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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (Hardcover)
By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Southern Historical Association Sydnor Award
Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege.
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation's attention to issues of region, race, and labor.
In Sisters and Rebels, National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, who were "estranged and yet forever entangled" by their mutual obsession with the South. Tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past through to the contemporary moment, Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood.
Grounded in decades of research, the family's private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives and works of three Southern women.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is the founding director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the coauthor of the prize-winning Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
A sweeping, richly detailed intellectual and political history of America from the 1920s to the 1980s, an absorbing narrative based on impressive scholarship....Sharply etched biographical portraits focus a compelling history.
In this excellent triple biography, Hall follows Elizabeth, Grace, and Katherine Lumpkin, whose lives and work touched many elements of 20th-century social history.... These admirably crafted biographies of the Lumpkins, their cohorts, and their causes open a fascinating window on America's social and intellectual history.
The word befitting this work is 'masterpiece.' Sisters and Rebels is an impassioned, elegant, evocative narrative that turns biography into art and scholarship into the profound understanding of a South searching for its soul.
— Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
A tour de force from a remarkable historian. Jacquelyn Hall's long-awaited chronicle of the Lumpkin sisters offers unparalleled insight into the complexities of gender and race in the lives of white southerners.
— Drew Gilpin Faust, author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
An absolutely necessary, totally engaging history. Hall speaks from her own long relationship with the sisters as well as her rigorous and comprehensive scholarship, adding yet another dimension to this fine history that reads like a novel.
— Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls: A Novel
A sweeping, against-the-grain panorama of American history in the first half of the twentieth century.
— Nancy F. Cott, author of The Grounding of Modern Feminism
I loved this beautifully researched and expertly executed study of three women who were just as distinct, complicated, and problematic as the region they called home. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall again proves herself to be one of our nation's most relevant scholars.
— Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel
At a time when millions hunger for hope that a better America is possible, one of our wisest historians uncovers a past we urgently need.
— Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains
Hall's perceptive and elegant writing and her extensive, decades-long research into the sisters' lives provides rich context for the creation of Southern reformers as a political force…Highly recommended for readers interested in women's history and American intellectual history.
Publication Date: May 21st, 2019
History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)


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Q: what is this error when deploying google python-appengine application? this is the error message .. any help will be appreciated .
2011-02-23 23:09:11 Running command: "['C:\\Python25\\pythonw.exe', '-u', 'C:\\Program Files\\Google\\google_appengine\\appcfg.py', '--no_cookies', u'--email=adham587@gmail.com', '--passin', 'update', 'C:\\Users\\adham\\Desktop\\images']"
Application: refacingme; version: 1.
Server: appengine.google.com.
Scanning files on local disk.
Initiating update.
2011-02-23 23:09:42,223 WARNING appengine_rpc.py:405 ssl module not found.
Without the ssl module, the identity of the remote host cannot be verified, and
connections may NOT be secure. To fix this, please install the ssl module from
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl .
To learn more, see http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/general.html#rpcssl .
Password for XXXXX@gmail.com: Error 409: --- begin server output ---
Another transaction by user XXXXXXXX is already in progress for this app and major version. That user can undo the transaction with appcfg.py's "rollback" command.
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2011-02-23 23:09:46 (Process exited with code 1)

You can close this window now.

A: This problem can occur if an update is started and does not finish for whatever reason. As the error message notes, the correct thing to do is to give appcfg.py the rollback command. That will undo the failed changes and reset your app so it is ready for an update.

A: Try
easy_install ssl

The message says that module is missing.
@Adam: duly noted. I apologize for missing the "Warning text".
I believe his error will go away in a while since another operation might be going on at the same time. He should install ssl module nevertheless. If after a while and it doesn't help, he should perform a rollback.
Google App Engine: appcfg.py rollback

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Bryghusgrunden Project by OMA
Marcus Fairs | 7 April 2008 34 comments
Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed Bryghusgrunden Project, a building on Copenhagen's waterfront that will house the Danish Architecture Centre and the Realdania Foundation.
Update 09/04/08: More renderings and plans in our new story.Update 09/04/08: More renderings and plans in our new story.
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Here's some info from OMA:
OMA reveals design of Bryghusgrunden Project in Copenhagen: new Realdania Headquarters and Danish Architecture Center
(Copenhagen, April 7, 2008) The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) today revealed the design for the Bryghusgrunden Project at the historic waterfront in Copenhagen. The 27,000 square meter building will include new facilities for the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), the headquarters of the Realdania Foundation, along with a distinctive mix of residential units, public program and playground facilities.
The Bryghusgrunden Project is located on the harbor on the site of an old brewery, the Bryghusgrunden, one of the few remaining areas with the potential to link the city to the waterfront. The building itself will straddle the busy Christians Brygge ring road, creating new urban connections for pedestrians and cyclists between the waterfront and Denmark's houses of government.
The mix of program within the building is unique - for the first time an architecture center will be embedded within its own key subjects of study and research - housing, offices, public space and parking. The DAC will include several exhibition areas, research facilities, an auditorium, conference rooms, a bookstore and a café.
Ellen van Loon, OMA's partner in charge of the project, concluded that "unlike the typical 'stacked' sections where individual programs remain autonomous, the program 'heap' of the Bryghusgrunden Project has the elements stacked in a seemingly random order. The public program, the urban routes and the DAC reach into the heart of the building and create a broad range of interactions between the different program parts."
OMA's design integrates the existing playground facility on the site into the project and extends it with new typologies for different age groups distributed over the entire site - facing the city as well as the waterfront. A more secure playground is integrated at the transition point between landscape and building and is directly linked to the educational spaces of the DAC. The landscape at the waterfront is designed for older children.
The building is designed in compliance with the highest standards of the new Danish energy code. The building uses a mixed system of mechanical and natural ventilation, a high performance glass facade and other environmentally sustainable systems, such as sea water cooling. The heat gained in the building will be used to heat the public spaces in winter.
Realdania is a Danish strategic foundation created with the objective of initiating and supporting projects that improve the built environment. OMA was selected for the Bryghusgrunden Project in 2006 following an interview procedure.
The project is led by OMA partners Ellen van Loon and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with project managers Chris van Duijn and Dirk Peters. Van Loon and Koolhaas's previous collaborations include the design of the new aquarium and science center in Hamburg, the headquarters of NM Rothschild & Sons in London, the redevelopment of Mercati Generali in Rome and the completion of Porto's Casa da Musica and the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin


