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After 17 years, Tigerlily returned to Fashion Week in Sydney, but there was a noticeable absence from the Australian label on the runway. Famous for its itsy-bitsy bikinis and whimsical beach-babe attire, the brand chose not to feature swimwear in its resort 2020 show at Sydney's Carriageworks on Monday. Instead, the focus was firmly on fashion. Tigerlily hallmarks including bohemian fringing, crochet, feminine prints and fresh linens were coupled with more refined, tailored pieces and bold colours including hot pink, cobalt blue and yellow. A new line of accessories including teeny-tiny purses and vintage-inspired wooden handbags were also shown for the first time. CEO Chris Buchanan says it was a conscious decision to showcase a "more elevated offering" at Fashion Week, in part to dispel a common myth about the brand. "Tigerlily is one of Australia's most admired and respected brands, however, a common misconception is that Tigerlily offers swimwear only," he told AAP before the show. "In fact, 80 per cent of the brand's sales come from apparel." He said it made sense to return to the Fashion Week runway on the eve of the brand's 20th birthday. "In brand terms, it is a renaissance. We felt the time was right to return to the catwalk," he said. Fellow Australian designers Bec + Bridge and P.E Nation also unveiled their resort collections at Carrigeworks on Monday. Bec + Bridge, which has developed a cult following with celebrities including the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Bella and Gigi Hadid, Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez, showcased a collection inspired by the 1960s and 70s surf culture. In what was likely a first for Fashion Week, models including Bambi Northwood-Blyth strutted down a shag-carpeted runway in flares, slinky dresses and Hawaiian-inspired prints. Activewear label P.E Nation, meanwhile, drew gasps from the audience when it showered models in water while unveiling its swimwear collaboration with Speedo. US designer Jonathan Simkhai wrapped up day two of Fashion Week with a show at North Bondi Lifesavers Club. Simkhai, who usually shows at New York Fashion Week, said Australia was the perfect place for his first show outside of the United States. "This collection was inspired by the colours of Bondi sunsets and my favourite time of day - during the magic hour when the sun is painted in beautiful colours and I'm surrounded by my loved ones," he told AAP. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia runs until May 18. Australian Associated Press
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Tigerlily stages Fashion Week comeback
Benita Kolovos
Tigerlily has returned to Sydney Fashion Week after a 17-year absence from the schedule.
After 17 years, Tigerlily returned to Fashion Week in Sydney, but there was a noticeable absence from the Australian label on the runway.
Famous for its itsy-bitsy bikinis and whimsical beach-babe attire, the brand chose not to feature swimwear in its resort 2020 show at Sydney's Carriageworks on Monday.
Instead, the focus was firmly on fashion.
Tigerlily hallmarks including bohemian fringing, crochet, feminine prints and fresh linens were coupled with more refined, tailored pieces and bold colours including hot pink, cobalt blue and yellow.
A new line of accessories including teeny-tiny purses and vintage-inspired wooden handbags were also shown for the first time.
CEO Chris Buchanan says it was a conscious decision to showcase a "more elevated offering" at Fashion Week, in part to dispel a common myth about the brand.
"Tigerlily is one of Australia's most admired and respected brands, however, a common misconception is that Tigerlily offers swimwear only," he told AAP before the show.
"In fact, 80 per cent of the brand's sales come from apparel."
He said it made sense to return to the Fashion Week runway on the eve of the brand's 20th birthday.
"In brand terms, it is a renaissance. We felt the time was right to return to the catwalk," he said.
Fellow Australian designers Bec + Bridge and P.E Nation also unveiled their resort collections at Carrigeworks on Monday.
Bec + Bridge, which has developed a cult following with celebrities including the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Bella and Gigi Hadid, Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez, showcased a collection inspired by the 1960s and 70s surf culture.
In what was likely a first for Fashion Week, models including Bambi Northwood-Blyth strutted down a shag-carpeted runway in flares, slinky dresses and Hawaiian-inspired prints.
Activewear label P.E Nation, meanwhile, drew gasps from the audience when it showered models in water while unveiling its swimwear collaboration with Speedo.
US designer Jonathan Simkhai wrapped up day two of Fashion Week with a show at North Bondi Lifesavers Club.
Simkhai, who usually shows at New York Fashion Week, said Australia was the perfect place for his first show outside of the United States.
"This collection was inspired by the colours of Bondi sunsets and my favourite time of day - during the magic hour when the sun is painted in beautiful colours and I'm surrounded by my loved ones," he told AAP.
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Altruistic behaviour, such as helping others and contributing to a public good, is observed in society despite a competitive environment. However, promoting and maintaining cooperation is difficult because those who exploit others' contributions could gain greater benefits than cooperators. Clarification of mechanisms to facilitate cooperative behaviour would stabilise social capital in a fluid society and have social significance.
Many ways to promote cooperative behaviour in relation to social dilemmas have been discussed. Many theoretical and experimental studies have investigated the evolution of cooperation (Nowak and Sigmund, 2005; Sigmund, 2011). There has been research on "reputation systems" (Dellarocas, 2003; Bakos and Dellarocas, 2011), such as those used on auction web sites. In addition, it has been suggested that cooperation evolves through the development of various types of network (Nowak, 2006). On the other hand, studies have examined the promotion of cooperation by imposing regulations or playing games. For example, third parties can conduct surveillance and signal when they observe certain behaviours or sanctions (Fehr et al., 2002; Fehr and Gächter, 2002; Sutter et al., 2010; Milinski and Rockenbach, 2011), and such sanctions can be meted out to participants in society depending on whether they cooperate (Bateson et al., 2006).
The effects of punishment and reward as sanctions on promoting cooperation have been verified. Opportunists can be induced to cooperate because cooperation can yield greater final benefits to cooperating players than to non-cooperating players under conditions where sanctions are possible. Some studies have reported that people tend to prefer rewards to punishments when they can choose a sanction system (Sefton et al., 2007; Ule et al., 2009) and they find rewards to be more effective (McCusker and Carnevale, 1995). However, other studies showed that punishment promotes cooperation more effectively than reward (Andreoni et al., 2003; Gürerk et al., 2006; Sefton et al., 2007). Yet another study claimed that the combination of both sanctions is most efficient (Dong et al., 2016). A meta-analysis (Balliet et al., 2011) was conducted to analyse the difference in effectiveness between reward and punishment, and showed that both rewards and punishment had a significant positive effect on cooperation, although the differences were not statistically significant. It may be that these sanction systems have different effects on expectations of cooperation, beliefs about sanctions or ethical concerns over social dilemmas.
Theoretically, higher-order dilemmas occur in systems where sanctions exist. Thus, it is considered that cooperation cannot be achieved with only first-order sanctions because of the occurrence of second-order free riders (Axelrod, 1986; Galán and Izquierdo, 2005; Okada et al., 2015; Yamamoto and Okada, 2016). We define first/second-order free riders and first/second-order sanctions as follows. The first-order free riders are those who do not contribute to a public good. Punishments for first-order free riders and rewards for contributors are defined as first-order sanctions. Those who do not contribute to the first-order sanctions are second-order free riders. Additionally, punishments of those who do not impose a first-order punishment or rewards for those who have rewarded cooperators are defined as second-order sanctions.
The reason why higher-order dilemmas occur is as follows. If only first-order sanctions exist, cooperation temporarily increases in the population because it is beneficial; i.e., a cooperator can be rewarded or a non-cooperator punished. However, a sanctioner's payoff is less than that of a pure cooperator who cooperates in relation to the public good but does not participate in sanctions. In the first-order punishment case, cooperative sanctioners must pay the cost of punishment for non-compliers so that pure cooperators can enter the population. Such pure cooperators are second-order free riders because they shirk responsibility for watching and punishing other players' actions and their payoffs are higher than those for cooperative punishers. These free riders impair the function of the punishment; therefore, the cooperative regime becomes fragile. In the first-order reward case, however, cooperative rewarders must pay the cost of rewarding all cooperators. As a corollary, the payoffs for cooperative rewarders are lower than those for pure cooperators who are free riders on the first-order rewards. These free riders impair the function of rewards; therefore, the cooperative regime becomes fragile.
As mentioned above, however, many studies have revealed that first-order sanction systems could promote cooperation. Furthermore, there have been studies showing that second-order dilemmas do not occur in punishment systems (Onoda et al., 2009) and that reward systems prevent second-order dilemmas (Kiyonari and Barclay, 2008).
Why is there such divergence between the theory and these experimental results? Many studies have focused on differences in the effects of punishment and reward to date; however, there has been almost no discussion of the mechanisms by which cooperation is achieved under first-order sanctions. Nevertheless, it is known that beliefs about the cooperative behaviour of others in a sanctionless public goods game (PGG) affect the players' cooperative behaviour (Fischbacher and Gächter, 2010). To verify the effectiveness of sanctions, it is necessary to verify the effects of the players' beliefs about sanctions. Such beliefs are defined in relation to the willingness of other players to pay the cost of sanctions. If beliefs about the behaviour of others affect cooperative behaviour, then beliefs about sanctions will have a similar effect. Focusing on punishment, (Onoda et al., 2009) conducted a fundamental analysis of beliefs about sanctions. They clarified that an opportunist who cooperates only when a sanction system exists overestimates the degree of punishment. Based on the view that beliefs about sanctions affect cooperative behaviour in both punishment and reward sanction systems, we derived the following hypothesis.
H.1: Beliefs about sanctions have a positive effect on cooperative behaviour.
Do beliefs differ from traditional psychological explanations for altruistic behaviour? It is known that altruistic behaviour is brought about by psychological attitudes such as reciprocity and generalised trust (Yamagishi and Yamagishi, 1994; Yamagishi and Kiyonari, 2000). It has also been observed concerning the exercise of sanctions that people who cooperate in a PGG pay a greater cost to impose a sanction (Bowles and Gintis, 2004; Fehr et al., 2002).
It is assumed that these attitudes are human personality characteristics formed over a long period. In contrast, beliefs have the characteristic of changing in each situation, because they are dependent on short-term experiences (Fischbacher and Gächter, 2010) and frames (Dufwenberg et al., 2011). Therefore, beliefs should affect the intention to cooperate, independent of reciprocity and generalised trust. If beliefs are fully explained by these attitudes, the effects of beliefs in H.1 should disappear when these attitudes are controlled for. Thus, we also derived H.2.
H.2: Even when generalised reciprocity and generalised trust are controlled for, beliefs about sanctions have a positive effect on cooperative behaviour.
To explore the effects of beliefs about sanctions, we developed a scenario-based experiment that uses a one-shot PGG.
We conducted two experiments (Experiments 1 and 2), which both consisted of one-shot PGGs with and without sanctions. The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of beliefs about sanctions on the intention to cooperate. Therefore, to avoid the effects of feedback from the behaviour of other players in the game, no feedback was given. Experiment 1 used a between-subjects design for sanctions. In addition to a PGG without sanctions, participants played a PGG with the sanction of punishment or reward. Experiment 2 used a within-subjects design. In addition to playing a PGG without sanctions, subjects played both a PGG with punishment and one with reward. For beliefs about sanctions, the players were asked to guess subjectively the average amount of money used by other players for the sanction. This value was used as the player's belief about the sanction.
