Last week I had the pleasure of attending the opening reception for Ruminations of Order at Cityscape Gallery in North Vancouver. This is a group show featuring the work of four artists exploring pattern and repetition, among other things. It's a really fantastic show, but the work that stood out most strongly for me were two installations made from paper by Rosemary Burden.
Working with volumes of antique books she has meticulously created a staggering amount of paper butterflies using a paper punch. The overall impact of this mass of paper gives the viewer a sense of wonder. It's really something to see.
Both installations include the original book cover, which is a really nice touch. I would love to create a paper installation on a similar scale someday.
There is an artist talk happening this Saturday March 23rd, and the show continues on until April 13th. Read more about Ruminations of Order on the gallery website.


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Saadet III Giray (reigned 1691, lived 1645–1695, крым. III Saadet Geray, ٣سعادت كراى;) was briefly khan of the Crimean Khanate between the second and third reigns of Selim I Giray.  Oddly, he did not visit Crimea during his reign. He was the son of Kyrym Giray, one of the many sons of Selâmet I Giray. His brother Haci II Giray was briefly khan between the first and second reigns of Selim I Giray.

Saadet had been nureddin under his cousin Murad Giray who ruled between the first and second reigns of Selim I. In 1691 Selim I abdicated and proposed his cousin Saadat as a replacement.  Saadet chose as kalga and nureddin Devlet and Fetikh Giray (Devlet had been kalga since 1684 and became khan Devlet II Giray in 1699).  Saadet, who was in Istanbul at this time, was immediately ordered to raise an army to fight the Austrians. He marched up the west shore of the Black Sea and forced the reluctant Budjak Horde to join him. The other Crimean and Nogai nobles were also reluctant. Devlet planned to betray him and was removed. Marching across Romania, he severely punished troops who abused the local population. Due to overlong preparations he arrived late at the Battle of Slankamen (19 August 1691) where the Turks were defeated. He was removed from office in December and exiled to Yambol in Bulgaria, and later to Rhodes (an Aegean island), where he died.  He was followed by Safa Giray of Crimea who also had a short reign. After Safa, Selim became khan for the third time.

Sources
Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, p. 565
Олекса Гайворонский «Созвездие Гераев». Симферополь, 2003.
In the absence of a proper source in English, this is mostly extracted from the Russian Wikipedia which apparently follows Gaivoronsky. Howorth is old and has only one paragraph.

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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese company that has high desires. It has unique ideas to create great cars and to satisfy even the most difficult client. The company is used to permanently have new projects on the run. It is also the case for their Toyota Camatte57s concept which has just been introduced in the Tokyo Toy Show.
The Toyota Camatte57s has a body composed out of 57 small and light panels, as the name suggests. These detachable elements have various colours and designs. The concept is so easy to use that even a kid can do it, of course that on non public roads. This is possible thanks to the adjustable seats and pedals which can be adapted to every driver.
The Toyota Camatte57s has certain features that make it special. It has 3000 mm length, 140 mm wideness and 1000 mm height. It is a three seated car, having one seat in front for the driver and two at the back for other passengers. The concept is powered by an electric engine, this setting the brand among other car makers that are willing to pay more credit to the relationship between the vehicles they produce and the environment.


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Le Dartrier ou casse ailé, Senna alata (L.) Roxb,) est une plante arborescente de la famille des Caesalpiniaceae, ou des Fabaceae, sous-famille des Caesalpinioideae, selon la classification phylogénétique. Il appartient à la tribu des Cassieae.

Répartition
Senna alata est originaire du Mexique, et peut être trouvé dans divers habitats. Sous les tropiques, il pousse jusqu'à une altitude de 1200 m. Il est considéré comme une espèce invasive dans différents pays d'Austronésie. Au Sri Lanka, connu sous le nom Ranawara (රණවරා), il est utilisé comme ingrédient dans la médecine traditionnelle cinghalaise.

Description

L'arbuste mesure 3-4 m de haut, avec des feuilles composées de 50-80 cm de long.

Il a un feuillage ornemental s'ouvrant le matin et se fermant le soir ; les feuilles sont composées-pennées.

Les fleurs sont grandes, en longs épis jaune-orangé. L'inflorescence ressemble à une bougie jaune d'où son surnom d'arbre candélabre.

Les feuilles et fleurs ont une odeur fétide.

Les fruits sont des gousses presque droites, brun foncé devenant noires, d'environ 15 cm de long et 15 mm de large. Sur les deux côtés des ailes entourent le long de la nacelle. Les gousses contiennent de 50 à 60 graines triangulaires. Ces graines sont disséminées par l'eau ou les animaux.

Noms vernaculaires : dartrier, bois dartre, quatre épingles, épis d'or, fleurs de Saint-Christophe, n'gari (Gabon).

Usage médicinal
Senna alata est souvent appelé le buisson de la teigne en raison de ses propriétés fongicides très efficaces pour traiter la teigne et d'autres infections fongiques de la peau. Les feuilles sont broyées dans un mortier pour obtenir une sorte de "coton vert". Celui-ci est mélangé avec la même quantité d'huile végétale et frotté sur la zone affectée deux ou trois fois par jour. Une préparation fraîche est faite chaque jour.
Ses ingrédients actifs comprennent de l'acide chrysophanique.

Son effet laxatif, lié à sa teneur en anthraquinone, est également reconnu.

Synonymes
 Cassia alata L.

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A Muslim child where ever born, and a person embracing Islam, used to be called in a new name, probably in Arabic. Names of prophets, names combined with Asmaul Husna (Names of Allah), names from history, and the traditional or modern names are being used in this regard. Naming a child with a beautiful and honourable name is very important. The Prophet (SAW) always chose names with good and beautiful meanings, even telling people to change their names if they had unpleasant meanings. Give your child the best possible name. Here, you can find beautiful and unique baby names for Muslims.
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Whenever I stay in town over the weekend, I really like to start my Saturday morning at the Guelph Farmers' Market. I had stocked up on meat from our local butcher on my last visit home to see my parents, so I was on the hunt for fresh veggies this morning. I also was keeping my fingers crossed for farm fresh eggs as our neighbours laying hens were 'on strike' last weekend and I couldn't bring any back with me.
Did I ever hit a home run!! As you can see from the photo above, I have more than enough veggies to get me through the week! My bounty includes: brussel sprouts, zucchini, fingerling potatoes, red pepper, mixed greens, kale, asparagus, cucumber, garlic, onion, sweet potatoes, cremini mushrooms, green/yellow beans, bananas (for smoothies) and eggs! Yeah! And....The craziest part of this, is that all of this healthy goodness cost less than $30.00!!! It was $26.35 to be exact...and that's including the eggs!! WOW!!! Whoever says supporting your local farmers is more expensive is WRONG!
- 4 fingerling potatoes (thinly sliced); 2 cremini mushrooms; 1/3 of a red pepper; onion (use as little or as much as you'd like); 3 spears of asparagus, 2 eggs (scrambled); feta cheese (to taste); S&P; oregano and garlic powder (all three of these are to taste).
In a preheated pan, I added EVOO, a bit of butter, oregano, onions and the potatoes. Put the lid on the pan to let the potatoes steam a bit to speed up the cooking time. Once the potatoes have gotten a good start, I added the red peppers, mushrooms, S&P and garlic powder. Keep stirring quite regularly and once the veggies have begun to soften, I then add the eggs that I have mixed in a bowl with milk, S&P and a bit of hot sauce (secret ingredient). I add in the asparagus at this time too. Keep stirring, allowing all ingredients to combine and continue cooking. About 2 minutes before I'm going to remove the Scramble from the heat, I add feta cheese for a 'lil somethin somethin'.
It may not be much to look at, but is it veryyyyy tasty.....the fresh ingredients take it up a notch too! You can absolutely tell the difference!
I'm also going to do some cooking for the week and have been looking up some new recipes to try out. It's been a long winter and I'll completely admit, I've gained a few pounds and I can't wait to dive into fresh, local produce to help increase my energy and also assist in losing a few inches!
I found this Roasted Veggie Recipe on The Wednesday Chef website and I think they'd go amazingly well with fish or chicken! This is a bit of a twist on the typical roasted veggies and I'm looking forward to giving it a try.
I also found this "How to Roast Veggies" on the Better Homes and Gardens website which includes a really handy chart of roasting times for various veggies.
Those two websites should keep me busy this weekend to ensure some healthy goodness in my kitchen and fridge.
But.....after all that healthiness, what would Saturday morning be without a little treat too??
I had messaged Fairly Frosted Vegan Bakery yesterday, to make sure they'd be at the Market today and to see if they'd have their Coconut Lime Cupcakes in stock..... and I got great news, there were going to be there with my favs in tow! Sooooo....I had to bring 2 of them home...and some of their minis too! They're vegan, gluten free and absolutely delicious!!