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Having let the Abu Dhabi desert dust settle, it would now appear that Mercedes regret the way they tried to manage the Formula One championship decider.
The duel in the desert was how the finale of the 2016 Formula One World Championship was billed.
In truth, there was no real duel, the battle had already been won.
Whilst Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton arrived in Abu Dhabi level on nine Grand Prix victories, Hamilton's lack of reliability and Rosberg's whole season without issues was the difference.
Rosberg knew that all he had to do was finish on the podium and Hamilton knew that winning the race was simply not enough.
On the grid before the race, everyone assumed that Hamilton would try to back-up Rosberg into a fight with the Red Bull's and Ferrari's, as this was his only available tactic, he needed Rosberg to finish out of the top three.
However Mercedes were seemingly insistent on not wanting any interference for the championship and wanted their drivers to play the team game and finish one-two.
Before the race they threatened to give Rosberg the preferred pit-stop strategy if Hamilton tried to back up Rosberg, as this would have enabled the German to leapfrog Hamilton using the undercut.
Once that option to defuse the situation had passed, they attempted to instruct Hamilton to speed up and then spoke of their frustration after the race because he failed to do so.
Hamilton was supposedly in line for a disciplinary which could have been as little as a fine, or as much as a race suspension or even sacking [summary of the papers by Sky Sports].
?Undermining a structure in public means you?re putting yourself before the team ? that?s very simple. Anarchy doesn?t work in any team or any company. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said to motorsport.com immediately following the race.
But then Nico Rosberg stunned the world and Mercedes with his shock decision to retire with immediate affect from the sport.
Now with no need to defuse the intense situation between Hamilton and Rosberg, Mercedes have had a rethink on how they handled the situation.
'In the heat of the moment, sometimes when you make decisions you get them wrong,' Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff told Sky Sports.
'In our mind, the way we think, this race is giving us the same number of points as other races and we try to win that one, not considering that there was much more at stake for the drivers.
Whilst this sounds like Mercedes intend to perhaps loosen the leash and allow their drivers to race, the concluding comment may worry some F1 watchers.
Wolff added that the team 'need to change our values and our rules of engagement going forward'.
Does this mean a stricter or more relaxed approach?


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Communist Party of Armenia
We want peace! We reject aggression!
Categories: English
The Communist Party of Armenia calls for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia!
On Sunday 27 September, the Azerbaijani armed forces resumed their attack on targets inside Artsakh (the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave) and reignited a dangerous conflict that could quickly escalate and further endanger the peace and stability in the already volatile region. The Communist Party of Armenia strongly and unequivocally condemns the assault by the Azerbaijani military forces and their Turkish backers, as well as the vile rhetoric of their political leaders, which has been consciously directed against the civilians of Artsakh and Armenia.
The aggressors have targeted not only Armenian defensive positions, but also civilian populations and infrastructure. Thus, there are reports of extensive casualties, both civilian and military, resulting from this unrestrained aggression.
We are seriously concerned over confirmed reports of the significant-scale recruiting of mercenary jihadi fighters in the last few months, to be dispatched to Azerbaijan to assist regular Azeri military forces in their planned invasion of Artsakh. We strongly call upon the United Nations to thoroughly investigate these occurrences and to urge the Turkish government to desist from such practices. All such mercenary forces should be immediately disbanded and repatriated to their countries of origin.
We are also concerned that the Turkish premier, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been quoted as threatening the country's support for a full-scale attack on the Republic of Armenia with the aim of overthrowing its legitimate democratically-elected government. We consider such statements of intention to be in breach of the UN Charter and international law. The Communist Party of Armenia strongly and unequivocally condemns these provocative statements!
The Communist Party of Armenia is calling for people to show the necessary calm, measure, and restraint to ensure stability and order in our communities. It is therefore necessary that the people of Armenia refrain from any kneejerk hyper-nationalism, or pandering to ethno-sectarian hysteria, as a response to these troubles.
It is our view, in the current circumstances, that all Armenian progressive and patriotic forces and individuals exercise extreme discipline in resisting the aggression in all its manifestations, while fully supporting the Armenian statehood and its armed forces.
The Communist Party of Armenia calls for all peace-loving people across the world, as well as left and progressive forces globally, to stand together for peace and to condemn the military aggression inflicted upon the civilian and defenseless population of Artsakh and the border towns and cities of Armenia. We appreciate the efforts of the government of the Russian Federation to stop the bloodshed and bring about an immediate ceasefire, and call upon Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence and international authority to facilitate movement towards an international initiative to bring about a swift end to this long-simmering conflict once and for all. We also call upon the government of the Russian Federation to honour and stand by its noble history as a principled ally and neighbour of Armenia during its darkest hours.
The Communist Party of Armenia categorically condemns any outside intervention in the internal affairs of Armenia and attempts to violate the borders and undermine stability of the country. Our Party calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire leading to negotiations towards a permanent peace agreement under the auspices of the UN and based on the UN Charter.
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They can be used to attach fixed dental bridges, cover dental implants, restore seriously discolored or misshapen teeth, and even as a preventive measure to protect a tooth in danger of breaking. Crowns can be made of all-porcelain (ceramic) material, porcelain fused to metal, and gold alloys (high noble). Each restorative material has its advantages and disadvantages. We prefer porcelain because it is the most natural looking.