In Experiment 1, participants were divided into groups of three and they played two PGGs: one with no sanction (N-PGG) and one with a sanction (S-PGG). In each game, 800 yen was distributed as capital to every player in the group. In the N-PGG, if one player gave 800 yen to the organiser, two times that amount, i.e., 1600 yen, would be evenly distributed to the other two players. Participants determined whether they would give capital to the organiser. In the S-PGG, 400 yen as capital for sanctions was distributed to every player in the group. Participants could pay the cost of sanctions up to a ceiling of 400 yen. In the punishment condition, double the amount of money paid was drawn from non-collaborators. In the reward condition, double the amount of money paid was given to collaborators. At the beginning of the S-PGG, participants were asked to answer the following questions: Will you cooperate in the S-PGG? Will you pay the cost of the sanction? If you pay, how much will you pay for it? How much would you think people participating in this experiment would pay?
In Experiment 2, participants would play three games: one with no sanction (N-PGG), one with punishment (P-PGG) and with reward (R-PGG). To eliminate order effects on the participants, the order of P-PGG and R-PGG was switched between the two classes of student participants. The other settings were the same as in Experiment 1.
At the end of both experiments, participants were asked to respond to four questions about generalised trust and reciprocity. The statements were as follows: I can trust most people; If they are trusted by others, most people trust other parties in the same way; I have confidence in distinguishing people that I can trust from those I cannot trust; When someone helps me, I also help someone else; I believe that good things eventually come back to me when I am kind to others.
Experiment 1 was conducted with two classes of undergraduate students (a total of 110 participants) at a university in Tokyo on October 23, 2015. Only 100 participants (of which 34 were female) gave valid responses. Those who did not answer or stopped answering in the middle of the games were excluded. Three participants who chose to cooperate without sanctions and not to cooperate with sanctions were also judged not to have understood the experimental situation, and their answers were regarded as invalid. The number of valid responses assigned to the punishment condition was 43, and 57 were assigned to the reward condition. The participants were told about the experiment when a lecture started, and the experiment was carried out in the last 20 min of the lecture.
Experiment 2 was conducted with two classes of undergraduate students (a total of 127) at a university in Tokyo on May 27, 2016. Only 96 participants gave valid responses. Those who did not answer or stopped answering in the middle of a game were excluded. The first class (46 participants) carried out the experiment in the order of N-PGG, P-PGG and R-PGG, referred to as "NPR". The other class (50 participants) carried out the experiment in the order of N-PGG, R-PGG and P-PGG, referred to as "NRP". Both experiments were approved by the ethics committee of Rissho University and were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. All participants gave written informed consent before participation and were debriefed upon completion of each experiment. They were permitted to stop participating in the experiment whenever they wished.
In the analysis of Experiment 1, to confirm that there was no difference in the original cooperation rate between the punishment and reward condition groups, the cooperation rate in the N-PGG was analysed (the cooperation ratio was 23.3% under the punishment condition, and 33.3% under the reward condition). The results showed no significant difference (F(1, 98) = 1.199, p = .276, η2 = .012). Thus, it can be inferred that there was no difference in the cooperation rates between the two classes before the experiment.
In the analysis of Experiment 2, there was no difference between the two groups in the cooperation rate under the no-sanction condition. No significant difference was observed in the N-PGG in the order of NPR or NRP (13.0% NPR, 18.0% NRP, F(1, 94) = .439, p = .509, η2 = .005). Thus, it can be inferred that there was no difference in the cooperation rate between the two groups before the experiment. Moreover, no significant difference was found in the P-PGG (the cooperation ratio was 52.2% under NPR, and 66.0% under NRP, F(1, 94) = 1.897, p = .172, η2 = .020) and R-PGG (the cooperation ratio was 34.8% under NPR, and 40.0% under NRP, F(1, 95) = .273, p = .602, η2 = .003). Similarly, there was no significant difference in the estimated sanction amount for P-PPG (NPR: mean = 182.6, SD = 116.1; NRP: mean = 198.0, SD = 125.3, F(1, 94) = .388, p = .535, η2 = .004) or R-PGG (NPR: mean = 143.5, SD = 136.1; NRP mean = 154.0, SD = 99.4, F(1, 94) = .189, p = .665, η2 = .002). Because no effects attributable to the sanction order could be determined, the subsequent analysis was carried out on combined NPR and NRP data.
In Experiment 1, the N-PGG and S-PGG were designed to be repeated measures within participants. Punishment and reward designs were assigned between participants. In Experiment 2, the N-PGG, P-PGG and R-PGG were designed to be repeated measures within participants. Where appropriate, the Chi-Muller correction for non-sphericity was applied to the analyses.
We first analysed the effects of sanction systems and observed beliefs about sanctions, which is the essential variable for our paper. To test whether punishment or reward has the effect of maintaining cooperation in a dilemma situation, a two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the presence or absence of sanction and the type of sanction (punishment/reward) was carried out in Experiment 1. The presence or absence of a sanction had a significant main effect (F(1, 98) = 51.011, p = .000, η2 = .096), and its interaction effect was also significant (F (1, 98) = 12.404, p = .001, η2 = .023) (Fig. 1a). These results revealed that the existence of a sanction increased the cooperation rate and the punishment type of sanction had a greater effect. For Experiment 2, the cooperation rates in the N-PGG, P-PGG, and R-PGG were compared (F(1.82, 172.68) = 37.174, p = .000, η2 = .136) (Fig. 1b). Multiple comparisons using Holm's method revealed differences between the groups (N-PGG vs. R-PGG; t(95) = 5.158, p = .000, d = .510, R-PGG vs. P-PGG; t(95) = 3.789, p = .000, d = .45). The cooperation rates were ranked N-PGG < R-PGG < P-PGG, and the punishment condition showed the highest cooperation rate.
Subsequently, to analyse the fundamental characteristics of beliefs about sanctions, we analysed the estimated rewards and punishments (Fig. 1c, d). Punishment had the highest estimated sanction in both experiments: Experiment 1 (F(1, 98 = 3.703, p = .057, η2 = .036) and Experiment 2 (F(1, 95 = 6.671, p = .011, η2 = .030).
Most people who cooperated under the sanctionless situations also cooperate under conditions of sanctions. This situation is unsuitable for verifying the effects of beliefs. Therefore, we verified hypotheses limited to non-cooperating people in the N-PGGs. The stronger their beliefs (i.e., they guessed a higher amount for sanctions imposed by others), the more non-cooperating people in N-PGGs showed intent to cooperate in the S-PPGs.
A logistics regression analysis was conducted to verify H.1 (Table 1). Dummy variables and the amounts of sanctions imposed were the inputs for the types of sanctions to predict intention to cooperate in the S-PGGs. Experiment 2 used robust standard errors because it was a within-subjects design. The results showed that the effects of both types of sanctions were significant, and that punishment brought about greater intention to cooperate. Concerning the effects of beliefs, the tendency was significant in Experiments 1 and 2, and the greater a player's estimation of the sanctions imposed by others, the greater was his or her intention to cooperate. Although the sample size in Experiment 1 was small, and the effect was not significant at the 5% level, it had an estimated value similar to that of Experiment 2. Thus, it can be said that H.1 was supported.
To test H.2, generalised trust and reciprocity were introduced into the regression. To measure generalised trust, subjects were asked to rate the following two items: "Most people are trustworthy" and "Most people will respond in kind when they are trusted by others". A subject's score on generalised trust was obtained by simple addition of the two items' scores (α = .571, avg. = 5.330, SD = 1.897 for Experiment 1; α = .311, avg. = 5.302, SD = 1.724 for Experiment 2).
We treat reciprocity as a concept similar to Putnam's "generalised reciprocity", which he describes as "I'll do this for you without expecting anything specific back from you in the confident expectation that someone will do something for me down the road" (Putnam, 2000). This idea can be interpreted as "The good you do for others is the good you do yourself". After completing the experiments, two statements on a questionnaire were used to measure the subjects' level of reciprocity. Their overall score was obtained by a simple addition of the scores of the responses to the two statements. The two items used to calculate reciprocity were: "If I'm helped by someone, I'll help myself or someone else", and "If I'm kind to people, eventually something good will happen to me" (α = .526, avg. = 7.290, SD = 2.114 for Experiment 1; α = .700, avg. = 6.979, SD = 2.262 for Experiment 2).
A logistic regression analysis that introduced generalised trust and reciprocity was conducted (Table 2). When generalised trust and reciprocity were controlled for, the effect of belief was still significant and H.2 was also supported.
However, only the effects of reciprocity were observed in Experiment 1. Because the subjects of these analysis were limited to non-cooperating participants in the N-PGGs, it is possible that the effects of reciprocity and trust themselves were not significant.
Much research has focused on the effects of sanction systems in resolving social dilemmas. In particular, a variety of analyses have been conducted on the differences between the effects of punishments and rewards. However, there has been little discussion on the effects of beliefs about sanctions.
We conducted a study using the framework of a PGG to focus on the existence of sanction systems of punishment and reward and the effects that players' beliefs about each type of sanction have on cooperation. The results showed first that in a one-shot PGG, punishment resulted in a greater intention to cooperate compared with reward. We believe the reason to be that beliefs about punishment were greater than those about reward. Even after psychological attitudes such as reciprocity and trust were controlled for, beliefs about sanctions influenced the intention to cooperate and we learned that the effect was independent of psychological factors such as reciprocity and trust. These results reveal that opportunists who do not cooperate under sanctionless conditions but do when sanctions are in place tend to have strong beliefs about sanctions.
A belief about a sanction is a different factor from the preference for cooperative behaviour and the amount the subject pays to exercise a sanction. It is necessary to consider players' beliefs about the sanction when studying its effectiveness.
Beliefs that sanctions are effective suggest that simply signalling the existence of a sanction system can maintain cooperative behaviour. For example, the findings of an experiment in which simply displaying a face photo increases cooperative behaviour (Bateson et al., 2006) is probably a side effect of this phenomenon. Because exercising sanctions incurs costs, it is difficult to monitor all non-cooperative behaviour and reward all cooperative behaviour. Under such conditions, even if the possibility that a sanction will be imposed is low, it is possible to increase the intention to cooperate by priming the belief about the sanction. This can be done by signalling the existence of the sanction system. For example, train conductors in Europe do not check the tickets of all passengers. However, a large fine is imposed if a passenger does not have the correct ticket, even though the probability of being checked is small. This system can be considered as a social measure using beliefs about sanctions. The results of our study can be said to verify the effectiveness of such a system with experiments.
In this study, we did not consider mechanisms formed by beliefs. For example, a study about changes in beliefs in repeated games that do not consider sanctions has shown that beliefs change because of the amounts contributed by others in previous games (Fischbacher and Gächter, 2010). Researchers have also shown that different beliefs are formed depending on the frame of the game (Dufwenberg et al. 2011). How beliefs are formed by different mechanisms will be a critical topic in future. It will be necessary to study what differences exist between beliefs about punishment and beliefs about reward. Additionally, the experiments used one-shot PGGs to study only the effects of beliefs. Feedback about the results of the games was not given to players. However, critical questions remain about how beliefs about sanctions change as the games are repeated, and what the effects of such changes on cooperative behaviour are. As a future extension of this study, we will analyse belief changes in repeated games.
The data supporting the findings of this study are stored in a Dryad data package titled 'Data of the effects of beliefs about sanctions on promoting cooperation in a public goods game' (Yamamoto, 2018), which can be accessed at: https://osf.io/z78tj/.
HY acknowledges Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 15KT0133, 16H03120, 17H02044, and 18H03498.
HY and TS developed the concept and discussed the results; HY and TS analysed the data; and HY wrote the paper.


