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ELSS vs PPF – What Should You Choose?
Lock in 15 years – withdrawals are allowed after 5 years. 3 Years – there is no lock in for amounts invested more than 3 years prior to the date of withdrawal.
Example For Investor A, whose Income for the year was Rs. 9,50,000. If he invests up to Rs. 1,50,000 in his PPF account, his Taxable Income for the year will be Rs. 8,00,000. Further the 8.1% p.a. interest income that he will make, will be exempt from income tax. When Investor A withdraws his corpus, the entire sum in his hand will be tax free. For Investor A, whose Income for the year was Rs. 9,50,000. If he invests up to Rs. 1,50,000 in ELSS units, his Taxable Income for the year will be Rs. 8,00,000. 3 years later when Investor A sells his ELSS units, any profit that he makes on the transaction will be tax free.
For anyone who invests the entire Rs. 1,50,000 annually in a tax saving instrument under section 80C, AND wants to keep doing it for long term, ELSS is far ahead of all other options.
Here's a look at actual performance for someone who started investing in Franklin Templeton's ELSS scheme in 2006, compared with a similar investment in a PPF account. Keep also in mind that, ELSS schemes invest almost entirely in equity stocks of companies. The last 10 years have been particularly poor for equity markets in India and around the world and yet when compare an ELSS vs PPF schemes, the returns are quite startling.
As thumb rule, invest in ELSS only when you are certain that you can continue the practice for at least 5+ years. For investments of shorter duration, you may choose PPF accounts. For this reason, investors who are young and in their working years are often advised to look at ELSS over PPF compared to older investors/ retirees.
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Nepali Swimmers Break National Records at World Championships
At the ongoing 17th FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, two Nepali swimmers, Anubhav Subba and Shuvam Shrestha, set new national marks in the 50m butterfly and 100m breaststroke events respectively.
Subba completed the 50m butterfly event in 28.26 seconds and finished fourth in Heat 1 on Sunday. He is also scheduled to participate in 100m freestyle event on Wednesday. The earlier national record in the 50m butterfly category was held by Chandra Singh Mahato since 2009.
In the 100m breaststroke event, Shuvam Shrestha swam in 1 minute and 11.34 seconds and finished sixth in the field. Shuvam, who broke the 13-year-old national record set by Alish Shrestha at the Athens Olympics in 2004, will next participate in the 50m breaststroke event on Saturday
In the women's section, Sofia Shah and Tisa Shakya are representing Nepal. While Shah will participate in the 50m and 100m freestyle events, Shakya will take part in the 100m breaststroke and 200m freestyle events.
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Lamar Jackson responds to racist remarks with win over Buffalo
Morgan Smith 12/10/2019 Football, Sports
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Earlier in the week, a certain someone made remarks towards the success of Lamar Jackson's read-option scheme was due to his "dark skin color with a dark football."
The person making these racial implications is Tim Ryan, an announcer for the 49ers radio broadcast. His comments were made in response to the San Francisco 49ers loss to the Baltimore Ravens the previous week.
"He's really good at that fake, Lamar Jackson, but when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football with a dark uniform, you could not see that thing," Ryan said.
The quote from Tim Ryan earned himself a suspension from calling the San Francisco game against the Saints this past Sunday. The team and Tim Ryan later apologized in statements released by the organization.
"I regret my choice of words in trying to describe the conditions of the game," Ryan said in an apology released by the team. "Lamar Jackson is an MVP-caliber player, and I respect him greatly. I want to apologize to him sincerely and anyone else I offended."
The response Lamar Jackson made to Tim Ryan, radio host for the San Francisco 49ers, was more on the field, showing off a white long sleeve shirt in the first half of the game.
"I got ticked off going into halftime, so I was like, 'I'll take them off and just play ball."
QB @Lj_Era8 talks about ditching the long sleeves at halftime. pic.twitter.com/sQuT4sDGn6
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) December 8, 2019
Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens took went into New York and won against current wildcard seeded Buffalo Bills in a 24-17 game, keeping their spot on top of the AFC. The Ravens make it nine wins in a row and are becoming the team to beat in the NFL. His performance was nothing special, but putting opposing Bills players onto the ground with numerous juke moves while wearing the white long-sleeved shirt showed that maybe he is just the league's hardest player to tackle at the quarterback position we may have ever seen.
The Ravens quarterback joined some elite company this past weekend, making him and Micheal Vick as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 rushing yards during the regular season. Lamar is on pace to easily smash that record and push his team to reach another AFC North title and the best overall record in the NFL to obtain home-field advantage throughout the playoffs down to Miami for Superbowl LIV.
THAT JUKE. @Lj_Era8 | #ProBowlVote pic.twitter.com/K01go8m2xD
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FB Comment on blog: fukushima alert. act now or rest in peace.
What do you suggest we can do over something which has occurred already?
Hi … There are no simple solutions. Worse, the reactors are still running, burning towards the water table in the dirt under the reactors. All require the nuclear powers and the broader international communities to come together NOW, on diplomatic, humanitarian and military levels and more.
If the nuclear powers and other governments continue to fail, the people must come together. The reactors must be under water.
The surface of the water is the only thing radiation cannot escape from, other than a few radioactive gases. This is the only hope for humanity. Scientists around the world know this.
We have extreme censorship and misinformation happening around the world. The reactors must be dropped into the sea, via military means, with immediate evacuations and diplomacy. To have allowed the reactors to contaminate the planet for going on 10 months facilitates this extinction level event.
The first, and most important matter, is to elevate awareness of this situation…. to everyone and to anyone who will listen.
Secondly, as referenced in this blog and the earlier posted Open Letter to the Emperor of Japan, the Samurai, the Yakuza and the President of the United States, certain countries have the means to put the reactors into the sea. None have apparently come forth yet, and there is no knowing of whether or not discussions have, are or will take place.
Third, we have issues of responsibility, and requirements for criminal investigations for high crimes against humanity, to include participants from Japan, the USA, and elsewhere. The allegations surrounding this incident do not lead thinking people to believe it was in any way, shape or form an 'accident'. Citizen's Tribunals organized from outside the USA and Japan may be the required initial step for investigations and hearings, which are, in my opinion, secondary to solving the melting down reactors situation, guaranteed to kill millions and millions, and likely billions, in the not distant future….
It's an extinction level event; THE REACTORS MUST BE UNDER WATER NOW.
Put reactors under sea? Which dumbass proposed that? Yeah, let's contaminate the world ocean with radiation! Sounds like a good crackpot idea, which is physically impossible.
I have seen Chernobyl. My dad was there, he is 45 and still kicking. At Chernobyl reactor fuel rods melted and needed to be extracted manually. Dozens of people did not had proper defensive clothing and training. I had also seen the damage on Fukushima plant – that looks like a minor damage compairing to 1986 video.
With all worldwide damage and panic, the Earth handled it (amazingly!) and the humanity did as well. I think the radiation background is much higher at Nevada or Arizona – at local nuke test sites.
I salute your effort, i started my blog also to raise awareness on this issue. We might be on the 'dark matter' stage, an alchemist might appear..
Hi, thank you for your kind reply. I look forward to checking out your blog also. Write on. "The field is large; the toilers are few." I wrote a longer reply, but somehow it didn't post. I will comment on your blog when I have had a chance to take a look.


