Today, we bring you another project which shall either be embarrassing, stupendous, or both, and possibly prove once and for all that you should think twice before admitting you know me.
This inspired – or at least prompted – the thought that I could probably fit it all on an old backpack frame, if I were crazy enough to try, and could find a backpack frame. After weeks of prowling curbs and checking out Goodwill I remembered Dad had one in the basement. (Thanks, Dad.) With the addition of some snazzy 1-1/4″ safety-orange webbing I snagged from the dumpster at the freight warehouse, we got us a lean, mean, tool-carrying… thing.
Now at least I can break my back eccentrically.
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We return for a special broadcast on the weirdness of CNN. On the front page today is a poll with the blaring healine: Most doubt Bush has plan for Iraq victory.
Initial reaction: then what in tarnation is this?
After reading the actual poll article, we find some interesting things.
(CNN) — As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory.
But the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday night also found nearly six in 10 Americans said U.S. troops should not be withdrawn from Iraq until certain goals are achieved.
Just 35 percent wanted to set a specific timetable for their exit, as some critics of the war have suggested.
The poll conducted Wednesday does not directly reflect how Americans are reacting to Bush's speech, because only 10 percent of the 606 adult Americans polled had seen it live and two-thirds had not even heard or read news coverage about it.
Among poll respondents, 55 percent said they did not believe Bush has a plan that will achieve victory for the United States in Iraq; 41 percent thought he did.
Bold text mine. Now, we would like to point out that the percentage of people polled who think that Bush has a plan for vicory (41%) is higher than the percentage (33%, derived from the 2/3rds figure above) who have heard coverage of President Bush's speech Wednesday.
How can this be? Assuming that those who have not heard any news coverage (66%, the 2/3rds figure above) also have not heard of of the plan (released Wednesday), I personally would count those poll numbers to be out of date.


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Q: XMLHttpRequest is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin PHP:
<?php
  header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
    include_once("db_connect.php");
    $username = '';
    $video = '';
    $rating ='';
if(isset($_GET["u"])){
 $username = preg_replace('#[^a-z0-9]#i', '', $_GET['u']);
 } else {
 echo "No UserName";
}
 if(isset($_GET["v"])){
  $video= preg_replace('#[0-9]#i','',$_GET['v']);
 } else {
 echo "No Video ID";
}
 ...
 ?>

JavaScript:
function like(u,v) {
  document.getElementById("rating").innerHTML="loading...";
var ajax = ajaxObj("POST","http://www.url.com/ratingphp.php");
 ajax.onreadystatechange=function(){
  if(ajaxReturn(ajax) === true){
  document.getElementById("rating").innerHTML=ajax.responseText;
  }
};
ajax.send("u="+u+"&v="+v+"&like");
}

function dislike(u,v) {
 document.getElementById("rating").innerHTML="loading...";
var ajax = ajaxObj("POST","http://www.url.com/ratingphp.php");
ajax.onreadystatechange=function(){
  if(ajaxReturn(ajax) === true){
document.getElementById("rating").innerHTML=ajax.responseText;
  }
 };
 ajax.send("u="+u+"&v="+v+"&dislike");
}

function ajaxObj(meth,url){
  var x= new XMLHttpRequest();
  x.open(meth,url,true);
  x.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  return x;
 }
function ajaxReturn(x){
 if(x.readyState == 4 && x.status == 200){
  return true;
  }
 }

So as you can see I've allowed Access-Control-Allow-Origin in my PHP though I keep getting the error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.url.com/ratingphp.php. Origin http://www.url2.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. h37:1
Am I doing something wrong in my ajaxObj function with the setRequestHeader? First time doing a cross site php code. I'm just trying to figure out why my code is not executing correctly for the ACAO

A: just add this in PHP ..
header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers : Content-Type");
header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods : POST, OPTIONS");

A: header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');

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Q: Handling an indetermined amount of states for n checkboxes in React I have this solution for handling a fix number of states for a fix number of checkboxes:
import { useState } from 'react';

function App() {
  const [arrValues, setArrValues] = useState(
    // use a function here to only create the initial array on mount
    () => Array.from(
      { length: 10 }
    )
  );

  const setcheckBoxValue = (i) => {
    setArrValues(
      arrValues.map((v, j) => j !== i ? v : !v)
    );
    console.log(arrValues);
  }

  return (

      {arrValues.map( (val, i) =>
        <input
          key={i}
          type="checkbox"
          checked={val}
          onChange={() => setcheckBoxValue(i)}
        >

        </input>)
      }

  );
}

export default App;

In the code it is 10, but, what if the length of the array is not known until I read some value in a database,
Rafael

A: You can do something like this. The example below is using an object rather than an array, but this is just example. Also, the "initialValues" could be easily generated from data (from database). These could be the undetermined values you mentioned.
const MyTest = () => {
  const initialValues = {
    values: { checkbox1: true, checkbox2: false, checkbox3: true }
  }
  const [state, setState] = useState(initialValues || {})

  const handleChange = (event) => {
    const target = event.target
    const value = target.checked
    const name = target.name

    setState((prevState) => ({
      values: {
        ...prevState.values,
        [name]: value
      }
    }))
  }

  return (

{JSON.stringify(state, null, 2)}

      {state.values &&
        Object.keys(state.values).map((checkboxKey, i) => (
          <input
            name={checkboxKey}
            key={i}
            type="checkbox"
            checked={state.values[checkboxKey]}
            onChange={handleChange}
          />
        ))}

  )
}


Samson's Concert 99 Presentation combines 80 channels of high-definition audio and extreme reliability into a rugged all-metal, rack-mountable chassis with a stage-ready backlit display. With simple 1-touch setup, convenient monitoring, a 300' UHF operating range and impressive transmitter battery life, this frequency-agile system offers unprecedented value to presenters, educators and others in search of reliable wireless freedom. In both single and multi-system arrangements, the CR99 Wireless Receiver offers 80 total operating channels, selecting the best frequency option for your area. Quick to setup, the CR99's Group scan helps avoid conflicting frequencies, while its IR sync function allows users to wirelessly match the transmitter to the receiver's operating frequency.
The CR99 receiver features a bright, backlit LCD for monitoring on dark stages, even at long distances. The LCD also shows the exact battery life of your transmitter, along with the channel number and its corresponding UHF frequency. Audio reaches the CR99 Wireless Receiver receiver via the CB99 Beltpack Transmitter, which includes Samson's LM10 Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone. Offering eight hours of battery life using two AA batteries (not included), the CB99 transmitter features a variable Gain control, popless 1-touch Mute button and metal belt clip.
Do you own Samson Concert 99 Presentation or have you had a chance to try it?


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How does the idea of mowing your lawn with a Lamborghini grab you? Tesco hope it will as they are offering a 46cm Ikra mower powered by a 173cc 4-stroke Tonino Lamborghini engine.
My husband died recently and I don't know how to operate our Ikra mower, do you please have instructions on how to get it to self propel?


Instant ramen may be simple, easy, and the stuff college dorm dreams are made of, but with a few simple, easy upgrades, you can transform it into a hearty, flavorful meal that you'd never think came out of a package.
Hiyashi: This type of ramen is meant to be eaten cold, so you'll need to chill your noodles and the broth after cooking. What really shines here is the broth. Boost the flavor by adding instant consomme or bouillon, instant dashi (which you can buy on Amazon or at a local Asian grocery store), sesame oil, and half the packet of flavoring that comes with your instant ramen.
Teriyaki beef: This is a hot ramen that focuses the flavor hit on the toppings rather than the broth. Cook onions and thinly sliced beef together, then season them with soy sauce, sugar, grated ginger, and sesame oil. Pile this tasty topping on your instant ramen (otherwise prepared normally), then dig in!
For step-by-step instructions on how to make these two types of upgraded ramen, watch the video above. If you want to try more upgrades beyond these two, check out this list of simple upgrades, and this guide to using ramen in lots of meals—not just noodle soup.