Filter coffees versus Espresso. Rules and Realities.
Now this is a blog post to read carefully!
The main difference between filter coffee and espresso is time and that is related to water weight.
When brewing espresso the longer the shot (time) the weaker the coffee. This is because the amount of actually coffee grinds (dose) is fixed and does not change. However the amount of water that goes along and travels through is ever increasing.
For example a 20 gram dose tamped into a Portafilter and inserted into an espresso machine at a certain grind size (for arguments sake say 400 median microns) will take. 30 seconds to our a 30 gram espresso (yeild). That yield is probably around 10% coffee grinds (Total dissolved Solids or TDS) and 90% water.
You have therefore an extraction yield of 15% (you have carried 15% of the beans potential into the cup). That's a VERY STRONG ristretto.
If you change the TIME (this is where filter coffee is the opposite later in the post) to 1 minute (60 seconds). You will find that the dose doesn't change but the yield (final espresso volume) increases exponentially.
80/20*6.6 = 26% extraction yield. This coffee would be much weaker and not necessarily tasty.
Filter coffee is a totally upside down graph. (We'll show this all graphically at the end).
The brew weight (yield or water) is FIXED as well as the dose. The time is the main factor you will be playing with.
If you pour an aeropress there is only so much water you can fit. The brew time and strength then depends on how long (TIME) you spend before filtering the coffee. This time cannot be extended in a pourover or chemex other than by grind size and agitation because the water will flow through the paper and into the cup freely. In terms of inverted aeropress or French press you can steep the coffee indefinitely HOWEVER the water weight (yield) will always be fixed.
This creates an inverse relationship between filter (drip) coffee and espresso. The longer you brew espresso the weaker it gets, whereas the longer you brew filter coffee the stronger it gets!
Doesn't this tantalise your mind? Are you being mentally undressed? Do you feel the need to study more? I hope so.


