For international audiences, Andrey Zvyagintsev is THE Russian director in the way that Andrei Tarkovsky was in the 80s. Since his astonishing debut in 2003, The Return, he has found a way to combine portraits of individuals in crisis with wider examinations of Russia's inability to move away from totalitarianism. In his last two films, Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014), relationships between men and women are severely disrupted if not shattered by the social, economic and political dysfunction of Putin's Russia. Zvyagintsev views the citizens of his fractured homeland not just with the eye of a poet, but a clinician's knack for making sense of the fragments and the grim reflections of what is left.
Loveless, which won a Jury Prize at Cannes and a well-deserved Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film, is both timeless and timely in its concerns. It depicts a bullishly self-confident modern Moscow, with news of Russia's military intervention in the Ukraine adding to the aggressive tension. As his unhappy parents, Zhenya and Boris, argue during divorce proceedings, their 12-year-old son, Alexey, wanders off one day after school and disappears. So consumed are the parents by their respective dreams of domestic escape (and affairs), they don't notice their son's absence until the trail starts to fade. The police also bungle the search by assuming Alexey has merely run away for a few days. Days grow into weeks and the divided parents and authorities assume the worst. While their concern for their missing child seems genuine, they are distracted by demanding new relationships, office politics (Zvyagintsev has probably cornered the market on the creepiest company canteen ever filmed) and a need to assert their grip on the next rung up the slippery ladder of the new Russian class system.
If Loveless has an older brother, it is Michelangelo Antonioni's magisterial L'Avventura (1960), in which the disappearance of a young upper middle-class woman during a boating trip soon takes second place to a complicated affair between the woman's lover and her best friend. As in Antonioni's film, a character's absence becomes a catalyst for a broader social critique. L'Avventura is primarily about the ways contentment and love can so easily mutate into unhappiness and resentment and that perhaps alienation is the price we pay for modern freedoms and comforts. In Loveless, the oppressiveness of a state that defines personal freedom in purely material terms has deadened communities to pursue little beyond their own self-interest.
Zvyaginstev is now working at such a high level of ambition – a formal and thematic complexity that brings him closer to not only giants like Tarkovsky and Antonioni, but the recent peaks achieved by Kieslowski and Haneke, that some might find Loveless a let down from the Tolstoyan sweep of Leviathan. Leviathan showed how lawless the state was the further it was from the cos-mopolitan sprawl of Moscow or St. Petersburg. In Loveless, the state's brand of justice has merely resurrected the inequalities of the Tsarist period and given the new middle-class a glib sense of entitlement, but little security or community.
Hauntingly photographed by regular collaborator, Mikhail Krichman, Loveless' bitter study of personal and political stasis is impeccably cast. As the parents, Maryana Spivak and Aleksey Rozin, show individuals who are not uncaring so much as tragically distracted by the illusory potential of a life with more successful and attractive partners. And as the missing Alexey, in his brief but powerful screen time, Matvey Novikov, embodies not just the father who will never become child to the man, but a state that is unlikely to give birth to the utopianism of another Revolution.


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Dallas Cops Keep Getting Arrested On Gambling Charges.
Pete Freedman July 26, 2018
Three More Veteran Dallas Police Officers Were Arrested On Gambling-Related Charges Late Last Month — And We're Betting More Arrests Are Coming.
In June, we openly wondered was going on with the Dallas Police Department and its very public struggles with its officers being arrested on gambling charges.
Since then, the situation hasn't exactly improved: Pretty much immediately after we wondered what was up, the Dallas Police Department announced that it had arrested yet three more of its officers on gambling-related charges. That makes four cops arrested on gambling charges since June 1, and five since December of last year.
The three latest to be pinched all currently come from the department's SWAT unit, and they all turned themselves in on June 28.
Senior Corporal Edward Van Meter Jr., a nine-year DPD veteran, and Senior Corporal Rogers Williams, an 11-year veteran of the department, were both arrested on gambling promotion charges. In addition to the same gambling promotion charge, a third officer — Sergeant Shannon Browning an 11-year veteran of DPD — was charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and money laundering.
As with the two DPD officers who had previously been arrested on similar charges in recent months — Senior Corporal Edrick Smith and Sergeant Latasha Moore — all three of the latest cops to be charged with gambling-related crimes have been placed on administrative leave as the investigations into their cases are ongoing.
Of the three latest arrests, Browning's is objectively the most interesting. His name has been publicly linked to the department's gambling issues since at least December, back when Smith was arrested for allegedly asking that his colleagues alert him ahead of time to any possible raids of a gambling room he was regularly visited. In Smith's arrest records, it's noted that he'd been spotted handing envelopes to Browning while discussing "bread" and a "transport fee." The reports also say that Browning allegedly followed up those exchanges by calling someone on the phone to discuss placing bets on various sports teams.
It bears repeating that Dallas police chief U. Renee Hall has had the department's vice squad, which is responsible for keeping tabs on illegal gambling operations, in her cross hairs since the earliest months of her tenure as Dallas' top cop, even going so far as to disband the unit in November of last year. A internal memo leaked shortly thereafter noted the unit's many issues — among them a "multitude of problems with… expenditure reporting" and the fact that at least one detective within the unit was found to have "mishandled" funds she'd requested for her investigations.
At this point, it's safe to say that Chief Hall is pretty pot committed to snuffing out the gambling issues at DPD.
Which… well, hey, it's a start to righting the department's many ills, we suppose.
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Noriko Kawamura teaches history at the Washington State University, where she specializes in military history, World War II in the Pacific, and the Cold War and holds the Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professor chair.
Her most well-known work specialises in Hirohito and modern Japan.

Education
Kawamura received a bachelor's degree from Keio University in Japan in 1978.  She received her doctoral degree from the University of Washington in 1989, with major fields in American diplomatic history, Japanese-American relations, and modern Japan.

Career
Kawamura has served as President of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast society.

Works
Kawamura is currently working on a new book project on Emperor Hirohito's Cold War under contract with the University of Washington Press.
Kawamura, Noriko. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 2017.
As editor, Building New Pathways to Peace. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2015.
Kawamura, Noriko. Turbulence in the Pacific Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2000.