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Herman's Texas Longhorns could be Alamo Bowl-bound
Kirk Bohls
kbohls@statesman.com
While I got ya, here are nine things and one crazy prediction:
1. Unless it gets into and wins the Big 12 championship game, Texas is looking more and more like a strong fit for the Alamo Bowl to play Washington, Washington State or Utah. But there's still an outside chance as many as three Big 12 teams could find themselves in the New Year's Six games. The Alamo, to be played on Dec. 28, pays out more than $4 million per school and would be thrilled with landing Texas for the first time since 2013. But that bowl has never had Oklahoma, West Virginia or Iowa State, and all three would travel greater distance and spend more hotel nights in San Antonio than the nearby Longhorns. West Virginia played Utah in last year's Heart of Dallas Bowl, so that could be a factor, and also has played twice in the Lone Star State already in Austin and Lubbock. "The last four years, there's been only four top-15 (ranked) matchups outside the CFP, and we've had all four of them, and it looks like we'll have a top-20 matchup this year," Alamo spokesman Rick Hill said. He said they'll consider head-to-head matchups, potential storylines and star power of the players. You've got to figure a Washington State-Texas pairing would be sexy with the newly mustachioed Mike Leach on one sideline. But the Cougars are still hopeful of a New Year's Six date. Hill said the Alamo Bowl has had 10 games since 2005 that have come down to final two possessions of the game. That sounds right up Texas' alley.
2. If there's anyone searching for a new athletic director, I'd like to recommend John Currie. He's available after getting fired by dysfunctional Tennessee following less than a year on the job when the Volunteers' search for a head football coach went awry. Currie made for a convenient scapegoat and deserved much better. The former Kansas State athletic director, who was at that school for eight years, was at Texas' basketball game Monday night at the invitation of Texas' Chris Del Conte. Currie has been hired by Texas as a consultant on the school's major capital campaign, something he's doing with a number of schools. He's also been to Georgia Southern and South Carolina. "I have tremendous respect for John and what he did at Kansas State and for his entire career," Del Conte said. "What he did at Kansas State was phenomenal."
3. The Longhorns basketball team has some work to do. Yes, it's 3-0 but hasn't shot the ball well (24 of 81 threes, 29.6 percent) and isn't getting the most out of sophomores Jericho Sims and Matt Coleman. But Shaka Smart likes the early contributions from new guards in freshman Courtney Ramey from St. Louis and Eli Mitrou-Long from Mount St. Mary's. "I like him a lot. He has a moxie," Smart said of Ramey. "He has a pure heart about how to play the game, and that goes a long, long way, in terms that will be infectious." Smart said Monday night he wasn't happy with Mitrou-Long's first-half play but added, "Then, we got on the same page. He obviously gave us a good spark." Amen to that. Texas looks to be offensively challenged (again) but one that's very athletic, can bang inside, will press more than every before and can get to the rim. ... Del Conte said he wasn't worried about the lagging attendance at home games because of great season ticket sales. Texas has sold 6,176 of them.
4. Charles Omenihu isn't sure whether he'll cry on Senior Night or not. "I'm not a fortune-teller," the Texas defensive end said. "I live day to day." He obviously will play in the NFL. After that, "I think I may go on TV or in management for a college or pro team. I think I've got a nice face for TV." ... Senior nose tackle Chris Nelson said, "I'll never forget that first summer when I was a freshman. It was the worst. We were supposed to run a mile-and-a-half on the track. I ran two laps and thought I'd run six. I just lay there." ... I'm wondering if part of the misfortunes of the defense is overwork. In an attempt to be the most physical team, is it possible Tom Herman's teams hit too much during the week and wear themselves out? Their fourth-quarter fades have become legendary.
5. If I were college football czar, I would institute two bye weeks for every team. Wouldn't that be highly beneficial to player safety? ... Who has the most receptions without a drop this season? Washington State's Easop Winston Jr. leads the nation with 43 catches and no drops. Fifth on the list? None other than Texas' Devin Duvernay, who has 31 catches without a drop.
6. The Golden State Warriors are offering a monthly "In The Building Pass" for $100 a month. Just to get into the Oracle Arena for every home game. Yikes. You don't get a seat. You aren't allowed into the seating bowl to find an empty seat. You do have access to the arena's bars and restaurants where you can watch the game on television. I've got a better solution. Come to my house for only $50 a month and pay for overpriced drinks. There's one born every minute. Of course, the Warriors do have 44,000 people on their season-ticket waiting list.
7. Texas expects to sign 15 baseball players to national letters of intent Wednesday, including Lake Travis infielder Brett Baty, the 2018 Texas Gatorade player of the year, and outfielder Douglas Hodo III, whose father Doug was a starting outfielder on the Longhorns' 1983 College World Series champions.
8. Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to Greg Lott, the former Texas quarterback whose girlfriend was Farrah Fawcett.
9. Almost finished the last season of "House of Cards." I've loved this series of political intrigue, and the soundtrack is the best ever for a television show, but it went just too dark this season. Love Doug Stamper, but way too much Robin Wright talking to the camera. Giving this season only six ducks.
10. Crazy prediction: The Houston Texans will sign running back Le'Veon Bell in the offseason.


The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh, visited Capel-le-Ferne and Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. She opened a new Battle of Britain visitor center and at Canterbury Cathedral, the couple attended a service and unveiled statues of themselves created for the Diamond Jubilee.
For more: BBC article, KentOnline video, Zimbio gallery.
She wore one of Queen Victoria's brooches on the day the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 goes into effect, giving women an equal spot in the line of succession. It's one of her regulars anyway, obviously, but I prefer to consider it a cheeky sovereign queen high five.


