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More than most politicians, Winston Churchill was an insatiable reader. He loved to schmooze with authors, and what he read profoundly shaped his political worldview. He never actually published a "Top Ten" list of his favorite books—but if he had, it might have been something like this:
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells: Churchill called it "a wonderful book, in the same class as Gulliver's Travels. It is one of the books I would like to take with me to Purgatory." Fascinated by cutting-edge weapons technology, Churchill played a key role in the development of the tank—an invention that Wells had anticipated in a short story. Like Wells, Churchill made a business of offering scientific predictions, and some of them were spot on: he foresaw the atomic bomb and poultry shot through with hormones, among other modern horrors.
King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard: As a young man he read this African adventure tale about a dozen times, and once he closely questioned Haggard about what it all meant. Today it is often misread as an imperialist novel, when in fact it is a story of resistance to a genocidal tyrant—a story that left a deep and obvious impression on Churchill.
Exodus: Not the Leon Uris novel, the original Old Testament book. Though he was not very religious, Churchill was convinced that every word of it was true. There's no denying that it's a real page-turner (scroll-turner?). And it helped to inspire Churchill's passionate commitment to Zionism.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde: This may come as a surprise, but Wilde had been a friend of his mother Jennie, and he provided a model for Winston's distinctive style of wit. Though the subject was too scandalous to discuss openly, there is evidence that Churchill considered Wilde's imprisonment a terrible injustice. As Prime Minister in 1954 he discussed in the Cabinet (behind closed doors) reforming the laws against homosexuality. Ultimately he concluded that Parliament wasn't ready for that (true at the time), but he thought that in the near future public opinion might shift (true again).
Counter-Attack and Other Poems, Siegfried Sassoon: Another surprise, given that Churchill loved fighting the First World War, but he memorized and movingly recited Sassoon's antiwar verses. Generals worried that those subversive poems might undermine troop morale, but Churchill replied "I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think."
Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw: In the midst of the Great War, Churchill offered Siegfried Sassoon a job in the Ministry of Munitions. If you're baffled by that (and Sassoon certainly was), it begins to make sense once you know that in this drama, written by Churchill's favorite playwright, an arms manufacturer persuades a Salvation Army officer and her peace-loving fiancé that weapons can be a force for good. A passionate theatergoer, Churchill often played out in life and politics what he had seen on the stage, and this is a striking example.
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck: Churchill was sincerely moved by this saga of China in revolutionary turmoil, though he didn't entirely get it. On finishing the book, he concluded that the toiling Chinese masses would have been much happier if, like the Indians, they had enjoyed the blessings of British rule—not exactly the message that the author intended to send.
It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis: This dystopian nightmare envisioned America under the Fascist jackboot, ruled by a corn pone despot clearly based on Huey Long. When Long was shot and killed, Churchill gloated over the demise of "the most clownish of the Dictator tribe."
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell: It was a blockbuster in Britain as well as the United States, and Churchill probably knew more about the American Civil War than any Englishman of his generation. He found the novel all too relevant when, in March 1938, Hitler invaded Austria. Once again, a genteel aristocratic civilization had been crushed by its powerful Northern neighbor.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell: During the Second World War, Churchill observed with apprehension the growth of the national security state. In a 1945 election broadcast he warned that postwar Britain might be dominated by "some kind of Gestapo". So when George Orwell imagined that in his 1949 novel, Churchill read it twice. In his final years he was spellbound by the literature of totalitarianism, including Brave New World, Doctor Zhivago, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
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Who Invented The Lock | The History Of Locks And Keys
April 21, 2018 Blog
There may be no written records who invented the lock and if we think about that time's situation, can realize- that circumstances couldn't provide the chance to write or remember the inventor.
In the history of locks and keys, for the reason that we provided before, there is no evidence to suggest about the inventor of locks and keys.
Still, now we're failed to descover.
But wait, no need to worry.
Now, we have found after doing research more and more in the history books of locks and different all websites, they give credit to the Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks with inventing the oldest known types of locks.
Astonished to see one more country?
Yeah, it's an amazing sound, you should pause here to know details.
In today's article, you're going to learn everything you need to know about the history of locks, history of keys and the origin of locks and keys.
Offtopic: In this site, we do the review about the best smart door locks, best padlocks, and the best bike locks.
You'll get everything you need to know about the locks and locksmithing.
1 What is Lock?
2 The History Of Locks And Keys
2.1 Egyptians' Contribution
2.2 Greeks' Contribution
2.3 Romans' Contribution
2.4 Remarks-Who invented the lock?
2.5 Europe's Contribution
2.6 England's Contribution
2.7 Americans' Contribution
2.8 Early American lock Company
What is Lock?
You're here to know about the history of locks, we think at first, should describe the definition of lock that can present the proper and unique summary of it.
Everybody knows what a lock is, don't they?.
Actually, most people have a general understanding of locks, they know all about it and even they all use it, but that understanding is often limited to the few models. Because we have not found all models of locks, and not necessary to use all.
You agree with us, we think.
Really have you used all locks or are you using many locks to protect your house?
Your answer is NO, so not neccessary to know the definition of the lock to use it, right?
Without being a locksmith, it is not possible for us to know everything about locks. We don't get precise lock's definition from many general consumer books and articles about locks because of lack of their exact information, believe it or not, but it's true.
We aren't pleased to share that most of the time, most of the non-locksmiths always writes the definition of locks, for that, we get narrow, broad or outdated understanding from them.
Now from the beginning of this article, you are going to learn you need to know about the precise lock definition from the locksmiths and popular dictionaries.
Then you are going to dive into the history of locks and keys from the beginning to this time now.
Ready to go?
