There's a lot of reasons you may want to refinance your mortgage, but the primary one is simple yet powerful: you don't want to pay as much month to month.
If you're a homeowner, a mortgage payment is no doubt the number one recurring expense that most drains your bank account each month, and lightening that load even a fraction could drastically shift your financial situation for the better.
How do you go about it, though? What does the process look like? Where do you start? Those are all questions we're here to answer today as we guide you through how to refinance your mortgage.
When we talk about refinancing there are two paths you can take. The most common, which we mentioned above, is to lengthen the term of your loan so you pay less each month.
So, for example, if you originally agreed to pay $1,000 a month for 30 years (don't salivate, this is just a hypothetical example) and 10 years in you decide to refinance. The bank agrees and however much you have left to pay off on your home (let's say $20,000) is then spread out over another 30 years, reducing your monthly payment to $660.
Great, right? Well, not exactly. See, we left out interest in the above example.
Interest is the money you pay the bank to let you borrow in the first place, and the tricky thing about it is that when your refinance in the above example the amount of interest you pay each month doesnÕt change, which means over the life of the loan (40 years now instead of 30) you'll end up paying more to the bank in total. Essentially, if you view the loan as a single product, it becomes more expensive.
This is the tradeoff that comes from refinancing this way: you have the utility of having paying less month to month, but you also end up paying more in total.
For many people it's worth more to pay less month to month: if youÕre having trouble with bills it can mean keeping the lights on, if you canÕt make your car payments it means keeping your car, and it potentially means you can invest in other things (retirement, businesses, stocks) which will accrue interest at a higher rate than you'll lose it by paying more on your mortgage in total.
On the opposite side of the coin, it's possible to refinance to shorten the length of your loan by paying more each month. Doing so you'll pay less interest over the life of the loan which means less total.
While this may seem crazy to some people, there are actually some really smart reasons you should do this depending on your situation. Often you don't have access to any kind of long term investment that will accrue you money at a higher rate than it will be drained by the interest rate on your mortgage.
If you're middle class or lower the truth is that there are few investment options open to us that have higher than the 5% interest rate that's average for most mortgages, and so ensuring you pay less in the future is its own kind of investment.
Also, some people just like to own their home outright without any third party bank involved. This doesn't really have much financial utility unless some kind of housing crisis hits, but is nonetheless a valid reason to refinance.
If all this sounds complicated, then we suggest starting out with a mortgage refinance calculator. A refinance calculator is a handy tool for getting your head more or less around the numbers you'll be working with.
It won't let you know the exact interest rates or terms of the deal you'll be offered by a given lender, but it will make it easier for you to grasp the possibilities and impact of the loan when you do receive an offer from a lender.
Another important step before you start trying to refinance is to look up your credit score. This is relatively easy to do (you're legally obliged one free report a year, and it can be done online), and will give you an idea of what kind of interest rate you can expect. As a rule of thumb, the higher your credit score the lower you can expect your future interest rate.
One thing you need to consider before pulling the trigger on refinancing your mortgage is to determine how much your house is actually worth currently. Refinancing is only beneficial if your house has increased in worth (which most do over time simply because of how the real estate market works), but if it hasn't, then refinancing will actually end up costing you more both in the short and long term.
How do you know if your house has decreased in value without actually tipping your hand by having the bank inspect it? The easiest way is to just do a little online research. You'll want to search for what homes in your neighborhood and area are selling for. Another option is to have a third party inspect your home and give you an estimate, but that can be pricey and so often isn't everyone's first option.
Refinancing your mortgage can be tricky, but doesnÕt need to be complicated. If you follow our steps, you should be able to do so successfully and with a minimum of headache. Just remember to first decide whether you want to pay less each month or less total in total, then do what you can to calculate what your refinanced mortgage will look like, and finally to consider whether your house has decreased in value. Weighing those three factors will make sure you make the right decision.