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Politics|Republican Plan Delivers Permanent Corporate Tax Cut
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Republican Plan Delivers Permanent Corporate Tax Cut
Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, on Thursday in Washington.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times
By Jim Tankersley, Thomas Kaplan and Alan Rappeport
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers unveiled a sweeping rewrite of the tax code on Thursday, outlining a $1.5 trillion plan that will deliver a significant tax cut for corporations and more modest savings for middle-class families while tilting the United States closer, but not entirely, toward the kind of tax system long championed by businesses.
The House plan, released after weeks of internal debate, conflict and delay, immediately ignited a legislative and lobbying fight as business groups, special interests and Democrats began tearing into the text ahead of a Republican sprint to get the legislation passed and to President Trump's desk by Christmas. Lawmakers appeared unfazed by the blowback and scheduled the first official "markup" of the bill for Monday.
"With this plan, we are making pro-growth reforms, so that yes, America can compete with the rest of the world," said Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.
The bill is heavily weighted toward business, which would receive about $1 trillion in net cuts, or two-thirds of the total, according to calculations by the Joint Committee on Taxation. At its center is a proposal to permanently cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent — a change that is estimated to reduce federal revenues by $1.5 trillion over the next decade alone.
For individuals, the plan establishes three tax brackets — 12, 25 and 35 percent — instead of the seven that exist now and maintains a top rate of 39.6 percent for millionaires. The bill would also eliminate the alternative minimum tax, which is expected to hit 4.5 million families in 2017, and would roughly double the standard deduction for middle-class families. It would not, as many had feared, make any changes to the pretax treatment of 401(k) plans.
Americans will still be able to make "both traditional, pretax contributions and 'Roth' contributions in the way that works best for them," Republican lawmakers said in their talking points.
Six Charts That Help Explain the Republican Tax Plan
The bill makes major changes to the tax code by lowering rates for individuals and corporations.
But the legislation includes several land mines that could complicate its passage, including limits on the popular mortgage interest deduction and caps on the state and local tax deduction, as well as its overall cost. Several Republicans from the high-tax states of New York and New Jersey said the bill would need to change to gain their support, while powerful trade groups representing the real estate industry and small businesses blasted the bill as ineffective and harmful to Americans.
"Contrary to their assertions, the Republicans are picking winners and losers," Jerry Howard, the chief executive of the National Association of Homebuilders, said in an interview. "They are picking rich Americans and corporations over small businesses and the middle class."
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans are working on their own tax bill, and on Thursday, Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, lobbed a grenade into the House plan over its cost.
"As I have made clear from the beginning of this debate, it is my hope that the final legislation — while allowing for current policy assumptions and reasonable dynamic scoring — will not add to the deficit, sets rates that are permanent in nature and closes a minimum of $4 trillion in loopholes and special interest deductions," Mr. Corker said.
Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said that the House plan had the "full support" of Mr. Trump and predicted that it would be on the president's desk this year. Anticipating the resistance from industry groups, Mr. Brady said, "We're going to prove them wrong once and for all."
Representative Peter Roskam, Republican of Illinois and a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said he was bracing for the lobbyist onslaught but would not be deterred.
"We've just finished the opening ceremonies of the lobbyist Olympics. My phone has all kinds of messages and there are all kinds of criticisms," he said. "The notion of just defending the status quo is insufferable, and we're not going to do it."
The House Republicans on Thursday released policy highlights ahead of the rollout of their tax plan.
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The bill is estimated to cost $1.5 trillion over a decade, and lawmakers must keep it at that amount if they are to pass it along party lines and avoid a filibuster by Democrats. Lawmakers have been scrambling for days to find revenue to offset tax cuts that will cost trillions of dollars. That has prompted a host of changes on the individual side, including repealing tax breaks for things like medical expenses, moving expenses, student loan interest and adoption, as well as making some business tax breaks temporary.
The benefits for individual taxpayers will be mixed and depend largely on where they fall on the income scale, where they live and the types of tax breaks they tend to claim.
Those making up to $24,000 will pay no income tax. For married taxpayers filing jointly, earnings up to $90,000 would be taxed in the 12 percent bracket; earnings up to $260,000 would fall in the 25 percent bracket; and earnings up to $1 million would be taxed at the 35 percent rate. For unmarried individuals and those filing separately, the bracket thresholds would be half of these amounts, other than the 35 percent bracket, which would be $200,000 for unmarried individuals.
The proposal roughly doubles the standard deduction for middle-class families, expanding it to $24,000 for married couples, from $12,700, and setting it at $12,000 for individuals, from $6,530 today. Republicans also plan to expand the child tax credit to $1,600 from $1,000 and add a $300 credit for each parent and nonchild dependent, such as older family members, though that credit would expire after five years.
But it also tightens rules for claiming the child tax credit, a change that would hit immigrant parents whose children were born in the United States. Filers would need to provide a "work-eligible Social Security number" rather than just a taxpayer identification number in order to claim the credit. The left-leaning Center on Budget Policy and Priorities said the bill would roll back eligibility for about three million children in working families, including about 80 percent of whom were born in the United States.
The bill includes a host of other changes that will affect taxpayers in different ways. For instance, it repeals certain tax credits, including a 15 percent credit for individuals aged 65 or over or who are retired on disability. Right now, those individuals can claim up to $7,500 for a joint return, $5,000 for a single individual, or $3,750 for a married individual filing a joint return.
The House bill would entirely repeal that tax credit. It would also repeal the adoption tax credit, no longer allow deductions for tax preparation and repeal credits for alimony payments. And deductions for moving expenses would no longer be allowed.
One of the biggest flash points is a proposed change to the popular mortgage interest deduction. Under the Republican plan, existing homeowners can keep the deduction, but future purchases will be capped at $500,000, down from the current $1 million limit.
The National Association of Realtors came out swinging against the bill, suggesting a huge fight awaits over how real estate is treated.
"Eliminating or nullifying the tax incentives for homeownership puts home values and middle-class homeowners at risk, and from a cursory examination this legislation appears to do just that," said William E. Brown, the president of the association. "We will have additional details upon a more thorough reading of the bill."
Mr. Howard of the homebuilders group said the bill was a broken promise.
"It puts such severe limitations on homebuyers' ability to use the mortgage interest deduction that home values will fall," he said.
Another area of contention is the bill's treatment of the state and local tax deduction, which is popular among many middle- and upper-middle-class taxpayers in high-cost states like New Jersey, New York and California. The House bill would limit the deduction to just property taxes, rather than state and local income taxes and general sales taxes, and cap the benefit at $10,000.
Several Republican lawmakers said they would oppose the bill in its current form, including Representatives Leonard Lance and Frank A. LoBiondo of New Jersey.
The proposal will double the estate tax exemption to roughly $11 million, from $5.49 million, meaning families can avoid paying taxes on large inheritance. And it eventually repeals the estate tax altogether, phasing it out entirely in six years.
Read the G.O.P. Tax Bill
House Republicans on Thursday released their plan for the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in decades.
Business groups that include large multinationals praised the bill effusively for lowering corporate rates permanently and sharply, and for overhauling the international tax system.
For the first time, the United States is proposing to effectively levy a global minimum tax of 10 percent, which would apply to income that high-profit subsidiaries of American companies earn anywhere in the world. The effort is aimed at preventing companies from shifting profits abroad and grabbing back some of the tax revenue on income earned overseas. Those profits are currently not taxed until they are returned to the United States, giving companies an incentive to keep that money offshore since they are taxed at the current corporate tax rate of 35 percent.
The White House has said more than $2.5 trillion in American profits are held offshore.
The bill would force companies to pay a one-time 12 percent tax on liquid assets held overseas, like cash. The tax, which is reduced from the current 35 percent tax rate, would be payable over eight years. For illiquid assets, like equipment or property, the tax rate would be 5 percent.
It would also force American subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies to pay a 20 percent excise tax on any payments sent back to foreign affiliates.
Neil Bradley, the chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, called the bill a "home run" for economic growth and warned other groups against blocking it. "Everyone's going to look at this and find something they don't like," Mr. Bradley said. "So they are going to have to decide? Am I going to help get this done?"
Among those less sanguine about the bill are small businesses, which said the bill does not go far enough to help them reduce their tax burden. Republicans stuck to their promise of lowering the tax rate for "pass through" businesses to 25 percent. But to prevent the rate from becoming a loophole for all sorts of individuals, tax writers have created a formula they say will ensure that business owners will pay a higher individual tax rate on income that they receive as wages. The formula would be applied based on the circumstances of the business.
That provision is not enough to satisfy the National Federation of Independent Business, which said in a statement it is "unable to support the House tax reform plan in its current form."
Placing even more pressure on lawmakers, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is planning to spend $6 million on a nationwide ad campaign, including a TV commercial, that warns against a tax plan that adds to the national debt.
The message of the campaign is that overhauling the tax code "should grow the economy, not the debt," said Michael A. Peterson, the president and chief executive of the foundation, which advocates reining in federal budget deficits.