At first, we would like to say, need not know the definition of the lock to buy! sounds good, isn't it?
Just go to any lock shop and buy a lock without knowing the history, definition and creating mechanism.
Now, the moment is here!
Stephen Tchudi, a University of Nevada, English professor had spent more time on research to figure out what a lock is and he succeeded to do it. He wrote in his book, "A lock, after all, is simply a barrier or closer, a way of selling up an entryway, of keeping what you want in, in, what you want out, out".
He also said, "A stick or doorstop that you wedge under a door – is also a lock, though, again, not a reliable or unpickable one".
We have known the definition of locks from the famous locksmith Stephen Tchudi. Now we try to find out from popular dictionaries what they say about it.
The Random House Dictionary of the English language, says a lock is, "A device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or a system of bolts, propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.".
Webster's third new International Dictionary says a lock is, "A fastening (as for a door, box, trunk, lid, drawer) in which a bolt is secured by any of various mechanisms and can be released by inserting and turning a key or by operating a special device (as a combination, time lock, automatic release button, magnetic solenoid)"
Most of the time, we have found many types of definition of locks and heard the common definition many times, that is, "locks are all things that hold, hide, fasten, or bite"
Those dictionary definitions are much better than this type of definition.
Now here is a more precise definition of the lock, that is given by the International Association of Home Safety and Security Professionals. They said, "A device that incorporates a bolt, cam, shackle or switch to secure an object – such as a door, drawer or machine – to a closed, opened, locked, off or on position, and that provides a restricted means of releasing the object from that position".
Want to make up a definition about lock?. If you try to do it you should ask yourself three things about it:
Does your definition include padlocks?
Does it include car ignition locks?
And does it exclude a chair wedged under a doorknob?
If your answer is, 'YES', you are perfect!
You the only man who has the capability to provide the definition of locks.
The History Of Locks And Keys
There is no way to give an answer in one word to this question, 'Who invented the lock?' or 'Who invented the key?'.
It's a common question, but its answer is not too short. In one word, we can not give you the right and precise answer.
So, If you want to know about the history of locks and keys properly and want to get the right answer, you have to spend more times on this page.
Egyptians' Contribution
The archaeologist in the mid-19th century wanted to say about the history of locks and keys that, the first locks and keys were invented by Mesopotamian people some 6000 years ago. They found the sign to spread it.
May be the were right, believe it?
To the last of this article, will get a clear idea to believe it.
Actually, the oldest known lock was found in 1842 in the ruins of Emperor Sargon 2's place in Khorsabad, in the modern day in Iraq.
When the area would have been the Mesopotamian Kingdom of Assyria. It was dated to be about 4000 to 6000 years old.
And the principle of the locking mechanism of ancient Egyptian's locks that are used by many of today's most popular locks.
The Egyptian lock consisted of three basic parts:
1. A wood crossbeam.
2. A vertical beam with tumblers.
3. A large wooden key.
Greeks' Contribution
Most early Greek doors pivoted at the center and secured with a rope tied in a complex joint, and it wan an amazing lock mechanism to protect the wealth. When more security was needed, doors were secured bolts from the inside.
We can know about the locks and keys of Greece in the famous poetry book written by the great poet Homer in about 800 B.C.E. He said in his book,
"She went upstairs and got the storeroom key, which was made of bronze and had a handle of ivory, she then went with her Maidens into the storeroom at the end of the house, where her husband's treasures of gold, bronze, and wrought iron were kept……. She loosed the strap from the handle of the door, put in the key, and drove it straight home to shoot back the bolts that held the doors."
That actually means they used to protect their valuable wealth from the thieves by ancient mechanism of lock.
But no way to give the credit to Greeks for inventing the lock and key.
Romans' Contribution
Other archaeologists want to say, the Romans brought the improvement upon of the Ancient Egyptian design.
They say also, the mechanism of locks and keys spread from Egypt to Greece and eventually to the Roman Empire.
Actually, the Romans improved on the lock design in many ways.
Their keys were made of Iron and bronze, that was ornately designed to be worn as jewelry.
Enough rich Romans would wear their keys as rings on their fingers or as a necklace using sting.
Do you want to know why they wore keys as rings or necklace?
The answer is ridiculous and laughable. They didn't have pockets!
Another reason has, that is- the rich people showed off their wealth to wear keys as rings or a necklace, so that other patrician would know, they were very wealthy people.
Bill Phillips- the author of 'The Complete Book Of Lock and Locksmithing' say,
"The Romans are sometimes credited with inventing the padlock, but that's controversial. There is evidence that the Chinese may have independently invented it before or about the same time. The demand for locks declined after the fall of Rome, in the fifth century, because people had little property to protect. The few locks used during the period were specially ordered for nobility and the handful of wealthy merchants."
Remarks-Who invented the lock?
After reading this article, if you ask us, 'when was the lock invented?', 'When was the key invented?' We'll say about 6000 years ago. And as a researcher of the history of locks and keys, we will also say in one word about the inventor of the first lock and key is, 'Egypt'. The Mesopotamian people invented the locks and keys first. Then its mechanism spread from Egypt to Greece and Roam.
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Now, you are going to learn everything about the history of locks and keys of modern days. Let's do that.
Europe's Contribution
During the middle ages, metal workers and the locksmith in England, Germany, and France continued to make the warded lock, with no significant security changes but they did it as an art. They brought improvements upon the previous locks, so, the mechanism of these was the same and they focused on making ornately designed for people to wear. At that time locks became works of art.
England's Contribution
Three Englishmen: Robert Barron, Joseph Bramah, and Jeremiah Chubb were in the forefront of lock designing history in England.
In 1778, a double-acting tumbler lock was patented by Robert Barron.