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We had so much fun last time we mashed it up again with our friends Nature Baby & Natural Ange.
The Nature Baby and All Good Bananas MASH UP event took place on Tuesday June 11! Naturopath Natural Ange shared her wisdom for mums with younger babies moving on to first foods.
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Steve McManaman, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Family, ESPN, Net Worth, Wife, Children
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Steve McManaman Biography/Wiki
Steve McManaman is one of England's most decorated footballers who played as a winger for Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Manchester City. Furthermore, he won the FA Cup and League Cup and then moved to Real Madrid in 1999. Not to mention, that Steve became the first English player to win the UEFA Champions League with a non-English club in 2000. Nonetheless, he also won La Liga twice before moving to Manchester City in 2003. Moreover, he retired in 2005. Therefore, he is currently working at ESPN where he serves as a soccer analyst.
Steve McManaman Age/Birthday
He was born in Bootle England in the year 1972 February 11. Therefore, he is currently 50 years old as of 2022. In addition, McManaman celebrates her birthday each and every year on February 11th with her family and close friends.
He has a moderate and average body by the looking of her image. Moreover, her body height measurements stand at 6 feet 0 inch (1.83m).
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Steve McManaman Family/Early Life
Steve was born in Bootle England in the year 1972 February 11. However, he grew up as an Everton supporter, with his boyhood heroes in football being the Everton players Bob Latchford and Duncan McKenzie. Furthermore, he is the son of Irene McManaman.
Steve McManaman ESPN/Career
He joins the ESPN team after his retirement in 2005. Therefore, he started working as a football pundit for Setanta Sports, ESPN, and BT Sport. However, he joins ESPN full-time in August 2010 as the primary match analyst for Barclays Premier League and studio analyst for international matches on ESPN networks in the United States. Not to mention, Steve also contributes analysis on select events as an ESPN UK pundit.
Nevertheless, McManaman comes to ESPN after earning critical acclaim for his studio analysis during the company's award-winning presentation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Moreover, Steve made history by becoming the first player without first-team experience to play for the England Under-21 team. Furthermore, he signed as a professional with Liverpool FC in 1990 and after making 364 appearances for the club, Steve transferred to Real Madrid in July 1999. Additionally, he became just the second English player to ever play for the Spanish team.
McManaman went back to the English Premier League and signed with Manchester City in 2003, after four years with Real Madrid. Not to mention, that he was listed as high as 6th on the list of highest-earning footballers in the world and is believed to have pocketed an estimated 15 million Euros in his four years with Madrid, this is according to Forbes Magazine in 2001.
He is a retired footballer currently working at ESPN where he serves as an analyst. Not to mention, that he becomes part of the team in the year 2005 after his retirement. Additionally, Steve played as a winger. Moreover, it has been reported that he has a net worth of $18 million dollars.
Steve McManaman Wife
He is happily married to his wife Victoria Edwards. Furthermore, the two are proud parents of three kids.
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Moreover, it has been reported that he has a net worth of $18 million dollars.
who is Steve McManaman's wife?
He is happily married to his wife Victoria Edwards
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Moreover, her body height measurements stand at 6 feet 0 inch (1.83m).
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Steve McManaman is one of England's most decorated footballers who played as a winger for Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Manchester City. Furthermore, he won the FA Cup and League Cup and then moved to Real Madrid in 1999.
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THE worst thing about flying up the pointy end of a plane (a real #firstworldproblem) is that you never want to go back to flying any other way.
The sheer thrill and the internal shriek factor I felt inside (a feeling I tried to cooly hide when my upgraded boarding pass was handed over at Los Angeles airport last week) made me nearly cry. Tears of joy.
First class travel is up there in bucket list land. Chances are most of us will just dream about it. But when I was invited to try it out on the sky's big boy, a Qantas A380, on a flight back from Los Angeles, I came home with some very bad news. It totally rocks. And here's why.
As soon as you check in you make your way to the lounge. Not just any old lounge but the FIRST class lounge, which in itself makes you feel like you have joined the smarty pants society. A glass of champagne and anything you like from the lounge restaurant — one croque monsieur thanks — and it was time to board.
Once on board, and yes, there is absolutely NO queue when you are ushered toward the left of the plane. Well, actually even though you board via the front doors, you actually turn right when you're travelling first on an A380. Small detail. But hey, it's first class, so who cares?
OK, so I'm on board.
As soon as I perch myself in my seat (more a suite than a seat) a chilled glass of real deal champagne is gently popped into my hand. It is served, not with a teeny pack of pretzels or peanuts but with two exquisite canapés — a caviar tartlet and a crostini with salsa verde and pickled fennel — all put on a small tray that is above 2J's magazine holder.
A perky champagne and a caviar canape. Cheers.
Oh and you pretty much have your own flight attendant too.
My seat is a fully fledged flat bed that rotates so it turns to where your 17-inch TV screen sits, which is just on top of a small extra seat. Or, it can be a foot rest if you are really, really tall.
For most first flyers, the extra seat is there in case you would like to invite a neighbour/partner/travelling buddy/husband/whoever over for dinner and a chat. Personally, I'm happy with my own company for the next 14 or so hours.
My understated and impeccably mannered flight attendant, Sunita came and made up my bed even before we left. And just after that I strapped myself in with a belt that resembled a car seat — the whole, over-the-shoulder extravaganza.
As I was flying from Los Angeles to Sydney — an overnight flight — it was clever for Sunita to make my bed up before I decided to munch on some supper. Saved all the getting up and standing around thing later on.
My choice of mushroom soup with sourdough croutons, a Penfolds Shiraz and a tagliatelle bolognese (OK, I was hungry) was simply sensational and with the addition of Pepe Saya butter (he's a butter artisan from NSW) it made the meal seem even more special and Neil Perry-esque than if I was having it on land.
I watched one movie, about six brilliant episodes of Emmy-award winning Veep (well, I had just come back from covering the Emmy Awards) and then, without having to count sheep, I blissfully fell asleep.
● There is a serious calm and feeling of luxe in first class. It's like you are the only king or queen of the world for those precious hours and no matter what you ask for, it's quietly and elegantly attended to.
● A first class seat or pod (there are 15 of them on an A380) takes up about four economy seats so, yes, there is room. Serious room. And as there are no overhead lockers I could have my on-board flight bag within constant reach, which I loved.
● Chic, dark grey PJs: Serious first classers zip straight to the bathroom as soon as the charcoal PJs are handed to them for a quick changeover. I, on the other hand, hang onto them and took them home as my, well, comfy, at-home lounge wear.
● These are serious seats; they swivel 75 degrees, they lie totally flat, give you a massage and one moment you're facing the front of the plane and the next you've swivelled like you're on a seat on The Voice. Next, you've reclined yourself into a flat bed. Oh, and did I tell you that your made-up bed includes a large cotton pillow, a smaller pillow, a seriously comfy and homey duvet, a woollen blanket and cotton sheet that has been fitted over a sheepskin-covered foam mattress? I felt like I was in a very, VERY comfy baby's pram.
● Loved the mobile charger; the "time to destination" counter; the privacy screens; very smart amenity bags with SK-II products, a small mirror and the trusty toothbrush and toothpaste, which I always forget to bring with me.
● I loved spending at least 30 minutes getting to know my first class digs, especially the aforementioned "time to destination" tablet that doubles as your seat adjuster, entertainment controller, light switch, massage boss and flight path.
● Oh and did I mention that first class peeps are first to get off the plane, which made me feel even more like a rock star than when I first walked on.
Brekkie time: freshly made Buttermilk pancakes and raspberries. As you do.
● After a 6am arrival — and those pancakes (see above!) — I zipped home, unpacked, put the washing on and felt perky enough to come to the office for the day. Now that's a mega bonus.
On a side note — OK, a rather big one — it pays to remember that using your points can get you up the pointy end, if you have paid for a full fare ticket. So, if you are in the business of frequent flying and those points are accumulating, hey, give it a go.
The only bad news is, well, there really isn't any.
The Qantas A380 aircraft operates services from Sydney and Melbourne to Los Angeles and Dubai, Sydney to Hong Kong, and Dubai to London with its codeshare partner Emirates.
Melissa Hoyer was upgraded by Qantas: the staff probably saw how tired she looked as she checked in.


