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Trade Bill highlights Parliament's weak international treaty role
The Trade Bill raises concerns about delegated powers that also apply to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, and need to be tackled in a way that is consistent with it. The Trade Bill also highlights flaws in Parliament's role in international agreements. In trade policy, Brexit means UK parliamentarians could have less control than now, whereas they should have more.
Dr Brigid Fowler
Senior Researcher, Hansard Society
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Brigid joined the Hansard Society in December 2016 to lead its work on Parliament and Brexit, as well as contribute to its ongoing research on the legislative process, parliamentary procedure and scrutiny, and public political engagement. From 2007 to 2014 she was a Committee Specialist for the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, where she led on the Committee's EU-related work. In the first six months of 2016 she was on the research team of Britain Stronger in Europe. She has also worked as assistant to an MEP in Brussels and as an analyst and researcher on EU and European affairs in the private sector and at the University of Birmingham and King's College London.
After completing BA and MPhil degrees at the University of Oxford in PPE and European Politics, respectively, she spent the first part of her career focusing on the politics of post-communist transition and EU accession in Central Europe, and completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham on the case of Hungary. She has given media comment, appeared before select committees and published several journal articles and book contributions.
The Trade Bill, which has its second reading debate today, is one of the most important pieces of Brexit legislation.
It is a framework Bill enabling the UK to implement the non-tariff elements of future international trade agreements, where those agreements are with states with which the EU has signed a trade agreement by the date the UK leaves.
For non-tariff issues, the Bill is aimed at addressing the domestic legislative aspect of one of the most urgent Brexit questions: how to save, in less than 15 months, the preferential trade arrangements that the UK has through the EU with, according to the Bill's impact assessment, at least 88 countries and territories, covered by perhaps 40+ agreements.
The Bill's broad aim is the same as that of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill - which has its report stage consideration in the House of Commons on 16-17 January - and indeed of the government's overall Brexit approach: to minimise the disruption to business and consumers at the moment when the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019.
But, as regards trade agreements, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill on its own cannot do the job, because capturing the provisions of trade agreements that the EU might sign right up to Brexit day may require domestic implementing powers that last beyond those in that Bill.
Trade policy: why it matters
Just as the vote for Brexit was, in part, a vote against some of the effects of the most far-reaching set of international economic liberalisation agreements ever, trade policy is going to be one of the key mediators of the UK's post-Brexit economic model. Combined with domestic measures, trade policy is going to help determine which groups and sectors 'win', at least relatively, from Brexit.
Trade policy - apparently as represented primarily in the number and terms of the trade agreements that the UK signs around the world - is also going to be a key channel for potential delivery of prominent pro-Brexit campaign promises: 'taking back control', so that trade deals better reflect UK interests; and building a 'global Britain'.
And trade policy is also going to be critical to the UK's post-Brexit foreign policy and international identity. Will the UK make it its practice, for example, to include human rights and environmental standards in the trade agreements it pursues outside the EU – even if this makes it more difficult to get them concluded? Recent reports that President Trump might deny the UK a trade agreement unless he is invited to Prince Harry's wedding would represent only an extreme example of the kind of hardball political linkage with which future UK trade policy might have to grapple. Arrangements concerning UK overseas territories; immigration policy; arms sales; cultural exchanges; extraditions; and votes in the UN Security Council or other UN bodies, and on the hosting of international sports events, are all easily imaginable as the kind of issue which might become linked to trade agreements.
Familiarity with the arguments over Commonwealth trade preferences at the time the UK joined the then-EEC, or further back over the Corn Laws, might underpin an idea that trade policy controversies are mainly about tariffs and quotas on goods.
But the most prominent public opposition to recent proposed trade deals such as TTIP and CETA has been about food standards (chlorinated chicken) and the openness of public services (the NHS) and public policy (investor-state dispute settlement) to foreign private interests. These examples demonstrate that non-tariff trade issues, about regulation and investment rules, can mobilise popular engagement. For policymakers, including parliamentarians, these issues are a potential 'perfect storm' – both highly technical and intensely political. Westminster is going to need the right procedures and resources to address them.
Trade Bill worries: Withdrawal Bill mark II?
In this context, the Trade Bill raises concerns partly because of its reliance on delegated powers, including Henry VIII powers to use statutory instruments to amend primary legislation that is retained EU law under the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.
The Bill provides that delegated powers will be used to implement the non-tariff aspects of relevant international trade agreements; and that these powers will be subject primarily to the negative scrutiny procedure.
As the Hansard Society has argued elsewhere, the visibility and political salience of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill has finally exposed the longstanding shortcomings of the delegated legislation scrutiny system. Unless there is thoroughgoing reform of this system, primarily in the House of Commons, Parliament cannot be said to have meaningful control over legislation made using delegated powers.
The government claims delegated powers in the Trade Bill for the same reasons as in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill – partly for speed, and partly because it says (as at paragraph 44 of the Bill's explanatory notes) that the changes that the powers are required to make are often "technical".
But the government also says in the same document that it may "be necessary to substantively amend the text of the previous EU agreements" (paragraph 53); and, in the Bill's delegated powers memorandum, that the implementing power is "broad enough to allow implementation of substantial amendments, including new obligations".
At the very least, there needs to be some consistency between the scrutiny arrangements applying to retained EU law under delegated powers in the EU (Withdrawal) Bill and to delegated legislation made under the Trade Bill to implement international agreements, since the government states (explanatory notes paragraph 41) that the latter would only be needed where UK legislation to implement EU agreements has not been made in time to become retained EU law on Brexit day.
The EU (Withdrawal) Bill was successfully amended at committee stage to incorporate a new sifting committee procedure so that MPs can sift all future EU (Withdrawal) Orders and recommend an upgrade in the level of scrutiny of those about which they have most concern. A key question is whether that mechanism will now be adopted for scrutiny of Orders arising from some very wide delegated powers in the Trade Bill.
Parliament's role in international agreements
Compared to purely domestic legislation, there are added complications where domestic law is being made in order to implement international obligations.
This applies whether that domestic law is primary or delegated legislation.
Normally, for a parliament, one of the points of legislation – as opposed to other instruments – is that it allows the making of legally binding amendments (depending, of course, on the parliament's powers over amendments to delegated as well as primary legislation).
But it is, at the least, not certain that such amendments could have the effect of obliging the UK and a foreign partner or partners to make specific changes to an international agreement that has already been signed.
The need, in the UK system, for Parliament to pass legislation to implement international agreements is conventionally seen not as a vehicle for influencing the content of such agreements, but as the primary point at which Parliament exercises control over whether there should be an agreement at all. This need to pass domestic implementing legislation is often seen as 'compensation' in the UK constitutional system for Parliament having only weak 'up or down' powers over ratification.
Under the 2010 Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRAGA), Parliament cannot vote definitively against UK ratification of an international agreement. In the shape of the House of Commons only, it can only indefinitely prevent ratification, by passing repeated negative resolutions to deny its consent.
But how, exactly, it would do so is not clear. As the House of Commons Library has set out, neither House has ever resolved against ratification under the CRAGA provisions. Because of the government's control of the parliamentary timetable there, the House of Commons, in particular, could face similar procedural difficulties in expressing itself against ratification of an international agreement as it does in securing meaningful debates and votes on delegated legislation. And yet these weak powers over ratification apply even where the relevant implementing legislation is to be made using delegated powers, as with the trade agreements to be implemented through the Trade Bill.