Ridgeland, Miss., (May 26, 2015) – C Spire is using National Hurricane Preparedness Week to put the finishing touches on efforts to bolster its network resources and mobilize employees on the eve of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season.
The initial outlook from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters is expected later this week, but Colorado State University predicts as many as seven named tropical storms to form in the Atlantic Ocean during the six-month period that officially begins on June 1. Three of those storms could strengthen into hurricanes with top winds of at least 74 mph and one could become a major hurricane with maximum winds of 111 mph or more.
While the risk this year is expected to be one of the lowest in recent memory thanks to an El Nino effect, which causes stronger wind shear and reduces the number and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes, it's still important for residents and businesses in hurricane-prone areas to prepare for the worst, according to emergency response officials.
C Spire prepares its extensive wireless and wireline networks and workforce for a wide range of potential disasters, including major weather events such as hurricanes. The company routinely reviews and updates its emergency preparedness plans and conducts drills throughout the year to test the readiness of its network and employees.
Last year was only the fourth below-normal season in the last 20 years since 1995 when the current high-activity era for Atlantic hurricanes began. Eight tropical and subtropical storms formed in the Atlantic basin in 2014, but only three became hurricanes and only one, Hurricane Arthur, made U.S. landfall. Arthur, with 100 mph winds, caused $3.3 billion in damages from flooding and severe thunderstorms in eastern North Carolina and Massachusetts.
Hollingsworth said the company's 1,450-member workforce, along with its extensive network resources, will be on "high alert" throughout the 2015 hurricane season, which begins June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. C Spire also stands ready to activate its Emergency Response Plan, which guides the deployment of company resources and personnel during a crisis.
C Spire routinely takes precautionary steps and puts restoration teams on stand by and masses equipment and materials to protect critical network facilities and cell sites. The company uses back up batteries and diesel generators at mobile sites and switching centers and makes arrangements for replacement fuel supplies in case normal fuel delivery options are interrupted by commercial power outages.
The company operates two multi-million dollar, hurricane-ready "super switches" in Mobile, Alabama and in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that provide added protection and service assurance for customers in south Mississippi, along the Gulf Coast and in south Alabama and the Florida panhandle.
Both high-tech telecommunications switching facilities, which are designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane with winds up to 200 miles an hour, connect millions of calls, wireless data transmissions and other critical services daily for consumer and business customers. In addition to hardened and reinforced shells, the all-steel and concrete structures house a pair of redundant, large-scale 500 kilowatt diesel power generators, a grid of back up batteries and other back-up systems, operations and technologies.
C Spire also relies on an extensive network of microwave technology that can circumvent damaged or destroyed landline systems and ensure that wireless calls can be routed to their final destination, Hollingsworth said. "This microwave technology is critical to support communications during natural disasters when landline systems are inoperable," he added.
"This infrastructure and our continuing network investments will help ensure that essential communications continue for our consumer and business customers even when we experience severe weather and other life-threatening situations," Hollingsworth said.
The company is coordinating its emergency response preparations with local, state and federal agencies, including the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, the Florida Division of Emergency Management, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, the office of Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.


Update: According to a more detailed account of Lockett's execution, the doctor did in fact insert the IV into the prisoner's groin after an EMT was unable to find a vein in his arms and legs. The Oklahoma execution protocol provides that the doctor will insert the IV in cases where the EMT is unable to find a vein.
On Tuesday night, after Oklahoma botched the lethal injection of Clayton Lockett, the director of the Department of Corrections said Lockett's vein had not only "blown," but actually "exploded." Many people immediately pointed out that Oklahoma had used for the first time a new drug combination—one of five different formulas it laid out in a new execution protocol. For all the attention that will be paid to the new drugs, though, the main problem with Lockett's botched execution appears not to have been the drugs, but something even more basic: the needle in his arm.
While the specifics of Lockett's case are still unclear—toxicology and autopsy reports will hopefully be forthcoming—a "blown vein" occurs when an IV catheter is either pushed through both sides of a vein or misses the vein completely, causing the drugs to flow into the surrounding tissue. As a result, the drugs don't reach their target. In a normal medical setting, a doctor and his team will establish IV access and supervise the administration of drugs. But the death chamber is not a normal medical setting. The American Medical Association prohibits its members from participating in executions, arguing doctors' would violate their oath to protect their patients. Nevertheless, the Oklahoma protocol requires a doctor to be on hand in a limited role to obtain instruments, to check once to make sure the prisoner is unconscious during the execution, and to pronounce death once the execution is completed. Apparently, the state was able to find a physician for this job.
We will learn more about Lockett's death in the coming days. It seems likely, though, based on the little we do know and similar cases in the past, that Lockett suffered not because the drugs did not work as they were supposed to, but rather because the people in charge of his execution made basic medical errors. The whole point of lethal injection, when it was invented, was to soften the image of capital punishment by making it look like an ordinary medical procedure. But then most medical professionals balked at participating—and so this medical procedure usually fell to people who were less qualified to perform it. States have paid great attention to which drugs they use to kill condemned prisoners—they've worried much less about finding capable persons to administer them. Of course, the drugs matter too: If Oklahoma, like some other states, had used just a large dose of a single anesthetic rather than three drugs, Lockett would likely have just felt drowsy from a blown vein. The risks are much greater with three drugs: The first drug is needed to numb the prisoner to the painful effects of the second and third drugs, so if it fails he'll suffer greatly from the other two.
Author's Note: This story was updated after The New York Times's revised its account of Lockett's execution to reflect the fact that a doctor had not inserted the IV line or administered the drugs.