The bare spot where the kits once played. June 2018.
Late this spring when the skies grew dark and the cloud cover heavy and children were ripped from their parents arms, I took a dramatic fall an came down with a chest cold, and something else–in the middle of the darkest night–the mother fox (or was it the father?) barked incessantly outside our bedroom balcony doors; This after I spent a worrisome string of days looking & listening & hoping & calling & finally crooning the lullaby that I'd sung that morning when I saw the first of their four pups (and it fell to sleep to the sound of my voice), and still, the space where the babes frolicked and rested remained… empty.
And although we don't know how these broken families will be restored, or how great the toll on their lives, or how deep the shame on our generation (poisoning babies in Flint, paying unlivable wages, watching television while the earth changes)… The Longest Day has arrived.
I wake to the sounds of squealing, and while their kitten-like bodies are thinner than they were before, and they won't let me close like they did when I first photographed them, they are here, curled up beside one another in the sun on the rock outcropping outside my writing door.
May we each make good medicine of whatever strength, power and will we possess.


Chad "OchoCinco" Johnson was NOT a happy camper when he was released from jail yesterday after his arrest for allegedly "head butting" Evelyn Lozada this past weekend.
Just hours after his release from jail on $2,500 bond, Johnson was unceremoniously cut from his position on the Miami Dolphins, and first year head coach Joe Philbin says it wasn't this one incident that caused their decision.
"With any type of these decisions, it was not an easy one," Philbin said.
Johnson was charged with simple domestic battery, a misdemeanor. The Dolphins have cleaned out Chad's locker while his new wife may be preparing to clean out his pockets after she reportedly received stitches for lacerations received in the incident.
The confrontation came just barely a month after Johnson married Evelyn, who is "Basketball Wives" resident drama queen/bottle thrower.
34-year-old Johnson had been battling for a spot on the Dolphins after a disappointing season with the New England Patriots in 2011 and was said to be in the best shape of his life and poised to rejuvenate his career.
But get this… here's the GAG!!!
During episode one of HBO's "Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Miami Dolphins," which first aired August 7th, Chad makes mention that he's about to go get arrested…..
Was this arrest merely coincidental? Did the stress and pressure of returning the field cause Chad to explode in anger?
Or was this whole situation blown out of proportion after a stunt for their new reality show went awry?
**UPDATE 8/13/12 3:00pm**: If this drama was manufactured for the show it's a wrap …. VH1 has officially ditched it!
Chad and Ev have both been "cut"…. now what?


Our annual presentation night takes place on this Saturday night the 23rd of February 2019 in the Silver Eel. the evening will begin with a mass for all deceased and living members of Kilmore Gaa club at 7pm in St Bridgets Church, Dangan. The presentation night will then take place in the Silver eel with a hot meal been served at 8.30pm. This will be followed by presentations to our players of the year, personality of the year and our club members who got married in 2019. This will then be followed by music from Marty O Briens band Going live. Tickets are excellent value and cost just €15. Tickets must be purchased from any of the following Gerry Tiernan, Michael McGuire or Carmelita Caslin.
Results: Our Minors were beaten by Kilbride today in the opening game of the league .
Fixtures : On Saturday next in Kilmore our U16 play St Brigids at 12 noon and our U14 Reserve League team play Clan na Gael at 3pm.
This weeks 50/50 draw takes place this Sunday night at 10pm in the Silver Eel and Clare Connellans team are on selling duty.


Although threatened by deforestation, the wonderful Pawpaw is making a big comeback.
Pawpaw is found almost exclusively in the wild and is difficult for the average person to find - which gives this tree almost mythical status among growers and foodies. The best way to get a hold of Pawpaw fruit is to grow it yourself - and fortunately it is quite easy to cultivate!


For most people, the floors of their home are heir joy and pride. It is quite obvious for the people that find joy in their floors to always ensure that their floors remain sparkling. It is never easy to decide on how you want to wash your floors. It is difficult to find the right method of ensuring clean floors due to the fact that there are so many ways of cleaning the floors. Basically, they get confused on what to decide on. Majority of the people always go for the means and ways of cleaning the floor that take the shortest time.
If you want to clean the tiles in the right ways, you should look into the material of the tiles. It will be very improper if you clean your tiles with methods that are not very appropriate for it. It is very important to use the right cleaning methods for your specific kinds of tiles to ensure that you do not damage your tiles within the shortest time possible. It is important to seek assistance from people with vast knowledge when it comes to cleaning the tiles so that they can help you to select the right supplies for your own tiles.
How frequent should the tiles be cleaned? As a home owner it is required of you to not clean the floors too often.When you clean too much you will end up damaging the tiles. You should only clean the tiles when it is recommended. When you clean your tiles very frequently, they will not look the same as before.
Eventually, you should ensure to seek help from professionals.The reason as to why should look into the experts opinions is because they will come into your rescue when you mess things up. You will also need their help if you get unsure of what you are doing with your tiles. In most cases when you mess up, the experts will work to ensure that they instantly bring back the shine of your tiles.The help of the tiles experts should always be sought when you are out of options. You should call the professionals before things get seriously out of hand. You should know that when you seek the help of professionals before things get really out of hand, you save on so much.


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Mosquito nets distribution program launched in Mzuzu
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The Ministry of Health on Monday launched the 9.2 mosquito nets distribution programme in Mzuzu.
Deputy Director Dr. Michael Kayange
The programme aims to help in the fight against malaria in the country. The Deputy Director in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Michael Kayange, who headed the event, said the programme is targeting poor families.
Kayange, however, disclosed that there is a shortfall of 2.4 million mosquito nets from their target of 9.2 million nets.
He asked the beneficiaries to use the received materials for their intended purpose and not sell them.
"As a government, we have shown interest in ending malaria in the country, hence the development. However, instead of joining hands, some beneficiaries will start misusing the received mosquito nets by selling. This must not happen," he said.
The Minister of Health, Khumbize Kandondo Chiponda, launched the programme in Salima last month during the commemoration of Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Malaria Day.
The programme is expected to reach over nine million citizens and with support from World Vision Malawi, Global Fund and UNICEF.
The beneficiaries are expected to use the mosquito nets for the next three to five years.
Drama as police re-arrest political activist Kalindo: Activists feel vindicated his arrest is politically motivated
President Chakwera calls for united and refocused efforts in the implementation of SADC programs and vision
Drama ensued at Zomba Magistrate Court where the police re-arrested firebrand political activist and anti-Tonse Alliance government demonstrations, Bon Kalindo,...