Honours & Awards
Arnold M. and Atsuko Craft Professorship (College of Arts and Sciences, WSU, 2018-2021)
Outstanding Achievement in International Activities (College of Arts and Sciences, WSU, 2016)
Edward R. Meyer Project Grant (College of Arts and Sciences, WSU, 2016)

References

Living people
University of Washington alumni
Keio University alumni
Historians of Japan
Washington State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Риба-місяць (Mola mola) — найбільша за масою відома кісткова риба у світі: середні дорослі риби важать близько 1 тонни, а рекордний екземпляр, виловлений біля Азорських островів, досягав маси 2744  кг. Вид поширений у тропічних та помірних водах всього світу. За зовнішнім виглядом нагадує голову риби із хвостом, зі сплощеним тілом, її висота (враховуючи плавці) приблизно дорівнює її довжині.

Розповсюдження
Риба-місяць зустрічається в тропічних і помірних водах. Нереститься у тропічних водах Атлантичного, Індійського і Тихого океанів. У Північній Атлантиці рибу-місяць можна зустріти біля берегів Ньюфаундленду, Ісландії, Великої Британії, в західній частині Балтійського моря і вздовж берегів Норвегії та Кольського півострова. Зрідка її можна зустріти в північній частині Японського моря і в районі південних островів Великої Курильської гряди.

Не часто можна побачити місяць-рибу, що лежить на боці на поверхні води. Час від часу її плавники з'являються на поверхні — іноді їх помилково приймають за акулячі спинні плавники. Личинки і молодь цього виду плавають як звичайні риби, проте доросла місяць-риба — поганий плавець, нездатний подолати сильну течію, тому її відносять до океанічного макронектону. Харчується риба-місяць планктоном, а також кальмарами, личинками вугрів, сальп, реброплавами й медузами. Риба-місяць — найплодовитіша риба у світі: одна самиця може відкладати до 300 млн ікринок.

Японські вчені, використовуючи сучасне устаткування, виявили цікаві, приховані від людських очей, подробиці життя риби-місяця. Ця риба зазвичай попадається людині, коли вона пасивно дрейфує біля поверхні океану. Але виявилося, що в денний час риба-місяць регулярно пірнає на глибину близько 200 м, де полює на сцифомедуз і сифонофор. Після відвідування холодних глибин вона відігрівається у приповерхневих водах.

Взаємодія з людиною
Небезпеки для пірнальників місяць-риба не становить. Вживання її в їжу в Європі та США непопулярне, але в Азії їдять усі частини тіла (включаючи шкіру і хребет). У Росії під торговою назвою «риба-місяць» продають рибу вомер (Selene vomer).

Примітки

Джерела
 Луна-рыба // Большая советская энциклопедия
 Сергеев Б. Ф. Жизнь океанских глубин. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1990. — 301[3] с. — (Эврика). — ISBN 5-235-00811-1
 Тірні Т. Поточні дослідження

Тварини, описані 1758
Скелезубоподібні
Риби Азії
Риби Великої Британії
Риби Індії
Риби Індонезії
Риби Ірану
Риби Ісландії
Риби Австралії
Риби Канади
Риби Кірибаті
Риби Тихого океану
Риби Індійського океану


The Cadillac XT5 is a new crossover having five seats with the additional touch of an extravagance. It serves as an ideal vehicle for families. This vehicle is certainly one of a kind, as it not only offers room and storage like an SUV but it also excellent handling, appearance and comfort. The 2017 Cadillac XT5 will be a redesigned edition of the previous model. It will be having same visual appeal and superb interior. Apart from great appearance, this car wills lots of technological features and will be coming with latest technological equipment.
Exterior of this crossover will be redesigned to give it an aggressive and masculine look. The heavy exteriors will feature newly designed fenders and bumpers. It also comes with chrome grille and features attractive front LED lights. The redesigned vehicle will be based on Omega Platform, which will make it lighter and more aerodynamic. The front part of this vehicle will be slightly tilted and will be made of light materials.
Redesigned 2017 Cadillac XT5 comes with a larger wheelbase, which has a width of 77 inches. Thus, this new Cadillac crossover SUV will be able to easily accommodate seven people. Besides being spacious, this car will also feature certain advanced technology including audio control for the steering wheel, keyless entry, Bluetooth connectivity, cruise control and satellite radio, which comes with the audio system. As far as safety features are concerned, it will feature parking sensors, adaptive cruise control, airbags and rear camera.
This vehicle comes packed with best electronic materials and consumers will be provided world's busy Pandora, Android Auto, and dual climate control and premium stereo sound. Sitting in 2017 Cadillac XT5 is very comfortable and pleasing, thanks to the comfortable seats, which are made of soft plastic and quality leather.
In this redesigned SUV, people will be having multiple engine options to choose from. Options available in terms of the engine include a Turbo 2.0 liter engine along with a 2.5 liter and a 2.4-liter Ecotec engine. Apart from these, another engine unit is also available to install. This is a 3.6 liter V6 engine. This unit will be capable of generating 308 HP along with 265 lb-ft of torque.
Exact details regarding the performance of the 2017 Cadillac XT5 is not known for now. Since it is basically a redesigned vehicle, one should expect a similar performance, as compared to the previous model. Thus, an estimation of fuel economy can be done. It is expected to have an approximate fuel economy of around 16 mpg on city roads and nearly 23 mpg for highway drive. Other performance numbers should also be quite similar.
As far as pricing of 2017 Cadillac XT5 is concerned, the company has not revealed any official information yet. However, it is expected that it will be available with a starting price of minimum $38,000. This can vary and additional features will be available with extra price. It is expected to be available by beginning of 2017.


Formerly A. tenuis. Cool season, tufted perennial bunchgrass, with vigorous root system, sometimes with stolons or short rhizomes. Adapted to moist or moderately wet sites. Tolerates acidic and nutritionally poor soils. Nutritious and highly palatable. Commonly used as a turfgrass.