In 1784, another Englishman Joseph Bramah patented the lock of his own name, 'Bramah Lock'.
And In 1888, the great and famous Englishmen Jeremiah Chubb patented his detector lock. It won him a reward offered by the government of England.
Americans' Contribution
During American early years, England had a policy against skilled artisans, because in that time they had a power resulting in that experts could not compete with them for that the locks made by early Americans locksmiths didn't sell well.
At that time, in the mid – 1700s few colonists used door lock to secure home and truly speaking, they brought a new level of security to protect home and prevent theft.
Most of them were copied from European models, yeah, it's true. When the country settled, industry progressed and improved, urbanization established, increasing the demand for more and better locks, the locksmiths of America soon greatly improved on the previous models of England and Europe and were making the most innovation locks and bringing the new level of security in the world those now we are using.
In 1933, Chicago Lock Company invented a tubular key lock, named the Chicago Ace Lock. It was designed by the pin tumbler mechanism but used circular keyway. The growing reputation and improved mechanism of it, many locksmiths referred to all tubular key locks as "Ace Locks" for a long time.
Mechanical Development Company brought high-security mechanical locks in 1967, with the introduction of the Medeco high-security cylinder. That was the great Innovation and most dependable and demandable locks. The high-security mechanical cylinders were made by Roy C. Spain and his team and named as 'Medeco' that was based on the first two letters of each word of the name of their company – Mechanical Development Company.
In 1805, Abraham O. Stansbury, an American physician was granted an English patent for a pin tumbler lock that was based on the principles of both Egyptian and Bramah locks. After two years of patent. The design was granted as a first lock patent in American history by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
In 1836, a New Jersey Locksmith, Soloman Andrews, developed a lock that had adjustable tumblers and keys, which allowed the owners to rekey the lock anytime.
In the 1850s two inventors, Andrews and Newell patented an important and new feature lock, removable tumblers that could be disassembled and assembled.
At the same time, In 1848, Linus Yale, Sr. invented a pin tumbler lock.
After that Linus Yale, Jr. improved upon his father's lock in 1861.
In 1916, Samuel Segal, a former New York City police officer, invented the Jimmyproof rim lock.
In 1920, Frank E. Best received his first patent for an interchangeable core lock.
In 1928, Walter Schlage patented a cylindrical lock that incorporates a locking mechanism between the two knobs.
Early American lock Company
The English lock maker Stephen G. Bucknall made about 100 cabinet lock in 1832 and was also the first trunk and cabinet manufacturer in America but didn't sell well his products for some reasons. In 1835 Bucknall received financial assistance from the major investors, Mackee to form the first trunk lock company in America. But a couple years later, Bucknell had to sell the business and joint North and Stanley Company.
The Eagle lock Company was one of the greatest successes and failures lock company in America, was formed in 1854 and touched the top level of business in American history. In 1922 The Eagle Lock Company had 1800 employees and several large warehouses. But in 1974, The Lori Corporation bought the Eagle lock equipment at a public auction for losing a bid to the Lori Corporation for a large order for cylinders for the U.S. Postal Service.
It is not easy to say in one word, who invented the locks and keys. When it was invented, the inventor of locks and keys did not realize that one day it would be the subject of research, would be a fact of knowing to the people of globalization. For that reason, now we have to credit as the inventor to all of them.
1. The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing (Complete Book of Locks & Locksmithing) by Bill Phillips, the sixth edition.
2. The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing, Seventh Edition by Bill Phillips.
3. www.historyofkeys.com
4. Wikipedia.
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A small Japanese island called Esanbe Hanakita Kojima has disappeared beneath waves.
The uninhabited island was near Japan's maritime border with Russia and its disappearance apparently went unnoticed by residents of the country's main island of Hokkaido.
The Japanese Coast Guard is investigating the island's disappearance.
Local media suggested that the island could have disappeared as a result of natural erosion and drift ice.
A small Japanese island has disappeared beneath waves, which could lead to a change in national borders.
The uninhabited tiny island, called Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, was near the maritime border with Russia and its disappearance apparently went largely unnoticed by residents of Sarufutsu, a village on Japan's main island of Hokkaido, 546 yards (500 meters) away from the inlet in the Sea of Okhotsk, according to The Guardian.
The Japanese Coast Guard is investigating the island's disappearance, NHK reported, though local media suggested that the island could have disappeared as a result of natural erosion and drift ice in the waters in the Sea of Okhotsk.
The disappearance of the island has Japanese officials worried that the country's territorial waters may have shrunk.
A Japanese bullet train company has agreed to stop forcing staff to squat between the tracks as part of a safety drill
The inlet was one of 158 uninhabited islands that Japan gave names to in 2014 to clarify they belong in the country and expand its territory.
With the island under water, the country's borders could shrink slightly.
Just to east of Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, is a chain of islands owned by Russia that Japan refers to as the Northern territories and Russia refers to as the Kurils.
The islands were occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II, and have remained in Russia's possession, despite Japan asking for their ownership to be restored, according to Newsweek.
When Esanbe Hanakita Kojima was last surveyed by Japan's Coast Guard in 1987, the island protruded just 1.4 meters above the surface.
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Federal Plastics Tax Is Not a Good Revenue Raiser
Ulrik Boesen
One of the Senate's proposals to pay for the Build Back Better Act is a federal excise tax on virgin plastics, which are plastics that are not reprocessed or recovered. The tax would be $0.20 per pound of virgin plastics used to make single-use plastics products. While few details have been released about this pay-for, a similar tax proposal, the REDUCE Act, was introduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) earlier this year. The plastics industry claims that the tax would raise $120 billion over 10 years.