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Celebrating marriage and priestly life at 'Love Matters' event
Couples renew their marriage vows during the celebration on May 1.
More than a hundred couples together with several priests celebrated marriage and the priesthood at the Church of the Transfiguration on May 1.
Themed "Love Matters", it was the third year that the celebration was jointly organised by the Archdiocesan Commission for the Family (ACF) and Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) Singapore.
A hundred and thirty-one couples and 11 priests, together with their families and friends, attended the event, which also marked WWME's 39th anniversary.
The celebration saw family counselling psychologist Adrian Lim speaking on the topic, "Men Arise! Reclaiming and celebrating God's plan for Fathers (and Mothers)".
He noted that God's masterplan is for humanity to eventually return to Him in heaven.
Marriage and family are God's masterpiece, consisting of man as husband and woman as wife, who bear and raise children to be His people, he shared. The family is designed and created by God himself to fulfil his masterplan, said Mr Lim, who used references from the Old and New Testaments in his talk.
George and Sarah Tan celebrated 51 years of marriage
Mr Lim also noted the importance of men rising up to fulfil their destiny in God's masterplan – as protector, provider and spiritual leader in their roles as husband, father and brother.
He shared about the presence of men's movements in the Catholic Church here, such as the Sons of St Joseph at the Church of the Holy Spirit, as well as other men's groups at the Churches of St Mary of the Angels and Divine Mercy.
A Mass commemorating WWME Singapore's 39th anniversary followed, celebrated by Vicar General Msgr Ambrose Vaz and fellow priests.
"It is because we believe in God that we believe in love and we believe in the Sacrament of Marriage," said Msgr Vaz in his homily.
Mr Adrian Lim: Marriage and family are God's masterpiece.
The anniversary Mass saw the couples present renewing their marriage vows. There was also a special celebration for 71 couples celebrating their fifth to 50th wedding anniversaries this year, in multiples of five years, as well as those who have been married for longer. Seven priests also celebrated similar milestones in their priestly life.
The event saw the launch of a Singapore-edition book commemorating the growth of the global Marriage Encounter movement over the past 50 years.
The book has a chapter on WWME Singapore, and also messages from Pope Francis and Archbishop William Goh.
Edmund and Christina Bong, coordinating couple of WWME Singapore, said that "We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe" is the theme of WWME's 50th anniversary.
"We, in Singapore wanted also to remember and give thanks to the many couples and priests who have been instrumental in helping Marriage Encounter locally grow for the past 39 years," they said in a statement.
"The coming together of married couples and priests to celebrate their milestone marriage and sacerdotal anniversaries at this very special Eucharistic celebration is really the highlight. Their presence is a witnessing of them living fully and joyously the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the Sacrament of Matrimony."
Eleven priests took part in the event.
Parent Category: CatholicNews
Category: MAY 27, 2018, Vol 68, No 11
Celebrating the joys of marriage and priesthood	(6 matches)
Because Family Matters	(4 matches)
Catholics respond to Vatican survey on family	(4 matches)
Coming up: world forum on marriage	(4 matches)
Couple mentoring for stronger marriages	(4 matches)
Empowering family life in the S'pore Archdiocese	(4 matches)
Honest, open dialogue at Worldwide Marriage Encounter Asian Conference	(4 matches)
Stations of the Cross for married couples at OLPS	(3 matches)
'Freeze' flash mob to celebrate World Marriage Day	(3 matches)
Asian Marriage Encounter teams share challenges, joys, directions	(3 matches)