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Q: How to prevent event bubbling in blazor server side? In my blazor server side application I have cards representing datasets, which the user can manage.
They look like this:

The relevant code looks like this:

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            <button  type="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">

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As one can see from the code, I'm currently adding the context menu (three vertical dots) using the template code from bootstraps dropdown (dropleft in my case) component.
This works fine - or rather it would if it weren't for the @onclick event on the card, which calls the code to select the dataset and navigate to another page.
Question basically is: How can I prevent the OnClick event, if an element inside is being clicked on. I guess, what I'm asking is: How can I prevent event bubbling in HTML? Is it possible without adding code to the inner dropdown element (display of bootstrap-dropdowns is done with popper.js, which is external)

A: Lol, found the answer here 5 minutes after posting:
Simply use onclick="event.stopPropagation();" to prevent the event bubbling.
So in the end I just add this to the dropdown container:

        <button  type="button" class=" btn btn-outline-secondary fs-5 p-0 m-2 border-0"
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Action

Another action

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And now I can click my menu button:

Important Edit:
In case you have issues with onclick="event.stopPropagation();" preventing the @onclick event of the inner button to be fired, one can use the following directly at the inner button:
<button type="button" @onclick="MyFunction"
    @onclick:stopPropagation="true">
    Button Text
</button>

This will call MyFunction when clicking the button, but prevents the event to be propagated to the parent elements.


News item from the 1854 Washington Pioneer in Olympia. Local lawyer Ruddell with massive foreign turnips! Read all about it!
The fake news that Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for a newspaper like Facebook in the 1840s is funny in the sense of how many people fell for it. Its also interesting in how its actually true in one sense.
It wasn't so much Abraham Lincoln leading the charge, but Facebook was something that existed in the 1840s in newspaper form. There is a certain type of content that newspapers were full of through the early 20th century that today's papers ignore.
What we look back on today as "social columns" cover the same territory that our social networks today do.
I've had this blog post in me for awhile. In the late 90s, I worked at the Montesano Vidette. One of my weekly, late-deadline jobs was (including the police reports for Elma and McCleary) was sometimes to type up the "Satsop News."
Through at least the 1970s, the Vidette ran columns from most of the small non-town communities in eastern Grays Harbor County. Satsop, Brady and a few other places each had their own "news" column written by a local.
These columns would include typical social news. Someone came for a visit, someone went to Seattle. Lunch was had at Mrs. Smiths.
By the time I was at the Vidette, the Satsop correspondent had moved five miles down the road to a mobile home park in Elma. The news came hand written on note pad paper. Sometimes a young relative of our correspondent would drop the news off and at least once I drove to Elma to pick up three hand written pages.
I wish now I'd kept one original version as a keep sake, but at the time I resented having to edit the copy to a version that I thought was usable. I resent my own memory now of not leaving it be.
I don't now how she came about the news from people who still lived in Satsop. Seeing briefly where she lived and how she seemed, I can't imagine she got around easily on her own. I imagine her calling a handful of friends each week, asking about what they and their families were up to.
The similarity between her columns and the social columns from years ago that I come across from time to time when doing research is striking. Maybe its my memory conforming to my current thoughts.
This sort of soft news, the sort of self-supplied social lubricant is something that newspapers have been walking away from for a long time. It seems to have been replaced with gossip-centric celebrity news. Facebook doesn't seem to be doing too bad though making it a central part of their business.
It seems like that in the era since reporting and editing became professionalized and newspapers became corporate and seperated from their communities, they also forgot the vital role of the social column.
Its not that the generation growing up on social networks is narcissistic. Sharing news of yourself and your own family and friends is not an act of narcissism. It is an act of a healthy social world and civic culture. It may not be interesting at all to people who don't know you, or your children. Posting pictures of your family out to dinner isn't at all striking to people who don't track your daily life. But, to your friends who know your middle child just got over a sore throat that kept you at wits end for a week, a dinner out is big news.
And, big news is big business. It was to J.W. Wiley and A.M. Berry, who ran the Washington Pioneer in 1854. We aren't now no more narcissistic than S.D. Ruddell and his massive fifteen pound turnips.
Another point to consider: newspapers in the west also served as a tool to promote immigration and settlement. Many newspapers sent copies east to libraries and to larger papers, hoping for reprints.
Stories of oversize produce were one common subject, as well as long discussions of temperate weather and breathless reports of new industries about to be started by wealthy investors, implying demand for workers was high.
Also, keep running across specious reports of nearby gold finds. I've seen one early W WA map that shows several working Gold Mines in the Black Hills, SW of Oly.


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By Darren LumAfter close to two years living with pandemic restrictions, life at Haliburton Highlands Secondary School is returning to a place where athletic teams, social and service clubs and inter-school sports with an emphasis…
By Darren LumHaliburton Highlands Hall of Fame inductee Taly Williams may be the first pro football player to come from here, but it's his achievements in applied science and environmental engineering that has truly changed…


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Q: node.js server can't receive any calls unless an empty folder is created on the server I'm probably doing something silly, and putting myself in a situation that I don't need to be in. But my ultimate question is why do I have to have an empty folder in my server in order for my GET requests to work?
Before I start with an example, everything is under a subfolder: http://www.example.org/subfolder1
Here is Server code:
const express = require('express');
const datastore = require('nedb');

const url = require("url");
var path = require('path');
const app = express();
var server = require('http').createServer(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(server,
{
    path: '/subfolder1/socket.io',
    cors:
    {
        origin: '*',
        methods: ["GET", "POST"],
        credentials: true
    }
});
const port = 3000;

io.on('connection', socket => {
    console.log("Socket connected: " + socket.id);
});

app.get("/subfolder1/getSettings", (req, res, next) => {
    res.json({ configuration: conf });
});

app.use(express.json());

app.get("/subfolder1/", function (req, res) {
    res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'index.html'));
});

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

server.listen(port, '0.0.0.0', function(error){
if(error) {
    console.log('Server failed to listen: ', error)
} else{
    console.log('Server is listening on port: ' + port)
}

});
client code:
const response = await fetch("/subfolder1/getSettings");
const settings = await response.json();

Now, in this example I'm calling getSettings (http://www.example.org/subfolder1/getSettings):
app.get("/subfolder1/getSettings", (req, res, next) => {
   res.json({ configuration: conf });
});

No matter what I do, I will forever get a 404 error message unless I create an empty folder called "getSettings" in my folder structure on my server. Once I create the empty folder, the call works! So for now, I've just making empty folders on my server for my get calls. Well now look what happens when the URL is something more complicated, such as the following:
http://www.example.org/subfolder1/team=6/queuedPlayers (Where team can be any integer)
Now I'm stuck and my workaround is broken. Any ideas?