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Coil Coating Market 2018: Trends, Import & Export, and Revenue by Forecast 2022
12/gen/2018 05:06:01 Market Research Future Contatta l'autore
Market Research Future published at Half Cooked Research Report on "Global Coil Market Research Research Report - Forecast to 2022" - Market Analysis, Scope, Stake, Progress, Trends and Forecast to 2022.
Akzo Nobel NV (the Netherlands), Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. (Japan), BASF SE (Germany), EI Du Pont De Nemours and Company (US), PPG Industries, Inc. (US), The Valspar Corporation (US) ), Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Germany), The Sherwin-Williams Company (US), Wacker Chemie AG (Germany), and The Chemistry Company (US) are some of the prominent players profiled in MRFR of the Global Coil coating Market.
Coil Coating Market - Overview
The Global Coil Coating Market is growing with the impulsive pace; mainly due to the proliferation of construction industry. The global construction market is anticipated to increase at a faster growth than world GDP over the forecast period owing to the Asian economies continue to industrialise and coupled with US recovers from the sharp downturn during the global financial crisis. According to a recent study report published by the Market Research Future, The global market of Coil Coating is booming and expected to gain prominence over the forecast period. The market is forecasted to demonstrate a stunning growth by 2022, surpassing its previous growth records in terms of value with a striking CAGR during the estimated period (2017 – 2022).
Globally, the market for Coil Coating is driven by the region Asia pacific, owing to the rise in the population resulting in to use of coil coatings in indoor and outdoor architectural applications. Coil Coating is a paint system consists of top cots, primers, back coat and are extensively applied for steel and aluminum coils and also has wide range of colors and finishes. Coil coating is an extra value added process and also it is a substitute for traditional painting. Coil coating has benefit of consistent high standard of adhesion to protect the coils from corrosion and also it helps in reducing the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Coil coated metals are easily scrapped and recyclable for further use.
Rising demand for transport vehicles is driving the Coil Coated Metals owing to their application in manufacturing typical products such as sheet and panels for containers, caravan and mobile home sidings and interior, van and trailer bodies, insulated boxes, road and railway coaches. Also small parts like license plates, wiper assemblies and trim are among the applications.
Coil Coatings products such as top coats, primer, back coat, clear coat, finishes and thinner are costlier but they are capable to deliver high performance for long run purposes. These high value added products widely used to coat metals such as aluminum and steel. These have major applications in wall cladding, roofing in construction sector; sheets and panels for transport vehicles and heating venting and air conditioning applications.
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Top and primer coating are most widely used products and followed by back coat, clear coat and thinners.
Coil Coating Market – Competitive Analysis
Coil Coating Market appears to be less competitive with the presence of only few major global chemicals and materials manufacturers operating in the world. Presence of few key players will lead to monopoly situation and also competitive edge in innovation and technology is expected to be indelicate. As these materials are pricing at higher costs in the current markets and increasing demand for coil coating in transport and construction industries will influence the end user products from these industries. Coil Coating Market demonstrates a high growth potential as the demand for these materials is increasing other key players are likely to invest in opening new production capacities to meet the global demand with better solutions.
Industry/ Innovation/ Related News:
October 2017 - Akzonobel NV (the Netherlands), one of the key manufacturers of Coil Coating also having presence in the UK and South Africa, has announced the extension of coil coatings market in the UK and South Africa by acquiring the BASF's industrial coatings business for € 475 million . This acquisition is expected to be completed in December 2016 and to produce better innovative products and delivering these products.
April 2017 - Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. (Japan) is one of the leading manufacturers of coil coatings, has acquired all shares of the European coating manufacturer Helios Group, with the closing of transaction on 31 March. Under the strategic owner Kansai, Helios will represent a strong European center of innovation, know-how and business development, and will further grow its importance in the European coating industry. With the acquisition of Helios Group, Kansai Paint accelerates its growth strategy to become one of the top three producers in the world and extended from Asia Pacific to Europe. Over the forecast period, by merging both the R & D and manufacturing technologies to make and innovate better products in the Europe region.
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Sponges are the sister group to all other extant animal lineages.
To untangle the relationships among early-evolving animal groups, evolutionary biologists compare the sequences of 'homologous' genes from a range of species. Homologous genes have similar amino-acid sequences and code for proteins that often perform the same functions in the different species of interest and are therefore assumed to have been derived from a common ancestor. As a rule, these analyses have specifically focused on 'orthologs', one of two recognized subgroups of homologous genes. Orthologs are genes which are thought to be derived directly (by vertical descent) from a single ancestral sequence. "But genes evolve at different rates, and in the case of lineages that have undergone rapid diversification -- those in which the rate of accumulation of novel mutations is especially high -- genes can change so fast that it becomes very difficult to confidently identify genes that are true orthologs," says Wörheide. This phenomenon diminishes the amount of data that can be used for sequence-based phylogenetic analyses, and may reduce the statistical significance of the results. To avoid these drawbacks, Wörheide and his colleagues have adopted a different strategy, in which the presence or absence of homologous gene families (i.e. gene content) rather than the comparison of orthologous gene sequences is the data of interest. This shift of viewpoint enables them to take what are called 'paralogous' homologs into account, in addition to the orthologs mentioned above. Paralogous genes are products of the duplication of a pre-existing gene, which subsequently may evolve independently of each other. "When all homologous gene families, rather than orthologous genes alone, are incorporated into a comparative phylogenetic analysis of gene content, we have a much deeper store of information to draw upon," explains Walker Pett, first author of the new study.
To test the resolution of the method, Pett and colleagues investigated the phylogeny of the earliest-branching lineages in the animal tree of life, using either the complete set of identifiable homologous gene families or the subset of orthologs. Of particular interest among these animal phyla are the sponges (Porifera) and the comb jellies (Ctenophora), as it remains unclear which of these groups represents the sister group to all other animals. "Irrespective of whether we include paralogs or not, our results are consistent with the classical view of animal phylogeny in that the sponges are the sister group to all other extant animal lineages," says Wörheide. Analysis of the ortholog gene content on its own places the comb jellies as the sister group of Placozoa, Cnidaria and Bilateria (this last group accounts for 95% of extant animal species). Including homologous gene family content data, however, identifies ctenophores as the sister group of the Cnidaria. This result agrees with a proposal drawn from morphological studies -- the Coelenterata hypothesis -- that dates back to the mid-19th century, a view which had gone out of favor in recent years.
"We conclude from our results that the anomalous placement of some highly divergent lineages, such as the comb jellies, reflects a fundamental limitation in the ability of conventional sequence-based methods -- which rely on data for orthologs alone -- to resolve the branching patterns of very ancient lineages," says Wörheide. "We therefore believe that the analysis of gene content we have introduced here should in the future be used to test hypotheses based on the comparative sequence analysis of orthologs. As in other fields, such as criminology, if an analysis of two different datasets yields the same result, then one can have more confidence in that result than in either of the individual outcomes."
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. "Evolution: Larger datasets unravel deep roots." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 7 February 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190207102602.htm>.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. "Evolution: Larger datasets unravel deep roots." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190207102602.htm (accessed April 22, 2019).
A Rallying Call for Microbiome Science National Data Management in U.S.