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Lagos hosts Seafood Festival, to boost fish production by 60,000mt
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(L-R) Director, Fisheries Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs. Tokunbo Emokpae; Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Olayiwole Onasanya at the press briefing on the Y2020 edition of the Lagos Seafood Festival in Lagos on Thursday.
The Lagos State Government said it will increase its fish production by at least 60,000 metric tonnes to bridge the huge deficit to meet the demand for fish.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya stated this on Thursday in Lagos at a news conference to unveil the forthcoming Lagos Seafood Festival coming on Sunday, 13th December, 2020 at the Muri Okunola Park, Lagos.
Olusanya said that the state produces about 174,000 metric tonnes of fish annually while the current demand stands at over 400,000 metric tonnes, hence the need to address the huge deficit of over 226,000 metric tonnes.
She said that the additional 60,000 metric tonnes of fish would include both fingerlings and table size production to what already exist in Lagos.
"The target in terms of production currently is to increase our production. The demand for fish in Lagos is well over 400,000 metric tonnes and what we are producing as a State is roughly at about 174,000 metric tonnes so there is a huge deficit of about 226,000 metric tonnes.
"In terms of the target, we just ended our five-year master plan roadmap strategy document which will be unveiled by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the plan is to cover the deficit by a certain percentage.
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"Already, the Lagos Aquaculture Center for Excellence which was mentioned during Mr Governor's budget reading states that for the project alone, we should be adding over 60,000 metric tonnes of fish, both fingerlings and table size production to what exists already in Lagos.
"Outside of what we want to do with our fisher-folks in terms of them increasing production and aquaculture producers as well in terms of the support, we will like to give to them and create additional farm estates.
"We should be able to increase our fish production by at least 50,000 to 60,000 metric tonnes in year 2021," she said.
Olusanya said that with additional production from the Lagos Aquaculture Centre (LACE), the state would produce over 60,000 metric tonnes of fish over a period of time which would be produced by registered fishermen, artisanal fishermen and the Lagos aquaculture centre.
"For the LACE alone, it should be over 60,000 metric tonnes. That is obviously over a two to three-year period for the project to fully come to life. Within the first year, we should be able to get 20,000 metric tonnes.
"From our fishermen and those in the aquaculture subsector, we should be able to get a minimum of 40,000 metric tonnes extra, so we are looking towards an additional 60,000 metric tonnes for 2021 and subsequent years," she said.
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The Commissioner opined that the state had commenced the registration of fishermen in the five division of the state to capture the youths adding that the target was to register over 10,000 in the process.
"As we speak, we have partnered with some Private Financial Institutions and right now registrations are ongoing in some fishing locations in the five divisions of the State such as Ikorodu, Epe, Badagry, Lagos Island and Ikeja.
"Right now, the private financial institution is registering youths in Ikeja, we are concentrating on the youth because they will take over from the aging fisher-folks who don't have records and details that we can trace back to them in terms of capturing and empowerment," Olusanya noted.
According to her, this year's edition of the Seafood Festival focuses on the need to harness the seafood potentials of the State in a post COVID-19 economy adding that synergic relationships for the overall development of the seafood subsector will be initiated with fisher-folks for regular supply of fish and fisheries products during and after the Festival.
"Lagos State is a cosmopolitan City that is synonymous with seafood production. This fact is reinforced by the depiction of fishing in the State's Coat of Arms. This activity is an old time preoccupation of Lagosians especially those living around the coastal, estuarine and riverine areas of the State.
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"A total of 8,844 registered fishermen in 164 Fishermen Cooperative Societies live in 325 fishing communities across the State. Also 3,600 fish farmers, 26,500 processors have been identified in the Value Chain. The State is also home to 60 per cent of the nation's commercial activities mixed with fashion and entertainment.
"The Lagos Seafood Festival provides the nexus for the celebration of the State's aquacultural heritage in an atmosphere of commerce and entertainment," the Commissioner noted.
Olusanya said that the celebration of the Lagos Seafood Festival started in 2012 with the aim of showcasing Lagos aquaculture and seafood potentials to the local and international markets as well as stimulate investors' interest in the fisheries business.
Olusanya stated that it is projected that this year's festival would create 150 direct and indirect job opportunities as a result of increased marketing opportunities, setup and dismantling of equipment for the festival, technicians to operate equipment and other hands engaged to provide support services.
She disclosed that 30 fishermen groups, processors and 10 vendors are expected to take part in the festival in compliance with the social distancing protocols.
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Installers need regular expressions in the GUI Editor. Examples: IF... THEN, IF ... AND ... DO ....; value 1 + value 2 = value 3, etc.
Please vote for this idea when you agree with me!
a button in the Editor control panel, that activates a mode that copies visual settings (States) of a selected item onto any other items. Stamp make all items look similar in one click. The tool saves settings of all states of the sample-item and copies them on the recepient item. If the recepient has fewer stares, new ones are not added. If the recepinet has more states, extra states don't change their looks.
Select [ stamp ] toll on the Editor tools panel, press and hold ctrl and click on one of the items of a project. Now this items is sample-item.
Point the cursor on another item, click on it (option: click with held Alt) and visual settings of a graphical item are changed according to the sample-item.
[ stamp] [ \/ ] - when an arrow netx to the tool is pressed, dropdown menu shows a list of parameters for copying: size, color,opasity, alfa, text, font size, image, icon, etc. Put ticks next to the parameters that are to be copied.
Draw simple lines / circles etc.
Please add more tools on the toolbar to draw simple lines (————————–), circles O, etc. Now only 1 object can be draw. Maybe it's also to add a 'free draw' option?
It would be good to set the angle property of an object in the gui editor, so we can rotate objects by default.
Why does it needs to save before running the emulator or sending to transfer?
When installer scan the Domintell-bus, the description from the Domintell-commands and feedbacks are NOT imported in the GUI Editor.
The installer has to manually edit all descriptions of commands and feedbacks, and this take lot of time.
Please improve the scanning of Domintell-bus, so the names of the commands and feedbacks are displayed correct in the Project Device Tree.
Duotecno is waiting for 2 years now for an promised feature: intelligent Drag & Drop.
This means: the installer select a node in the driver. In the node, several Commands and feedbacks are present: switch, dimm, temperature, etc.
With ONE drag & drop command, this 'node' is dropped on the group of items (switch, dimm, temperature buttons). This method saves the installer much, much time.
This feature is discussed and explained to Dmitry Shulgin and Anton Kamaev at ISE2015, and they know what Duotecno wants. They have all drawings how to do it, and in what way.
Please implement this promised feature; it's usable for Duotecno installers, but also for HDL-installers.
It would be very handy to have a ToDo notepad (which could be stored directly in the irpz file).
It is not convenient to store the information in a separate text file. It would be good to have a tab on the right, next to Device, Project - Notes. When clicking on it the window with notes could appear. And you could add, delete notes and mark them done with indication of time.
In Domintell, now the installer has to go to the project to scan the Domintell-bus (connect the laptop to the installation and scan with the GUI Editor). This is not convinient.
Please add an option to import the DAP-files from Domintell directly in the GUI-editor, so the installer don't have to drive to the house of the end-user to scan the Domintell-bus.
It would be nice to have folders in the script editor, so we can manage different scripts with different purposes in a project.


