According to Imam Ghazali (ra), child education starts with birth; because personalities of parents have influence on their child's future personality. He put special emphasis on moral education and expressed his opinions on the subject.
In the introduction to his "Golden Principles of Raising Children," Imam Ghazali first calls child "Allah's trust given to parents." He describes the heart of a child as "a nice, clean, and simple mirror capable of accepting the influence of all types of impressions and influences." A child's heart can be inclined towards anything you like.
Imam Ghazali points at the role of parents and caretakers of a child. They have a responsibility in instructing a child that he gains real success in this world and the hereafter. Whether the child becomes successful in the end, they are going to have a share from success or failure.
A father commits himself to saving his child from the fires of this world. He struggles, for example, to help his child to have a good worldly life; he does not want him to suffer and become unhappy. Then, for afterlife is not transient like worldly life, saving his child from the fire of the hereafter should be a father's real priority.
"Teaching the child manners and civilization and educating him in the best of morals and protecting him from bad companions and friends" is the only way of doing this, according to Imam Ghazali.
Following are some quotes from a translation of Imam Ghazali's "Golden Principles of Raising Children."* We hope that you benefit from them.
For upbringing of the child and for nursing, [in the absence of the mother] a woman of good character and religiosity should be appointed, who eats lawful (halal) food because the milk that comes from unlawful food, has no betterment or blessing in it, instead, if the child is brought up with milk that comes from unlawful (haram) sources, then evil gets permeated into the very fibre (consciousness/psychology/inner being) of the child, and because of that, the temperament of the child gets inclined towards satanic (evil) deeds. And when [the parent feels that] the child is able to discern between the good and the bad then a complete nurturing of the child should begin.
This [phase of child's life] is indicated by the appearance of the initial signs of shyness (haya/modesty), because when the child, realizing his respect and honour, starts to feel shy and because of shyness starts to leave doing certain things, then this is only the result of the light of intelligence emerging in him. This [emergence of the light of intelligence] happens to such an extent that he starts to think of some things as good and of some things as bad, and starts to feel shameful about certain deeds and this very realization of shyness (haya) is a huge favour on the child by Allah, the Exalted. And it's a clear sign that argues for (clearly shows) his moderation of the moral values and the purity of the heart. Instead, we should think of it in this way that this consciousness of the realization of good and bad [in the child], is a glad tiding from the nature (i.e. Allah) that this child upon attaining puberty, will possess perfect intelligence.
That's why a child with shyness (haya/modesty), should never be left free (liberated), but instead, making use of his shyness (haya) and discernment [between good and bad], a full training should be given to him.
The first bad desire that dominates a child is the greed to eat more; therefore, it's extremely necessary to teach him the etiquettes of eating.
For example, [the etiquettes are] to eat food only with the right hand, to recite "Bismillah" ("In the Name of Allah") in the beginning, to eat from the front [of the plate], to wait for others to begin before he does, to not start staring at the food [when others start first], to not even stare at others who are eating, to not eat in an unnecessary hurry, to chew the food properly, to not continuously [or hurriedly] put morsels of food in his mouth [but should do that gradually], to not soil his hand and clothes with the food [by dropping it]. Sometimes, the child should be fed only the bread so that he does not consider the curry [to go with bread] to be a necessity so as to not even be able to do without it. Likewise, one should narrate in front of the child, the undesirability of eating too much, for example, those who eat excessively should be compared to animals. The child should be told to not follow the kids who eat too much and the kids who eat less and are well trained should be praised in front of the child. The child's attention should be drawn towards sacrificing the food for the sake of others [who are less fortunate] by taking care of the needs of his companions. The habit should be developed in the child to not care too much about [fine] food and to be content with simple food.
During this stage (childhood/adolescence), he should be explained that whatever permissible (halal) food is there, is also like medicines and the only purpose of them is that the human beings, after eating them, could be obedient to Allah, the Exalted.
Similarly, instead of colourful and silk clothes, the love and desire for simple and plain clothes should be developed in the heart of the child. It should be firmly impressed on his mind that to wear such clothes is not appropriate and pious people dislike such ways of dressing. Such things (admonitions) should be told to the child from time to time in a generalized way. And it's an obligation on the parents that when they see any child wearing silky or brightly coloured dresses in front of them, then they should express their disapproval [of such ways of dressing] in front of the child and should instil their undesirability [for such dresses] in the heart of the child. The parents should protect their child from meeting with all those children who are accustomed to prosperity, seeking comforts (comfortable lifestyle), and dressing proudly. They (parents) should also protect the child from the company of all those people who tell him stories about such ways of indulgence [like seeking comforts, dressing proudly, etc.]. Any child, who is left unattended [in such things] during his initial growth (upbringing), after growing up, commonly becomes ill-mannered, liar, thief, tale-bearer, intransigent (stubborn), evil talker, sarcastic, cunning, deceiver, and foolish. The only source of protecting the child from all these evils is good education and training, after that, the child should be admitted into a religious school so that he studies Qur'an and Hadith (traditions of Prophet Muhammad [peace and blessing of Allah be upon him]), acquires knowledge of the conditions, biography, and traditions of Allah's righteous slaves so that from the early childhood, the love of the saints (may Allah shower His Mercy upon all of them) get established in his heart.
But it should be kept in mind that the child not be rebuked excessively, because it creates a habit in the child to listen to condemnation and scolding and increases in him the courage to commit wrongs. And slowly and gradually, the value of admonitions diminishes from the heart of the child.
Similarly, it's necessary for the father that when he talks to the child, he maintains his awe and fear [in the heart of the child] and should rarely rebuke him. And the mother should make him fear the father when the child is being stubborn and should strictly stop the child from doing bad things.
The child should be prohibited from showing pride on anything from the possessions of his parents, his food items, clothes, even from something like his writing tablet and ink. Instead, the habit of dealing with all of his companions with humility, respect, honour, and having pure (clean/civilized) conversation, should be inculcated in him and should not be allowed to take anything from other children. If it's a child of wealthy parents then he should be explained that the honour and rank is in giving and not in taking, instead, taking [from others] has in it [the characteristics of] lowliness, humiliation, and insult. If it's a child of poor parents then he should be taught that to have greed and to take something from others is a cause of one's own insult and humiliation and it's the characteristic of a dog that it keeps wagging its tail waiting and being greedy for a morsel [of food]. Similarly, the child should be made to dislike gold and silver and should be made to fear the love of these things worse than the love of snakes and scorpions.
It's because the love and greed of gold and silver, causes far more damage to children and adults than the harms caused by poison [from snakes and scorpions].
The child should be taught to not spit publicly, to not pick his nose, to not yawn in front of anyone, to not turn his back to anyone, to not sit cross-legged, to not sit while putting his palm under the chin or while supporting the head with hands because all these are indications of lethargy and laziness, in other words, the child should even be taught the proper manners of sitting.
When someone is speaking to the child then he should listen very attentively and should get up to create more space for those who are older and then should sit with proper manners in front of them.
The child should be stopped from useless (evil) talk, dirty talk, cursing, accusations, verbal abuse and should be prohibited from meeting people who do these things because the evil qualities of [one's] companions, necessarily influence the child [in a bad way]. And the real secret of [proper] training of children is embedded (hidden) in protecting the children from [the company of] bad companions.
It should also be clearly impressed upon the mind [of the child] that the world itself is not the purpose [of our lives], and [the world] is without permanence, and has an ending. Death puts an end to these [material] blessings and the world is only a place we are passing by. It is not a place of satisfaction and [is not] a place to settle. But the world of the hereafter is the real station of peace and tranquillity and a place of stillness and satisfaction and the death, at all times, is in ambush, to end the life of the world.
In reality, intelligent is the one who provides the capital of reliance (provision needed for one's journey to the hereafter) and good deeds from this mortal world for the eternal life of the hereafter, so that he attains a high rank of acceptance before Allah, the Exalted, and the limitless blessings of the Paradise. If the child's initial upbringing would have been good, then during adolescence, this discussion will prove to be pleasing to the self (nafs), effective, get inscribed on the heart like an [indelible] inscription on the stone, auguring well for the child.
On contrary to that, if the child's mental development had been along the wrong lines, then the qualities of evil, shamelessness, desire for eating too much, greed for fine dresses, ostentation and ornamentation, gaudiness, arrogance and pride, would have been born in him, and his heart will refuse to accept this fact (i.e. the impermanence of the worldly life and the need to work for the life hereafter) like the dry wall refuses to accept dry soil (i.e. such teachings will not stick to the heart of the child). In summary, these are the initial matters that need to be taken care of to the utmost.
*** Some words or expressions have been revised by The Pen editor.
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GuocoLand's 2Q earnings treble to $32.4 mil as revenue doubles on higher sales activities
SINGAPORE (Jan 16): Property developer GuocoLand Limited reported earnings of $32.4 million for 2Q20 ended December, nearly three times its earnings of $10.9 million a year ago.
This brings the group's half year earnings to $74.5 million, double that of $37 million for the corresponding period in the previous year.
Revenue for the quarter saw a 110% surge to $299.6 million from $142.9 million in the preceding year. This was attributable mainly to higher progressive recognition of sales from the group's residential development Martin Modern.
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SINGAPORE (Aug 27): GuocoLand announced earnings of $141.2 million for the 4Q ended June, down 42% from $244.8 million a year ago on lower revenue and other income.
This brings the property developer's earnings for FY18 to $381.3 million, which is 7% higher than the $357.2 million posted in FY17.
The group has recommended a final dividend of 7 cents per share for FY18, unchanged from a year ago.
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SINGAPORE (Feb 1): GuocoLand posted a 25% drop in earnings to $43.0 million for the 2Q ended December, from $57.1 million a year ago.
This was mainly due to a lower share of profit of associates and joint ventures, as well as higher administrative and finance costs.
Revenue surged 60% to $370.6 million in 2Q, from $232.0 million a year ago.
This was attributed mainly to the stronger sales and higher progressive revenue recognition from residential projects in Singapore.
In line with the higher revenue, gross profit increased by 93% to $91.4 million.
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SINGAPORE (July 13): The asking price for a new three-storey Singapore penthouse, complete with a private pool on the 64th floor, has reached a dizzying price of more than $100 million.
Due to be formally unveiled later this year, Wallich Residence's penthouse is in the tallest building in Singapore, the island of well-heeled stability that attracts the super-rich from its less-developed Southeast Asian neighbours, as well as multi-millionaires from mainland China.
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(July 6): Singapore's luxury home prices, which have been the worst hit by the government's property curbs in recent years, are finally showing signs of a recovery, according to developer Guocoland Ltd.
High-end home sales in the city-state had been on an upswing even before the government in March eased some of its cooling measures in place since 2009, according to Cheng Hsing Yao, group managing director at Guocoland. The changes in March may have added more fuel to the buying sentiment, he said.
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GuocoLand to launch Martin Modern on July 22
SINGAPORE (July 6): GuocoLand today announced that its latest development, Martin Modern, will be launched on July 22.
Private reviews for the sales gallery and show suites will open on July 8 at 8 Martin Place.
The development is located in Robertson Quay in prime District 9 and comprises 450 residential units with a botanic garden surrounding it.
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SINGAPORE (April 24): Property developer GuocoLand is targeting to launch its latest luxury residential condominium project, Martin Modern, in the second half of 2017.
The 450-unit property will be located in District 9 at the corner of Martin Place and River Valley Close, within the neighbourhood of Robertson Quay.
Each unit will come with a view of the gardens, the city, or the Singapore River.
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The Greek word in this passage and elsewhere in the New Testament which is translated "forgive" has the root meaning of "to let go." Therefore, when we forgive we are letting go of that which is holding us down.
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HZO's Coatings Expert, Sean Clancy, Ph.D. Hosts "Learn Proven Methods for Achieving Advanced Product Performance and Protection from Corrosive Environments" Webinar
Posted on July 30th, 2020 by Ryan Moore
Dr. Clancy, Director of Coating Technology at HZO and Anti-Corrosion Expert, has Authored 19 Publications with four Co-Authored Publications, two Patent Applications; Delivered over 550 Individual Projects and $1M+ Revenue in Root Cause Failure Analysis
Raleigh, NC – July 30, 2020 – HZO, a global leader in delivering world-class protective nanocoatings that safeguard electronics from the most demanding corrosive and liquid environments is hosting a technical webinar, "Proven Methods for Achieving Advanced Product Performance and Protection from Corrosive Environments" on Wednesday, August 12 at 2:00 pm EDT via Zoom.
Throughout various segments ranging from agriculture to automotive and food processing to water treatment facilities, it is essential to manage sources of corrosion to avoid catastrophic events. In the 2016 NACE International federal study, annual corrosion costs were estimated at $2.5 trillion in direct costs or 3.4% of USA's GDP, not factoring indirect costs or including the electronics industry. It has been determined that implementing corrosion prevention best practices and strategies could yield global savings of between 15-35% of the damage costs.
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So we headed up to Little Dell Reservoir Friday afternoon because it was so close to Salt Lake and Jimmy and I were itching to do some fly fishing. It has been a rough winter for fishing :) So the reservoir is still frozen over except for a little open water at the East end where the water feeds in. It was softening up and it looked like the Ice would be off within the week. We tried the little open water the we had but had no luck. We did walk up the little creek that feeds the reservoir just to take a look and saw some fish and some nice little holes that looked good. But I guess the creek is closed to fishing until closer to the summer. Anyways here is the video that got us all worked up to try this place out haha! Thanks Guys I guess we needed to wait another week or two.