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Q: How to stop executing PHP script when 10 MB of data has been output I have an Apache server with an outbound transfer limit of 6 GB. In a PHP script I accidentally ran a loop that outputted an enormous amount of data and used almost all of my allocated bandwidth.
Is there a way I can limit each request to only output 10 MB of data and then either kill the process or let it run but don't output anything else, to avoid such problems in the future ?
Here's what a problematic request looks like in the log :
xxx.xxx.xxx.204 - - [16/Jan/2015:16:10:01 +0100] "GET /ebok/ebok.php HTTP/1.1" 200 5368709120 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"

I tried with ini_set
<?php
ini_set('memory_limit', '1M');
$a = array();
for($x=1; $x<1000; $x++) {
    array_push($a, array('imie'=>'Pablo'.$x, 'nazwisko'=>'picasso'.$x,     'adres'=>'nowowiejska'.$x));
}
print_r($a);
exit;
?>

and I get message:
Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 1048576 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home/public_html/bench.php on line 5

but in apache log it takes only 10KB
xxx.xxx.xxx.134 - - [16/Jan/2015:23:25:50 +0100] "GET /bench.php HTTP/1.1" 200 11146 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"

What I do wrong?

A: You basically have a couple of different sources of stuff that use your bandwidth. Text, such as javascript and php output, likely comprises a relatively small portion of your bandwidth. Images will take more space, and files like an ebook will take the most space per request.
There may be a setting you can apply to apache's httpd.conf file to limit the maximum size per request there. I couldn't find it in a couple minutes of googling but you may have some luck (or maybe someone here knows the actual command!)
You can also set ob_start() at the top of your script and take a look at your output buffer size before you endflush() it at the end of your script. If it is too big, you can truncate it.

A: You could try buffering you output and trimming it to desired size (10 MB) before actually sending it to the client.
This is kind of a workaround, but I think it could work:
<?php
//start buffering output
ob_start();

echo 'Hello'; //echo something, string is buffered now, nothing is sent
var_dump(strlen(ob_get_contents()); // this should print int(5), as 5 bytes are in the string echoed

//get the buffered output, flush output buffer and stop buffering
$output = ob_get_flush();

//echo first 10 milion bytes (10 MB) = send it to the client
echo substr($output, 0, 1e7);

For more info on output buffering, see ob_start() and ob_get_flush() in PHP docs.

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The Pune wildlife division and the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will carry out a survey of the blackbuck, the Indian Gazelle (chinkara deer) and bird species including larks and the endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB).
Maharashtra will carry out the first count of its Indian Blackbuck population by September this year.
The Pune wildlife division and the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will carry out a survey of the blackbuck, the Indian Gazelle (chinkara deer) and bird species including larks and the endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) over a 550 sq km area, including the 363 sq km Nanaj Bustard Sanctuary, also known as the GIB sanctuary.
"We will count the blackbuck population in forest areas, agricultural fields and irrigated land near water reservoirs," said Sunil Limaye, chief conservator of forests, Pune.
"A number of development projects such as roads being built on grasslands or barren lands have caused the displacement of the blackbuck from its habitats. It is important to know the current status and distribution of blackbuck in such a huge landscape," he said.
The World Bank-funded Drought Prone Areas Programme started in the 1980s enabled the forest department to create pastures for grassland animals. "However, people began planting exotic trees, which forced the blackbuck and other species to move out," he said. BNHS officials said there have been reports of crop damage in areas where the study will be conducted.
"During summer seasons, animals disperse from their habitat to other areas in search of food and water. For this specific study, most of the animals are expected to be seen concentrated at grasslands. The survey will be done in these areas by carrying out individual count of each species, most populated habitats and whether there is any development projects that may affect the site," said Sujit Narwade, project scientist, BNHS.
Come September, the population of the Indian Blackbuck and the Great Indian Bustard will be assessed in forest areas, agricultural fields and irrigated land near water reservoirs.
The state bird of Rajasthan, it is a critically endangered bird species as per the red list of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with extremely small populations and a rapid decline owing to habitat degradation, hunting and direct disturbance. The bird is protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. In Maharashtra, the main breeding areas are Warora, Chandrapur, and Nanaj Bustard Sanctuary in Solapur.
Predominantly herbivorous animals, the Indian Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) are found in herds of 20 or 30, mostly at open or grasslands. An adult Blackbuck can be identified by black and white fur and is identified as an endangered animal by IUCN owing to poaching and habitat destruction. The animal is protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.


