... the striking, almost "abstract" drawing on the cover shows flying birds created by a combination of identical curved line elements. lohse obviously was facinated by birds – see books 348 and 446 – and actually also lohse's early abstract paintings are inspired by bird forms.
... and inner pages, too.
what is remarkable is lohse's photo placement, based on a standard grid of squares – an early example of what became a trademark of swiss typography.


Parents and staff love Avaya Equinox™ video. Mothers are able to see their baby on their preferred devices—laptops, tablets, smartphones—and access the video conference via a freely distributed client, reducing the worry and speeding up recovery. This reduces the time nurses have to spend updating patients, keeps traffic in the ward down, and phone lines open for emergencies.
The first few days after birth are crucial for mothers and their newborns. Immediate visual and physical connections between a mother and her baby create a fundamental attachment that positively impacts the emotional and physical recovery of both mother and infant after the stress of labor.
For some parents, the birth of their child does not play out as they had imagined it would. Families—already overwhelmed with a variety of emotions—are left with a sense of longing and worry in those situations where their 'bundles-of-joy' are whisked immediately away after delivery to intensive care units.
To help parents cope with this difficult scenario, Geneva University Hospitals (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, HUG) has had a video conferencing system in place for many years. One laptop in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) was connected with another laptop in the maternity department, and mothers were invited to watch their babies on video for the first time. The system was functional and served its purpose, but difficult to use by hospital staff and mothers alike.
NICU is the first home for many newborns, and the duration of their stay in the unit depends on the severity of their condition. Mothers are sometimes discharged days or weeks before the newborn is ready to go home.
We only had one pair of laptops available. Staff had to pass by each room, taking time away from patient care to give parents a glimpse of their critically ill child. At the same time, parents were distressed because they would have preferred to have continuous visibility into the wellbeing of the child.
HUG's neonatology team decided to create a NICU video conference of each baby, and make it available to parents 24/7, relieving some of their stress, supporting post-partum recovery of the mother, and encouraging the bonding process between the mother and her premature or ill newborn.
The HUG technical team found the best solution for everyone's needs from its long-time technology solutions partner, Avaya. Avaya Equinox™ video provided a simplified and agile infrastructure as well as scalable, cost-effective, and unparalleled interoperability with other standardsbased video endpoints. Ad-hoc conferencing from video conference room systems, desktops, and mobile apps empower doctors to collaborate for better patient care.
The end-to-end deployment process took fewer than three months, and the team is delighted with the results, with respect to the internal services—between surgery rooms and medical training—and especially with the parents' satisfaction using the 'Mother-Child Video Virtual Rooms'. For parents, the video conferencing makes all the difference in the world.
"During the Avaya Equinox™ video deployment, we had a mother and her newborn, both in a critical state, one in the adult and one in the neonatology intensive care units. Video conferencing was the only way for us to show the baby to his mother and also allow the father to stay by his wife's bed while watching his child. So we skipped our usual testing procedures and opened the conference on the father's mobile. Avaya's solutions are highly mature, and everything functioned flawlessly," says Levy-Jamet.
Out of 3,000 babies who see the light of day in HUG maternity every year, more than 500 require extra treatment in the neonatology unit. Opening the conferencing capability to all parents was then just a small step away, and Avaya video now empowers emotion sharing every single day. From mothers seeing their newborn for the first time, to siblings meeting their new brother or sister, the video conferencing services help families bond, share love, and relieve some of the anxiety and stress caused by separation and concern for the infant's wellbeing.
"We deployed everything ahead of schedule because patients requested it. The solution provided peace of mind and a virtual way to connect and bond when being at the bedside was not an option—such as for parents who had other children at home," explains Levy-Jamet.
The video conferencing service lets families watch their vulnerable infants in the NICU in real-time, even when they cannot be at the bedside. It also frees up several hours of staff time every day. Staff can fully focus on the tiny patient's health and recovery, instead of plugging cables and connecting cameras.
"Viewing of the baby's environment is protected by encrypted transmissions. Live conferencing is only accessible to family using passwords issued by the NICU. No recordings are made, and no images are stored," says Levy-Jamet.
During the Avaya Equinox™ video, we had a mother and her newborn, both in a critical state, one in the adult and one in the neonatology intensive care units. Video conferencing was the only way for us to show the baby to his mother and also allow the father to stay by his wife's bed while watching his child. So we skipped our usual testing procedures and opened the conference on the father's mobile. Avaya's solutions are highly mature, and everything functioned flawlessly.
Coincidentally, other teams in HUG were looking for video solutions, too. The organization wanted to enable remote collaboration between teams of doctors, empowering them to accelerate patient care by exchanging observations, recommendations and patient information. It also wished to improve the quality of medical training across eight hospitals, two clinics, and 40 care centers through high-definition, remote visualization of surgical and medical procedures, empowering doctors to deliver better patient care while saving travel costs and time. Another objective was to schedule virtual office visits with patients in rural areas, where some specialists are not available on-site.
In addition to having a tool that helps calm parent fears regarding the progress of their infant, HUG has seen numerous benefits from deploying Avaya Equinox™ video. Staff training costs are significantly reduced, as physicians can now view surgical interventions remotely instead of investing time and money in travel between campuses. Remote medical training is now offered to geographically scattered patients and medical professionals, leading to more awareness, disease prevention, and improved efficiencies in patient care.
Last but not least, HUG gains prestige through excellent customer care and quality of service. Patients express appreciation for the innovative technology adoption, and making a valued service available at no charge to help new parents get through the NICU experience.
As Levy-Jamet notes, "Parents and staff love Avaya Equinox™ video. Mothers are able to see their baby on their preferred devices—laptops, tablets, smartphones—and access the video conference via a freely distributed client, reducing the worry and speeding up recovery. This reduces the time nurses have to spend updating patients, keeps traffic in the ward down, and phone lines open for emergencies.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is equipped and staffed to deliver a full-range of medical care services to premature or critically ill babies. Highly skilled and compassionate neonatologists, pediatricians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other team members provide 24/7 care and assistance for all infants and families.


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The Kissimmee Air Museum was located at the Kissimmee Gateway Airport in Kissimmee, Florida.  It housed vintage aircraft from World War II to the Vietnam War including an outdoor showroom. It was a working museum that restored vintage aircraft. In 2021, the Kissimmee Air Museum closed when the associated Warbird Adventures, Inc moved their operation to Ninety Six, South Carolina.

When the Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum closed in 2004 due to Hurricane Charley, Warbird Adventures, Inc. saw a need for a museum and opened the Kissimmee Air Museum in 2007.

Exhibits
The museum displayed a number of vintage aircraft owned by the associated Warbird Adventures, Inc. as well as on loan from private individuals and other organizations.

Operational aircraft
Boeing Stearman N2S-5
Cessna L-19
Fouga Magister
Grumman S-2 Tracker
Hiller OH-23 Raven
North American P-51 Mustang
North American T-6 Texan
Robinson R44
PZL TS-11 Iskra
Taylor Aerocar

Aircraft under restoration
Boeing Stearman PT-17
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F
PZL TS-11 Iskra

Aircraft engines
de Havilland Goblin
General Electric CJ610
Kinner R-5
Klimov VK-1
Rolls-Royce Griffon

See also
List of aviation museums

Notes

External links

 Warbird Adventures

Aerospace museums in Florida
Buildings and structures in Kissimmee, Florida
Military and war museums in Florida
Museums in Osceola County, Florida
Kissimmee

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Sisinnius (ca. 650 – 4. februar 708) var pave fra 15. januar til sin død i 708. Med kun 21 dage som pave er han den person, der har haft posten i femte kortest tid.

