has past its sell by date. The reasons for Israeli Palestinians being in the Knesset are tactical. To give them a voice, to make it clear that Israel's Palestinians don't go along with the Zionist and Jewish nature of Israel. To secure tactical considerations such as funding for their communities but it should not be to accept the responsibility for the oppression of their own communities
pgtl10 on October 2, 2019, 7:19 pm
I prefer a Jacobin magazine article where the author said the Palestinians of 48 should be in opposition rather than give in to Gantz.


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Q: Free all memory allocated by LLVM on exit I am using LLVM-C to program a little toy language.
I am using also valgrind to check for memory leaks.
Here is my basic baby program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <llvm-c/Core.h>

int main()
{
    size_t length;
    LLVMModuleRef module = LLVMModuleCreateWithName("llvm.hello");
    printf("Module name: %s\n", LLVMGetModuleIdentifier(module, &length));
    LLVMDisposeModule(module);
    LLVMShutDown();
    return 0;
}

I can compile and run the program normally, as expected. However when I run the program through valgrind, it tells me I have some "still reachable" allocated memory like this.
valgrind  --leak-check=full  out/hello_llvm

==5807== LEAK SUMMARY:
==5807==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==5807==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==5807==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==5807==    still reachable: 56 bytes in 2 blocks
==5807==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks

While searching over here on this site for an answer, I found many coders are saying that "still reachable" memory leaks are not such a big deal. I don't want to argue about that. What I want is to get rid of ALL allocated memory before terminating my program.
Is there any way I can reduce that allocated memory down to zero before termination?

A: It also makes me very nervous when valgrind does not give 0, in those cases I create a suppression file, if you want to give it a try:
Create and compile a minimal test:
> cat demo.c
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
    malloc(10); // leak
}

Create a supression file:
valgrind --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --error-limit=no --gen-suppressions=all --log-file=minimal.supp ./demo

Edit the generated minimal.supp file, you will see something like
==3102== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==3102== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==3102== Using Valgrind-3.15.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==3102== Command: ./demo
==3102== Parent PID: 2633
==3102==
==3102==
==3102== HEAP SUMMARY:
==3102==     in use at exit: 10 bytes in 1 blocks
==3102==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 0 frees, 10 bytes allocated
==3102==
==3102== 10 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 1
==3102==    at 0x483B7F3: malloc (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==3102==    by 0x10915A: main (in /home/david/demo)
==3102==
{
   <insert_a_suppression_name_here>
   Memcheck:Leak
   match-leak-kinds: definite
   fun:malloc
   fun:main
}
==3102== LEAK SUMMARY:
==3102==    definitely lost: 10 bytes in 1 blocks
==3102==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3102==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3102==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3102==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3102==
==3102== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==3102== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

Remove all the lines starting with == and save something like:
{
   <my stupid external LLVM leak>
   Memcheck:Leak
   match-leak-kinds: definite
   fun:malloc
   fun:main
}

Now run valgrind with the supression file:
valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --error-limit=no --suppressions=minimal.supp ./demo

The result is:
==3348== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==3348== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==3348== Using Valgrind-3.15.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==3348== Command: ./demo
==3348==
==3348==
==3348== HEAP SUMMARY:
==3348==     in use at exit: 10 bytes in 1 blocks
==3348==   total heap usage: 1 allocs, 0 frees, 10 bytes allocated
==3348==
==3348== LEAK SUMMARY:
==3348==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3348==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3348==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3348==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3348==         suppressed: 10 bytes in 1 blocks
==3348==
==3348== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==3348== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 1 from 1)

As you can see, the leak is moved from "definitely lost" to "suppressed"