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Aria checked her phone after work and frowned.
"Bad news?" Freya asked.
"No news. I was hoping somebody might have called about the necklace, by now."
"It's been one day," Freya pointed out. "It was unlikely we'd find it the first day we put up flyers, isn't it?"
"I suppose." She knew Freya was right, but she couldn't help being disappointed, nonetheless.
They headed out of the room, together and were walking through the empty aquarium when someone called, "Frigg!"
Freya smiled, but quickly forced herself to look annoyed as she turned to Frederick. "Seriously? My name has only two syllables and five letters. It's not that difficult."
"Frigg also has five letters," he pointed out as he smiled.
"You're not as charming as you seem to think."
"I'm sure I'm much less charming than you think," he admitted.
"I'm going to head on out," Aria said, sensing they may be at it for a few minutes.
"Wait," he told her, reaching into his pocket. "I, actually, wanted to talk to both of you. I was on the beach the other night when something caught my eye…" He went through one pocket after another until finally, "Ah, here it is." He pulled out a fin-shaped pendant on a rope. The glow could hardly be seen in the light of the aquarium, but there was no doubt that it was the one they'd been seeking.
Freya grabbed the necklace, scarcely daring to believe it was real. "How long have you had this?"
"Just a few days," he replied. "I found the stone interesting. I haven't seen anything like that before. Where did you get it?"
"It actually belongs to a girl I know," Aria explained as she took the pendant from her friend. "It's kind of a family heirloom. You wouldn't believe the amount of stress this thing has caused."
"I'm sorry I didn't return it, sooner," he told them. "I intended to seek out the owner, but I was curious about the stone and thought I might research it a bit, first. I would appreciate it if you could get her to tell you what kind it is."
"I'll do my best," Aria promised.
Freya could only stare at the scientist for a moment before she broke out into a smile. "Oh, Frederick, you beautiful, brilliant man!" She kissed his cheek in her excitement, feeling like the world had been lifted from her shoulders. She grabbed Aria's hand. "We have to go home and make some plans, now!"
She rushed out of the aquarium and didn't see him touch his cheek. She didn't see him standing there, staring at her as she rushed out. She didn't know he stayed like that for several minutes after she was gone. All Freya could think about was returning the necklace and she hardly gave Frederick Grey a thought past that.
"You alright?" Adam asked when he found his boss, staring at the door.
"I'm…brilliant," Grey mumbled as he walked away.
Eric came out and the pair watched him head out of the aquarium, as if in a trance.
"What happened to him?" Eric wondered.
Adam shrugged. "It's impossible to say with him." He looked at the intern. "Want to get a drink?"
"But it worked out well for you, last time," Adam pointed out. "You met that flying girl."
Eric nearly laughed as he resisted the urge to tell Adam the truth about her. "All the same, I'll pass. We have an early start in the morning, after all."
"Why do you always have to be so responsible?" Adam complained as they headed out of the aquarium together.
Aria laughed as Freya dragged her to the car and they drove home. "Can you believe Dr. Grey had this?" She was so relieved, she felt she might never stop laughing. "Honestly, I feel like we shouldn't even be surprised, at this point."
"It is Frederick Grey, after all," Freya agreed. "At any rate, this is good news. We have the necklace and we can make a battle plan."
"I thought we were trying to avoid fighting."
"Figure of speech," Freya assured her. "I just meant that we can figure out how best to approach the Glemoran king and queen with our accusations."
"Right." Aria looked at the necklace, the glow easier to see in the dark car. "I still can't believe we really found this."
"Believe it," Freya told her. "It's almost over."
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This was me exactly two years ago, when I first stepped foot in King Edward's School for their open day – my 'Harry Potter stepping into Hogwarts' moment! I can still remember the 10-year old me, so wonderstruck and dreaming that I would one day be a KES boy…and two years later, by God's grace, I'm one of the students studying here at KES! Obviously, my journey to become a KES boy wasn't easy. There was a lot – and I mean a LOT – of hard work along the way. But of course, on top of all that, I could never have done it without the support and prayers of the two most important people in my life: Mrs Mom and Mr Dad! And above all, I am beyond grateful that my mother is still here to witness it all. May God grant both of my parents long, happy and healthy lives so that they can witness many more of my achievements to come…InshaAllah!
So guys, if you have a dream, wake up and run. Don't run away. Run after it! Never stop chasing your dream!