Han blev født i Syrien, og hans far hed Johannes (John). De meget beskedne donationer i hans korte tid som pave (42 pund uld og 310 pund sølv, en brøøkdel af private donationer til andre paver på denne tid) tyder på, at han ikke var fra aristokratiet.

Sisinnius blev valgt under det byzantinske pavedømme. Han efterfulgte Pave Johannes 7. efter tre måneders sede vacante. He was consecrated around 15 January 708.

Sisinnius var pave i kun 20 dage. Ifølge Catholic Encyclopedia, "selvom han var så plaget af gigt, at han ikke kunne made sig selv, siges han alligevel at have haft en stærk karakter, og har været i stand til at godt vare på byen". Blandt hans få handlinger som pave var en udnævnelse af en biskop fra Korsika. Han beordrede også at der skulle "brændes kalk for at restaurere dele" af bymuren omkring Rom. Reparationerne, der blev planlagt af Sisinnius blev fuldtført af Pave Gregor 2.

Sisinnius blev begravet i Basilica Sancti Petri, en kirke der stod, hvor Peterskirken senere blev opført. Han blev efterfulgt efter to måneder af Pave Konstantin 1.. Konstantin, der også var syrer, var sandsynligvis Sisinnius' bror.

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Q: extract boolean checks to local variables Sometimes i extract boolean checks into local variables to achief better readability.
What do you think?
Any disadvantages?
Does the compiler a line-in or something if the variable isn't used anywhere else? I also thought about reducing the scope with an additional block "{}".
if (person.getAge() > MINIMUM_AGE && person.getTall() > MAXIMUM_SIZE && person.getWeight < MAXIMUM_WEIGHT) {
    // do something
}

final boolean isOldEnough = person.getAge() > MINIMUM_AGE;
final boolean isTallEnough = person.getTall() > MAXIMUM_SIZE;
final boolean isNotToHeavy = person.getWeight < MAXIMUM_WEIGHT;

if (isOldEnough && isTallEnough && isNotToHeavy) {
    // do something
}

A: The real risk in this approach is that it loses responsiveness to changing values.
Yes, people's age, weight, and height don't change very often, relative to the runtime of most programs, but they do change, and if, for example, age changes while the object from which your snippet is still alive, your final isOldEnough could now yield a wrong answer.
And yet I don't believe putting isEligible into Person is appropriate either, since the knowledge of what constitutes eligibility seems to be of a larger scope.  One must ask: eligible for what?
All in all, in a code review, I'd probably recommend that you add methods in Person instead.
boolean isOldEnough (int minimumAge)  { return (this.getAge() > minimumAge); }

And so on.

A: I do this all the time. The code is much more readable that way. The only reason for not doing this is that it inhibits the runtime from doing shortcut optimisation, although a smart VM might figure that out.

A: Your two blocks of code are inequivalent.
There are many cases that could be used to show this but I will use one. Suppose that person.getAge() > MINIMUM_AGE were true and person.getTall() threw an exception.
In the first case, the expression will execute the if code block, while the second case will throw an exception. In computability theory, when an exception is thrown, then this is called 'the bottom element. It has been shown that a program when evaluated using eager evaluation semantics (as in your second example), that if it terminates (does not resolve to bottom), then it is guaranteed that an evaluation strategy of laziness (your first example) is guaranteed to terminate. This is an important tenet of programming. Notice that you cannot write Java's && function yourself.
While it is unlikely that your getTall() method will throw an exception, you cannot apply your reasoning to the general case.

A: I think the checks probably belong in the person class. You could pass in the Min/Max values, but calling person.IsEligable() would be a better solution in my opinion.

A: You could go one step further and create subtypes of the Person:
Teenager extends Person
ThirdAgePerson extends Person
Kid extends Person

Subclasses will be overriding Person's methods in their own way.

A: One advantage to the latter case is that you will have the isOldEnough, isTallEnough, and isNotToHeavy (sic) variables available for reuse later in the code. It is also more easily readable.
You might want to consider abstracting those boolean checks into their own methods, or combining the check into a method. For example a person.isOldEnough() method which would return the value of the boolean check. You could even give it an integer parameter that would be your minimum age, to give it more flexible functionality.

A: I think this is a matter of personal taste. I find your refactoring quite readable.
In this particualr case I might refactor the whole test into a
isThisPersonSuitable()

method.
If there were much such code I might even create a PersonInterpreter (maybe inner) class which holds a person and answers questions about their eligibility.
Generally I would tend to favour readability over any minor performance considerations.

A: The only possible negative is that you lose the benefits of the AND being short-circuited. But in reality this is only really of any significance if any of your checks is largely more expensive than the others, for example if person.getWeight() was a significant operation and not just an accessor.

A: I have nothing against your construct, but it seems to me that in this case the readability gain could be achieved by simply putting in line breaks, i.e.
if (person.getAge() > MINIMUM_AGE
  && person.getTall() > MAXIMUM_SIZE
  && person.getWeight < MAXIMUM_WEIGHT)
{
  // do something
}

The bigger issue that other answers brought up is whether this belongs inside the Person object. I think the simple answer to that is: If there are several places where you do the same test, it belongs in Person. If there are places where you do similar but different tests, then they belong in the calling class.
Like, if this is a system for a site that sells alcohol and you have many places where you must test if the person is of legal drinking age, then it makes sense to have a Person.isLegalDrinkingAge() function. If the only factor is age, then having a MINIMUM_DRINKING_AGE constant would accomplish the same result, I guess, but once there's other logic involved, like different legal drinking ages in different legal jurisdictions or there are special cases or exceptions, then it really should be a member function.
On the other hand, if you have one place where you check if someone is over 18 and somewhere else where you check if he's over 12 and somewhere else where you check if he's over 65 etc etc, then there's little to be gained by pushing this function into Person.

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Po-Chang Chen
Miami University of Ohio - Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Accountancy
3086 Farmer School of Business
Analyst Underreaction and the Post-Forecast Revision Drift
Po-Chang Chen, Ganapathi S. Narayanamoorthy, Theodore Sougiannis and Hui Zhou
Miami University of Ohio - Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration, Tulane University - Accounting & Taxation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School
Analyst underreaction, post-forecast revision drift
Are All Types of Real Transaction Management Equal in the Eyes of Bank Lenders?
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Po-Chang Chen, William J. Moser and Ganapathi S. Narayanamoorthy
Miami University of Ohio - Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration, Miami University and Tulane University - Accounting & Taxation
real transaction management; loan contracting; cost of debt; debt covenants; probability of debt covenant violation
CSR Assurance and Reporting Quality: Evidence From Restatements
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Feb 2018
Brian Ballou, Po-Chang Chen, Jonathan H. Grenier and Dan L. Heitger
Miami University of Ohio - Department of Accountancy, Miami University of Ohio - Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration, Miami University - Department of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio
Corporate Social Responsibility, Restatements, Assurance, Reporting Frameworks
Banks' Acquisition of Private Information About Financial Misreporting
The Accounting Review: May 2016, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 835-857.
Posted: 27 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017
Banks, Loan Contracting, Financial Misreporting, Restatement
Growth in Financial Derivatives: The Public Policy and Accounting Incentives
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2015
Posted: 11 May 2014 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik and Po-Chang Chen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio - Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration
derivatives, public policy, FAS 133, hedge accounting