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KDBM (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Dillon, Montana.  The station is owned by Dead-Air Broadcasting Company. It airs a full-service Country music format.

The station was assigned the KDBM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 1, 1988.

In addition to its usual music programming, the station carries selected local high school and college sporting events.

References

External links
FCC History Cards for KDBM
KDBM official website

DBM
Country radio stations in the United States
Beaverhead County, Montana
Radio stations established in 1988

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I'm re-reading David Mamet's Three Uses of the Knife. Mamet is perhaps my favorite curmudgeon. He's like a grumpy, older male relative who's seen it all, and doesn't understand "them kids today." Except he really does understand them, he just doesn't understand why mankind persists in making the same damn mistakes over and over.
So please forgive the sweeping generalities and curmudgeon-like words below, or at least take them with a grain of salt. These thoughts occurred to me as I read, and I would like to share them with you:
When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, "We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world." If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
- David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife
From its Latin root, communion is essentially "a sharing." Removed from any specific religious sense, communion is a form of intimate communication.
The definition with which I am most familiar is the Christian meaning, the eucharist, the sacramental consuming of bread and wine as originated by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. The tradition I grew up in did not believe in transubstantiation, the actual transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, but I do know of of it, albeit from Protestant publications highly critical of the belief.
There is something inherently holy about communion, whether we're talking unleavened wafers and wine, or a completely honest exchange between human beings. We live in increasingly unholy times, it seems. What passes for intimate conversation is oftentimes self-centered exhibitionism: "I'm manic-depressive," "Let me tell you what an asshole by boyfriend is." There never seems to be an attempt to dig any deeper into these surface issues, to discover some personal truth that may improve our conditions, or at the very least satisfy our need for some ounce of understanding about them.
Instead we are satisfied to dress ourselves in our problems, put on our neurosis and phobias as if they're jewelry. These "intimacies" are in fact plumage put on display for all the world to see. Yet, I wonder how satisfying this exercise truly is?
Theatre at its most potent is a laying bare of the psyche. It's a means of taking situations, thoughts, and feelings familiar to all, placing them on a dissection tray, and opening up the experience of life for an audience to see and ponder on. So the theatre is a kind of life laboratory. If slapstick depends upon the quality of "safety" to elicit belly laughs, so too does drama depend upon the safety of knowing it's all just a game. The players are merely artists, and we in the darkened house are not witnessing acts that possess any true, lasting effect on the characters involved.
It is in this laboratory and safe zone that theatrical communion can occur.
Any seasoned audience member or actor, any veteran of the stage will tell you there are times when the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, moments when the electricity is in the air, and a sort of psychological transubstantiation occurs. Joe Actor as Hamlet becomes Hamlet, if only for a few lines. A sharing occurs, and intimate communication is had.
It seems funny to me that true intimacy can occur between strangers in a public milieu, yet it escapes us among the closest of friends.
WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE SAID
An Anthology of One Acts for L.A.
My new theatre company is currently presenting an evening of one acts, and I'm involved in two of the plays:
* At the Threshold, which I directed, is an incredible short work by Phillip Kelly. It deals with something I'm all too familiar with, the unstoppable crash of adulthood into an otherwise happy-go-lucky, young adult life. It's a quarter-life-crisis story that's not soppy or self-indulgent. Nor is it too heavy. I'm a big fan of this play, and I literally jumped at the chance to direct it. My cast is just incredible. Jacob Smith, Darci Dixon, Gregory Crafts, Lisa K. Wyatt, Katie Sikema, and Jenn Scuderi bring this work to the stage.
* Three Small People in Very Big Shoes, which I wrote, is a satirical look at backstage life at Disneyland. It's a sex farce expertly helmed by director Jim Blanchette and brought to life by Jacob Smith, Vanessa Hurd and Ana Therese Lopez.
And here's a deal readers of this blog just can't beat: Mention my name at the box office (or when reserving your tickets on our reservation line) and you'll get half off the price of admission this Saturday and Sunday! Holy smokes, that's a good deal!
I'm really proud of the work we've done, and I want to share it with as many people as possible. Because what's the point of doing this stuff if I don't get to share it?
Details: June 12 - 29 , Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm At THE COMPLEX in Hollywood, 6468 Santa Monica Blvd. Tickets: Normally $20, half price this Saturday and Sunday if you mention my name (Andrew) To reserve your seats: (818) 849-4039
And after you see the show, come back here and tell me what you thought!
Here's what Pat Taylor at The Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier thought:
"A 'cutting edge' fearless and talented bunch who 'tell it like it is,' just opened this series of gritty, thought-provoking scenes, exploring the complexities of desire, ambitions, regrets, self-identity, love lost, and the delicately diverse art of communication."
"This is an e-ticket ride into the dark and vulnerable psyche of human nature ..."
Ticketing information available here. (NOTE: If you purchase tickets through Brown Paper Tickets, type in the passcode "Spike" for savings of $5 off the price of each ticket!)
As the title suggests, this evening of one acts is concerned with communication. From the Artistic Director's statement:
Whether it's abundant or lacking, communication is at the heart of dealing with everything from personal issues to world affairs. Regret, ego, anxiety, denial, love, ambition -- these are all intagibles that affect our need and desire to communicate who we are and what we want.
I wrote one of the pieces and I directed another. I hope to see you there!
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Jennie Timar joined Pinot's Palette in July 2018 as the Senior Marketing Director bringing to the table over 14 years of digital media experience and a vast international background. After graduating from Franklin College with a degree in Journalism and minors in Political Science and Economics, Jennie moved to Japan and dappled in travel writing while traveling all over Asia and Europe before returning to the United States to serve briefly in the US Army. Her prior work in digital advertising was primarily in the auto industry, entertainment and with small- to medium-sized businesses across a number of consumer industries. Growing up in London and Los Angeles, she maintains an ability to convey any message to the right audience along with a global experience that will continue to grow the brand beyond the canvas. In her spare time, Jennie enjoys ice skating, exploring new restaurants and spending time with her daughter, Harriette.