An on-call doctor is available to help, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, complimentary transportation is handy for residents, full tubs are available, and this location was renovated in 2013.
Physical therapy can be done without leaving the community by a visiting physical therapist, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, high tech wander guards can prevent memory care residents from leaving the property, staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be handled, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
Speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, high tech wander guards are installed to prevent memory care residents from leaving the property, the community is secured for the safety of patients that might be prone to wander, caregivers at Foxwood Springs can address potential disorientation presented by residents, and staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be handled.
Professional nurses are on staff to help you, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, speech therapy is available on-site by a visiting speech therapist, the community is secured for the safety of memory care patients that might be prone to wander, and hospice is an option available at this location.
Vegetarian food options are available for all meals, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, the community is secured for the safety of memory care residents that might be exit seeking, wheelchair accessible showers are available at this location, and respite care is offered.
High tech wander guards are installed to prevent residents from wandering off the property, staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be handled, resident parking is available to residents who drive, complimentary transportation is on hand for residents, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
The minimum allowable age of residents is 55, an on-call doctor is available to help, hospice is an option available at this location, respite care is offered, and aging in place allows residents to remain in one location as their care needs change.
Staff is trained to deal with any exit seeking behaviors that may need to be dealt with, the staff speaks Armenian in the community, the staff speaks Chinese in the community, the staff speaks German in the community, and the staff speaks American Sign Language in the community.


