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The Sting of Death
Life and death are a reality from which none can escape. We read of tragic sudden deaths due to automobile accidents. In the nightly news, there are accounts of murders and fatalities in house fires and drownings. In the local newspapers, we find the obituaries of the recently deceased, both young and old.
Most people hope to die well, or at least to have what Emily Dickinson called "a tame death of simplicity." Some make final preparations. Priests arrive to administer extreme unction and the last rites and to comfort those who are left behind. Pastors call to consult the family about memorial services at the church. Funeral services commend the dead to the care of the eternal God and convey hope of immortality to those sitting in the pews.
Throughout the ages, death has been regarded as a natural event. In many societies it is sanitized and hidden, the province of medical practitioners and hospice care givers. In some cultures, people are told to develop a mindfulness of death as a way to detach from the world. In Buddhist and Hindu societies the body is something to be cast off.
Unlike the religions that seek to escape the material world, Christianity and Judaism value the body and believe it is not to be destroyed beyond the processes that are natural to death. Jews do not cremate and traditionally Christians to not cremate as this is seen as an un-natural process of destruction. Both Jews and Christians practice primary and sometimes secondary burial. It is common for Christian monastic communities to gather the bones of the deceased monks for secondary burial in a charnel house.
In the Middle Ages, Europeans were reminded of the reality of death by skulls and crucifixes. Alixe Bovey provides an excellent description of the Medieval preoccupation:
Death was at the centre of life in the Middle Ages in a way that might seem shocking to us today. With high rates of infant mortality, disease, famine, the constant presence of war, and the inability of medicine to deal with common injuries, death was a brutal part of most people's everyday experience. As a result, attitudes towards life were very much shaped by beliefs about death: indeed, according to Christian tradition, the very purpose of life was to prepare for the afterlife by avoiding sin, performing good works, taking part in the sacraments, and keeping to the teachings of the church. Time was measured out in saint's days, which commemorated the days on which the holiest men and women had died. Easter, the holiest feast day in the Christian calendar, celebrated the resurrection of Christ from the dead. The landscape was dominated by parish churches - the centre of the medieval community - and the churchyard was the principal burial site.
Skulls of monks who lived at St.Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mt. Sinai
Robert Hertz, an anthropologist who studied secondary burial rites in Borneo and Indonesia believes that the final transition to the status of ancestor comes when the flesh is gone and only the bones remain. The bones are gathered and placed with the ancestors in a permanent burial site.
This was the practice of the Hebrew ruler-priest caste. When the flesh of the High Priest Caiaphas was gone, his bones were placed in an ossuary and at that point he could be said to be resting in the
bosom of Abraham.
The ossuary box of Caiaphas
In Ezekiel 37, God addresses the dry bones:
Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them: 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"
Hertz saw this transition from buried wet flesh to collected dry bones as a refusal to regard death as irrevocable. He writes, "..the last word must remain with life."
The phrase "life and death" is a merism that expresses all human existence and experience. However, "life and death" also represents a binary set in the Bible and in that context, life is posed as greater than death.
Among people groups who have shamans, the rites of passages from the living to the dead represent transformation and continuity since the shaman is trained to consult the dead through the agency of spirits. This is motivated by grief and by the veneration of the ancestors. The veneration of ancestors is a powerful motivation to focus on the dead. Christian missionaries find the greatest resistance to their Gospel of Life among people for whom this is a sacred trust. The astute will find a way to connect the Messianic message of deliverance from death to the wisdom of the ancestors. This is easier for missionaries who have retained the catholic faith than for Protestants and most Evangelicals.
In the Church, we remember those who have gone before us who are "in Christ" at All Hallows or All Saints. We rejoice that they now "rest in peace" and that their repose is beyond human grasp. Yet we are still one in the Body of Christ and in the Communion of Saints.
Geoffrey Gorer and David Cannadine studied the effects of the catastrophic loss of human life on the battle fields of Europe's great wars. Indeed, in many European countries the grief was so profound that people were desperate to communicate with their lost loved ones and turned to mediums.
With the absence of bodies over which to mourn, this was a time in Britain when there was a significant rise in spiritualism, spiritualist churches, and the practice of holding séances in the hope of having 'dialogues' with the dead. In a way, the direction of travel was opposite to that described by Vitebsky for the Sora – whereas the Sora turned away from their dead as active in their lives, British mourners, with the help of spiritualists, actively sought them out. Crucially, the First World War not only changed a nation's relationship with death but also, for a time at least, its relationship with the dead. (From here.)
In England it was the Anglo-Catholics who were best equipped to resist spiritualism. They retained prayers for the dead, the commemoration of the saints, and the doctrine of the Communion of Saints. Because the English Reformers condemned prayers for the dead, the age old practice was of no service in this time of spiritual and pastoral crisis. The Broad churchmen of the Church of England won the day with their liberal theology, but lost the souls whose care they were to make their first priority. The Evangelicals had a more hopeful message, as they believed in the bodily resurrection and "the life of the world to come."
The pastoral crisis has been described in Rene Kollar's book Searching for Raymond: Anglicanism, Spiritualism, and Bereavement Between the Two World Wars. Richard J. Mammana wrote an excellent review of the book which appeared in Touchstone Magazine in April 2002. Mammana sets the stage for the review with this explanation:
Despite the heroic actions of dedicated priests in the trenches, a spiritual vacuum haunted many of the men who returned from the Great War. This vacuum likewise haunted the homes whose hearths they left empty when they died "over there." Into this void stepped a series of religious fads, loosely based, as all heresies are, on some aspects of the Christian faith bent out of shape. Prominent laymen—among them Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—promoted the idea that spiritualism and Christianity were not by any means at odds, but rather were complementary and even essential to one another. Hungry audiences devoured the deception, and clergymen weak in their own understanding of Christian doctrine willingly adopted the relation as well.
The first Lambeth Conference after the Great War addressed itself in earnest to the challenges raised by "Some Movements Outside the Church," including spiritualism, Christian Science, and Theosophy. This conference, the same one that condemned artificial methods of birth control, said that these movements "are clearly shewn to involve serious error" when "tried by the doctrines of the Incarnation and the Cross." It "urge[d] strongly that a larger place should be given in the teaching of the Church to the explanation of the true grounds of Christian belief in eternal life, and in immortality, and of the true content of belief in the Communion of Saints as involving real fellowship with the departed through the love of God in Christ Jesus."
The Church of England failed to meet the pastoral need of millions of grieving people because it had lost an essential message:
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38, 39)
In 1937, Archbishop William Cosmo Gordon Lang established a committee "to discuss the relationship, if any, between spiritualism and the traditional teachings of the Anglican Church." As Archbishop of Canterbury during the abdication of 1936, Archbishop Lang was faced with crisis upon crisis, not the least of which was the popularity of spiritualism. Although Archbishop Lang took a strong moral tone toward the failure of duty of Edward VIII in abdicating the throne, he reopened the question of spiritualism by forming the committee.
The committee delivered its report in 1939, but its findings were not made public until 1979. As Mammana notes, "The "Conclusions of the Majority" reveal a shocking discovery of inherent value in spiritualist practices. One paragraph merits quotation without comment:
It is often held that the practice of Spiritualism is dangerous to the mental balance, as well as to the spiritual condition, of those who take part in it, and it is clearly true that there are cases where it has become obsessional in character. But it is very difficult to judge in these cases whether the uncritical and unwise type of temperament which does undoubtedly show itself in certain spiritualists is a result or a cause of their addiction to these practices. Psychologically it is probable that persons in a condition of mental disturbance, or lack of balance, would very naturally use the obvious opportunities afforded by Spiritualism as a means of expressing the repressed emotions which have caused their disorder. This indeed is true of Christianity itself, which frequently becomes an outlet, not only for cranks, but for persons who are definitely of unstable mentality.
The committee closed with the recommendation of a sort of ecumenism between the Church of England and the spiritualist movement: "It is in our opinion important that representatives of the Church should keep in touch with groups of intelligent persons who believe in Spiritualism."
Evelyn Underhill, who had been on the committee, resigned, stating that she was "very strongly opposed to spiritualism... especially to any tendency on the part of the Church to recognize or encourage it."
Another factor that undermines the Christian hope is individualism, the desire to "plough one's own social furrow" and to pursue spiritual things independently. The trend is dying as young people seek to be connected and are afraid to be alone. However, their mediator is not a warm-blooded priest or pastor who points them to the hope of immortality. It is an electronic device carried everywhere and pointing to everything.
In the ancient world, the ruler-priest was regarded as the mediator between God and the community. If God turned His face away from the ruler, the people suffered from want and war. If the ruler found favor with God, the people experienced abundance and peace. The ruler was expected to intercede for his people before God in life and in death. The ruler's resurrection meant that he could lead his people beyond the grave to new life. This is why great pains were taken to insure that the ruler not come into contact with dead bodies, avoid sexual impurity, and be properly preserved after death. The ruler's burial was attended by prayers, sacrifices and a grand procession to the royal tomb.
The New Testament speaks about Jesus as the ruler-priest. He is the firstborn from the grave and by his resurrection He delivers to the Father a "peculiar people." He leads us in royal procession to the Father where we receive heavenly recognition because we belong to Him.
Heavenly recognition for the Hebrew was never an individual prospect. Heavenly recognition came to the people through the righteousness of their ruler-priest. Horite Hebrew rulers took this seriously, some more than others. The best were heavenly minded and the worst were so earthy minded that they shed much blood enlarging their territories. All failed to be the Ruler-Priest who rose from the dead. None has the power to deliver captives from the grave and to lead them to the throne of heaven (Ps. 68:18; Ps. 7:7; Eph. 4:8). That one true Priest and King is Jesus Messiah, the Son of God, who has trampled down death by death.
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"
Related reading: The Tragedy of James Pike; The Death of Individualism; Christianity Lacks Originality; Burial Practices of the Rulers of Old
Posted by Alice C. Linsley at 11:31 AM
Labels: death, secondary burial


