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U.S. Marshals are preparing Bernard Madoff's boats and homes in Florida and Manhattan for sale. CNNMoney takes a tour of the properties - and the boat with an elevator.
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Inside Madoff's Manhattan penthouse
The New York City home where Bernard Madoff spent his last days has a buyer, reportedly at near the $8.9 million asking price. Take a peek inside.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In an age when the rich and famous often indulge themselves with huge, expensive mansions, Bernie Madoff played it relatively conservatively.
Based on his real estate holdings, you wouldn't have guessed that the felonious financier had victimized his investors by as much as $65 billion. His oceanfront cottage in Montauk is notable more for its vistas than its opulence.
That theme continues as we get closer looks at both his Manhattan penthouse and his Palm Beach spread, thanks to publicity videos hosted by U.S. marshals, who have been preparing the homes for sale.
On Wednesday evening, they selected brokers to list the properties, giving the Palm Beach house to New York luxury real estate broker Corcoran Group and the Manhattan house to the real estate division of famed auction house Sotheby's.
Corcoran is already listing Madoff's Montauk beach house for $8.75 million. The Palm Beach house is going on the market Thursday for $8.49 million, and the Manhattan penthouse is priced at $9.9 million. And they're not exactly palatial estates.
The Manhattan penthouse is nice, of course, but it isn't awe inspiring. It occupies the entire top two floors of an Upper East Side apartment building and features wraparound terraces with extraordinary views. The residence is about 4,000 square feet, which is large by Manhattan standards but still distinctly sub-McMansion.
"From what I've seen, I'd call it a fairly modest place," said expert New York appraiser Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel.
But a true penthouse carries a special cachet and puts Madoff's house in a vaunted category. Miller compared it to the Montauk home, which while modest has the distinction of sitting right on the beach. There are buyers who only want ocean-front property and will accept nothing less. Similarly, there are discerning buyers who only want penthouses.
Because these types of houses are rare, when they come on the market, they sell for premiums. The marshal in charge of the Manhattan sale, Roland Ubaldo, said his office was letting the brokers set he price, but he anticipates between $8 million and $10 million for the home where "Madoff spent the last days of his life as a free man."
The penthouse has attractive fanlights over many of the windows, parquet floors, four working fireplaces and a gorgeous curving staircase to go from the 11th to the 12th floor. Bernie's study is floor-to-ceiling cherry-wood paneled walls and bookcases. The kitchen is state of the art with stainless steel counters, custom cabinets and high-end appliances.
The home will be sold as a three bedroom, though that's not the current configuration. There's only one bedroom now. Bernie and his wife, Ruth, tended to have separate facilities, so the other two bedrooms were converted to his-and-her studies. Separate walk-in closets have cedar cabinets and housed the 45 to 50 custom made suits Bernie owned, as well as dozens of pairs of shoes.
At 6,500 square feet, the Palm Beach home is much larger than the other Madoff homes, but it is still comparatively modest and mostly, well, homey.
"There was nothing really extravagant, nothing over the top about it," said Barry Golden, of the U.S. Marshals Southern District Florida office, which is preparing the property for sale.
The Palm Beach County's property appraiser values the house itself, minus the lot it sits on, at only about $778,000. The land is what's really valuable: The half acre is appraised at close to $7 million.
"It's a beautiful home, don't get me wrong," said John Thomas, Palm Beach County's Director of Residential Appraisal. "But it's just another $8 million or $9 million property in the town of Palm Beach. In terms of the neighborhood, they're all spectacular."
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It is, however, larger than either of its next-door neighbors, and it has an 80-foot dock on the Intracoastal Waterway, right behind the house. That's where Madoff kept his yacht. "We're hoping that will keep the price up," said Thomas.
From the street it is hard to see much of the property because dense plantings screen the building from prying eyes. But glimpses reveal a two-story wood-frame home with ground-floor and second-story verandas.
Inside, it's casual chic with uneven terra cotta tile floors, lots of windows and French doors, unpainted vaulted ceilings and exposed beams. The finishes here are a bit finer than that of the Montauk residence, which is more rustic. There is elaborate and extensive woodwork with beautiful moldings and built-in bookshelves.
The upstairs consists of a master suite with bedchamber, dual walk-in closets, an exercise room, a study and two baths.
Decor wise, the home features two recurring themes: fish and bulls.
"You can't help but notice all the bull reference in the house," said Golden.