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The Forsaken 'Fizzbin' Folderol
31st December 2012 // Gossip, News
This week's lesson in how the mainstream looks down upon poker players as being so stupid they need to be protected from themselves comes to us from no less a place of starched collars and TimesNewRoman characters than the Wall Street Journal. On Christmas Day, WSJ columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. served up the latest load of fumigatible fudge, "D.C. Plays Fizzbin with Online Poker".
WSJ columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr. demonstrates his lack of knowledge about what poker really is.
Subtitled "How to make the poor pay for the welfare state: online gambling", Jenkins' treatise is an anti-gambling screed dressed up with attacks of greedy governments, all done to victimize those poor souls who just don't know any better.
Meaning us.
The background here is the recent demise of the Reid-Kyl online poker bill, which in reality was an anti-gambling bill fitted with a narrow online-poker carveout in an attempt to drum up some support. Jenkins cites every political faction involved in the bickering over R-K as being greedy, self-serving people who are just part of a government that's really just a facade for organized crime.
As Jenkins put in in his opening, "Many modern economic anthropologists would tell you that the state begins as organized crime, dividing up rackets and controlling turf. Case in point… online poker."
That's where the Fizzbin comes in, that imaginary card game made up by Star Trek's Captain Kirk in a popular episode wherein an isolated, growing humanoid culture was polluted by an earlier mission which left behind a single book about Chicago mobs of the 1920s. Trekkers will remember that in the episode, the highly imaginative population then built an entire culture around the book, which included plenty of cards and guns. Kirk saves the day (of course), in part by inventing an imaginary card game called "Fizzbin", in which he modifies the rules with every hand to steer the outcome his way. The local rummies fall for it.
Jenkins ties his metaphor back to his premise in the following way, but he just can't help taking a swipe at poker players themselves as he does it:
"The Kyl-Reid bill, as Captain Kirk would quickly suss out (aided by the deductive powers of Mr. Spock), was destined instantly to become a bone of contention among the various gangs jostling for a piece of the online poker action.
"The state lottery commissioners and governors opposed the bill because it would prevent them offering an array of tantalizing new online games to suckers, er, citizens of their states."
Yeah, sometimes the players are suckers. Sometimes they're not. It's for damn sure Jenkins wouldn't know the difference.
What we do know, however, is that he wants it all stamped out, somehow, someway. This is your poppa's right wing talking. Jenkins indeed cites the ongoing, problematic remissions process involving US victims of Full Tilt, stating that for most of these players, they probably won't get their money back anyway, and that the government plans to keep it. Writes Jenkins, in the piece's most troublesome paragraph:
"Some of these funds were supposed to reimburse the 'victims,' U.S. poker players who had money in their accounts when the sites were shut down. But so cumbersome and legalistic is the process created by Justice that many lawyers say they don't expect their clients to find it worth the trouble or legal fees. Justice may end up keeping much of the loot itself under asset-forfeiture rules."
Really? No one's even seen the process yet, and Jenkins apparently bases his view on the statement of a single player's attorney who went ahead and filed a civil action against those involved. The reality is that since the details of the remission process haven't been released, no one can say how cumbersome it will be.
Indeed, Justice could have kept all the money they seized from NETeller, too, but they didn't. After a significant amount of time, that money was released to players.
It's been much longer in regards to Full Tilt, but a part of that is that there have been competing claims against Full Tilt's assets to consider as well as ongoing civil and criminal complaints. Jenkins' assertions just don't hold a lot of water, even if his statements about politicians being greedy pigs do go without saying.
And yet you might have overlooked the kicker in reading: "Some of these funds were supposed to reimburse the 'victims,' U.S. poker players who had money in their accounts…"
That's "victims", in scare quotes, in the original. Which means that Jenkins thinks that poker players aren't victims at all, but rather a class of people he considers inferior, perhaps even deserving of what's been happening to them, both in regards to Full Tilt and to the Reid-Kyl games.
See, those primitive culture inhabitants Kirk fooled with a made-up game of Fizzbin were really just a bunch of dummies. That's the real metaphor Jenkins is trying to hammer home: In his view, all poker players are stupid, and since they're stupid, they have no right to decide themselves whether online poker offers palatable entertainment value, for the cost, for those who choose to take part.
The same cultural anthropologists that Jenkins cites in his blasts at government would also tell you that gambling is an essential element of what makes us all human. No to mention that this guy is writing from the offices of a news outlet centered on legalized gambling, that being the stock market.
Somehow, the guy just doesn't get the fact that the rules for his own Fizzbin game just don't add up.