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"This image was shot for Theatre Royal Stratford East's Olivier Award-nominated production of Katori Hall's play Our Lady of Kibeho.
The shoot was one of my favourite of 2019, but was a tough ask, with the play's subject being a foreshadowing of the Rwandan genocide: "In 1981 at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary who warned her of the unimaginable: Rwanda becoming hell on Earth. She was ignored by her friends and scolded by her school but then another student saw the vision, and another, and the impossible appeared to be true."
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Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness in Scotland.
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Scottish Coo (highlands cow).
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View from the Edinburgh Castle in Scotland.
Grounds of the Edinburgh Castle in Scotland.
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Bagpiper on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
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A street in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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R. Newton - Do any of you really "get" this game. It's groundbreaking!First of all let me confess that I'm only into the 2nd level of Spore, but I wanted to write a note here to help people who are considering buying it. With all due respect to a lot of the reviewers, I don't think they grasp how this game is truly groundbreaking. There's a reason it took so many years to create. There's never been anything like Spore out there. If you go into the first level looking for either: 1. Hard evolutionary science. 2. Halo style challenge and excitement, you're going to be disappointed. If you go into Spore with no preconceptions, and you allow yourself to be taken on the journey that the creators imagined, you're going to have your mind blown. I'm a big gamer, and this is as close to gaming nirvana that I've ever had. You're literally playing god, and no other game has ever allowed you the power to control a character and its world that this game allows. The incredible ability for your character to walk/swim/fly in a certain way depending on how YOU have designed it is shocking. Again, never before in any other game.
This game will blow your mind, but you have to surrender to it and let it do its thing. Don't try to compare it to other first person games. It's like all the people who said the Wii would never catch on because the graphics sucked. Then all of us who played it went back and said, dude, you don't get it, it's not about the graphics, it's about the experience. Spore is about the experience, a whole new experience.
To Will Wright and the crew. Extremely well done. You done good. You made history.
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The more than 30 years of experience of our expert team in the field of commodities, resulted in 2007 to the foundation of Elementum Deutschland GmbH – your competent partner for investments (purchase and sale) in physical silver, gold and other precious metals.
Since then, another 5 independent Elementum companies have been established throughout Europe for the precious metal world. Among others in Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Portugal. This resulted in the Elementum Group.
With 7 own initiated products and over 50,000 customers, 7 annual congresses have already been organized.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Bagus
Elementum International AG
Philipp Bagus is Professor of Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. His research focuses on monetary and economic theory. His work has published in international journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Independent Review, American Journal of Economics & Sociology, and many others. His research was awarded the O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship, the Sir John M. Templeton Fellowship, the IREF Essay Prize and the Ludwig Erhard Prize 2016. Philipp Bagus is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany. He is a multiple author, such as "We can do it – alone!" (2017), "Why others are getting richer at ýour expense – and what role the state and our paper money plays" (2014), "The Tragedy of the Euro: A System Destroys Itself" (2011).
Thorsten Schulte
Thorsten Schulte aka "Der Silberjunge" is probably the best-known silver expert in Germany. In late 2010, his book "Silver – The Better Gold", which already exceeded the mark of 20,000 copies sold in the first half of 2012. In November 2011, his second book "Saving Assets – Invest In Silver" was published. In mid-2017, he published the bestseller "Loss Of Control: Who threatens us and how we protect ourselves", which was number one in the Spiegel bestseller list for several weeks.
Manfred Batliner
Manfred Batliner (trustee and innovation manager MBI, politician) is the Managing Director of the Unternehmerzentrum AG founded in Liechtenstein in 1999. As a former Managing Director of the Liechtenstein Chamber of Commerce, his areas of expertise include innovation management, fiduciary, finance and accounting. His generational awareness and political activity as a member of parliament in Liechtenstein from 2009-2017, as well as his membership at numerous associations and organizations, are the basis of his team-oriented, economic and social actions.
Honorary President since 2017
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Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Prof. Dr. Bocker held professorships in business administration and was active on many fronts with his dual education in technology and business. As a cosmopolitan, he worked as a consultant, author, financial and business journalist and columnist and has been working for decades on the topics of precious metals and mines.
Stephan Bogner
Diplom-Kaufmann Stephan Bogner began his business studies at the ISM Dortmund, Germany, in 1998 and was one of many who was enthusiastic about Prof. Bocker's lectures on economics and the financial system. Mr. Bogner was the first (and so far the only) student at that university who wrote a diploma thesis on the subject of precious metals as an effective inflation protection.
Mark Luitz
Mark Luitz has been a sought-after professional in the field of stock exchanges and precious metals sectors for many years. Early on, he began to recognize the trend of commodities and currency metals. Since 2004, Mr. Luitz has been a trader for an asset management company specializing in commodities (including energy).
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Founder Elementum International AG
Günther Luitz has been familiar with the topics of real estate, finance, securities, insurance and precious metals for more than 40 years and is also well-connected with experts and analysts in these sectors. This knowledge advantage is very much appreciated by his clients. His extensive expertise is valued at many seminars and lectures, whereas he is also popular in the press and television. He is editor of the book "And the gold shines forever …".
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Founder Elementum International & Group
Born in Slovenia, Mr. Pravica has lived in Germany since 1973. For more than 30 years he has been working as an independent entrepreneur in various areas of the training of financial service providers, as a seminar leader in Germany and abroad, initiator and developer of financial companies with exclusive products in the real estate, insurance, securities, mutual funds, fund policies, and special product offerings in precious metals.
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Tax breaks have boosted innovation and fuelled overseas investment, but industry insiders fear that threatened budget cuts could slow growth.
A run of high-profile international sales and licensing deals has attracted considerable interest from multinational pharmaceutical companies looking to invest in biotechnology. And although the medical sector garners the most headlines and funding, Australian agricultural, environmental and industrial biotechnologies are making their debut on the world stage. But despite the enthusiasm, there are concerns that Australian biotechnology faces a major threat from the federal government's planned overhaul of a tax-incentive scheme that many argue has delivered the industry's biggest boost.
Scientific-research funding has been severely cut in recent years — falling to just below 0.6% of gross domestic product in 2014–15. But biotechnology has received a lot of cash from the government. First, there was the Medical Research Future Fund, announced in May 2014; this was an Aus$20-billion federal-government fund (worth about US$18 billion at the time) to support medical research and innovation. Then, in 2016, came the Biomedical Translation Fund, an $500-million scheme jointly supported by federal government and private coffers to "translate good science and research effort into real-life healthcare solutions".
And the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Incentive has been providing refundable tax offsets since July 2011. Glenn Cross, chief executive of AusBiotech in Melbourne — the sector's industry body — says that not only is the top end of the biotechnology sector looking extremely healthy (see 'Deal makers'), but there's plenty more activity further down.
"At the other end of the market, we're continuing to see new technologies commercialized and investment coming into the sector," Cross says. As well as a steady stream of biotechnology companies listing on the Australian stock exchange, Cross says, the R&D Tax Incentive scheme is encouraging international companies to see Australia as a destination for research and development.
Companies with a turnover of less than $20 million a year may be able to get 43.5% of their annual R&D spend refunded in cash; companies with higher turnovers could be eligible for a 38.5% tax offset. In 2013–14, there were nearly 12,000 registrations for the incentive scheme. Overall, the federal government refunded around $2.95 billion for an R&D spend by those companies of $19.5 billion.
But two reports have questioned the scheme's effectiveness in boosting research and development. The first, presented to Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, in April 2016, concluded that the growth of the tax incentive was jeopardizing the scheme's long-term sustainability (see go.nature.com/2rj9z1s); it proposed capping a company's annual refund at $2 million, to keep costs down. Its authors argued that this was unlikely to harm small and medium-sized enterprises, which were already gaining a premium refund because of their lower turnover, nor would it significantly affect larger companies, which had greater access to alternative sources of funding.
The second report, published last November, recommended an annual cap of $4 million per company, with a maximum cumulative refund of $40 million per company (see go.nature.com/2rjfgyh). The report, produced by Innovation and Science Australia, an independent advisory board, also suggested that the tax incentive should kick in only once a company's R&D spending exceeds 1% of its total annual expenditure.
The biotechnology sector is unenthusiastic about the capping proposals. "The biggest concern we have is that they would make changes to the R&D Tax Incentive that would stop investment coming in internationally," says Cross. They could also result in less research and fewer clinical trials being conducted in Australia.
International interest and investment is vital for the growth of Australian biotechnology. Sue MacLeman, managing director and chief executive of MTPConnect in Melbourne — a not-for-profit, government-funded organization to support the medical-technology and pharmaceutical sectors — says that, because the sector is relatively small on a global scale, Australia is unlikely to develop its own big multinational pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. Rather, it will fit into the bigger picture, she thinks, as a market of high-quality biotech start-ups for international buyers.
Australia's biotechnology sector boasts a series of record-breaking deals in recent years.
May 2014: Irish pharma group Shire buys Fibrotech and its innovative fibrosis therapeutic candidates for Aus$615.1 million (US$557.5 million).
June 2015: Novartis buys Spinifex Pharmaceuticals for an estimated $1 billion — the biggest Australian biotechnology deal up to that time.
September 2015: Dr Reddy's, founded in India in 1984, acquires Hatchtech and its head-lice treatments for $279 million. Nanotech drug-delivery company Starpharma signs a licensing deal with AstraZeneca worth more than $650 million.
August 2016: Protagonist Therapeutics, a University of Queensland spin-off, raises $118 million in Nasdaq listing.
November 2016: SUDA, a company that specializes in oro-mucosal drug delivery, signs deal worth up to $34 million with Chinese pharmaceutical company Eddingpharm for an insomnia therapy.
July 2017: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne sells a royalty stake in its anti-cancer treatment venetoclax to a subsidiary of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for up to $424 million.
"We're seeing an increase in the number of scouts on the ground from those pharma companies, clearly looking for these sorts of [biotechnology] science," MacLeman says. She adds that Australian biotechology companies are increasingly offering technology that has already made it to phase I or phase II clinical trials. This makes a start-up or spin-off much more attractive to international pharmaceutical companies — and that means a bigger return on investment for the Australian company once it is bought, MacLeman says.
Australian medical biotechnology is probably most famous for a cervical-cancer vaccine developed by Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou at the University of Queensland in the 1990s, but the sector is now making waves internationally in a wide variety of fields.
"We're very competitive in oncology, infectious diseases, things like vaccines, respiratory, neurology, ophthalmology [and] we see good progress in regenerative medicine," MacLeman says, adding that Australia's clinical-trial capability is part of its biotechnology success story. A collaborative network of clinical-trial units extends across the country, and states such as Victoria are courting international pharmaceutical companies, urging them to bring their early-stage trials to Australia.
"The fact that we're being asked to do those initial clinical trials here in Australia means that we have the frameworks in place. We have the skill and expertise in place to actually look at some of these technologies," says MacLeman.
MacLeman says that approval for clinical trials through the Australian Clinical Trial Notification scheme can take as little as six weeks, compared with about a year for an application submitted in the United States under the Investigational New Drug programme.
But things are less streamlined for drugs from biological sources, says Melissa Little, programme leader of Stem Cells Australia — a national network of stem-cell researchers and institutions. Little, based in Melbourne, says that "for a clinical trial where you've got to do cellular production, even for a phase 1, it's easier to go offsite". That's because the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia's regulatory body for therapeutic products, is "much smaller and much less experienced with biologics" than is the US Food and Drug Administration.
The TGA also has a loophole in its regulation that allows a registered clinician to administer a stem-cell treatment using a patient's own cells — even if that treatment is unproven — without going through any regulatory checks. Organizations such as Stem Cells Australia are lobbying hard to have the issue dealt with, and Little says that the TGA is looking at how to do this.
The regulator is well respected at home and abroad, but it has been criticized for taking too long to approve medicines and medical devices, compared with its overseas counterparts — a concern that was highlighted in a 2015 review commissioned by the government.
Since then, the TGA has set up a programme called SME Assist, to help small and mediumsized enterprises navigate more easily through the registration process.
Although 69% of Australian biotechnology takes place in the health and biomedical arena, the country is also emerging as a global player in agricultural, environmental and industrial biotechnology. Michael Christie, a patent attorney in Sydney who chairs the New South Wales division of the Ag Institute Australia — the industry body for agricultural and natural-resource management professionals — says that the country is particularly strong on basic and applied research in agricultural biotechnology. But he adds that the take-up is more patchy. For one thing, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory all have moratoriums on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops.
Christie says that the regulatory framework for genetically modified crops is also a barrier to adoption. "Generally speaking, the scheme is quite complicated and the procedures for obtaining regulatory approval are unduly cumbersome," he says. But he also stresses that the framework helps to maintain Australia's reputation as a "clean and green" source of agricultural products.
Although it has not received the same funding and investment as medical biotechnology, Christie says that agricultural biotechnology is becoming more of a topic of conversation among investors. Much of the research in the field is done within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency. But in recent years, the formation of primary industry-focused research and development corporations, such as AgriFutures Australia, has widened the field.
"These groups have placed a stronger emphasis on commercial outcomes, so we're seeing more applied-research programs as well as collaborations being formed between publicly funded research organizations and industry," Christie says.
CSIRO is also a hotbed of environmental and industrial biotechnology — particularly in relation to mining, an area in which Australia is a key global player — says Anna Kaksonen, who leads the biotechnology and synthetic-biology group at CSIRO in Perth.
Mining biotechnology uses microbes "to extract metals from low-grade ores and also metal-containing waste material such as e-waste, battery waste, mining waste," Kaksonen explains. It is also being used to clean up polluted sites, such as old mines. "There are a lot of legacy sites in Australia, so there is a lot of work in that space where microbes could be used to remove sulfate metals and acidity from the water," she says.
Many of the microbes used in this work are found in nature, but researchers are looking at ways of engineering them to better withstand the their contaminated environments.
Australia has no shortage of ideas in biotechnology, but it is struggling to find people with relevant commercial experience, says Cross, particularly at the most senior leadership levels.
To address this, the Australian government announced in March this year a pilot of a new version of the entrepreneur visa. Unlike the current visa, this one does not require entrepreneurs to have capital backing. Ministers also launched a Global Talent Scheme, offering four-year Temporary Skill Shortage visas to science, engineering or medicine start-ups, as well as to established businesses seeking people for positions with salaries above $180,000.
The relatively small size of Australia's private biotechnology sector — the national Stock Exchange lists 140 life-sciences companies — can also make it difficult for graduates to find work outside academia and research institutions. Andrew Webb, acting division head for systems biology and personalized medicine at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, says that even positions in academic research are "few and far between" in Australia.
Australia's commercial biotechnology sector is growing fast, however, and hotspots such as Melbourne — which hosts 27 leading biotechnology-research institutes — are gaining ground internationally. In terms of supporting and nurturing biotechnology start‑ups and spin‑offs, Webb says that Melbourne is approaching the standard of Boston, San Francisco and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This article is part of Nature Spotlight: Australia's biotechnology sector, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.