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Q: Check if two variables are in the Database Kotlin I am currently working on a website with kotlin xhtml and sql.
I just made a Register Website which writes all the values from the User(Name,username,password etc.) in a database.
Now i want to code a login page.I made two forms (username and password).
Now i want to check if these values exist in my Database and if they are from the Same User.
This is my Database Structure
This is my Code:
fun logincheckdata(ctx: Context){
    ctx.html(
        Page {
            val loginusernameValue = ctx.formParam(loginusernamefield)
            val loginpasswordValue = ctx.formParam(loginpasswordfield)
            if (
                loginpasswordValue == null
                || usernamefield == null
            ){
                Head {
                    title{
                        +"Login Failed"
                    }
                }
                Body{
                    div {
                        +"Please fill out all gaps!"
                    }
                    div {
                        form {
                            action = "./"
                            label {
                                button {
                                    type = ButtonType.submit
                                    + "Back to Login"
                                }
                            }
                        }

                    }
                }
            }else{
            }

        }
    )

}

And I want to Check if the variables loginusernameValue and loginpasswordValue are in my Database.
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Q: Replicate excel.correl() using pandas.corr() / pandas.corrwith() I need to replicate some calculations made in excel into a jupyter notebook.
At some point, I need to obtain the pearson's correlation coef. between some data and I get different values to those previously calculated via excel.correl().
My data look like this:
TG --> pd.Series with a DatetimeIndex

DF --> pd.Dataframe with DatetimeIndex

I need to evaluate the correlation between TG from 31/01/2012 and 31/03/2022 with every feature in DF from 31/10/2011 to 31/12/2021
The expected results are (this are the results obtained using excel.correl():

A-TG
B-TG
C-TG
D-TG

-0.23638
-0.60874
0.300791
0.323906

The results that I get are:
| A-TG | B-TG | C-TG | D-TG |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| -0.12435 | -0.48343 | 0.24388 | 0.267006 |
I have tried several approaches, but I always get the same results:
# Set DATE as index
df = df.set_index(df.columns[0])
tg = tg.set_index(tg.columns[0])

# Turn tg into a pd.Series
tg = tg.squeeze()

# Keep only the dates needed
df_filtered = df.loc[period, :]

# APPROACH 1/ Evaluate correlation between pd.DataFRame and pd.Series
df_filtered.corrwith(tg, method='pearson', axis=0)

# APPROACH 2/ Evaluate correlation between pd.Series
for feature in df_filtered.columns:
   tg.corr(df_filtered[feature], method='pearson')

I am unable to find the bug :S

The actual data to replicate the case is:
python           : 3.9.7.final.0
pandas           : 1.3.4
numpy            : 1.20.3