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Pet owner's guide to surviving the festive season
By Patrick Williams
Updated December 20, 2018 06:51:49
Photo: As tempting as it may be, vets recommend you don't feed your pets any leftovers. (Supplied: RACQ)
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It wouldn't be Christmas without a bit of overindulging.
For us, it just means a couple of extra kilos to carry into the New Year.
For our pets the consequences can prove deadly.
As families come together for what's meant to be one of the most joyous times of the year, veterinarians across Australia are preparing for our furry friends suffering a whole raft of holiday-related illnesses and injuries.
Here's what you need to look out for to avoid an emergency trip to the vet these holidays.
Tinsel, Christmas lights, and other decorations
Tinsel looks great on the Christmas tree, and as it turns out, is appetising to some cats.
Believe it or not, cats eating tinsel is a common cause of admission to vets at this time of year, Animal Emergency Service's Gerardo Poli says.
That's exactly what happened to Blossom last Christmas.
Her owners brought her into to their Jindalee surgery after noticing she'd been chewing on tinsel.
"They thought she only ate about 15 centimetres or so before it broke off," Dr Poli said.
"We tried to induce vomiting. It can be a bit hit and miss in cats.
Video: Cat undergoes surgery to remove 1.5 metres of tinsel (ABC News)
"Unfortunately Blossom didn't bring up any tinsel at all … so we next proceeded to endoscope where we put a little camera down the mouth down into the stomach.
"From there we used little implements to pull out the tinsel or any kind of foreign body."
Once they got a good look, vets found more tinsel than they expected.
"Going through and measuring the tinsel removed … there were four pieces removed from the stomach, totalling 1.5 metres."
So why would a cat eat something that is clearly not food?
One popular theory is that for cats, eating string-like objects mimics the ingestion of a prey's entrails.
Left untreated, ingested tinsel, ribbon or anything like a string can cause significant health complications for cats.
Other decorations can prove just as harmful to pets.
Animal Referral Hospital (ARH) Brisbane in Sinnamon Park recently treated a dog which swallowed parts of a Christmas wreath.
Thankfully he was able to pass the ingested material on his own.
ARH's Sarah Kanther said one of her most unforgettable Christmas treatment tales involved a dog who suffered burns around his mouth and paws after chewing on the Christmas lights on the tree.
"The poor little puppy was inside, left unsupervised for a matter of minutes when he did it. Luckily they had a breaker so it didn't cause too much damage," Dr Kanther said.
"It also caused his heart to go into an abnormal rhythm, so he was here getting treatment for quite a while."
Ham, fatty foods, and other Christmas leftovers
As tempting as it may be when they throw puppy dog eyes at you, save the ham for yourself and don't give it to your four-legged friend.
Other leftovers such as sausages, chicken skin, and bacon can also wreak havoc on a pet's stomach.
Photo: Gordie the dog was ill after eating 2.2 kilograms of Christmas ham. (Supplied: Animal Referral and Emergency Centre)
"It's is a food they're probably not used to eating," Dr Poli said.
"Dogs eat dog food all the time and all of a sudden you give them something [when] their intestinal tract is all geared towards dog food."
"We eat a varied diet every day, so we can change our diet regardless and it doesn't affect us. But they can develop a very specific kind of intestinal tract that's suited for dog food.
"Then you give them something rich like ham or any kind of human food that can cause gastro, so vomiting and diarrhoea.
Dr Poli also advised against letting dogs chew on ham and lamb bones because the fats can lead to pancreatitis.
"This is incredibly painful inflammation of the pancreas, where the digestive enzymes of the pancreas which normally digest food start to digest the pancreas itself from the inside," he said.
"It's incredibly painful, they can be sick for days."
Barbecues, skewers, and onions
There are many dangers around the family barbecue for our pets, Dr Kanther says.
Wooden skewers spiked with meat and chicken are all too tempting for unsupervised dogs.
"We had a case about three months after Christmas, a poor little labrador about 12 months old and very playful presented with what we thought was routine kennel cough," Dr Kanther said.
"He didn't respond to treatment, so we ended up doing a CT scan and found he'd eaten a wooden kebab stick. We traced it back to Christmas time, so it'd been there about three months.
"So it cracked through his oesophagus and almost his entire chest cavity. It was stuck in there.
Photo: Keep a close eye on your dogs when the barbecue is in operation. (ABC News: Isabel Dayman)
"So even though it happened on Christmas Day, he wasn't diagnosed until about three months later when he was brought in for a chronic cough."
Onions are another food commonly found around the barbecue that can prove fatal for dogs.
It can destroy red blood cells and cause anaemia.
"They can be quieter than normal, they may vomit and may have pale gums," Dr Kanther said.
"The signs are quite vague. My advice is if you're concerned at all, bring them into a vet."
Chocolate, sweets, and sugar-free treats
We may know that dogs and chocolate don't mix, but they haven't worked it out yet.
Photo: Luna got into a box of chocolate and had to throw them up. (Supplied: Bernie Vet Centre)
According to new RACQ research, one in five pets have accidentally eaten chocolate in the past.
"Dogs can sniff out food and have been known to get into gifts left under the tree, sometimes eating straight through the paper," spokeswoman Clare Hunter said.
"Make sure you don't leave food out so there's no way your fur babies can get into any trouble when you're not home — you wouldn't want to have to make an emergency vet visit over the holiday period."
One of Dr Poli's most memorable Christmas cases was a dog which not only ate a chocolate ball Christmas tree but also the metal pins holding it all together.
"He ate the whole entire thing including all the pins — there was something like 40 pins," Dr Poli said.
"The x-ray was quite spectacular in a sense that there was a hell of a lot of needles that needed to be removed, and that needed emergency surgery.
"Every single pin was removed and the dog did really well."
Photo: Vets had to remove dozens of pins from a dog's stomach after it got into a chocolate display. (Supplied: Animal Emergency Services)
Sugar-free treats are also off limits.
They contain xylitol, which can cause liver failure in pets.
Christmas cakes are another to look out for.
"It's full of raisins; raisins can cause kidney failure in dogs," Dr Poli said.
"The last thing is if you have macadamias in it, that can cause severe gastroenteritis, so vomiting or diarrhea.
"It can also cause them to have incredibly painful joints where they actually can't walk."
Fighting with other dogs
It happens over the holidays, especially when families get together and bring their pets along.
"The pets don't often like each other, especially if they're at home and a family member brings a pet over and invades the territory of the dog that lives there," Dr Poli said.
"Generally it's around affection or food, so giving out little treats or toys, toys they've been given as Christmas treats, and they'll fight over their Christmas treats."
Dr Kanther said slow, gentle introductions were the key to avoiding any bad run-ins.
"It's important if you're introducing dogs for the first time at a family get-together, do it slowly and make sure there's someone supervising them the entire time," Dr Kanther said.
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Q: Change order of text on single line on a whole file using bash tools I have a simple, long KML file like this:
<Placemark>  <name>name</name><description><![CDATA[text]]></description>
  <Point>
    <coordinates>53.1074160507479,-1.59813015453956,0</coordinates>  </Point>
</Placemark>