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Mid Summer Dreams Of A Candle Maker.
Today's Date July 25, five months till Christmas. If only you could have a special telescope and be able to look into the future. If this was possible then you would see what the falls trends would be. What soy candles would be the ones to fly off the shelf and what ones would be slow movers. That way I would know which ones I needed to make large amounts of and which to only make a few. I would know what style of candles would be popular and which would need to be put on the back shelf.
A candle makers dream would be to have all his ducks in a row so that all he had to do was make soy candles. Also it would be great if he knew just the right keywords for his SEO and have just the right ads for his AdWords account. The ones that would catch the customers eye to get them to come to his website.
I guess what I'm trying to say is why can't life be simpler but then again how challenging and exciting would a simple life be?
Soy Candles - You Bought Then Now You Want Them.
Soy Candles delivered quickly and free to your door.
There is just something about it. Once you have bought a item no matter the size or cost there is just something inside you that wants to get it, handle it and to know that it is yours. I do believe that all of us are the same in this area.
So it is with online purchasing whether it be soy candles or office supplies. You have made your purchase and now you want to receive it as quickly as possible. Nothing can be more annoying when after the order has been made that you have to wait days to hear from the business that you have decided to purchase your item from that they have ship your item. And then on top of that they want to charge you a shipping and handling charge. Talk about adding pain on top of misery.
Not so with Papa's Candle Shoppe, we have shelves just filled with candles waiting to fly off them and be ship quickly to our many customers homes. (Just read our reviews) That is why we ship in one business day and use FREE priority mail services with orders over 13 oz. (13 oz or lower we use first class.) Combine these two services together that will give you, not only satisfied customers, but candles arriving in 2 to 3 business days from the day that they have placed the order.
This is why we can say Soy Candles delivered quickly and free to your door.
Soy Candles, You Own It So Take Care Of It.
How to get the most from your soy candle purchase.
You have searched the internet over and found a great soy candle company and have bought some awesome candles. So what do you do next? How do you get the most out of your investment when it comes to soy candles. Here are a few tips to help you get maximum life out of your candles.
Before you light your soy candle for the first time make sure that the wick has been trimmed a 1/4". This will keep your flame at just the right height to give you hours of enjoyable burning.
First burn is vitally important. Make sure that you burn your candle so the top is liquid across the entire top of the candle. Your wick has a memory, The next time you burn the candle it will remember and continual to burn all the way across even if you only burn it a short time.
Do not burn longer then 4 hours. You want to let the soy wax solidify after you can relight and enjoy for another four hours. Burning this way will prolong your candle life.
Do not freeze your candle. This will not make your candle burn longer but it may cause condensation and water to appear in your soy wax.
Follow these few simple steps and enjoy your natural clean burning soy candles for a very long time.
Summertime Is The Time For Soy Candle Tarts To Shine.
The fragrance of soy candle tarts are a welcoming change in the summer months.
As the days start getting longer and defiantly warmer it is time to make a change though it may be small it will be noticeable. Gone will be the flickering flame of your candles and in its place will be the soft glow of a low watt bulb in a tart warmer made by Irvine Tin Ware or some other manufacturer.
The plus side of a tarts is that some candle companies will be able to put a lot more scent into the tarts because there is not a burning wick like as in a candle, there is no wicks in tart so more scent will not clog it and the extra scent will make the tart last longer.
These tarts come in all shapes and sizes. They may be star shape or look like a doughnut some even come in what is like a clam shell with 6 brake away tarts but all of them will be pack full of a delicious scent just waiting to be melted down letting their aroma fill a room in your home.
Why Free Shipping Is Better Than Sliced Bread.
Soy Candles and priority free shipping go hand in hand.
Have you ever had the experience of shopping online, see an item that you love and just have to have it. In fact it is just perfect. The right color, the right size, the right style and the best part is it is the right price. You grab your wallet to get your credit card and wait for the check out page to load up so you can buy, only to see a different total you are being charged. Looking at your bill you see that the extra charge comes from Shipping and Handling!
Shipping and Handling is a profit making technique for a lot of companies. The customer will many time get charged double even triple for what is referred to as shipping and handling. A customer buys a $5.00 item and gets charged $10. - $12.00 for shipping, making an item that seems to be reasonable become quite costly. Another way this works is that you have to spend over a certain amount to get free shipping, holding the customer that only wants one or two items captive.
Papa's Candle Shoppe does not play these games. We believe that what you see for a price on our soy candles is what you will pay at the check out page. Free Shipping is not only our policy but about 98% of the time it goes hand in hand with priority shipping. (candle orders under 13 oz. ships 1st class) This makes our customers very happy (just read our reviews) they pay the price they see on our soy candles with no extra or hidden fees and get their soy candles within two to three business days.
I hope as the internet is becoming the place to do most, if not all of our shopping that more companies will take on this policy. Remember that free shipping, is the next best thing to slice bread... Just ask Grandma.
How to make soy candles a super easy way.
Making Soy Candles A Cure For Summertime Restlessness.
We are now into the month of July (mid-summer I guess you could say) If you have children around the words "I'm so bored we have nothing to do." is being heard more and more frequently. Well here is a solution to all this whining that you have heard around the house lately. Gather the children around and just see how easy it is to make soy candles. Here is a easy way to make soy candles the easy and stress free, by just using a microwave and our starter kit. We even have it in video format.
Now take 10 minute, set down and watch this great video and see just how easy it is to make some scented soy candles.
This is something the whole family can enjoy or just yourself. If you need supplies just order our basic starter kit and we will send you the basic supplies that you will need.
Why Soy Candles Remind Me Of Holidays.
Soy Candles and Holidays have a couple things in common.
Holiday seem to bring a warm cozy family get together atmosphere. It just seems like this is the time families gather together for picnics, times of laughter and fun creating that warm fuzzy feeling. Just like when you light a soy candle and sit down for the evening with your better half you start feeling that cozy feeling and it just seem like a time of relaxing and warmth.
Holidays seem to have different aroma affiliated with them. Christmas has those pine smells just like blue spruce, fraiser fir or spice like Christmas Hearth. Thanksgiving some of those baking aromas like banana nut bread, apple walnut bread and the different aromas of pies. (pumpkin, pecan and many others ) Just like our soy candles we can create many different memories just by lighting a candle and enjoying the beautiful scent coming from them.
Everyone have a fun filled and safe 4th of July and burn a couple of delicious soy candles.


Four Wisner-Pilger Gator speech team competitors advanced to next week's state C1 championships at the C1-3 district contest held Wednesday at Hartington Cedar Catholic.
Becca Thompson led the Gator efforts with a district championship effort in persuasive speaking, while Veronica Peck claimed two state tournament bids with runner-up silver medals in poetry and informative speaking. Brett Andersen calimed third place in entertainment speaking, while Grace Steinmeyer also advances to state with a third place finish in extemporaneous speaking.
For Thompson and Steinmeyer, this will be their first trip to state, while this will be Peck's third straight year qualifying, and Andersen went to state two years ago.
Just missing finals was James Kinnison in humorous prose, and drama team of Becca Thompson, Claire Raabe and Megan Schroeder.
As a team, the Gators finished third overall out of the nine schools competing. The four Gator speakers will compete Thursday, March 22nd at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.


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After six seasons on ABC's daytime foodie show The Chew, Daphne Oz is leaving as co-host ahead of the September 5 Season 7 premiere.
Oz released a statement and announced her departure on social media. An ABC spokesperson confirmed her exit, first reported by Deadline's sister pub TVLine.
Oz and co-hosts Carla Hall, Mario Batali, Michael Symon and Clinton Kelly have been with The Chew since it premiered in September 2011.
ABC told TVLine there are no plans to replace her.
Daphne Oz is the daughter of TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz and is known for her cookbooks including The Dorm Room Diet and The Happy Cook.