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Two shot inside car in northeast Columbus
According to NBC4i, two people were injured after a vehicle they were in was shot at by an unknown person Sunday afternoon.
Columbus police said officers responded to a ShotSpotter call on the 1800 block of Artane Place at approximately 3:37 p.m.
At the scene, officers found a shooting scene but no victims.
Officers were then sent to an area hospital for multiple walk-in shooting victims, who told police they were sitting inside a car on Artane Place when someone walked up to the vehicle and fired several rounds into it, hitting two of the three people inside.
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My GE dryer is overheating. I just replaced the element about 6 months ago, and ever since then I cannot dry my clothes properly. The element was bad and had been for a while. I have since moved twice and check my ventilation regularly.
Now if I run the dryer on high (which I don't) my clothes come out smoking. I mean it, my clothes are smoking and smell burnt. I clean my lint trap after every use and have vacuumed out the duct work (both inside the dryer and from the dryer to outside the house). I am sure my ventilation is good.
Even on medium, the clothes get too hot. I cannot touch them to take them out of the dryer and fold them.
So I run the dryer on low, and it takes almost two hours to dry a regular size load of clothes. I don't dare try to fill my washer because my dryer cannot dry a large load in a reasonable amount of time.
Yes I now know that GE is not the appliance to buy. I have had this dryer for an amazing 8 years. The matching washer died about 6 years ago and was repalced with a Whirlpool. Unfortunately, I just can't afford to replace my dryer at this time so I must fix it myself.
I appreciate any and all help I recieve.
This entry was posted in Dryer Repair on January 5, 2006 by casey.
The culprit is most likely the cycling thermostat and/or the safety thermostat. I would replace both, they're inexpensive. Post your model number and I can get you direct links to the parts you need to replace.
One additional comment after re-reading your post. The excessively long dry times you describe is almost always a result of a restricted vent. Try running the dryer with the vent disconnected. And read The Ultimate Dryer Venting Guide.
My model number is DBXR453ET3WW.
I know that venting problems can cause other major problems. I am not sure the cause for the element going bad (it's been a while ago). But it was burnt through on one end (similar to when a light bulb burns out). I ran the dryer for probably two years with the bad element. It was taking long to dry then too. But now it only takes long on low, and unfortunately it burns things up on high.
I have checked my ventilation and I have great air flow outside. But after reading The Ulitmate Dryer Venting Guide, I have a question about that. I have that metal foil-like flexible duct that is so common. Am I not supposed to use that stuff? If not, why do they sell it as dryer vent duct material? I understand the business dollar, but shouldn't that be a safety concern? On the plus side, I have run my duct as straight as possible and I am prepared to make the necessary changes.
OK, now I know that I do have a ventilation problem (I unhooked the dryer). I only thought the vent was good.
The trick here is the wording. The instructions state flexible metal (which I thought I bought because the package stated it was for a dryer vent and it was shiny metal-like), but it meant something different (which I now know). Of course I did buy it 8 years ago and I was much younger then too. No excuses, it is my dryer. I am making those changes to my dryer vent today, and I will post again in a day or two about the drying time.
Guess wisdom really does come with age.
The spiral wound metal flex hose has it's place: used sparingly and to make off-set connections to two ducts. 90 degree turns and bends should all be made with rigid aluminum fittings– flex collapses and restricts air flow.
My drying time has decreased significantly. Thank you for making me look again at my ventilation.
My clothes are still coming out with a bit of burnt smell though if I leave them in too long. I don't remember having this problem before if I left clothes drying too long.
I am concerned, I don't want to burn my house down. I think I would like to replace those thermostats just in case and maybe extend the life of the dryer a few more years.


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All the DWP Cost of Living support in 2023 - and who's eligible for the £900 payment
A range of measures have been announced to help people with the soaring cost of food and energy
Tom VigarTrending Reporter
Updated 17:31, 23 DEC 2022
The Left Lion in Nottingham city centre (Image: Nottingham Post/Marie Wilson)
The Government has announced a series of measures to support people with the cost of living crisis in 2023. It follows on from a number of payments and discounts offered in 2022, such as the £650 cost of living payment and the £400 energy support scheme.
Many of next year's plans were set out in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement last month. In the same address, he also pledged to increase benefits and the State Pension in line with inflation - a huge relief to many struggling with soaring prices.
Support measures planned include payments targeted at supporting groups such as those on low incomes, pensioners, and people with disabilities. There are also some ongoing policies designed at helping people with energy bills throughout the winter and these will continue into 2023.
READ MORE: DWP confirms dates for Universal Credit and 11 other benefits over Christmas and New Year
Here's what we know so far about next year's support:
The most significant measure for many people will be the £900 cost of living payment for people on means-tested benefits. Eight million households will qualify for the support, the Government says, with people eligible if they receive benefits including:
Income-based jobseeker's allowance
Income-related employment and support allowance
Pension credit
Like the £650 grant in 2022, the £900 payment will be made in more than one instalment, The i reports. It will also be tax-free, will not count towards the benefit cap, and will not affect any other benefits a person receives.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has not specified precise information about when the £900 will be paid, but it has said it will go out in the 2023-24 financial year - so from April onwards.
There will also be another £150 disability cost of living payment, to help those with disabilities with the extra costs they face. It will be available to anyone eligible for:
Disability living allowance
Personal independence payment
Attendance allowance
Scottish disability benefits
Armed forces independence payment
Constant attendance allowance
War pension mobility supplement
Again, the DWP has said more information on eligibility and payment dates will be available "in due course". It follows on from a payment of the same amount paid to people on disability benefits in 2022.
There will be an additional £300 cost of living payment for vulnerable pensioner households next year. Precise eligibility rules and payments dates are yet to be announced, but it is likely to work in the same way as this year's pensioner cost of living payment.
Like with the £900 payment, the money will be tax-free and will not have any impact on existing benefit awards. The payments will be made across the UK.
Throughout the rest of the winter, people will continue to be helped with their energy bills by the Government's energy price guarantee, which caps the energy bill for a typical household at £2,500.
Every UK household has also been given a £400 discount on their energy bills, paid in instalments of £66 or £67 across six months. For most people the discount is applied automatically, but some people who use traditional pre-payment meters (i.e. without a smart meter) have been sent vouchers.
Pensioners are also being supported with their bills by the winter fuel payment which this year has been boosted by the pensioner cost of living payment to make it worth up to £600, depending on a person's circumstances. The winter fuel payment is paid every year.
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Restorative Yoga is the practice of asanas, each held for longer than in conventional yoga as exercise classes, often with the support of props such as folded blankets, to relax the body, reduce stress, and often to prepare for pranayama.