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When trying to create a new basket (ctrl+n) the configuration window that appears for entering title etc. is too large for the actual screen size.
It is not possible to resize window to make it smaller, only to enlarge it. In order to proceed and click the OK button, the window needs to be moved around.
Have a slightly different problem in 18.04, window width isn't the problem, it's the height. When attempting to create a new basket, the dialog window is too big vertically. The top where the text needs to be entered to name the new basket is hidden behind the top bar. Using Alt-F8, Alt & mouse drag or Alt-Space allows resizing of the horizontal width from its default (fairly wide) size to the full width of the screen and vice versa, but the height cannot be changed. Needed to "killall basket" to get the screen back.


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'Cobra Kai' Season 4 Ending Explained: Unexpected winner makes the show interesting
In the final moments of the show, we get to see an unexpected winner and someone going to jail
By Aayush Sharma
Updated On : 02:42 PST, Dec 31, 2021
Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence in 'Cobra Kai' Season 4 (Netflix)
'Cobra Kai' Season 4 is here and the stakes are much high this time around. It's time for the All Valley Karate Tournament and if Miyagi-Do loses the tournament, Sensei LaRusso would have to stop being a Sensai and hang up his belt. The latest season starts with Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) teaching kids to win the tournament.
However, something happens between them and they get away. Now, Miyagi-Do has one team and Eagle-Fang has another team. They all are training to win the tournament and the D-Day has arrived. It's time for the tournament and everyone is ready to give their best shot. Cobra Kai is also ready for the fight and its fighter are going for the kill.
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Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, Xolo Maridueña as Miguel Diaz in 'Cobra Kai' (Netflix)
'Cobra Kai' Season 4 Ending Explained: Did Robby and Miguel meet at the finals?
Miguel (Xolo Mariduena) and Robby have advanced to the semi-finals. Miguel will be going against Eli Moskowitz (Jacob Bertrand) of Miyagi-Do in the semi-finals. Meanwhile, Robby (Tanner Buchanan) is fighting Dimitri. During the first match, Robby beats Dimitri by taking all the points. Now, it was time for the defending champion Miguel to go against Eli. They both were having a great fight and had one-one point each. However, Miguel was trying to go for the kill by doing a special move. But, he twisted his back and fell to the floor. He pulled his muscle on the back and the referee gave him 30 minutes to get fit and return to the mat.
Johnny comes to meet Miguel and tells him that he can do it. He also tells Johnny to show the world and anyone who bullied him that he is better than anyone else. Apart from that, he tells him that he won't be his Sensei if he loses the match. Johnny and everyone are waiting for him outside, but he never comes. Miguel loses the game and Eli gets through to the finals.
Xolo Mariduena as Miguel in 'Cobra Kai' Season 4 (Netflix)
On the other hand, Sam (Mary Mouser) and Peyton List (Tory Nichols) have qualified for the finals as well.
'Cobra Kai' Season 4 Ending Explained: Who won the men's final?
Robby and Eli face each other in the final. Initially, Robby is dominating and gets the points. Eli gets to his corner and asks LaRusso about what should he do to beat him. LaRusso realizes that it's time for the offense now. So, he lets Eli fight as Johnny told him to. LaRusso tells Eli to take the defense to Robby. Eli becomes a different fight altogether and dominates Robby. He gets one point and now they have one-one point each.
Their fight gets intense as they show their amazing moves in the match. The official time of the match finishes with 1-1 scoreline and they to the "sudden death" part. The fighter who gets the first point wins. While fighting the last point, Robby looks at Kenny (Dallas Dupree Young) and what he has become at Cobra Kai after seeing what he did to LaRusso's son Anthony.
Robby (Tanner Buchanan) and Eli (Jacob Bertrand) in 'Cobra Kai' Season 4 (Netflix)
He gets a bit distracted, but Eli and Robby continue to fight. In the end, Eli hits Robby on the chest and gets the final point. Eli Moskowitz wins the men's final and is the champion.
'Cobra Kai' Season 4 Ending Explained: Did Sam triumph over Tory in the finals?
They start the match with a lot of history. Sam has evolved into a fighter and now her dad allows her to be attacking. Before their match, LaRusso goes up to Johnny and requests him to be on their side. He says yes and they are on the same side. Sam shows Tory how evolved she is and she takes the first point. The fight continues and they are neck-to-neck, not giving chances to one another. But Tory gets two points to her name and in the final moments, Sam also comes back to tie the game. In one of the moments, Tory's elbow hits Sam's right eye, making it difficult for her to see correctly.
Sam gives her best shot, but in the end, because of the injury, she falls short and loses the match. So, the champion of the women's division is Tory. However, we soon find out that Terry had given the match referee money to not give fouls to Cobra Kai. So, that's how Cobra Kai won.
Peyton List (Tory) and Mary Mouser (Sam) in 'Cobra Kai' Season 4 (Netflix)
With that, it's Cobra Kai that wins the tournament as a whole.
'Cobra Kai' Season 4 Ending Explained: Did Ray tell the name of his attacker?
In the final episode, Ray is finally conscious and is about, to tell the truth about who beat him. One of the detectives comes to him and when he asks about the culprit, he takes the name of Sensei Kreese. Even though, it was Terry Silver who beat him. In the end, we are shown that it was Terry who threatened him to take his name. So, the police arrive at Kreese's residence and take him away.
Martin Kove as Terry Silver in 'Cobra Kai' Season 4 (Netflix)
'Cobra Kai' Season 4 Ending Explained: How does it all end?
Miguel has left his mother and embarked on a journey to find his father. Johnny Lawrence and his son Robby have finally come together to make their relationship better. On the other hand, LaRusso visits Miyagi's grave and tells him that he did whatever Miyagi told him to, but it was not enough. So now, he would have to go on all-out offense to take down Cobra Kai and he is accompanied by Miyagi's son.
So, the ending has made it clear that we are surely going to have Season 5 of 'Cobra Kai' and it will see Miyagi-Do doing everything it can to finish Cobra Kai. We might even see Kreese coming with them to finish what Terry started.


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Q: OpenGLRenderer: Path too large to be rendered into a texture in Titanium I have this error in an Android app only in tablets, one image (ImageView) doesn't appear and Appcelerator shows this error:

"OpenGLRenderer: Path too large to be rendered into a texture"

In the other devices all works fine. I don't understand this error because the image has space to appear. At phones and iPads it works perfectly.
I'm using width: {'100%', height: 'auto'} for this ImageView, because the width and height of his parent view change depending on the screen size. I'm working with %.
I tried this:
<application android:hardwareAccelerated="false"/>

at manifest but the problem still happening.
Please, help me.
The red square is the image that doesn't appear. It's same width and height than the blue square.