DATE
TG

DATE
A
B
C
D

31/03/2010
-0.02808
0.08157
1.09240
1.13754

30/04/2010
0.03116
0.07408
1.25820
1.31226

31/05/2010
0.09041
0.06659
1.42400
1.48699

30/06/2010
0.14966
0.05910
1.58980
1.66171

31/07/2010
0.08277
0.04247
1.71114
1.83268

31/08/2010
0.01588
0.02584
1.83248
2.00364

30/09/2010
-0.05101
0.00921
1.95383
2.17460

31/10/2010
-0.01163
-0.01815
2.15281
2.33205

30/11/2010
0.02774
-0.04551
2.35180
2.48949

31/12/2010
0.06712
-0.07287
2.55078
2.64694

31/01/2011
-0.00719
-0.11757
2.86213
2.76271

28/02/2011
-0.08150
-0.16226
3.17347
2.87849

31/03/2011
-0.15580
-0.20696
3.48482
2.99427

30/04/2011
-0.20956
-0.26394
3.48759
3.03221

31/05/2011
-0.26332
-0.32092
3.49037
3.07015

30/06/2011
-0.31709
-0.37790
3.49314
3.10809

31/07/2011
-0.42740
-0.43784
3.35046
3.07292

31/08/2011
-0.53771
-0.49778
3.20777
3.03774

30/09/2011
-0.64802
-0.55772
3.06509
3.00256

31/10/2011
-0.64815
-0.60624
2.96156
2.93106

30/11/2011
-0.64828
-0.65475
2.85804
2.85956

31/12/2011
-0.64841
-0.70327
2.75451
2.78806

31/01/2012
3.69389

31/01/2012
-0.74478
-0.73350
2.48871
2.72225

29/02/2012
3.81455

29/02/2012
-0.84115
-0.76373
2.22290
2.65644

31/03/2012
3.76429

31/03/2012
-0.93752
-0.79396
1.95710
2.59063

30/04/2012
3.95121

30/04/2012
-0.94533
-0.79446
1.96019
2.56973

31/05/2012
3.75275

31/05/2012
-0.95314
-0.79497
1.96328
2.54883

30/06/2012
3.69353

30/06/2012
-0.96095
-0.79548
1.96637
2.52793

31/07/2012
3.83796

31/07/2012
-0.81060
-0.76680
2.23017
2.53836

31/08/2012
3.85548

31/08/2012
-0.66024
-0.73812
2.49397
2.54879

30/09/2012
3.92069

30/09/2012
-0.50989
-0.70944
2.75777
2.55921

31/10/2012
3.92529

31/10/2012
-0.59409
-0.66589
2.86889
2.54059

30/11/2012
3.76602

30/11/2012
-0.67830
-0.62234
2.98002
2.52198

31/12/2012
3.98320

31/12/2012
-0.76251
-0.57878
3.09114
2.50336

31/01/2013
3.81506

31/01/2013
-0.61486
-0.51805
2.93460
2.41186

28/02/2013
4.01649

28/02/2013
-0.46722
-0.45732
2.77805
2.32037

31/03/2013
3.91483

31/03/2013
-0.31957
-0.39659
2.62151
2.22887

30/04/2013
3.71580

30/04/2013
-0.24223
-0.33168
2.32223
2.06965

31/05/2013
3.64345

31/05/2013
-0.16489
-0.26676
2.02295
1.91043

30/06/2013
3.65837

30/06/2013
-0.08754
-0.20185
1.72367
1.75122

31/07/2013
3.43966

31/07/2013
-0.07661
-0.13934
1.55302
1.56215

31/08/2013
3.41697

31/08/2013
-0.06569
-0.07683
1.38237
1.37308

30/09/2013
3.31030

30/09/2013
-0.05476
-0.01432
1.21171
1.18401

31/10/2013
3.19185

31/10/2013
0.01906
0.04873
0.85056
1.00067

30/11/2013
3.30699

30/11/2013
0.09287
0.11178
0.48941
0.81733

31/12/2013
3.10066

31/12/2013
0.16669
0.17484
0.12826
0.63399

31/01/2014
3.06357

31/01/2014
0.23357
0.23800
0.08941
0.49426

28/02/2014
2.88065

28/02/2014
0.30045
0.30117
0.05056
0.35453

31/03/2014
2.99506

31/03/2014
0.36733
0.36433
0.01171
0.21480

30/04/2014
3.00132

30/04/2014
0.39937
0.42651
0.08100
0.11443

31/05/2014
2.76874

31/05/2014
0.43142
0.48868
0.15029
0.01405

30/06/2014
2.79435

30/06/2014
0.46346
0.55085
0.21957
-0.08632

31/07/2014
2.80763

31/07/2014
0.55570
0.61118
0.03659
-0.16852

31/08/2014
2.81283

31/08/2014
0.64794
0.67151
-0.14639
-0.25072

30/09/2014
2.78147

30/09/2014
0.74018
0.73184
-0.32937
-0.33292

31/10/2014
2.75650

31/10/2014
0.77955
0.78218
-0.38732
-0.39264

30/11/2014
2.93113

30/11/2014
0.81892
0.83252
-0.44526
-0.45236

31/12/2014
2.71342

31/12/2014
0.85829
0.88286
-0.50321
-0.51208

31/01/2015
2.67466

31/01/2015
0.95466
0.91577
-0.67513
-0.54471

28/02/2015
2.78392

28/02/2015
1.05103
0.94869
-0.84705
-0.57734

31/03/2015
2.76380

31/03/2015
1.14741
0.98160
-1.01896
-0.60997

30/04/2015
2.62233

30/04/2015
1.12260
0.98759
-0.76396
-0.61017

31/05/2015
2.52721

31/05/2015
1.09779
0.99359
-0.50896
-0.61037

30/06/2015
2.41951

30/06/2015
1.07298
0.99958
-0.25395
-0.61057

31/07/2015
2.38529

31/07/2015
1.01863
0.98298
-0.30641
-0.60708

31/08/2015
2.31675

31/08/2015
0.96428
0.96638
-0.35887
-0.60358

30/09/2015
2.24081

30/09/2015
0.90993
0.94978
-0.41133
-0.60009

31/10/2015
2.17636

31/10/2015
0.92956
0.92103
-0.38139
-0.59193

30/11/2015
2.16153

30/11/2015
0.94918
0.89228
-0.35145
-0.58376

31/12/2015
2.13278

31/12/2015
0.96881
0.86353
-0.32151
-0.57560

31/01/2016
2.11956

31/01/2016
0.87180
0.82975
-0.43365
-0.54605

29/02/2016
2.30230

29/02/2016
0.77480
0.79597
-0.54578
-0.51650

31/03/2016
2.09598

31/03/2016
0.67779
0.76219
-0.65791
-0.48696

30/04/2016
2.15859

30/04/2016
0.59174
0.73928
-0.75369
-0.39815

31/05/2016
1.94875

31/05/2016
0.50569
0.71636
-0.84946
-0.30934

30/06/2016
1.92353

30/06/2016
0.41964
0.69345
-0.94523
-0.22053

31/07/2016
2.00207

31/07/2016
0.57538
0.69026
-0.69149
-0.04881

31/08/2016
2.12461

31/08/2016
0.73112
0.68707
-0.43775
0.12290

30/09/2016
2.16093

30/09/2016
0.88687
0.68388
-0.18401
0.29461

31/10/2016
2.17930

31/10/2016
0.74607
0.68646
0.20201
0.51247

30/11/2016
2.18244

30/11/2016
0.60527
0.68904
0.58804
0.73032

31/12/2016
2.17401

31/12/2016
0.46447
0.69163
0.97406
0.94818

31/01/2017
2.15777

31/01/2017
0.57431
0.70294
1.56385
1.13554

28/02/2017
2.09130

28/02/2017
0.68416
0.71425
2.15364
1.32291

31/03/2017
2.17082

31/03/2017
0.79401
0.72556
2.74343
1.51027

30/04/2017
2.26104

30/04/2017
0.88723
0.72964
2.49479
1.59265

31/05/2017
2.39198

31/05/2017
0.98046
0.73371
2.24614
1.67503

30/06/2017
2.37748

30/06/2017
1.07369
0.73778
1.99750
1.75742

31/07/2017
2.28637

31/07/2017
0.90820
0.72435
1.88291
1.76310

31/08/2017
2.06491

31/08/2017
0.74271
0.71091
1.76833
1.76879

30/09/2017
2.03653

30/09/2017
0.57722
0.69748
1.65374
1.77447

31/10/2017
1.96399

31/10/2017
0.59342
0.68426
1.58535
1.75174

30/11/2017
1.93889

30/11/2017
0.60962
0.67105
1.51696
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30/11/2021
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The MQTT protocol is rapidly being adopted as a reliable, efficient protocol in modern industrial data collection applications. MQTT uses a variety of techniques to provide highly efficient use of bandwidth to collect data from a wide range of sources and then make that data available to interested subscribers. Cirrus Link Solutions provides various modules for Inductive Automation Ignition enabling applications to take advantage of this protocol for building IIoT and SCADA applications.
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol on TCP/IP that is designed for machine-to-machine communication in low bandwidth environments. The MQTT architecture uses brokers as centralized information hubs to store data and facilitate information flow between clients.
Clients can be publishers and/or subscribers. Publishers provide information to the broker, and subscribers receive information from the broker. Using this architecture, multiple devices throughout the enterprise can contribute information to the central broker, and then subscribers can receive only the information relevant to them via subscription. This is great for remote monitoring of enterprise systems that need to obtain information from various devices.
Cirrus Link provides various modules for Ignition that allow it to act as an MQTT Client (as a publisher and/or a subscriber), and as an MQTT Broker. The Cirrus Link MQTT modules are the MQTT Transmission, MQTT Distributor, and MQTT Engine.
Ignition MQTT Edge devices can be set up in the field to publish to an MQTT Distributor in Ignition and serve a similar function. These are useful for establishing an enterprise-wide monitoring system based on the MQTT protocol.
The MQTT Distributor allows Ignition to act as an MQTT Broker/Server, allowing publishing to and from Ignition from any connectable MQTT Clients, whether they are other installations of Ignition or external clients. For extremely large enterprise applications, Cirrus Link's Chariot MQTT Server sits external to Ignition as a functional replacement for the MQTT Distributor module. This will allow the MQTT Transmission and Engine modules to connect to an external server.
The MQTT Engine module allows Ignition to act as a subscriber, allowing one to subscribe to any incoming payloads depending on the desired topic. The payloads can appear in the form of tags with a tag path determined from the MQTT Topic Name and will only appear if subscribed to via topic path filtering, which can be set up in the gateway. As such, it is entirely possible to send all tags as payloads from several Ignition systems acting as clients through a broker to a single central subscriber, which will convert the payload back into a tag. To use these incoming tags, one can choose to expose tag providers in the gateway, allowing one to treat incoming tags on the engine as OPC tags.
For those familiar with Ignition programming, the following sample code creates manual MQTT publishes in Ignition via scripting simulated data.
The Cirrus Link MQTT modules are an excellent choice for MQTT integration with Ignition to send data bidirectionally to and from Ignition and external brokers and clients. In addition, they are extremely good choices for designing an enterprise-wide system with central monitoring due to the lightweight nature of MQTT and the ease of communication.
Get for more detailed information on this topic from Cirrus Link Solutions.
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Kim Hyun-yung, née le  à Seoul, est une patineuse de vitesse sud-coréenne.

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques d'hiver

Légende :
  : première place, médaille d'or
  : deuxième place, médaille d'argent
  : troisième place, médaille de bronze
  : pas d'épreuve
 — : Non disputée par le patineur
 DSQ : disqualifiée

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Patineuse de vitesse sud-coréenne
Naissance en octobre 1994
Patineuse de vitesse aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2014
Patineuse de vitesse aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2018
Naissance à Séoul