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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto a month before the billionaire raved about Bitcoin at a Miami conference | Fortune
One month before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel raved about the advantages of Bitcoin during a speech at a Miami conference, his VC firm Founders Fund had already offloaded an eight-year bet on cryptocurrencies.
While crypto was once one of its core positions, by March 2022, the firm had generated $1.8 billion from selling off the vast majority of its crypto holdings, reported, citing a person close to the fund. Two-thirds of its crypto investment consisted of Bitcoin, according to the FT.
The selloff was timely, and protected the firm from the collapse in Bitcoin's price later that year that would take it to about $15,599 last November, its lowest price in two years.
But in April at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Thiel made no mention of his fund's massive crypto selloff. He also didn't waver in his support for Bitcoin. During a speech, he said, "We are at the end of the fiat money regime," and added that Bitcoin was undervalued but "has every potential to replace gold."
Founders Fund declined to comment to Reuters.
The price of almost all cryptocurrencies plummeted last year as the industry experienced the bankruptcies of some of its most high-profile companies, including the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and crypto exchange FTX. The collapse of FTX and the criminal charges handed down to former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in particular have caused damage to several other companies and have drawn outsized attention from regulators.
San Francisco-based Founders Fund first bought into Bitcoin in 2014 when it traded for under $1,000 and increased its holdings over the next eight years. Thiel was also one of the first well known investors to put money into Bitcoin.
In part, because of its Bitcoin selloff, along with exits from long-held companies like Airbnb and the Thiel-cofounded data analytics group Palantir, Founders Fund returned about $13 billion to investors between 2020 and the end of last year, according to the FT. The company has more than $11 billion under management.
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The Imagine One Size Diaper Cover offers a really economical way to cloth diaper your baby. This one size cover has an adjustable rise so it will fit your baby from 8-35+ lbs - one size for all your baby's diapering years! It works great with the Imagine "Smart Fit" Prefolds for the most economical cloth diapering you will find!
Use the Imagine One Size Diaper Cover with prefolds, flats, contours or fitted diapers. The interior is wipeable so it can be used multiple times before washing. It works well to use 2 covers and allow one to air dry between diaper changes.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky softball program will host Senior Weekend against the No. 12/12 South Carolina Gamecocks May 4-6 at John Cropp Stadium, sending out seniors Rachael Metzger, Brooklin Hinz and Erin Rethlake in addition to graduating junior, Hannah Huffman.
The Wildcats are currently fighting with Missouri, Mississippi State and Ole Miss for the final spots at the SEC Tournament in Columbia next week. UK, MIZ and MSU are all on six wins, with Ole Miss sitting on five wins currently. The team that finishes last will not qualify.
The series kicks off on Friday at 7 p.m. ET live on the SEC Network with Bases Loaded whiparound coverage. The UK/USC game can be seen in its entirety live on the SEC Network+ with the Voice of the Wildcats, Dave Baker (pxp) and Dorian Craft (color) calling the action.
Senior Day will be celebrated on Saturday with a 2 p.m. ET first pitch, followed by a 1 p.m. ET finale on Sunday.
Off a 14-0 win over Charleston Southern on Wednesday, the USC Gamecocks are off to their best start in program history at 42-11 overall. USC is one of the teams fighting for a bye in the SEC Tournament, and a shot at hosting an NCAA Regional and Super Regional in Columbia. The high-powered bats have led the way for South Carolina with a team batting average of .277 paced by Mackenzie Boesel's .360 average. In the circle, USC has been led by Kelsey Oh who has a 13-3 record with a 1.48 ERA on the year, but it's been a balanced attack with Cayla Drotar throwing an 18-4 season out there with a 2.01 ERA.
South Carolina leads the all-time series with Kentucky, 38-26 with the team's last meeting coming at the 2017 SEC Tournament in Knoxville, where UK won 7-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. Kentucky has won five of the last six meetings with the Gamecocks and four in a row. The last time USC visited Lexington, it took two of three from the Wildcats, capped by a 7-6 11-inning win on Sunday to claim the series win back in 2015. The last time that USC and Kentucky met on the last weekend of the regular season was 2009 – when UK took two of three in the series, winning games one and two in Columbia.
UK is in a fight to host an NCAA Regional at the moment, with an RPI of 14 and the No. 2 national strength of schedule. The top-16 teams as determined by the NCAA Selection Committee will host the Regional round at their campus sites.
The SEC is always a challenge. But, in this year's schedule rotation – Kentucky mathematically has the toughest schedule possible. The Wildcats will face each of the top eight teams for their eight conference series. This year, the Wildcats miss out on Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Arkansas and Missouri while adding LSU, Auburn, Alabama and South Carolina back onto their schedule. All eight of UK's SEC series are currently against a team ranked inside the top-16 of both major polls, and inside the top-17 of the NCAA RPI released on Monday.


A PC spy software program to find out if my wife is cheating on me can therefore prove to be an interesting option. Since trust is not something trivial which is granted to everyone, you must yourself look for the information you want, to try to find out what your partner is doing on his/her computer.... 1. Putting more makeups than before. Wearing flashy dresses might make their husbands doubtful, so making effort by changing makeups. If you see your wife doing so, you can doubt her cheating.
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Body language speaks louder than words, especially when you're trying to tell if your partner or spouse is lying.


When I think of you, I think of chubby little cheeks, pinchable thighs, and a little girl always on the "stage" of our fireplace for nightly entertainment. When I look at you lately, I see a young lady almost as tall as me, wearing adult shoe sizes, with a sarcastic wit you get from me and Daddy. You are only in second grade, and sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a 20 year old. You make us laugh all the time, and I hope you continue to make people smile everyday.
I don't think you realize how smart you are. Dad and I are always looking at each other silently thinking, "how does she know that?" You love to read, and you have a broad vocabulary for an eight year old. Just a couple of months ago, you were reading picture books. Lately, I see bookmarks in thick chapter books, and it blows my mind! This will be so useful to you in whatever career you choose. Keep reading, my dear!
You are at the stage in your life where you are figuring yourself out. You loved gymnastics, but wanted to try something new. As hard as it was, we sat back and let you decide for yourself that you wanted to try dance class. If it were possible, you would want to enroll in gymnastics, dance, acting class, art class, and singing lessons. You love to learn new skills…and the thing is…you are good at them all! You don't realize the talents you hold.
As you grow older, I long for my chubby, bright eyed little baby. But, I love watching the young lady you are becoming. Happy 8th birthday, my sweet Kennedy. Never stop entertaining us!