In the REDUCE Act, the rates start at $0.10 per pound in the first year, growing to $0.20 per pound in the third year. It would automatically increase with inflation in the following years.
There are numerous issues with an excise tax on virgin plastics as a revenue raiser for unrelated spending priorities. First, the tax base is exceedingly narrow. The taxable items are virgin plastic resin itself, along with packaging, food service products, beverage containers, and bags containing virgin plastic resin, based on the amount contained within each product.
Not only is that not a tax on waste, it is not even a tax on plastics. Going by the definition of taxable plastic from the REDUCE Act, any recycled plastics and any plastics that are not gas- and petroleum-based would be exempt. Even though recycled plastic products and cellulose acetate products (plastic made from plant material) also pollute, they are not in the tax base.
While economic incentives could have a positive impact on the viability of the recycled plastics market, it is less certain whether a federal tax alone would have a significant impact on waste. For instance, a federal tax does nothing to improve on local collection and recycling schemes, which need upgrades to generate competitive recycled resin, and may not be enough to make these processes viable in their own right. Without availability of a competitive substitute, manufacturers would not be incentivized to make the investments in production processes necessary to rely on recycled plastics. Furthermore, a narrow tax base results in a lack of revenue stability and increases the tax's non-neutrality.
Similar to many other excise taxes, the tax is regressive. It is technically levied on the manufacturers and importers of plastics products, but the additional costs will be passed on to consumers of single-use plastics products, which will make prices of everyday items go up. There is unlikely to be a single American consumer who doesn't purchase products made of or packaged in single-use plastics.
Regressive taxes are not always bad taxes, but lawmakers should consider this aspect when designing them. As a revenue tool for a big spending plan, it does matter how the tax is distributed—especially in light of President Biden's pledge to not increase taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000 per year.
Because the plastics tax is presumably intended to internalize externalities associated with plastics production in addition to simply raising revenue, the previous effort to tax plastics, the REDUCE Act, contained a number of exclusions. For instance, that bill offers a rebate for products regulated as drugs by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), since it would be undesirable for producers to skimp on plastics at the cost of hygiene or poor packaging of sterilized products, and there is no reason to penalize businesses that use plastics for such purposes.
However, rather than just exempt FDA-regulated products from the base, the bill offers a rebate. In other words, companies would still have to file a return even when manufacturing or importing exempted products—adding unnecessary complexity and cost to the system. Additionally, there are many other industries with products of great societal importance, and where the use of virgin plastics may be unavoidable, which do not receive any exemption.
Unnecessary reporting requirements is not the only complexity issue. Since importers are also liable, there may be an information gap. If an importer is not able to (or unwilling to) report information about taxable plastics content in the imported items, a tax of 10 percent of the value of the product will be levied.
The REDUCE Act would have dedicated revenue to the Plastic Waste Reduction Fund, tasked with funding activities to improve recycling and reduce waste. Such allocation could make sense, although the narrow tax base makes the design non-neutral. As a pay-for in the Senate plan, however, the tax revenue would have no connection to its ostensive purpose. Given that the tax was originally designed to discourage the use of taxable plastics, it should not be relied upon for funding for recurring spending programs.
States have gone in another direction when it comes to plastics and taxes. Instead of simply levying an excise tax, Maine and Oregon have imposed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for packaging and plastics. While rules and regulation for both of those frameworks are still being developed, if well-designed, such schemes offer a higher chance of curbing waste. Of course, if poorly designed, EPR schemes will share the flaws of the federal tax.
At the end of the day, though, adding cost to production and use of plastics will increase prices on millions of everyday items. Lawmakers should consider this feature of the tax when imposing them.
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Keystone Pipeline Protest Showcases Opposition's Hypocrisy
Who's up for a petition to lower the temperature of the sun?
03.11.2014 | News | Gabriella Morrongiello |
WASHINGTON– Hundreds of Keystone Pipeline protestors descended on the Nation's capital last week to participate in a march from Georgetown University to the White House where they urged President Obama to join in their dissent.
Clad in plastic suits and Captain Planet costumes, the crowd of college students and their environmentalist elders bore clever homemade signs denouncing fossil fuels and equating climate change to class warfare. Though they turned out to protest a variety of "environmental crises," their hypocrisy stole the show.
"I flew here from Boulder [Colorado]," said one protestor, who later signed a mock petition asking Congress "to pass legislation that would lower the Earth's temperatures."
Last January, the New York Times reported that "one round-trip flight from New York to Europe or to San Francisco creates a warming effect equivalent to 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person." According to the article's author, air travel could easily be considered Americans "biggest carbon sin."
However, the fossil-fuel foes who boasted their decision to travel by greyhound or road-trip in their Toyota Prius, deserve a dose of reality as well. Last year, Climate Central issued a report which stated that "in 39 states, an electric car actually produces more emissions from its manufacture to its 50,000th mile than a gas and electric-powered hybrid."
Further hypocrisy ensued when the very protesters who claimed the Keystone XL Pipeline's approval would devastate the economy and lock us into a trajectory of guaranteed job loss, eagerly signed a petition to ban domestic oil drilling in the United States.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2007 and 2012 the oil and natural gas industry "increased by more than 162,000 jobs." The U.S. Energy Information Administration went further, writing that "beyond within-sector employment, oil and gas industry activity also directly supports output and employment in other domestic sectors, such as suppliers of pipe, drilling equipment, and other drilling materials."
Rather than supporting the abolition of an industry responsible for massive job growth, perhaps these protestors – who declared concern over reports allegedly linking the pipeline to unemployment – should extol it.
One can only hope they mulled this over on their long, fossil fueled flights home. The protest took place last Sunday.
Gabriella Morrongiello
Gabriella Morrongiello is studying political science and journalism at The George Washington University. She was founding chairwoman of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Oregon State University. Her work has often been featured on Fox News and the Drudge Report.