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Thirty years after some plucky rebels and a gang of Ewoks defeated the Evil Galactic Empire, the tales of Han Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader have faded into legend. A new evil force in the form of The First Order threatens the peace of the galaxy and although the resistance led by General Leia (Carrie Fisher) search, they cannot find Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who has vanished. When she hears of an old ally finding a clue to Skywalker's whereabouts, Leia sends one of her best pilots, Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) to retrieve the information. It's not long before Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and The First Order arrive to also retrieve the information, and when Dameron is captured, it is up to his droid BB-8 to keep the vital information safe, and get it back to the resistance.
It is hard to remember a film that was so talked about, hyped and secretive than Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the day that fans get to see what has been done with our favourite cast of space opera characters since George Lucas removed his hands from the controls has finally arrived.
The cast, led by Daisy Ridley and John Boyega are almost universally strong in their roles. There are plenty of familiar faces and voices – Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Carrie Fisher and Mark hamill – and tons of new ones for fans to fall in love with and theorise about, including Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron and plenty plenty more. Isaac brings humour and irreverence to his role, Daisy Ridley is filled with pluck and fight, Adam Driver is menacing and sets up some conflicting emotions for later films and John Boyega makes Finn a character who brave and strong. The only minor blip on the radar is Domhnall Gleeson who, despite a wonderful track record of strong performances in strong films, hams it up just a touch too much – if such a thing is possible.
Screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt wisely ignore the prequel films and keep the nostalgia trained on the original trilogy. Star Wars: The Force Awakens brings in the best of those films – the humour, the action and the emotion – then turns its attentions to the story at hand, with one eye on the future. There is plenty to laugh at here, with some of the dialogue being wonderfully cheeky, but sparse enough that things are not laboured to death. The Galactic Senate, this ain't; things are done, not talked about, and this is what makes the film so thrilling.
Cinematographer Daniel Mindel may well be the MVP of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with stunning shots of our world changed just enough to make them feel alien. Colours are rich, but scale really plays a part in the look of the film, with human and alien life often swallowed up by the vastness of the land and sky, giving a sense of just how huge this Star Wars universe really is. As well as this, since the original look of the franchise was designed in the 1970s, this is kept in this new sequel, giving the entire affair a delightful mix of retro-futurism and nostalgia. The effects for much of the film are practical, rather than CGI, and this gives the world a tangible, real feel, unlike the prequel movies.
As director, J.J. Abrams brings a sense of fun, nostalgia and adventure to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film clocks in at 135 minutes but, other than a slight lag somewhere in the middle, the film is well paced and filled with tension. The set pieces are thrilling and gripping, the dialogue never swamps the film and characters are given enough time to grow and develop, without this swallowing the film whole.
In all, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is exactly the film we have been waiting for since Return of the Jedi, and it is one that fans can truly be excited about. Other than this being a great Star Wars film, it is simply a great film; well paced, well written and beautifully shot. There are some lags in the middle, and some cast members are stronger than others, but the set pieces are thrilling and the set up for the rest of this new franchise are there. What more could we want?! The Force is strong with this one indeed.


Not to be left out from Nike's fresh drop of the PlayStation x Air Force 1 earlier this week, Microsoft has its own collaboration in the cards with an E3-exclusive Air Jordan 1 "Xbox".
Decked out in the Xbox colours, the upcoming pair features premium suede uppers and Xbox branding on the laces and insole.
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<?php namespace Anomaly\MultipleFieldType;

use Anomaly\MultipleFieldType\Command\BuildOptions;
use Anomaly\Streams\Platform\Addon\FieldType\FieldType;
use Anomaly\Streams\Platform\Ui\Form\FormBuilder;
use Illuminate\Container\Container;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Bus\SelfHandling;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsToMany;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesCommands;

/**
 * Class MultipleFieldType
 *
 * @link          http://anomaly.is/streams-platform
 * @author        AnomalyLabs, Inc. <hello@anomaly.is>
 * @author        Ryan Thompson <ryan@anomaly.is>
 * @package       Anomaly\MultipleFieldType
 */
class MultipleFieldType extends FieldType implements SelfHandling
{

    use DispatchesCommands;

    /**
     * No database column.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    protected $columnType = false;

    /**
     * The input view.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $inputView = 'anomaly.field_type.multiple::input';

    /**
     * The field type config.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $config = [
        'handler' => 'Anomaly\MultipleFieldType\MultipleFieldTypeOptions@handle'
    ];

    /**
     * The select input options.
     *
     * @var null|array
     */
    protected $options = null;

    /**
     * The service container.
     *
     * @var Container
     */
    protected $container;

    /**
     * Create a new MultipleFieldType instance.
     *
     * @param Container $container
     */
    public function __construct(Container $container)
    {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

    /**
     * Get the relation.
     *
     * @return BelongsToMany
     */
    public function getRelation()
    {
        $entry = $this->getEntry();

        return $entry->belongsToMany(
            array_get($this->getConfig(), 'related'),
            $this->getPivotTableName(),
            'entry_id',
            'related_id'
        );
    }

    /**
     * Get the options.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getOptions()
    {
        if ($this->options === null) {
            $this->dispatch(new BuildOptions($this));
        }

        return $this->options;
    }

    /**
     * Set the options.
     *
     * @param array $options
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setOptions(array $options)
    {
        $this->options = $options;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get the related model.
     *
     * @return null|mixed
     */
    public function getRelatedModel()
    {
        return $this->container->make(array_get($this->getConfig(), 'related'));
    }

    /**
     * Get the pivot table.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getPivotTableName()
    {
        return $this->entry->getTableName() . '_' . $this->getField();
    }

    /**
     * Handle saving the form data ourselves.
     *
     * @param FormBuilder $builder
     */
    public function handle(FormBuilder $builder)
    {
        $entry = $builder->getFormEntry();

        // See the accessor for how IDs are handled.
        $entry->{$this->getField()} = $this->getPostValue();
    }
}

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Elbit Systems awarded follow-on $46 million contract to provide DIRCM Systems to NATO
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded a follow-on $46 million contract to supply additional J-Music™ DIRCM (Direct Infrared Countermeasures) self-protection systems to NATO for its Airbus A330 Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet ("MMF") Program. The contract will be performed over a four-year period.
Similar to several previous awards from global air forces and other customers, Elbit Systems will equip NATO's Airbus A330 tankers with the J-Music DIRCM systems along with the Company's Infra-Red-based Passive Airborne Warning Systems (PAWS IR).
Colonel Jan der Kinderen, Chairman of the MMF Steering Group, highlighted: "The MMF users are very pleased that the Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft (MRTTs) are going to be equipped with Elbit Systems' J-Music DIRCM system. This will greatly add to the safety and operational flexibility of the total fleet. It is also great to see how Airbus and Elbit Systems work closely together to integrate the systems."
Peter DOHMEN, General Manager, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), said: "NSPA is pleased to award this contract to Elbit Systems and provide important capability for NATO"s A330 tanker fleet, which will allow the aircraft, crew and passengers to operate more safely in hostile environments."
Elad Aharonson, General Manager of Elbit Systems ISTAR Division, commented: "This follow-on contract that extends the supply of J-Music DIRCM and PAWS IR missile warning systems to NATO's MMF program, attests to Elbit Systems' technological and operational competitive advantage in addressing the intensifying threat of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles."