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A consultation on refreshing the Charity Governance Code has opened.
Following Monday's NCVO/Bates Wells Trustee Conference, Civil Society has covered the keynote speech that Philip Kirkpatrick delivered during the event's morning session. Civil Society's piece features Philip's comments on the assured unitary governance model, which point out how this framework could help to address many of the problems currently facing charity trustees.
From April 2020, £10m funding will be available to partner organisations, including charities, to help vulnerable people claim Universal Credit.
The Local Government Association has published "A councillor's guide to procurement: 2019 edition".
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator has published an inquiry report into The Institute for Statecraft.
New class inquiry
The Charity Commission has just announced that it opened a statutory class inquiry back in April into seven charities linked by two common trustees and common registered contact details. The charities are:
IPAD (1131132)
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The commission says that it identified a series of discrepancies across the charities' accounts and exercised its power to obtain the charities' bank statements to examine its concerns further. With the exception of one charity there is no evidence of charitable activity and in at least one charity the issues indicate a potential misapplication of charitable funds and possible personal benefit. The commission has frozen the bank accounts held in the names of six of the charities.
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Regulatory compliance case report for Kick It Out Case opened following a whistleblowing report and a subsequent serious incident report.The commission found a series of governance failures, relating to poor communication amongst the senior management and trustees, which contributed to the slow sharing of information about the SIR to the trustees. The charity itself commissioned a review of the charity by a QC and is implementing the recommendations made.
Inquiry report for Jalalabad Association (1012090)Press release This Islamic charity was originally included in the "double defaulters" class inquiry for not having filed its financial information for four consecutive years.This led to the commission investigating further concerns about the charity, including a lack of financial controls and lack of safeguarding procedures at the mosque's after school provision. The commission found there were three trustees in post who were unaware that they had been legally appointed as trustees.
The commission obtained voluntary undertakings from the three founder trustees not to act as trustees of this or any other charity for a period of 10 years.
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A consultation on refreshing the Charity Governance Code has opened. The Steering Group is proposing a 'light refresh' of the Code in 2020, with more far-ranging changes taking place in 2023. The "light refresh":
Means there will be a "high bar" for changes in 2020, particularly to the seven principles of the Code and their associated rationale and outcomes.
Will focus more on additions and revisions to the Code's recommended practice.
Will look at a few areas where the Steering Group thinks there is a case for urgent change.
The consultation process will run from 4 November 2019 until 28 February 2020. You can download the consultation document here. You can also submit responses through the online survey available here.
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This Civil Society Media article reviews the UK's economic outlook and the effect Brexit is having on raising Bank of England rates.
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The Health Service Journal has published an article which states that the new Brexit plan is worse for the NHS than Theresa May's and warns that the NHS will be exposed to more risk by the government.
The NHS Confederation have released a report which assesses the impact on the NHS of future trade deals after Brexit and argues that the impact of trade deals should be assessed to ensure that commercial advantage is not prioritised at the expense of human and economic health. The report finds that a post-Brexit trade agreement with the US will not of itself threaten the founding principles of the NHS but trade agreements should not include publicly funded healthcare.
The NHS Confederations have released a 'temperature check' of the views of health leaders at this stage of Brexit planning reveals how prepared their organisations are for a potential no-deal Brexit. The document's executive summary provides an update from health leaders who have asked for the following to help the NHS manage the initial impact of a no-deal Brexit:
early, clear and succinct communication that avoids duplication
early information for NHS trusts about expectations on reporting and other actions
a nationally consistent message about sharing staff between trusts
tailor the assurance process to specific sectors such as mental health
details of assurance that stock supplies are in place and how they will be maintained
timely information about post-Brexit changes, from treating EU citizens to employing them
a centrally-led platform for sharing planning and best practice.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced that it will be developing a toolkit to help organisations comply with their accountability obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR) which is intended for launch in 2020. Controllers are invited to submit their views and suggestions to the ICO on its initial proposals for the scope, structure and design of the toolkit to help best achieve the delivery of a framework that is user friendly and suitable for purpose.
To mark Trustees' Week, the Fundraising Regulator has published a blog "Questions your board should be asking about fundraising".
See this government announcement about increases to funding of early years' provision.
Schools and Further education
The government has given more detail of how funding announced in August for school sixth forms and colleges will be allocated.
an extra £65 million will be targeted to help cover the cost of delivering courses in six key, more expensive subject areas: building and construction, hospitality and catering, engineering, transportation operations and maintenance, manufacturing technologies and science; and
£55 million will be allocated for delivering high value courses – those that "deliver the skills the country needs for the future and which lead to higher wages for students, including a number of STEM subjects"; and
£35 million more will be provided to support students on level 3 courses (A level equivalent) who have not yet achieved a GCSE pass in maths and English to improve vital literacy and numeracy skills.
Academies and sixth form colleges across England can now bid for a share of more than £400 million to improve school buildings and facilities, and create more school places.
Following legislation laid in Parliament last week, from 2 December, everyone eligible for an NHS wheelchair and people who require aftercare services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act will have access to a personal health budget. See here for more details.
The government has published its response to the House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee's Eighteenth Report of Session 2017-19. The government has recognised the committee's observation that there is an urgent need for increased adult social care funding, both at a local and national level. The government confirmed that the 2019 Spending Review had provided additional funding of £1.5 billion for 2020 (including £1 billion of dedicated grant funding across adults' and children's social care and a proposed 2% adult social care precept), which is intended to stabilise the position until fundamental reforms can be implemented to "put social care on a more fair and sustainable footing".
Accelerating change: an EU policy-maker's perspective of social finance. Ann Branch, from the European Commission, writes for the Pioneers Post/EVPA Impact Papers series, considering the role of public policy in the growth of the social investment sphere.
Shaping the future of social investment? We need to listen – and learn from the past. In this Pioneers Post blog, CEO of Social Investment Business (SIB), Nick Temple, highlights how the social investment market should focus on its primary purpose – providing access to the right finance and support to charities and social enterprises – and considers SIB's experiences from its Futurebuilders fund.
In partnership with Wellcome and the Wolfson Foundation, the Carnegie UK Trust is offering funding to public libraries to deliver public engagement projects on research in health, society and culture through its Engaging Libraries Phase 2 programme.
The Local Government Association has published A councillor's guide to procurement: 2019 edition aimed at executive members and those engaged in overview and scrutiny work. The guide follows the publication of the LGA's National Procurement Strategy and accompanying toolkit in 2018 which focused on the role of councillors in procurement. The guide deals with a number of questions commonly asked by councillors including:
What is the procurement process and why do major procurements in local government fail?
What are the role and responsibilities of a councillor?
How is social value delivered under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 and more generally?
The guide also includes case studies, questions that councillors may ask about corporate arrangements and major projects and a jargon buster.
OSCR has published an inquiry report into The Institute for Statecraft (SC040870). OSCR concluded that that the charity was not meeting the legal tests required for charitable status in Scotland because:
its purposes were not entirely charitable
one of its most significant activities, a project known as the Integrity Initiative, did not provide public benefit in furtherance of the charity's purposes
private benefit to charity trustees was not clearly incidental to the charity's provision of benefit to the public.
OSCR also found that the charity trustees had breached their trustee duties to act with care and diligence in the interest of the charity. OSCR wrote to the charity with its findings and since then, the charity trustees have taken steps to meet the charity test and to address the governance issues identified in the inquiry. OCSR therefore does not consider formal action to be necessary or proportionate but it will continue to monitor the charity's activities and governance.
The Scottish Parliament Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee has given its backing to the UEFA Championship Bill which is being introduced ahead of Scotland hosting football matches as part of the EURO 2020 tournament in summer 2020. Among other things, the Bill will allow charity collecting in designated "fan zones".
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More than a decade after Canada legalised it, same sex marriages make up slightly less than 1 percent of all marriages.
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When Canada legislated nationally for same sex marriage in 2005 many couples took advantage of the new law. But more than a decade later, according to the latest census, same sex marriages make up slightly less than 1 percent of all marriages.
That number includes both formal marriages and common law marriages. Fewer than half of Canada's same sex couple choose the formal marriage option. However while the number of same sex marriages has not been particularly large, the impact has been more significant on Canadian culture, including religious freedom.
To learn from the Canadian experience Open House turned to Ray Pennings, Executive Vice President of the Christian think tank Cardus, based in Ottawa. Ray suggests it is important for Churches and Christians to engage in the debate based on factual data, and to speak with love and grace.
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The implementation of ISO 9000 in Indonesia, including in Jakarta has become a necessity for companies to meet customer satisfaction on the quality of products so as to improve company performance. A phenomenon occurs on companies that have already had the certificate of ISO 9000, not all managed to improve their performance.There are companies that are still not stable, even decline their businesses. This study aimed to analyze the effects of the implementation of ISO 9000 which consists of Quality Cost, Quality Improvement and Innovation of products to improve Business Performance directly and through Customer Satisfaction. The results showed that the Quality Cost has a significant effect and a positive direction, the Quality Improvement has no effect but has a p ositive direction, and Innovation has no effect and has a negative direction towards Customer Satisfaction. Customer Satisfaction subsequently has a positive influence on Business Performance. Other results showed that Quality Cost, Quality Improvement and Innovation have positive effects on Business Performance, but only Innovation does not significantly affect Business Performance. From this study it can be concluded that the implementation of ISO 9000 is less favorable to the customer's satisfaction, but the implementation of ISO 9000 and Customer Satisfaction can improve Business Performance.