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How do these challenges differ in relation to the size of the airport?
Typically, the smaller the airport the greater the problems they can have in extracting viable operating fees and charges from their current or prospective new airline customers. This situation partly constrains the related business model and ultimately can hamper the addition of new operators or expansion of existing routes, which in turn can limit or delay airport growth plans.
Can you run us through your own personal experience in the information and communication technologies space?
I have worked in information and communications technologies-related businesses my entire career, which now spans almost 40 years, and of course I have seen lots of change. I began in Telecommunications. In those days (the early '80s in the UK) this was fundamentally an analogue voice communications public service. With the advent of mass-use public data communications the supporting network needed to evolve – enter the UK digital communications infrastructure. The next related components or 'gadgets', as they are often referred to, to arrive were personal computers. Further developments and expectations linked computing and telecommunications and as I recall this was the beginning of "IT", which is now widely known and taught in most schools as ICT. The rest, as they say, is history!
What attracted you to the role at Airport Information Systems Ltd?
The solidity of the business, including its unparalleled established customer loyalty and associated satisfaction with its products and services, its dedicated focus on its airport management system and, of course, its loyal customers. My goal is to bring the skills and experience to AIS to strengthen the already hugely knowledgeable team and develop the business generally for the benefit of its customers i.e., the travelling public who are clearly enjoying an era of air travel that is now open to a far greater worldwide demographic.
Are there any exciting new developments at AIS that you'd like to discuss?
Airport information Systems is proud of its latest new developments including its state-of-the-art Flight information Display System, AFIDS, that increases the cost/performance of associated airport display technologies significantly and something that no other supplier offers. With its unmatched aeronautical billing system ALDIS and other key software modules, Airport Information Systems is well-placed to serve the airport management sector now and into the future.
Kevin Faulkner has 38 years in ICT including roles in Technical Design and Management, Sales and Business Development / Account and IT Service Management. He has 23 years in the Air Transport Industry including roles in Sales and Business Development / Account and IT Service Management. With another 15 years in Telecommunications Engineering / Management (BT) and 10 years in the Travel and Transport industry (Worldspan Services Limited, SITA and Ink Aviation). He has two years in Internetworking at Service Provider level (Cisco Systems), one year in Travel and Transport industry (Galileo International GDS / CRS) and two years in Enterprise IT Services (Unisys/Network Rail). Kevin also has eight years' experience in Airport Management and Efficiency Systems (Gentrack – Airport 20/20, Northrop Grumman – Park Air Systems, BEONTRA, Lockheed Martin/Leidos, L3 MacDonald Humfrey Automation).


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While we have you… Mass censorship of conservatives and libertarians is exploding. You've already seen this with the demonetization and ultimate purge of Infowars and other alternative media outlets by mega-corporations working in tangent to stifle competition.
I've used this in my Miata to combat the heat in transmission tunnel which really heats up the footwell of the car. In summer, it gets really hot and uncofortable, but with this shield the temps are way down.
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The 2010 Growing Seasons Starts Early in New York
By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief
Photo courtesy of Whitecliff Vineyard & Winery
Is this picture bud break? I'm not sure — I always think of bud break as when full, immature leaves separate from the bud and unfurl. By that definition, this would be bud swell, but it barely matters — the 2010 growing season is underway in New York.
Yesterday, I stopped at Roanoke Vineyards on the North Fork and their vines looked much the same… the buds were extremely swollen but I didn't see any separation. I've heard that Shinn Estate Vineyards and Benmarl Winery have experienced official break, but I have yet to see any pictures.
New York growers — please send us pictures of budbreak in your vineyards. We'll post anything we get.
Obviously this is an early start to the growing season, but all the news isn't bad. If there isn't a frost event this spring, 2010 could be a long growing season, which could mean added ripeness.
But, there's a lot that can happen between now and harvest. Stay tuned.
2010, bud break, new york, vineyards
Lenn Thompson, a proud Pittsburgh, PA native, moved to Long Island more than a decade ago and quickly fell in love with the region's dynamic and emerging wine community. A digital and content marketing professional by day, he founded NewYorkCorkReport.com in early 2004 to share his passion for the wines, beers and spirits of New York State. Since then, the site has become the premier source for independent New York wine commentary, reviews and news. Formerly the editor of the Long Island Wine Gazette, a contributor to Edible Brooklyn, wine columnist for Hamptons.com and regional editor for Appellation America covering the Long Island and Hudson River Valley regions, Lenn contributes to Edible East End, Palate Press, Patch and is the wine columnist for Dan's Papers in the Hamptons. Lenn is also on the board of directors for Drink Local Wine, and is the creator and founder of TasteCamp, a yearly regional wine immersion event for writers and bloggers. An admitted riesling and cabernet franc fanatic, he's intensely passionate about eating drinking local and the many local wine regions of America. Lenn lives in Miller Place, NY with his wife Nena, son Jackson and daughter Anna.
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My Day Trip Back to the Future of Niagara Wines
The New York Cork Club Partners with BacchusWineOnline.com
T'Jara Vineyards Joins Long Island Merlot Alliance
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І́гор Володи́мирович Корнійчу́к (нар. ; м. Хмельницький) — український політик.