Unfortunately, the coordinates are in the wrong order. It should read:
<Placemark>  <name>name</name><description><![CDATA[text]]></description>
  <Point>
    <coordinates>-1.59813015453956,53.1074160507479,0</coordinates>  </Point>
</Placemark>

Using bash tools, awk or similar (sed, grep etc), how can I convert the coordinates in the whole text file to the right format?
What I've tried:
I know that that I can select the first set of numbers using
 grep -o -P '(?<=inates\>).*(?=,-)'

and I know I could easily create a similar command to get the second co-ordinate.
I'm lost on how to substitute them in place or write them out. What'd be a good way to do it?
Newbie here. Relatively low level of technical knowledge. I'd prefer easy to understand in linux CLI tools if possible.

A: a hacky script
$ awk '/\<coordinates\>/{split($0,line,"[>,]");
                         sub(line[3],line[2]);
                         sub(line[2],line[3])}1' file

<Placemark>  <name>name</name><description><![CDATA[text]]></description>
  <Point>
    <coordinates>-1.59813015453956,53.1074160507479,0</coordinates>  </Point>
</Placemark>

find the line, split based on the delimiters, swap the elements and print all lines.  To eliminate false positive matches, perhaps anchor the replacements with the delimiters.
$ awk -v c=',' '/\<coordinates\>/{split($0,line,"[>,]");
                                  sub(c line[3] c,c line[2] c);
                                  sub(">"line[2] c,">"line[3] c)}1' file

<Placemark>  <name>name</name><description><![CDATA[text]]></description>
  <Point>
    <coordinates>-1.59813015453956,53.1074160507479,0</coordinates>  </Point>
</Placemark>

A: My friend told me to paste this into my text editor and it worked!