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Las Marías House by Santiago Viale And Associates in Córdoba, Argentina Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
by Jerry ElengicalPublished on : Sep 21, 2022
Suburban expansion through greenfield developments is a practice that has long been applied to address the mounting need for high quality housing stock along the peripheries of major cities. However, the caveat that comes with these kinds of development schemes is the risk of depleting peri-urban grasslands and forests, further accelerating the pace of deforestation - a major contributor to environmental degradation and climate change. Constructing residential buildings in such contexts necessitates a careful reading of the impact of such human activity on larger ecosystems, to mediate between meeting human needs without neglecting nature. On a plot that was once part of a sweeping green belt in the city of Córdoba in Argentina, a relevant solution to this multifaceted issue has been demonstrated through a residential design intervention named Las Marías House - devised and implemented by local firm Santiago Viale And Associates. A low-lying structure in brick, concrete, and wood, the home's design was conceived with the express intention of preserving all the trees that decorated the expanse of the site.
The home is located on a plot that was once designated under the city's green belt Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Littered with copious amounts of vegetation, including a 15 metre-high palm tree, the plot of land accommodating the home was once classified under the city's green belt but has now been rezoned. In choosing to build here, the architects had to survey all of the species that had taken up residence on the land, measuring trunk diameters, foliage, and other parameters to ascertain how they could circumvent the distribution of green cover. This guiding principle proved to be pivotal in the conceptualisation of the program and layout, dictating much of the zoning and spatial experiences that are now tied to this endeavour in residential architecture. Aside from the obvious benefits to the natural environment resulting from this choice, the retention of existing trees also created a buffer against heat, by virtue of the canopy formed by the intersection of their foliage.
Video of Las Marías House Video: Gonzalo Viramonte
In a press statement, Santiago Viale Lescano, who heads the firm behind the project, explains: "We could infer that this property would have belonged to the old house of a quintero - the owner of an extensive agricultural plot. The position of the trees made it practically impossible to build a house without being forced to remove them. Hence, priority was given to find existing spaces between the trees where the program of the house could be developed. The lines of the building were drawn delineating these possible spaces, and from this emerged the three separate rooms that make up the social area of the house."
A brick screen greets visitors on the home's streetside face Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
View of the entrance Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Essentially, this generated an additive plan form comprising a standard linear wing towards the north of the site containing the home's two bedrooms and other private spaces as well as four projections that weave around the assortment of trees to host the common spaces which consist of living and dining rooms, a kitchen, utility space, and an outdoor deck leading to a pool at the far end of the property. Past the garage on the northwestern corner of the plot, a screen realised through exposed brick masonry serves as the first building face encountered, making an inviting impression through its raw and natural materiality. As the main component of the relatively austere façade design, the rhythmic qualities of the masonry construction on display here aid in filtering out excess solar radiation. Exhibiting a play of recess and relief through combinations of flushed and protruding brick assemblies, these partitions allow a hint of transparency to sneak into the building's streetside face. Additionally, the constant push and pull between rectilinear forms and curvilinear enclosures that wind around trees introduces an effortless dichotomy to the flow of space.
The home was designed to avoid felling existing trees on site, which have been integrated into landscaped pockets and courts within the plan Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
The home's brickwork adds a layer of transparency to the otherwise opaque envelope Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Considering how traditional footings and plinth beams would have interfered with tree root systems present on site, the architects elected to use a system of structural piles to effectively reduce the land area occupied by the foundations while ensuring a solid base for the building to rest on. Through a combination of hollow pipes with a diameter of 10 centimetres each, sunk into the soil and then filled with a cement mixture for a total pile diameter of 20 centimetres, the structural design strives for minimal impact on subterranean ecosystems without compromising on stability and durability. For this exact purpose, the single storey home also rests on a concrete plinth at ground level - rather than one dug into the ground.
Courtyards are an essential feature of the home, with the large one at the centre of the plan separating public and private wings Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
A continuous circulation route with galleries, patios, and other semi-outdoor spaces links the plan's various segments Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Furthermore, as a means of ensuring sufficient thermal mass to combat the region's humid subtropical climate, most of the exterior walls are composed of 18 centimetre-thick brick assemblies, with an additional half plaster wall partition applied over them, separated by an insulating layer of glass wool. With such a degree of environmental preservation seeping into each aspect of the project, the real highlight of Las Marías House is how the architects have further harnessed it through astute landscape design, which takes shape as a collection of green pockets and courtyards that make these spaces truly come alive. Central to this is a large courtyard at the heart of the plan, separating the public and private wings of the residence. A continuous circulation route winds its way around the organic form of the courtyard, enclosed by glass walls and wooden louvres, which give it an almost gallery-esque atmosphere. The interior design of the home extends the earthy palette of the exterior, making prominent use of wood, concrete, and brick.
The use of courtyards both aids in the preservation of trees and also serves to regulate the internal microclimate Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
View of the courtyard from the interior Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Glass walls enclose the circulation route through the home to offer views of the courtyardImage: Gonzalo Viramonte
Other considerations for climatically responsive design include a number of transition spaces that shield deeper areas of the plan from the elements. As per the architects: "This house presents a variety of intermediate spaces, since I have always considered it valuable to learn from our architectural heritage, extracting these types of ideas from it due to the timeless nature of galleries and patios in colonial architecture, which, especially in our region, work in a proven and efficient way in terms of the dialogue between exterior and interior." Directly beneath the existing tree canopy, a low flat roof was implemented to top off the residence, with extended eaves for shading, as well as sloped edges and a metallic drip edge. At the ground level, a concrete perimeter channel slopes down to the street, filled with gravel for excess rainwater to trickle into.
Skylights punctured into the ceilings allow light into the home's interior Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
The kitchen and living area looking into the courtyard Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Detail of the skylight Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
Protruding both vertically and at angles from the roofscape, a collection of cylindrical skylights in exposed concrete interject the predominantly geometric design vocabulary of the home, possessing almost 'Corbusian' characteristics in their form and proportions, reminiscent of the main chamber of Chandigarh's famed Palace of Assembly. Santiago Viale Lescano mentions: "We also proposed skylights in several spaces, which not only help to incorporate natural light inside, reducing energy consumption; but also lend character to the architectural language both outside and inside."
Floor Plan Image: Gonzalo Viramonte
SectionImage: Gonzalo Viramonte
To conclude, Santiago Viale Lescano notes, "I have always related sustainable architecture to common sense, to fair judgement. That is why I believe that sometimes with extremely simple actions it is possible to be sustainable, avoiding the use of astonishing devices or needless accessories. We are used to hearing about 'intelligent architecture' or 'intelligent buildings', however, I prefer to talk about architecture that relies on common sense, channelling intelligence from the mind of the designer." He adds, "Appropriate application of knowledge, together with the architect's common sense and the correct use of all resources available - both natural and man-made - should be adequate to create spaces with identity, spaces that serve and excite inhabitants. In conclusion, as it is commonly said: architecture that does not excite is simply construction."
Detail Section of Skylight Image: Courtesy of Santiago Viale And Associates
Wall Detail Image: Courtesy of Santiago Viale And Associates
Name: Las Marías House
Location: Córdoba Capital, Córdoba, Argentina
Area: 380 sqm
Year of Completion: 2022
Architect: Santiago Viale & Associates
Lead Architects: Daniella Beviglia, Daniela Iciksonas
Design Team: Florencia Esteban, Arch. Tito Maximiliano Gonza, Juan Macías, Eduardo Storaccio
Structural Calculation: Carlos Pudo
Consultants: Agricultural Eng. José Manuel Viale
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Corsi Channels Andy Martin's Crackpot Theories
Last October, we noted that Jerome Corsi appeared to be following in whackjob Andy Martin's footsteps by traipsing around Hawaii in pursuit of the alleged truth of Barack Obama's birth. Apparently Corsi has a much closer relationship with Martin than we thought.
In an appearance on the Feb. 13 edition of Bill Cunningham's radio show, Corsi demonstreates that he apparently believes Martin's claim that Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's father:
CORSI: Most people's birth certificates are mundane and uninteresting. If a person doesn't want to show it, he's hiding something. Now, it may be -- it may be foreign born. Maybe there's a secret about who the real parents are. Maybe there's something there being hidden.
CUNNINGHAM: You mean Frank Marshall Davis.
CORSI: Well, I mean, I -- you know, I continue to look at Frank Marshall Davis. Frank Marshall Davis wrote two autobiographical sex novels, and he said that he and his wife, you know, had an affair with this couple from Seattle. Well, I mean, OK, is that the -- is that Obama's grandparents?