Життєпис

Народився Ігор Володимирович Корнійчук 29 листопада 1962 року у м. Хмельницькому.

Освіта: у 1986 р. закінчив Дніпропетровський радіоприладобудівний технікум, технік-технолог, спеціальність — «Обробка металів різанням».

У 1980—1981 рр. — фрезерувальник Хмельницького радіотехнічного заводу.

У 1981—1983 рр. — служба в армії.

У 1983—1993 рр. — слюсар механо-складальних робіт Хмельницького радіотехнічного заводу.

У 1993—1998 рр. — начальник Хмельницького міського комплексу соціальної реабілітації та побутового обслуговування одиноких пенсіонерів та інвалідів.

У 1998—2002 рр. — народний депутат України 3-го скликання від КПУ. Голова підкомітету в справах пенсіонерів Комітету в справах пенсіонерів, ветеранів та інвалідів (з 07.1998 р.), член фракції КПУ (з 05.1998 р.).

У квітні 2002 р. — кандидат в народні депутати України від КПУ.

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Elattoneura glauca е вид водно конче от семейство Protoneuridae. Видът не е застрашен от изчезване.

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Разпространен е в Ангола, Ботсвана, Демократична република Конго, Екваториална Гвинея, Етиопия, Замбия, Зимбабве, Кения, Лесото, Малави, Мозамбик, Намибия, Свазиленд, Сомалия, Танзания, Уганда и Южна Африка.

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Q: Google Cloud and Google.Cloud.Functions.Framework I'm using Google Cloud function with .net core and Google.Cloud.Functions.Framework to log user activity. I've considered to use DB to store these activities, however at first step I will try to store it in simple text file on google storage (is it proper from architectural point of view?).
My question is how can I write to google bucket using .net core and google function (my function is triggered on HTTP) and looks simple like this
    public async Task HandleAsync(HttpContext context)
    {
         //code goes here
         await context.Response.WriteAsync("Activity logged");
    }

A: You would use the Google.Cloud.Storage.V1 NuGet package (documentation), just as you would from any other environment. (There's nothing special here in terms of Google Cloud Functions - authentication should work out of the box without any extra credentials.)
We have a sample function that integrates both Google Cloud Storage and the Vision API, which includes uploading a file to Google Cloud Storage.
I would recommend using dependency injection via a FunctionsStartup class to configure the StorageClient, then you should be able to just upload an object to the bucket in a straightforward way.


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Crackling Biscuits
For years, I've been hearing about the delicious merits of cracklings and how they can be used to make a crackling biscuit. Now with a fresh batch of cracklings on hand, I searched the Internet for the perfect recipe. There are so many. Some are made with yeast, not my idea of a biscuit, which is supposed to a quick bread, so no time to raise them with yeast. Some recipes called for leavening with eggs instead of baking powder or baking soda, not my preference. Many other permutations, including the addition of fresh cracked black pepper or cayenne. I will try adding one of those the next time. In the end, I mentally aggregated several recipes in relation to the proportion of dry ingredients and cracklings to milk for my first stab. My husband says he'd like a little more cracklings in them, so I will probably up the cracklings to 1½ cups next time. But overall, my first batch got thumbs up all around. Makes 6-12 biscuits, depending on the size of your cutter.
2 cups white flour
1 cup cracklings
¼ cup leaf lard
Add the cracklings to the flour and pulse in a blender until the cracklings are spread throughout the flour. Pour the flour/crackling mixture into a medium-sized bowl; add the sea salt and baking powder. Sift the dry ingredients together and cut in the lard until it looks like cornmeal. Add the milk and stir. Quickly form the dough into a ball and knead lightly on a floured board. Pat dough 1/2-inchthick and cut with a 3-inch biscuit cutter. Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 450ºF for 12 to 15 minutes.
Marranitos / Cochinos / Puerquitos (Little Ginger Pigs)
These pig-shaped ginger cookies are very popular in Mexican bakeries throughout the Southwest. I found them in an Hispanic bakery in Albuquerque, NM. Unfortunately, they were using hydrogenated vegetable shortening instead of lard for the fat, which really makes no historical sense, especially for a pig-shaped cookie. You can find piloncillo in any Hispanic market in the United States and pig-shaped cookie cutters from many online sellers. These cookies don't spread out as they bake and are delicious with a tall glass of milk.
10 oz. piloncillo
2 pieces star anise
1 Mexican cinnamon stick
½ tsp. ground cloves
1 Tbsp. ground ginger
4 cups all-purpose white flour
¼ cup lard, preferably organic
For egg wash:
Chop up the piloncillo a little bit and place in a small saucepan with 1 cup water, star anise, and cinnamon. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat and allow to cool completely, stirring the mixture as it cools so that the sugar dissolves.
Whisk together cloves, ginger, flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the lard and strain the piloncillo syrup in until the mixture comes together to form a dough. If too much liquid has evaporated from the syrup, you might need to add a bit more water. Divide the dough in half.
Working with half the mixture at a time, roll out to 1/3-inch thickness and cut out with a pig-shaped cookie cutter. Place the cookies to an ungreased baking sheet. Whisk egg with 1 Tbsp. water for egg wash; brush each cookie with the egg wash. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes at 400°F. Cool on wire racks. Makes 2 dozen.
Want to learn more: Listen to this fun NPR audio file below about Pati Jinich's search for piggy cookies in Mexico. Her recipes calls for butter, but when I communicated with her she confirmed that traditional recipes would have used lard. Enjoy listening and exploring!
Lard Pie Crust
Tart Shell
Wiltshire Lardy Cake