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Кристоф Ру (; , Вербье) — швейцарский и молдавский горнолыжник, выступавший в слаломе, участник двух Олимпийских игр 2010 года.

Биография

Вначале своей карьеры выступал за Швейцарию, однако пробиться в сборную страны ему не удавалось. Он ограничивался только национальными стартами. В 2006 году Ру принял гражданство Молдавии. В ее составе он дебютировал на этапах Кубка мира 10 декабря 2006 года. Ру принимал участие на двух Чемпионатах мира и на Олимпийских играх в Ванкувере. В Канаде Ру занял 44-е место в гигантском слаломе и 28-е - в слаломе.

После сезона 2009/2010 завершил свою спортивную карьеру.

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Горнолыжники Швейцарии
Горнолыжники Молдавии
Горнолыжники на зимних Олимпийских играх 2010 года


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No man-goes it alone
When Coles named one of its miniature collectables after Marie Piccone, the supermarket giant was celebrating a mango producer whose innovation has breathed new life into an iconic brand of the sweet, fragrant fruit.
Ms Piccone was part of the national launch of the collectibles that represent Coles producers, which includes "Marie the Mango". Inspired by Ms Piccone's mango grower Manbulloo, it joined characters like the glowing "Carlo the Cucumber", inspired by supplier Carlo Pippo from Fresh at Heart.
The accolade was a perfect symbol of a 10-year relationship that has allowed Coles to deliver tasty premium Kensington Pride mangoes to consumers. It has also helped the Northern Territory and Queensland company to more than double the farms it owns and create more local jobs.
"We recognise that the hard work and commitment of growers enable us to stock some of the best quality Australian food for our customers. It's this quality that allows us to source 96 per cent of our fruit and veg from Australia."
Brad Gorman, Coles General Manager of Produce
"We can't do anything alone," says Ms Piccone on the success story behind Australia's largest grower of the Kensington Pride and R2E2 mango varieties.
There was a time when mangoes were a luxury treat that Australians only enjoyed on trips to Queensland. These days they can be purchased across the nation.
"The retail sector has done research and identified that mangoes are actually a destination product, which means if a store has good mangoes, people will actually keep going back to that store to get their mangoes," she says.
"The research shows that mangoes are an iconic Australian fruit. They are associated with summer and they are associated with an amazing eating experience and they are also associated with childhood memories."
The expansion of the industry across northern Australia has also meant the season could become longer - starting in September when the harvest starts in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. That means more Australians than ever are piling the fruit into their shopping trolleys.
"We recognise that the hard work and commitment of growers enable us to stock some of the best quality Australian food for our customers. It's this quality that allows us to source 96 per cent of our fruit and veg from Australia," said Coles General Manager of Produce, Brad Gorman. Coles names Manbulloo its Supplier of the Year in 2015.
"As a big business, we know we can play an important role, which is why we strive to build strong, collaborative partnerships with our suppliers, like Marie and Manbulloo Mangoes, to enable them to plan for the future."
Ms Piccone has built the business on the back of surging demand. She signed the lease on three run-down plantations in the Northern Territory in 2005, which had the name Manbulloo.
"The property that I purchased, I had a strong belief that they had a lot of potential. They were in a run-down state when we purchased them, and I just knew there was an opportunity in Australia to recreate the iconic Manbulloo brand," she says.
"I knew there was an opportunity and I also knew that Kensington Pride, which is a major part of our planting, is the mango variety that both in Australia and globally, everyone just loves the flavour, loves the eating experience."
Since then, she's confronted the difficulties of operating in isolated areas, the potential for heatwaves and extreme rains, and the need to get a workforce who will come to a remote location. She has also had to build a supply chain that could deliver fresh produce to customers who are often a long way away.
"There's two key things we did," she says. "We decided to form a strong relationship with a major retail partner here in Australia and we decided to start our own export company, we took control of our own supply chain."
Manbulloo has significantly invested in the original farms to rejuvenate them so they produce a quality fruit and bought farms in Far North Queensland, including near Cairns. Coles has been an invaluable partner.
A few years back, when some of Manbulloo's plans for transporting fruit from the Katherine farm during the mango harvest fell through. Coles managed to send in trucks to pick up fruit.
"We've hopefully contributed to their business by stimulating sales and providing long lines of good quality fruit and providing a knowledge base about some things," she says.
"And they've contributed to us by supporting us hugely, being very fair in their dealings with us and involving us in the whole retail strategy," she says.
Manbulloo in 2016 announced a new deal to supply more than 50 million mangoes over eight years to Coles.
A recipient of support from the Coles Nurture Fund, which encourage growth and innovation among small business the producer has planted an extra 20,000 trees in recent years at the Katherine, which has supported an extra 60 jobs.
"The Coles Nurture Fund allows us to work directly with small-to-medium businesses and support their growth and development. Marie and her business are a perfect example of Coles' commitment to supporting farmers and food producers to drive differentiation, extend seasons, improve productivity, and reduce imports," Mr Gorman said.
At the same time, lower tariffs through free trade agreements with China and Korea have helped Manbulloo tap into a growing love among Asian consumers for premium Australian mangoes, particularly the blush-coloured R2E2 variety. Manbulloo now exports about 10 per cent of their harvest to China, Korea, Japan and North America.
Ms Piccone takes pride in being a disruptor by trying to find a better way to do things.
Manbulloo is part of commercial trials of new methods that would allow producers to double their productivity per hectare each year. They are collaborating with another big mango grower, BJM Enterprises, the Australian Mango Industry Association, and Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. It also has funding from Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia.
It is also involved in a pilot to reduce food waste and spoilage. Sensors are attached to fruit trays and pallets as they leave the farm, providing real-time information on factors such as temperature that influence the quality of the fruit by the time it gets to the consumer.
Trust Provenance is trialling the blockchain technology in a project that also involves Growcom and has funding from the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia
"The leading fruit producers, such as Manbulloo Mangoes, are very focussed on the end consumers eating experience, and information about the fruit and its journey help to refine the process to get a higher level of consistency and availability for the consumer," said Andrew Grant, who is co-founder of Manbulloo innovation partner Trust Provenance Grant.
"Who doesn't want to eat safe, clean and green produce".
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New Delhi, March 28th, 2019: With a precise objective of providing personalised assessments to individual students, Next Education India Pvt. Ltd., India's leading education solutions provider, has recently launched machine learning-powered adaptive test for students in grades 6 to 10.
"We have an extensive database of millions of responses collected anonymously since 2007, which helps us ensure high accuracy for our adaptive tests. Such tests not just reduce the duration of examination by 50-75% compared to standard fixed tests, they also act as a morale booster since the chances of discouragement or boredom are reduced among the examinee. It also reduces the pressure on teachers of creating tests suited to the abilities of individual learners, enabling them to assess and design personalised learning paths for them," he added.