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PIN client for groups - designed for multi-user time clock stations with ID based access to provide more anonymity and make it easier to use with large worker lists.
Administrative control panel - all the administrative functions consolidated under one command center.
Security enhancements - challenge questions and biometric integration to completely eliminate buddy punching.
Multiple time zone support - run time clocks in different time zones without the need for separate time clock servers.
iOS apps - Iv'e seen the iPhone and iPad user interface mock ups, prepare to be blown away!
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When President Obama was selling the government health care takeover to Congress and the American people, he repeatedly promised that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, would keep health insurance companies "honest" and held "accountable" for providing affordable, quality health care to Americans.
Over the past five and a half years the country has experienced the unraveling of this unworkable law as millions of Americans continue to struggle with higher health care premiums, increased out-of-pocket costs, less choice and greater health uncertainty. Americans are paying more for out-of-pocket for health care now than they did in the past decade.
Most still remember the president's famous words, "if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor." But for many, that's turned out to be another unfulfilled Obamacare promise. Now, insurance companies are preparing to gouge consumers with massive premium increases. Estimates for 2016 show that insurance companies around the country are seeking premium rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under Obamacare turned out to be sicker than expected.
Not only are insurance companies shifting more costs onto patients, but across the country, insurers are restricting access to care and choice by limiting the number of doctors and hospitals they provide in a coverage network. Insurance plans on government-run Obamacare exchanges on average have 34 percent fewer hospitals and doctors — including specialists — in their provider networks than health policies sold outside those exchanges or offered by employers.
The fact is insurance companies are knowingly violating the intent of Obamacare, which was to provide quality health care and improved choices in services through more competition. Instead, insurers are keeping patients from seeing the physicians or specialists they need and, as a result, forcing many Americans to choose between taking on the financial burden of out-of-network costs or forgoing treatment altogether.
Meanwhile, as Americans are suffering from rising costs and less access to quality health care, the biggest winners from the passage of Obamacare are the insurance giants. In the aftermath of the government health care takeover, there has been an explosion of health insurance company profits, windfalls and megamergers. As "stock market darlings," health insurance company profits have skyrocketed to all-time highs and stocks have split even thanks to the health care law.
Reports show the so-called "Big Five" health insurers – UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and Anthem – have all outperformed the broader stock market by a wide margin since Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. That's why America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's main trade group, filed an amicus brief to defend the Obama administration in the recent Supreme Court case, King v. Burwell. And when the law was upheld, it was no surprise that there was a boost in health insurance company stocks.
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ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards. Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the penultimate installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award in 1980. Mrs. Lindbergh died in 2001 at the age of ninety four.
Gift from the Sea
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Narrator: Reeve Lindbergh and Claudette Colbert
Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.


Destination weddings are definitely the new way to get hitched! There are so many pluses to a destination wedding like having your ceremony in a beautiful location, they cost less than a traditional wedding, and you can kick off the honeymoon after the reception! The idea of traveling away from your hometown to an exotic island for a wedding is appealing to many couples. Whether you are traveling alone with your significant other or inviting along close family and friends, you can't go wrong with a gorgeous destination wedding. The next step is to decide where to get married and what kind of experience you want for yourselves or for your guests. We have researched several of the top places for destination weddings and included the atmosphere and fun things to do while there. Enjoy!
A destination wedding on the beautiful island of Jamaica encompasses the total package of a friendly laid back environment, white sandy beaches and majestic waterfalls. There are several parts of this Caribbean island to enjoy including Ocho Rios, Montego Bay, and Treasure Beach that all offer unique and beautiful venues for an outdoor wedding event. Personally, I'd check out Montego bay- there are so many things to do like shopping, nightlife and spectacular beaches to enjoy while spending time in Jamaica for your wedding!
Costa Rica offers a unique venue for a destination wedding. Being a small country in the Caribbean, it takes only a few hours to drive from one end of the isthmus to the other. In one day you could surf the black sand beaches on the Pacific side and enjoy a sunset dinner on the Caribbean side! Costa Rica offers not only it's beach appeal for the soon to be newlyweds but if you're more of an adventurous couple you can get married in front of a volcano in the rainforest! This venue is definitely for a couple who is looking for a destination wedding out of the box! If Costa Rica is your ideal destination wedding spot check out OurCostaRicaWedding.com and speak with their fabulous wedding planner, Meghan Cox.
For a destination wedding right in the U.S., Hawaii is definitely a must! Oahu, Maui and Waikiki offer various wedding experiences. In Oahu, you can explore cities and towns not far from the beach or visit the state's capital, Honolulu. Close by is Waikiki beach appealing to the active couple- whether beginner or advanced this is a must to experience amazing Hawaiian surfing. Maui, one of the top places for destination weddings in Hawaii is a great place for relaxing on the beach or taking in the phenomenal scenery with a drive through the island. There are also numerous state parks in Maui that offer trails for hiking and camping. Hawaii is definitely high on my list of destination hot spots!
Mexico is home to so many beautiful venue options for a destination wedding. Cancun, though known for its party scene, is a great place for couples to explore outdoors in under water caves or diving the Maya reef- the second largest reef in the world, the historic Mayan Ruins or downtown for great shopping. Ixtapa, a fishing town on the Pacific coast of Mexico incorporates a nautical vibe for a destination wedding. You can enjoy the local seafood cuisine fresh caught every morning, tour the cobblestone streets of Zihuatanejo, and take a romantic boat ride with picturesque views and dolphins swimming by! If you're looking for something different there's Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel, Acapulco and many more! Mexico offers a destination wedding for any experience a couple could ask for!
The U.S. Virgins Islands are made up of St. John, St. Croix, and St. Thomas, an amazing trio of islands for an ultimate destination wedding. St. John is the perfect combination of a secluded retreat by the beach with the amenities of shopping and local restaurants. The largest USVI St. Croix is home to historic Christiansted which is overflowing with rich culture of the arts, historic churches and creative cuisine. St. Croix is filled with so much wildlife; if you're into snorkeling with seahorses or visiting ecological preserves with endangered sea turtles, this is definitely a cool island to explore! Lastly, St. Thomas the most popular island of the three is a fantastic place for a destination wedding. After getting hitched on one of the many beautiful beaches, you can discover an old pirate captain's castle, the view from the 99 steps of Charlotte Amalie, and cathedrals filled with historic artwork. Whether you're into relaxing by the beach or discovering rich history, the USVI are a great trio of islands for any destination wedding! Check out 5 Reasons to Plan a Destination Wedding in the Virgin Islands for more information.
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Everyone has tons of broken crayons somewhere in the house. Raid the kids art box and collect them for this fun project. Or get them involved for a fun and easy activity today.
Collect all your broken bits of crayons and peel all the paper wrapping off. If they are too big to fit into a mini muffin pan break them into smaller pieces. Turn your oven on to 350 degrees and pop the tin in the oven and watch. Give it 7-10 mins until you feel they have all melted, gently take them out and let them sit on the counter to cool.
Be very careful because they are extremely hot and if kids are involved don't let them do this bit, they could seriously burn themselves with the hot wax. After a half an hour or so try and pop them out.
Some might need a little persuasion but once out of the tin let them cool a little more. You will then have the cutest rainbow crayons. The kids LOVE them and the little hands of a baby or toddler love them because they can grasp them easily. Plus- they just look so darn cute.
I think these make a cute gift with a coloring book. You could wrap them in a little cellophane bag with a ribbon.
Have fun and definitely involve the kids if you have them. The suspense to see how they turn out is most of the fun .
Emily, these are awesome! I suspect that I would somehow ruin them however.
We have done this...it IS really fun and about time we do it again!
What a cute idea! I really want to do this now. I love it!
What a cute idea. Now I'm going to retreive all the broken crayons I just dump in the garbage can and try this cute little idea. How do you come up with this stuff?
They are really fun to color with.
I remember doing this when I was a kid. I used to get the giant crayon box with the sharpener in it.
When they got too short to use...they were turned into these!
Omgosh. What a cute idea. There's a lesson here. There's a definite lesson here.
I love this idea and I don't have a crayon in the house!! I can't wait to tell my sister!! She will love it!
This is so Fabulous! What a perfect size for tiny hands! Genius! Happy New Year!
Hello fabulous idea (and fabulous blog!) As a Mom to two young children, I just had to de-lurk this morning and tell you how much I love this idea. A great way to use the bits of crayons that I seem to constantly be tripping over.
Is it important that the pan be non-stick? Definitely want to put this activity to use with my kids before too long.
Wow- I am so glad this was a great idea for you all. They are very fun to use I must say.
That is so cool! And they look like if you put quite a few in that they'd be a lot harder to break in the hands of a toddler. I may have to buy an extra box just to break em to do this.
Wonder how a silicone muffin pan would do - I use some for my soaps and love the results, I bet they'd pop right on outta there.
Thanks for the ideas, I'm so doing this soon!
What a great idea. Looks like an art project in of itself!
What a great idea, I always hate throwing useful things away. Great way to recycle old crayons.
I save all the crayon's from resturant's that give them to my son whe I have enough I melt them I've even bought some candy mold's and melted them inton little cars, train. motorcyle's, and buses. My son really enoy's them and enjoy's sharing them with his friends.