CUNNINGHAM: I don't know.
CORSI: I don't know.
CUNNINGHAM: They're from Seattle.
CORSI: They're from Seattle. It's in the autobiography of Frank Marshall Davis. I mean, I can -- all the -- there are pieces here that don't fit. Ann Dunham is registered at the University of Washington when she's supposed to be in Hawaii having the baby. What's that all about?
Is this why WND is desperately clinging to this smear? Is this why WND is so desperate to disguise the fact that it found the birth certificate released by Obama's campaign to be authentic?
Corsi has already peddled bogus documents to falsely smear Obama. So it's not too surprising -- if all too telling -- that Corsi finds a man who once founded an organization called "The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America" to be credible.
NewsBusters Double Standard Watch
A Feb. 12 NewsBusters post by Jeff Poor criticizes Jonathan Alter for claiming that the Republicans' stance against the stimulus is not principled and is based on "based on an ill-conceived, low-percentage bet that the proposal would fail," countering that "here are reasonable voices without political interests at heart, not facing a primary challenge that is, that oppose the entire concept of this stimulus package."
Poor might have a point if NewsBusters hadn't promoted the opposite point -- that the only possible reason Democrats support a stimulus is to buy votes. Indeed, a Jan. 24 post by Noel Sheppard uncritically repeats Rush Limbaugh's assertion that the stimulus "is aimed at re-establishing 'eternal' power for the Democrat [sic] Party rather than stimulating the economy."
Posted by Terry K. at 9:55 AM EST
Newsmax Reprints Misleading Article
Newsmax posted on its Moneynews website (and promoted on its main website) a Feb. 13 McClatchy article claiming that "a range of respected economists" have said that the stimulus bill won't work. The problem, as Media Matters detailed: That "range" is pretty narrow. And the only person identified as being associated with Democrats or progressives quoted in the story said that the stimulus bill was "a necessary condition for economic stabilization and recovery."
Posted by Terry K. at 12:59 AM EST
FrontPageMag Misleads On Union Bill
Topic: Horowitz
A Feb. 11 FrontPageMag article by John A. Sparks repeated the false claim that the Employee Free Choice Act would "do away with traditional secret-ballot elections which are now used to determine whether or not employees in an enterprise want to be represented by a union."
In fact, as we've detailed, the EFCA does not eliminate the right to a secret ballot; it adds the option of a "card check" and makes the choice to have an election the employees' instead of the employer's.
Sparks also claims that the current system keeps union-formation issues "free from the pressure of either the employer or the union." In fact, employers regularly pressure employees against union membership under the current system. The number of complaints filed by the National Labor Relations Board against employers for committing unfair labor practices far outweigh those filed by the NLRB against union organizations, and one survey found that found that 25 percent of employers fired at least one worker for union activity and that 51 percent of employers told employees that their plant might close if workers unionized.
Examiner Repeats False Pelosi Mouse Claim
Topic: Washington Examiner
A Feb. 13 Washington Examiner "family-friendly news satire" by Scott Ott (not on the Examiner website as far as we could tell) begins with the claim that "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the inclusion of $30 million in stimulus package money to preserved the habitat of the endangered Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse."
The mouse story is false. There is no money in the stimulus bill dedicated to protecting the salt marsh mouse. Nevertheless, Matt Drudge and Fox News promoted the claim, which is likely where Ott picked it up.
Hint to Ott: Satire works better when it's based on truth.
Time For Another Outraged Letter from Brent Bozell?
Another Sunday morning network talking-head show host has been found to be spending quality time with a political operative. Looks like it's time for Brent Bozell to send another outraged letter to a network news president demanding answers, declaring the host to be hopelessly biased and serving as the operative's "in-house spin doctor" in creating media narratives, and insisting that the host not be allowed to report or comment on activities involving the operative and his associates -- just as he did with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
Oh, wait -- the host is "Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace, who went on a hunting trip with Karl Rove.
That means there's no problem at all, as far as Bozell is concerned. Bozell does not hold Fox News to the same standards as ABC.
Never mind, then. As you were...
O'Leary's Poll Now Includes Actual Lies
Brad O'Leary seems not to understand that misleading poll questions make for answers that are not taken seriously by anyone who knows anything about polls. Or maybe he's decided that he can fool enough of the people enough of the time.
We've previously noted O'Leary peddling the misleading questions in the Zogby poll he commissioned (through his barely existent "news" organization ATI) as somehow meaningful. He's back in a Feb. 13 WorldNetDaily column peddling more bogus poll questions. Like this one:
"The current stimulus package supported by President Obama contains nearly $4.2 billion for neighborhood stabilization activities that could go to organizations such as ACORN or the League of Women Voters, that would spend it on voter registration activities and other community involvement programs. Do you favor or oppose this spending provision?"
As we've repeatedly detailed, ACORN is not even mentioned in the stimulus bill, let alone allocated any money, and ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis has stated the group isn't even eligible for the money. So O'Leary's assertion that the money "could go to ... ACORN" is a speculative scare tactic that invalidates the response.
O'Leary's bought-and-paid-for poll also asks:
"The stimulus bill would allow undocumented workers, who are also referred to as illegal aliens, who are working and paying taxes to collect a tax rebate check of $500 per person. Do you agree or disagree with this provision?"
That's an outright lie. As we've also repeatedly detailed, Social Security numbers are needed to qualify for the tax credits in the bill, which, by definition, excludes the vast majority of illegal immigrants. Another false scare tactic, another invalidated response.
O'Leary is running out people he can fool with his lies. Then again, he's writing for WND, which seems to count on attracting gullible readers.
Examiner Attack on ACORN Built on False Claim
The Feb. 12 Washington Examiner featured a two-page attack on ACORN built around a piece by local opinion editor Barbara Hollingsworth, the premise of which is that the stimulus bill "gives ACORN access to a $4.19 billion pot of money." Hollingsworth further asserts that "the largest radical group in the country ... is on the stimulus list."
As we've repeatedly detailed, that's a lie -- ACORN is not even mentioned in the stimulus bill, let alone allocated any money. Further, as ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis has stated: "ACORN isn't getting any of this money. Since it is set aside for non-profit housing developers to help purchase, rehab, and resell foreclosed properties, we aren't eligible for it in the first place."
Michael Reagan, Drama Queen
It is not true that grown men don't cry. I'm grown and I'm on the verge of tears. The Republic I have loved all my life is being is being murdered, and the crime is an inside job.
If you hear a whirring sound in the background, it is my dad Ronald Reagan, who loved and served this nation, spinning in his grave as his latest successor plunges a carving knife into America's vital organs.
-- Michael Reagan, Feb. 12 Newsmax column
Palling-Around-With-Terrorists Watch
WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah is once again filling in for G. Gordon Liddy on his radio show.
Huston Falsely Suggests Bush Didn't Pre-Pick Questions
In a Jan. 12 NewsBusters post, Warner Todd Huston noted a reporter's claim that Barack Obama "has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference" and asked: "Would they have allowed George W. Bush to pre-pick journalists like that? Would they meekly sit by and allow themselves to be systematically ignored, their freedom to ask questions silenced by any Republican? Would journalists so eagerly vie with one another for the favor of Bush like they are Obama's?"
Huston repeated his point again in a Feb. 12 post, asking, "I also wondered if this same 'free press' would have meekly allowed president Bush get away with treating the press in such a way? Or would they have raised a hue and cry that would have deafened the world?"
Of course, Huston is wrong. As Glenn Greenwald and Media Matters have pointed out, Bush regularly conducted press conferences by calling on reporters from a pre-selected list.
Was Huston howling about that at the time? We suspect he wasn't.
Updated: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:41 PM EST
P.J. Gladnick's 'Public'
A Feb. 11 NewsBusters post by P.J. Gladnick declares, "Julio the McDonald's Guy Panned by Public." He's referring to Julio Asegueda, the overexcited guy asking President Obama a question at a town hall meeting.
And who is this "public" that Gladnick claims has rejected Asegueda? A commenter at Michelle Malkin's website and a handful of commenters at YouTube.
Not exactly a representative sample, is it?
James Hirsen's Tantrum
Newsmax's James Hirsen -- if you'll remember, he's the guy who falsely claimed that U2 was "teaming up with" right-wing senator Rick Santorum when, in fact, Santorum's campaign merely bought U2 concert tickets to resell to donors -- let loose an anti-Obama and anti-Democrat screed in his weekly "Left Coast Report" column.
In ranting against the stimulus bill, Hirsen referenced "House Reeker Nancy Pelosi" and claimed that "President Obama is doing his un-level best to terrify folks with predictions of 'catastrophe' if his gargantuan-sized taxpayer stickup fails."
Hirsen also stated: "The mainstream media are willing allies in the president's propaganda feed." That's rather rich coming from a writer for a website that's a willing ally in the right-wing propaganda feed (as is Hirsen himself).
Hirsen's little screed concludes: "But the real catastrophe is going to happen if the entranced segment of the public doesn't snap out of it before our beloved America has to change her name to USSA." Uh, yeah.
New Article: Brent Bozell's Evasion
The Media Research Center accused ABC of refusing to respond to its attack on George Stephanopoulos -- but the MRC's news division killed a story that would have contained ABC's response. Read more >>
Noel Sheppard Shocked-By-The-Unshocking Watch
NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard expresses surprise that a Republican media consultant was allowed on CNN to "deride media darlings Al Gore and Paul Krugman in virtually the same sentence."
Sheppard does this kind of thing a lot.