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February 3, 1971: The Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion at a Thiokol chemical plant in Georgia killed 29 people and seriously injured 50. June 1, 1974: Flixborough disaster, England. An explosion at a chemical plant near the village of Flixborough killed 28 people and seriously injured another 36.
ZG as a professional industrial boiler manufacturer in china have exported 2 sets 35t/h CFB boiler to a thermal power plant in Thailand.The 2x35t/h CFB boiler with the 1x7.5MW Extraction Condensing Steam Turbo set still operate well now.
At this stage the most practical solution was to go for a series scheme, generating the steam at 5,88 MPa and 400°C final temperature and expanding it through turbogenerator sets in the power station to 1,56 MPa, then using it to drive the extraction plant turbines.
Steam Consumption of Plant Items; Entropy - A Basic Understanding; Entropy - Its Practical Use 3. The Boiler House. Various types of boilers and fuels are discussed, alongside the best ways in which to get the best out of this important part of the steam plant.
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Today we will be talking about some of top tools which can be used to securely and completely wipe Hard Disk so that the data on it can not be retrieved by any means. Many of you may not know, but deleting files or even formatting your hard disk does not removes files from your hard disk and can be retrieved easily using tools available over the web like file recovery software. You need to wipe Hard Disk using tools specially made for this purpose so that your critical data cant be used by any one else.
I have talked about Eraser already few months back. It is an advanced security tool to completely remove sensitive data from hard drive by using the technique of overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.
-c   Zero free space (good for virtual disk optimization).
-p passes   Specifies number of overwrite passes.
-s   Recurse subdirectories.
-q   Don't print errors (quiet).
-z   Cleanse free space.
It lets you secure format your hard drives without any possibility of following data recovery. It does the job of unrecoverable data elimination for any computer which is capable of booting in DOS mode from floppy or CD/DVD. IT works on any operating system irrespective of its being Linux or windows as it uses access to the drive's data on a physical level via BIOS and hence bypassing logical drive structure organization.
A breakup with detailed list of features can be viewed from the screenshot below. It even got a Paid version but as i often say, Free version is good enough for most of us.
There are more tools available which does the same job as those I talked about with some minor or major variations. Use one of these tools whenever you need to throw your hard drive or any other storage media.
There's actually one good tool inside Windows that has some sort of value to be mentioned here.
Open it in the prompt together with backslash and a questionmark for more detailed help and commands.
Very powerful and useful when working with files and directories, a program which already there.
Thanx for the info. Will test them out soon.


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Q: Cassandra says "InvalidQueryException: Invalid version for TimeUUID type" when saving java.util.UUID I'm trying to save java.util.UUID to Cassandra column of type timeuuid. For example, that is a default spring-data-cassandra mapping: http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/cassandra/docs/current/reference/html/#mapping-conversion .
Value of UUID is generated by java.util.UUID#randomUUID()
I get an exception:
"com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.InvalidQueryException: Invalid version for TimeUUID type"
Studying code at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/TimeUUIDType.java reveals the reason:
    @Override
    public void validate(byte[] bytes)
    {
        if (bytes.length != 16 && bytes.length != 0)
            throw new MarshalException(String.format("TimeUUID should be 16 or 0 bytes (%d)", bytes.length));
        // version is bits 4-7 of byte 6.
        if (bytes.length > 0)
            if ((bytes[6] & 0xf0) != 0x10)
                throw new MarshalException("Invalid version for TimeUUID type.");
    }

A: That means that Cassandra timeuuid type accepts only time-based UUIDs. Value that is generated by java.util.UUID#randomUUID() is type 4 (pseudo randomly generated) UUID and does not pass validation.
So TimeUUID class works as expected, but the exception cause is not so obvious.
Possible workarounds:

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You should insert the timeuuid generated via datastax driver. In your case , since you are using version 1 timeuuid, you must use    UUIDs.timeBased() .

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23198388

*Or if you are mapping entity through spring-data-cassandra and need to save UUIDs supplied by third-party, add to entity field the annotation @CassandraType(type = DataType.Name.UUID)

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Tabu, who will be seen with Ajay Devgn in an upcoming thriller, directed by Nishikant Kamat, is excited about sharing screen space with the actor. The two were last seen together in Thakshak (1999).
"They are pitted against each other in the film, and their on-screen chemistry is amazing," says an insider. While Ajay plays a cable operator, named Vijay Salgaonkar, in the film, Tabu plays inspector general Meera Deshmukh, a tough cop, whose son goes missing under mysterious circumstances. The prime suspects for the crime are Vijay and his family.
The 43-year-old adds that despite working with Ajay after 16 years, she felt very comfortable shooting with him. "It was like homecoming. You work with so many new people, and then you work with someone you have known for several years, someone who is so familiar [with the way you work]. And you suddenly feel the difference; this is my comfort zone, where I can be who I am," she says.