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Hanley, K., 1992, The Lamp of memory: Ruskin, Tradition, and Architecture. Wheeler, M. & Whiteley, N. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 98-122 25 p.
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Visible Cities: Envisioning Social Futures
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Anticipating the adoption of IoT in everyday life
Coulton, P., Gradinar, A. & Lindley, J., 3/11/2021, Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things: Building accountability and security. Crabtree, A., Mortier, R. & Haddadi, H. (eds.). London: IET Press
Composing Fragmented Relations with Materials, Locations and Archives
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Energy-Efficient Homes: A Heaven for Respiratory Illnesses
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If you are drowning in debt, you may think that Chapter 7 dissolution is your only option. But what if you don't qualify for Chapter 7 because you make too much money? Or you want to hold onto a secured asset, such as your home? Or what if most of your debt is non-dischargeable through Chapter 7? Fortunately, you can still get relief by filing for Chapter 13 reorganization. At Rothbard, Rothbard, Kohn & Kellar, we have been helping consumers in Newark and Essex County find relief through bankruptcy.
What is the Chapter 13 bankruptcy process?
Chapter 13 bankruptcy is for consumers who earn a steady income, but need help getting out from under crushing debt. When you file Chapter 13, you and your attorney propose a payment plan, based on your monthly disposable income, where you repay what you owe in one manageable monthly payment. You pay the bankruptcy court, and the bankruptcy trustee distributes amounts to your creditors. Depending on your income and the amount you owe, the court orders you to stay on your plan for three to five years. If you are faithful and complete the plan, the court then discharges your remaining qualifying debt.
The court must approve your payment plan, which must be fair to your creditors and not too harsh on you. One of the steps in the process is the 341 Meeting of Creditors. At this meeting, your creditors can express any concerns they have with your plan. Usually, the 341 meeting is just a formality, but occasionally a creditor objects that a debtor does not deserve relief due to fraud or misrepresentation, or argues that more of the debt should be repaid. We provide determined representation at the 341 meeting and through every step of the process.
Through Chapter 13, you can often hold onto assets used as collateral to secure debt, while discharging about the same amount of unsecured debt as you would through Chapter 7. One major advantage comes when your house is underwater and you have more than one mortgage. Through a process called lien stripping, you can often discharge a second or third mortgage. Here's how it works. If you took out a second or third mortgage on your house when the market was up, but your house has now lost value, your house may not be worth enough to act as collateral for all your mortgages. If that's the case, any mortgage debt you have above the actual value of the house is unsecured. Your plan will require you to make current payments on your first mortgage, but at the end of your plan, the court can discharge your second and third mortgages along with other unsecured debt, such as your credit cards and medical bills.
Various financial documents, such as mutual fund, IRA, and 401(k) statements.
We cannot recommend Chapter 13 or any debt relief strategy without first conducting a detailed analysis of your financial circumstances.
Rothbard, Rothbard, Kohn & Kellar provides reliable Chapter 13 bankruptcy representation for homeowners and other distressed consumers. Our Newark office is conveniently located at 50 Park Place on the 12th Floor, right across the street from Military Park and just one block southwest of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Call us at 862-227-8068 or contact us online to schedule a consultation.
Rothbard, Rothbard, Kohn & Kellar is located in Newark, NJ and serves clients in and around Harrison, Newark, Kearny, East Orange, Irvington, Belleville, Orange, Hillside, North Arlington, Elizabeth, West Orange, Maplewood, South Orange, Bloomfield, Jersey City, Glen Ridge, Lyndhurst, Bayonne, Montclair, Union, Bergen County, Essex County, Hudson County, Passaic County and Union County.