There are what look like old English paintings of different breeds of bulls, as well as bull statues and figurines. Mounted on a wall is the 1969 blueprints for Bull, the Madoff yacht, a 55-foot, custom-made craft that the marshals also seized.
On Wall Street, the bull means optimism concerning the direction of the market. In everyday life, it has an alternative meaning, one Madoff's victims probably find more appropriate as a motif in his house.
Victims may also find the fish theme -- figurines, display cases of lures and tied flies, and wall-mounted antique angling gear -- equally apt considering how he angled for investors, reeled them in and then gutted and filleted them.
All the furniture and objets d'arte will stay in the house until it's sold, according to Golden. After that, they'll be auctioned off and the proceeds, like those from the home sale, will go into the fund to repay investors.
The most valuable of all the personal property is undoubtedly Bull the yacht. It was kept shrink-wrapped after it was seized in April until opened up for video display this month.
The Bull boasts a flying bridge that sits so high up that an elevator was needed to carry people up. Yes, you read that right: Bernie's boat has an elevator.
0:00 /3:44Selling Madoff's Montauk home
There's also a 38-foot Shelter Island runabout, a 1930's rumrunner-style boat with a high bow and an aggressive profile called Sitting Bull. Last, there's the little Maverick, a small open cabin boat with an outboard motor. It's name? You guessed it: Little Bull.
Golden is particularly interested to see whether the Madoff connection will bring out more boat buyers for the auction, which should take place soon. "We hope to keep the prices up so we can return the maximum amount of money to the victims," he said.
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AH, DEMOCRACY! It ranges from enlightenment and open-mindedness to paranoia and hatred.
What can we expect over the next two weeks, with the Republican National Convention in Cleveland followed by the Democratic National Convention here?
If history foretells, both the best and the worst. At each convention.
"A national convention is as fascinating as a revival or a hanging. It is vulgar, ugly, stupid and tedious, to be sure, and yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour."
There can't possibly be a better lesson for students. Luckily, every four years Penn's Annenberg School for Communication offers a class called "Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns," which brings them to the quadrennial confabs to experience history. Leading them is Penn professor D. David Eisenhower.
Eisenhower doesn't just teach history. He is history. He is the grandson of the nation's 34th president (Dwight D. Eisenhower) and son-in-law of the nation's 37th (Richard Nixon) after marrying Nixon's daughter, Julie.
Ever hear of Camp David, every president's official vacation spot? Named for the prof, back when he was grandpop Ike's tyke.
Despite the lack of love in today's presidential race, Eisenhower looks forward to the conventions, the best possible study halls on democracy.
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a pretty good [analysis]," Eisenhower said. "He said essential democracy is free elections and free press, not who's running for president."
One of Eisenhower's former students is Frank Luntz, now a Republican consultant whose TV news work landed him a job in a 2012 romance movie called, "True Bromance."
Several of the 13 Penn students going on this year's trips could be Luntzes of the future, on the side of either party.
What might they learn? How about middle-class America's worst enemy: the economy.
Sophomore James Hiebert wonders how the hot issues - immigration, race, gun deaths, international trade deals - will be mixed into economic debate.
All are affected by it. As Eisenhower notes, economic growth for the middle class and lower has been stalled since the late 1970s because of industrial jobs disappearing. People turned optimistic when the inflation was stopped under Ronald Reagan, but what grew was the gap between the rich and everyone else.
"We had significant inequality in the late 19th century and it became a big issue," Eisenhower said. "Can see that now."
What's the solution? Donald Trump says trade. Get rid of bad deals with foreign countries and stop illegal immigrants from taking jobs. That will raise salaries at home.
Hillary Clinton boosts inclusion. Training poor folks to provide more talent and force billionaire company owners to pay employees better.
One necessity for democracy: Compromise. Pols in both parties have been carving districts into closed-minded places where only one side rules. Some of them have promised they'll never compromise.
That puts folks in opposition to the founding principles of U.S. democracy. The folks who created the Constitution argued, disagreed and, in the end, compromised.
Every president does compromise, or tries to. A marvelous method has been described by Eisenhower, who observed how his Republican grandpa president dealt with Democratic congressional leadership.
President Ike would be railing against the Dems blocking his legislation in Congress. Senate leader Lyndon Baines Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn railed against Ike's wrongheaded proposals.
After Congress adjourned for the day, LBJ and Rayburn were often driven to the White House, out of sight through the secluded southwest entrance. They'd be escorted to the president's family's quarters.