What do we mean when we talk about stimulus control in dogs? Well, in short, canine behaviors are under stimulus control when there is an increased possibility that the behavior (ie. barking, jumping, biting, nipping, etc) will occur as a result of a specific antecedent stimulus. But what does all of this actually mean? Let's use the example of a dog barking every time the doorbell rings. In order to understand how to interrupt and change any behavior under stimulus control, we have to understand what we're dealing with on a conceptual level.
First, a few definitions to get the ball rolling.
Behavior: the way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus. Example: a dog barking (behavior) every time someone knocks on the door/rings a doorbell.
Okay, great. But what's a stimulus?
Stimulus: a thing that rouses energy or activity in someone or something: a spur or incentive. Example: the ring of the doorbell.
Makes sense, so far. What's an antecedent?
Antecedent: preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting. Example: the doorbell rings before the dog begins to bark.
When we put this all together, we begin to form a picture of what we mean by stimulus control in relation to behavior. In this case, it indicates that the presence of the antecedent stimulus (ie. the doorbell) results in an increased likelihood of a particular behavior (barking). The behavior (barking) is therefore under the control of the antecedent stimulus (doorbell).
Now it starts to come together. If you're wondering why you cannot for the life of you to get your dog to listen to you once he's started barking at the door, no matter how many times you tell him "Quiet!", you now understand why. It's because the barking is under the control of the doorbell, not you, and certainly not under the control of your dog. It has nothing to do with your dog being a 'jerk', being 'disobedient', or any other adjective you can think of. It means he's lost control.
And so what do we do when our dog has lost control?
1. Figure out what is controlling the behavior.
2. Identify the unwanted behavior itself.
3. Determine the existing consequence.
I'd like to get deeper into what I mean by "3". Points "1" and "2" are pretty straightforward, but what on earth do I mean by "3", consequences? Well, consequences can look like pretty much anything. Maybe you yell at the dog. Maybe you clap your hands together, or stomp your foot. Maybe you even grab your dog by his collar and haul him away from the door. Whatever your response is, that's the consequence.
With all of this in mind, here's where things get interesting. If we long to control our dogs in the presence of these stimuli, we must begin to talk about antecedent control.
Some forms of antecedent control remain outside a handler or pet owner's direct influence (e.g., genetic and biological factors such as breed-typical tendencies, inherited traits, and some behavioral thresholds). On the other hand, some instances of antecedent control are under the direct influence of the dog owner or handler. Let's use the doorbell as an example. The doorbell is both in and out of our control. If we're very clever, we can disable the doorbell to put it firmly under our control, disallowing the antecedent stimulus altogether. But as we know, that does nothing to change the behavior itself.
Better is if we lower the volume of the doorbell to a level at which the dog is non-reactive, desensitizing our canine companions to it's sound and frequency. In this way, we can build up the dog's tolerance to the doorbell, and all the while, classically condition our dog's to offer an alternative, incompatible behavior than the barking we all know and, in most cases, do not love!
It is only via the thorough analysis and understanding of our dog's behaviors that we can begin to modify them. By utilizing these three aspects of antecedent control with your dog, you can safely, effectively. and swiftly manage the behaviors you do not want. create the behaviors you do, and live happily and engaged with your canine companion for years to come.