Green bonds are fixed-income securities issued by public or private institutions as part of their commitment to invest in sustainable projects. These assets present opportunities to diversify and expand the investment base, provide differentiation between companies in the same sector, and improve the corporate image and reputation of the bond issuer.
Several factors have contributed to the boom in the green bond market in recent years, especially in 2017. The strong increase of issuance of sovereign green bonds was one contributing factor. Other sovereign bond issuers have followed the lead of the French government and have announced their intention to issue these securities in the near future: Sweden, Belgium, Indonesia, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Kenya and India, among them.
The commitment of the principal public service companies and European utilities was also very important, and led to their becoming the leading green bond issuers. Other sectors that also have significantly contributed are real estate, infrastructure and technology. We should point out that in 2017, 146 issuers were incorporated into the green bond market for the first time.
In terms of demand, the appetite of institutional investors (fund and pension managers) for these assets has continued to grow, because they are increasingly demanded by their final clients.
For all these reasons, we can characterize the green bond market as one that is one the rise. Green bonds will continue to play a very significant role in financing the transition of economies toward low-emission energy sources, while also favoring sustainable development.
European bond issuers dominated in 2017, with 43% of all issuances. This led the euro once again being the most-used currency for green bonds, with 40% of the total issuances. The euro was closely followed by the dollar at 32%. It is also important to note the dominant role of investment-grade bonds, which accounted for 80% of total issuances.
During 2017, the market has shown great geographical diversification in Europe (France, Holland, Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, and the United Kingdom, among others), North America (USA, Mexico and Canada) and Asia (with China as the most active country).
In Spain, the market has again been led by a significant number of corporate issues. In this regard, Iberdrola continues to be a pioneer and worldwide reference in the green bond market; the energy company issued its first hybrid green bond in the last quarter of the year.
Moreover, 2017 was also a year of successful inaugural green bond issues, such as the ones by Repsol (the first green issuance in the oil and gas sector worldwide) and by Gas Natural Fenosa.
The Spanish public sector has taken a giant step in supporting sustainable financing. The year 2017 saw the Community of Madrid enter the market with a sustainable issue of €700 million for social and environmental groups. In addition, the railway infrastructure company ADIF AV launched its first green bond—one of the first in Europe in its sector. The Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), continues to be a reference in the social bond market, with its third such issue in euros this year. Finally, the Barcelona city government recently issued €35 million for sustainable projects.
BBVA was the most active bookrunner on the Iberian green bond market in 2017, and is a major participant worldwide, having assessed, placed and structured green bonds for clients from different industries in Mexico, the United States and Europe, both in local currency and in euros and dollars.
The inaugural green issue by SSE (Scottish & Southern Energy), was the largest first ever by a British company, as was the one by Avangrid in the USA, for which BBVA was the structuring bank. BBVA's participation in other significant bond issues, such as the second green bond sold by Mexico City International Airport, or the one issued by Engie in March.
BBVA estimates that the total volume of green bond issuances will be between $150 billion and $180 billion in 2018. To achieve this new growth, it will be necessary to incorporate more sovereign bond issuers, in addition to continue expanding the number of sectors and geographies.
Without a doubt, 2018 will be an important year for our customers, given that we are expecting a greater number of bond issues in Spain, the rest of Europe and America. It is telling to observe how issuers who have entered the green bond market repeat the experience, and how they cite the added benefits they derive from it.


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Youngstown State at Valparaiso | January 30, 2016
YSU
Offensive Rebounds 5 10
Turnovers 8 11
Bench Points 12 45
Points Morse - 27
PETERS - 18
Rebounds Andrews - 6
FERNANDEZ - 13
Assists Davis - 3
NICKERSON - 5
Steals Donlan - 1
Davis - 1
Frantz - 1
SKARA - 1
PETERS - 1
WALKER - 1
JOSEPH - 1
Blocks Kaufman - 1
Nickels - 1
FERNANDEZ - 2
Youngstown State 68
9-14 (4-6)
19-4 (9-1)
January 30, 2016 at 7:02pm
Quick Start Propels Valpo to Win Saturday Night
Jubril Adekoya squares up for one of his three 3-pointers Saturday.
The Valparaiso University men's basketball team continued to take care of business at the ARC on Saturday evening, as the Crusaders scored the game's first seven points and never looked back, downing Youngstown State 97-68 to remain atop the Horizon League with a 9-1 record in league action. The win was the Crusaders' 24th straight at the ARC.
After a couple recent slow starts, Valpo came out of the gate ready to go on Saturday night, spearheaded by the early play of senior Keith Carter (Maywood, Ill./Proviso East [Saint Louis]). Carter knocked down a 3-pointer on Valpo's second possession, found fellow senior Vashil Fernandez (Kingston, Jamaica/Princeton Day [Md.] Academy) for a dunk on the fast break and then completed a spectacular coast-to-coast move as the Crusaders led 7-0 just 2:27 into the game.
YSU would score the next five points, but a 12-3 spurt by the Crusaders pushed the lead into double figures less than eight minutes into the game. Four different Valpo players scored during the run, capped by first an old-fashioned 3-point play and then a 3-pointer from junior Jubril Adekoya (Tinley Park, Ill./Andrew), as the Crusaders led 19-8.
A YSU basket briefly suppressed the momentum, but the Crusaders quickly responded with another 11-2 run. Five different players found the basket during this stretch, with a putback basket by Fernandez with eight minutes to go in the half pushing the lead to 30-12. The advantage surpassed 20 points on a 3-point play by Carter at the 6:11 mark and reached its peak at 50-25 on a 3-point play from junior Alec Peters (Washington, Ill./Washington) with 3:11 to go in the half. The Crusaders eventually went into the locker room leading 54-32.
Much like Thursday's win over Cleveland State, Valpo surrendered the first basket of the second half but answered with a run to salt away the game. This time, it was an 8-0 spurt, including a 3-point play by sophomore David Skara (Zadar, Croatia/Ekonomska Skola Zadar) and three points from sophomore Tevonn Walker (Montreal, Quebec/Vanier College) and capped by an offensive rebound and layup by Peters to make it 62-34. The lead would not fall under 22 points the rest of the way.
The balanced Valpo effort on Saturday night saw no player play more than 24 minutes and four Crusaders finish in double figures. Peters needed just 21 minutes to score 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting and added seven rebounds as well. Adekoya exploded off the bench for 16 points, including a career-high three 3-pointers.
Carter scored 13 points in his 19 minutes of action, while Fernandez posted yet another double-double with 11 points and a game-best 13 rebounds. Fernandez also blocked two shots, leaving him just one shy of Valpo's career record. The Crusaders shot 54.2% from the floor for the game and were 9-of-18 from the 3-point stripe. Valpo's dominance on the glass continued as well, as the Crusaders out-rebounded YSU 47-26 and converted 10 offensive rebounds into 15 second-chance points. Valpo also owned a 48-16 advantage in points in the paint.
Youngstown State (9-14, 4-6 Horizon) was paced by a game-high 27 points from Cameron Morse on 8-of-15 shooting, but the rest of the Penguins were just 10-of-39 from the floor. Matt Donlan added 12 points as well.
Valparaiso (19-4, 9-1 Horizon) has a week before its next game, as the Crusaders will make the short trip across the state line to face off against UIC next Saturday, Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. As always, the game can be heard live on WVUR (95.1 FM, Valparaiso) and will be televised on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Links for the live audio, video and stats will be available at ValpoAthletics.com.