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text:
CITY+ FREE TO CITYZENS UNTIL FOOTBALL IS BACK*
MCFCEditorial
Mon 30 Mar 2020, 09:58
With European football currently on hiatus, we are pleased to confirm that from today our content subscription CITY+ will be free to Cityzens until the resumption of action.
Mens Team
City's season so far: The stats
Everything you need to know about CITY+ is here: https://www.mancity.com/city-plus/
CITY+ is the perfect way for supporters to ensure they don't miss out on their fix of all things City.
CITY TV ORIGINALS
Amongst the many highlights to be found on the platform is our acclaimed 'Made in Gran Canaria' documentary which celebrates the extraordinary career of David Silva.
You can also find other City TV originals such as the four-part 'Fight till the end' documentary which charts the final stages of City's historic 2018/19 campaign as well as 'Sergio Aguero: Made in Argentina' which profiles our all-time leading scorer's remarkable story along with 'Gabriel Jesus: Made in Brazil', tracing the rise of our young Brazilian striker.
See the full list here: https://www.mancity.com/citytv/city-plus/citytv-productions
HISTORIC GAMES AND FULL MATCH REPLAYS
You can also find a treasure trove of archive material including full match replays – not least a host of all-time classics such as our iconic 6-1 derby triumph at Manchester United from 2011 and THAT title-clinching 3-2 win over Queen's Park Rangers in May 2012.
WATCH: Trailer: Made in Gran Canaria
City Store and Stadium Tours close
Meanwhile, our full match replays from this season also means you can relive last month's historic 2-1 Champions League success away to Real Madrid.
The list of classic archive matches is here: https://www.mancity.com/citytv/city-plus/classic
We are also planning to host some live screening events with special pundits, guests and legends.
Once football is back, CITY+ offers access to full match replays within 24 hours for our men's and women's games as well as selected live women's, EDS and Academy games.
CITY+ is £1.99 per month but, from Thursday March 19, Cityzens will be able to enjoy all the fantastic content free of charge until the football programme resumes.
WATCH: Coming soon to CITY+ - Kevin De Bruyne documentary
City DNA #68: Noel Gallagher
For existing subscribers, you don't need to do anything, no payment will be taken during this period and usual payments will resume once football is back. *
For new members, you will need to go through the subscription process, but no payment will be taken and you will still have a 30-day free trial once the grace period has expired. *
Subscribe here: mancity.com/city-plus/
* Once the Premier League / FA / UEFA confirm a date to resume competitions, CITY+ will revert to normal, with a monthly payment of £1.99. New subscribers joining during this grace period will still be able to enjoy the 30-day trial.
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text:
Salzburg Side Trippin'
From any angle, the Austrian city of Salzburg offers breathtaking views. Looking down from high up on the Hohensalzburg fortress, tiled house peaks cower beneath a seemingly endless array of mammoth church spires, while the Salzach (river) skirts around the Old Town like Julie Andrews in a meadow.
Standing at riverside, the Hohensalzburg hilltop battlement looms over the spires like an armed shepherd over his flock. Flanked by steep cliff faces and an outlook plateau, the gleaming white, sprawling military castle is imposing even in the 21st century. Even the pedestrian-friendly Old Town streets are picturesque; each shop – from Tommy Hilfiger to McDonalds – has an iron sign hanging above the door, decorated with the symbol of their wares, a tradition that goes back centuries. With Easter approaching, many of the shops are strung with beautifully decorated eggs.
Climbing along the ridge between the stronghold and the Modern Art museum, you can wrap behind the Honesalzburg for a backside view and a stroll past old watchtowers and ramparts. At the Modern Art museum the entire city, from river to steeple to fortress, opens up in a sparkling panorama, complete with a white-capped mountain backdrop.
The city unfolds like a perfectly constructed opus, pristine beauty at riverside, across the rising, elegant churchtops to the powerful climactic hilltop fortress and the majesty of the surrounding alpine range. If you listen you can probably hear some of the music that made this corner of Austria so popular; although it may just be Sound of Music songs cycling through your head (but if you're luckier, it's a music student pounding out a Mozart classic in a nearby open window).
Salzburg's views are outstanding, but the best perspective might require a trip outside the city walls.
A short bus ride (#840 from Mirabelleplatz, Mozartplatz or the train station) takes you out of Austria completely, right across the border into Germany and the mountain town of Bercthesgaden.
The town offers little more in the way of sightseeing than its Nazi-era train station, built large and imposing for Hitler to utilize during his retreats to the region. But from the train station / bus terminal, the options are many.
One bus will bring you to the Saltzburg salt mines and an underground tour of the product that put that eponymous city on the map. Another sweeps you up into the mountains to the Documentation Center, a museum housing World War II and Nazi exhibits. This former Nazi stronghold was bombed into oblivion by British forces but reconstructed over the spiderweb of underground bunkers. From the Center, in-season, you can head up above to the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountain retreat that looks down over Bavaria like a megalomaniac on a rocky throne. The building has since become a restaurant.
But the most peaceful of the Berchtesgaden choices is the quick 10-minute bus to Konigsee (King's Lake). A tiny lakeside village, Konigsee is pristine by nature and on purpose – the only watercraft allowed on the lake are the electric motor shuttle boats that loop the water in silence. They bring tourists and hikers out to the famed St. Bartolomae, a red onion domed chapel tucked into a glacial groove halfway out on the lake. Its setting is fairytale to the core. Even the boat ride to St. Bartolomae comes complete with whimsy: the captain stops midway, cuts the engine and pulls out a trumpet. Standing at the edge of the vessel, he rattles off a Bavarian tune, pausing in between lines to hear the crystal clear echo bouncing off of the surrounding sheer cliff faces.
From one end of the lake, the mirror-like water stretches out and then disappears behind beautiful outcrops. On the water, you see St. Bartolomae's red dome's contrast in front of soaring white mountains. Standing at the chapel and its nearby fishing hut, you scan back over the lake, the only disturbance the infrequent ripple from a fish. In the distance, the Eagle's Nest can be seen propped high on its perch amidst ivory peaks. Natural and man-made beauty in every direction.
Konigsee offers a peaceful afternoon for those seeking to complete their Salzburg experience. It borders on more Bavarian, but its charm is similar to Salzburg. The Bavarian mentality pervades both places – relaxed, hospitable and jolly. It's a perspective that is easy to indulge in. And no matter where you end up, it seems you're always in line for a great view.
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Major super reforms announced ahead of 2013 Budget
On 5 April 2013, the Government announced major superannuation reforms [presumably to end mounting speculation ahead of the 2013 Budget]. This article discusses those reforms.
Stuart Jones and Terry Hayes, Thomson Reuters
On 5 April 2013, the Government announced the following major superannuation reforms:
tax-free pension earnings capped at $100,000 - the tax exemption for earnings on superannuation fund assets supporting income streams will be capped at $100,000 per annum per person from 1 July 2014. A tax rate of 15% will apply for fund earnings above $100,000 (to be indexed in $10,000 increments). Special arrangements will apply for capital gains on CGT assets purchased before 1 July 2014.
taxation of withdrawals unchanged - the tax-free status of withdrawals from superannuation for those aged 60 and over will remain unchanged.
concessional contributions cap - a $35,000 concessional cap (not indexed) will apply for people aged 60 and over from 1 July 2013 (or 1 July 2014 for people aged 50-59) instead of the general concessional cap of $25,000. The Government has also scrapped plans to limit the higher cap to balances below $500,000.
refund of excess concessional contributions - all individuals will be able to withdraw from their superannuation fund any excess concessional contributions made from 1 July 2013. The withdrawn excess contributions will instead be taxed at the individual's marginal tax rate (plus an interest charge).
deeming rules for account-based pensions - to be extended to ensure that superannuation account-based pension payments are assessed from 1 January 2015 for the purposes of the social security pension income test under the same rules that apply for other financial investments. Products held by pensioners before 1 January 2015 will be grandfathered indefinitely and continue to be assessed under the existing rules.
deferred lifetime annuities - will be granted the same concessional tax treatment that superannuation assets supporting income streams receive from 1 July 2014.
lost superannuation transfers to ATO - the account balance threshold above which inactive accounts must be transferred to the Tax Office will be increased from $2,000 to $2,500 from 31 December 2015 (and to $3,000 from 31 December 2016).
Council of Superannuation Custodians - will be established to ensure that any future superannuation changes are consistent with an agreed Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability.
Source: Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, joint media release Nos 20, 21 and 22, 5 April 2013
Thomson Reuters comment
The major announcements were certainly made in the face of mounting daily speculation of superannuation changes in the May Budget. Of course, more superannuation changes in the Budget are not out of the question. In perhaps a forerunner to the changes, in a press conference in Canberra on 3 April 2013, the Treasurer said the superannuation concessions "at the top are very, very generous and they ... need to be made sustainable over time". The Treasurer said the Government was not approaching the task "of making superannuation sustainable as a savings task in itself for the Budget". He said the Government had made "a substantial savings task in this Budget and whatever changes are made in super will not be making a significant contribution to that savings task".
Mr Swan claimed that "everybody understands that the system must be sustainable for the long-term, that tax concessions for those at the very top are excessively generous and to make it sustainable over time the concessions need to be sustainable over time". So he said the Government would "build the system up, we want to see more Australians having access to a decent retirement with a decent level of support from their superannuation, that's the spirit that we bring to this discussion".
Is the $300,000 threshold measure locked in?
As announced in the 2012-13 Federal Budget on 8 May 2012, the Government proposes that, from 1 July 2012, individuals with income greater than $300,000 will have the tax concession on their concessional contributions reduced from 30% to 15% (excluding the Medicare levy). This means that the tax rate on concessional contributions will effectively double from 15% to 30% for these income earners from 1 July 2012. The announcement has not yet been legislated, although pre-Budget speculation suggested the Government might lower that threshold to $180,000. The Government's 5 April 2013 announcement merely reiterated the $300,000 change, but did not make any mention of that threshold being reduced.