The 2018 SATU Presidents' Forum was held on November 16 and 17 at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan.
SATU stands for "Southeast and South Asia and Taiwan Universities". This organization has a permanent international secretariat set up in National Cheng Kung University, which organizes a SATU Presidents' Forum every two years.
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He mentioned that in order to increase mutual understanding, Taiwan is progressively setting up courses on the languages and cultures of Southeast Asia, and providing more scholarship assistance programs for our students to study and do internships in Southeast Asia and South Asia. At the same time, Taiwan welcomes students and researchers from Southeast Asia and South Asia to come here, and we provide a wide range of assistance grants under the New Southbound Talent Development Program.
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News People of LMS: Ertan Ertem
People of LMS: Ertan Ertem
This week, in our traditional People of LMS section, we are talking with one of the founders, a member of the Board of Directors of Limak Marash Group of Companies, Ertan Ertem, about what it feels like to be a civil engineer and devote the whole life to work.
First of all, tell us about yourself: where did you study? Where did you start your career? Your position and managed activity?
In 1990, I graduated from the State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Ankara and got a job within my specialty, civil engineering, in the Turkish company Ekintash, which was building a metallurgical plant in Iskenderun. This was the time when I acquired important experience, which has helped me more than once in the implementation of projects of varying degrees of complexity on large sites around the world.
Now I have 30 years of professional experience in the construction industry, I am a shareholder of Limak Marash Group of Companies and I manage the construction direction, that is, all issues related to the main activity of LMS on the construction sites.
How was the idea of creating Limakmarashstroy (Limak Marash Group of Companies) born? Who did you create the company with?
In 2015, Marashstroy Company and the Turkish holding Limak decided to combine their capabilities, strengths and prospects for fruitful work in Russia.
The company Marashstroy, which we founded in 2004 with my friend and respected colleague Selchuk Karadzha, has implemented 37 projects by 2015.
By that time, the Turkish holding Limak had a 45-year history and about 160 completed projects in 15 countries, including extensive experience in airport construction.
Serdar Bajaksiz and Sinan Atalay Gulseren became our business partners in Limak Marash Board of Directors. There was a merger, and large-scale tasks were not long in coming: we won the contract for the construction of Platov airport in Rostov-on-Don and implemented the largest infrastructure facility project in the south of Russia. This project is rightfully our pride and achievement. The airport has become the largest airport facility in the country, winning one prestigious award after another, at the 5-star level.
Today, LMS is an authoritative team of internationally recognized professionals. The material and technical base includes modern equipment and a fleet of construction equipment that allows us to implement multifunctional projects. We are a reliable general contractor in Russia.
What is the main mission of LMS, in your opinion? What are its values?
Our mission is to create, improving the world for the benefit of people, making their lives more comfortable; we implement large-scale socially significant projects, creating modern and comfortable buildings.
What do you consider to be the most important events in the company's activities? Tell us about the important projects that have been implemented.
We have built international airports in Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk; we successfully completed a significant project of Kemerovo Airport named after A.A. Leonov a month ago.
The construction of the Multifunctional Sports Complex Arena in Omsk, which is being implemented, is especially important for us, because the ice arena will become not only a long-awaited facility for athletes, but also a venue for the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship. I constantly come to the construction site as a supervisor, I accompany and monitor the project implementation process on a daily basis. I am proud that I can help my colleagues — young engineers who are sincerely devoted to their profession — grow professionally from project to project.
What are the three determining factors for doing a successful business?
Work, work and work again! Honestly, selflessly and completely devoting yourself to work. I guess so.
Is it true that during the crisis the company was able not only to stay afloat, but also to develop?
Despite some difficulties, including the pandemic, changes in economic conditions (metals became more expensive, for example), we continue to build. Now we have several large facilities and, I think there will be even more in six months. That's my forecast. Construction industry in Russia is a fast-developing one.
What principle did you use to recruit a team?
The team consists of time proved employees and colleagues. We know how these people work and we trust their professionalism, loyalty to their profession and willingness to constantly develop together with the company.
What are the company's plans for the near future?
LMS is always ready to participate in new projects. It would be interesting for us to invest our abilities and professionalism in the areas of healthcare, road and industrial construction. In general, Limak Marash's plans have not changed, this means, to build more, while adhering to our values: quality and accuracy in the implementation of each project. The result of this strategy is the impeccable reputation of LMS as a general contractor among customers who trust us again and again to implement their infrastructure projects.


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Q: Laplacian of Gravitational Potential It is well known that the Laplacian of the gravitational potential $(V)$ is zero. One can easily show that by differentiating, as shown in the image.

But at the same time one can show via Poisson's Equation that Laplacian, $V = -4\pi G\rho$, where $\rho$ is the density at the point. Obviously if $\rho=0$ (For Example, outside the earth) this matches the result from the differentiation, but otherwise not. Where/why does this approach of differentiating fail?

A: The essential problem is that your differentiation is not valid at $r=0$.
So, $\Delta\frac{1}{r} = 0$ only when $r\neq 0$. At $r=0$ (which your integral is including), the differentiation is not valid.
If you search it up online, you will see that $\Delta\frac{1}{r} = 4\pi\delta(r)$, where $\delta(r)$ is the Dirac Delta 'function'.
(Disclaimer: It's not really a function (it's a distribution), but as you will only be using it inside an integral which contains the origin, it is safe to use it. Search it up.)
Now, the Dirac Delta function has the property that - $$\int f(\vec r)\delta(r)dV = f(0)$$
So, we get -
\begin{align}
\Delta V &= \Delta\int \frac{-G\rho}{r}dV \\
&= -G\rho\int \Delta\left(\frac{1}{r}\right)dV \\
&= -G\rho\int 4\pi\delta(r)dV \\
&= -4\pi G\rho
\end{align}


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The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 24 January 1779: résumé
The American Commissioners to Vergennes3
LS: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copies: Library of Congress, National Archives
<Passy, January 24, 1779: We received your letter of the 20th enclosing M. de Sartine's answer relative to the convoy we requested. We do not understand his reference to the four vessels supposedly mentioned by us and fear he has been misinformed. On December 29 we asked for a convoy. You asked on January 9 where the ships were collected, and on the 15th4 we told you they were at Nantes. We subsequently have been informed there are about fifteen vessels; the gentlemen at Nantes have been at considerable expense awaiting a convoy, which we beseech you to grant immediately.>
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
3. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VII, 377–9.
4. Actually the 13th.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-28-02-0353
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. All rights reserved.
American Commissioners
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de
"The American Commissioners to Vergennes, 24 January 1779: résumé," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-28-02-0353. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 28, November 1, 1778, through February 28, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990, p. 418.]