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AWFJ Announces Nominees for 2,500 Euro Prize for Best Female-Directed Documentary at IDFA 2016 – Jennifer Merin reports
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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to name three finalists in this year's competition for the IDFA 2016 EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Feature Length Documentary. AWFJ is partnering with IDFA (International Dcoumentary Film Festival Amstersam) for the third consecutive year to honor female filmmakers whose documentaries are on the festival schedule. This is the first year the award includes the 2,500 Euro prize. The winner of the award will be announced at IDFA on November 22, and the award will be presented at that time. Read on…
In the selection process, ten films nominated by IDFA programmers were viewed by AWFJ EDA Award jurors, who then selected three finalists for their final round of voting.
The entire list of ten nominated films can be found below. The three finalists, in alphabetical order are:
GROWNUPS
Director: Maite Alberdi
Country: Chile/The Netherlands/France
Synopsis: A group of friends with Down syndrome have attended the same school for 40 years, they're aging and they have not been allowed to live adulthood on their own. (Note: Director Maite Alberdi won the IDFA AWFJ EDA Award in 2013 for TEA TIME.)
HOW TO MEET A MERMAID
Director: Coco Schrijber
Country: The Netherlands/Denmark/Belgium
Synopsis: This documentary connects the lives of Rebecca, Lex and Miguel in, on and under the surface of the water. The sea is both beauty and danger, friend and foe. Through the mood of ocean, the audience becomes part of the doubts, sadness and courage of the protagonists who seek help in the ocean. Director Coco Schrijber also turns to the ocean for answers about her missing brother Lex, but however understanding, vigorous or tranquil the sea is, eventually it is just water and indifferent to our questions. Rebecca, Lex, Miguel and their family left behind must fend for themselves.
Director: Elvira Diaz
Country: Spain/France/Chile
Synopsis: "In the General cemetery of Santiago, Chile, the gravediggers prepare the funerals, welcome the families, take care of the graves. A serene park, where Lelo, Perejil and Rogelio have learnt to cohabit peacefully alongside death. Yet, the victims of the dictatorship and their families are still waiting for justice. Under the soil, unidentified corpses still lie secretly. Sharing their memories for the first time with the youngest gravedigger, these old men express the pain they witnessed. In 1973, they were obliged to secretly bury hundreds of "desaparecidos". As time closes in on them, they have decided to speak out."
The 2016 IDFA EDA Award jurors Julide Tanriverdi, Dorothy Woodend and Jennifer Merin selected the three finalists. Woodend and Merin will present the award on November 22.
Descriptions of the seven other films nominated for this year's IDFA EDA Award can be found on the IDFA Website. In alphabetical order, they are:
ALMOST THERE – Directed by Jacqueline Zünd, Switzerland
AREUM – Directed by Areum Parkkang, South Korea
DIL LEYLA – Directed by Asli Özarslan, Germany
LA CHANA – Directed by Lucija Stojevic, Spain/Iceland/USA
SEALERS – Directed by Trude Berge Ottersen and Gry Elisabeth Mortensen, Norway
THE GIRL DOWN LOCH ÄNZI – Directed by Alice Schmid, Switzerland
VENUS – Directed by Lea Glob and Mette Carla Albrechtsen, Denmark
AWFJ EDA AWARDS FESTIVAL PROGRAM
AWFJ's EDA Awards festival program for 2016 included presentation of the Best Female-Directed Documentary Feature and Best Female-Directed Documentary Short at DOXA Film Festival in Vancouver in May. Additionally, AWFJ is partnering with Whistler Film Festival for the third consecutive year to present EDA Awards for Best Female-Directed Narrative Feature and Best Female-Directed Documentary at the upcoming festival from November 20 to December 4, 2016. AWFJ has presented EDA Awards at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Salem Film Fest, Sheffield Doc/Fest and St. Louis International Film Festival, among others. EDA Awards were also presented for POVs Twentieth Anniversary Celebration at New York's Museum of Modern Art. For more information about AWFJ and/or the EDA Awards, contact Jennifer Merin at awfjinc@gmail.com.
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Smoke clouds visible from Rome after rubbish depot blaze
Emergency services evacuated schools and advised residents to keep windows closed on Friday as smoke billowed from a large fire at a waste depot south of Rome.
Published: 5 May 2017 13:40 CEST
Updated: 5 May 2017 14:41 CEST
Photo: Vigili del Fuoco
The blaze started at the Eco-X rubbish depot in Pomezia on Friday morning, and the cloud of smoke was visible from several kilometres away.
Firefighters said late on Friday morning that "the dense column of smoke is under control, and for the moment has not affected inhabited centres".
However, both the fire service and the local health authority of Pomezia, the town where the depot was located, warned locals to keep windows closed "in homes, schools, offices, and health and social care structures", keep animals inside, and to avoid all unnecessary travel.
Clouds of smoke are visible from Rome after a huge fire at a nearby waste depot. pic.twitter.com/oAvw60yS4T
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The health authority also advised residents to "wash with great accuracy" any homegrown fruits or vegetables over the next few days.
Pomezia mayor Fabio Fucci ordered the evacuation of all schools within a two-kilometre radius of the incident were evacuated, as well as banning outdoor sports and "other planned outdoor events".
No injuries had been reported as a result of the fire, emergency services said.
It is not yet clear what started the blaze, though Pomezia's town council said at around midday: "According to the latest information, it seems that the material which caught fire was plastic, which is causing a black cloud visible from all parts of the town."
Pomezia, shown on the map below, is part of the Metropolitan City of Rome and lies about 30km south of the capital's historic centre.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in the neck, authorities and the athlete's agent said Sunday, and police have arrested three men in connection with the shooting.