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BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse to build on former Max & Erma's site in Lansing Twp.
The 7,600-square-foot BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse will be constructed on approximately 1½ acres off Lake Lansing Road at the Eastwood Towne Center.
BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse to build on former Max & Erma's site in Lansing Twp. The 7,600-square-foot BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse will be constructed on approximately 1½ acres off Lake Lansing Road at the Eastwood Towne Center. Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2020/01/13/bjs-restaurant-build-max-ermas-site-lansing-township/4418105002/
Rachel Greco, Lansing State Journal Published 9:33 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2020 | Updated 11:04 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2020
The former site of Max & Erma's and the future site of a BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse on Lake Lansing Road in Lansing Township near the Eastwood Towne Center. A township official said construction of the new eatery is expected to start this spring. (Photo: Rachel Greco/Lansing State Journal)
LANSING TWP. - BJ's Restaurants, Inc., a California-based restaurant chain known for its craft beer, is expected to build a new location at the Eastwood Towne Center this spring.
The 7,600-square-foot BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse will be constructed on approximately 1½ acres off Lake Lansing Road, on the site of a now-demolished Max & Erma's restaurant, said Lansing Township Planner Brad Beck.
The Max & Erma's location closed in 2016.
The site plan for BJ's Restaurant was approved last fall, according to township documents. Beck said the Max & Erma's location was demolished to allow for the new restaurant, which is about 1,000-square-feet larger than the Max & Erma's building.
Greg Levin, the restaurant chain's president, didn't return messages from the State Journal last week.
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In September Robert Vranich, architectural and design manager for the chain, told township officials the new location will offer "polished casual dining" with seating for 250 people. The restaurant's 730-square-foot patio is expected to seat nearly 50.
The new location will be the company's fourth in Michigan; other locations are in Livonia, Taylor and Sterling Heights. The company has locations in more than 25 states,
BJ's Restaurant offers a full menu, including pizza, burgers, pasta dishes, ribs and salads.
"It will be a beautiful restaurant with a wide variety of dining options including a full bar and a variety of beers made offsite at their regional breweries," Beck said in an email Thursday.
The company brews its own beer and cider at six breweries it operates, according to its website, offering 11 different ones on tap at their restaurants, along with 10 seasonal beers released throughout the year.
Their beer will be served but not brewed at the Lansing Township location, Vranich told officials.
Beck said construction of the restaurant is expected to start this spring. He said the location could open this summer.
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National Edition: Title Insurance: Determining an Insured's Loss and Calculating the Damages
Even the most prudent lay person or attorney in private practice cannot inspect and discover each and every title defect that might affect the property. In order to protect against the risk of defects in ownership, title insurance is purchased, which is the most misunderstood, yet most valuable, forms of insurance in America.
By Adam Leitman Bailey
Title insurance is the most misunderstood, and one of the most valuable, forms of insurance in America. Even the most prudent attorney in private practice or lay person cannot inspect and discover each and every title defect or claim that might affect a specific property. In order to protect against this inherent risk of property ownership or defects in ownership, title insurance is purchased.
"A title insurance policy is a contract by which the title insurer agrees to indemnify its insured for loss occasioned by a defect in title." E.C.I. Fin. Corp. v. First Am. Tit. Ins. Co. of N.Y., 121 A.D.3d 833, 834 (2d Dept. 2014). This is fundamentally different from other forms of insurance, and the policy holder is not required to prove fault.
Automotive insurance, for example, might protect a car owner in the event that their car breaks down or is damaged in an accident after the policy is issued. Title insurance, on the other hand, looks backwards: for a single payment made at closing, it protects the insured against hidden defects encumbering the property for as long as the insured, or the insured's successors, who succeed to the protections of the policy under the definition of insured or the provisions for the continuation of coverage in the rate manual, retain an interest in that property. In that way, title insurance looks "back to the future"—meaning that it insures title defects, such as adverse possession, that existed before the transfer of the property.
Unfortunately, this is often misunderstood by both legal practitioners and purchasers. While a title company might be found negligent in failing to timely file an action to dispute an alleged title defect, title companies are not liable in negligence merely because hidden defects are found to encumber the property. See, e.g., Citibank v. Chicago Tit. Ins. Co., 214 A.D.2d 212 (1st Dept. 1995) (dismissing the insured's negligence cause of action against title company for a negligently conducted title search). This is because title insurance is a contract and therefore any damages owed are designated, and limited, by the terms of the policy. [This case has been codified in the proposed 2021 ALTA Policy expected to be introduced in July.]
Similarly, a title insurance policy may not be used as a homeowners insurance policy to protect against non-title related issues with a property. See, e.g., Ilkowitz v. Durand, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51946 (S.D.N.Y. 2018), where our firm successfully argued that the title insurance company was not liable for personal injuries caused by lead-based paint.
Prior to the use of the ALTA Owner's Policy of Title Insurance, which came into circulation around 2006(6-17-06) (the "2006 policy"), most title polices were silent as to how damages should be calculated in the event of a title defect. This left the court system to fill the void and develop a general framework for this analysis.
Much was learned from these cases and these lessons are reflected in both the 2006 policy and the pending ALTA Owner's Policy, which is expected to be introduced this summer and take effect in New York following regulatory approval.
The New York Court of Appeals and the Second Appellate Department took up this task in a series of decisions in the 1980s under the caption L. Smirlock Realty Corp. v. Title Guarantee Co. In one of the Second Department decisions, which was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, the Court laid out a remarkably simply standard: the measure of recovery depends on the nature of the defect. L. Smirlock Realty Corp. v. Title Guarantee Co., 97 A.D.2d 208 (2d Dep't 1983) (aff'd on appeal, 63 N.Y.2d 955 [1984]). Where there is a total loss of title, such as a fraudulent deed or the complete adverse possession of one's property, the insured will recover the market value of the property, within the limits of the policy. Where there is a partial loss of title, and where that partial loss cannot be easily rectified, such as an easement running over a portion of one's property, the insured will recover the difference between the value of the property without the defect and the value of the property with the defect. Consequential or speculative damages are not considered, instead the court looks to how the property is then being used to determine its value.
This is best demonstrated by examining the facts of L. Smirlock itself. In that case, the plaintiff purchased a warehouse property for the sum of $600,000 and obtained a title policy in the amount of $600,000. Soon after purchasing the property, the plaintiff invested $95,000 in improving the property. Two years after the closing, it was discovered that the primary means of access to the property had been condemned by the town years before. Now worth only a fraction of its prior value, the property was foreclosed upon, and the plaintiff sued for the full $600,000 under the title policy.
The Appellate Division, applying the above standard, subtracted the property's value with the primary means of access, $800,000, by the value of the property without such access, which it found to be $206,150 based upon expert testimony. The court thereby awarded plaintiff $593,850, which represented the difference in the value of the property caused by the defect in title.
As noted by the court in its decision, this is, "at once, a restrictive and expansive statement of damages. It is restrictive in that conjectural lost profits are not included. It is expansive in that the insured is protected against more than just nominal damages or out-of-pocket expenses." Id. at 219.
These general principles are reflected in both the 2006 policy and the proposed 2021 policy.