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Act Fast and Snag This Imported 1992 BMW M5 Touring Wagon
It's one of just 891.
By James Gilboy August 5, 2020
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Today, the fast, family-friendly BMW comes in the form of a crossover like the X5 M, or its lamer, uglier coupe-over sibling, the X6 M. But there was a time when the practical M car took the form of a sleek, speedy station wagon, the likes of which are now the stuff of legend, and the subject of high-dollar tribute builds. One of the cars that garnered BMW such a following was the M5 Touring, a hand-built super-wagon that so finely balanced luxury, performance and practicality that it would top every Bimmerist's wishlist had BMW built more than 891 examples. Given its rarity, it's always newsworthy when an M5 Touring comes up for sale—which is why we're shouting from the rooftops than an example will be sold on Bring A Trailer in a couple hours' time.
The example in question, a 1992 model, was originally a Euro-spec car, meaning it has a later, 3.8-liter version of BMW's naturally aspirated S38 inline-six. Its 335 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque travel through a five-speed manual transmission to the rear wheels and can fling the bulky M5 Touring from a stop to 60 miles per hour in under six seconds. Like most high-performance German cars, it's electronically limited to 155 mph, though those who have de-limited their E34 M5s claim to have seen speeds as high as 170.
Originally sold in Germany, this M5 Touring was imported to California in 2007 and under new ownership, had its interior reupholstered, and exterior repainted its factory Diamontschwarz (Diamond Black) Metallic. It migrated to New York in 2014 and has continued to receive the maintenance of which it is worthy, which is why its odometer reads around 239,000 miles. Given that level of care, it would come as no surprise if the built-in car phone can still send and receive calls.
Bid to $45,000 with just a couple hours to go, this M5 Touring may already be at its final sale price, as the high bid is already $500 above what the last M5 Touring sold for on Bring A Trailer. Then again, given the site's propensity for extracting shocking sums of money for otherwise pedestrian cars, this well-traveled M5 Touring's price may yet climb by thousands before the hammer falls this afternoon. Better make a quick call about a second mortgage if you want to help its valuation soar... Or find its new home in your garage.
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For Dana White, the end of UFC 229 was a horror movie that played out in real time. The UFC president would be amid a sea of fighting bodies, even though the main event was already over.
Following Khabib Nurmagomedov's fourth round submission win over Conor McGregor, a brawl would break out between both sides, with White looking at the potential undoing of two decades worth of work.
"For me personally, all the work I put that I put into this the last 20 years of my life… I didn't want to see it go down like that. I was upset about it. I was the only one. The rest of the world could care less," White told ESPN's Brett Okamoto in a recent interview.
"For me, it was just our biggest moment, the most people watching ever, and that's just not who we are. And it's not even who Khabib is. He said many time after the fight that he went crazy after the fight and it happens sometimes. This is the fight business.
Both Nurmagomedov and McGregor face possible sanctions and fines following a hearing by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on October 24th, with Nurmagomedov's $2 million purse still held by the commission.


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Staff spotlight: Coach Dominguez
This is Dominguez's first year at Dobie
MaryChristine Ngomba, Staff Reporter
Being an athletic Coach and a CCR (College and Career Readiness) teacher is definitely not an easy job to do, but Coach Justin Dominguez does it every day with patience and care. He is very active with his students in the gym and in the classroom. Students and staff know that he is caring, considerate and respectful with his students and colleagues. His students say that he is enjoyable to be around.
Coach Currie who teaches social studies, said it's optimism and positive that sets Coach Dominguez apart from others. "He always looks at the glass half full," he said. He empathizes and he always makes the best of the situation," said Coach Currie.
Coach Dominguez has a simple but incredible background. He grew up in the rural town of Taft, Tx, a South Texas town that calls itself "the friendliest cotton-picking town."
His family consists of three brothers (one older and two younger) and two dogs, Rugrat and Sonny. He said that he always appreciates his mother and grandmother because they always had delicious home-cooked meals for him at dinner.
Technology was not popular when he was growing up, so he spent most of his free time outside with his friends. He would play baseball, pick-up football games at his high school stadium or ride his bike around the neighborhood.
When he was a junior in High School, Coach Dominguez was in a terrible motorcycle accident. He was a varsity athlete on his football team. He remembers waking up in the hospital with so many "get well" cards with so much love from his team and Coaches. His Coaches and family were the ones who gathered the team and school members to meet at the hospital to support him. He knew from then on that, he wanted to impact lives like the coaches did for him.
He chose to go into the teaching field after tutoring several college classmates. His college classmates always mentioned that he made the math concepts easier to understand and he was good at relating it to the real world. A couple of years later, he majored in kinesiology and minored in mathematics. He also earned a Masters in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
A while back he had the opportunity to go back home and coach and teach in Taft, Texas and it was there that he developed his love for teaching and coaching. He said it was an incredible feeling being able to go back to his roots and give back to my community.
Coach Dominguez said the best part of his job is: "Being able to learn from [his] students every day."
For Dominguez, the biggest challenge of being a teacher and coach is the time. "It seems like there will never be enough time in the day when you are Coaching and teaching," he said, adding that balancing his time on each task is one of the only ways to overcome this challenge.
Antonio Padilla, an 8th grader on the B-football team, said that Coach Dominguez is a great coach who is passionate about what he does. "He is very responsible and energetic and he cares about the kids that he Coaches," he said.
Riley Thompson, an 8th grader on the B-football team, said that Coach Dominguez has made a big impact on him. "He is a mentor and role model because he helps me on the football field."
Dominguez said that he strives to do his best in and out of the classroom. "To be a great coach, you must also be a great teacher. Coaches dedicate their lives to teaching student-athletes how to be successful in the current sport but most importantly in life," he said. "The greatest feeling that I get as a coach is when my former student-athletes come back and shake my hand, look at me in the eyes, and tell me that I made a positive impact in their lives. As a coach, you are constantly teaching life long lessons such as being disciplined, living a healthy lifestyle, learning how to compete and showing sportsmanship."
Emma Alfred, 7th grader, said she is in Coach Dominguez's seventh period College and Career Readiness class. "He's very dedicated to his job. "If somebody messes up, he wants them to try harder. He's also a really funny teacher," she said.
Hailey Gorzell, 7th grader, is also in Coach Dominguez's seventh period College and Career Readiness class. "He is very positive and makes everybody laugh and he is my favorite teacher.
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Conan O'Brien returns to television with the premiere of "Conan" on TBS. Conan is an upcoming American late-night talk show, scheduled to premiere November 8, 2010. On TBS, Conan will air Mondays through Thursdays beginning at 11:00 p.m., and will be immediately followed by comedian George Lopez on his talk show, Lopez Tonight.
Conan's exact format is unknown, but it is expected to be somewhat similar to that of his Tonight Show and Late Night programs. Each episode of Conan will be 60 minutes long with commercials. Conan's hour-long 11pm timeslot will directly compete with Comedy Central's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as well as the first 25 minutes of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman.
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Reviving a midcentury modern Rummer house: First in a series (before, after photos)
Updated: Mar. 06, 2019, 8:11 a.m. |
Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive
People tend to stay put in the midcentury modern homes built by Robert Rummer. Not only does the tract developer's name have cachet, much like prolific California developer Joseph Eichler's, but those who live in Rummer homes, built from 1962 to 1977 in Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Clackamas, Gresham and other places, boast that the unique dwellings encourage a sense of community.
Neighbors compare the different floor plans – adjusted to make the most of the site – and get recommendations on repair professionals knowledgeable in dealing with the distinctive glass walls that erase boundaries between inside and out, and the tricky, radiant heating in concrete floors.
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Rummers were designed during the "Mad Men" era to make entertaining easy. Unlike most houses, Rummer living rooms are radically oriented toward the backyard, making them ripe for weekend patio parties.
The front has no porch to step up to or a picture window offering a hint of what's inside. Many Rummer models were based on plans by one of Eichler's architects, A. Quincy Jones.
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Paul Wolff bought his 1967 Robert Rummer-built home in Beaverton from a man who owned it for 30 years. Most of the house was original except vinyl siding had misguidedly been nailed over cedar-clad exterior walls and the in-floor heat had been dismantled and replaced with a HVAC unit installed on the extended roof.
The previous owner, and maybe the one before, collected railroad ties, and Wolff hauled off more than 100 of the worn logs when he was re-landscaping the yard. Now, the floor-to-ceiling windows in living room, kitchen and dining room frame views of terraced flower beds and seating areas surrounded by lavender and other fragrant plants.
During Wolff's first five years of living here, he made other repairs and improvements. He installed a new roof, siding and garage doors outside, and new, insulated walls inside. He remodeled the kitchen and two bathrooms, and refinished the concrete floors.
The front yard has a new driveway and a walkway. He also added a 200-square-foot multiuse room with a deck in the backyard. Nearby is a utility shed and covered firewood storage to feed the wood-burning fireplace in the living room.
"I am a bit exhausted just looking at the list," says Wolff. It was "a labor of love to be sure."
And now he's ready to sell. Wolff has put his property at 13910 S.W. Lisa Lane in the Menlo Park subdivision on the market for $550,000. The house has three bedrooms and 1,380 square feet of living space.
He is selling the 7,405-square-foot property himself and has created a website with information about the house and how to contact him to see it.
"All the work is done for you! Buy directly from the seller. Avoid competition or bidding for these sought-after homes," states the first slide in the website.
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[BEFORE The front of the Rummer-built home before Wolff bought the property in 2012.]
[BEFORE The carpeted living room before Wolff bought the property in 2012.]
[BEFORE The kitchen and dining area before Wolff bought the property in 2012.]
[BEFORE The kitchen before Wolff bought the property in 2012.]
[BEFORE One of the bathrooms before Wolff bought the property in 2012.]
[BEFORE The extended roof continues to provide shade to the interior of the house.]
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Read more about Robert Rummer and see photos of other models with enclosed and open atriums: Oregon's coolest midcentury modern houses: Builder Bob Rummer's enduring legacy (photos)
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Show us your cool midcentury modern Rummer home: After profiling Bob Rummer, who is 91, we heard from many people who regretted not buying one of his houses when they were new and priced at $25,000 to $32,000.
We also heard from many happy, longtime Rummer owners.
We're putting together a photo gallery of people inside their Robert Rummer-built homes. Email your photo, along with your name, city and the year your home was built to
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Q: Auto update Git Script I want to write a script that, after a git pull request, copies the pulled files to a different location.
I understand that I need to put the request in one of the hook files, either post-pull, post-merge or post-update.
I am however not sure how I will see which files are newly added with the pull and how to copy those files.