The three men charged in connection with the shooting pleaded not guilty Monday and face an Oct. 25 court date. The three appeared via video before Fayette County, Kentucky, District Court Judge T. Bruce Bell, who will assign attorneys for them.
Bell set bail at $5,000 each for Chazerae Taylor, 38, and his son, D'Markeo Taylor, 19, on wanton endangerment charges. Dvonta Middlebrooks, 21, is charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. His bail was set at $12,500.
Tyson Gay said he and his daughter were very close, according to Lexington TV station WLEX, which spoke to him Sunday.
"It's so crazy. I have no idea what happened," Gay told the station.
Lexington police said in a statement that officers went to the parking lot of a restaurant near the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington about 4 a.m. Sunday after witnesses reported an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles. Police say they have found the two vehicles involved.
Tyson Gay competed in the last three Summer Olympics. He was part of a team that won a silver medal in the 4x100-meter relay at the 2012 London Games, though that medal was ultimately stripped after Gay tested positive for steroids in 2013.
This summer's Games in Rio de Janeiro featured another stinging disappointment for Gay, 33, who has battled injuries. He was a member of the American men's 4x100-meter relay team that finished third in the final before being disqualified for an illegal baton exchange between Mike Rodgers and Justin Gatlin. The team's appeal was denied, giving Canada the bronze medal.
Trinity Gay was a sprinter at Lafayette High School in Lexington and finished fourth in the 100 meters and fifth in the 200 meters at the state Class 3A high school track meet in May, records show. She also ran on a 4x200 relay team that finished fourth. Her father, who also ran track at Lafayette, still holds the state record in the 100, set in 2001.
"Our hearts are broken this morning over the loss of Trinity to this tragic and senseless act of violence," Fayette County Public Schools superintendent Manny Caulk said in a statement. "Please join us in keeping the Gay family close in thought and prayer and supporting the students, staff, and families at Lafayette High during this unspeakably difficult time."
Grief counselors will be at Lafayette High on Monday for students and staff, Fayette school spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall added in an email.
Many turned to Twitter to express grief and wish their condolences to Gay's friends and family.
Kentucky High School Athletic Association commissioner Julian Tackett tweeted that he was stunned: "Shocked to hear of death of Trinity Gay. A life of such potential cut so tragically short. Sympathies to Tyson and entire family."


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Repertory Philippines, or REP, opens the curtains to the 2018 season with the craziest cast of characters in A Comedy of Tenors from January 26 to February 18 at the Onstage Theater in Greenbelt 1, Makati City. This hilarious operatic farce takes audiences to a hotel suite in Paris where comical individuals get into rollicking misadventures.
The sequel to comedic genius Ken Ludwig's Tony Award-winning Lend me a Tenor, A Comedy of Tenors is set in the glamor of 1930's Paris where an opera producer attempts to put on the concert of the century.
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The Greek debt is sustainable and does not require a write-off
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The Greek debt is sustainable and manageable, as stated by chief economist at Alpha Bank Michalis Masourakis. In his words, this is due to two major factors - one of them is the long period of repayment, and the other is the low interest.
"In the period 2016-2047, Greece's gross financial requirements, including deficit refinancing and interest payments on foreign debt, will be around 4%. As a result of budgetary consolidation, we have no deficits; therefore, from now on Greece will borrow only to repay its debt. In this way, the debt will decrease as a percentage of the gross domestic product," said the banker during a discussion on "Competitiveness and Development: Proposals for Policies", organized by the Institute of Diplomacy and Global Affairs in Athens.
Masourakis added that, for this reason, no political force has the right to claim that it will suspend the interest payments on the debt in order to attract voters.
He criticized the model of the Greek economy in the pre-crisis years, and the fact that the structural reforms have not yet been carried out. "I disagree that the country is currently building a new economic model. It is necessary to carry out the reforms that will enhance competitiveness between companies," the economist said, adding the following:
"The budget consolidation is in the right direction and it will create a productive economy and new jobs over time. However, this cannot happen immediately."
Masourakis pointed out that the Greek economy is in the process of recovery and the first signs of this are already apparent. "It is necessary to trigger all extrovert economic sectors to continue this process. Unfortunately, the deepened political crisis in recent days has again made the situation difficult."
Commenting on how the measures, which the radical left SYRIZA party is preparing to implement if it wins the possible early elections, would affect the economy, he replied with the following example: "Imagine what would happen if student wizards who want to restore 'the injustices caused by the memorandum' were working at the Bank of Greece."
Regarding one of the main promises of SYRIZA, namely to abolish the property tax, Masourakis said that whichever party wins the elections, it will have to keep it, since the revenue from it amounts to about 3 billion euro that cover the payment of salaries and pensions. "The tax was erroneously imposed in the midst of the crisis. Logically, this would have happened in previous years, when people had income from their properties. In other countries, the entire tax goes to the local municipalities to improve the infrastructure and living conditions of their residents. In Greece, the tax was imposed to prevent the dismissal of civil servants."
In turn, Panteion University Professor and Secretary General of the Hellenic Bank Association Christos Gortsos said that the achievement of economic growth is not possible without the establishment of strong and stable institutions. "This includes stable rules that will be amended only in exceptional cases, without affecting the participants in economic life." In his words, serious reforms are required in the tax and the legal system, the latter being known for its extremely slow pace of justice, as well as in education, which lacks the connection with the labour market.
In view of the publications that the probable early parliamentary elections in Greece, which SYRIZA will possibly win, will cause a mass withdrawal of deposits, Gortsos said that until yesterday (18 December) there had been no such indications. "My information is that no withdrawal of deposits from the Greek banks had been established until noon. Of course, nobody knows what will happen next week, but there is no such trend for the time being."