Title Company Liability Under the 2006 and 2021 ALTA Policies. The 2006 policy has in many ways been modeled after L. Smirlock, and applies the same general standard. Section 8 of the 2006 policy, Determination and Extent of Liability, provides that:
"This policy is a contract of indemnity against actual monetary loss or damage sustained or incurred by the Insured Claimant who has suffered loss or damage by reason of matters insured against by this policy.
"The extent of liability of the company for loss or damage under the 2006 policy shall not exceed the lesser of (i) the amount of insurance; or (ii) the difference between the value of the title as insured and the value of the title subject to the risk insured against this policy."
The proposed 2021 policy follows the 2006 policy in this regard, and provides for the same general calculation of damages.
Insured Is Entitled To Recover the Direct Loss in Value and Not Consequential or Speculative Damages. Courts have interpreted the 2006 policy provision insuring against 'actual monetary loss or damage sustained' as having the same meaning as provided for in L. Smirlock, namely, that an insured is only entitled to recovery of the direct diminution in property value sustained as a result of the defect in title and is not entitled to consequential or speculative, damages.
For example, in Gomez v. Fidelity Natl. Tit. Ins. Co. of N.Y., 34 Misc. 3d 1233(A) (Sup. Ct. Queens Cty. 2012) (aff'd on Appeal, 109 A.D.3d 638 [2d Dept. 2013]), a landowner purchased a title policy that insured him against defects in title up to a policy limit of $175,000. The plaintiff began construction of improvements to a building on his property and soon thereafter discovered a defect in title that allegedly prevented the completion of construction. The defect at issue was an encroachment of a neighbor's structure onto the plaintiff's property, which was greater than the encroachment listed in the title policy's exceptions.
The title insurance company offered to pay the insured $6,000, as the difference between the value of the property without the encroachment, $609,000, and the value with the encroachment, $603,000. The plaintiff sought damages for the now-impossible construction, alleging that if the new construction was completed the property would have been worth $1,150,000. The cost was believed to be $206,000, and so the plaintiff sought damages in the amount of $341,000 ($1,150,000—$603,000 – $206,000), or up to the policy limit.
The court granted the title company's motion to dismiss the complaint, holding that a title policy is a contract to indemnify against actual monetary loss or damage sustained or incurred by the insured claimant, which does not include consequential damages. The court thereby held that the plaintiff was only entitled to recover the $6,000 offered by the insurance company.
Both the current 2006 policy and the upcoming proposed 2021 policy contain identical language of indemnity against 'actual monetary loss,' and do not otherwise address consequential damages. Therefore case law will control.
Determining the Date Used To Calculate the Value of the Property. While the 2006 policy and common law share numerous similarities, one key difference to be cognizant of is the date used to calculate the value of the property. Under the 2006 policy, Section 8 (b)(ii), the insured can decide whether to have the value, and corresponding loss, calculated as of either the date the claim was made by the insured, or as of the date the claim was settled and paid. Under the majority common law rule in New York, the value is calculated as of the date the insured discovered the defect. However, the proposed 2021 ALTA policy, proposes to adopt a combination of the 2006 policy and the common law rule. The 2021 ALTA policy will permit the insured to choose among several dates when claiming a loss: 1) the date that the insured discovered the defect; 2) in the event of a total loss, the date of the policy's purchase; 3) the date the insured made the claim 4) the date the claim was settled/paid.. Until it takes effect (and even then, the 2006 policy will still govern many issued policies still in effect) and while the date of discovery and date of notification will often be the same date in practice, it might be different depending on the case.
Payment to the Insured Depends on the Policy Amount or Property's Market Value. There are two direct inferences one can draw from the aforementioned measure of damages. The first, and more obvious one, is that you can only recover under a title policy when you suffer some form of actual monetary loss. For example, if a hidden lien is discovered on a mortgagee's property, but the mortgagee later forecloses and discharges the undisclosed lien, the mortgagee has suffered no recoverable loss under a title policy. See Citibank v. Chicago Tit. Ins. Co., 214 A.D.2d 212 (1st Dept. 1995).
The second, and more surprising, inference is that insured's equity in the property is not a relevant consideration under either the 2006 policy or common law. While the purchase price is certainly a useful factor in determining a property's value at the time of loss, and in practice is often the limit of the policy, it is not necessarily dispositive. For example, the property's fair market value may be considerably greater than the purchase price, in which case the recovery will still be the title policy limit. On the other hand, where the fair market value at the time of loss is less than the purchase price, the insured is entitled to the limit of the policy as compensation for the total breach of the warranty of title, that being the out-of-pocket injury.
This is best demonstrated in the Second Department case, Rose Dev. Corp. v. Einhorn. In that case, a group of investors purchased a property at a foreclosure. The insured then purchased the property from the investors for $150,000, and obtained title insurance with a policy limit of $275,000. It was later revealed that the group of investors did not actually own the foreclosed upon property, and that the subsequent sale to the insured was invalid. The Court, in applying the above principles, held that the title company was required to pay the maximum amount under the policy, $275,000, despite the fact that the insured purchased the property for less. Rose Dev. Corp. v. Einhorn, 65 A.D.3d 1115 (2d Dept. 2009). The proposed 2021 policy has adopted this case's reasoning in providing that the insured can elect to utilize the date the policy was insured to calculate fair market value if the entire title is void.
Insuring the Contract Price or the Market Value Rider. A limited but notable exception to the above is where the insured homeowner purchases a market value policy rider, which is the highest level of coverage an insured is able to obtain. The standard 2006 policy will insure title up to the limits of the policy—potentially increased by 10% in the event that the insurer elects to litigate a claim. A market value policy rider, on the other hand, does exactly what it sounds like—rather than setting a policy limit to a specific dollar amount, such as the purchase price, the policy limit is set to whatever the fair market value of the property is at the date of loss.
The market value policy rider is easily applied to the framework laid out above. For example, in the Second Department case Appleby v. Chicago Tit. Ins. Co. an insured held a market value rider and was entitled to recover damages for the loss of an easement running to the property. The court held that the insured would recover the diminution of the market value of the premises from the date of purchase to the date of loss, up to the market value of the premises on the date of loss. Appleby v. Chicago Tit. Ins. Co., 80 A.D.3d 546 (2d Dept. 2011).
In New York, the market value policy rider [typically—filed rate] costs an additional 10% of a policy's premium. Despite its clear advantages, it is not often purchased. For most purchasers, this makes sense: a market value rider is only truly helpful if the loss will exceed the purchase price or face value of a policy. Where there is a partial loss, such as an easement or slight encroachment, its exceedingly unlikely that the diminution in property value will, by itself, exceed the value of the policy. Rather, the market value rider's primary benefit is where there is a total loss of title and property, which may have greatly increased in value since purchase. While that is a tremendous gain for an insured, it only helps in those limited circumstances.
Pre-judgment interest is another very important consideration, especially in states like New York where the statutory rate of interest is extremely high. The primary question is whether prejudgment interest in recoverable and included in calculating an insured's loss. Surprisingly, none of the 2006 policy, the proposed 2021 policy, or case law conclusively answer whether an insured is permitted to include interest into this calculation.
Without discussing whether such interest should be included, the Second Department and Court of Appeals in L. Smirlock, permitted prejudgment interest from the date that the cause of action existed, following CPLR 5011(b). Absent any policy provision to the contrary, practitioners should be wary and take note of what their jurisdiction's common law dictates on the issue.
Adam Leitman Bailey
Probate & Property