Brexit impact
On top of these uncertainties, the Brexit process itself is introducing new precedents and potential inconsistencies into UK practice concerning Parliament's role in international agreements.
For one thing, the government has decided that the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement will be one of those UK international agreements that is implemented through a dedicated piece of primary (not delegated) legislation, the Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill 2018.
Potentially more significantly, the Supreme Court's Miller judgement required Parliament to pass, at least for this case, primary legislation to authorise the government's use of prerogative powers even to open negotiations on an international agreement.
This comes as parliamentarians are set to lose one of the few formal roles they have towards the start of the process for making at least some international agreements. As an element in the European scrutiny system, UK ministers in the EU Council are not supposed to agree to the EU opening negotiations on, or signing, an international agreement unless the scrutiny committees in both Houses have released the relevant documents from the scrutiny reserve.
In its Trade Bill impact assessment (paragraph 21), the government used the fact that existing EU trade agreements "have already been subject to UK parliamentary scrutiny processes at their point of conclusion by the EU" as part of its justification for claiming negative delegated powers to implement their UK successors. In a system for parliamentary involvement in international treaty-making which otherwise is heavily weighted towards the end of the process, this would seem to provide grounds at least to open discussions on a possible post-Brexit replacement for the scrutiny reserve, to apply to entirely new UK international trade agreements, and potentially giving Parliament some additional formal role more towards the - often most important - opening phases of the trade agreement process. Otherwise, just as the EU (Withdrawal) Bill originally threatened to give Parliament less control over wide delegated powers than some earlier pieces of legislation, post-Brexit trade policy could see UK parliamentarians with even less of a say over international trade agreements than they have within the EU.
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Black holes swallow all light and are therefore invisible. What sounds plausible is fortunately a little different in practice for astronomers. Because black holes are surrounded by shining gas discs and therefore stand out from the dark background, similar to a black cat on a white sofa. In this way, the Event Horizon Telescope has now succeeded for the first time in photographing a black hole. This worldwide network of eight ground-based radio telescopes focused on the galaxy Messier 87, about 55 million light years away. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimetre Range (IRAM) are also involved in the observation.
View of a mass monster: this image is the first direct visual evidence of a black hole. This particularly massive specimen is at the centre of the massive galaxy Messier 87 and was recorded with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight ground-based radio telescopes distributed around the globe.
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In April 2017, the scientists linked eight telescopes around the globe for the first time, thus forming a virtual telescope with an aperture almost as large as the diameter of the Earth. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is the name of this technique, in which the signals of the individual antennas are superimposed. This synchronization takes place with the aid of high-precision atomic clocks accurate to the nanosecond. An extreme angular resolution of less than 20 micro arc seconds can be achieved; if our eyes had such a power, we could see the individual molecules in our hands.
The network of this so-called Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) included the 30-meter IRAM mirror in Spain and the APEX telescope in Chile, in which the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is involved. In 2017 alone, the telescopes recorded a total of about four petabytes of data - such a large amount that postal transport is actually faster and more efficient than sending the data via the Internet. The measurement data were calibrated and evaluated at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn using a supercomputer, the correlator.
"For the first time, the results give us a clear view of a supermassive black hole and mark an important milestone in our understanding of the fundamental processes that determine the formation and evolution of galaxies in the universe," says Anton Zensus, Director at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn and Chairman of the EHT Collaboration Council. Zensus said it was remarkable that in this project astronomical observations and theoretical interpretations led faster than expected to the expected result.
According to IRAM Director Karl Schuster, the success is based on "decades of European expertise" in millimeter astronomy. "As early as the 1990s, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn and our institute with its two observatories demonstrated both technically and scientifically that we have a unique method with high-resolution radio observations to analyze the immediate surroundings of supermassive black holes. IRAM, an institution co-financed by the Max Planck Society, actively participated in the campaign with its 30-meter telescope. With its location in Europe and its extraordinary sensitivity, this telescope played a decisive role in the success of EHT observation.
A giant in the sky: the giant galaxy Messier 87 was the target of the observation campaign of the Event Horizon Telescope. The jet visible in this optical image apparently emanates from the supermassive black hole in the center of the elliptical stellar system.
© NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The heart of the supermassive galaxy M 87 has two special characteristics that make it a suitable candidate for the project: Thanks to its unusual size and its relative proximity to Earth, it is easily visible, making it a perfect object of study for astronomers, who, with the global telescope network, finally have an instrument to observe such an exotic object directly.
The regions around supermassive black holes are exposed to the most extreme conditions we know of in space. Black holes are fascinating cosmic objects that comprise an incredible total mass within a tiny area of space. Their mass and thus their gravitational pull are so large that even light cannot escape them. Therefore they remain black - and it is impossible to perceive them directly.
The only way to see black holes is to reproduce their "shadow". This is caused by the extremely strong diffraction of the light - just before it irrevocably disappears into the black hole. High-resolution radio observations in the millimeter wave range allow astronomers to penetrate to the edges of black holes, undisturbed from dense dust and gas clouds.
The image now published was obtained at a wavelength of 1.3 millimetres and clearly shows a ring-shaped structure with a dark central region - the shadow of the black hole. Around this very massive and compact object, a hot gas plasma moves at high speeds. The ring-shaped structure on the image is nothing other than the strongly heated matter around the mass monster, whose light is deflected and amplified by itself like a lens. After a journey of around 55 million light years, it meets the telescopes of the EHT network.
The place of origin, M 87, is an elliptical giant galaxy near the center of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Charles Messier entered the object in his catalogue in 1781 under number 87. The galaxy is also known as a strong radio source called Virgo A and is very active. A jet of matter at least 5000 light years long shoots from its core, which is accelerated in the accretion disk of the black hole in the center and flows out in the form of a strongly bundled beam perpendicular to this disk at high speed.
Worldwide network: Eight radio telescopes at six locations were involved in the measurements for the Event Horizon Telescope.
© APEX, IRAM, G. Narayanan, J. McMahon, JCMT/JAC, S. Hostler, D. Harvey, ESO/C. Malin
The shadow tells researchers a lot about the nature of the central machinery and allows them to accurately determine the enormous total mass of the black hole of M 87. It is about 6.5 billion solar masses. This value corresponds well with that obtained from other observations.
"For many decades, we were only able to indirectly detect black holes," says Michael Kramer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. Then, a few years ago, detectors measured gravitational waves for the first time and made the effects of black holes on space-time audible when they merged. "Now we can finally see them and have the opportunity to study these exotic objects and their extreme space-time curvature with all their fascination in a unique way," says the scientist, one of the main people responsible for the BlackHoleCam project as part of the EHT with its approximately 200 researchers.
The observations continue. Since the end of 2018 NOEMA, the second IRAM observatory in the French Alps, has also been part of the worldwide network. With its twelve highly sensitive antennas, NOEMA will be the EHT's most powerful telescope in the northern hemisphere. "Thanks to NOEMA, we will enter a new sensitivity range and gain even more fascinating insights," says Karl Schuster.
For Anton Census, this success means a break in astronomy. "In the future, researchers will clearly remember a time before and after this discovery far beyond our field of work," says the Max Planck Director. In his opinion, astronomers will better understand the galactic centers and gain a complete picture of the formation and evolution of active galaxies. In addition, the general theory of relativity will be put through its paces. "Black holes are an ideal laboratory for measurements under strong gravity."