In a doorstop interview on 3 April 2013 , Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten seemed to allude to that $300,000 threshold when he said it was important that people earning "average weekly wages of $72,000 or even 2, 3 or 4 times that … are encouraged to save for their future retirement". He said the Government believes fundamentally "that superannuation policies shouldn't be driven by short-term budgetary issues, but by long-term issues, greater life expectancy and the goal of all Australians to get towards a comfortable retirement".
Currently, the 15% flat tax on concessional contributions (paid by the receiving superannuation fund) provides high income earners with a significantly larger tax concession than those on lower marginal tax rates. In the Budget announcement, Mr Shorten said a small number of people on high incomes were getting a better tax deal out of super than millions on average incomes. The proposed reduction in the higher tax concession that is currently available for very high income earners on their concessional contributions will align it more closely with the concession received by average income earners, Mr Shorten said. However, there will still be an effective tax concession of 15% (up to the concessional contributions cap of $25,000, and presumably the new proposed higher $35,000 cap) for these high income earners.
Tax-free pension earnings capped at $100,000pa - tax planning considerations
The installation of a $100,000 threshold above which a 15% tax rate will apply to earnings on superannuation fund assets supporting current pensions will require trustees to review the fund's investment strategy ahead of the 1 July 2014 start date. Particular attention should be given as to whether it may be appropriate to trigger any unrealised CGT liabilities on fund assets (especially real property) ahead of the 1 July 2014. As usual, trustees should be mindful of the potential application of Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 and ensure that the disposal of any CGT assets before 1 July 2014 is justified by the investment strategy and does not have the dominant purpose of obtaining a tax benefit.
The $100,000 threshold will also require SMSFs with "lumpy" assets (such as business real property, or other commercial and residential property) to undertake more careful planning for when substantial capital gains above $100,000 per member crystallise in one particular income year. When these significant investment assets are eventually sold and the net capital gain (often accrued over several decades) flows through to a particular income year for the fund, it will be important to defer as much other assessable income (and bring forward any deductions) for that income year.
The proposed transitional rules for CGT assets also suggest that a valuation will be required for all super fund assets at 1 July 2014. Trustees of SMSFs are already required to value their assets at "market value" when preparing financial statements from 2012-13 in any event. However, the valuation of such assets on 1 July 2014 will also have future implications under the transitional CGT rules for assets in the pension phase.
Trustees currently looking to undertake significant investments in real property may also need to consider appropriate investment structures (such as a unit trust) which could enable the asset to eventually be sold gradually over several income years to stay under the $100,000 annual threshold. This would also be a consideration when real property acquired under a limited recourse borrowing arrangement is ultimately transferred from the holding trust back to the SMSF when the loan is repaid. Planning is required for how that asset (hopefully with a large capital gain) will ultimately be disposed of in a tax-effective manner in the pension phase. Interestingly, the proposed changes could also encourage the gearing of certain investments in the pension phase, especially during those years when large capital gains will need to be realised.
Depending on the final rules, the $100,000 threshold may also provide some joy for trustees of SMSFs in the pension phase that are sitting on tax losses generated by poor investments during the GFC. Previously, these tax losses were of no real benefit once the SMSF had tax-free earning status in the pension phase. Under the changes from 1 July 2014, any tax losses may provide some tax benefit in offsetting future gains above the $100,000 threshold.
Withdrawal of excess concessional contributions
Under the current arrangements, concessional contributions that are in excess of the annual cap are subject to excess contributions tax (ECT) at the rate of 31.5% (plus the 15% contributions tax paid by the fund) and counted towards the taxpayer's non-concessional cap. Since 1 July 2011, a once-only option has been available under section 292-467 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 so that individuals can elect to have excess concessional contributions up to $10,000 released to the Commissioner and instead assessed as income. Presumably, this $10,000 cap will be scrapped under the proposed reforms, but only from 1 July 2013.
Unfortunately, the proposed withdrawal option will not provide any relief for taxpayers who have inadvertently exceeded the concessional cap before 1 July 2013. Such taxpayers will still need to rely on the $10,000 refund option or apply to the Commissioner to disregard or reallocate the excess contributions on the grounds of "special circumstances" - an extremely narrow concession. Notably, the Government's announcement made no mention of any changes to the current Commissioner's discretion - this will disappoint many.
Initial reactions generally (but not universally) positive; complexity and cost a concern
The Government's package of superannuation changes has elicited immediate reactions, mostly positive, from a wide range of affected parties. The expectation was probably for significant tax increases on super, but the end result (so far at least) has been far less than that.
SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) CEO Andrea Slattery said the Government's superannuation announcement "was a step in the right direction to 'depoliticise' the superannuation system".
SPAA also welcomed the changes to the excess contributions tax regime that enable individuals to seek a refund of their excess concessional contributions. Mrs Slattery said that, unlike the current regime, this measure will not be limited to excesses of less than $10,000 and will not be limited to a once-off refund. But she added a note of caution saying that SPAA believed a similar refunding option should apply to excess non-concessional contributions "as it is the excess non-concessional contribution breaches that usually attract significant excess contributions tax and the current options available to members who breach their non-concessional cap are grossly inadequate".
On the proposed changes to the taxation treatment of deferred lifetime annuities, SPAA said it was concerned about product and industry distortions if these income streams are not subject to the same earnings tax treatment as superannuation income streams.
National Seniors chief executive Michael O'Neill said older Australians have welcomed the Government "coming clean on its superannuation plans but say the concessional cap increase has fallen short of expectations". He said speculation that retirement savings would be raided to prop up the budget had "created nervousness amongst older Australians". He said National Seniors welcomed that the changes are not retrospective and that grandfathering applies to some of them.
Mr O'Neill said the $100,000 retirement phase tax-free earnings threshold which equates to a super balance of around $2m "appears fairly generous". However, he said the concessional cap increase to $35,000 had fallen short of expectations. Mr O'Neill said the $10,000 increase in the $25,000 superannuation concessional cap for people aged 60 and over was welcome, but is still $15,000 short of the $50,000 cap average earners had counted on last year and the Government had promised for 2014.
The Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association (CPSA) said it would have preferred a more thorough and principled approach to superannuation reform, "which has now taken the form of a combination of increased tax revenue and improved social equity outcomes", said CPSA Policy Coordinator, Paul Versteege.
Mr Versteege said the "bad news" was that tax-free super for the over 60s is a thing of the past but the good news was that it "won't affect ordinary Australians". He said taxing super earnings above $100,000 in pension phase was an equitable measure, limiting the excessive tax break given to superannuants over 60. However, he said the Government's estimate of only 16,000 people being affected by this measure was "unrealistic, as the estimate is based on a 5% annual return, when annual returns of double or more are typical".
The Australian Council of Social Service says it supports the changes, but "expressed major disappointment that it does not go anywhere near making the system fair and sustainable into the future". ACOSS CEO Dr Cassandra Goldie said that while ACOSS welcomed the changes, "the reality is … [that] amount to a mere tinkering at the edges of a system that is grossly skewed in favour of people on the highest incomes".
John Brogden, CEO of the Financial Services Council said the higher earnings tax on those with balances that grow by over $100,000 a year in retirement "is complex and designed without industry consultation". He said it would require major changes to how super funds are managed to target only 16,000 individuals, so the Government "must consult on this measure".
While the changes were probably less draconian than many had been predicting, the Principal of a financial planning firm told Thomson Reuters it was nonetheless disappointing that the Government felt the need to keep moving the goalposts and in the process make superannuation more complex than it needs to be.
In responding to the announced changes, Grant Thornton considers that the reforms "will be a slap in the face for many who have been saving for their retirement under the current rules". While the firm said some of the reforms are welcomed, such as the increase in the concessional cap, "there is a strong view that this seems to be more about winning an election than long-term reform".
Unfortunately, the reforms do little more than add further complexity to the system, and increase the fear and uncertainty that most individuals have in respect of their retirement savings, said Grant Thornton Wealth Advisory Services Partner Dennis Eagles. He said the superannuation industry would be significantly impacted with the costs of substantial changes to their systems, when they are already confronting the substantial costs of transition to MySuper and other regulatory reforms - costs that are being borne by all members.
With the measure to cap tax-free pension earnings at $100,000 (with a 15% tax rate on earnings above that), Mr Eagles said the Government was "targeting retirees who have already accumulated significant wealth within superannuation for their retirement and, under the guise of fairness, are penalising them for self-funding their own retirement".
While Treasury estimates indicate that only 16,000 individuals are to be affected by the reform, Mr Eagles said it was "extremely naive to think that all fund members will not be impacted as trustees will seek to pass on the significant additional costs of implementing and administering these reforms". He said the superannuation industry will need to spend millions of dollars to be able to administer these rules. Systems that are designed to treat overall pension earnings as tax-free would need to examine each member separately and determine if the additional tax is applicable. "The moving parts to do this are many, which must lead to huge transitional costs. It is also unclear how these rules will apply where there are multiple account balances across different funds," he said.
Mr Eagles said any increase in the concessional cap was "certainly a welcome reform, but this seems to be more about winning an election than long term reform". He warned that "the devil is in the detail". The current cap is indexed by CPI and is expected, on Treasury estimates, to reach $35,000 by 2018. The reform is not indexed, and accordingly the benefit to those eligible is short term, Mr Eagles said.