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NFL free agency rumors: Saints to add Jared Cook, Marcus Sherels
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New Orleans is rumored to be adding a stout pair of playmakers.
According to NFL Media, which cited an unidentified source, the Saints are expected to sign tight end Jared Cook.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press also reported the Saints intend to sign punt returner Marcus Sherels to a one-year deal, though financial terms were not disclosed.
Cook, who turns 32 next month, was selected by the Titans in the third round of the 2009 draft and has had stints with the Rams, Packers and Raiders over the years. He's coming off a career season in Oakland in which he tallied 68 passes for 896 yards and six touchdowns as one of Derek Carr's top targets.
Sherels, 31, went undrafted in 2010 but has spent the last eight years as the Vikings' primary punt returner.
He has averaged 10.6 yards per return and recorded five touchdowns during his time in Minnesota, averaging 12.0 yards per return last season, which put him in the league's top five for the third time in the last six years.
Sherels will be met by familiar faces, as the Saints already signed former Vikings running back Latavius Murray and center Nick Easton in free agency.
New Orleans also re-signed Teddy Bridgewater despite the quarterback being tempted with the deal from the Dolphins.
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A: IOS is deprecated the UIWebview in the latest version of the IOS.

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*Install the WKWebview plugin in ionic project using the following commnad
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview

*Remove ios platform from ionic project using below command
ionic cordova platform rm ios

*Open config.xml file of the ionic project and place the below line of code inside ios platform (  )
After steap you config.xml file code look like
<platform name="ios">
<preference name="WKWebViewOnly" value="true" />

<feature name="CDVWKWebViewEngine">
    <param name="ios-package" value="CDVWKWebViewEngine" />
</feature>

*Add Readd ios platform
ionic cordova platform add ios

A: I also faced same issue:
but you can replace your html page contents by <ion-content> with <ion-scroll>.. and also set overflow-scroll="false"
Another thing is check in your config.xml file that all this values are set
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="2000"/>
<preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="2000"/>
<preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen"/>
<preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="false"/>
<preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="false" />

and also change in app.js file by adding this line
$ionicConfigProvider.views.swipeBackEnabled(false);

A: I faced a similar issue recently. Can you try performing a clean installation after deleting node_modules, platforms and plugins directories.
If it didn't work update your app.component.ts like this.
import { SplashScreen } from '@ionic-native/splash-screen';

export class MyApp {
   ...
   constructor(... public splashScreen: SplashScreen, ...) {

   this.initializeApp();

}

initializeApp() {

  this.platform.ready().then(() => {
    ...

    setTimeout(() => {
      this.splashScreen.hide();
    }, 2000);

    ...

  });
}

In your config.xml set this perference.
<preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="false" />
<preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" />
<preference name="ShowSplashScreen" value="false" />
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
<preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="false" />
<preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="false" />

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Images may be darker than they appear.
The Regular 10x15 format is not like the others.
Smartphones have backlit screens, which makes it seem like certain images are bright enough. Most of your images will be printed without a significant difference, but it's always best to improve the shadows or the brightness of an image that looks too dark or contrasty.
We have two great tools on the app for this purpose, which you can access on the order editor page. Below each image, you'll find a Magic Wand icon. Tap on the icon to open the "Edit and Effects Menu" then tap on "Adjustments" to access the image editing tools. You can use "Brightness" to increase the light of an image or "Shadows" to improve the dark areas only. "Contrast" also helps.
The aim here is to have an image that it's well balanced before printing to achieve a perfect result. Unless, of course, you like a dramatic look!


Thanks to the contributors for keeping this place alive.
I am trying to get the projects off my MRS1266 and onto my R24 so I can then transfer via the USB to my laptop.
1 )The playback via the MRS1266 outputs ( red and white) is NOT in stereo.
2) The playback via 2 cables going from the `headphone jack` and the `stereo sub jack` are in stereo ..but not perfect.
Sadly both jacks ( headphone/stereo sub) have faulty sockets..meaning you have to `twist and turn` the cable to get a perfect sound or it breaks up.
Is there anyway to get stereo playback??
Apologies if its long and convoluted but I was hoping to simply record a project from the 1266 onto the R24 rather than redoing the project.