A: post-update is executed after a push was done on the remote repository where you pushed to. post-pull does not exist. What you want is post-merge if you use pull with merge, or post-rewrite if you use pull with rebase. But be aware that those hooks are not only called on pull, but on any merge, respectively on any rewriting commit like git commit --amend and so on. So you might want to add some additional condition as to when to execute your additional actions.
To find the changed files in the post-merge hook, you need to use normal Git commands, like git diff master@{1} master --name-status or similar.

A: А simple way is to create an alias for your git commands, which calls a wrapper script. The wrapper script will perform the git command and then use the specified parameters e.g. the filename for the copy operation.

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What happens at Drug Rehab in Griffithville AR?
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THE definitive, authoritative book on DSP - ideal for those with an introductory-level knowledge of signals and systems. Written by prominent, DSP pioneers, it provides thorough treatment of the fundamental theorems and properties of discrete-time linear systems, filtering, sampling, and discrete-time Fourier Analysis. By focusing on the general and universal concepts in discrete-time signal processing, it remains vital and relevant to the new challenges arising in the field - "without" limiting itself to specific technologies with relatively short life spans. FEATURES NEW-Provides a new chapter organization. NEW-Material on: Multi-rate filtering banks. The discrete cosine transform. Noise-shaping sampling strategies. NEW-Includes several dozen new problem-solving examples that not only illustrate key points, but demonstrate approaches to typical problems related to the material. NEW-Contains a wealth of "combat tested" problems which are the best produced over decades of undergraduate and graduate signal processing classes at MIT and Georgia Tech. NEW-Problems are completely reorganized by level of difficulty into separate categories: Basic Problems with Answers to allow the user to check their results, but not solutions (20 per chapter). Basic Problems - without answers. Advanced Problems. Extension Problems - start from the discussion in the book and lead the reader beyond to glimpse some advanced areas of signal processing. Covers the history of discrete-time signal processing as well as contemporary developments in the field. Discusses the wide range of present and future applications of the technology. Focuses on the general and universal concepts in discrete-time signal processing. Offers a wealth of problems and examples.
This book introduces and reviews all of the currently available methods being used for computational electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis, from the fundamentals through to the state-of-the-art. The aim of the book is to help biomedical engineers and medical doctors who use EEG to better understand the methods and applications of computational EEG analysis from a single, well-organized resource. Following a brief introduction to the principles of EEG and acquisition techniques, the book is divided into two main sections. The first of these covers analysis methods, beginning with preprocessing, and then describing EEG spectral analysis, event-related potential analysis, source imaging and multimodal neuroimaging, and functional connectivity analysis. The following section covers application of EEG analysis to specific fields, including the diagnosis of psychiatric diseases and neurological disorders, brain-computer interfacing, and social neuroscience. Aimed at practicing medical specialists, engineers, researchers and advanced students, the book features contributions from world-renowned biomedical engineers working across a broad spectrum of computational EEG analysis techniques and EEG applications.


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SUNDAY GATHERING
Children of the Promise
To the End of the Earth: Part 2
A Whole New You
'A Wise Turn' — Proverbs 1:20-33
'Primeval' — Genesis 1-11
'Servant of the Lord' – 1 Samuel 1-3
'The Great Commandment'—Matthew 22:33-40
'The Twelve'
'Who Are You Going to Serve?'—Matthew 6:24
'Ex-Con' — Romans 8
'Transmission—to the Seven Churches'
'Life in the House of God' – 1 Timothy
'Refugee Songs' — 5 Studies in the Psalms
'The Way of Jesus'
'The Will of God' — Proverbs 3:5-6
'Giving' – 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
'God Rules' – Daniel
'To the End of the Earth' – Acts
'Revelation' – Psalm 19
'Under The Sun' – Ecclesiastes
How (not) to Pray
'Life in a Broken World' – 1 Peter
'A Love Supreme' – Ruth
He Is Coming – Advent 2015
'Unveiled' – The Gospel of Mark
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Week 3: "Tribulation" — Acts 14
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Week: 8: "Foundation" — Acts 17:1-15
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Week 11: "Succession" — Acts 18:24-19:10
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Temný psytrance (angl. Dark psytrance) má rychlejší tempo okolo 150–160 Bpm. Vyznačuje se svými dlouhými nemelodickými plochami spíše psychedelických tvarů, které jsou v sobě propleteny v krásných vzorcích. Na parties se tento druh psytrancu hraje při vrcholu akce, tj. od půlnoci tak do dvou hodin. Poté se zvolňuje a zpomaluje, nastupuje morning – ranní psytrance pro uklidnění a navrácení.

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William Robinson was one of two Members of the Parliament of England for the constituency of York between 1584 and 1586 and then again between 1588 and 1593.

Life and politics

William was born in 1534. He married Isabel Redman, daughter of John Redman who came from Fulworth. They had a two sons, Thomas and William, and two daughters, Frances and Jane. Frances married the York Alderman, Robert Harrison. Jane was married twice. Firstly to Richard Herbert, a York merchant and secondly to Robert Corney, a medical doctor. His son Thomas died unmarried in 1625. His other son William, married Margaret, the daughter of John Jenkins. His wife Isabel died in 1590. He married again to Frances, daughter of Thomas Harrison, a York merchant.