"There, over drinks , they'd discuss current issues and they'd work informal bipartisan strategies for first-string public policy. [They] were political partisans for two different parties, but they always put country first and party second."
Imagine that. Perhaps Penn's Ike and his tykes should see where the delegates stand on the bipartisan bourbon issue.
1912 Republican, Chicago. Teddy Roosevelt's rupturing of the GOP by walking out and forming a third party "was actually very modern," says Eisenhower. "Up until 1912, the convention was a group that drafted a contract, decided who they wanted as president, and then got him to sign the contract. Roosevelt and other progressive Republicans began setting up primaries for 1912."
The party was predominant and TR lost (Democrat Woodrow Wilson won), but after 1912, thanks to TR, the party and the platform was shaped by the candidate.
1948 Democrat, Philadelphia. Another big walkout. "The Democrats broke up in 1948," says Eisenhower. "This was a civil war within the party." It was the South, over race.
The walkout by all of Mississippi and half of Alabama led to a J. Strom Thurmond-led third party that won four states in the South that fall. The once solid Democratic South drifted from third parties to the GOP by the 1980s.
1968 Democrat, Chicago. "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!" Isn't that a nice chant? Not if it showed hundreds of antiwar protesters being bashed repeatedly by Chicago cops who took off their badges to avoid identification.
The Democrats lost, partly because GOP's Richard Nixon promised both to win the war in Vietnam and win the peace, Eisenhower notes. It didn't help the Dems that George Wallace won five states in the South.
1976 Republican, Kansas City. Ronald Reagan came this close to taking the nomination away from incumbent Gerald Ford. Ford was making promise after promise to get enough delegates to win. Reagan made a wise decision, Eisenhower says, because he didn't force Ford out and endorsed him immediately.
That made Reagan a slam-dunk for 1980 as far as the party was concerned and, while Ford lost, the 1980 race launched 12 years of GOP White House control.


In this article, Alison Ní Charraighe explores the concept of resilience and its resonance in the lives of young people, specifically in relation to 'community', influential others, and emotional, social and personal development and agency. The article considers the development of the concept since 2010, and proposes that this is a concept which needs to be re-visited.
This article explores the concept of resilience and its resonance in the lives of young people in the North East of England. It is specifically concerned with the link between youth workers and the importance of what Rutter (1999, p.128) refers to as 'social ties outside the family' and how such connections help mitigate negative experiences within the family. The initial research for this article was undertaken in 2008, when I worked with young people on an inner city estate in the role of youth worker/manager. The then Labour government had just published, 'Aiming High for Young People' (2007, HM Treasury), which was trailed as a '10 year strategy for positive activities'. This document repeatedly returned to the concept of resilience, prompting my focus on it in both practice and through exploring the (then) published research, something which I reflect on now in this article. In particular, I want to explore how resilience links with 'community'; influential others, and emotional, social and personal development and agency. The article also briefly considers the development of the concept since 2010, and proposes that this is a concept which needs to be re-visited.
…a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. A belief in one's own self-efficacy and ability to deal with change and adaptation. A repertoire of problem-solving approaches (Rutter, 1985, p.607).
Central to the further development of the understanding of resilience and young people were studies by Grotberg (1995), Luthar (2003), and Ungar (2005, 2007). The latter emphasising the inter-cultural and contextual aspects of resilience. 'Aiming High' adopted this concept in relation to young people experiencing what was then termed 'social exclusion' (Byrne, 2005) – ostensibly, young people growing up in 'poverty'.
In 2008, the estate in question was deemed to be one of the '20 most disadvantaged estates' in the UK (Lupton and Power, 2002/2005). Families living on this estate had been the object of various 'interventions' for more than 20 years at this point – a key example being the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal (2001). However, despite individual 'success' stories, little substantial change had been made overall in the social, personal and economic outcomes of most of the residents. Structural issues such as poverty, (many families were identified as living in 'severe and persistent' poverty, that being 40% or less of the median income), social class and years of under-investment in social infrastructure framed the lived experience of the majority of resident families. These issues were perceived as leading to, or exacerbating, a number of problems. For example, Lupton and Power (2005, p.119) listed the problems associated with such neighbourhoods as "… high crime and disorder, diminishing and dysfunctional services, empty housing and environmental decay." In turn, these problems became linked with the term 'social exclusion' by commentators. Byrne (2005) was highly critical of this 'label' arguing that it denoted the process of becoming 'dis-empowered'. Stanley (2005, p.162) detailed some of the attributes of this dis-empowerment as being 'excluded' from '…understanding what is happening to society and to themselves.' For the majority of young people living on this estate, Stanley's comments offered a good summary of their experience.