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Who's Afraid of Donald Trump? Good Question.
By Alex Altman and Zeke J Miller
Donald Trump doesn't scare Washington anymore.
That was the lesson from a week of stinging defeats for the President, from the halls of Congress to the homepage of Breitbart. Not long ago, Trump could tank a company's stock price with a Twitter blast and cow Republican allies into silence when he trampled political norms.
But these days, Trump doesn't have much juice in the capital.
The President was disengaged throughout much of the Senate's dramatic fight over healthcare reform, even though his administration made the repeal of the Affordable Care Act its first big legislative priority. When Trump finally waded into the fray late in the game—after Republican leaders had failed to rally the votes for the plan they crafted and Trump blessed—his tweeted threats failed to sway GOP Senate holdouts.
Lisa Murkowski was the primary target of Trump's ire. On Wednesday, the President took aim at the Republican senator from Alaska, tweeting that Murkowski, a moderate in her fourth term, "really let the Republicans, and our country, down yesterday. Too bad!" Then Trump tapped his Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, to ramp up the pressure. Murkowski received a phone call warning that a vote against the bill could jeopardize her state's chances of getting approval from the administration on energy projects.
How did Murkowski respond? By standing her ground. First, she went public with the threat, which embarrassed the administration and led Democrats to threaten an investigation. Then she went to the Senate floor early Friday morning and cast one of the three votes required to tank the Republican repeal plan.
Sen. John McCain, whom Trump targeted for derision during the 2016 campaign, joined Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins in voting against the bill. His decisive vote followed impassioned pleas from Vice President Mike Pence and a call from Trump himself, Republican officials say.
When the President went to war on his own attorney general this week, conservative media outlets normally friendly to Trump leapt to Jeff Sessions' defense instead. Breitbart News, one of Trump's top cheerleaders, called Sessions "a man who embodies the movement that elected Donald Trump President." Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh criticized Trump's handling of the spat. Outside groups rallied Tea Party leaders and lawmakers to Sessions' defense, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley publicly warned his committee would not consider another nominee for the post this year. The battles lines had been drawn, and conservatives stood on Sessions' side.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans were making life difficult for Trump on another sensitive front. Both houses of Congress voted nearly unanimously to impose new sanctions on Russia, sending a bill to Trump's desk that the White House has criticized. The move put the President in a bind: veto the bill—which Congress can override anyway—and risk looking as though he was taking a soft line on Moscow in the midst of deepening investigations into whether members of his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. Or sign it and risk retaliation from President Vladimir Putin.
White House officials expect Trump to sign the legislation, but to issue a signing statement outlining his reservations on the bill. What's clear from the vote tally is that House and Senate Republicans didn't much care about putting the President in a predicament. After all, they'd watched Trump twist arms to help get the healthcare repeal bill over the line in the House, only to turn around and call the legislation "mean."
Even the military pushed pause on their commander in chief's orders this week. In a series of tweets this week, Trump announced that transgender men and women would no longer be able to serve in the U.S. armed forces. The decree caught the Pentagon by surprise, with even the Joint Chiefs left unaware beforehand of Trump's order. The Pentagon swiftly put the burden of clarifying the policy on the White House, and informed commanders that Trump's tweets had no practical effect until that happened.
Trump remains a formidable foe. He has the bully pulpit of the presidency at his disposal and a loyal base that has largely stuck with him through the fumbles and controversies that marred his opening months in office.
But the series of sharp rebukes this week highlighted how quickly Trump's political capital has eroded. Presidents are typically near the apex of their influence in the months after an election, riding high off their inauguration and enjoying a honeymoon in the polls. But Trump is shattering convention there as well. His approval rating hasn't been north of 40% in more than a month, setting new records for unpopularity so soon into an administration.
Maybe it's no wonder few people in town seem afraid of him.
Write to Alex Altman at alex_altman@timemagazine.com.


Gtk3.0/Gtk2.0/Unity theme based on Radiance and elementary that supports unity panel in Ubuntu Oneiric.
Some gtk2.0 apps (banshee, transmission) no longer have annoying line under the title bar and gtk2.0 toolbars now have consistent gradient.
-Slightly darker shade (easier on the eyes).
-Panel now follows maximized window gradient instead of reversing it.
Have not tested it in Fedora but I'm guessing you probably need to install the Unico theme engine if you want to try it out.
Used Radiance and Elementary themes as a base, all credit to the guys that made those things happen.
When i put a dark wallpaper, there couldn't see any file name (they don't change to the white color like it should be). How to change it?
Great work, but I'm having a small issue on oneiric.
Desktop icon text is always black, regardless of the wallpaper color.
Since I prefer dark wallpapers, that makes them unreadable.
I'll have a look into it. Cheers for the bug! I'm not sure where the desktop icon text color is pulled from (probably something to do with nautilus as it paints the desktop) but when I find out I can make a version for dark desktops.
reminds the gtk2 days of the elegant elementary theme.... any idea to make a purely elementary variant for 11.10 compatibility ? i am sure it will be an awsome one !
Hi! The elementary guys a working on porting elementary to Gtk3.0 it's still a bit rough around the edges but coming along quite nicely and will be great by the time luna comes out. When that happens I plan on simply giving it unity integration and leaving the theme itself untouched.
I've added some contributions to the theme. Mostly, nautilus/marlin sidebar color and unity panel bg color. A repo would make it much easier to send patches.
Do we have a code repo? I would like to contribute some elements/unity integration.
Hi! I just cobbled it together the other day by adding elementary metacity and tweaking Radiance colours and gradients so no repo yet. I'd love to see what you have in mind though.
At the moment I'm trying to fit the entire elementary Gtk2.0 theme as it has better chrome(ium) and Banshee (both Gtk2.0 apps at the moment) theming options than the current Radiance Gtk2.0. I guess I could try integrating the elementary code in Radiance for a cleaner Gtk.
Anyhow, feel free to tweak anything about the theme. And let me know where to find the results!
Ps: sorry my english ist not so good, i speak German.
Sorry! I forgot to mention that on fedora you would have to install the Unico theme engine.
The elementary Gtk2.0 theme uses the murrine engine. I thought this came in fedora by default but it may not.
I'm guessing it must have something to do with using the elementary Metacity as Fedora 15 uses mutter. I'll log in to my Fedora partition and see if I can make something happen.


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a DRINK-driver caught by cops in a police station car park – just a day after being stopped more than four times over the limit – has been spared jail.
Daniel McCormack had been at South Shields Police Station to pick up belongings after being arrested the day before on suspicion of drink-driving.
The 63-year-old had initially been arrested by police at 10.25am on Saturday, March 29, near Hebburn Police Station in Victoria Road East.
Police were alerted by his 'erratic driving', and pulled him up close to the station.
He was then taken to South Shields Police Station and recorded a reading of 372 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 milliletres of blood – more than four times above the legal limit of 80 milligrames.
After being released from the station, he drove back the following day to pick up belongings.
But police suspected he may have been over the limit as he slowly drove out of the station and gave him another breath test, which revealed he was more than two times over.
McCormack, of Solway Road, Hebburn, admitted two counts of driving with excess alcohol at a hearing at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court in June.
He was back at the court yesterday for sentencing, which had been previously delayed due to his ill-health.
The court heard he had been in intensive care suffering from double pneumonia when he was due to be sentenced last month.
Sarah Guest, prosecuting, said: "He was seen by police driving eratically.
"He was driving along Victoria Road East near the police station.
"They see the vehicle and ask the driver to stop.
"Another vehicle stops behind, and says he has been driving like that for a while.
"The following day, a police officer on duty at South Shields Police Station saw the defendant in the station, and noted he smelt strongly of alcohol.
"He was seen getting into his Ford Focus car in the car and drove at a slow speed. He was stopped at that point and given a roadside breath test. He recorded a reading of 81mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath (more two times above the legal limit of 35mcg)."
Geoffrey Forrester, defending, said: "The reason the case has taken as long as it has is because the defendant has been extremely ill.
"He has had double pneumonia and been in hospital for many weeks.
"The circumstances are so unique that you may feel you can come outside your guidelines to deal with this in a just and fair way."
McCormack was given a 12-week jail sentence – suspended for 12 months – and was banned from driving for three years. He was also ordered to pay costs of £30.
Carole Whittingham, secretary of the Campaign Against Drinking And Driving, says she is unsure 'what it will take' for magistrates to exercise their powers to jail drink-drivers.
She said: "This is a very high reading. Anybody who is over the drink and drive limit is a danger.
"What do you have to do for magistrates to use their power to jail offenders for up to six months?"
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Monseigneur Edmond Leclef (Anvers,  – Malines, ) est un chanoine catholique belge, secrétaire du cardinal Joseph-Ernest Van Roey.