William was made a freeman of the city . He also held several offices in the city. Notably those of chamberlain (1563–64); sheriff (1568–69 and 1607–08); alderman and Lord mayor (1581–82 and 1594–95). As an Alderman, he represented the Parish of St Crux. He was a wealthy merchant whose trade was mainly in the region of Denmark and Sweden, known as the Sound. He had resided in Hamburg for several years in his career as a merchant before settling in York. He was chosen to be MP for the city on two occasions. Firstly in 1584 and then again in 1588. According to records he had several disagreements with various merchants in the city.

William died in 1616 and was buried in St Crux church in York. His will bears witness to his wealth. In it there is mention of various properties in the city that included the inn "Sign of the Panyers" in Walmgate as well as houses in St Saviourgate and Hungate. He also owned orchards in Aldwark and Hungate as well as land on Bootham Common. In his will he also gave eighty pounds and a silver bowl to the city, as well as forty pounds to the Merchants Company.

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16th-century English politicians
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English MPs 1586–1587
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1616 deaths
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(Bloomberg) -- On any given evening, after Mark Hart and his wife have put their kids to bed, he'll duck into his bedroom closet and close the door behind him. Then, by pixel-light, he goes to work. Hart, a hedge fund manager in Fort Worth, has a single fixation: the Chinese yuan. And at 9 p.m. Texas time, China's financial markets are in full-throated roar 13 time zones away.
Surrounded by shirts and pants—the closet is more convenient than his basement office—Hart, 44, talks to Hong Kong, parsing the latest numbers and the scuttlebutt from Beijing and Shanghai. In the seven years since this all started, he might as well have learned Mandarin. (All three of his children speak the language now, unlike their old man.) Doggedness has cost him millions—not to mention investors, employees, and, at times, damn near his sanity. But he won't, or maybe can't, let go now.
Hart says China is headed for a fall.
Sure, others in finance think so, too—now. But Hart, who's little known outside a small hedge fund clique despite making a fortune on the U.S. housing bust and predicting the euro zone debt crisis, got in early on the China bear trade with currency options and held on. And on. And on. To some, he's ahead of the curve. To others, he's so far behind it he seems to have lost his way.
The world of finance can reward the bold, but it can also devour those whose conviction bends toward obsession. On one level, Hart's story is a familiar tale of one man's attempt to navigate those shoals. On another, it's much more than that—an up-close-and-personal account illustrating one of the most important economic stories of our time: the ongoing tug of war between the free hand of the global marketplace and the Communist Party of China, which has sought to harness the power of capitalism without quite submitting to its will. In both stories, the ending remains unwritten.
Hart's case, in a nutshell, is this: China's currency is wildly overvalued. By some accounts, the yuan's real effective exchange rate vs. the dollar is twice as high as it was two decades ago and almost 40 percent higher than it was in 2008. Hart foresees a one-off devaluation of at least 30 percent, maybe more, with consequences worse than those of the global financial crisis. Otherwise, he says, Beijing will just burn through foreign exchange reserves trying to fight a losing battle.
Hart might as well be talking about himself: He's trudged through the valleys, felt the pains. Before he started betting against the yuan, his hedge fund, Corriente Advisors, managed $1.9 billion. He started the Fort Worth outfit, named after a breed of cattle used mainly for rodeo events such as bulldogging, in 2001, at 29. Employing a top-down approach to investing, he analyzed economic trends, studied price charts, and spoke with people to gauge sentiment. He did pretty well for himself, too, posting an annualized return of 30 percent through 2006 on rising markets.
Then he and his friend Kyle Bass, another, more famous Dallas-area hedge fund manager, cleaned up in the subprime mortgage bust. They bet against the market and sextupled their money in little more than a year. In 2007, Hart turned his gaze across the Atlantic and bet—correctly again—that European government bonds were headed for trouble. Some investors saw their money double. In short order, he'd made billions for clients. Then he set his sights on China.
It seems so long ago now. Even shutting his main hedge fund in 2012 and giving investors their money back after losses seems ages ago. Hart's contrarian ideas previously had gotten him laughed out of meetings with investors and bankers, but "he was laughed out the hardest on the China trade," says Adam Rodman, who worked as an analyst at Corriente until 2012 and now runs a hedge fund his former boss has backed. For a time, as the markets moved against him, Hart almost couldn't bring himself to watch.
Yet on this warm May afternoon, he's relaxed, walking barefoot around his office in a converted warehouse he owns on the outskirts of downtown. Hart is Texas born and bred, a product of the University of Texas at Austin, but his vibe is more Brooklyn hipster than Texas oilman. A lean 6-foot-2, he gives off a chill surfer-dude air.
Here, in the 24,000-square-foot space far from the canyons of Wall Street, he has a gym, a rec room, and an art gallery. A chalk-on-blackboard copy of The Raft of the Medusa, that icon of 19th century French Romanticism, dominates one wall of his lair. Joel Sternfeld photographs hang on the others. The bric-a-brac runs from vinyl records (the White Stripes are a favorite) to a teapot in the shape of Ronald Reagan with a green Mao hat sitting on top. A couple of slacklines are installed. Next door, in a second warehouse, he's got a half-pipe for skateboarding.
Hart pretty much has the run of the place. Corriente has only five employees, down from 25 in 2008. He's not bitter, at least not anymore. After all, he had a hell of a run. And if this trade pans out, he says, he may make a full comeback to the hedge fund industry.
To understand how he got here, you have to go back to November 2008. That was when China first caught his attention. Lehman Brothers had just collapsed. Markets everywhere were reeling—except in Shanghai. Over there, the stock market started rallying. Why? Hart was puzzled, yet everybody from George Soros to Marc Faber seemed to be talking China up in early 2009.
By December 2009, all that prying had helped him formulate his strategy. Hart's big play: currency options that would pay off if the yuan fell sharply. About $225 million from investors poured into his China fund, a "special purpose vehicle" with a set mandate and time period. He used the money to buy contracts as far out as two years. It was, in the scheme of things, a relatively safe bet: If he was right, the payoff would be huge. If he was wrong, the options—bought for a few basis points—would expire worthless. Hart couldn't blow up; he could only bleed to death. With the yuan trading at about 6.8 to the dollar, he figured he'd give his plan five or so years to work out.
With that, all those restless nights began.
Hart takes exception to being known as a China-basher and clarifies that he's not betting against the country's central bank, with its $3.2 trillion currency hoard. In fact, he says, he shares the same position as the PBOC: long dollar, short yuan.
Hart talks with intensity about his trade, spanning topics from Premier Xi Jinping's grip on power to the implied volatility of options. He says China experienced an unsustainable economic boom that attracted substantial foreign capital inflows and fueled excessive credit growth. The resulting imbalances—over-investment, asset-price bubbles—leave it vulnerable to a massive correction. You might assume he developed these ideas on the ground, but he's actually never set foot on the mainland. "You're just subjecting yourself to hearing what they want you to hear," says Hart, who's opted to send his analysts instead. The closest he's come is Hong Kong—an "adult Disneyland," he quips.
The Texan concedes his trading style isn't for everyone—and sometimes, it turns out, it isn't even for him. After starting to bet on the yuan's fall in 2009, Hart watched as the currency moved in the opposite direction. A year passed. Then two. Then three. Then four. He was accustomed to making clients billions, yet here he was watching hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of yuan options sink down the plughole. "Sometimes, to our detriment, we looked at these investment ideas not just as work, but as life's work," says Rodman, his former analyst.
By late 2012 the yuan was still moving against him, strengthening almost 10 percent against the dollar since he started his wager. With stress taking its toll, Hart took a break to clear his mind. He kept a journal. He read Hemingway. Finally he concluded he couldn't keep juggling every ball. After 11 years, Hart shut his main hedge fund and gave investors their money back. His European fund then expired, after losses.
"I blame myself. I'm the one who f---ed it up," he says, raising his voice and shifting in his chair. "One big mistake that I made was that I believed China would recognize that it would be in their best interest to stop defending their currency once it became apparent that the days of foreign exchange inflows were over.
Closing his main fund was one of the best decisions he's ever made, Hart says: "It was incredibly liberating." He pulled himself together, using Brazilian jiujitsu as an outlet. He went as close to vegetarian as a Texan can, barely touched alcohol, and made breakfast a regular ordeal: a few forkfuls of sauerkraut (fuel for a healthy gut); sardines and eggs (paleo staples); a vegetable drink; and a protein shake.
Then, in early 2014, the yuan began weakening. Hart held his breath, hoping to see the epic devaluation he'd long expected. He didn't have much time left; the China fund, all he had left, was nearing its end. In January 2015, he went so far as to tell clients that a devaluation was imminent. He hoped to raise more money, but there was little uptake. "Mark Hart fatigue," he says. The fund expired in June 2015 without turning a profit. He hung his head and took the summer off.
Two months later, in August, China devalued the yuan by more than it had since it ended a dual-currency system in 1994. Shock waves rippled across global markets as the currency weakened 1.8 percent on Aug. 11. That might seem minuscule, but even hardened China watchers were stunned, with Khoon Goh, head of Asia research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, saying he initially assumed financial news wires had published the wrong exchange rate.
That thesis happens to remain in play. Last September, Hart decided to take another stab at shorting the yuan and opened another China fund, raising about $50 million. Since then, others have taken aim at the currency—including David Tepper, Bill Ackman, and Bass, who's started his own China fund. Bill Gross, the former star of Pimco now at Janus Capital Group, likened the pressure on the yuan to the 1992 attack on the British pound that turned Soros into the man who broke the Bank of England. Shorting the currency became such a crowded trade, in fact, that early this year China's central bank went on the offensive to drive out speculators.
Hart hadn't put all of his money to work when the PBOC tightened capital controls, intervened in currency markets, and waged a verbal campaign to support the exchange rate. Hedge funds run by Dan Loeb and Paul Singer were among those posting losses on the trade, which Hart says he avoided. And he's since slowly added to his wager, buying yuan options a month or two into the future. "My mindset has been much better on China," he says. "I've been a lot more willing to accept government action." The currency has continued to weaken, hitting its lowest in more than five years on July 18. Even so, things may be turning around in China, with data from gross domestic product to retail sales fueling optimism that economic growth will steady. Foreign exchange strategists tracked by Bloomberg say the yuan will drop just 1 percent vs. the dollar by yearend, while the central bank has pledged stability against a basket of currencies.
Outside, the temperature in Fort Worth is approaching 90F. Hart hasn't touched the water bottle in front of him. Later, in the gym, he grapples with his jiujitsu instructor. He employs a body lock, making his instructor tap out before releasing him. "He let me win," Hart says, laughing. Will China?