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91 F. 3d 1345 - Idaho Conservation League v. Thomas
91 F.3d
91 F3d 1345 Idaho Conservation League v. Thomas
91 F.3d 1345
26 Envtl. L. Rep. 21,650, 96 Cal. Daily Op.
Serv. 5822,
96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 9501
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE; and The Wilderness Society,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
Jack Ward THOMAS, in his official capacity as Chief of the
United States Forest Service; Dan Glickman, in his official
capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture;
and United States Forest Service, an agency of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Defendants-Appellees,
Intermountain Forest Industry Association, Intervenor-Appellee.
No. 95-36293.
Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 10, 1996.
Decided Aug. 6, 1996.
Kristen L. Boyles, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, Washington, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
Monica P. Medina, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.
Bruce M. Smith, Rosholt, Robertson & Tucker, Boise, Idaho, for the defendant-intervenor-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, Edward J. Lodge, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-95-00425-EJL.
Before: LAY,* FERGUSON, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.
LEAVY, Circuit Judge:
The Idaho Conservation League and The Wilderness Society (ICL) appeal from the district court's summary judgment in favor of Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of the United States Forest Service, in its action seeking a permanent injunction preventing the Forest Service from proceeding with the Thunderbolt timber salvage sale. We affirm the judgment of the district court.FACTS AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS
The Thunderbolt timber salvage sale is located in the South Fork Salmon River (SFSR) drainage in the Boise and Payette National Forests in central Idaho. Historically, the river was the single largest producer of spring/summer chinook in the Columbia River Basin. However, since the 1950s, the drainage has suffered severe erosion and stream sedimentation caused by mining, grazing, logging, and associated road building. This degradation has been exacerbated by the geological formation underlying the drainage, the Idaho Batholith, which is characterized by steep, highly dissected topography and shallow soils. As a consequence, the spring/summer chinook population has suffered a drastic decline.
State and federal agencies took action to correct the problems in the SFSR. In the late 1980s, the Forest Service convened a group of scientists, timber industry officials, federal and state agencies, Indian tribes, and environmental organizations to develop a management plan for the SFSR. The group developed a set of management guidelines (South Fork Guidelines) which the Forest Service incorporated into the Payette and Boise National Forest Land Resource Management Plans (LRMPs) in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
The South Fork Guidelines established an interim fine sediment objective with a goal of fishable populations by 1997 and set forth an aggressive restoration and monitoring program. Under the guidelines, any new major land-disturbing actions are prohibited until restoration actions have improved in-river conditions. The guidelines also considered the effects of fire and the appropriate response:
Impacts from a fire, or other natural events may be unavoidable and stabilizing the source of natural disturbance is not always biologically desirable for aquatic ecosystems. More important is maintaining natural stream dynamics.
The SFSR was identified as a Stream Segment of Concern by the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality. This designation occurred because the beneficial uses of salmonid spawning and cold water biota were impaired by poor water quality. In a related action, the SFSR was designated as Water Quality Limited under § 303(d) of the Clean Water Act because it failed to meet water quality standards. In 1992 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), which limit sediment discharges into the South Fork Salmon River. The purpose of the TMDL is to improve spawning and rearing habitat by reducing sediment load caused by human activities. The TMDL sets a goal of 25% reduction in the sediment load attributable to human activities.
The Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon was listed under the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species in 1992, and subsequently listed to endangered in 1994. The South Fork Salmon River provides critical habitat, as designated by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), for the Snake River spring/summer chinook.
In 1994 wildfires burned over 150,000 acres in the SFSR drainage. In particular, the Thunderbolt wildfire burned 18,827 acres. According to the Forest Service, the magnitude and extent of the wildfires experienced in the summer of 1994 were significantly greater than what they had anticipated.
The Forest Service initiated an assessment of effects of the fires and possible responses, and proposed the Thunderbolt Wildfire Recovery Project, which includes the Thunderbolt timber salvage sale. The purpose of the Thunderbolt sale is:
to improve the long term fish habitat, rehabilitate existing sediment sources, improve hydrologic conditions of affected watershed, protect long term soil productivity, promote revegetation of trees on burned acres, and recover the economic value of dead and imminently dead trees as a means of financing the ecosystem restoration and sediment reduction projects.
In March of 1995, the Forest Service issued its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and biological assessment for endangered species of fish and wildlife, as required by1 Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 U.S.C. § 1536(a)(2). The response of other state and federal agencies to the proposed salvage was almost uniformly negative. As stated by the district court in its thorough memorandum decision and order:
The Project's proposed alternative, particularly the component that proposed the Salvage Sale to finance recovery actions, drew harsh and substantial criticism from the other federal agencies having jurisdiction over the resource: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. In the unanimous opinion of these agencies, the environmental risks posed by using salvage logging to finance restoration projects were too great to render the Project acceptable.
The EPA recommended against the Project, noting that the proposed action was inconsistent with collective agency decisions and resource protection goals for the South Fork Salmon River watershed. The EPA concluded that the logging sale would further aggravate the already critically degraded habitat for threatened salmon. NMFS also strongly opposed the Project, concluding that the Recovery Project, and the logging activity in particular, will likely jeopardize the continued existence of the endangered salmon and will likely result in the destruction or adverse modification of their critical habitat. The USFWS similarly opposed the salvage sale on the ground that it would likely result in adverse impacts to fish and wildlife. The USFWS opined that the proposed salvage actions would generate additional sediment in the already-impacted watershed, negating or delaying the benefits from the restoration actions. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game also criticized the proposal to use logging to fund restoration projects.
Idaho Conservation League v. Thomas, 917 F.Supp. 1458, 1461-62 (D.Idaho 1995).
The Forest Service considered and responded to the concerns expressed by these agencies, particularly EPA and NMFS. In addition, the Forest Service convened a panel2 of its own experts to "review the scientific merit of the material presented on sediment yield, sediment routing, and fisheries habitat" in the DEIS. While the panel concluded that the Forest Service used "the best analytical methods available for estimating erosion and sediment delivery," the panel was "unable to conclude that the analysis performed could support the conclusion of long term improvement in the spawning and rearing habitat of anadromous fish," and made recommendations for improving the analysis.
The Forest Service responded to the panel's recommendations and revised its DEIS (as reflected in the FEIS) to incorporate the additional data and analysis suggested. The panel reviewed the changes and, on September 1, 1995, concluded in a memorandum that the revisions in the FEIS responded to its major recommendations.
On September 12, 1995, the Forest Service released its FEIS. On October 5, 1995, the Forest Service issued its record of decision (ROD), stating that it planned to proceed with the Thunderbolt sale under a modified version of the recommended sale. On October 13, 1995, the Forest Service advertised the Thunderbolt sale. As required by § 2001(f)(1) of the Rescissions Act, Pub.L. No. 104-19, 1995 U.S.C.C.A.N. 109 Stat. 240, 241 (to be codified at 16 U.S.C. § 1611 Note), ICL filed its challenge to the Thunderbolt sale with the district court within 15 days of its initial advertisement. On December 11, 1995, within the 45 day time period mandated by § 2001(f)(5) of the Rescissions Act, the district court denied ICL's motion for summary judgment and injunctive relief, granted the Forest Service's motion for summary judgment and granted in part and denied in part the Forest Service's motion to strike certain exhibits submitted by ICL. The district court reviewed the record under the arbitrary and capricious standard mandated by § 2001(f)(4) of the Rescissions Act and found that (1) "notwithstanding substantial interagency disagreement, the Forest Service was entitled to rely on the opinions and analysis of its own experts;" (2) the fires of 1994 caused a changed circumstance which justified the Forest Service's decision to alter its management of the South Forest Salmon River; and (3) the sale, together with other funds, would raise enough money to fund restoration projects. The district court also ruled as a matter of law that Secretary Glickman did not have to personally authorize the Thunderbolt salvage sale, and the district court struck several exhibits that ICL argued should have been part of the record. ICL timely appealed.
On appeal ICL makes two arguments: (1) the Forest Service acted arbitrarily and capriciously in deciding to proceed with the Thunderbolt sale because the sale was against overwhelming expert agency opposition, was in contradiction of long-standing Forest Service policy, and the purpose of the sale--to raise money for restoration projects--would not be met; and (2) the Forest Service violated Section 2001(c)(1)(A) of the Rescissions Act because the Secretary of Agriculture had no role in the decision to proceed with the sale. ICL also contends that the district court erred in striking the exhibits from consideration when it ruled on the motion for summary judgment.
1. Arbitrary and Capricious Review.
While we review a grant of summary judgment de novo, Warren v. City of Carlsbad, 58 F.3d 439, 441 (9th Cir.1995), in Inland Empire Public Lands Council v. Glickman, 88 F.3d 697 (9th Cir.1996) we set forth the applicable standard of review under the Rescissions Act:
The Rescissions Act provides for extremely limited judicial review.... Review of salvage timber sales is ... limited in that (1) review is based on the administrative record only; (2) the standard of review is arbitrary and capricious or otherwise not in accordance with applicable law; and (3) the sale is not subject to any federal environmental or natural resources laws. Id. at 701 (quotations and citations omitted).
Applying this standard of review, we conclude that the Forest Service did not act arbitrarily or capriciously when it decided to proceed with the Thunderbolt salvage sale. We agree with the district court's findings, that, first:
the Forest Service clearly was entitled to rely on the opinions and studies of its own experts. While it properly considered the commenting agency's opposing views, the Forest Service was free to disagree with those views and to rely on its own expertise. The expert analysis referenced in the ROD [Record of Decision] and relied on by the Forest Service provides the rational connection to the Forest Service's decision to proceed, and convinces the court that the decision was not arbitrary and capricious[;]
in deciding to go forward with the restoration projects and the salvage sale, the Forest Service explained that "[m]uch of the more than 150,000 acres that burned were contiguous areas adjacent to the river," and that the impacts from these fires "resulted in a changed condition to the South Fork Salmon River basin that was unforeseen in the Boise and Payette Forest Plans."
Upon this record, the court has little difficulty deferring to the Forest Service's view that the 150,000 acres that burned in 1994 resulted in a changed condition not foreseen in the forest plans. Accordingly, the court cannot conclude that the Forest Service's decision to alter its management to adapt to that change was arbitrary and capricious[;]
and, third,
[t]he court has reviewed the financial information and calculations submitted by the parties, and the information contained in the [Final Environmental Impact Statement], ROD, and the Forest Service's declarations and discovery responses in particular. Based on that review, the court is persuaded that using the anticipated revenues from the Salvage Sale, together with the financing identified in the ROD, the Forest Service will be able to fund the specific projects to which it committed in the ROD. Accordingly, the court finds that the Forest Service's decision to use the Salvage Sale to finance the restoration projects was not arbitrary and capricious.
Idaho Conservation League v. Thomas, 917 F.Supp. at 1464-67.
2. Role of Secretary of Agriculture.
In Inland Empire, we held that § 2001(c)(1)(A) of the Rescissions Act does not require the Secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman, personally to authorize salvage timber sales. 88 F.3d 697, 702 (9th Cir.1996). Thus, ICL's second argument is without merit.
3. Exhibits.
ICL also argues that certain extra-record materials were improperly excluded from consideration by the district court. The district court granted, in part, a Forest Service motion to strike certain documents submitted by ICL in its motion for summary judgment on the ground that they were not part of the administrative record. The Forest Service contended that the documents were never sent to or received by the Forest Service. ICL maintained that the documents were in existence before the final decision and should be part of the record. The district court found that "documents which were authored by agencies other than the Forest Service and which were not sent or released to the Forest Service should be stricken as such writings were not before the decision maker at the time of the decision." Idaho Conservation League, 917 F.Supp. at 1469 (footnote omitted). On this basis, the district court excluded eleven exhibits and the declaration of ICL's expert Cindy Williams. The district court denied the motion to strike as to four other exhibits, finding that these were part of the record. The district court did not abuse its discretion in granting the motion to strike.
The district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of the United States Forest Service, is AFFIRMED.
The Honorable Donald P. Lay, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation
The Rescissions Act, which superceded these laws for timber salvage sales, was not signed into law until July 25, 1995
According to the district court, a federal interagency science panel met first to review the science applied in the soil and fisheries analysis. This panel could not reach a consensus. Id. at 1462 n. 4