More details on the announced changes would doubtless be welcomed by all.
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The 2014 theme for World Press Freedom Day is "Media Freedom for a Better Future".
More awareness on issues like the Millennium Development Goals are needed in Singapore. The media can play a big role in highlighting issues relating to human rights & development. Freedom of our media is an essential pillar of governance, as it enables as many citizens as possible to contribute to, as well as monitor and implement, public decisions on development.
In ASEAN, the safety of journalists remains a problem. The lack of the rule of law in some areas, mean that journalists face the threat of reprisals, especially when conducting investigative journalism. In 2014 till date, UNESCO has already documented 29 journalists who were assassinated throughout the world, including Rubylita Garcia in the Philippines, and Suon Chan in Cambodia.
Financial sustainability of media & press organisations remain an issue in Singapore, especially for online and community media. Different models are being explored, and while some are innovative, care must be taken to ensure that the journalists remain professional. The lines between editorial content and advertising are blurring. MARUAH hopes that a frank exchange of ideas and approaches will help bring improvements in this area.
Finally, MARUAH hopes that in Singapore, we will have a Freedom of Information Act soon.
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Temple of Dreams by Carolyn Mathews @Carolyn_Mathews @JHPFiction @lovebooksgroup
Today I'm joined by historical fiction author Carolyn Mathews. She is sharing #TenThings about herself and her work which includes her love for a traditional Irish dish, not quite joining MENSA and an exclusive reveal about her latest novel, Temple of Dreams. The book is available to buy here. Thanks to Kelly at Love Books Tours for inviting me to take part in the tour.
1. My parents came from Ireland so I'm partial to a nice, floury potato and a dish called colcannon, which is basically cabbage and more potato.
2. My first novel, Transforming Pandora, is a little bit autobiographical. Like her, I went to a convent high school, worked in a Spanish night club and developed an interest in something called 'automatic writing'. Look it up!
3. I started writing Transforming Pandora after I dreamed of a biblical figure with long white hair and beard, dressed in a linen garment tied with a plaited cord. The name that came to me was Enoch, not a name I would have chosen, but I thought it'd be rude to change it. Pandora's journey starts when Enoch appears to her. I went on to write two more books charting the ups and downs of her life and loves: Squaring Circles and Pandora's Gift.
4. Unlike Pandora, I didn't marry a rock star. My husband's a retired police officer and has never read a word of any of my books. This tells me that my target audience does not consist of police officers.
5. Way back in the mists of time I passed the IQ test to become a member of MENSA and still have the membership card somewhere. But I never accepted the invitation to attend a meeting because I'd just got married and felt it might be the wrong time to join a new social group. I doubt I'd pass it today, my brain cells having shrunk from too long staring at a computer screen.
6. I was a good sprinter when I was young and was spotted by a coach who approached my dad. But I was too shy to join the athletics club. Perhaps, in a parallel life, I ran myself onto an Olympic podium. I can dream . . .
7. My latest book, Temple of Dreams: A Novel of Now and Then, is a partly historical and partly set in the present. When looking online for an authentic ancient Greek name for my young Greek hero, I found the name Apollos. But recently a reader told me, very politely, that the form Apollon is more correct. It's too late to change it now and, anyway, I think Apollos has a nicer ring. This is a case of don't sweat the small stuff.
8. Even though the scenes in Greece are less numerous than those set in the present, they took so much research that I spent many more hours on them than on the contemporary setting. I regard the work involved in the Pandora Trilogy as equivalent to a 3-year Bachelor's degree and Temple of Dreams as a Master's.
9. I've been told by an American psychic that I have a spirit guide called Antoine, with whom I had a very happy former life in France, where we worked together teaching the arts. She instructed me to say his name three times and connect with his energy whenever I sit down to write. This sounds way out but whenever I do this, I really do feel all warm and gooey inside. And, most importantly, inspired.
10. Finally, an exclusive. You read it here first! In my preface to Temple of Dreams I confess that I had to tweak history for the sake of literary cohesion (or something like that). I can now reveal what this anomaly is. Ta-da. The Greek part is set around 432/431 BC. At that time, the Asklepion 'hospital' to which Apollos was carried after his defeat in a martial arts contest was, in fact, not yet built. A place of healing certainly existed on the Acropolis but consisted of just a spring and a doctor-priest. As I wanted the Asklepion buildings to resemble the college sanctuary where Seb, a student healer of present times, spends a night, I had to fast forward to 419/8 BC by which time the Asklepion in all its glory had been constructed on the site of the spring. I believe this is called dramatic licence, therefore I don't have to go to confession and say three Hail Marys for my sin.
Thank you all for reading my #Ten Things (if you still are).
Homeless and jobless following the death of his adoptive parents, Sebastian enrols at a college of natural medicine which boasts a sanctuary modelled on an ancient Greek healing centre. After a night in the temple, he dreams of Apollos, a young Athenian defeated in a pankration contest, suffering memory loss. More dreams follow, decrypted by Sybil, the lecturer who insists he keeps a dream journal. Seb is kept busy in the 21st century by a budding relationship with Fliss, which stalls when she tries to persuade him to search for his birth parents. Meanwhile, Apollos, in the fifth century BC, readies himself to attend the festival of the Greater Eleusinian Mysteries, to discover the secrets of how to avoid the perils of the underworld and make it to Elysium.
Carolyn Mathews is the author of the Pandora Trilogy, whose first instalment Transforming Pandora was showcased by The People's Book Prize in 2014. Carol has an MA in Applied Linguistics and an abiding interest in metaphysics, both of which have profoundly influenced her writing. She lives in Hertfordshire, UK.
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November 2018 Issue
The Tech Issue: The Pentagon aims to weaponize the brain, a generation of kids raised on YouTube, and Alexa's most dangerous feature. Plus how Newt Gingrich broke politics, Pope Francis and Óscar Romero, the case for liberal Republicanism, Knausgaard devours himself, the personal cost of black success, and more. View Magazine
Alexa, Should We Trust You?
Judith Shulevitz
The Man Who Broke Politics
McKay Coppins
What Óscar Romero's Canonization Says About Pope Francis
Paul Elie
Raised by YouTube
Alexis C. Madrigal
The Pentagon's Push to Program Soldiers' Brains
Michael Joseph Gross
How Writing 'My Struggle' Undid Knausgaard
Ruth Franklin
Are Siblings More Important Than Parents?
How brothers and sisters shape who we are
By Ben Healy
Christopher DeLorenzo
We don't choose our siblings the way we choose our partners and friends. Of course, we don't choose our parents either, but they usually make that up to us by sustaining us on the way to adulthood. Brothers and sisters are just sort of there. And yet, when it comes to our development, they can be more influential than parents. This holds whether they are older and cool, or younger and frustrating; whether we follow in their footsteps, or run screaming in the other direction.
Part of siblings' sway has to do with their sheer presence. Eighty-two percent of kids live with a sibling [1] (a greater share than live with a father), and about 75 percent of 70-year-olds have a living sibling. [2] For those of us who have brothers or sisters, our relationships with them will likely be the longest of our life.
Whether these relationships make our life better or worse is a more complicated question. On the upside, positive interactions with siblings during adolescence foster empathy, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement. [1] This effect can be complicated by a full house, however. Kids with more siblings (a larger "sibship," to use the industry term) do worse in school [3]—although the universality of this finding has been challenged by studies of Mormons [4] and the entire population of Norway. [5]
When a sibling relationship is bad, however, it can be really bad—as in messing-up-your-life bad. Tense sibling relationships make people more likely to use substances and to be depressed and anxious in adolescence. [1] Moreover, sibling bullying makes a kid more likely to engage in self-harm as a teen [6] and to become psychotic by age 18. [7]
Whether a person models herself after her siblings or tries to distinguish herself has particularly important consequences. One study found that siblings who felt positively about each other tended to achieve similar education levels, while those who spent unequal time with their dad and perceived unequal parental treatment had diverging educational fortunes. [8] Not that divergence is necessarily bad: Research suggests that as siblings' relationships with their parents grow more different over time, their relationship with each other may become warmer. [9] And emulating your sibling can be a mistake, depending on what she's up to: Girls are more likely to get pregnant in their teens and teenagers are more likely to engage in risky behavior if an older sibling did so first. [1] Younger siblings also may have sex earlier than older ones (partly because their big brothers and sisters introduce them to more experienced potential partners). [10]
One way or another, sibling influence is lasting. A study of more than 1 million Swedes found that one's risk of dying of a heart attack spikes after a sibling dies of one, due not only to shared DNA but also to the stress of losing such a key figure. [11] Which makes sense: Most of us are different people than we'd have been if our brothers or sisters were never born. Siblings seem like they're just there only until they aren't.
What Was the Most Consequential Sibling Rivalry of all Time?
How to Make Friends, According to Science
Ben Healy
Sibling Rivalry, a History
Peter Toohey
The Studies:
[1] McHale et al., "Sibling Relationships and Influences in Childhood and Adolescence" (Journal of Marriage and Family, Oct. 2012)
[2] Richard A. Settersten Jr., "Social Relationships in the New Demographic Regime" (Advances in Life Course Research, 2007)
[3] Steelman et al., "Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration" (Annual Review of Sociology, 2002)
[4] Douglas B. Downey, "Number of Siblings and Intellectual Development" (American Psychologist, June/July 2001)
[5] Black et al., "The More the Merrier?" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005)
[6] Bowes et al., "Sibling Bullying and the Risk of Depression, Anxiety, and Self-Harm" (Pediatrics, Sept. 2014)
[7] Dantchev et al., "Sibling Bullying in Middle Childhood and Psychotic Disorder at 18 Years" (Psychological Medicine, Oct. 2018)
[8] Sun et al., "Sibling Experiences in Middle Childhood Predict Sibling Differences in College Graduation" (Child Development, forthcoming)
[9] Feinberg et al., "Sibling Differentiation" (Child Development, Sept./Oct. 2003)
[10] Rodgers et al., "Sibling Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior" (Journal of Marriage and Family, Feb. 1992)
[11] Rostila et al., "Mortality From Myocardial Infarction After the Death of a Sibling" (Journal of the American Heart Association, Feb. 2013)
This article appears in the November 2018 print edition with the headline "The Science of Sibling Rivalry."