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Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
THE PRINCIPLE OF SEARCH
N = R * x f p x n e x f l x f i x f c x L
The terms in the equation can be explained as follows
o N - Number of communicative civilizations
o R* - Average rate of formation of stars over the lifetime of the galaxy (10 to 40 per year)
o fp - Fraction of those stars with planets (0 < fp <1, estimated at 0.5 or 50 percent)
o ne - Average number of earth-type planets per planetary system (0 < ne <1, estimated at 0.5 or 50 percent)
o fl - Fraction of those planets where life develops (0 < fl <1, estimated at 1 or 100 percent)
o fi - Fraction of life that develops intelligence (0 < fi <1, estimated at 0.1 or 10 percent)
o fc - Fraction of planets where intelligent life develops technology such as radio (0 < fc <1, estimated at 0.1or 10 percent)
o L - Lifetime of the communicative civilization in years (estimates are highly variable, from 100s to 1000s of years, approximately 500 years for example purposes)
BASIC PROBLEMS IN SEARCH
" How to search such a large area of sky
" Where to look on the radio dial for ET
" How to make the best use of the limited radio-telescope resources available for SETI
Large vs. Small Areas of Sky
Wide-field search - In this method large chunks of the sky are searched at a low resolution within a short period of time.
Targeted search - In this method, intensive investigations of a limited number of sun-like stars are made for ET signals.
What's the Freuency?
In the 1- to 10-gigahertz (GHz) range of frequencies, there are two frequencies: 1.42 GHz, caused by hydrogen atoms, and 1.65 GHz, caused by hydroxyl ions. This area is called as the water hole.
Limited Radio-telescope Resources
" Conduct limited observing runs on existing radio telescopes
" Conduct SETI analyses of radio data acquired by other radio astronomers (piggyback or parasite searches)
" Build new radio telescopes that are entirely dedicated to SETI research
Smart Cards, Software-Defined Radio (SDR), Space Robotics, Space Shuttles and its Advancements, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography SPECT, Stealth Fighter, Storage Area Networks, Swarm Intelligence and Traffic Safety, Synthetic Aperture Radar System, Tempest and Echelon, Terrestrial Trunked Radio, Touch Screens, VoCable, Wavelet Transforms, Wavelet Video Processing Technology, Welding Robots, Wireless Fidelity Wi Fi, Wireless Networked Digital Devices, White LED, Smart Bombs
Seasonal Influence on Safety of Substation Grounding
Sensors on 3D Digitization
Sensotronic Brake Control
Significance of Real-Time Transport Protocol
Simputer