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Sannat (; ) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.

Geography
A farming and forestry area comprising the village and several hamlets situated by the banks of both the Chat-Cros and Méouze rivers, some  northeast of Aubusson, near the junction of the D24 and the D19 roads.

Population

Sights
 The church, dating from the nineteenth century.
 Two châteaux, at La Ville-du-Bois and at Tirondeix.

See also
Communes of the Creuse department

References

External links

Association Sannat Histoire et Patrimoine

Communes of Creuse

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The most influential power in a modern state, equal only to armed force and a supine judiciary, is the power of the written word. Napoleon, more than most, was aware of this. He knew how to deploy the media as an auxiliary to conquest and understood the importance of amplifying his word for the record of his glories. His maxim was, after all, "persuasion and force: with the former I make friends, with the latter I crush enemies".
Once Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor he was able to establish what was, for the time, a rather successful system for creating propaganda and suppressing information which might undermine his authority. But even before then, Napoleon had been a connoisseur of the power of the printed word. As a young and ambitious army officer he was an avaricious reader and consumer of news, and, as commander-in-chief of the Army of Italy, he had seen to it that, as he conquered that peninsula, his army and the government back in Paris would be informed of developments as he wanted them to be seen.
Following success in Italy, Napoleon turned his attention to more exotic conquests and countenanced an invasion of the Levant, starting with the transformation of Egypt into a French colony. When it came to preparing for that ambitious task, Napoleon was very clear that his troops would again be supported by a propaganda campaign. The population would need persuading, and the army reminding of its civilising mission. Napoleon would therefore make sure that he brought with him the means to print.
This was important because such means were entirely lacking in the Egypt of 1798. Some Maronite monks had established a printing press in Kesrouan, in the Lebanon, which had first produced a volume in 1610. A typographic workshop had even been established in Constantinople in 1488 but the first printer in the Ottoman empire only really began to operate in 1728. All of which meant that the unexpected arrival of the French and their technology was a novelty which, for Egypt and neighbouring regions, formed a key milestone in the development of the published word.
So, as his fleet and expeditionary army began to gather at Toulon in the spring of 1798, Napoleon saw to it that multi-character printing presses would be loaded onto the ships. The transportation itself was not going to be a problem, after all the French had also included a piano in the essential equipment being taken along, but the technicians delegated with this task had, in addition, to guarantee that they had sufficient supplies of fonts, ink and paper.
Before long the events Napoleon had set in motion overtook him and a more ambitious plan seemed appropriate, one based on embedding the press within the invasion force. To do this he would have to mobilise the resources, both human and technical, available in Paris. In March 1798 the Minister of the Interior was ordered "to make available to General Bonaparte all the engineers, artists and other personnel subordinated to your ministry, as well as the any equipment he may request for use in the expedition he will be commanding." The minister turned to Mathieu Langlès, an oriental scholar attached to the republic's printers, and he was asked for assistance in obtaining printing equipment and sufficient Greek and Arab characters.
that Citizen Larue be asked to train an individual in Arabic typography and the cases used and on composition.
Langlès was unbiddable so Napoleon settled for Langlès' suggested alternative, a young scholar of the oriental school, the 21-year-old Parisian, and former pupil of Gaspard Monge, Jean-Joseph Marcel. Alongside his academic qualifications, Marcel could also boast experience as a print manager and journalist who knew Arabic. Marcel would aim to take with him whatever material was necessary although there was still a shortage of Arabic fonts despite the heroic work of a Citizen Duboy-Laverne to produce then in time. Such labours required money, and the cost, as well as those required for the presses, three for French, one for Arabic, and transport down to the port of embarkation, would eventually amount to 10,161 Francs.
Marcel's staff would also need paying. He would be supported by a number of experienced assistances including Beaudin or Bauduin the compositor, and Besson, Galland (an amateur poet with literary pretensions), Laporte and Puntis, the correctors. Some 18 more workers (Dizerand, Laugier, Eberhard, Lafurie, Cauzie, Barrier, Marquoy, Boulanger, Poincelot, Boyer, Jardin, Very, Dubois, Gransart, Marlet, Lethion, Castera), agreed to go. Marcel could therefore rely on 22 printers in total. Their reward would be adventure, and a monthly salary of 3,850 Livres split between them and which began to be paid as soon as they arrived in Toulon.
This was the state's response to Napoleon's call for the means to produce propaganda. It should be noted that there was, as during the Italian campaign, a freelance element in the plans to disseminate Napoleon's word. A second group under Joseph Emmanuel Marc Aurel of Valence was granted permission to accompany the army on 25 April 1798. Aurel, his men and his equipment were loaded onboard frigate the Justice in Toulon.
This was the French contribution towards the gift to Egypt of the printed word. But Napoleon also had the resources of conquered lands available to him. More particularly, the French republic could make use of material in their most recently acquired fief, the Papal States. There, the labyrinthine corridors of the Vatican contained the original Office of Propaganda. Of the faith, true, but it boasted the tools used in Europe's most persistent attempt to communicate with the Levant. The propaganda actually had printing presses which could print in Latin, Arabic and even Syriac. Napoleon thought he would have need of them.
Monge added that among the Maronite monks in Rome there is Jonus of Aleppo who "speaks and writes Arabic and can act here as an interpreter of oriental languages".
The fleet set off from Toulon in May whilst that from Civita-Vecchia, carrying Monge, Desaix and the Roman printshop, met them off Malta that June. From there they continued on to Egypt.
Napoleon ordered that "500 or 600 copies" be printed and sent ashore, then wanted 4,000 more. This was the first printed word of the French to reach Egypt. As the French disembarked, sending the liberated slaves into the hinterland, and their armies into Alexandria, Marcel's French, Arab and Greek presses were ferried in and soon unloaded in that ancient port. These were taken to the recently vacated house of the Venetian consul Napoleon decreed that they were to be ready to print within 24 hours. The Arab press was most important as a further 400 copies of the proclamation were required as the French commander-in-chief wanted to send a batch towards Syria and take more with him down the Nile.
The printers, now dubbed the French and Oriental Printing Press, began their work. Propaganda was important, and the proclamation certainly played a role in alerting the hinterland to the arrival of strangers, but the presses were also tasked with diluting the strangeness of what was, to most soldiers, a strange and hostile region. As well as the proclamation they helpfully produced a printed conversion table of local currencies and, in the coming months, as Napoleon's armies marched south towards Cairo, they concentrated on the literature of military occupation, issuing, as they would in France, penal codes and regulations and a handful of special decrees. The printing house would remain in Alexandria until the autumn, the governor, General Kléber pleading a lack of camels to transport the heavy machinery. Following the French occupation of Cairo that July calls to move the presses south intensified but it was only in October that they, minus Besson who continued to work at Alexandria with a small press for French language material, were taken to Rosetta and then transported by barge down the Nile. They were needed because Marc Aurel, who had accompanied the army, had proved to be a disappointment.
Perhaps more to their taste was the Décade Egypienne, or Egyptian Weekly, a literary and cultural periodical for the more discerning officer. The title was devised by Caffarelli and was "extremely ridiculous" according to Dr Desgenettes. It was intended to serve as a guide to the French in Egypt, as well as those beyond its shores who had an interest in the region, and it would include "whatever might be useful from the point of view of knowledge, whatever phenomenon, whatever monument, whatever quirk of nature that might have been overlooked by the best who have been before". It quickly turned into the proceedings of the scientific institute the French established in Cairo, however, and the more ambitious hopes for its content were quietly dropped. Aurel printed just the first three issues, the cost was 20 sous for one or a subscription of 12 Livres for 10 issues. The freelancer was, however, to be removed from office by popular demand. Or at least Napoleon's demand.
Marc Aurel would eventually sell his presses to the government and return to France, setting off from Egypt on 18 May 1800. The delay was caused by money. Desgenettes, Venture and Bourienne had been tasked with negotiating a price when Aurel first declared, in early 1799, that he wished to sell up. Desgenettes, who knew Aurel's mother, was faintly embarrassed by the process of haggling with her son. However, negotiations went ahead in good faith. Aurel had wanted 5,000 Francs, and the trio gamely offered him 4,500. He accepted. However, then came the inevitable act of bad faith, often repeated when governments know they have the dominant hand, and it was only in September 1799 that the government settled this debt, and then only part of it, handing over 3,000 Francs in letters of exchange. Aurel left in a foul move and, with both sides mutually disappointed, never worked for Napoleon again.
When, therefore, Marcel arrived in Cairo on 15 October he was welcomed as the saviour of Napoleon's propaganda machine. He heard that the plan was to establish his headquarters in some rooms in the Institute building in Ezbekieh square, but Marcel thought those premises unsuitable for his new National Printing Press. Instead the printing equipment was sent to the close by house of El-Achqar. There was a brief interruption when a revolt broke out in the third week of October, a revolt in which many of the scientific instruments the French had brought with them were destroyed, and it seems as though the printing workshops were also damaged as Marcel put in a claim for extensive refurbishment.
Poussielgue, tasked with managing the army's finances and those of the herd of scholars, fell out with Marcel over the cost, telling Napoleon that "I fear that, yet again, there will be too many superfluous expenses." Wrangling over money, and some confusion over upturned cases continued that winter, as the printers got established. Despite the problems, Napoleon favoured expansion, requiring Marcel to acquire five more cases of Arab characters (mym was coded 40, fe 80, for example). These were to be manufactured by Conté, the balloonist, in his own workshop. In addition Marcel was to take on five boys who knew how to read so they could be employed as compositors, and also recruited Yaqoub and Mikhayl as overseers. Marcel himself wrote how "there were too few French compositors who had been trained in oriental typography for the amount of work we had to do so I took it upon myself to teach the typographic art to a number of local boys as well as Copts, Armenians and Syrians". Five Turkish workers were also to be given work, employed on taking care of some of the manual work and packing. There were other appointments, too. Venture, the oriental interpreter, was given the task of approving the Arabic proofs, assisting the setters by ensuring that each Arab character was given a code, whilst Fauvelet-Bourienne assumed responsibility for French-language material.
It had taken a while to establish the means to print and it was only really on 14 January 1799 that the printers were capable of working at full capacity. It continued to do so without interruption until March 1800. Napoleon had by then left Egypt to restore order to France, and place himself at the end of the reformed state, but the printers continued to produce the army's journals and the literary review, the Decade. The National Printing Press took over the printing of the Courrier (with the last one bearing the date 9 June 1801)and the Décade Egypienne, or Egyptian Weekly, also continued throughout the occupation.
In addition to these two periodicals, Marcel kept busy with other projects. His list of publications, whether printed at Alexandria or Cairo, was impressive. Among the first publication to be produced was an Arab, Turkish and Persian Alphabet at his French and Oriental Printers, as well as anthology for those aiming to learn literary Arabic. More prosaically there was a study of eye disease in Italian by Antonio Savaresi, and a useful almanac which included a calendar in old and republican European style, and the local equivalents. There were a few unusual items too: a collection of fables, the constitution of France and the proceedings of the court established to try the fanatic who had assassinated General Kléber. Another piece was an ambitious one, the Tanbyeh, an Arabic call to arms which the French hoped would be distributed throughout Syria and Yemen. Marcel also aided the cause of universal knowledge by running off prints of monuments and inscriptions, and engravings of views. Here his most important contribution was probably the creation of an autograph (a kind of early lithograph) of the Rosetta Stone. The initial proof was a negative (with white lettering) and then reversed so that the characters showed up more clearly in black on a white background. It was printed and disseminated widely throughout Europe.
Marcel's final publication, a grammar of common Arabic for the French and Arabs was left unfinished as Cairo was forced to surrender to the British and Ottomans.
However impressed the friends of the French in Egypt were, printing would not survive once the republic's men departed. The printers had been moved to Gizah during the second revolt of Cairo in the spring of 1800. An uprising which saw the insurgents break into Marcel's quarters. Marcel was wounded and his secretary, Henrici, beheaded. Tragically, the workshop was also set on fire. Gizah was not much safer and the authorities, seeing Turkish forces advancing on the city with British support, prompted the city's governor, General Belliard, to move them to the safer citadel. They were there when Belliard surrendered the city to the Allied armies ranged before Cairo. Belliard, an able negotiator, would manage to avoid having the equipment confiscated by the British who, evidently satisfied with the Rosetta Stone and countless obelisks, allowed the French to remove material belonging to the institute which, for these purposes, included the printing presses. The general had everything packed and, in May 1801, it was transported back to France.
Egypt was now devoid of printing presses. Only in November 1821 was a printer established in Egypt, the reformer Mehemet Aly maintaining one at Boulac and employing Nicholas el Machabki from Beirut and who had studied typography atMilan to produce material in Turkish, Arabic and Persian. The machinery, paper and ink all came from Italy and there were 12 local technicians although, in time-honoured fashion, there was a German overseer.
As for the Egyptian machinery returned to France, General Berthier passed on orders that all the equipment, especially the Arabic fonts, were to be sent on to Paris to the Ministry of the Interior. From there they were sent to the National Printing Press soon to be run by that other Egyptian import, Marcel. Marcel enjoyed himself there, printing texts in Ethiopian and Hebrew, and producing an Alphabet of Irish in 1804. It was there, a few years later, that the French were to impress Pope Pius VII by their ability to run out documents in 150 languages and multiple scripts. Perhaps he was unaware that some of the means of production had originated in Rome. Perhaps he was merely keeping a diplomatic silence.