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The concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development have been evolved over the last fifty years in the West. Since the financial crisis in 2008, these concepts have been brought to surface to tackle the ethical and moral issues that have been neglected by the financial and business practices due to the attachment to the neo-classical economy understanding. The role of CSR is significant in shaping sustainable banking model, which is expected to have impact on management, products and services, community and environment. Therefore, banks as well as other corporations are expected to engage actively in CSR practices in contributing to sustainable development.
With the emergence of Islamic banking and finance, a paradigm shift was expected in financial world towards ethical practices, as Islamic moral economy aims to uphold the socioeconomic justice and to serve the interest of larger stakeholder. However, the experience in the last thirty years testifies that Islamic banks have failed to fulfil the social expectations through CSR and sustainable development practices; and hence social failure of Islamic banks is debated widely. In fact, a sustainable banking in the form of Islamic social bank is proposed at the end of this study that fits into the aspiration of an Islamic moral economy.
The main aim of this research, thus, is to explore the perceptions of Malaysians towards the social dimensions of Islamic banking. Hence, this study analysed the Malaysians knowledge and practises with regard to CSR and sustainable development with the objective of locating their personal experience with their respective Islamic banks. This research further aims to propose the establishment of Islamic social banking based on Shari'ah principles that fulfils social and developmentalist needs of Malaysians, for which the participants' perceptions are referred to in developing the nature and shape of such a new institutionalisation.
In fulfilling the research aim, primary data were gathered through employing questionnaire surveys from customers of Malaysian Islamic banks representing the demand side of the industry; and semi-structured interviews were conducted with the Shari'ah advsiors, bank managers, executives and also Shari'ah executives of Islamic banks which bring the insights from the supply side. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistical tools. The interview data were analysed using thematic analysis through coding method to identify similar patterns of answers.
The findings of this study suggest that the conventional concepts of CSR and sustainable development are relevant to the nature of Islamic banking and therefore should be implemented in their practice. In fact, respondents expressed their expectation for Islamic banks to be more ethical and socially responsible in their operations. In responding to the observed social failure of Islamic banking, the respondents asserts that technical objectives such as prohibition of riba' and providing Shari'ah compliance product is sufficient but not enough to achieve the social objectives. As identified by the participants, there are several issues preventing Islamic banks to perform CSR that mostly are internal problems involving lack of self-awareness on CSR. Further, the study signifies that CSR should be the success factor for Islamic banks in achieving sustainable development to survive in the highly competitive market. Additionally, the study also show strong demand from the respondents to institutionalise an Islamic social banking to serve the socially and financially excluded groups in achieving developmentalist and social objectives by particularly empowering the Malaysian people in the rural areas, as the very nature of Islamic moral economy proposes.


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Supply chain reshoring: where things stand now
Reshoring, Resiliency, Supply Chain Visibility
Reshoring—the practice in which OEMs bring production and supply chains back from foreign countries to their home countries—and nearshoring—bringing production closer to home or to major markets—have increased in the wake of the pandemic, although not necessarily at the pace and scale which some anticipated. In looking at re/nearshoring trends and sentiments for both the United States and Europe, here's what we found:
Re/nearshoring has been particularly disappointing in Europe. An initial surge of interest in 2020 by European executives in re/nearshoring had dissipated by mid-2021. According to surveys conducted by EY in June 2020 and June 2021, the percentage of Eurozone companies considering re/nearshoring dropped from 83% to 23% for nearshoring and 20% for reshoring. And when executives ranked the "megatrends" that they expected to accelerate most over the next three years, only 5% picked re/nearshoring. By contrast, 29% chose digital customer access to services; 17% thought sustainability and climate change would dominate; and 14% reckoned automation of manual process would accelerate fastest.
In the United States, the Reshoring Initiative has projected 220,000 new domestic jobs will be created by investments in reshoring announced through just the first half of 2021. According to the group, that was a 38% over the entire year of 2020 and "the highest yearly number recorded to date."
Analysts like EY and Reshoring Initiative include foreign direct investment (FDI) when they tally reshoring data. In the United States, FDI has been particularly robust and accounting for 38% of the projected new jobs, according to Reshoring Initiative. In the electric vehicle battery segment alone, nearly 11,000 new jobs will come from Korean FDI in new U.S. manufacturing facilities. And the largest net jump in jobs forecast came in computer and electronics due mostly to investment in semiconductor manufacturing such as Taiwan-based TSMC's $12 billion investment in a 5nm node fab in Phoenix, Arizona.
In Europe, FDI in manufacturing declined by 20% in 2020, according to EY. But the firm's analysts see "reasons for optimism" in the data and forecasts for industrial producing manufacturing. After declining 12.8% in 2020, this segment was expected to grow by 9.6% in 2021 and 4.1% in 2022.
When examining corporate strategies for supply chains, the EY survey revealed "limited appetite for major supply chain restructuring." The two top drivers, according to the 550 Eurozone executives surveyed, were reducing dependence on sole-source suppliers and countries (39%); operating more regionally (34%). After nearshoring (23%) and reshoring (20%), 19% of respondents predicted their firms would increase their manufacturing presence in Europe and 16% said a transition to lean or additive manufacturing was in the cards.
Additive manufacturing—commonly known as 3D printing—has been the subject of a great deal of buzz as the vulnerabilities of far-flung global supply chains have been revealed by disruptions related to the pandemic. "3D printing, for the first time, is giving executive leadership the power to rethink the relationship of their supply chain and internal operations by taking a holistic approach to cross-functional capacity," said Matt Petros, CEO of 3DEO in a recent Forbes article. The firm Petros heads is one of several that has mastered 3D printing with metal, expanding the range of parts and components that can be produced.
But a deeper dive by FT reporters finds limited potential for 3D printing to replace foreign suppliers, especially those in Asia, on a large scale. In aerospace manufacturing, for example, suppliers are regulated by aviation authorities, and this makes changing to addictive manufacturing challenging. German 3D printer maker SLM told FT that a recent partnership with a UK aero-engine manufacturer took two years to get up and running due in large part to the need for approvals from Britain's Civil Aviation Authority.
The constraints on how much and how fast 3D printing can displace foreign suppliers is part of the dominant fact of life in supply chains, according to FT and other analysts: most industries remain utterly dependent on Asian suppliers—and not just for cost reasons, but for their technical sophistication. "We have approximately 800,000 people deployed in our [suppliers'] factories," said Kasper Rorsted, Adidas' CEO. "It's an illusion that you can move an industry that has grown over 30 years in Asia [and become] a very sophisticated industry."
Rorsted added that even if a large reshoring of his company's operation were possible, the highly technical fabrics and other materials for shoes would still need to be sourced globally. Other analysts quoted by FT point out that the EU lacks the workforce to staff major growth in manufacturing. And the cost increases associated with large-scale reshoring "would considerably worsen the standard of living for people inside the EU as well as for its trading partners," according to Alexander Sandkamp of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
EY's analysis echoes Rorsted's and Sandkamp's view, noting that moving out of Asia in a big way could result in "disruptive and costly reorganizations" of supply chains. "Asia is showing solid signs of recovery, and multinationals will maintain a presence there … [while] some may relocate selected critical activities to Europe, mitigating future disruption risks."
Firms can indeed reap major benefits by re/nearshoring parts of a supply chain. But the core strategic principles of building resilient supply chains—mapping to the sub-tiers; monitoring events in real time; proactively mitigating risks at vulnerable suppliers making high-impact parts; etc.—must be applied to assure that the results achieved are the ones you want.
As Kearney's experts summed up at the end of the 2020 Reshoring Index: Companies need to place more value on resilience by building supply chains that can nimbly sense and pivot in response to unexpected demands and disruptions. This is the key to operating profitably in the face of ongoing disruptions.
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Q: Why is MATLAB calculation of standard deviation different than a hand calculation? Matlab:
>> std( [3 2 2 3] )
ans =
    0.5774