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After row, cops seek EC word on Deora's visit to mosque
Monday, Mar 24, 2014 | Source: Indian Express | Internet-News Paper | Page 3
THE Mumbai police have written to the state Election Commission for its opinion on whether Mumbai South MP Milind Deora violated the model code of conduct for polls during his visit to a mosque in Nagpada last week. "It does not appear that Deora visited the place with the intention of canvassing for votes. We have written to the Election Commission and it is for the Returning Officer to decide if a breach of the model code of conduct was committed," said Nandkumar Mhetar, senior police inspector of Nagpada police station. On Wednesday night, there was an uproar in Nagpada over allegations that Deora, MLA Amin Patel and
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According to police, Deora and Patel were chief guests at a prize distribution ceremony at a basketball tournament in 3rd Peerkhan Street in Nagpada. Theywere invited into the mosque by Minorities Development Minister Arif Naseem Khan, who was attending a dinner party there."Arif Naseem Khan had helped the mosque's management with a property in Pune district. In his honour, the management had organised a dinner on the roof of the mosque at 9 pm on Wednesday. However, when they heard that Deora and Patel were in the vicinity, they were also invited to attend,"Mhetar said, adding that the CCTV footage acquired from the mosque showed Deora and others with him having taken off their footwear before entering the mosque. Police said they left at 930 pm. "The trouble began after Deora left. A local business man, Mohammad Rafik Makbool Khan, claimed Deora had desecrated the mosque. He called a few more men from the locality, and soon, a large crowd made its way to the police station. No one had seen Deora wearing his footwear while inside the mosque," Mhetar said The officer said Khan later retracted his complaint when he realised he could be booked for making a false complaint. When contacted, Deora dismissed the allegations as baseless rumours.
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Q: Link to file path with space in Richtextbox I am using richtextbox in winforms.
I have to show some links in the richtextbox which will be set readonly.
It works fine for the links with out spaces like

\\efile\DSC_0618.JPG

But when the file has space like

\\2527 threshold.png

it wont work and link will get broke due to space.
i have used the solution mentioned in this link Link to File's path with spaces in RichTextBox?
But the problem is that escape sequence also get displayed in the Richtextbox according to that.
Is there any way i can make it as link without using escape sequence?

A: I've found this link http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/RichTextBoxLinks.asp which can help you insert a link of any text into a RichTextBox. There is a special note about how to fetch the LinkText and Link Url here which doesn't seem to be found in the original demo. Here I'll demonstrate the link info fetching in LinkClicked event handler:
//Insert link to test
richTextBoxEx1.InsertLink("StackOverFlow", "http://www.stackoverflow.com");
//LickClicked event handler
private void richTextBoxEx1_LinkClicked(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.LinkClickedEventArgs e)
{
        string[] s = e.LinkText.Split(new string[]{@"#http://"}, StringSplitOptions.None);
        if (s.Length == 2)
        {
            s[1] = "http://" + s[1];
            MessageBox.Show("A link has been clicked.\nThe link text is '" + s[0] + "'\nThe link URL is '" + s[1] + "'");
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(s[1]);//Try visiting the link.
        }
}

I think this is the most beautiful solution for you (and others who have the same problem).

A: If you'd like something basic, which has the effect of visually mimicking spaces in file names, simply replace the space characters (' ') with the UNICODE non-breaking space (U+00A0), and then in the link click handler do the reverse. See my answer to a similar question here for the sample code:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19853473/2967903