The Mobile Wallet (TMW) offers a safe and secure shopping experience due to its encrypted transaction mode that ensures safety, reliability and convenience to its users and both offline and online merchants can accept payment using this technology. Team NewsBarons connected with Vinay Kalantri, Founder and MD of The Mobile Wallet, on the increasing usage of mobile wallets, security concerns and his thoughts behind partnering with MatchMove, Singapore's fastest growing Fintech Company.
Vinay: We are a Fintech company providing 360 degree solution to payments anywhere and everywhere in India. We aim to provide and empower people with every facility that a physical wallet provides; this gave birth to our first service, The Mobile Wallet App that runs through the barcode and QR code technology to process payment. We at TMW are a one-stop-solution for all your payment needs and that makes TMW unique.
NB: What has been the surge in user base post demonetisation?
Vinay: We have witnessed a 300%grwoth in customer acquisition post demonetisation. At present, we have a strong user base of over 60,000 across the android and iOS platforms.
NB: What is the response from Tier II and rural areas for acceptance of mobile wallets? Are Mobile Wallets predominantly an urban phenomenon or are equally accepted across India?
Vinay: The Mobile Wallet has got a fairly good response from Tier II and rural areas, we plan to further build a strong base in Tier II and rural areas by educating people about the convenience of using TMW and the benefits they can avail, thus empowering them to contribute towards a digital India.
NB: What are the challenges that you encounter during merchant/customer acquisition?
Vinay: The main challenge we experience is getting them on board as full KYC customers/merchants as per the government regulations.
NB: Security is a huge concern during online transactions. How do you address this?
Vinay: For our customers we have set two levels of security. One is with a password and the other an MPIN. Our virtual card within our App cannot be applied for unless the customer has set his/her MPIN. For all online transaction using TMW App, an OTP as a secondary factor authentication is mandatory.
Our Application is PCIDSS certified a standard security in the payments business.
We use a secure 256 bit encryption standard, for encrypting information in the customer's wallet.
Our servers are segregated from our production environment, where no one has direct physical access to our servers. In addition to this, we also have multiple layers of firewall protecting us from external theft. We have also ensured that no customer can access his account from more than one device at the same time.
We have on board one of the best security organizations in our country to monitor IP related activities & have regular stringent audits carried out by our banking partners and RBI.
NB: What was the thought behind partnering with MatchMove?
Vinay: The Mobile Wallet (TMW) has partnered with MatchMove, Singapore's fastest growing Fintech company for integrating MatchMove's award-winning Wallet OS into the TMW app. This will allow TMW to further boost its functionality and usability for its users to pay on the go and allow businesses to accept payments digitally.
NB: TMW has raised a significant amount of funding. How do you plan to utilize it?
Vinay: We are intelligently and methodically strategizing to optimize our investments, as India has now grown to accepting a different mode of payment than physical cash, and we plan on supporting the same with the best technology.
NB: You have plans to have over a million merchants on your app in the coming quarter? How do you plan to accomplish this?
Vinay: We have over 60,000 merchants on board and plan to increase our offline merchant base to a million by the next quarter. Our plan to achieve the same is through a strong distribution channel backed by the best in technology, with the highest level of safety, security and reliability & innovative marketing strategies.


4 Amazing Camino Spiritual Exercises – Get inspired!
The Camino de Santiago is an inspiring as well as a physical journey. While you are walking and admiring the beautiful scenery, it is also the perfect time to look inward and focus on you and where you want to be in life. We hope that, when you finish reading this Camino Inspiration blog and following these Camino Spiritual Exercises, you will feel new enthusiasm and motivation as you decide to live each day to it's fullest!
The entire Marly team has decided to follow a number of recipes for a better life to exercise our soul: recipes for life. We are following the advice of a delightful writer called Maytte Sepúlveda, a communication specialist devoted to spreading the word about growth and wellbeing. In her book "Passion for Life: 365 tools to live each day to it's fullest" she explains several Camino spiritual exercises to follow in order to find new peace in our lives.
Camino Spiritual Exercise 1: Smile upon a new day!
When you wake up each day, dedicate a couple of minutes to giving thanks for having the opportunity to breathe and see sunlight one more day. Be glad to be alive. This will help you realize every positive aspect of your day.
The friends you make on the Camino, the ones you accomplish each stage with, the ones who celebrate each step taken and every tear shed with you. The friends that become your family and stay with you through hard and happy times. The friends that bring freshness to your soul and make you keep going forward. Pain is reduced, happiness is multiplied and projects are materialized when you share with others.
It is important to actively nurture friendships. Friendships include family; your spouse, mother, father, brother, cousin, or anybody else can also be and usually are your close friends. In our busy lives, we sometimes take our relationships for granted and forget to call, forget to ask 'How are you today?" and forget many of the other simple details that make us feel like we know and care about one another.
Do you have your friends in mind? Dedicate a little bit of time this week to them, transform your attitude and go on to your next Camino spiritual exercises.
Accept the people that surround you. It often happens that we fill ourselves with false expectations and when they don't come through we feel offended or hurt.
Every human being has been raised in a certain way and is defined by certain traits. This is all part of the beauty of the universe; that convergence of people built the same way but so incredibly different is what makes us enjoy a good conversation with our friends. The truth is that to keep that beauty it is important that we respect and appreciate people as individuals with their negative and positive sides. Definitely, the formula to keep the people around us close is to accept them just as they are. However, sometimes we idealize our friends, our family and even strangers because we focus in what we believe they can be or do and not on who they really are. This is often quite selfish and can create pressure and insecurity in others.
If we are intelligent, we can take advantage and learn from our differences. We can't forget that every person and every situation has something to teach us. When we see and accept people as they are, we respect them and we give way and can begin to understand what it means to really love. Acceptance and respect go hand in hand, and they are two of love's key ingredients.
We always wish that people showed us the best version of themselves. The important thing is to recognize what our job is and what the other person's job is. It is up to the other person to show you that version, it is not on you to expect that he or she does. In the end, the real harmony is found when we focus on our own emotions, when we understand that everybody is different and we set aside false expectations to make way for a needed wellbeing.
The fourth Camino Spiritual Exercises requires you to pamper and indulge yourselves with the little things that makes you happy so that you can accomplish a proper balance in your life.
Sometimes we are so focused on our jobs, our routine and pleasing others that we forget to take care of and please ourselves with small things that, in the end, are as important as deadlines, meetings and errands. Nurturing our soul is an exercise that is made from many elements and is focused in bringing YOU joy. Whether it is surrounding yourself with friends or indulging that craving, these exercises are all directed toward achieving peace and happiness. By paying attention to the little things we will feel satisfied, we will find the energy needed to carry on with our daily activities, smile and remember how beautiful life is!
This week get organized and open a space in your agenda for YOU and what you want to do. Go to the movies, eat in your favorite restaurant, go for a run, spend all night long watching your favorite TV show, sleep an extra hour.