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Time and again, radio telescopes register extremely short bursts of radiation in the depths of space
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The team of Laura Spitler wants to use the fast radio bursts as probes in the universe
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The source is located in a region with a high rate of star births
Star formation in the Milky Way came in bursts
The formation of suns in the center of the Milky Way was not continuous
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Scientists are observing two cosmic bursts with an incomparably high energy output
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The new cosmological simulation TNG50 shows how the universe evolved and order gradually emerged from chaos
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Astronomers find out that the collision of these cosmic objects actually produces heavy elements
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The volatile particle collected by the IceCube detector probably comes from the turbulent centre of a faraway galaxy
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Fragonard Panels Placed in Skylit Illumination of East Gallery
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Fragonard Panels Placed in Skylit Illumination of East Gallery during Gallery Relighting and Refurbishment of Fragonard Room
June 29, 2007 to October 15, 2007
For the first time since their arrival at the Frick mansion in 1915, the principal panels of Jean-Honoré Fragonard'sProgress of Love series were seen in dramatically different, partly-skylit illumination and outside of their long-standing gallery installation. These monumental works are a major attraction at the museum, and they were temporarily placed on view in the East Gallery while the Fragonard Room underwent its first major relighting and refurbishment in seventy-five years.
Canapè by Nicolas Heurtaut showing Beauvais tapestry cover after Boucher. The Frick Collection, New York; photo: Michael Bodycomb
The six panels on view in the East Gallery were accompanied by a remarkable set of seating furniture carved by one of the most important chairmakers of the eighteenth century, Nicolas Heurtaut (1720–71). Not often on view, these four chairs and two canapés still bear their original Beauvais tapestry upholstery, the designs of which are after Oudry and Boucher. The frames and tapestries have been traced back to their creation in the 1760s for a client named Francois de Bussy, a career diplomat serving the French royal court. The panels were also joined by two very important commodes — highlights from the Frick's furniture collection — that are customarily on view in the Fragonard Room. On the south wall stood a neoclassical mahogany veneered example by French Royal furniture maker Jean-Henri Riesener (1734–1806), an exact contemporary of Fragonard who was in great favor with Marie-Antoinette through the abolition of the monarchy (examples of his work for her can be found nearby in the South Hall of the Frick). The collaborative brilliance of royal ébénistes Gilles Joubert (1689–1775) and Roger Lacroix (1728–99) was in evidence on the north wall of the East Gallery in the form of a commode created in 1769 for Madame Victoire, fourth daughter of Louis XV. Considered one of the finest in existence, it is a beautiful example of transitional furniture, displaying rococo features through its curvilinear form — a serpentine front and cabriole legs — and the forward-looking neoclassicism of its magnificent marquetry and gilt-bronze mounts.
Fragonard panels in the East Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York; photo: Michael Bodycomb
A recently acquired Oushak carpet covered much of the large oak floor, suggestive of the way the rooms of the mansion appeared in photographs taken in the 1920s. The large medallion carpet comes from the ancient village in western Turkey where it was most likely made in the middle of the nineteenth century. Oushak carpets in particular have a long-standing connection to European painting, as artists working throughout the Renaissance often included them in interior scenes (the Frick's portrait of Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein shows a sixteenth-century Oushak carpet used as a table covering). Installed in the East Gallery in spring 2007, the rug beautifully set off the other four paintings then on view in the room, the four full-length portraits by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler, who had an abiding love for the decorative arts of the East.
Commented Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey, "This summer, we seized upon the opportunity to place these remarkable masterpieces by Fragonard on view in a way they've never before been seen at the Frick. The result is stunning, in fact, even beyond our own level of anticipation, and we hope the public will also take this unprecedented opportunity to enjoy these paintings in their temporary setting between now and the end of September. Without exaggerating, they are Fragonard's masterpieces, and indeed count among the greatest paintings produced in eighteenth-century Europe. The impact on the visitor entering the East Gallery is truly inspiring." The relighting and refurbishment project was made possible through the generosity of the members of the Director's Circle and an anonymous donor.
Progress of Love
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US air marshals wrestled a Qatari diplomat to the floor on a flight to Denver in a security scare that prompted fighter jets to be scrambled and top White House aides to brief President Barack Obama, officials said.
But in the end, the incident on Wednesday turned out to be a false alarm, triggered when the Qatari reportedly lit a cigarette in one of the plane's restrooms and then, when confronted, joked he was trying to ignite his shoes.
The plane landed safely at Denver International Airport following the disturbance, and US officials later said it appeared the passenger was not trying to blow up the plane, although the incident was under investigation.
Qatar's ambassador to Washington Ali Bin Fajad al-Hajari said in a statement that the diplomat was traveling to Denver on official embassy business.
"He was certainly not engaged in any threatening activity," the ambassador said. "The facts will reveal that this was a mistake, and we urge all concerned parties to avoid reckless judgments or speculation."
But the scare prompted fighter jets to scramble and intercept the flight amid fears of a possible repeat of a passenger's foiled attempt to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day as it approached to land at Detroit.
"The president was briefed by National Security Advisor General Jim Jones and National Security Staff Chief of Staff Denis McDonough at 8:50 pm EDT and appropriate actions were taken to ensure the safety of the traveling public," a White official said on condition of anonymity.
"The incident is currently under investigation," the official added.
Obama was aboard Air Force One at the time, en route to Prague to sign a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia.
Law enforcement authorities initially notified key lawmakers that US air marshals subdued the Qatari national after he apparently sought to "ignite their (his) shoe" on the flight, a congressional aide told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Air marshals jumped in, and the cockpit wasn't breached," the official said.
The man was identified in US media reports as Qatari diplomat Mohammed al-Modadi, 27, who as the third secretary and vice consul of the Qatari embassy in Washington enjoys full diplomatic immunity.
The FBI was investigating the incident, but a US official told AFP the incident was "not what it appeared to be" and there was no attempt to detonate a bomb.
NBC News said a search of the man found no explosives and that bomb-sniffing dogs found no traces of explosives aboard the aircraft.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said the passenger was placed in custody, adding it was "monitoring" the incident.
Federal officials told NBC the incident occurred half an hour before United Airlines flight 663 was due to make a scheduled stop in Denver on a flight that originated at Washington's Reagan National Airport.
A flight attendant smelled smoke as a passenger came out of a restroom, and alerted an air marshal, the report said.
The marshal confronted the man, and then wrestled him to the ground after he made the statement about lighting his shoes, NBC said.
A US security official acknowledged "it may have been a massive misunderstanding," telling ABC that Al-Modadi may have been making a "sarcastic" comment when he was confronted by two air marshals.
The pilot declared an emergency, and two F-16 fighter jets raced to intercept the aircraft around 6:45 pm (0045 GMT Thursday) under the authority of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
"Shortly before landing in Denver, a passenger possibly caused a disturbance on the plane. Upon intercepting the aircraft, the F-16s escorted the aircraft until it landed safely without incident at approximately 6:50 pm (0050 GMT) where the plane was met by local law enforcement," NORAD said.
The plane was carrying 157 passengers and six crew members on a flight originally scheduled to ultimately arrive in Las Vegas after a scheduled stop in Denver.
The incident came a week after the United States unveiled new security measures subjecting all US-bound plane passengers to screening methods that use real-time intelligence to target potential threats, replacing the mandatory screening of passengers from a blacklist of 14 mainly Muslim countries.
The measures were announced in the wake of a Nigerian man's failed attempt to detonate explosives concealed in his underwear on a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam on Christmas Day.