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Provocative new findings suggest a surprising cause of Down syndrome: cells linked to aging
By Megan Molteni Jan. 6, 2022
Neural progenitor cells derived from stem cells of a person with Down syndrome. Courtesy Hiruy Meharena
Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, impacting about 1 in 700 newborns around the world. At some point during their first hours and days of embryonic development, their dividing cells fail to properly wriggle a chromosome pair away from each other, leaving an extra copy where it shouldn't be. Although scientists have known for more than six decades that this extra copy of chromosome 21 causes the cognitive impairment people with Down syndrome experience, exactly how it happens remains a matter of debate.
The dominant hypothesis is that people with this syndrome make too much of the proteins encoded in the genes that reside on chromosome 21, and that this overexpression alters the timing, pattern, or extent of neurodevelopment. This theory has a name: the "gene dosage effect."
But in recent years, scientists using new RNA sequencing techniques to study cells from pairs of twins — one with Down syndrome and one without — have repeatedly turned up a curious pattern. It wasn't just the genes on chromosome 21 that had been cranked way up in individuals with Down syndrome. Across every chromosome, gene expression had gone haywire. Something else was going on.
On Thursday, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported in Cell Stem Cell that it may have found a surprising culprit: senescent cells, the same types implicated in many diseases of aging. The study was small and preliminary, and some experts want to see it replicated in samples from more individuals before buying into its interpretations. But they are nevertheless intriguing.
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Intriguing because those are the same types of cells that pile up and pollute tissues as people get older, and because so many companies are now rushing to develop drugs that clear senescent cells from the body.
"That senescence might be playing a role in the neuropathology of Down syndrome is very interesting," said Tamir Chandra, a molecular geneticist at the University of Edinburgh who was not involved in the new study. "That opens a new door for exploring potential interventions."
Senescence is a natural stress response in which cells lose their ability to divide. It prevents old, often glitchy cells from proliferating out of control and causing cancer. Senescent cells secrete cytokines, a chemical signal that tags them for destruction by the immune system. But as people age, their immune system has a harder time keeping up. Senescent cells accumulate, bathing tissues in a cytokine stew that leads to systemic inflammation. Chandra and others have found that the cells also undergo internal changes; the chromosomes collapse and compact, altering the types of genes the cells express.
Hiruy Meharena had never heard of that phenomenon, when in 2016, he asked his postdoctoral adviser, Li-Huei Tsai, director of the the Alana Down Syndrome Center and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, if he could use a new method for measuring the three-dimensional architecture of DNA to look inside the brain cells of people with Down syndrome. He wanted to know what it could tell them about what was causing the gene expression scrambling other groups had been finding.
He and his colleagues spent years using different methods to measure the differences between two copies and three copies of chromosome 21 in neural progenitor cells, and they began to see very drastic genomic rearrangements. Meharena's team concluded that these cells — which give rise to neurons and other tissues of the central nervous system — simply don't have enough room to accommodate the extra copy of chromosome 21. The result of this overcrowding is a reorganization of the 3D shape of the entire genome of the developing brain.
"The nucleus of a cell is like an elevator when it's full of people," said Meharena. "It's already at capacity, and then this one additional chromosome wants to come in, so every other chromosome squishes together to make space."
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The nucleus is not an infinitely expanding organelle. At its core is DNA that's more loosely coiled so that it's more easily expressed — the genes are more accessible to the cell's protein-making machinery. Out toward the periphery the DNA condenses, meaning those areas are expressed little or not at all. But add an extra chromosome into the mix, and things start to get weird. DNA on the periphery gets dislodged and the other chromosomes start folding in on themselves; out becomes in, in becomes out, off becomes on, and to some extent, on becomes off.
At first the researchers didn't know what to make of the results. "The data kept leading us into uncharted territories, so we just kept chasing it and chasing it," Meharena told STAT. "It wasn't until late in the game that we realized what we were seeing closely resembled senescence."
Once they did, they decided to test their hypothesis. They treated their cells with a combination of two senolytic drugs, dasatinib and quercetin. If the cells were truly senescent, then the medications should both reduce the number of senescent cells and reverse many of the structural DNA changes and gene expression disruptions. Which is exactly what happened.
But Meharena emphasized that the idea was just a proof of concept. "It wasn't to show senolytics as a therapeutic intervention," he said. "It's still far too early for that." Rather, he hopes that by identifying trisomy-induced senescence as a potential driver of the neurodevelopmental abnormalities seen in Down syndrome, his work might inspire new areas of research into future treatments.
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Chandra also cautioned that testing existing experimental senolytic drugs to intervene in brain development amid Down syndrome would be premature. The drugs used in this study come with significant and dangerous side effects. And much more work needs to be done to ascertain what sort of role senescent cells play in driving the disease.
"Everyone thinks that senescent cells are always detrimental," said Chandra. But in the last few years, studies have shown that these cells sometimes pick up new and useful functions. "Before we start injecting people with senolytic drugs, we really need to understand much better what these cells are doing in the brain," he said.
The more immediate impact of the new study may be helping other researchers decide what not to do, said Chris Link, who studies neurodegenerative diseases at the University of Colorado, and worked on one of the papers that found widespread gene expression disruption in the cells of people with Down syndrome.
It may be the most common genetic disorder, but Down syndrome is also one of the most difficult to study. Unlike diseases caused by a single DNA letter typo or a more substantial mutation to a single gene, there aren't easy ways to introduce an entire chromosome to cells in Petri dishes or animal models. The most widely used models are mice that have been engineered to have an extra long chromosome carrying mouse versions of two-thirds of the genes found on human chromosome 21. But they don't fully recapitulate the physical crowding that Meharena's data suggest might be a bigger part of the problem.
"So this might turn out to be an important observation for people to consider when making these mouse models — that maybe they can't be as gene-centric as they have been," said Link. There are also efforts to treat Down syndrome by silencing the extra chromosome. But if its size is as important as its activity, those efforts might not succeed.
"It's somewhat of a scientific revelation that all these changes people have seen may be driven by these large-scale chromosomal associations," said Link — provided the model holds up. When Link's group compared the gene-expression profiles it found with what other groups found in people with Down syndrome, the patterns were really different. "So this is good work, but it needs to be replicated in more people to see if it's truly a general phenomenon," he said.
While skeptical, Link sees why this explanation is so tantalizing; it pulls together so many threads from across biology. Senescence, and the chronic inflammation it causes, is a hallmark of aging. Inflammation has also been offered as an explanation for the neuron die-offs observed in Alzheimer's brains. People with Down syndrome age faster than other people, and they tend to get Alzheimer's at much higher rates. They also have impaired immune systems, which may make it harder for their bodies to clear senescent cells. Studies have consistently found that people with Down syndrome have more senescent cells than other people. "So it all kind of fits," Link said.
But in many ways, the new research raises as many questions as it answers. When Meharena and his collaborators repeated all their analyses with the stem cells they used to create the neural progenitor cells, all the cramming and genetic mayhem they'd observed disappeared. "Whatever disruption is happening is kicking in at the neural progenitor state," he said.
So why are neural progenitor cells so sensitive to this extra chromosome when stem cells aren't? What makes them so special? And what about other tissues, like those in the heart? Are they vulnerable to this nuclear reorganization too? Those are questions Meharena is now exploring with a lab of his own at the University of San Diego.
"If we can learn why stem cells seem to be able to incorporate the additional chromosome without any major issues, maybe we can apply that to therapeutic interventions," he said. "At the very least, we hope it opens up new avenues for how we look at Down syndrome — that there seems to be this whole other element that plays on a different timeline that we really need to explore more."
Megan Molteni is a science writer for STAT, covering genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech.
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City of Perth outlines vision for one-in-100-year reform
Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has urged the State Government to be bold in its proposed legislative changes to expand its boundaries, saying the reforms represent a one-in-100-year opportunity to shape a stronger capital city and the government must get it right.
"This is about making sure that we have a dedicated vision that is going to put Perth front and centre, which will help the greater metropolitan area and the state of Western Australia," Ms Scaffidi said.
The Lord Mayor said the council will advocate strongly to represent the interests of its stakeholders and to achieve the vision of a stronger capital city in electoral and other aspects of the City of Perth Act, which is expected to be introduced to State Parliament this year.
"It is essential that Perth's special role as the Capital City of Western Australia is recognised by the State Government which intends to introduce the City of Perth Act into Parliament in mid-February with a view to establishing it in July," Ms Scaffidi said.
Ms Scaffidi said rushed timeframes and a narrow scope would unacceptably compromise the whole potential and purpose of the City of Perth Act.
According to the council, the new City of Perth Act should achieve the following:
Create a new framework for a stronger Capital City to be able to operate locally and globally, securing economic benefits for Perth and Western Australia;
Define the purpose of the Capital City;
Empower the City of Perth local government to achieve its objectives;
Establish a framework for an open and collaborative relationship between the State Government and the City of Perth;
Accompany a bolder more holistic approach to enhancing the broader legislative framework;
Integrate the various influences on the planning and development of the City;
Establish a stronger platform for economic development;
Streamline and coordinate the elements that contribute to the growth of infrastructure and investment in the City;
Expand the jurisdiction of the City of Perth initially and establish appropriate mechanisms for future annexation required to meet future demands;
Form a strong constitutional governance lead by the Lord Mayor whose regally decreed title is duly recognised;
Preserve the undivided electoral arrangements with a Lord Mayor and eight Councillors;
Ensure that existing voter franchise groups (particularly non-residential voters) entitlements are not diminished and entrench a fair and appropriate franchise;
Establish a fair and appropriate mechanism to register voters' entitlements;
Establish the basis for the City of Perth to operate in a more commercial manner that properly recognises the business environment in which it operates;
Modernise legislative provisions that have no place in new and bold legislation;
Facilitate a transition that does not unduly disrupt the continuity of the Capital City local government; and
Ensure that the transition is both manageable in its timing and affordable in its process, with contribution by State Government to such cost.
Source: News Release, Urbanalyst, 17 January, 2014
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This year has been something. Again. Thankfully, we saw the return of live music, albeit in a limited fashion. If this whole mess—and the tenuousness of not only every show but my comfort with attending those shows—has taught me anything, its that for far too long we as fans have taken for granted the lengths our favorite musicians go to, to allow us to enjoy their music in person. This past year they not only shouldered the load they normally did, they also put themselves and their families at risk to make our lives a better place to live. I…
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The Music Savage Show · Top Albums and EPs of 2021 On the last show of 2021 I spin songs from my top 20 albums and EPs of the past year and play you some great songs from upcoming albums I am very much looking forward to in the first few months of 2022. A big ol' hearty thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU, to all the bands and musicians that released amazing music over the last twelve months! You have no idea how much your songs meant to us this year! Actually now that I think about it… I…
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What. Thefuck. Wasthat? Whatever it was, we made it to the end of 2020 and boy it couldn't come soon enough. I, for one, can't wait to bathe in the waters of a New Year like it will bring absolute resolution to all the crap that has been going down in our world. Will that happen? Who knows. But, at this point, any glimmer of hope is one that I'll hang onto. To say 2020 was a strange one is no novel statement. There were times when I turned to music to get me through each passing moment and there…
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Wow what a decade this year has been! With all the turmoil in the world and the exhausting amount of politics (& oh yeah a pandemic) I turned to music more than ever to help get me through it all. Music has always been my therapy, my escape, and being able to share my love of music with all of you is simply the best! Speaking of the best, the albums and EPs listed below are the BEST of the best, the firehose that helped contain this dumpster fire of a year! The top 20 of 2020 were selected from…
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Stenberg v. Carhart
PETITIONER: Stenberg
RESPONDENT: Carhart
LOCATION: Nebraska General Assembly
DOCKET NO.: 99-830
DECIDED BY: Rehnquist Court (1986-2005)
LOWER COURT: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
ARGUED: Apr 25, 2000
DECIDED: Jun 28, 2000
Donald B. Stenberg - Argued the cause for the petitioners
Simon Heller - Argued the cause for the respondent
A Nebraska law prohibited any "partial birth abortion" unless that procedure was necessary to save the mother's life. It defined "partial birth abortion" as a procedure in which the doctor "partially delivers vaginally a living unborn child before killing the... child," and defined the latter phrase to mean "intentionally delivering into the vagina a living unborn child, or a substantial portion thereof, for the purpose of performing a procedure that the [abortionist] knows will kill the... child and does kill the... child." Violation of the law is a felony, and it provides for the automatic revocation of a convicted doctor's state license to practice medicine. Leroy Carhart, a Nebraska physician who performs abortions in a clinical setting, brought suit seeking a declaration that the statute violates the U.S. Constitution, claiming the law was unconstitutionally vague and placed an undue burden on himself and female patients seeking abortions. The District Court held the statute unconstitutional. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
Does the Nebraska statute, which makes the performance of a "partial birth abortions" a crime, violate the liberty protected by due process of the Fourteenth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution?
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Oral Argument - April 25, 2000
Audio Transcription for Oral Argument - April 25, 2000 in Stenberg v. Carhart
Audio Transcription for Opinion Announcement - June 28, 2000 in Stenberg v. Carhart
William H. Rehnquist:
The opinion of the Court in No. 99-830, Stenberg against Carhart, will be announced by Justice Breyer.
Stephen G. Breyer:
This case concerns the right to an abortion.
We understand the immensely controversial nature of the problem.
Millions of Americans believe that life begins at conception and that consequently an abortion is like causing the death of an innocent child.
They recoil at the thought of a law that would permit it.
Other millions fear that a law that forbids abortion would condemn many American women to lives that lack dignity, depriving them of equal liberty and leading those with least resources to undergo illegal abortions with attendant risks of death and suffering.
Taking account of these virtually irreconcilable points of view, aware that constitutional law must govern a society whose different members sincerely hold directly opposing views and considering the matter in light of the Constitution's guarantees of fundamental individual liberty.
This court, in the course of a generation has determined in Roe v. Wade and then re-determined in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, that the Constitution offers basic protection to the woman's right to choose.
We shall not revisit those basic legal principles.
Here, in this case, we simply apply the principles to the circumstances before us.
The Nebraska Statute that we consider says, "No, partial birth abortions shall be performed" in Nebraska, unless necessary to save the life of the mother.
The statute goes on to define partial birth abortion in more specific anatomical terms, it then applies to abortions performed before the fetus is viable, as well as those after viability.
We determined statute's lawfulness by applying three basic principles set forth in Casey: the first principle is that prior to viability a "woman has a right to choose to terminate her pregnancy"; the second is that a "law which imposes an undue burden on" that decision is unconstitutional; the third as we understand it is that, a state can forbid an abortion only if it also maintains exceptions in its law, which exceptions will permit abortion "where it is necessary inappropriate medical judgment for the preservation of the life, or health of the mother".
Now, we apply those three principles and in doing that we conclude that, the Nebraska Statute violates the Constitution.
For one thing, the statute is too broad.
It may well be aimed primarily at the partial birth abortion procedure.
A procedure used typically after the sixteenth week of pregnancy but before the fetus is viable.
A procedure that is known technically as a D&X Procedure, but as currently written, the statute sweeps well beyond that procedure and also forbids a different commonly used procedure.
A procedure used typically after the thirteenth week of pregnancy, but before the fetus is viable, which procedure is known technically as the D&E Procedure.
As Nebraska itself concedes, if the statute forbids not only D&X but also D&E, it places a "undue burden" on the woman's right to choose and consequently violates the Constitution.
The parties disagree about whether it is reasonably possible to adopt a more narrow interpretation of the statute that would limit its scope, so that it went not at all beyond the D&X.
The only way we have been able to resolve this disagreement, is to examine the statute's wording, in light of the two procedures, technical medical details.
We have therefore had to examine those technical medical details, explicitly and in depth, our opinion does that.
We conclude that the statute cannot be reasonably interpreted as if it were limited to the D&X procedure alone.
It covers the D&E procedure as well.
Consequently it violates the Constitution.
Nebraska's ban on partial birth abortion also fails to meet the Constitution's requirement that a statute not in danger a woman's health when it regulates the methods of abortion.
Casey requires a health exception, where a procedure is "necessary in appropriate medical judgment for the preservation of the life or health of the mother."
Nebraska has provided an exception for the life, but not for the health of the mother.
The State argued that no health exception was needed because the D&X procedure is "never necessary to preserve the health of woman", and we recognize some medical uncertainty about just, when, or whether the D&X Procedure is safer procedure, than alternative procedures.
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TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that Iran has never started a war in the region and seeks "brotherly ties" with neighboring countries.
In an open reference to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Rouhani said certain regional countries have taken the wrong path and seek the U.S. and Israel's help while Iran seeks "friendly ties with all the countries in the region".
He noted that the regional countries should maintain security through unity.
"We all should be united and prevent enemy from reaching its objectives through causing division among us," the president suggested.
Elsewhere, he noted that Iran has no fear of pressure by the enemies.
"The U.S. and Zionists seek to hatch plots and cause division among our nation and also cause rift among the government…, the three branches (of government) and the Leadership and weaken the people's trust on the system. However, we are not fearful of the enemy's pressure," the president stated.