"Welcome to 666 Main Street," the striking dark-haired young woman intoned with a bright smile. "Satan's Own Shopping Strip."
Hi, my name is Ani Gonzalez. I write paranormal romantic comedy and cozy mystery and Silver Dagger Scriptorium has kindly agreed to host the book tour for Here Comes the Witch, the first book in my Main Street Witches cozy mystery (with lots of romance) series.
Main Street Witches is a spin off of my haunted town romantic comedy series, Banshee Creek. Three witches head to America's Most Haunted Town to open up businesses, and find romance and mystery along the way. The series was inspired by my love of all things witchy (just like Banshee Creek arose out of my enthusiasm for all things haunted).
I've been a witch fan for a long time, so I've had a lot of inspiration come my way. Here are my top five magical ladies. They all (in one way or another) inspired the Main Street Witches series.
1. The Charmed Ones – I've been a lifelong Charmed fan and it is still one of my favorite television series. I love the interaction between the sisters, and when I wrote my series I knew I had to have three witches. The girls are not sisters, but they may as well be. Here Comes the Witch even features a magical house, just like the Halliwell Manor.
2. Witches of East End – This series stole my heart. Again, three witches and a fantastic house (hmmm, can you identify a theme?). I love the triad interactions in this series too.
3. Bell, Book, and Candle's Gillian Holroyd – This is my favorite movie of all time. I love the hidden witch society and the Manhattan flavor in the movie. Kim Novak's portrayal is fantastic, but her cat, Piewacket, steals the show.
4. Morticia in The Addams Family – A family centered witch? Sign me up. Her quirky romance with Gomes is definitely #lifegoals.
5. Endora from Bewitched. – I want to be Endora when I grow up.
Do you have any favorite witch characters? Share them with me in the comments.


The Master of Science degree in Liberal Studies offers students an opportunity for intellectual growth and career enhancement through innovative, student-centered interdisciplinary study. It is a flexible alternative to a disciplinary degree that provides students opportunities to design curricula that will be of direct benefit to them in their chosen career. The program is designed to allow students from a variety of academic backgrounds to explore a broad range of subjects. While the program's content will differ for each student, it will serve to broaden the individual's perspective and enhance their ability to think critically, clearly, and analytically. All students must choose one of three areas of study: Humanities (includes courses in English, history, humanities, and philosophy), Natural Sciences and Mathematics (includes courses in biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, and physics), and Social Sciences (includes courses in anthropology, economics, and sociology). The Master of Science degree in Liberal Studies is a fully accredited graduate degree program approved by the New York State Education Department. The program can be used for New York State-certified teachers with initial certification to achieve professional certification. Students may enroll full-time or part-time, spring, summer, and fall. For more information about this program, contact John Rowe, executive director of graduate admissions, at (315) 792-3010, or by e-mail at gradadmissions@utica.edu.
Complete a research topic incorporating more than one academic discipline.
Think critically about a social issue using perspectives derived from more than one academic discipline.
Analyze a topic using an interdisciplinary approach.
Communicate effectively in writing and orally by completing a master's thesis and defending it effectively.
There are three areas of study within the M.S.L.S. program: Humanities (includes courses in English, history, humanities, and philosophy), Natural Sciences and Mathematics (includes courses in biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, and physics), and Social Sciences (includes courses in anthropology, economics, and sociology).
Take LST 604 - Graduate Liberal Studies Seminar (3) during the first 15 credit hours.
Take LST 603 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research (3) during the first 15 credit hours.
Take a minimum of four courses (12 credits) in one of the three areas of study. Students develop an interdisciplinary program of study that must be approved by the major professor in consultation with the thesis committee. Write a thesis or research project or complete a set of comprehensive exams. Students opting to write a thesis or research project must take LST 691 - Research I (3,6) and LST 692 - Research II (3,6) which will help students complete their thesis or research project. Students are encouraged to determine a thesis or research project topic as early as possible in their program. Projects must be approved by the student's thesis committee.
Students wishing to take comprehensive exams must submit a request that details why a comprehensive exam is more appropriate to their program of study than a thesis or project. This request must also include the fields of study the student believes are most appropriate to this exam and how the fields interrelate. If the exam option is approved by both the thesis committee and the M.S.L.S. committee, the thesis adviser will write two of the four questions for the exam. Two additional questions will be written by other members of the thesis committee. Once the written portion of the comprehensive exams is passed, students will then undergo an oral examination with their committee members. Students taking comprehensive exams will take LST 691 - Research I (3,6) and one additional course.
Select 12 credit hours at the graduate level (500 and above) from a single Area of Study.
Select three courses from the list above, preferably from other areas of study, or other graduate courses with approval of major professor.