Practice

Restorative Yoga sessions allow the body to slow down and relax in a small number of asanas. Each pose is held for longer than in conventional classes, sometimes for twenty minutes, so a session may consist of only four to six asanas. The long holding of poses is often assisted with props such as folded blankets, blocks, and bolsters to ensure the body is fully supported and so to allow the muscles to relax.

An early disciple of B.K.S. Iyengar, the yoga teacher and Yoga Journal editor Judith Lasater helped to popularize restorative yoga, based on Iyengar Yoga's asanas and use of props. Lasater states that "you will need" a yoga mat, four yoga blocks, three firm bolsters, three hand towels, three eye bags, eight firm blankets, a broad  long yoga belt, a folding metal chair with the front rung removed, and two  sandbags. For home practice, she suggests substituting throw pillows, couch cushions, or large bags of rice or dry beans as improvised props.

Lasater proposes twelve asanas and their variants, for a total of twenty poses, with detailed instructions that occupy much of her 2017 book Restore and Rebalance. The poses are reclining or supported variants of Baddha Konasana, Balasana (child's pose), Uttanasana, Downward Dog, Prasarita Padottanasana (wide-legged forward bend), Urdhva Dhanurasana (upward bow), Setu Bandhasana (bridge), legs up the wall, Sarvangasana (shoulderstand), Halasana (plough), Urdhva Paschimottanasana (upward-facing forward bend), and Shavasana.

The yoga teacher Cyndi Lee suggests a short sequence of six asanas, all with the use of supports: reclining bound angle pose (Supta Baddha Konasana), legs up the wall (Viparita Karani), a prone twist with both knees to one side (Jathara Parivartanasana), a sitting forward bend (Paschimottanasana), child's pose (Balasana), and corpse pose (Shavasana, with or without supports).

Lee links the need for Restorative Yoga to the stress of modern life and the resulting habitual state of fight-or-flight, appropriate to emergencies but harmful when chronic. The biological response involves the hormone adrenaline signalling emergency, raising blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension, while resources are diverted from the digestive and reproductive systems, and from processes of cell growth and tissue repair; Restorative Yoga can in her view help to reverse that process. Lee describes yoga relaxation as combining the active quality of standing to attention in Tadasana with the passive quality of lying down like a corpse in Shavasana. The combination offers in her view a middle path, receptiveness.

Restorative Yoga

The goal of Restorative Yoga is to bring about physical, mental, and spiritual equilibrium. To help maintain a variety of yoga poses for longer lengths of time, props like blankets, bolsters, and blocks are used. As a result, the mind and body are able to completely unwind and recover from mental and emotional strain. Self-care, healing, and relaxation are all possible outcomes of practising Restorative Yoga. It's a great strategy as this yoga for stress relief improves your health and helps in lowering stress levels. For more..

Reception

Geraldine Beirne, writing in The Guardian, called Restorative Yoga "all about healing the mind and body through simple poses often held for as long as 20 minutes, with the help of props such as bolsters, pillows and straps".

The martial arts coach Eric C. Stevens, stating that he found being still more difficult than a "five mile run", was surprised to start the Restorative Yoga class with Shavasana, and to see so many props in use - blanket, pillow, eye bag, strap, blocks. He found his mind strongly challenged during the class, and he slept very soundly afterwards. He recommended the practice for people who feel close to burnout.

Difference from Yin Yoga

Restorative Yoga is mainly for practitioners suffering from injuries, stress, or illness, who therefore require a yoga practice that can bring them back to a better quality of life; classes are necessarily small so that each person can receive detailed attention to ensure they are safe and properly supported. Yin Yoga uses props in a similar way, and holds poses for similarly long periods, but is aimed mainly at healthy practitioners, and is taught in larger classes.

Claimed benefits

Claimed benefits, according to Jillian Pransky in Yoga Journal, include the skill of conscious relaxation through long-held, supported resting poses; discovering where tension is being held in the body, allowing focus on the breath; triggering the relaxation response, in which the body leaves its "fight or flight" and begins to experience the opposite, recuperative mode; and practising the ability to look inward, by stopping the focus of "doing" and instead practising "being."

See also

 Yoga as therapy

References

Sources

Further reading

External links
 Yoga International: Restorative Yoga without 'tons of props'