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The B'nai B'rith has undergone a fair amount of internal change over the years. In the 1860s it changed the titles of its officers from the Hebrew to standard English. By 1863 the order's preamble to its constitution was amended with reference to the group's mission. It no longer used the words, "the highest interests of Judaism," but referred only to "the highest interest of humanity." In 1913 it organized the Anti-Defamation League as a program to fight prejudice against Jews. By 1920 it officially recognized the role of women by authorizing ladies auxiliaries. In the 1920s secrecy was dropped as part of the group's posture. After 1910 it slowly abandoned the blackball method of voting, although the practice was not completely abolished in all lodges until 1948. The order began with the German language, but soon changed to conducting its business in English.
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The B'nai B'rith is truly an international group in that it has lodges in a number of countries. It founded a lodge in 1882 in Germany, and by 1888 it had also established a lodge in Jerusalem. After 1948 it reopened lodges in eastern European areas.
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The `firebase-functions` package provides an SDK for defining Cloud Functions for Firebase.

Cloud Functions is a hosted, private, and scalable Node.js environment where you can run JavaScript code. The Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions integrates the Firebase platform by letting you write code that responds to events and invokes functionality exposed by other Firebase features.

## Learn more

Learn more about the Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions in the [Firebase documentation](https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/) or [check out our samples](https://github.com/firebase/functions-samples).

Here are some resources to get help:

- Start with the quickstart: https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/write-firebase-functions
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## Migrating to v1

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## Usage

```js
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const notifyUsers = require('./notify-users');

exports.newPost = functions.database
  .ref('/posts/{postId}')
  .onCreate((snapshot, context) => {
    console.log('Received new post with ID:', context.params.postId);
    return notifyUsers(snapshot.val());
  });
```

## Contributing

To contribute a change, [check out the contributing guide](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).

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Abbas Maroufi (; * 17. Mai 1957 in Teheran; † 1. September 2022 in Berlin) war ein iranischer Autor von Theaterstücken, Romanen und Erzählungen sowie Herausgeber der oppositionellen Zeitschrift Gardūn (Himmelsgewölbe).

Leben
Nach der Elementarschule musste Maroufi tagsüber arbeiten, um zum Lebensunterhalt seiner Familie beizutragen. Am Abend holte er seine Schulbildung nach. Während seiner Zeit beim Militär versuchte er sich mit dem Schreiben.

Mit dem Ende seiner Militärzeit wurde er wie viele andere Intellektuelle mit den Auswirkungen der Islamischen Revolution gegen den Schah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi konfrontiert. Abbas Maroufi schrieb sich an der Universität Teheran im Fach Dramatische Literatur ein, musste aber das Studium aufgrund der situationsbedingten Schließung der Universität zwischen 1980 und 1982 unterbrechen. In den anschließenden Jahren arbeitete er als Grammatiklehrer für Erwachsene und im Anschluss in der Musikabteilung der Stadthalle seiner Geburtsstadt. Da die islamische Revolution Unterhaltungsmusik untersagte, wurde ihm diese Arbeit bald unmöglich gemacht, sodass er sie 1990 aufgab und nun als Herausgeber die Zeitung Gardūn gründete, in der er über die kriminellen Missstände und die politische Unfreiheit im Iran berichtete. Im August 1991 verwüsteten verschleierte Frauen, die angeblich zu den Mitarbeiterinnen der Zeitung Kayhan und der Organisation für die Islamische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zählten, die Büroräume von Gardūn. Vom Kläger wurde Maroufi zum angeklagten Volksverräter. Wenig später verurteilte ihn das Gericht für Presseangelegenheiten aufgrund der angeblichen Beleidigung der islamischen Grundwerte zu 20 Peitschenhieben, sechs Monaten Haft und einem zweijährigen Publikationsverbot. Dank internationaler Proteste und der Intervention Mohammad Chātamis, der eine Schiedskommission einrichtete, wurde das Urteil, das ursprünglich sogar auf die Todesstrafe gelautet haben soll, nicht zur Gänze vollstreckt, die Zeitung blieb jedoch verboten.

1996 gelang ihm die Ausreise aus dem Iran unerwartet leicht. Bei dieser Emigration wurde er vor allen Dingen von Günter Grass und der deutschen PEN-Vereinigung unterstützt. Er war Mitglied des PEN-Zentrums Deutschland. Maroufi lebte zunächst mit seiner Familie in Düren, wo er eine Zeit lang Gast im Heinrich-Böll-Haus war. Später siedelte er mit seiner Frau Akram Abooee, einer Malerin, und den drei Töchtern nach Berlin um, wo er von da an lebte. Während er einige Zeit als Nachtportier arbeitete, hörte er mit dem Schreiben auf. Später betrieb er neben einer kleinen Druckerei die Buchhandlung Hedayat für persische und orientalische Literatur. Gardūn brachte er im Exil einige Zeit lang heraus, musste die Zeitung aber aus finanziellen Gründen einstellen. Erst ab 2003 durften seine im Iran veröffentlichten Werke auch im Ausland veröffentlicht werden. Neben seinen Erzählungen und Romanen veröffentlichte er im Iran auch drei Theaterstücke.

Über die Lage der Exiliraner äußerte Maroufi in einem Interview gegenüber die tageszeitung zur Uraufführung eines seiner Theaterstücke in Berlin 2009 folgendes Bonmot: "Wir sind nicht revolutioniert, wir sind explodiert. Ein Arm landete in Europa, ein Bein in Indien, ein Zeh in England und der Kopf flog bis nach Amerika. Was im Ursprungsland derer blieb, die gegen ein verlogenes, diktatorisches Regime auf die Straße gegangen waren, ist der Bauch, der sich seitdem übergibt."

Maroufi starb nach langer Krankheit am 1. September 2022 im Alter von 65 Jahren in Berlin.

Werke (Auswahl)
Erzählungen und Romane
 Ruberu-ye aftab. (Im Angesicht der Sonne) 1982
 Akharin nasl-e bartar. 1986
  Samfūnī-ye mordegān. Teheran 1989
 Symphonie der Toten. Aus dem Persischen von Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig/Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-16795-1
 Atr-e Yas (Jasminduft), 1992 (veröffentlicht durch US-amerikanischen Exilverlag)
  Die Gebetskette. Hrsg. von Faramarz Behzad und Roxane Haag-Higuchi. Mit einer Einleitung von Roxane Haag-Higuchi. Übersetzt von Farzin Atefi, Universitäts-Bibliothek, Bamberg 1997. ISBN 3-923507-25-9 (Parallelausgabe deutsch-persisch in arabischer Schrift)
 Peykar-e Farhād (eigentlich: Das Bildnis des Farhad)
 Die dunkle Seite. Aus dem Persischen von Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig/Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-458-16903-2
 Abbas Maroufi: Schlafwandeln in Teheran. Warum Iran Kultur braucht, übersetzt von K. Amirpur, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6. Februar 1996.
 Im Jahr des Aufruhrs. Geschichte einer Liebe. Aus dem Persischen von Anneliese Ghahraman-Beck, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig/Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-458-17238-6
 Feridun se pesar dāsht (Feridun hatte drei Söhne). Gardūn, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938406-07-6
 Dāstān-e Berlīn : majmūʿe-ye dāstān. Gardūn, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-938406-13-7
 Fereydun hatte drei Söhne. Edition Büchergilde, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86406-071-7. Aus dem Persischen von Susanne Baghestani.