Construction began on Tuesday on the concrete wall that will extend for a single kilometer alongside the motorway to the Calais port where ferries carrying lorries depart day and night for the U.K.
But British tabloids have derided the undertaking, dubbing it "the Great Wall of Calais" and attacking its £2 million ($2.6 million) cost.
Migrants who spoke to Anadolu Agency before the construction work began were similarly dismissive.
"Of course you can do it, it's very possible," said 32-year-old Aziz, with an unconcerned wave of his hand when asked how likely it was to sneak on board a lorry without being caught.
The Albanian migrant worked for 10 years in the western English city of Northampton until he was deported for overstaying his fixed-term visa.
Aziz is one of the so-called "economic migrants" – people not fleeing war and destruction, but rather seeking a better life for themselves – that Britain does not want to accept.
But Walid, 25, who travelled over desert and sea from his native Sudan, had a different story.
"There is a genocide in my country – I have no family anymore," he explained in unfaltering English.
"All I want to do is study in Britain," he said.
The Jungle camp, home to an estimated over 9,000 people according to French authorities, is a sea of plastic tents fanning out in all directions from a main street of wooden buildings that contain restaurants, a community center with a blaring television, and stores selling canned drinks.
Young men like Aziz and Walid, who travel alone and are physically capable of scaling fences and chasing fast-moving lorries, make up the majority of dwellers in the camp.
Far less visible but facing far greater risk are the women and solo children, some of them barely teenagers, who are trying to make the same journey to Britain.
"Just yesterday I saw a mother and child, she four-years-old, trying to get inside a truck," Walid said, his ready smile collapsing into sorrow at the mention of vulnerable children.
"I watched them. I saw them trying to get on lorry and they fell and they got hurt.
Under European asylum rules known as Dublin III, migrants must make their asylum claim in the first safe country they reach, although children are permitted to transfer to another country if they have family members living there.
But according to Britain's anti-slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland, children in the camp are risking their lives every day as they wait for British authorities to process their applications.
"Children are not waiting," he wrote in a letter to U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd published on Wednesday.
"Every night they go to their smugglers who have promised to get them across the Channel. Every night they think that this time they will be lucky.
The latest victim was a 14-year-old Afghan, Raheemullah Oryakhel, who died after being hit by a car while trying to climb on a lorry's roof over the weekend. He was the third child to die this year.
Unicef U.K. said Oryakhel had the legal right to join members of his family who are already in the U.K.
"This tragedy must now lead to action," the agency said in a statement.
"The U.K. must work with the French authorities to get children into appropriate accommodation, where they can have access to care and legal support so they can reach their families safely.
Yvette Cooper, a senior lawmaker in the U.K.'s opposition Labour Party, says there is more the U.K. government can do.
"I think they need to have a government official based here, not just in Paris, to work with the authorities in Calais to speed the processes up," Cooper told Anadolu Agency in an interview conducted before Oryhakhel's death.
The British immigration authorities were spending too long trying to establish whether the children had genuine family members in the U.K. and were not considering the risk they faced in the Calais camp, Cooper added.