Biographie
Il est l'aîné d'une famille de cinq enfants. Il est le fils de Joseph Leclef, médecin-légiste à Anvers et de Julie Mussche, petit-fils de Edmond Leclef. Après ses humanités au Collège Saint Jean Berchmans à Anvers il fut ordonné prêtre le . Envoyé à Rome, il y devint docteur en théologie de l'Université pontificale Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin. Après avoir enseigné à partir du  au Petit Séminaire de Malines, il devint le  secrétaire particulier du cardinal Joseph-Ernest Van Roey.

 Leclef fut secrétaire particulier du cardinal Van Roey durant 32 ans, et fut le témoin privilégié de sa prélature, en particulier de la question royale. Il publia en 1945 un livre sur le cardinal van Roey pendant l'occupation allemande. En 1950 il fut nommé camérier secret du pape, et en 1961 le pape Jean XXIII le nomma protonotaire apostolique  . Il était polyglotte et parlait français, néerlandais, russe, italien, anglais, espagnol, latin et hébreu. Il a traduit Anton Tchekov, Alexandre Pouchkine,   et Guido Milanesi.

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Biographie d'Edmond Leclef sur le site de l'Académie royale de Belgique

Protonotaire apostolique
Commandeur de l'ordre d'Isabelle la Catholique
Naissance en novembre 1898
Naissance à Anvers
Décès en juillet 1967
Décès à Malines
Décès à 68 ans
Chanoine du XXe siècle
Prêtre catholique belge
Étudiant de l'université pontificale Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin


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The Kansas Congressional delegation announced today that McConnell Air Force Base will be the Main Operating Base (MOB) for the KC-46A refueling tanker. The Formal Training Unit (FTU) will be located in Altus, Oklahoma.
"This is a big win and great news for Wichita, Derby, the south central region, and the entire state of Kansas," said Chamber Tanker Task Force Chairman Wayne Roberts. "McConnell has proven they are up to the challenge of the KC-46A tanker mission and we are delighted, as a community, to support our award-winning base, its airmen and leadership team."
McConnell Air Force Base currently brings an annual economic impact to the Wichita area of more than $550 million, and new construction for the KC-46A tanker is expected to be between $63 and $193 million.
"We look forward to the environmental impact analysis and its successful completion and want to underscore the important role this news holds for McConnell," Roberts said.
After McConnell was chosen as a finalist for both the MOB and FTU earlier this year, area leaders worked closely with the Kansas Congressional delegation and Governor Brownback's office to ensure that McConnell remained vital to global air mobility and received one of the two missions. No base would receive both missions.
Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer welcomed today's news. "McConnell's continued presence in our community is vital to Wichita and the economic impact of this announcement is extremely important to Kansas."
County Commission Chair Jim Skelton also offered his thanks to state and area officials as well as community leaders for their work on securing the new mission for McConnell. "We couldn't be more pleased with this announcement and we look forward to continuing our strong partnership with McConnell."
McConnell is a vital community partner that provides jobs, national security and supports Wichita's status as the Air Capital of the World.
Venture Boldly – this core belief is what makes the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce so pivotal in helping businesses achieve their full potential. The Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce is the private sector's focal point for actively enrolling and empowering leaders dedicated to increasing the wealth and well-being of all South Central Kansas. The Chamber's bold and ambitious purpose is to position each business member for optimal growth in today's dynamic and competitive global economy.


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Капелле-оп-ден-Бос (; ; букв. «Лесная часовня») — коммуна в провинции Фламандский Брабант, Фландрия, королевство Бельгия. Население — 8 969 чел. (2008 г., оценка) на площади около 15,25 км². Официальный язык — нидерландский, хотя в последнее время в коммуне растёт число франкофонов, билингвов и аллофонов, что приводит к росту напряжённости между франкофонами и фламандцами. В 2008 г. широкий резонанс во франкоязычной прессе Бельгии получила история о двуязычной девушке из данной коммуны, которая, как утверждало издание, получила несколько ударов ножом от националистически настроенных фламандцев за то, что она говорила по-французски.

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The New-York Historical Society gives three book prizes annually. From 2005 to 2012 there was one award for American history. A second award was added in 2013 for children's history. A third award was added in 2016 for military history.

Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, prior to 2016 known as The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize or, simply, the American History Book Prize, is an American literary award given annually by the New-York Historical Society for an adult non-fiction book on American history or biography, copyrighted in the year of the award, "that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience." The winner receives an engraved medal, $50,000 cash and the unofficial title of American Historian Laureate. The inaugural award was presented in 2006 for books published in 2005.

Winners
Date is year when books were published; the following year is when the award was given. Thus the inaugural award was given in 2006 for Team of Rivals published in 2005.
2005 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
2006 David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (biography of Andrew Carnegie)
2007 Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848
2008 Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
2009 Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
2010 Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (biography of George Washington)
2011 John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (biography of George F. Kennan)
2012 Robert Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

2013 Andrew O'Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
2014 Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman
2015 Eric Foner, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
2016 Jane Kamensky, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
2017 John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: The Life
2018 Benn Steil, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
2019 Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
2020 Tracy Campbell, The Year of Peril: America in 1942
2021 Alan Taylor, American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize
The New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize was first award in 2013 for the best children's historical literature.

Winners

 2013 Kristin Levine, The Lions of Little Rock
 2014 Helen Frost, Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
 2015 Pam Muñoz Ryan, Echo
 2016 Ann E. Burg, Unbound: A Novel in Verse
 2016 Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful Falafel
 2017 Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (Authors), Yutaka Houlette (Illustrator), Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
 2018 Ellen Klages, Out of Left Field
 2019 Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve, Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge

Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History
The Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society was first awarded in 2016 for the best book on military history in the English-speaking world. Prior to 2016, the prize was known as the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, established in 2013 by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the inaugural prize was awarded in February 2014. The purpose of the prize is to increase public attention to military history for educational purposes.

Winners

 2013 Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion '
 2014 Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918
 2015 David L. Preston, Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
 2016  Peter Cozzens, The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
2017 Cathal Nolan, The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
2018 Andrew Lambert, Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
2019 John C. McManus, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941–1943
2020 Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
2021 Kevin J. Weddle, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

See also

 List of history awards

References

External links
Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, official website.