Theaterstücke
 Und der Herr schuf die Kuh. 1995 im iranischen Gefängnis geschrieben, 2009 in Berlin uraufgeführt.

Auszeichnungen
 2002: Arnold-Zweig-Stipendium der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung

Literatur
 Interview mit Abbas Maroufi, in: Die Zeit, 7. Februar 1997 "Wenn ich die Macht hätte"
 Weshalb habt ihr nicht gekämpft? Die iranischen Liberalen kuschen vor dem Wächterrat. Offener Brief von Abbas Maroufi an die Reformbewegung. Übersetzt von Susanne Baghestani, in: Die Zeit, 29. Januar 2004

Weblinks

 Autorenportrait auf suhrkamp.de
 Website von Abbas Maroufi
 Deutschsprachiges Blog von Abbas Maroufi

Einzelnachweise

Autor
Literatur (Persisch)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
Roman, Epik
Erzählung
Drama
Exilliteratur
Herausgeber
Buchhändler
Schriftsteller (Berlin)
Mitglied im PEN-Zentrum Deutschland
Absolvent der Universität Teheran
Iranischer Emigrant in Deutschland
Iraner
Geboren 1957
Gestorben 2022
Mann

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Ronald Borchers (born 10 August 1957) is a German football coach and former footballer.

Club career
Between 1975 and 1987, he played for Eintracht Frankfurt, Arminia Bielefeld and Waldhof Mannheim in the Bundesliga. However, he celebrated the majority of his success with Eintracht, winning the UEFA Cup in 1980 and the DFB Cup in 1981.

International career
Between 1978 and 1981, he played six times for West Germany.

Coaching career
Following his playing career, he became a coach for lower-league German teams. Since September 2010, he is managing Wormatia Worms. He was the manager of FC 07 Bensheim between 2014 and 2017.

Honours
 UEFA Cup: 1979–80
 DFB-Pokal: 1980–81

References

External links

1957 births
Living people
Footballers from Frankfurt
German footballers
Germany international footballers
Bundesliga players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Arminia Bielefeld players
FSV Frankfurt players
SV Waldhof Mannheim players
Kickers Offenbach players
Grasshopper Club Zürich players
Viktoria Aschaffenburg managers
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UEFA Cup winning players
Association football midfielders
German football managers
West German footballers


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Q: Spring Batch : Job randomly selects chunks with less rows than the commit-interval I'm facing a problem with Spring Batch. We're using in our job a task executor (simpleAsyncTaskExecutor) that handles a flow of two parallel steps.
In each step, the task executor splits each chunk of data returned by the reader to a different thread (using the Multi-threaded Step concept : see https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/trunk/reference/html/scalability.html )
The problem is that our commit-interval is large (24,000), the number of rows to return by the reader is very small (less than 50 rows) but the writer receives sometimes more than one chunk (for example a chunk of 30 rows and a chunk of 20 rows, but for another run it can be a chunk of 25 rows and a chunk of 25 rows or only one chunk of 50 rows, it appears to be random) while it should receive only one chunk of 50 rows for any run (it shouldn't be random) as it doesn't go over the commit-interval.
I'm trying to understand why this happens randomly in some runs.
If anyone knows this issue in Spring Batch, can you help me ?
Thank you.
Here is the configuration of my job (excluding our custom writers) :
    <batch:job id="job">

             <batch:split id="split" task-executor="taskExecutor">
                <batch:flow>
                    <batch:step id="step1">
                        <batch:tasklet task-executor="taskExecutor" throttle-limit="4" >
                              <batch:chunk reader="reader1" writer="writer1" commit-interval="24000" />
                        </batch:tasklet>
                    </batch:step>
                </batch:flow>
                <batch:flow>

                    <batch:step id="step2">
                        <batch:tasklet task-executor="taskExecutor" throttle-limit="4" >
                              <batch:chunk reader="reader2" writer="writer2" commit-interval="24000" />
                        </batch:tasklet>
                    </batch:step>
                </batch:flow>
             </batch:split>
        </batch:job>

    <bean id="reader1" class="org.springframework.batch.item.database.JdbcPagingItemReader" scope="step">
         <property name="dataSource" ref="postgresql_1" />

         <property name="queryProvider">
             <bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.database.support.PostgresPagingQueryProvider">
                    <property name="selectClause" value="
                        SELECT name
                    " />
                    <property name="fromClause" value="
                        FROM database.people
                    " />
                    <property name="whereClause" value="
                        WHERE age > 30
                    " />
                    <property name="sortKeys">
                        <map>
                            <entry key="people_id" value="ASCENDING"/>
                        </map>
                    </property>
            </bean>
        </property>
        <property name="saveState" value="false" />
        <property name="rowMapper">
             <bean class="fr.myapp.PeopleRowMapper" />
        </property>
    </bean>

        <bean id="reader2" class="org.springframework.batch.item.database.JdbcPagingItemReader" scope="step">
       <property name="dataSource" ref="postgresql_1" />
       <property name="queryProvider">
               <bean class="org.springframework.batch.item.database.support.PostgresPagingQueryProvider">
                    <property name="selectClause" value="
                         SELECT product_name
                    " />
                    <property name="fromClause" value="
                        FROM database.products
                    " />
                    <property name="whereClause" value="
                        WHERE product_order_date <= '01/11/2017'
                    " />
                    <property name="sortKeys">
                        <map>
                            <entry key="product_id" value="ASCENDING"/>
                        </map>
                    </property>
               </bean>
           </property>
       <property name="saveState" value="false" />
       <property name="rowMapper">
                <bean class="fr.myapp.ProductsRowMapper" />
       </property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="taskExecutor" class="org.springframework.core.task.SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor">
          <property name="concurrencyLimit" value="8" />
    </bean>

A: The writer's write() method should not be called until the pending number of records to write has reached the commit-interval (or chunk size).  The only time it should be called before then is if read() returns null in the reader indicating there are no more results left.
When you see the smaller chunks is it in the middle of the job?  Is there any logic within the RowMappers or anything you've omitted that rolls up the read results?


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Joby Aviation & SKT partner to launch air taxi service in South Korea
Joby Aviation, a California-based electric vertical landing and takeoff startup, has reportedly partnered with SK Telecom (SKT) to launch an air taxi service in South Korea. The two companies signed the collaboration agreement at Joby's Marina, California-based manufacturing facility.
The air taxi service will use the T Map Mobility platform to offer better integration between air and land travel. It should be noted that the T Map Mobility platform is an SKT spinoff that offers mobility-as-a-service based on a subscription model. The service includes parking, ride-hailing, rental cars, and other transportation-related services.
In addition, the air taxi service will also leverage the UT ride-hailing service which was a joint venture established between Uber and T Map last year. This came eight years after the ride-hailing giant made its first attempt to enter the Korean market.
Currently, Joby and SKT are seeking to obtain certification from the Government of South Korea. Credible sources assert that the companies have no plans for when or where to launch the service.
Interestingly, the companies released a statement in support of the K-UAM (Korean Urban Air Mobility) Roadmap of the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. This roadmap sets an aim of promoting limited UAM services by 2025 in order to curb traffic congestion across major cities. As per the plan, the services will be initially launched across one or two routes in the metropolitan area of Seoul and get around 10 air taxi terminals by the end of 2030. All of this will be connected to local subways, buses, and other modes of transportation.
SKT is one of the members of UAM Team Korea which is a state-led group of private-sector shareholders like Korean Air, Incheon International Airport Corporation, and Hyundai.
Although Joby is making moves in South Korea, the firm is also focusing on opportunities at home. For instance, it is trying to seek permission from the FCC for some air taxi flights to be carried out over San Francisco Bay to test S4, its second-gen pre-production prototype.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/06/joby-aviation-to-launch-air-taxi-service-in-south-korea/