At the same time, Greece has been thrown into a political fever, and the forthcoming two rounds of the presidential elections are provoking new shocks. Indicative of the serious situation is the fact that today former Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis is to meet with President Karolos Papoulias. The veteran politician will express to the President his concerns about the possible early elections and the negative implications on the economy at a time when the talks with Greece's creditors have not yet been completed.
A photo from a previous meeting between Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Karolos Papoulias, source: amna.gr
Their meeting was agreed immediately after Konstantinos Mitsotakis' meeting with party leader of Independent Greeks Panos Kamenos on Thursday. Despite the concerns that the early elections may cause Greece's exit from the euro zone expressed by the former Prime Minister, Kamenos was adamant that they should take place.
A day later, at a time when all polls presented very low results for Independent Greeks, a second party member said that he had received a proposal for a bribe to the amount of 2-3 million euro to be persuaded to vote for the presidential candidate of the ruling coalition.
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He is actor Pavlos Haikalis, who said that he had testified in the case last Saturday, submitting to the prosecutor's office audio and video materials to prove his allegations. They are already in the hands of the police with the request to be technically processed in order to make clearer the sound and picture.
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These placemats were produced by a cooperative by the name of COOPARMIL (The Artisan and Industrial Cooperative of Limoeiro Ltda). COOPARMIL was founded on October 22, 1964 by a group of embroiderers and seamstresses. These men and women were encouraged to form this co-op by the Franciscan Sisters of Maristella in Brazil. Although the co-op began by producing clothing, specifically children`s clothing and uniforms for factory employees, they transitioned to handicraft products.
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After Demaryius Thomas passed Shannon Sharpe in the franchise's record books in career receiving yards and receiving touchdowns during Sunday's game, Sharpe and Rod Smith congratulated Thomas on the accomplishment. He is now second behind Smith in those categories.
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On Jane the Virgin Season 2 Episode 15, Jane does her best to win over Michael's parents. Meanwhile, Alba reunites with Pablo, and Rogelio struggles with the aftermath of his captivity.
When you watch Jane the Virgin Season 2 Episode 15, you'll see Jane try to win over Michael's parents, but she ultimately decides it's okay if some people don't like her. Also, Jane gets a new advisor who urges her to think about her writing in a larger context. Meanwhile, Rafael worries that Petra isn't bonding with the babies, and he gets to know his half-brother, Derek. Michael saves Rogelio from Lola, but Rogelio struggles with opening up afterward. Alba reunites with Pablo, but bad things begin to happen around him just as they rekindle their passion!
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More Than 40 Free-Market Groups Send Letter To GOP Leadership Outlining Requirements For CBO Director
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Due to Fiscal Conservatives' Pressure, Major Changes Coming to CBO
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Independent Women's Voice (IWV), with nearly four dozen (45) free-market groups and individual signatures, today released a letter outlining essential characteristics when considering a new CBO director. As current CBO Director Doug Elmendorf vacates his leadership post on Jan. 3, the coalition calls for a CBO shake-up that will improve the agency's projections, making them more transparent and more accurate.
The letter – sent to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader-elect Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the new President Pro Tempore Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Senate Budget Committee Chairman-elect Mike Enzi (R-WY), and House Budget Committee Chairman-elect Tom Price (R-GA) – advises appointing a new director with bipartisan credibility, a strong research background, real-world forecast experience, and significant management experience, as well as a commitment to dynamic scoring and improving CBO.
"It's critical that Congress quickly confirm a new Director who puts an end to misleading models and upgrades the scoring process to make sure citizens have the information they need to make informed decisions," said IWV CEO Heather Higgins.
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Dear Leaders in the House and Senate,
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in recent years has employed inaccurate and opaque models that impacted political debates and policy outcomes, ultimately to the country's detriment. For example, as Congress debated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, CBO adopted a mode of analysis that incorporated Jonathan Gruber's model, using that to score the legislation to justify its passage and to assess its impact. Neither policymakers nor the public were given sufficient information about the model and scoring process, and Professor Gruber himself has acknowledged that this scoring process was manipulated to achieve a desired result.
The CBO has also consistently used a neo-Keynesian approach to economic analysis, assuming that economic growth will not be negatively affected by the size of government or rate of taxation. By disregarding how incentives change the way people behave, and disregarding the effect of high taxes and government spending in discouraging economic productivity and growth, the CBO has been inherently biased toward larger government and more public spending. In short, while the CBO used a dynamic scoring model—one that takes into account how incentives impact behavior—on rare occasion, they used it far too sparingly.
To provide the American people with better information and a more thorough understanding of how proposed policies impact economic growth and their own pocketbooks, CBO needs a new director who would use dynamic scoring more broadly, provide more transparency about models and assumptions, and constantly assess which models provided the most accurate assessments in the past so that methodologies can be refined for the future.
As the Chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees submit recommendations to the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate for the next CBO director, they should seek someone with a strong research background, sufficient so that he or she will have credibility with both Republicans and Democrats, real world experience with forecasts, and significant management experience commensurate with the importance of leading an agency with such critical responsibilities. Most importantly, however, the candidate must have a commitment to improving CBO, and a willingness to engage with the Joint Committee on Taxation to provide CBO with better input and a clear mandate to make the changes needed (such as greater use of dynamic scoring) so CBO can provide more accurate information to legislators and the American people.
In addition we suggest the following:
The candidate must be willing to examine and challenge the current method of economic analysis, as well as the logic and math that drive the models, and look objectively at past accuracy in terms of the predicted outcomes of different fiscal policies. This analysis ought to inform the methods and practices of CBO moving forward.