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Eric San Nicolas accuses DPS of making illegal traffic stop
By Bryan Manabat - bryan@mvariety.com - Variety News Staff
FORMER educator and Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board member Eric San Nicolas is accusing the Department of Public Safety of making an illegal traffic stop that resulted in his arrest for reckless driving and driving under the influence, among other traffic infractions.
San Nicolas wants the court to declare the traffic stop on the early morning of July 28, 2018 unreasonable and a violation of his constitutional rights.
Eric San Nicolas
Through Assistant Public Defender Jean Jacques Nogues, San Nicolas is also asking the court to suppress all evidence and observations resulting from the "illegal traffic stop."
Nogues said the illegal traffic stop was a violation of his client's due process rights and rights against unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution.
Nogues said according to Officer Rodolfo Hermosilla, on July 28 at 1:30 a.m., a woman alleged that her boyfriend, San Nicolas, stole her cell phone and car keys.
The woman also alleged that San Nicolas was intoxicated at the time he took the keys. She provided DPS a license plate number and indicated that the vehicle belonged to her. The woman also provided the location of her residence.
Officer Hermosilla said he was parked at Tinaktak Drive in Koblerville at 3:24 a.m. and observed a vehicle with the same license plate moving at the street where the woman said she lived.
Hermosilla reported that he then stopped the vehicle.
But Nogues said the officer reported no observation of any traffic violations
"It appears that the sole basis for the violation stop of the vehicle was the woman's allegations made two hours earlier that San Nicolas had stolen her car keys and was intoxicated," Nogues said.
Hermosilla also reported that after San Nicolas was stopped, the officer "made observations that led him to place San Nicolas under arrest for DUI."
Police charged San Nicolas with violating 9CMC-§7104(a), reckless driving, which is punishable by a fine of $25 to $1,000 or by imprisonment of not more than six months; driving under the influence of drugs, violating § 7105(a)(3); refusing to submit to breathalyzer, violating § 7106(a)(1)(2)(c); and driver license violations, § 2202(b).
Nogues said since violating Section 2202(b) and refusal to submit to breathalyzer test could only occur after a traffic stop had commenced, the only possible cited violations that could have served a reason for the stop were reckless driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol or combination of drugs.
Nogues said the DPS officer did not observe that San Nicolas was operating the vehicle in a manner consistent with reckless driving or DUI.
"Indeed, the sole basis for the stop appears to be the accusations made by the woman two hours earlier," Nogues added.
"A hearsay allegation that a person was intoxicated at some earlier point in an evening is not a basis to pull over a vehicle."
Nogues requested the court for a pre-trial evidentiary hearing on the issue.
The bench trial that was scheduled for Dec. 20 was vacated by Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho who has not yet issued any order on Nogues' request.


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Man admits plotting to steal quad bike before police officer's death
A man has admitted plotting to steal a quad bike before the death of PC Andrew Harper.
The Thames Valley Police officer was killed on August 15th near the village of Sulhamstead in Berkshire. He'd been responding to reports of a burglary.
The twenty eight year old had been dragged under a van and died from multiple injuries.
He'd been married just four weeks before.
Henry Long, who's 18 and from Mortimer in Reading and two 17-year-old boys - who cannot be identified - are charged with his murder, an alternative of manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.
A fourth defendant, Thomas King, who's 21 and from Basingstoke, is accused of conspiracy to steal a quad bike.
Three of the defendants appeared at the Old Bailey by video link from custody while King was in the dock before Mr Justice Edis.
During the hearing, King pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal on or before August 15th.
He was granted bail until his sentencing at the conclusion of the trial of the other defendants.
One of the 17-year-olds, wearing a grey tracksuit and large crucifix, entered not guilty pleas to manslaughter and conspiracy to steal.
He was not asked to enter pleas to the further charge of murder.
A further plea hearing for Henry Long and the other 17-year-old will take place in the new year.
A six-week trial has been scheduled to start at the Old Bailey in March.
PC Andrew Harper died as he responded to a reported burglary Credit: Thames Valley Police/PA
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Shag, or Shagged, or Shagger, or Shagging, or Shags  may refer to:

Animals
 Shag or cormorant, a bird family
 European shag, a specific species of the shag or cormorant family
 Great cormorant another species of the family

People

Pseudonym
 Shag (artist), stage name of the American artist Josh Agle (born 1962)
 Shag, a name used on some pop records in the early 1970s by British record producer Jonathan King
 Shags Horan (1895-1969), American baseball player

Name
 Shag (name)
Shag Thomas (1924–1982), American professional wrestler
Avraham-Haim Shag (1883–1958), Israeli politician

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music
 The Shag, also known as The Shags (one of many bands of that name) or Shag, a 1960s garage and psychedelic rock band from Milwaukee
 The Shags (Connecticut band), a 1960s rock band from Connecticut

Dance
 Carolina shag, a swing dance that originated in South Carolina in the 1940s and still is their state dance
 Collegiate shag, a swing dance that originated in the 1920s (popular in the 1930s and 40s)
 St. Louis shag, a swing dance that evolved from the Charleston

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 Shag (film), a 1989 film
 Shag, a fictitious character from Road Rovers

Other uses
 Shag (fabric), a fabric typically used to make deep-pile carpets
 Shag (hairstyle)
 Shag (tobacco), fine-cut tobacco
 Shag, a British slang term for sexual intercourse
 Shag, a party and fundraiser for an engaged couple, also known as a stag and doe
 Shagger (bruise), a temporary bruise caused by kissing, sucking, or biting the skin forcefully enough to burst blood vessels beneath the skin
 Shagging (baseball), to catch fly balls in baseball outside a game
 Ball shagger or shag, fabric for the cleaning of golf balls

See also
 Shag Island (disambiguation)
 Shag Rocks (disambiguation)
 Shaggy (disambiguation)
 The Shaggs