Fifish is an adventure type puzzle game where you have to help little Fishy to get the Fish Fon to enjoy the time and to have some wonderful time. But getting a Fish Fon takes some effort, so get ready to help Fishy and let him collect all 23 pearls which are needed to get a Fish Fon. Use your mouse to play this game, click on objects to find available pearls. You have to use your puzzle solving skills and figure out things around to collect all pearls. Use your sharp mind and match available objects in a correct manner to grab a pearl in each stage. Once you have all 23 pearls Fishy will get a Fish Fon.
Motocross Air is another motorbike riding and stunts game. In this game, you got a chance to ride your motorbike on challenging tracks to complete the given task to successfully qualify for the next level. Ride and control your motorbike by using your arrow keys and to perform tricks use 1,2,3 number keys. The only way to complete the level and to unlock the next is by finishing your ride in top two positions. Perform back and front flips to score points, but make sure you land safely to avoid a crash. Upgrade your motorbike and make it perform better in later levels. Clear all ten exciting levels and enjoy the game.
Police Cars Parking is new car driving plus parking game. In this game, you got a job but it's not a child's play because you have been appointed by S.W.A.T as their police station valet. Use your up arrow key to accelerate, down arrow key to brake/reverse and left/right key to control and balance your police vehicles. Follow the green arrow sign and reach the marked place to park your police car, make sure you won't collide with other police cars, if you did then you are fired. Try to drive and park your police car before time's up.
Stickman Freestyle BMX is another very challenging BMX riding game. Control and balance your BMX by using your arrow keys or group of keys W,A,S,D and to jump press space bar, change direction by tapping Q key, R to restart. In each level, you will get an information about your target, once you achieve the target you will then qualify to play the next level which has different challenges available for you. Perform wheelies, front flips, back flips and other tricks to score point and to complete the task. Upgrade your BMX to improve your performance in later levels.


Men of the Nigeria Police on Sunday averted attack on the secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Kaduna State chapter.
The attack was allegedly carried out by some supporters of the embattled Senator Shehu Sani.
According to the Acting State Secretary of the APC, Yahaya Pate, the hoodlums arrived the secretariat of the party along Ali Akilu Road at about 11:00am just as the state officials were meeting to ratify Sani's indefinite suspension, which was announced on Thursday by his Tudun Wada ward 6, Kaduna South local government.
Sani who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial district in the senate had been engaged in a running battle with the leadership of the party in the state.
A detachment of armed policemen who swiftly took over the party office were said to have dispersed the mob.
Pate explained that, "At about 11:00am, some hired thugs wearing T-Shirts and Face caps with Senator Sani's portrait and carrying sticks came to attack our exco and people at the state secretariat of the party.
Meanwhile the state executives of the party has affirmed the indefinite suspension placed on the senator.
Addressing journalists after the exco meeting, the state publicity Secretary of the APC, Salisu Wusono, said the decision taken by Sani's ward was in order.
"We as APC state executives, today confirm the resolution taken by his Ward 6 for the indefinite suspension. We are telling the general public and the world at large, we have confirmed the indefinite suspension of Comrade Shehu Sani by the APC Ward 6, Kaduna South Local Government," he explained.
According to him, Sani was being suspended for alleged betrayal of the party" as well as "attempts at causing divisions within the party in the state by sponsoring frivolous petitions and trouble making".
Wusono also said Sani's "adamant and perpetual disrespect to party leaders by tarnishing their image and reputation with ridiculous allegations" and his alleged "continuous refusal to show remorse for his action and seek forgiveness from any level of the party in the state "are reasons for the suspension".