Layman's interpretation of standard deviation per Google:
Mean of {3,2,2,3} = 2.5
Deviation from mean for each value = {0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5}
Square of deviation from mean = {0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25}
Mean of the squares = 0.25
Square root of 0.25 = 0.5
Therefore Standard Deviation of {3,2,2,3} = 0.5

What did I muck up? I was foolishly expecting those two numbers to agree.

A: Matlab std computes the corrected standard deviation. From help std:

std normalizes Y by (N-1), where N is the sample size.  This is the
      sqrt of an unbiased estimator of the variance of the population from
      which X is drawn, as long as X consists of independent, identically
      distributed samples.

So you have
Square of deviation from mean = {0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25}

Then you don't compute the actual root mean of the deviations, but sqrt(sum([0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25])/3). Generally, sum(square of deviation)/(N-1) for a vector of length N.
Update: as Leonid Beschastny pointed out, you can get matlab to calculate the uncorrected standard deviation. Again, from help std:

Y = std(X,1) normalizes by N and produces the square root of the second
      moment of the sample about its mean.  std(X,0) is the same as std(X).


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In 2016, Scott and Jeff created a corporation and began operations for ABC Food Truck Co, Inc., which we will refer to as "ABC Company". One of the first and largest expenses of the company when starting operations was the purchase of property and equipment (or fixed assets). The owners rented a small office space and needed to purchase furniture for the office. Computers were also needed for both of the owners and any additional employees. In addition, a truck and cooking equipment were also purchased for the business.
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In recent years, the IRS issued the Tangible Property Regulations, which had a drastic impact on fixed assets and depreciation. One of the most significant provisions for small businesses was the De Minimis Safe Harbor (DMSH) election. The regulations essentially created a threshold under which a fixed asset that was purchased could be deducted entirely in the year purchased, as opposed to being capitalized and depreciated over multiple years. The safe harbor amount for companies without audited financial statements or statements submitted to a government entity began at $500, and was subsequently raised to $2,500 effective with tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. So, if the de minimis election is made, when ABC Company purchases a computer for $2,000 in 2016, the entire cost of the computer can be expensed in 2016, which results in tax savings in the current year. If ABC Company purchases a desk for $3,000 in the same year, that item would be above the threshold set by regulations and therefore would not qualify for the safe harbor. Also of note is that the $2,500 threshold is on a per item basis. This means that if ABC Company buys two computers for $2,000, and pays the total invoice for $4,000, the company would be allowed to deduct the entire amount in the current year because each item on an individual basis is below the threshold. Because deducting an entire purchase in the current year is most advantageous to the taxpayer, determining if a purchase would fall under this election would typically be our first step in evaluating the tax ramifications of a purchase.
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Another important topic to discuss is the Section 179 deduction. This is a very taxpayer-friendly provision which can allow for a depreciation deduction equal to the entire cost of the fixed asset in the year it was purchased and placed in service. The deduction is limited to $500,000 per year and begins to phase-out when total purchases exceed $2,000,000, and is completely eliminated above $2,500,000. However these limits do not impact the majority of small businesses in most industries. If you have determined that the DMSH election amount does not apply to a purchase, you may still be able to deduct the full cost of the asset in the year purchased. For example, the $3,000 desk purchased by ABC Company would likely qualify for the Section 179 deduction, which is advantageous for the company as it reduces their taxable income in the current year. One important note to remember regarding the Section 179 deduction is that it can only be made to offset taxable income; therefore if the company is in a loss position before the Section 179 expense, then no deduction can be taken. Other complexities may also be involved, including the possibility of carrying over unused Section 179 deductions and what types of specific property qualify for the deduction, but those details are beyond the scope of this article. Please feel free to email us any questions you may have regarding the Section 179 deduction or other items discussed in the article.
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