This is the image that is missing:

The code:

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*Tss file : http://pastebin.com/akEEa6Tb

*View file: http://pastebin.com/TcakniAn

*Controller file: http://pastebin.com/36bQrywn

Operating System   Name                        = Mac OS X   Version
  = 10.11.1   Architecture                = 64bit   # CPUs                      = 8   Memory                      = 4294967296 Node.js   Node.js Version             = 0.12.7   npm Version                 = 2.11.3
  Titanium CLI   CLI Version                 = 5.0.5 Titanium SDK   SDK
  Version                 = 5.0.2.GA   SDK Path                    =
  /Users/a/Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/5.0.2.GA
  Target Platform             = android

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There is a widely-circulated article on the 'Net called "Seven Myths About Divorce," attributed to Dr. Orli Peter. It is published here and here. I recently corresponded with Dr. Orli, and she confirmed that she wrote the piece ten years ago. She was uncertain, however, whether the data might apply to today's men and women, suggesting that the findings might be outdated.
1. Myth: Property is divided equally. Fact: Pennsylvania is not a community property jurisdiction in which property is always divided equally between divorcing spouses. In Pennsylvania, marital property may be divided in any proportions that a judge deems equitable, even if one spouse is awarded all of the marital property (as in Wang v. Feng).
2. Myth: Seven years is a common law marriage. Fact: Common law marriage (which was outlawed by Pennsylvania prospectively in 2005) does not require cohabitation for any particular time period. Instead, common law marriage generally requires the spouses to exchange informal vows.
3. Myth: Pennsylvania does not award alimony. Fact: Prior to 1980, Pennsylvania did not award post-divorce alimony. Today, alimony is authorized by Pennsylvania law and is frequently awarded by Pennsylvania's courts.
4. Myth: Marital infidelity doesn't matter. Fact: Marital infidelity is not a compelling factor in most divorces but may render a cheating spouse ineligible to receive spousal support or post-divorce alimony. Infidelity also constitutes grounds for a fault divorce under Pennsylvania law if it can be proven by clear and convincing evidence.
5. Myth: Medical and dental practices have no value. Fact: Some professional practices are worth the fair market value of their hard assets and receivables. Others are more valuable if they have developed goodwill that a buyer would be interested in purchasing.
6. Myth: Mothers always win custody. Fact: While some mothers sacrifice their careers to devote themselves to child rearing, many fathers have flexible work schedules that allow them to stay involved with the family. Today the courts are willing to consider equally-shared custody arrangements in cases where both parents are fit, invested in their children's lives, and available to provide personal care.
7. Myth: Some people have an advantage in court because of who they know. Fact: People who are represented by experienced divorce lawyers may have an advantage because their lawyers have credibility in court, know the law and legal procedures, get most cases settled out of court, and do not waste the court's time.


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That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry, review: stories of solitude that are far from glum
Jake Kerridge
Christ in the Wilderness, 1898
It can be hard to differentiate the lonely middle-aged men, mostly living under the dour tutelage of the Ox Mountains in Co Sligo, who trudge through Kevin Barry's third collection of short stories. "I had consciously pulled away from my old friends," says the narrator of one. Of the protagonist of another, we're told: "He had pulled back from his friends … which wasn't much of a job, for he had never had close ones."
What makes each story memorable is the way in which that loneliness is intruded upon, for good or ill. A man and his elderly mother entering a pub "like a squall of hectic weather" unwittingly bring the depressed landlord to breaking point; another character faces ruin when he's targeted by a girl determined to lose her virginity before her 18th birthday. Others, however, find that the trespassers on their solitude bring benign changes.
Barry often writes with sonorous wisdom ("Love … is not about staring into each other's eyes; love is about staring out together in the same direction, even if the gaze has menace or badness underlain"). But as readers of his grimly hilarious novels (including City of Bohane and the Booker-longlisted Night Boat to Tangier) will know, his language is just as precise when it is in the service of comedy. A list of the self-inflicted misfortunes of one drunken character ends: "he fell out of a hotel one time and landed on a taxi". How incalculably less funny that would be if he'd written "hotel window" as everybody else would.
A couple of the stories don't come off, including the title piece, told, for a change, from the viewpoint of a 17-year-old girl: Barry's attempt to mix his own eloquent idiom with one suitable for her doesn't quite work. But give him a Sligo sad-sack and he'll get the register just right, spinning exhilaratingly funny and poignant fables from quotidian misery.
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Expanded Correction Program for 403(b) Plans (Posted on April 4, 2013 by Carol V. Calhoun)
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Rev. Proc. 2013-12 for the first time allows 403(b) plans (tax-sheltered annuities or custodial accounts for employees of public schools, churches, and certain other tax-exempt organizations) the same ability to correct plan errors under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System ("EPCRS") as is provided in the case of qualified plans. The IRS has now issued a plain language "Fix-It Guide" for 403(b) plans that discusses common mistakes, how to avoid them, and how to fix them if they occur.
New Revenue Procedure Establishes 403(b) Pre-Approved Plan Program
Comparison of 457(b) Plans, 401(k) Plans, 403(b) Plans, and Deemed IRAs Updated
New article: Section 403(b) Plan Design and Compliance
Employers Need to Adopt Pre-Approved 403(b) Plans by March 31, 2020
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Speeding tickets are the single most common type of traffic offense committed on Illinois roadways. Speeding tickets up to 30 mph over the limit are considered Petty Offenses. However, once your speed is at or above 31 mph over the speed limit, you will be charged with a criminal misdemeanor. The Illinois Secretary of State has a "Points System" in which it assigns points against your record based on convictions. Generally speaking, convictions for higher speeds will cause more points to be assigned against your record. If you accumulate too many points, your Driver's License may be suspended by the Illinois Secretary of State.
Penalties for Misdemeanor Speeding Tickets
The state of Illinois penalizes habitual traffic offenders by utilizing a "points system" and assigning points for traffic offenses. If you are under the age of 21 and you receive two convictions for two separate traffic violations within a year, you could potentially have your driver's license suspended, or even revoked. If you are 21 years of age or older and you collect three traffic offense convictions within a year, you could have your driver's license suspended or revoked. The duration of the suspension or revocation is dependent upon the amount of points you have accrued against your driver's license.
Point Assignments are based on convictions and the rate of speed:
Speeding 1 to 10 mph over the limit: 5 points
Speeding 11 to 14 mph over the limit: 15 points
Speeding more than 25 mph over the limit: 50 points
Speeding in a school zone: 20 points
First-Time Suspension
If you have not had your license suspended or revoked for the past seven years, these penalties apply:
0 to 14 points-no action
15 to 44 points-2-month suspension
100 to 109 points-12-month suspension
110 or more points-12-month revocation
If your license has been suspended or revoked in the past seven years, the penalties this time around are harsher:
75 to 109 points-12-month suspension
As you can see, it doesn't take much to find yourself exceeding the amount of points allowed on your license. That's why you need to take every speeding ticket seriously.
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