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Moto G4 to launch today, sales begin on June 23
Motorola, after launching its Moto G4 Plus smartphone last month will finally be launching its less powerful variant, the Moto G4 in India today. Earlier this week, the company announced that the smartphone will be available exclusively on Amazon India's website starting tomorrow. The company has so far not revealed the smartphone's pricing.Moto G4 Plus too is exclusively available on Amazon.As for the specifications, the Moto G4 shares almost all the innards as that of the Moto G4 Plus. The only difference is that the G4 misses out on the fingerprint sensor and comes only in 2B RAM+16GB inbuilt storage combination. Also, the handset also settles for a 13MP rear camera instead of the 16MP rear camera found in the Moto G4 Plus. There is also no laser autofocus tech. Both the Moto G4 handsets support VoLTE connectivity and support dual-SIM with dual standby with 4G and 3G connections.The Moto G4 sports 5.5-inch Full HD display with a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and a pixel density of 401ppi. It is powered by a 1.5GH Octa Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, Adreno 405 GPU, 3000mAh battery, and a 5MP front-facing camera. It also includes camera features like auto-HDR, Panorama and more.The Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow-based duo also supports VoLTE connectivity along with 4G, GPS, A GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and micro-USB connectivity.Motorola has also added its Turbo Charging feature to the Moto G4. The Lenovo -owned company claims its Turbo Power technology can deliver up to 6 hours of usage time by just charging for 15 minutes.


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Distipsidera flavipes – gatunek chrząszcza z rodziny biegaczowatych i podrodziny trzyszczowatych.

Gatunek ten opisany został w 1887 roku przez Williama Johna Macleayego.

Drapieżnik wyspecjalizowany w polowaniu na drobne stawonogi na gładkich pniach eukaliptusów. Zaniepokojony potrafi szybko odfrunąć, jednak wraca zwykle w miejsce z którego odleciał.

Gatunek endemiczny dla Australii, gdzie występuje w Queensland.

Przypisy

Biegaczowate
Chrząszcze Australii
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1887 roku

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https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Lease-action-delayed-another-month-107101.php
Lease action delayed another month
News-Times, The (Danbury, CT), Lynda Wellman STAFF WRITER
Published 1:00 am EST, Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Proposed primary school leases for town-owned buildings in Region 12 are stalled once again.
Without the 20-year leases, the region can't get state reimbursement for eligible work. It has already forfeited $51,000 for roof work and stands to lose $20,000 for replacing an oil tank.
After more than an hour of debate Monday, the regional Board of Education voted 8-3 to table action on the leases in order to have them reviewed by the board's attorney.
Several members of the regional board that covers Bridgewater, Roxbury and Washington appeared ready to vote and were shocked to learn that a legal review had not occurred.
Asked why, Superintendent Bruce Storm said, "I'm too cheap."
Dr. Storm explained he's keeping a close watch on legal billing and noted leases before the board are the seventh draft.
"We let the attorneys for the towns develop [the leases] to save our money," Dr. Storm said.
The issue has been contentious for almost two years, with the towns demanding the region agree to complete lists of maintenance and repair items.
Board member and lease committee chairman Jim Hirschfield said the proposed leases obligate the board "to fund the repairs in five years."
The estimate for the work totals about $1.8 million, but that number is being scrutinized by a working committee established by Dr. Storm, who proposed last month the work be bonded and completed in one project outside of the leases.
The goal of the working committee is to have the cost estimates to Dr. Storm by April for presentation to the board, and if approved, eventually to a referendum vote in the region.
Mr. Hirschfield noted if a referendum on repairs passes, then the lease obligation would be eliminated. If there is a vote for consolidation, the repairs would still have to be completed.
He said residents deserve a chance to weigh in the leases, but he's also concerned that the buildings are old and the proposal would not be economical going forward.
The proposed leases require the board to include a minimum $100,000 annually in the budget for the first five years of the leases for primary school repairs as well as up to 0.75 percent of any operating surplus up to 1 percent of the budget.
Member Tony Bedini , who chairs the working committee, predicted "$100,000 isn't going to begin to do the job" and the board would be looking at a "big number" in five years.
Member Irene Allan said it's unacceptable for the board to agree to leases that obligate the board to complete repairs at the expense of educational priorities.
"If we have repairs in the budget, who is going to guarantee those budgets will pass?" she asked. "I think this entire document is misguided."
"I'm not against doing the repairs," Ms. Allan said. "I am against codifying them in a lease."
"We are mixing two really separate issues," said Valerie Andersen . "Where are the dollars coming from to do this in five years with no bond?"
She urged tabling the leases until the board could complete repair estimates, know the results of a bonding referendum for repairs, and know what impact a new Washington Primary School or consolidation in the future would have if 20-year leases are in place.
In years six through 20 of the leases, the region is to guarantee $150,000 in budgets for ongoing maintenance.
Dave Baron, the board's facilities committee chairman and a lease committee member, said the board has averaged more than $150,000 annually in past years on maintenance and repairs.
"It's goofy to say we are tying ourselves up," he said. "We are overdue for this folks. Get on board"¦ it's time to just face this and move forward."
Board chairman Matt Franjola argued lease approval should come before any bond referendum. He said not approving the leases would engender ill will in the towns and there would be no leases in the foreseeable future.
"We have to take care of what has not been done," Mr. Franjola said, adding, in this economy "I think consolidation is doubly dead and renovation is slightly dead."
Others said they support a bond referendum for repairs, but agreed the leases need to go forward as well, that the two issues were not mutually exclusive.
"We can't duck the lease issue," said Mardie Ford , who along with Ed Wainwright and Kelly Lott opposed tabling a vote on the leases.
Mr. Wainwright said shelving the leases when there is agreement with the towns would be seen by the public as not negotiating in good faith. He fears with a budget referendum coming there won't be time for a bonding referendum for repairs.
If the board approves the leases, then they will go to town meetings in the three towns for approval and then to the state for approval.
Approve negotiated leases for Region 12 elementary schools now


The first official Bundesliga Football School began on Sunday 23 July in Israel. Almost 100 boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 18 will take part in the five-day project run by the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga.
The aim of the Bundesliga Football School is to promote young talent around the world in tandem with local associations, leagues and professional clubs.
The course began with a workshop in the morning and a tactical training session in the afternoon. Under specialised supervision, the participants were able to show their ability and improve. Amongst the coaches present are Jan-Claas Alexander and Tovias Süveges of Werder Bremen and Peter Quast and Slawomir Czarniecki of Bayer Leverkusen.
At the end of the week, the players receive a review of their performances and potential using the same criteria that Bundesliga clubs use for their own youth set-ups.