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Q: Microservice deployment in Kubernetes by node wise I am trying to deploy my set of microservices in different nodes. For installing kubeadm and creation of clusters I am following the below documentations.

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*https://medium.com/@SystemMining/setup-kubenetes-cluster-on-ubuntu-16-04-with-kubeadm-336f4061d929

*https://medium.com/@Grigorkh/install-kubernetes-on-ubuntu-1ac2ef522a36

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_fOIELGMDY&t=108s
I need one master with 2 worker machines. I got clear idea about how to create the kubernetes clusters.
My requirements:  I have an application which has separate set of microservices. I need to deploy docker images for one set of microservices into one node1.And docker images for other set into node2. And 3 rd set of microservices in node3...etc...This is my planning of deployment. Please correct me if I am going in wrong direction, Since I only started exploration in docker, kubernetes and jenkins. Devop.
My confusions:

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*According to my requirement region wise deployment by nodes , Is this deployment strategy is possible by Kubernetes ?  And is this one of the standard way ?

*If I am using Jenkins for implementing CI/CD pipeline , then Do I need to install Jenkins in each Vm? Means master machine and also in machine which resides nodes?

These all are my confusion about this Kubernetes deployment. Please correct me if my thoughts are wrong, since I am only a beginner in DevOp world. How can I clarify my doubts about deployment by using Kubernetes ?

A: To answer your first question - you basically need to allocate each node for a tenant. If there are compliance/regulatory reasons then you should do it (Though it won't be very efficient). Here is how you can do it:
On the node1 add a taint:
kubectl taint nodes node1.compute.companyname.com reservedfor=tenant1:NoSchedule

What above means is that the node1 will only schedule pods which have a matching toleration and not any other pod. For the microservice which you need to schedule on node1, you will have to add a toleration to the pod YAML file like:
tolerations:
- key: "reservedfor"
  operator: "Equal"
  value: "tenant1"
  effect: "NoSchedule"

The same logic can be extended - so that even if tenant1 needs 4 machines, then all the 4 machines can be tainted with above key value pair and then pods can be tolerated on those nodes. Check out the documentation here and blog with an example here
You can also use the pod/node affinity to achieve above.
Your second question on Jenkins - No, you don't need to install Jenkins on each node, but other than that more details are needed for that question.


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