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Summary Chapters XXXII–XXXIV
Summary: Chapter XXXII
Tess agrees to leave the dairy with Angel around Christmas, and their wedding date is set for December 31. Angel hopes to spend that time visiting a flour mill and staying in a home that belonged to the d'Urbervilles. Angel buys Tess clothes for their wedding and, to her relief, quietly takes out a marriage license rather than publicizing his intent to marry Tess.
Summary: Chapter XXXIII
While out shopping, Angel and Tess encounter a man from Alec d'Urberville's village, who disparages Tess and denies her virginity. Angel strikes the man, but when the man apologizes, Angel gives him some money. Tess is wracked with guilt, and that night she writes a confession and slips it under Angel's door. Strangely, in the morning, Angel's behavior toward her has not changed, and he does not mention the letter. Tess ascertains that it slipped under the carpet and that Angel never saw it. On the morning of the wedding, Tess again tries to tell Angel about her past, but he cuts her off, saying that there will be time for such revelations after they are married. The dairyman and his wife accompany them to church, and they are married. As they are leaving for the ceremony, however, a rooster crows in the mid-afternoon.
Summary: Chapter XXXIV
After the wedding, the couple travels to the old d'Urberville mansion, where they will have a few days to themselves before the farmer returns. Tess receives a package from Angel's father, containing some jewelry that Angel's godmother bequeathed to his future wife some years ago. The newlyweds enjoy a happy moment, which is broken when the man arrives from the dairy with their luggage, bringing bad news about Tess's friends. After the wedding, Retty attempted suicide and Marian became an alcoholic.
After this disclosure, Angel asks Tess for forgiveness, telling her of his past indiscretion with an older woman in London. Tess says that she, too, has a confession and tells him of her past with Alec.
Analysis: Chapters XXXII–XXXIV
As these chapters mark the end of Phase the Fourth, "The Consequence," they permit the phase to fit well with the seesaw scheme of the novel up to this point. Tess of the d'Urbervilles alternates sections that build up to a climax with sections that detail the result of the climax. Phase the First builds steadily toward Tess's fall from grace, and Phase the Second lays out the consequences for Tess—her child and her loss of reputation. Phase the Third builds inexorably toward Tess's union with Angel, while Phase the Fourth brings us the consequences of their love: Angel and Tess marry, and she confesses her past. Aside from the repeated instances of supernatural effect and mystical ill omen, such as the cock crowing in the afternoon and the creaky old mansion, the real conflict in this section is again moral, between Tess's desire to be happily loved by Angel and her conscious obligation to tell him about her past. Because Tess has such a strong instinct for self-delight, she is able to delay and resist her conscience through October. Since Tess has an even stronger sense of moral duty, however, she cannot resist it forever; the section ends as she begins her story, "murmuring the words without flinching, and with her eyelids drooping down."
The universe is still hostile to Tess, and fate still toys with her in the form of the accidental mishaps on which the plot turns. Had Angel received Tess's note before they were married, the course of the story might have gone differently. But the letter happens to slip under the carpet, and another chance for Tess's tragedy to be averted is lost. This fluke may seem like an unbelievable coincidence, except that the universe expresses its hostility toward Tess through the portentous mishaps that plague her throughout the novel. The cock crowing in the afternoon does not doom Tess to ill fortune, but simply announces her foreordained doom to the world.
Indeed, Angel's decision to seek work at Talbothays is one of the most improbable circumstances in the novel. Although we see Angel as a progressive, new-thinking young man, his decision to give up a university education and an esteemed position in the clergy seems almost too idealistic to be true. While we see Tess as the responsible, patient, and persistent character that she is, Angel may appear rather spoiled—the youngest son in a privileged family who is not satisfied with his status quo and seeks adventure in murkier waters. In a sense, Angel is much more childish and naïve than the extremely responsible Tess. Angel may be angelic not in his morality, but in the sense that he is cherubic and childlike, indicating his need to grow and develop a truer love for Tess.
Talbothays Dairy is a kind of classless haven untroubled by social difference. Even Angel, the closest thing Talbothays has to an aristocrat, fits in quite seamlessly. Nevertheless, the themes of social prejudice and noble heritage continue to arise. Angel's mother, who exhibits snobbery throughout the novel, wants Angel to marry a suitable girl—meaning highborn. Angel is pleased to discover Tess's noble background in this section because he knows it will placate his mother, who will conclude that Tess must be worthwhile if she has such a remarkable pedigree. This situation can be interpreted in various ways. On the one hand, it is superficial and reprehensible of Mrs. Clare to place such a high stock in social class. On the other, Tess is nobly born, and she does possess all the stereotypical characteristics that are supposed to distinguish nobility, such as beauty, courage, and integrity.
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Boys Soccer Tuesday Scoreboard, 9/11/18
Matt Manley Published: September 11, 2018
Class A South
Brick 5, Toms River East 4
John Crist scored the golden goal in the fourth minute of overtime and the Green Dragons (2-1, 1-0) outlasted the Raiders (1-2, 0-1) in a wild, back-and-forth, overtime affair in Class A South.
William DeLao scored the first and third Brick goals an Zack Meyer scored the go-ahead goal in the 73rd minute before Logan Romero headed in the equalizer for Toms River East two minutes later. Eli Chong scored the other Green Dragons goal.
Romero's tying goal was his second score of the game. Pete Kozlej, meanwhile, scored the first Toms River East goal and assisted Romero's second goal in the 75th minute. Vasco Pereira scored late in the second half off a feed from Logan Sommerer to put the Raiders on top, 3-2, heading into halftime.
Southern 1, No. 6 Toms River South 0
Sophomore Kevin Kiernan drilled a shot to the left side netting from the top of the 18-yard box in the 45th minute and the Rams (3-0, 1-0) held off the Indians (0-1, 0-1) for their third straight win to open the season.
Class B Central
Asbury Park 4, Keyport 3 (OT)
Freshman Davenson JoinVilmar scored the golden goal in overtime and the Blue Bishops (1-1, 1-0) edged the Red Raiders (0-2, 0-1) for their first win of the season.
Gomez Castano scored in the 79th minute to send the game to overtime while Bryan Cruz and Jodi Hernandez accounted for the first two Asbury Park goals.
Tyler Maher scored two of Keyport's goals and Kevin Hernandez tallied the other.
St. Rose at Mater Dei Prep - PPD, TBD
Point Beach at Henry Hudson - PPD, TBD
Class B South
Barnegat 2, Point Boro 0
Junior Matt White converted a penalty kick in the 16th minute and sophomore Ken Franke added an insurance goal with a 25-yard strike in the 30th minute to nail down a Bengals (2-1, 1-1) win over the Panthers (0-3, 0-1).
White drew the foul that led to the penalty kick and Grady Edwards slid the ball back to Franke for the assist on the second goal.
Pinelands 3, Lacey 0
Dominic Dos Santos, Anthony Diaz and John Hart each scored a goal and the Wildcats (1-2, 1-0) blanked the Lions (0-1, 0-1) to pick up their first win of the season. Aniello Lubrano and Kieran Sundermann each dished out an assist for Pinelands.
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