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Thought Leaders Series: David Hall of David Hall Rare Coins
Monday Morning Brief for Dec. 24, 2018
By William T. Gibbs
Published: Dec 24, 2018, 2 AM
Sales of American Eagle gold and silver bullion coins in 2018 were down from 2017 totals, though the prediction was that sales would rebound somewhat.
Original images courtesy of U.S. Mint.
A year ago in this column, I made several predictions about 2018 and promised to revisit them at the end of the year to see how well I did at prognostication. As it turns out, I am not that great at predicting the future. Here's how I did.
Prediction #1: The United States Mint will, finally, acknowledge that its precious metals coins are being counterfeited and those counterfeits are entering the marketplace, and will announce some first plans to adapt 21st century anti-counterfeiting technology into its American Eagle and American Buffalo coinage.
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What happened: Mint officials sponsored a counterfeiting segment at its Oct. 17, 2018, forum in Washington, D.C., and the new Mint director, David Ryder, has worked in the development of anti-counterfeiting measures for coins and paper money and served as Mint director previously, in the 1990s. However, no concrete anti-counterfeiting measures were announced, and when Mint officials at the forum asked the 100 or so participants whether they had encountered a counterfeit Mint product, the officials seemed surprised that nearly every person raised their hand.
I got this prediction only partially correct.
Prediction #2: The Treasury Department will officially announce that it has overturned the decision of the previous administration to redesign the $5, $10, and $20 notes with a portrait of Harriet Tubman and allegorical scenes celebrating the Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights movements.
What happened: Treasury officials spent the year mostly avoiding public discussions of the issue, even to the point of sending a noncommittal response to a member of Congress who sent a formal letter to Treasury officials seeking an answer. It still seems clear to many that the Treasury will not implement the design changes announced in the Obama administration; Treasury officials just will not admit to it.
I did not get this one right.
Prediction #3: The U.S. marketplace will continue to be split, with strong interest in fresh older and rarer coins, contrasted with continued lower sales for most U.S. Mint products like annual sets and 2018 commemorative coins, and a market for the lower range of U.S. coins that reflects a declining collector population that continues to age.
What happened: Dealers are having a tough time selling many kinds of coins. While some rarities are doing well, prices for a lot of coins continue to fall, as they have been for years, as shown in the "Coin Values Spotlight" column now appearing in the weekly issues of Coin World. Mint officials remain concerned about sales levels of their products.
I got this one right.
Prediction #4: We will see a rebound of sorts in American Eagle bullion coin sales after a dismal 2017 market, but we will not see any new records in 2018.
What happened: Although 2018 sales have not been audited, most are down from 2017 figures. The Mint sold 302,500 ounces of American Eagle gold bullion coins in 2017; in 2018, the total stands at 244,500 ounces. For the American Eagle silver bullion coin, 2017 sales totaled 18,065,500 coins; the 2018 total stands at 15,560,000.
American Eagle platinum bullion coin sales in 2017 totaled 20,000 coins; 2018 sales are higher, at 30,000 coins.
Although I did not make a prediction for American Buffalo gold bullion coin sales, the 2018 figure of 121,500 coins does top the 2017 total of 99,500 coins.
I missed this one, mostly.
In an upcoming weekly issue, I will make some predictions for 2019.
Nov 26, 2018, 2 AM
Monday Morning Brief for Nov. 26, 2018
Dec 10, 2018, 2 AM
Monday Morning Brief for Dec. 10, 2018: helping out


The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has asked the European Commission (EC) to bounce the UK aspects of the proposed joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile back to itself. Owners France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom announced the plan back in September 2009.
Following a programme of consultation, the OFT expressed it's initial view, that the merger threatens significantly to affect competition in mobile telecommunications in the UK. Overall, the merger falls under European Union law and the OFT only has the power to request the case be further referred to the Competition Commission, but each referral adds months of time to the negotiations.
One of the biggest concerns is the T-Orange plan to combine and retain both company's 1800MHz spectrum resources, thus controlling pretty much all of it as one company. This is causing cries of "Referee!" from the sidelines. It's likely that the duo will be forced to hand some radio spectrum back to Ofcom control, who can then promptly sell it off again to raise revenue for the UK government.


A complete collection of Imam al- Husayn's discourses, both oral and written, from his first conversation with al-Walid b. 'Utba, the governor of Medina and Marwan b. al-Hakam, to the last words to leave his blessed lips of the day of Ashura. Find out the truth of Imam al- Husayn's mission in his own words With the original Arabic text, maps of Imam al-Husayn's journey and a commentary on each discourse.