Awards established in 2006
Awards established in 2014
2006 establishments in New York (state)
Biography awards
American history awards
American non-fiction literary awards
2014 establishments in New York (state)


UPDATE VI: "In 2012, voters in California approved a measure to raise taxes on millionaires, bringing their top state income tax rate to 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. Conservative economists predicted calamity, or at least a big slowdown in growth. Also that year, the governor of Kansas signed a series of changes to the state's tax code, including reducing income and sales tax rates. Conservative economists predicted a boom.
Neither of those predictions came true. . .
California's economy grew by 4.1 percent in 2015, according to new numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, tying it with Oregon for the fastest state growth of the year. That was up from 3.1 percent growth for the Golden State in 2014, which was near the top of the national pack.
The Kansas economy, on the other hand, grew 0.2 percent in 2015. That's down from 1.2 percent in 2014, and below neighboring states such as Nebraska (2.1 percent) and Missouri (1.2 percent). Kansas ended the year with two consecutive quarters of negative growth -- a shrinking economy. By a common definition of the term, the state entered 2016 in recession.
Other effects of the Kansas tax cuts, which were meant to spur entrepreneurship, are well-documented.
While state officials anticipated that the reductions would create a shortfall in the state budget, tax revenues have been consistently below even those expectations. Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service have signaled that they could reduce Kansas's credit rating, indicating there is a chance the state cannot pay its bills."
Read the Washington Post, The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them.
UPDATE V: The Republi-con modus operandi: tax cuts for the rich, deficits and budget crisis, tax increases on the poor, repeat.
Read the Washington Post, Kansas lawmakers want the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
UPDATE IV: "What's the matter with Kansas now? Oh, you know, just a small budget crisis brought on by its Republican governor's radical tax cuts. This week, the state discovered it would have to cut $279 million by June in order to balance its books, then slash another $436 million during the following fiscal year. For Kansas, this is a hefty amount of money. The entire state budget legislators approved in May was just $6.3 billion.
Back in 2012, the state's recently re-elected Republican governor, Sam Brownback, turned Kansas into a petri dish for conservative fiscal policy after he signed into law a massive tax cut that dropped rates for top earners and eliminated taxes entirely for some businesses. Brownback and conservative tax guru Arthur Laffer promised that the cuts would bring "enormous prosperity" to the state by making it more competitive. But jobs growth has lagged in Kansas, and this summer, the state government found itself nearly $300 million short on revenue. To cope, it began burning through its reserve funds, and Moody's in turn downgraded the state's credit rating."
Read Slate, Thanks to Massive Republican Tax Cuts, Kansas Is Facing a Budget Crisis.
UPDATE III: "There might be a worse idea than cutting spending during a depression, but I doubt it. . .
That's right: cutting spending in a slump might actually make debt problems worse."
Read the Washington Post, Austerity has been an even bigger disaster than we thought.
So much for the Republi-con myth of expansionary austerity.
UPDATE II: "In 2010, after two and a half terms in the Senate, Brownback made a bid for the governor's mansion. Riding the Tea Party wave, he swept his opponent in a landslide, promising a new age for Kansas politics.
With advice from Arthur Laffer—the long-discredited guru for supply-side economics—and support from a new band of conservative lawmakers in the Kansas statehouse, the newly minted governor pursued a path of rigid orthodoxy. His signature move was a massive tax cut: He eliminated the top income bracket of 6.45 percent, reduced the middle bracket from 6.25 percent to 4.9 percent, reduced the lowest bracket from 3.5 percent to 3 percent, and ended taxes on certain kinds of small-business income. This, he promised, would increase disposable income and create thousands of jobs.
In reality, however, Kansas' job growth stagnated in 2012 and income growth fell. Far from a stimulus plan, Brownback's tax cuts were a massive program of redistribution for the rich. . .
A year later Kansas is among the most dysfunctional states in the country. Even after cuts in schools, colleges, libraries, and social services, Kansas can't keep up with expenses. This year, it faced a huge shortfall in personal income tax receipts, and had to end tax rebates for food and child care to help fill the hole. And overall, it faces a $900 million budget shortfall by 2019, even as the top income tax rate is scheduled to decline to 3.9 percent by 2018. Both Moody's and S&P have downgraded the state's bond rating, and economic growth has been poor. Far from giving Kansas a bright new future, Brownback plunged it into chaos."
Read Slate, The Kansas Miracle.
In Kansas they drank the kool-aid.
UPDATE: "[R]ecently, Kansas went all-in on supply-side economics, slashing taxes on the affluent in the belief that this would spark a huge boom; the boom didn't happen, but the budget deficit exploded, offering an object lesson to those willing to learn from experience. . .
In 2012, however, Democratic dominance finally became strong enough to overcome the paralysis, and Gov. Jerry Brown was able to push through a modestly liberal agenda of higher taxes, spending increases and a rise in the minimum wage. California also moved enthusiastically to implement Obamacare. . .
Needless to say, conservatives predicted doom. . .
What has actually happened? There is, I'm sorry to say, no sign of the promised catastrophe.
If tax increases are causing a major flight of jobs from California, you can't see it in the job numbers. Employment is up 3.6 percent in the past 18 months, compared with a national average of 2.8 percent; at this point, California's share of national employment, which was hit hard by the bursting of the state's enormous housing bubble, is back to pre-recession levels. . .
And, yes, the budget is back in surplus. . .
So what do we learn from the California comeback? Mainly, that you should take anti-government propaganda with large helpings of salt. Tax increases aren't economic suicide; sometimes they're a useful way to pay for things we need. Government programs, like Obamacare, can work if the people running them want them to work, and if they aren't sabotaged from the right. In other words, California's success is a demonstration that the extremist ideology still dominating much of American politics is nonsense."
Read The New York Times, Left Coast Rising.
I've often suggested that Obama should just call the Republi-con bluff -- implement some of their wacky ideas and watch CONservative ideas implode. Well in Kansas they drank the kool-aid.
"Governor Sam Brownback is facing an organized revolt from centrist Republicans, over 100 of whom just endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, so disgruntled are they with the effects of Brownback's rule.
In many ways, Brownback's term has been a perfect experiment in Republican governance. Take a crusading conservative governor, give him a legislature with Republican super-majorities so he can do pretty much whatever he wants, and let him implement the right's wish list. The result was supposed to be a nirvana of economic growth and budgetary stability. But the opposite happened.
The disastrous results of Brownback's economic and fiscal policies demonstrate that it's one thing for your average Republican to go around saying things like 'cutting taxes raises revenue!' even if nearly every economist agrees that the idea is absurd (Greg Mankiw, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, famously called the purveyors of this idea 'charlatans and cranks'). It'll never really be tested, at least not in a context where there aren't so many other variables at play that any inconvenient results can be explained away. Republicans know that it's bogus, but they like the way it sounds; after all, who wouldn't love a free lunch? But if you bet a single state's future on the idea — and you have the power to take it to an extreme — you're going farther than anyone in Washington ever has to go.
That's what Sam Brownback did. In 2012 and 2013, Brownback and Republicans in the legislature cut income taxes twice, eliminated taxes on corporate profits that are "passed through" to individuals (making it the only state that does this), and since they're Republicans, made changes to the tax code that had the effect of raising taxes on the poor (the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a good explanation of the tax changes and their effects). The governor has said his goal is to eventually eliminate the income tax completely.
And what happened? At a time when most states are seeing higher revenues as the country recovers economically, Kansas' revenues have plummeted. The result has been cuts to schools, cuts to higher education, cuts to libraries, and cuts to local health centers. Kansas' job growth and income growth are lagging the nation's. In response to the fiscal difficulties, Moody's recently lowered the state's bond rating. . ."
When he was elected governor, some Washington conservatives touted Sam Brownback as a future presidential contender. Once he implemented the conservative economic agenda and showed what a dynamic economy and pleasing government balance sheet it produced, he'd be able to take the message nationwide as a demonstration of the power of conservative ideas. Nobody's saying that anymore. Brownback is trailing his probable Democratic opponent. In a state as conservative as Kansas (where Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama by 22 points), you have to screw up pretty badly to be in that position. And saying, 'hey, didn't we all agree that tax cuts raise revenue?' probably won't bail him out."
Read the Washington Post, GOP governor implements GOP economics, disaster ensues.