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Fashion designers create new lines of clothing and accessories.
2 How Much Money Do Freelance Footwear Designers Make?
3 How Much Do Clothing Designers Make?
Fashion designers help create new lines of apparel for clothing and footwear companies, and a few find employment with the film industry. Although many positions in this field do not require postsecondary education, an associate or bachelor's degree in a field related to fashion design or advertising may give some candidates an edge when applying for higher-paying positions.
As of May 2011, the average annual salary fashion designers reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics was $73,930. Half of all fashion designers reported annual salaries ranging from $44,500 to $90,060, and the median of all reported salaries was $64,690. The lowest paid 10 percent of all fashion designers reported annual salaries of $32,700, while the 10 percent who held the highest-paying positions reported salaries of $127,820 or more per year.
The few fashion designers who found employment with the film industry earned the highest average annual salary as of May 2011, $101,040. Fashion designers who managed their own companies averaged $80,140 per year. Those in footwear manufacturing earned an average of $77,730 per year, while those in the manufacturing of cut and sewn apparel earned an average of $73,650 per year. Over one-third of all fashion designers found employment with apparel wholesalers, earning an average annual salary of $72,450.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 75 percent of salaried fashion designers worked in New York or California as of 2010. In general, jobs in this occupation are overwhelmingly concentrated in urban areas. 2011 statistics indicate that fashion designers working in the two highest-paying states for this occupation, New York and Maine, earned an average annual salary of $80,650. Those in California ranked third, with an average income of $72,910 per year. The highest-paying area for fashion design was the Nassau-Suffolk area of New York, where designers averaged $99,390 per year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that approximately 21,500 fashion designers were employed as of 2010, and expected that number to change little over the decade. Opportunity for work in apparel manufacturing is expected to decline precipitously, but will be offset by strong growth in the specialized design services industry and moderate growth among self-employed designers. Because of the popularity of this profession and the relative scarcity of jobs, strong competition is projected for available positions.
Time, Forest. "How Much Do Fashion Designers Make Annually?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/much-fashion-designers-make-annually-1711.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
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RTÉ Investigates
Woman killed after tree falls on car in Mullingar
Updated / Thursday, 19 Dec 2013 08:30
The scene of the crash in Co Westmeath
A 23-year-old woman has died after a tree fell on her car near Mullingar in Co Westmeath this afternoon.
The incident happened at Grange South as the woman was driving into Mullingar from the Ballymahon direction at around 4pm.
The woman was trapped in the car after the tree fell on it in high winds.
The emergency services freed her from the vehicle and she was brought to the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.
However, she died there from her injuries this evening.
Fire services have removed the tree and the road has re-opened.
The death came after Met Éireann issued a severe weather warning for high winds and rain across many parts of the country.
Elsewhere, the high winds caused damage at Kent train station in Cork where a canopy over two of its platforms was blown off.
Three people were injured in the incident. One person was taken to hospital, while two others were treated at the scene.
The canopy landed on cars in an adjoining car park and a number of cars have been damaged.
Iarnród Éireann said the station has been partially reopened and full services are expected to operate tomorrow morning.
The canopy came down on a train, which was not in service at the time.
Cork to Cobh/Midleton services were suspended, while Dublin to Cork services operated between Dublin and Mallow only.
A limited bus service was in operation from Kent Station to Cobh and all rail tickets were honoured on scheduled Midleton services.
The company said that although there were high winds and rain at the time of the collapse, the cause is not yet known and will be the subject of a full investigation.
ESB Networks has said around 12,000 homes are still without power, mainly in the north of the country, with Donegal the worst affected county.
It said it has restored power to 13,000 homes so far, but many will be without power overnight as crews struggle to repair faults in the strong winds.
The promenade in Salthill, Co Galway was closed to traffic for a time this evening after high tides caused flooding in the area close to Blackrock.
Two car parks in the area were also been hit by flood waters and a number of cars were submerged in water.
Galway City Council staff said some vehicles parked beside the promenade were washed across the road when tides peaked earlier this evening.
Severe weather warning issued
Met Éireann issued a severe weather warning for Connacht and west Ulster.
Flooding has also been reported in some areas of Dublin, while the storm ripped the roof off an unoccupied house in Kilmallock, Co Limerick.
The Irish Coast Guard has issued warnings as parts of the country will be battered by storms and gusts of up to 150km/h.
Hail, sleet and snow showers are also forecast overnight.
Severe wind is expected in counties Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo, where a status red warning has been issued.
Status red is the highest alert that can be issued.
Severe southwest winds are due to reach 120km/h in Clare and Cavan and will be strongest in exposed areas.
It will also be very windy across the country generally with strong and blustery south veering southwest winds and gusts of 90 to 100km/h forecast.
The expected winds caused management at the Cliffs of Moher visitor centre in Co Clare to close the tourist attraction to the public.
Meanwhile, the Road Safety Authority has asked road users to take extra care in the bad conditions.
The Irish Coast Guard is also strongly advising people not to go out on exposed coasts, cliffs or piers as huge waves can be whipped up by high seas, posing hazards to anyone close to the shoreline.
It urged vigilance over the festive period where people engaged in outdoor activities may not be familiar with the dangers of inclement weather.
An 80km/h speed limit was imposed on rail lines in the west and northwest.
Elsewhere, the Environment Agency in the UK has issued 22 flood warnings for parts of England and Wales.
Met Éireann
Kent Station


On April 25, Xiaomi is launching its new mid-range smartphone in China, the Xiaomi Mi 6X. Just like last year's Mi 5X, it is expected to arrive India with the Android One branding and stock Android experience. The company has no plans to hide any details regarding the design of the phone and so, we are getting new press renders every day from the official social media pages of the company. Some of the things that are 100% confirmed include a 20MP front as well as the primary rear camera, 18:9 display, USB Type-C port, Dual Rear cameras, etc. Now, the wallpapers that are coming with the Xiaomi Mi 6X have been shared by the company so, here are the Xiaomi Mi 6X Stock Wallpapers.
So, did you like these new wallpapers? It looks like only a few new wallpapers have been shared by the company as we can see that the wallpapers are from the official press render. We will be adding new wallpapers as soon as we get them. So, stay tuned.