The candidate must also strengthen compliance with CBO's obligation to disclose the judgments and assumptions embedded in their models, whether through greater oversight or disclosure within their reports, particularly with regard to their macros, multipliers, and assumptions, and the causal interactions between assumptions. This is critical so that other analysts, legislators, the media and public can better put CBO's conclusions in context.
An honest analysis such as described would inevitably lead to the elimination of the use of positive multipliers for Keynesian spending programs. It would also increasingly rely on an improved dynamic scoring system to take into account the effects on behavior from increased government spending, taxes and marginal taxes, deficits, and the disincentives that can result from transfer payments and entitlements to individuals to work, save, and invest.
The new CBO director should also seek to provide greater insight into how public policies impact individual Americans, by creating and publishing distributional tables that show the effects of spending programs, to balance out the partial picture provided by the Joint Committee's existing distributional tables of tax programs.
Ultimately, Congress must reform the budget process, and specifically the 1974 Budget Act and current statutory requirement to use the current services baseline, thereby distorting what actually constitutes an increase or a cut over previous year spending.
Until such reforms occur, the new CBO director can help move Congress toward more transparent, effective, real world budgeting both by providing alternate budgets that approximate real world Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, as well as by expanding the realistic spending scenarios beyond the current "alternative baseline," making visible and transparent in budget reports the spending requirements embedded in, or hidden in, authorizing legislation, above and beyond the appropriations language, that will affect actual spending requirements and consequent costs.
Congress can—indeed it must—do all that it can to ensure that Americans have all the facts about how policies emanating from Washington will impact the economy and people like them. We urge you to appoint a CBO director dedicated to this mission.
Independent Women's Voice
Sabrina Schaeffer
Independent Women's Forum
Ken Hoagland
Restore America's Voice
Phil Kerpen
American Commitment
Institute for Liberty
Grace-Marie Turner
Galen Institute
Ending Spending
David Wallace
Restore America's Mission
Donna Hamilton
Virginians for Quality Healthcare
Sally Pipes
Amy Ridenour
National Center for Public Policy Research
Thomas Schatz
Citizens Against Government Waste
James L. Martin
60 Plus Association
Naomi Lopez Bauman
Illinois Policy Action
Eric Novack
US Health Freedom Coalition
Liberty Consulting
Christopher J. Conover, PhD
Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research
Jeffrey A. Singer, MD
Valley Surgical Clinics, Ltd.
Greg Scandlen
Consumers for Health Care Choices
Kathryn A. Serkes
Doctor Patient Medical Association
Pete Sepp
National Taxpayers Union
Christians for a Sustainable Economy
The American Conservancy
Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Mario H. Lopez
Hispanic Leadership Fund
Andrew Moylan
Dick Patten
Family Business Defense Council
Penny Nance
Hal Scherz, M.D.
Doc 4 Patient Care
Allen B. West
National Center for Policy Analysis
Bob Williams
State Budget Solutions
Seton Motley
Less Government
Ron Robinson
Young America's Foundation
Judson Phillips
Tea Party Nation
Ron Pearson
Council for America
Lew Uhler
National Tax Limitation Committee
Niger Innis
The TeaParty.net
Colin Hanna
Michael A. Needham
Alex St. James
Blacks for Economic Security Trust
Beverly Gossage
HSA/HRA Specialist
Lawson Bader


I would like to know the top 10 dividend stocks available which will be good for long term.
Based on the last financial year it was KOTA.
I think JINS is the best considering the amount paid as the divident Vs the share price..
I'm not sure how you are going to use this information in your decisions.
Further , in judging a company ,what is important is not the dividend , but dividend pay-out ratio.
Dividend yield = 2 / 19 X 100 = 10.53% p.a. This is a good rate comparing the Tbill rates and FD rates.
When you consider the history of this stock you can see it is a good dividend paying stock. Most of the profits earned by the company is distributed. That is why you can't see any big movements in this stock. Always around Rs. 14.50 to Rs. 20.00 range.
.... = 1.75/ 15.50 X 100 = 11.29% better than keeping your money in FDs... and time to time you can get a good capital gain too.
Note : JINS and CFVF are in the same group.
Other good dividend paying stocks for me are .......... LLUB (caltex...they give quarterly dividends) and NEST.
3. And obviously Dividend payout (eg : EPS = Rs. 2.00, Dividend Rs. 1.50 so payout is 75% which means 75% of the profits generated by the business is paid back to investors.
Based on last year dividends at regular share price top 10 dividend payers will be as follows.
1.CTCE paid fair share of dividends in 2015&2016 (min Rs.48/-). However continuity not certain.
2.GEST paid highest dividend during 2016/2017 which is Rs.15/-.
4.AAIC paid dividends of Rs.5/- before subdivision of 1 to 10 yet paid Rs.2.16 last year.
5.LWL paid Rs.7.5/- in 2016/2017 and paid Rs.4/- already in 2017/2018.
6.UML - Paid Rs.7/- in 2015/2016 and paid Rs.2016/2017.
7.VPEL - Regularly paid reasonable dividend despite this year dividend little lower to expected.
9. HPFL - Was regularly paying around Rs.0.50. This year dividend not declared to date.
10.COLO - Was regularly paying Rs.6/- since 2014/2015.
FLCH, KFP, SCAP and NAMU also paid dividends above 8% during recent. ALUM also paying reasonable dividend around 7% regularly.
Decision is yours. Happy trading.
@randikagap wrote: Based on last year dividends at regular share price top 10 dividend payers will be as follows.
Shall we reopen the topic again?
@thankrishan wrote: Shall we reopen the topic again?
REG 15% Profit is less than half from last quarter.Question of continuing same dividend rate.