Yoga styles
Yoga as therapy


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Walker Art Gallery Features Senior Show, Now Through Nov 20, at UNK
John Fronczak
Three University of Nebraska at Kearney senior art majors have visual communication and design work on exhibit at the Walker Art Gallery now through Nov. 20.
The gallery, which is located in the UNK Fine Arts Building, is open 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. The gallery is free and open to the public.
According to John Fronczak, UNK Walker Art Gallery director, the students–Nate Eskra of Beatrice, Jared Muehlenkamp of McCook and Hiroki Takei of Japan— have all worked from six months to a year on the pieces featured in the exhibition.
"The Walker Art Gallery hosts senior exhibitions each fall and spring semester," Fronczak said. "The senior exhibition schedule is divided between the visual communications and design seniors, who show together in one block, and the art education and studio seniors, who will show together, or separately, depending on the number of students involved and the nature of their degree candidacy."
Eskra's segment of the show is titled, "The Competitive, an Independent Film Competition," and uses a print medium.
"I have designed a personal invite packet for VIPs who are attending the 'Worlds Most Exclusive Film Competition,'" Eskra said.
"Opening Day" is the title Muehlenkamp selected for his works, which use digital art or digital photography and computer programs to aid in the design.
"My show is about the relationship between the passion of baseball fans, and the tradition and dedication that the players share with each other," Muehlenkamp said. "I chose to design the Cape Cod Colonials minor league baseball team's uniform consisting of jerseys, pants and hats. I named the location of the team by looking back at history to the colonial people who started our country. America was a sort of a rebirth and that is in essence what 'Opening Day' is for fans and players: a rebirth, a fresh start."
The third senior, Takei, used the print medium to create "Travel Tour of Japan."
"This exhibit will be one portion of a promotion of a package tour around the world," Takei said. "In this exhibit, I focus on the Japan package tour and create a promotional campaign. I show some parts of the Japanese culture through my exhibit."
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My husband died unexpectedly in the fall of 2009, shortly after our 24th wedding anniversary. This began my journey of seeking the Lord and what he would have for my life.
As I began working through my grief in the fall/winter of 2009, I spent much time in prayer and in January 2010 I began to start writing my prayers. Handwriting was a slow, tedious process for me as I type so much faster than I can write. I began to sit in the evenings, put on my praise and worship music, and turn my thoughts to the Lord and would begin to type my prayers to Him. This became a very special time and as the days and weeks moved on, I began to see that some of the words or phrases that I wrote were not ones that I would normally use. I felt that the Holy Spirit was speaking to me through my written words and I looked forward to the time that I spent with the Father as I wrote in my prayer journal.
That spring began some twists and turns in my life, and I fell away from my typed prayers, but in January 2012 I felt the Lord's leading me back into spending more prayer time with Him. I changed my time of prayer to the morning before I began my day, and it was during one of these times that the Lord brought to mind the concept of this website.
My time that morning was devoted to something completely different, but during my journaling time came the thought of using pretty "paper" to type my prayers. I set it aside and tried to again go back to what I thought that I wanted to pray about, but other thoughts of the website kept coming to me so I began to type what the Lord brought to mind. My creativity is very limited and I know that the Lord has been the designer of what you now see, and I give him the honor and the glory for this creation.
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Q: Render one or another column only if data is present? I'm a relative newbie working on SP2013 w/o SPD. I have a lookup column for NAMEPD and a text column for NAME NOT FOUND on the same list. NAMEPD is a simple dropdown choice, NAME NOT FOUND is there for the user to input a name in case one is not in the NAMEPD. Is there a calculated column method for displaying the data from either of these columns if data is present?
I have creating a calculated column named NAME1 with the formula =[NAMEPD]&" "&[NAME NOT FOUND] but get the following error:

"One or more column references are not allowed, because the columns
  are defined as a data type that is not supported in formulas."

Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: Unfortunately, you are not allowed to reference Lookup Fields in Calculated Columns (w/o SPD). Details can be found in
Use a LookUp field in a Calculated Column
You can definitely accomplish this with SPD and a simple workflow if you'd like (this process is mentioned in the answer).