We offer all types of classes from MMA to Muay Thai, suitable for beginners through to the elite athletes.
The mixed martial art is a combination of mixed martial art submission, boxing, karate, judo, wrestling & gymnastics, kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The combination of so many martial art forms makes mixed martial arts, the most effective and comprehensive combat style. The mixed martial artists are, therefore, trained in a variety of effective styles that have shown effectiveness in the ring, both on the ground and on the feet.
The mixed martial arts training south Delhi is provided by the experts who have 10 years of experience in conducting the classes. The training is conducted in the best-equipped centers in Delhi and Gurgaon. The classes are conducted for children less than 10 years of age, children in 10-18 age groups and for adults. Besides mixed martial arts, the classes are also taken to help interested people learn kickboxing, grappling, karate, and BJJ. The pure fitness knowledge is also provided through classes by experts. The center also offers guidance on weight loss and weight gain.
The mixed martial arts training is a full body workout that involves basic skills such as grappling, striking, and wrestling. The trainee has to increase stamina, strength, endurance, as well as flexibility. A mixed martial artist plays to his strength and gets the training which helps him to deal with all kinds of situations in a combat . The mixed martial artists are also trained in a particular way that enhances their skills in the phase of combat that in accordance with the style target.
During the Mixed Martial Arts Training South Delhi a trainee learns the boxing, kickbox, Muay Thai, karate, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, Sambo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, etc. Each art helps a trainee to master a form that increases the effectiveness to deal with any situation during the combat phase. The combination of these tactics ensures that a trainee can do clinching, take down, throw, elbowing, kneeing, punching, and at the same time improve the submission holds and learns the defense against them and maintain the ground. The mixed martial art training is for both boys and girls.
The mixed martial arts is a demanding art and one has to be mental, physically and emotionally on the top to learn and master the various forms of the arts that are part of the mixed martial arts.
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An individual with the lower legs angulating inward, a condition called genu valgum or "knock knees," can have a tendency toward excessive pronation. As a result, this too can lead to a fallen arch resulting in plantar fascitis and heel spurs. Women tend to have more genu valgum than men do. Heel spurs can also result from an abnormally high arch. Other factors leading to heel spurs include a sudden increase in daily activities, an increase in weight, or a change of shoes. Dramatic increase in training intensity or duration may cause plantar fascitis. Shoes that are too flexible in the middle of the arch or shoes that bend before the toe joints will cause an increase in tension in the plantar fascia and possibly lead to heel spurs.
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Razco is a male with great workability, and a superb temperament.
He is good looking, and has a mischievous look in his eyes.
His exterior is very breed typical and he has had the success of achieving a lot of titles in the show ring.


Why Everyone Should Have a Budget!
Why Should Everyone Have a Budget!
Even though my blog is not directly focused on money & finances, as an accountant, I do understand the importance of this subject. So I decided to post occasional articles dedicated to this topic, starting with the importance of having a budget.
The definition of budgeting is: "to allow a specific amount of money for a specific purpose." It is as simple as it sounds; you allocate how much money you can spend on each expense you have.
Though it is a rather simple task, it is an extremely powerful tool as it gives you a clear visual perspective of how much you have available in income, how much you can spend, and where you can or not spend it. In other words, a budget is how you monitor where your money is going, and without it is like hitting that piñata while blindfolded, you are just guessing where to hit.
So, no matter if you make $25,000 or $250,000 a year, create a budget, to make sure you are in complete control of your finances!
In a technology era, where everything is Electronic Deposits, Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Electronic Payments, etc., without a budget it's very easy to lose vision of how much you are really spending, where you are spending it, and even worse, if you are just burning money that you could be saving. Once you decide to create your budget, you'll be able to have a clear vision where your money is going, and where adjustments need to be made in order to avoid financial struggle every month.
Net Income — This is the easy part. Key in your monthly net income, which is the total amount of money you receive on your paycheck, after all taxes and deductions are taken.
Essential Expenses — After you key in your income entries and savings amount, list only your essential living expenses; if you are on tight budget, these are the only expenses that really matter. The budget template that you can download below have a list of the most common and usual expenses, but please revise this list to make sure you add any other expense that is not listed there.
Non-Essential Expenses — Now that you have listed all your essential expenses, and have assigned an amount to your savings account, look at the Available Cash Balance at the bottom of your budget. This is your available disposable cash for your non-essential expenses. Based on this cash balance, assign a reasonable amount to each one of your non-essential expenses.
Increase your savings account amount . . . the more you save, the merrier!
Feel free to download the free Budget Template below, to help you create a monthly budget, and take advantage of the great benefits that come along with it!
How about you? Do you have any advice about budgets, that you'd like to share? I'd love to hear from you on the comments below!
It's true! Everyone should have at least some sort of budget. Many people have no idea where there money goes until they sit down and make a budget!
Your are right Heather... It doesn't have to be fancy, or even and absolutely strict budget, but everyone need some type of clear vision of where their money is really going. Thank you for stopping by!
Great post! I revise my budget every time there is a change so I have a good idea of how much I should be spending in each category. However, I find that knowing what I actually spent in each category is the most difficult part because my credit card doesn't categorize my spending so it's a manual process which is time-consuming.
I have been a budget person since my first paycheck. I love making them and knowing I can get the most from my money. Hardest part of a budget is that last step sticking to it. Never perfect, but over the years having one has vastly improved our finances even when we slip.
No one can stick to the exact budget amount Annette, so don't feel disappointed. Budgets are really designed to control the amount we spend on each category, and to stay somewhat around that amount. If you see that you constantly go over, then most likely you did not assigned enough for that expense. ☺ Thank you for stopping by!
Fantastic article! I continue to be amazed by what a huge difference planning and sticking to a budget makes.
It is so true Evelyn. I truly believe that if people knew the wonderful benefits of having a budget, everyone would have one.
Great post! I completely agree with you and just today talked to my hubby about learning every detail about our finances so I can help budget. I've always left it to him but lately I'm feeling like I should do my part too.
Yes, I agree; it is a good idea that you do it together Lisa, as there are certain expenses that wives know better how to budget.
It is always great to share posts on your site, and to know my posts are helpful. Thank you Lisa!
All good points :-) I would say to look back through your bank statements to make sure you haven't forgotten anything, as a lot of people can go off track when they have forgotten that they pay for something, especially if it's an annual thing.
It might be a good idea to do that Francesca, especially if it is new bill that you are not used to... Thank you for stopping by, and it is great to connect with you!
To me, budgeting goes along with planning.
If you want to accomplish something, you have to make sure you have the financial means to do so.
My number one tip is always saving. Having an account is indeed ideal.


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On the top of his career in 97-98 when he won the WOC-relay with Denmark, and in 1998 with the overall WC-victory. Technically very strong and with a big heart for the sport of orienteering. Is one of the founders and owners of the company "Trac Trac", an invention that revolutionized the sport.
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Q: How to add existing files from ios app to dropbox server using sync api? All the documents from dropbox and other tutorials are talking about create the new files and sync with dropbox using sync api.
I have some files my app document directory and I'd like to sync them with dropbox server.
Here is what I did.
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The file created on dropbox but it is empty.  The file in my app has content.
How can I upload the existing files to dropbox in my app using dropbox sync api?

A: I think you want writeContentsOfFile.


Another significant issue was the Ottoman Land Law of 1858, on which the Israeli authorities often rely when denying claims of Bedouin land ownership. "Did the Ottomans rule the Negev in practice during the 19th century, or was their rule was just a formality? Were the Bedouins required in practice to register their land? Did there exist at all in the Negev Land Registration Offices?" Professor Kark responded in the positive to all questions. Sfard then presented in the court a section of the book "History of the pioneering Jewish settlement in the Negev, 1880-1948" which Prof. Kark in 1974, stating: "In the Turkish period there was no official record kept of the Negev lands. Determaination of land ownership relied on traditions recorded in Deftars (Books of Record), notebooks which were kept by the Mukhtars and the Sheikhs. Any juridical action in the land was recorded in the Deftars which the Bedouins treated with respect and trust." This was quoted from Joseph Weitz, who had been Director of the Jewish National Fund's Land Acquisition Department during the Mandate period and who was a leading figure in the Zionist settlement enterprise.
His cross-examination of Professor Kart will resume at the next session of the Bedouin Land Case, scheduled for June 23, 2010 at 9:00 am before Judge Sarah Dovrat at the Beersheba District Court.