Finally, Some Good News On The New Pune Airport Front!
After waiting for more than a decade, we finally have some positive development on the Pune airport! This week, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra announced the final site for the new green-field airport.
Many projects for the new airport were proposed since the last decade, but with no progress. It was a long wait. Some old timers on twitter will remember my regular tweets (since 2010) about the new Pune airport progress (or lack thereof).
Multiple sites in the Chakan-Rajgurunagar area (North Pune) were considered, but rejected due to land acquisition and other constraints. Finally, this last week the Maharashtra Government has finalized on the site near Purandar. The 'Chatrapati Sambhaji Raje Airport' (as it will be called) will come up near the Pargao-Memane villages, located to the South East of Pune, near the town of Saswad and the Purandar Fort. A big thanks to the CM Devendra Fadnavis, the Pune MP Anil Shirole and other authorities for pushing through this long pending critical project!
An aggressive 2019 deadline has been proposed. This is great, but will need extremely good execution.
This new airport can be an excellent catalyst to drive the development of South and South East Pune Region. Over the past two decades, a lot of the manufacturing and software/IT growth of Pune has been concentrated in the North West/North/North East corridors. This new airport will act as a magnet to attract development on the South/South East side. This is good for the long term balanced growth of the Pune Metro Region.
It is critical that a 5-10-30 year plan is created for this area. I believe this area (and development planning associated with it) will come under the newly formed PMRDA (Pune Metro Regional Development Authority). There are many lessons that can be learned from other areas development in Pune, as well as from other cities.
First and foremost, it will be critical to build a good road access to the new airport. At present, the accessibility of this area is not great. The routes through Dive Ghat, Bobdev Ghat and via Katraj Ghat – Khed Shivapur are all not ideal, given the current condition of these roads. The Ring Road project for Pune is another long pending project, and completing this project (at least certain sections of it) before 2019 is imperative for good access to the new airport. A ring road connection from the NH4 near Khed Shivapur to the new airport would be a good first access point.
Here we need to learn from the Bangalore and Hyderabad examples of the past decade. The new Bangalore airport was built in 2008, however the access road (widening the highway, flyovers, etc.) took a long time to build. Hyderabad on the other hand built good road access to the new airport from early on. The goal should be to have excellent road access infrastructure ready before the airport completion deadline.
Looking at the next few decades, it is also important to consider a good fast rail connectivity to this new airport, from the city center. Rail connectivity (public transport access) to the airport is critical.
As I mentioned earlier, the new airport will act as a prime catalyst to develop South/South-East Pune. Proximity to the airport will drive many businesses, industries, education/research institutions, tourism centric facilities to locate to this area. The long-term plan for this area should include setting up new IT/Software, Business and Research Parks in this area. The existing manufacturing areas (MIDCs) at Jejuri, Shirval/Khandala (Satara district) need to be expanded. This airport will have good proximity to Satara and Baramati as well, and manufacturing infrastructure in these areas can be boosted. A Delhi Aero-City type area should also be planned to locate hotels and businesses near the airport complex.
One important infrastructure piece that is lacking in Pune today is a good international standard expo and convention center. This should be ideally build near the new airport as well.
In addition to Pune, Panchagani and Mahabaleshwar will have very easy access from this new airport (less than 100 km). Similarly, the majestic forts of Purandar, Rajgad, Torna and Sinhagad are also nearby. If a good plan is developed, this airport can drive more tourism in the Pune region (including neighboring districts).
Pune has been lagging behind all the other metros on many of the key infrastructure projects (Airport, Metro, Ring Road, etc.). We have a lot of catch up to do, and fast execution is going to be of paramount importance. Whether that happens or not …. it remains to be seen. But at least as far as the airport is concerned, I am more optimistic this week, than I was at any point in the past 10 years!
Pune's development – A strong need for lobbying!
Pune is the largest city (metro area) in the country, which is not a capital city. It is very strategic and important for the state and the country from multiple standpoints – Manufacturing, Software, Education, Defense, Research, Heritage, Culture, etc. Over the past three centuries, it has played a key 'thought leadership' role for the country in politics, social reform, culture, industry and education.
And yet, we find that Pune's development and planning is in a complete mess. Delhi gets a lot of attention, thanks to it being the capital of the country. Other metros (e.g. Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad) get some attention from the state governments. Unfortunately, Pune hasn't really fit well in the priority schemes of the state or the center.
Ideally if the metro areas have their own governance (and budget allocation) mechanisms (like in many countries), the Pune metro area can take care of itself. Unfortunately in India, cities are not autonomous. They have to rely on the state and central governments for budgets, planning, approvals, etc.
How do we fix this situation? PMRDA is a good step…but not enough. Basically, what we need is strong city-centric lobbying with the state and central governments for all tactical and strategic issues!
Take the example of Pune Airport, Metro, PMRDA itself… pending for such a long time with no clear decision making and urgency. There are plenty of examples. The city doesn't even have a ring road, even though it has been under discussion for decades. Public transportation is a mess (most probably the lowest percentage of commuters travel by public transit in Pune, as compared to other metros).
Given that Pune is not a capital city, the lobbying needs to be much more than that is being done by other metros. We have a much steeper slope to climb. Lobbying needs to happen at all fronts, across all levels – across sectors of industry, across levels of government and bureaucracy, etc.
Organizations like the Pune International Center, MCCIA, Local Media, Local Industry Leaders, and Education Leaders can play a big role in regularly highlighting the city's issues. Ultimately, every Punekar should take this up as their responsibility to lobby for the city's development agenda. I am trying to do my small bit via the social media (twitter). The effectiveness of social media is increasing day by day, and provides a good option for the ordinary citizen to highlight their issues.


The zing of cranberries and the hearty crunch of walnuts are a classic New England combination. These muffins are excellent warmed for breakfast.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry. HereÂ's where you have to restrain yourself. Take a fork or wire whisk and blend the two for 20 seconds and no more. The secret to light and tender muffins lies in this final blending. ItÂ's okay if youÂ've left some lumps that look as if they want more stirring. They really donÂ't. So, no matter how hard it is, resist the impulse.
Fill the cups of a lightly greased, 12-cup muffin tin three-quarters full. As soon as the muffins are in the oven, DROP THE TEMPERATURE TO 400 DEGREES (this is important). Bake for about 20 minutes or until theyÂ're a lovely, golden brown. Remove from pan and cool on a wire rack. Best served warm.
When you put muffins in a very hot oven initially and then immediately drop the temperature, you help create the peaks that make them so appealing.


Facilitate a Morag Tong contract on Brotherhood turf.
The assassin Naryu Virian must kill a Dark Elf noble in Kvatch to fulfill a contract for her shadowy organization. However, she doesn't want to attract the attention of the Dark Brotherhood as she completes her work, so she asked for my help.
"Wake, wake, my darling. You can sleep when you're dead—which will be sooner than you think."
Find Naryu Virian near Castle Kvatch and talk to her.
Enter Castle Kvatch and find your way to the Dark Elf noble's room.
Open the secret passage and allow Naryu to complete her contract.
Exit the castle, making sure somebody notices you on your way out.
Meet Naryu at the inn and talk to her.
I agreed to help Naryu complete her contract and then take credit for the crime. I should ask her to tell me more about her target and find out if she has a plan for sneaking into Castle Kvatch.
I need to reach the room where Dathus Ildrim is hiding and open a secret passage. This will allow Naryu to covertly enter the castle, dispatch her target, and leave without being spotted.
Dathus is fast asleep. I need to open the secret passage so Naryu can enter his room and dispatch him.
Naryu has arrived to dispatch Dathus Ildrim. I should stand back and let her complete her contract without interference.
Naryu allowed Dathus to call for the Castle Kvatch sentinels before she killed him. To fulfill my part of the bargain, I need to leave by the main entrance and make sure someone spots me so I can take credit for assassinating Dathus.
I made sure I was seen leaving Castle Kvatch so that I'm sure to be blamed for the assassination of the Dark Elf noble. I should meet Naryu at the inn and wrap up our business arrangement.
Finishes quest Naryu confirmed that no one spotted her leaving the castle. Her secret is safe, thanks to my help. I should find out what she plans to do next.


The original La Bonne Auberge first opened its doors on Bastille Day in 1975, and it's had something to celebrate ever since. Glasgow's first French-Mediterranean brasserie and Bar, this smart restaurant with its aproned waiters and blackboard menus now has an AA Rosette to confirm what the locals have known all along. Set in the fashionable Theatreland district, this is a feast of Riviera cuisine, with dishes including wild mushroom and leek risotto cake with grilled asparagus.


I would like a quiet house to live in. I enjoy outdoor activities and spending time with friends and family. I work part time aswell as running an online business. I mostly keep to myself as I'm busy alot of the time with my online business. My dog unit is 3 yrs old, he is house trained and very friendly.


THE complaints and controversy began even before tonight's Question Time was broadcast from Bradford.
After the BBC revealed the panel included Nigel Farage (pictured), critics on social media sites suggested that the UKIP leader had been on the show too often, while others welcomed his presence.
The full line up was Conservative energy secretary Amber Rudd MP, Labour's former shadow chief secretary to the treasury Shabana Mahmood MP, president of the Liberal Democrats Baroness Brinton and the Daily Mail's soon to be political editor-at-large Isabel Oakeshott.
On the Question Time Facebook page, viewers complained that there were no Green representatives while others said the panel was "too right wing".
Viewer John Turbefield said on Facebook: "Why Nigel Farage? You've had him on far too much. Do try and keep it balanced.
"You actually remembered to invite a Lib Dem for once, though, so well done on that."
Viewer Pamela Brooke said on the Facebook page: "Please sit Nigel Farage and Isabel Oakeshott together at one end of the panel. They can amuse each other with the ridiculous things which come out of their mouths."
On Twitter, Bradford woman Ruth Ibegbuna said: "Nigel Farage is on the panel for Bradford #bbcqt tonight?! Of course he is! How pleased with themselves Question Time producers must feel..."
* Mr Farage was replaced at the 11th hour as a panellist by UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall.
Earlier this evening Mr Farage said he was stuck in traffic.
On Twitter he said: "Now been at a standstill for 90 mins on the A1. #bbcqt doubtful. Damn."


On 01st June 2013 (Saturday) at 7.15 PM; That was Parur M.S. Ananthashree's vocal concert was excellent.. She is regular aratiste in VDS as a violinist. This is her Ist concert for senior slot and she did full justice for the promotion. She has been well trained by guru Kalpagam Raman and Lakshmi Krishnaswami. She is gifted to born in a great musical and violin exponents family; grand father Parur Sri.M.S. Anantharaman, father Parur Sri.M.A. Sundareswaran, uncle Parur Sri. M.A. Krishnaswami and her mother Rama Sundareswaran also a musician. So it naturally has to be of – high standard.
Dharmavati was fine. Alapana has nice pidis. Syaee Rakshith's reply in violin was very good. Main sankarabharanam was fine. Alapana was good. Kriti devi jagadjanani was sung nicely. Niraval and swaram kalpana had variety. Nayaki kriti was also fine. R. Akshayram,s (mridangam) thani was attractive..


Corporatisation is the need of the hour. The entire world is gradually drafting towers on the global market without any trade barriers between the countries. A small unincorporated organization led by few partners cannot think of growth on large scale without corporatizing itself. Corporatization has its own advantages such as limited liability perpetual succession, Transferability of share, easy access to funds etc.
Carry Forward and Set off Losses and Unabsorbed Depreciation .