Street Scenes focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theater and blackface comedy, Esther Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation. Ultimately, she demonstrates how these diverse and potent immigrant works influenced the emergence of a modern metropolitan culture.
Richly researched, analytically sharp, and written with grace and wit, Street Scenes is an ambitious and thoroughly original contribution to the field.
The turn of the twentieth century in New York City was characterized by radical transformation as the advent of consumer capitalism confronted established social hierarchies, culture, and conceptions of selfhood. The popular stage existed in a symbiotic relationship with the city and uniquely captured the contested terms of immigrant identity of the time.
Street Scenes focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theater and blackface comedy, Esther Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation. In these performances she detects an obsession with the idea of the city as theater and the self as actor, which was fueled by the challenges that consumer capitalism presented to notions of an "authentic" self.
It was exactly this idea of "authentic" immigrant selfhood that was at stake in many performances on the popular stage, and Romeyn ultimately demonstrates how these diverse and potent immigrant works influenced the emergence of a modern metropolitan culture.
Esther Romeyn is assistant scholar at the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida.
Romeyn should be commended for providing a comprehensive and masterful study and for providing us with an intricate scholarly apparatus that greatly enhances our understanding of the intersection of ethnicity, race, and performativity.
The history is admirably researched, drawing together information from hard-to-find plays, popular magazines, newspapers, memoirs, and song lyrics, as well as from secondary sources from a wide variety of disciplines. Romeyn's work is an immensely useful resource for interdisciplinary scholars interested in the convergence of immigrant lie and popular culture forms.
Those interested in the subject of immigrant identity and how it has changed over time in the face of pressures brought on by the particulars of their new homes would do well to consult this work.
Imagining the Modern City An engaging look at the cultural legacy of the twentieth-century city and how it affects our ideas of community and democracy.


Extranet with product catalog and media libraries for images, documents etc.
There are two basic things that make this difficult. On one hand it's the undefined amount of assets (requiring a 1-item-to-X-assets data-model) and it's the maybe-needs-grouping (where editors expect a folder, not a group-dropdown-field).
The data model for a programmer is fairly straightforward, and all the solutions are setup +/- the same way. BUT it's complicated, and from my experience web-designers find it hard to model this - both from the data side as well as the templating.
What adds problems is that each asset quickly needs additional information. Often the designer/developer will assume that the file-name will suffice, till an additional requirement appears like: "the real-estate photo should show the author, the gps-coordinates and have a description with keywords for google". So basically each asset needs 1-100 more fields to fill in - and this too causes many issues.
A new field-type called library - which is a field which allows you to add unlimited files. So a content-item can have one or more of these, allowing you to have a Product content-item with a Photos library and a Manuals library and another Applications library showing customers using the product.
Each library can also have folders and sub-folders (configurable). This allows you to require that the Applications library is grouped into Albums (folders) while the Manuals are not.
You can create another content-type - like ManualDescription - which you can then tell ADAM to use as file-metadata. ADAM will then let the editor tag each file with this information.
You can create even another content-type - like Application Group Metadata - which you can use as folder-metadata. This allows the editor to tag each folder with additional information.
The Razor Engine has a new API so that you can use AsAdam to access / loop through these assets and the asset metadata.
To demonstrate all this I created a demo-app called Tutorial ADAM. The following screenshots are from that app so and will help you get started.
As you can see, the screenshots are fairly intutive, and folders / new-folder and files appear directly. Note that most file-types have an own icon (like ZIPs, PDFs, etc.). Upload is drag-and drop.
So again very trivial and barely needs training. And yes, the metadata supports every possible feature in 2sxc - including WYSIWYG. It could even contain another library of assets.
Again - straight forward, easy to do. After this the content-editor already has the UX described above.
As you can see line 9 contains the foreach-loop and line 11 creates the thumbnail with a title showing the name. Line 14 shows you the WYSIWYG-description retrieved from the Metadata.
Another days work was invested to ensure export/import works, because many things like folders can have metadata, but were never included in the export. This too was ensured.
Note that an App containing ADAM will now include all ADAM assets - and because of that it can easily be 10mb or even 50mb. Be aware of this when you re-import it somewhere, because you often have web.config settings limiting the upload size.
You will need the newest 2sxc (at least 8.01.00) and the demo app.


The School of Special Educational Needs: Medical and Mental Health works with Health teams to provide seminars for school staff on various health conditions. Seminar dates for 2019 will be announced during semester 1 2019.
Online professional learning is currently in development and will be listed as they become available. A brief quiz is available for each online professional learning seminar which will provide a certificate of completion.
Online learning modules on various health conditions and the impact on student education.
Online learning modules to build knowledge and understanding for school staff and whole school communities in supporting the mental health of students.


text:
package io.motown.operatorapi.json.commands;

import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;
import io.motown.domain.api.chargingstation.ChargingStationId;
import io.motown.domain.api.chargingstation.RevokePermissionCommand;
import io.motown.domain.api.security.IdentityContext;
import io.motown.domain.api.security.SimpleUserIdentity;
import io.motown.domain.api.security.UserIdentity;
import io.motown.operatorapi.json.exceptions.UserIdentityUnauthorizedException;
import io.motown.operatorapi.viewmodel.model.RevokePermissionApiCommand;
import io.motown.operatorapi.viewmodel.persistence.entities.ChargingStation;

class RevokePermissionJsonCommandHandler extends JsonCommandHandler {

    private static final String COMMAND_NAME = "RevokePermission";

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public String getCommandName() {
        return COMMAND_NAME;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void handle(String chargingStationId, JsonObject commandObject, IdentityContext identityContext) throws UserIdentityUnauthorizedException {
        ChargingStationId csId = new ChargingStationId(chargingStationId);

        if (!commandAuthorizationService.isAuthorized(csId, identityContext.getUserIdentity(), RevokePermissionCommand.class)) {
            throw new UserIdentityUnauthorizedException(chargingStationId, identityContext.getUserIdentity(), RevokePermissionCommand.class);
        }

        try {
            ChargingStation chargingStation = repository.findOne(chargingStationId);
            if (chargingStation != null && chargingStation.isAccepted()) {
                RevokePermissionApiCommand command = gson.fromJson(commandObject, RevokePermissionApiCommand.class);

                Class commandClass = Class.forName(command.getCommandClass());
                UserIdentity userIdentity = new SimpleUserIdentity(command.getUserIdentity());

                commandGateway.send(new RevokePermissionCommand(csId, userIdentity, commandClass, identityContext));
            }
        } catch (JsonSyntaxException ex) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Revoke permission command not able to parse the payload, is your json correctly formatted?", ex);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Revoke permission command cannot instantiate class object for command class, is the passed command class value a valid class?", e);
        }
    }
}