Written By: Ted Cooper Jr.
Narrated By: Ted Cooper Jr.
'When I study the Bible, I prepare myself to talk to others.
That's all it takes to read the Bible in ninety days. It's easier than you thought! Once you break it down into bite-sized pieces, what may have seemed to be a formidable challenge becomes doable and enjoyable. Use it in conjunction with The Bible in 90 Days curriculum for all the benefits of sharing God's Word in community, or use it by yourself. Either way, you'll be fulfilling what for many Christians is a longstanding ambition: reading through the entire Bible.
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Advice regarding choice of entity and preparation of documents for the formation and organization of corporations (provincial and federal), cooperatives, societies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, mortgage investment corporations (MICs), and joint ventures; preparation of registration documentation for extra-provincial organizations.
Advice and preparation of documents in connection with corporate alterations, reorganizations, and amalgamations.
Advice to buyers, sellers, and lenders in connection with the buying and selling of businesses; conducting due diligence; and negotiation and preparation of letters of intent, asset purchase agreements, share purchase agreements, amalgamation agreements, loan agreements, and related closing documentation.
Advice to officers, directors, and shareholders on matters of corporate governance, including director and officer obligations and fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, shareholder rights, voting and proxy matters, conduct of directors' and shareholders' meetings; preparation of directors' resolutions and shareholders' resolutions; maintenance of corporate records; and negotiation and preparation of shareholders' agreements.
Advice and preparation of documents for entrepreneurs and investors from start-up through financing and exit strategy, including preparation of term sheets, subscription agreements, and shareholder agreements; employment agreements; confidentiality agreements; employee stock-option plans; licensing agreements; and partner and re-seller agreements.
Advice regarding licensing, sales, agency, distribution, franchise, and other business contracts and agreements (including construction contracts), and negotiation and preparation of such agreements; advice regarding risk management and succession planning.


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Two Wells District TC General Articles Players Clubs Coaches Cardio Tennis Coaches ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Coaches Drop Down
Two Wells District TC
Member Protection Policy
The first tennis club in Two Wells began in 1909.
With no records of where the original courts were located, the new courts in 1930 were those that were current until 1990 on the main street next to the bowling club.
Today the tennis courts are located west of the football oval on the hill behind the bowling club.
In 1946 the tennis club met trouble over the question of playing tennis on Sundays, which resulted in a division of the clubs into the Saints and the Sinners.
The two clubs ran separately for approximately 27 years. The Saints were the Two Wells Tennis Club and the Sinners became the District Tennis Club which in 1962 became the Two Wells District Tennis Club Incorporated after purchasing the land on which their courts were situated for 200 pounds.
In 1967, the Saints club went into recession and the Sinners took over the council owned courts in the main street. Tennis thrived for many years with 60 senior and over 100 junior members. Sadly tennis declined in the late 2000's and the club was due for closure. Locals rallied and formed a crisis committee in 2010, fundraising to repay debts and bring the club back to financial security. Since then, junior tennis has continued to grow with the introduction of Hot Shots for Juniors and affiliation with Tennis SA and the Gawler Tennis Association.
Two Wells District Tennis Club was awarded the Winner of the Most Outstanding Tennis Club- Rural in 2016/2017 and was a Finalist in 2018/2019. We continue to grow from strength to strength.


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Cu.import("resource://testing-common/httpd.js");

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Updated book recommendation: Bait, by J. Kent Messum
(Note: This recommendation was first published in October of 2013. You can see the original version here.)
If you're at all like me and you're craving a tense, thrilling, at least somewhat-scary type of book right now, then you'll definitely want to add Bait, by J. Kent Messum, to your list. True, it's been a while since I last read the novel. That doesn't change how I feel about it, however.
The six strangers who wake up together on the island have one thing in common: they're all heroin addicts. It doesn't take them long to figure out that's why they've been taken, and that their captors are playing a sick game with them. On the next island is a cache of pure heroin, and on their own, nothing but withdrawal. In the water between the two are ravenous creatures–creatures the group can't possibly hope to out-swim.
There's a lot to love in this novel, but my favourite aspect is the way Messum is able to get the reader to sympathize with his characters. Being heroin addicts, they aren't exactly the type of people who most others tend to have positive feelings toward. Messum, however, coaxes the reader away from a negative bias and into a place where they want the addicts not only to make it out alive, but to come out on top of their captors.
Now, all of that said, I should add a warning: Bait won't appeal to everyone. There's a fair amount of gore, so it's best suited to someone with a strong stomach.
Goodreads summary
No one is coming to your aid. We have ensured this.
Six strangers wake up on a remote island in the Florida Keys with no memory of their arrival. They soon discover their common bond: all of them are heroin addicts. As the first excruciating pangs of withdrawal make themselves felt, the six notice a yacht anchored across open water. On it lurk four shadowy figures, protected by the hungry sharks that patrol the waves. So begins a dangerous game. The six must undertake the impossible—swim to the next island where a cache of heroin awaits, or die trying. When alliances form, betrayal is inevitable. As the fight to survive intensifies, the stakes reach terrifying heights—and their captors' motives finally begin to emerge.
adult, thriller
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Ask Engadget: What tech can help me survive a trade show?
The new 'Doom' gets its first update on June 30th
A photo mode, an old-school weapon view and more custom map features are part of the mix.
Jon Fingas, @jonfingas
06.28.16 in Personal Computing
The new Doom is on the cusp of getting its first major update, and it appears to be worth checking out -- especially if you have fond memories of the original games. The upgrade arrives on June 30th with the option of a classic dead-center weapon view, regardless of the mode you're playing. It's there to evoke nostalgia, of course, but it'll also be helpful if you want more of a visual aid when aiming.
Other additions? Aside from the usual fixes, there's a photo mode to capture those brutal battles for posterity, and the SnapMap creator has useful extras like sky backdrops and an auto-rollback feature to mend corrupted maps. This is just the start of Doom's expansion plans (more maps and game modes are on the way), but hey, it's free -- there's no harm to checking it out.
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Discovery shows early galaxies could have very short lives


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package com.wci.umls.server.jpa.workflow;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.UniqueConstraint;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import org.hibernate.envers.Audited;
import org.hibernate.search.annotations.Indexed;
import org.hibernate.search.annotations.IndexedEmbedded;

import com.wci.umls.server.helpers.Note;
import com.wci.umls.server.model.workflow.Checklist;

/**
 * JPA-enabled implementation of a {@link Checklist}.
 */
@Entity
@Table(name = "checklists", uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {
    "name", "project_id"
}))
@Audited
@Indexed
@XmlRootElement(name = "checklist")
public class ChecklistJpa extends AbstractChecklist {

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  /**
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  /* see superclass */
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  public void setNotes(List<Note> notes) {
    this.notes = notes;
  }

}