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Filing for Divorce in Texas During a Pandemic
Texas is slowly reopening after several months of social distancing and stay-at-home orders intended to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. People with pending divorce cases who need a court hearing have either had to wait until the courts reopen, or they have attended "virtual" hearings conducted via telephone or video conference. People who intend to file for divorce may be uncertain about their options at this point. What is happening in Houston courts right now, and what does the future hold for family law cases?
The Texas Supreme Court has issued several emergency orders regarding how courts may hold hearings and conduct other business. Starting June 1, 2020, Texas courts may begin the process of reopening subject to safety guidelines issued by the Office of Court Administration (OCA). At the local level, courts in Harris and Galveston Counties have issued their own orders, statements, and guidelines on how to proceed.
Texas Divorce Law
A spouse can file for divorce on the basis of several different grounds, although the "no fault" ground of "insupportability" is the most common. A court usually cannot grant a final decree of divorce until at least sixty days after the date the petition was filed. This sixty-day waiting period gives the parties the opportunity to conduct discovery, attempt alternative dispute resolution, and use other litigation methods.
Filing for Divorce in Harris and Galveston Counties
New divorce cases are filed with the district clerk of the county where at least one of the spouses resides. The person filing for divorce must arrange service of the petition and court paperwork on the other person. Once they have filed the petition, the case will be assigned to a court. Harris County has eleven district courts and one administrative court designated to hear family law cases. Four courts in Galveston County hear most family law cases: the 306th District Court and County Courts at Law Nos. 1, 2, and 3.
Texas Supreme Court Emergency Orders
The Texas Supreme Court"s Twelfth Emergency Order, signed on April 27, gave courts the discretion to suspend deadlines and make other modifications to usual procedures, and to allow people to attend hearings and other proceedings remotely. In cases where holding in-person hearings or sticking to existing deadlines would endanger someone's health, the order requires courts to find alternatives.
On May 26, the court signed the Seventeenth Emergency Order, which extends many of the Twelfth Emergency Order's provisions until July 31. Local courts may begin to reopen on June 1, subject to OCA guidelines.
Harris and Galveston County Court Closures and Reopening
The courts postponed all scheduled in-person trials and hearings indefinitely, except for "essential court matters," which include protective orders, other matters involving family violence, and CPS cases.
Courts in both counties have remained open, although they have scaled back their operations considerably. The Harris County Family Courts issued a joint statement on March 12, 2020 regarding safety measures related to COVID-19. The courts postponed all scheduled in-person trials and hearings indefinitely, except for "essential court matters," which include protective orders, other matters involving family violence, and CPS cases. An order from the Office of the County Engineer, which took effect March 24, limited the number of family courts that could hold proceedings on the same day to three.
The Family Courts issued an updated set of policies on May 5, which superseded the March 12 statement. The new policies retained most of the directives found in the earlier document. They cancelled the uncontested docket, where a judge is available to approve agreed divorce decrees. Instead, the parties can submit an agreed decree with an affidavit containing their testimony. The courts also established procedures for a submission docket, where parties can present written motions for the court to consider without a hearing. These policies expire on June 1.
In Galveston County, the district courts and county courts at law released updated notices regarding court procedures in late April. Through the end of May, most court proceedings are cancelled or postponed. Uncontested and agreed family cases can be presented by affidavits of testimony rather than live testimony.
These orders are all subject to the Texas Supreme Court's orders regarding the resumption of court operations after June 1, as well as the OCA guidelines on safely reopening.
Getting a Divorce in Uncertain Times
What does all of this mean for someone who wants to file for a divorce in Harris or Galveston County? The good news is that divorce filings, meaning the filing of new divorce cases, have not been significantly affected by the pandemic. If the parties to a divorce can work out an agreed decree of divorce, they can still present it to a judge for signature. The only difference is that it will not occur in person or with live testimony.
More complicated or contentious divorce matters might be delayed because of the pandemic, unfortunately, if only because court hearings might be delayed. This could be an opportunity for the parties to a divorce to try to work out an agreement, but this is not always possible.
Stacey Valdez is a board-certified family attorney in Clear Lake and the greater Houston, Texas area. Our clients and their families are, and always will be, our top priority at Stacey Valdez & Associates. We are dedicated to helping our clients through divorce, child custody, and other difficult ordeals with compassion and tireless advocacy. Please contact us online, or give us a call at (281) 218-0900 today to schedule a confidential consultation to discuss your rights and options. Your first meeting with us is free in most cases.
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Q: Implementation of ORB I just used an open source implementation of an ORB.
How can I implement ORB further by adding new modules?
What can I do from my end in order to get better results than just using an ORB.
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