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Williams' scores for the Star Wars saga count among the most widely known and popular contributions to modern film music, and utilize a symphony orchestra and features an assortment of about fifty recurring musical themes to represent characters and other plot elements: one of the largest caches of themes in the history of film music.The scores are primarily performed by a symphony orchestra of varying size joined, in several sections, by a choir of varying size. They each make extensive use of the leitmotif, or a series of musical themes that represents the various characters, objects and events in the films. The scores utilize an eclectic variety of musical styles, many culled from the Late Romantic idiom of Richard Strauss and his contemporaries that itself was incorporated into the Golden Age Hollywood scores of Erich Korngold and Max Steiner. The reasons for this are known to involve George Lucas's desire to allude to the underlying fantasy element of the narrative rather than the science-fiction setting, as well as to ground the otherwise strange and fantastic setting in well-known, audience-accessible music. Indeed, Lucas maintains that much of the films' success relies not on advanced visual effects, but on the simple, direct emotional appeal of its plot, characters and, importantly, music. Lucas originally wanted to use tracked orchestral and film music in a similar manner to 2001: A Space Odyssey, itself a major inspiration for Star Wars. Williams, however, advised to form a soundtrack with recurring musical themes to augment the story, while Lucas's choice of music could be used as a temporary track for Williams to base his musical choices on. This resulted in several nods or homages to the music of Gustav Holst, William Walton, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky in the score to Star Wars.
Star Wars was one of the film scores that heralded the revival of grand symphonic scores in the late 1970s. One technique that particularly influenced these scores is Williams' use of the leitmotif, which was most famously associated with the operas of Richard Wagner and, in early film scores, with Steiner. A leitmotif is a phrase or melodic cell that signifies a character, place, plot element, mood, idea, relationship or other specific part of the film. It is commonly used in modern film scoring as a device for mentally anchoring certain parts of a film to the soundtrack. Of chief importance for a leitmotif is that it must be strong enough for a listener to latch onto while being flexible enough to undergo variation and development along the progression of the story. The more varied and nuanced the use of leitmotif is, the more memorable it typically becomes. A good example of this is the way in which Williams subtly conceals the intervals of "The Imperial March" within "Anakin's Theme" in The Phantom Menace, implying his dark future to come. Also important is the density in which leitmotifs are used: the more leitmotifs are used in a piece of a given length, the more thematically rich it is considered to be. Film music, however, typically needs to strike a balance between in terms of the number of leitmotives used, so as to not become too dense for the audience (being preoccupied with the visuals) to follow. Williams' music of Star Wars is unique in that it is relatively dense for film scoring, with approximately 11 themes used in each two-hour film, of which about 90% is scored.
Each score can be said to have a "main theme", which is developed and repeated frequently throughout the film, often to unusual extents (such as the frequency in which The Imperial March is revisited during Empire Strikes Back). Besides the main theme and a handful of other principal themes, Williams forged several smaller motifs for each episode, which are generally not as memorable and at times interchangeable. A main theme for the franchise exists as well (which is the music of the main titles), but a main theme does not exist to represent a particular trilogy. Instead, each trilogy (and to a lesser extent, each film) has its own style or soundscape. Williams' use of his themes in Star Wars is at times romantic rather than strictly thematic, the themes sometimes being used randomly because their mood fits a certain scene, rather than for a narrative purpose. For instance, the theme for Luke Skywalker is also used as the main theme for the entire franchise, as well as a generic "heroic theme" in conjunction with various characters without any connection to its namesake. Princess Leia's Theme is used for the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars, which has little to do with her character even though she is present in the scene. Yoda's Theme appears several times during the Cloud City sequences in The Empire Strikes Back. The concert piece "Duel of the Fates" is used several times throughout the prequel trilogy, appearing over the entire final battle in The Phantom Menace (as opposed to just the lightsaber duel for which it was written); Anakin Skywalker's search for his mother in Attack of the Clones; and the unrelated Yoda and Darth Sidious's duel in Revenge of the Sith. Williams' original composition for the Geonosis Battle Arena in Attack of the Clones, a variation on the Droid Army March, was used for the Utapau assault in Revenge of the Sith.
Multiple uses of other main themes are more thematic. The Rebel Fanfare is applied to the Millennium Falcon throughout the original Star Wars, The Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi. It is also used for R2-D2's heroics during the opening action scene in Revenge of the Sith. Kylo Ren's secondary theme, meant to evoke his more conflicted side, but since he quickly makes his allegiances clear, its generally used in tandem with his fanfare to evoke his menace, instead. The Emperor's theme is used in The Last Jedi when Supreme Leader Snoke tortures Rey. Even the melodic connections between some of the themes sometimes do not represent a straightforward dramatic purpose, such as the connection of "Across the Stars" to Count Dooku's motif and the Battle of Geonosis in Attack of the Clones. In fact, Some of Williams' themes are written from the outset purely to convey a certain mood rather than evoke a character or setting, such as the Throne Room music of the original Star Wars or the Pursuit motif from The Force Awakens. Williams' Star Wars catalogue remains one of the largest collections of leitmotifs in the history of cinema, although – for comparison – it still falls short of Wagner's use of leitmotifs in the Ring Cycle or even Howard Shore's work on the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films. Both works feature many more themes for a similar or shorter running time; and use the themes more clearly and with more nuance, where Williams prefers to write fewer themes (to allow him to focus on them better) and use them in a more straightforward manner and sometimes, solely for their romantic effect. Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He's also not done yet: in the next few years there's the small matter of scoring Star Wars Episode IX and Indiana Jones 5…
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Calmgrove April 14, 2019 at 8:40 am #
I do hope you will dedicate a post to Howard Shore (namechecked here) in as much loving detail as you've done for Williams. And I'm pleased you've clarified how it is that echoes of other composers' works (Holst, Walton etc) crop up in the score for Episode IV, the original film in the franchise.
ashsilverlock April 14, 2019 at 8:43 am #
Already done! See: https://ashsilverlock.com/2012/09/07/the-music-of-howard-shore/
Yay! Thanks.
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From July 2012 to July 2020 I was Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Division of the Centre for Economic Research and Teaching, CIDE (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, CIDE, AC) based out of CIDE Region Centro in Aguascalientes, Mexico, where I am now affiliate faculty (and still teach some courses). I am now affiliate faculty, and from 2006 until 2012 I was a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at The University of British Columbia and affiliated faculty in the Latin American Studies Program at UBC . From January 2010 until February 2011, I also held the position of Regional Director, Western Canada, for the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) while also being CIELAP's Lead Researcher on Water and Climate Change.
I have been Editor for the Americas of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, I'm Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Sciences and Studies, Assistant Editor of Policy Design and Practice, and I sit on the editorial boards of Policy & Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Global Environmental Politics, Water International; Politics, Groups and Identities; Administrative Theory & Praxis; Journal of Environmental Sciences and Studies, Case Studies on the Environment, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, International Studies Review, and the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. I am also a National Researcher (Level 1) in Mexico's National Researchers System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, SNI) of the National Council for Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACyT). I'm also a member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics network of researchers and practitioners and I sit on the Steering Committee of the Household Water Insecurity Research Coordination Network (HWISE-RCN).
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Amicus Curiae Granted Permission To Appear Before The Supreme Court Regarding State's Refusal To Permit Retired Firefighter To Name Special Needs Trust As Beneficiary Of Pension Benefit For His Disabled Child
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On March 13, 2013, the highest court of our state granted my Petition for Certification, in which I asked the Supreme Court to consider the case of a retired fireman and his continuing battle to conduct estate planning for the benefit of his severely disabled son. This is the second time the Supreme Court has granted my request for certification and accepted this case for review. I previously blogged about this case, and the most recent petition for certification, here.
I am pleased to report that on October 24, 2013, the Supreme Court granted motions of several non-profit organizations to appear and argue in the case on behalf of their organizations, as amicus curiae. An amicus curiae, or "friend of the court," may ask to appear in a case based on the public importance of the case, and the special interest or expertise that the amicus curiae can bring to the case. Here, the Guardianship Association of New Jersey, Inc. ("GANJI"), the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. ("NAELA"), the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, New Jersey Chapter ("NAELA-NJ"), and the Special Needs Alliance ("SNA") were all granted permission to appear as amicus curiae. All of these organizations filed briefs urging the Supreme Court to reverse the Appellate Division's decision.
GANJI is a state-wide organization of professionals and others committed to supporting guardians and assisting persons with disabilities. NAELA-NJ assists lawyers, bar organizations and others who advocate for the legal rights of the aged and disabled. GANJI and NAELA-NJ have filed a joint brief, in which their counsel (Daniel J. Jurkovic, Esq. and Robert F. Brogan, Esq.) argue that the Appellate Division's decision restricts the autonomy of the disabled, noting that, although he is not in need of a guardian, the firefighter's disabled son might have to have a guardian appointed, merely to receive the PFRS survivor benefit check. GANJI/NAELA-NJ asks that the matter be remanded to the PFRS agency to promulgate regulations that allow these survivor benefits to be paid to a "sole benefit" trust.
NAELA assists lawyers, bar organizations and others who advocate for the legal rights of the aged and disabled. Its attorney, John W. Callinan, Esq., argues that the disabled have a right to maximize their entitlement to government benefits, that a first-party SNT is merely an extension of the firefighter's disabled son, and that he should be permitted to have the PFRS benefits payable to a first-party SNT.
SNA is an organization that assists lawyers, bar organizations and others who advocate for the legal rights of those needing the protection of special needs trusts. Its counsel (Shirley B. Whitenack, Esq., Of Counsel and Ron M. Landsman, Esq., On the Brief) argues that the retired firefighter should be permitted to establish a first-party SNT, and that the PFRS benefits be paid to that trust.
I welcome the significant insight and expertise that the amicus curiae bring to this case, which is expected to be argued before the Supreme Court this winter.