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We are pleased to announce that the Fourth Edition of the IPA Complete Guides to the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) – Specialists Guide has been released and is now available only on the IPA Members Area (www.ipa-online.org). A total of 15 IPA members from around the globe contributed to this significant revision in which seven of the eight modules were revised. Only Module 8 (Long-Term Care), which was completed only a few years ago, remained unchanged.
IPA is committed to ensuring that its educational products remain contemporary and so to achieve that, revisions are required every three to five years. Many changes have occurred since the third edition and discerning readers will note that knowledge regarding the epidemiology and etiology of BPSD, as noted in Modules 1 and 3 that were revised by Brian Draper, has increased. Module 2 was revised by George Grossberg and Abhilash Desai and provides an updated view on clinical issues. The impact upon family and other caregivers with the complex interaction between caregivers and the person with dementia that might contribute to BPSD is better understood and this is covered in Module 4 revised by Kim Burns and Henry Brodaty.
While there are few new treatments, there is better and more nuanced understanding of which treatments might work best for various clinical scenarios. Module 5, revised by Daniel O'Connor, covers non-pharmacological interventions while Module 6, revised by Dallas Seitz, covers pharmacological treatments. Module 7 on cross-cultural and transnational considerations has perhaps had the most changes. A team of authors from around the world (Huali Wang, WC Chan, Guk-Hee Suh, Ali Javadpour, Olusegun Baiyewu, Cassio Bottino, Vinod Gangoli, Masatoshi Takeda, Brian Draper) has contributed to completely revising existing sections on African, South American, Asian and Middle Eastern countries while adding new sections from Japan, Iran, Nigeria and Brazil. The sections on ethnic minorities in Western countries have also been revised.
We hope that you find this fourth edition as informative and helpful as the earlier editions.


When kate spade looked to expand beyond its handbag business five years ago, its team went on a brand-and-soul-searching exercise. As CMO and SVP Mary Beech noted, they already knew the demos for their target audience, but those weren't enlightening enough. After an extensive brand audit, they arrived at their current positioning: kate spade inspires you to lead a more interesting life.
On Tuesday, Beech spoke at the Brite '14 Conference, hosted by Columbia Business School's Center for Global Brand Leadership in New York. She discussed how kate spade's voice reflects its customers' lifestyles and how it's been integrated into digital platforms, employees' mindsets and in-store experiences.
Brand voice and guidelines: For kate spade, becoming more familiar with their consumers meant a 360 degree understanding of their preferences, such as books and hotels, as well as celebrating customers' sense of humor. They now define the ideal customer's personality as culturally curious, quick, playful, spirited and chic.
However, while conducting further brand research, they found they weren't always delivering. Beech acknowledged that the message was sometimes too bold, or more silly than witty. So they created a set of guidelines: re-imagined, not retro; clever, not cliché; bold, not bananas. These help the brand to be more consistent and accountable.
Last fall consumers publicly took the brand to task in response to a canvas tote simply meant to signify "I heart kate spade". However the logo carried an unintended interpretation. Social media reacted negatively, and the brand quickly removed the controversial items.
Employee buy-in: "2 Park Avenue is so kate spade", Beech said. Their HQ is a happy place where they serve employees cupcakes and champagne on occasion. "We need everyone to tell the kate spade story; it can't just come from us", she added.
The kate spade outlook extends to its sales associates, she explained. They have an in-store education team to train sales staff to properly use, but not overdo, the brand voice. Training tools include videos and a brand book labeled "Hello Sunshine".
Online and social communications: "Social media is a great platform for our brand voice", Beech said, and she outlined their digital efforts. The brand had an early presence on Pinterest, and now it's become a new product development platform. Instagram illustrates glimpses behind-the-scenes. On Facebook they use the ecommerce feature, and their Twitter messages focus mainly on the kate spade lifestyle.
Digital and interactive storefront: "Digital is our true flagship since ecommerce drives engagement", said Beech. The brand also pioneered an interactive storefront last spring. Their (younger, more affordable) kate spade saturday line temporarily located in vacant store windows in NYC's Chelsea area. Using mobile devices, window shoppers were able to order items on eBay and have them delivered. "This was very successful from a PR perspective", she reported.
Evolving retail design and our NYC flagship store field trip: "Our stores were like visiting a friend's apartment", Beech said. But the team found they didn't project enough brand voice. She said they've been refining and retrofitting their stores accordingly. For example, they know customers take in-store selfies, so their dressing rooms now feature stylish wallpaper to serve as photo backdrops.
Beech's presentation piqued our curiosity, so we stopped by kate spade's flagship Madison Avenue store. Our visit turned out to be spot-on in terms of delivering the brand promise, and our take on the experience: colorful, welcoming, multicultural, upbeat and whimsical.
Since this month's design theme is the isle of Capri off Italy's Amalfi coast, windows greet customers with "Ciao" and the bright color scheme reflects the Mediterranean. Sales associates were extremely cordial, allowing for browsing, (unlike some other Madison Avenue stores). Asian customers were taking photos, and the dressing room wallpaper (left) was worth photographing.


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Nancy Moran, University of Texas, Austin
The gut microbial communities in honey bees and bumble bees
Nancy A. Moran obtained a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1982. From 1986 to 2010, she served on the faculty of the University of Arizona, where she was a Regents' Professor. She joined the Yale faculty in 2010 as the William H. Fleming Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and is moving to University of Texas at Austin in August 2013. Moran was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellowship in 1997. She served as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution in 2000, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, the American Academy of Microbiology in 2004, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. In 2010, she was awarded the International Prize for Biology by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She has published 200 scientific papers.
Dr. Moran's research involves the evolution of bacterial genomes and of symbiotic associations. She has shown that intimate symbiotic associations date to the origins of major groups of organisms, and she has used genomic and experimental work to show that these associations provide hosts with essential molecules and defenses. She also works on general principles involving the evolution of genomes in bacteria and has started research on the genomics of gut communities in insects, including honey bees.


Thank you VERY much for the probe pack with Kepler! I've been wanting this for quite some time.
Any chance you could do the James Webb Space Telescope too?
Thank you! Noctis V is finally out!
[EDIT] Please ignore above. xD I now understand. Apologies!
Is it possible to get the ICARUS ship from the movie sunshine?
yovani-srw_94, please post your se.log file, it is located in your "system" folder. This could help me resolve the issue, as the Halo ring works fine for me.
RockoRocks, The Halo ring flickers for me when next to a planet or when I'm moving around it. Any help?
That is an engine issue, there is nothing RockoRocks can do about it.
And so what about Philip Farmer's World of Tiers?
^My failed attempt to create a model of Alofmethbin for Celestia.
Same problem on SE 0.973. It looks like Stardrifter ship does not work properly.
Probably in the archive is missing some files.
mgifos, that's odd, it seems to work for me. Check your console and se.log file for any missing files.
Nope, i just put Stardrifter_models.pak im my \models\spacecrafts\ folder and nothing happend. Just a blank space instead of the ship. Are you sure you did not forget to put the textures in the archive?
Where there is the probe Voyager?