The causes of 'social exclusion' varied in both policy and academic discourse. Whilst Barry (2005) and Byrne (2005) argued that this 'exclusion' was a product of the in-built structural inequalities of late-capitalism, others argued that people themselves are the instruments of their own exclusion. In this latter argument, people fall victim to the risks inherent in post-modern capitalism, and it is their individual failings that lead to exclusion (Beck 1992). To illustrate this it would be argued for instance, that it is the young person who fails to fit into the education system, rather than the system failing them. Notably, Furlong and Cartmel (1997) critiqued such arguments in their account of individualism and risk, referring to the notion of individual failure as an 'epistemological fallacy' and arguing forcefully that social class, and location, remained important determinants of social outcomes for young people. This was the context into which the concept of resilience was introduced.
The literature around resilience had an impact upon my work, given that as a youth worker and manager, the mental, social and emotional well-being of young people was a constant theme for me and figured heavily in my reflections on my practice. The young people I worked with on a daily basis displayed a range of strong emotions and problematic behaviours. My professional aim was to support these young people in understanding where their emotions came from and how they were affecting their lives, working together with them to explore how they could understand and critique the various issues that had evoked these powerful emotions in the first place.
Resilience was not a word that came up in professional conversations within the team that I managed. We attempted to address questions about how young people could live 'positive' daily lives in the face of persistent and severe poverty and cope day to day with racist neighbours or homophobic friends. We also explored how young women could protect themselves from violent partners, and exploitative relationships and how we could support young people to achieve the best outcomes for themselves, on their terms, without causing themselves and others (too much) harm.
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As I began to read more about resilience, I formed the opinion that intrinsically, Youth Work as a process, was congruent with the process of building resilience.
They [social and emotional skills] describe a wide range of attitudes beliefs and levels of understanding, including young people's self-awareness; their ability to manage their feelings; their motivations; their level of empathy with others; and their social skills. They help to shape young people's self-esteem, how they feel about themselves, how they feel about others from different backgrounds, and the extent to which they take control of their own lives (HM Treasury, 2007, p.6).
To me, there was a resonance between Aiming High and my work on several levels: firstly with the emotional content of the Youth Work we were engaged with on this estate, secondly with the ethical values of Youth Work per se, and thirdly, as a means of theorising and explaining in more precise terms what Youth Work achieves. Kerry Young (1999) eloquently explored the 'touchy-feely' aspects of youth work, and the ethical and moral issues that workers encounter, all of which related to the work we were doing on emotional intelligence and competence. Various youth work theorists underlined the importance of 'relationships' and informality with young people(Jeffs and Smith, 2005), but the concepts related to resilience, especially those in the writings of Michael Ungar (2005/2007) which highlighted aspects of agency and the importance of social contexts, gave me an enhanced framework for practice.
However, the attraction of a concept such as resilience to the government's development of Youth policy in the early years of this century is more obvious now than it was to me then. Viewed with hindsight, New Labour Youth policy had followed a bi-polar trend – rights were strongly attached to ideas about 'good citizens' and responsibilities, and initiatives to improve educational outcomes were indelibly linked with concerns about improving employability – even in areas where job opportunities were dwindling as globalisation hastened the re-distribution of manufacturing and production outside of the UK (Furlong, 2013). Rights to welfare were aligned with sanctions, and agency countered by admonishments for young people about 'good citizenship'. The growth of the focus on the individual within policy positioned young people as creators of their own destinies, and responsible for their own outcomes through the 'choices' they were assumed to have freely made. This perspective echoed the growing neo-liberal emphasis on 'self' without reference to context or location (MacDonald and Marsh, 2005). Given this decontextualized approach, a concept such as resilience which held the possibility of identifying a 'shopping list' of personal attributes which would ensure success instead of failure, and which could be 'built' by the children and young people's workforce was tied into historic discourses of working class young people as deficient in both moral and intellectual reasoning, and ultimately, as 'risk-laden'. In this context, the concept of resilience could be used as a means of passing responsibility to young people, and the professionals who worked with them, to ensure success.
In the 10 years since I left practice and moved into Higher Education, I have watched with interest the rising of the resilience star. It has become a concept that to quote Joseph (2013, p.51) '…can mean different things in different contexts…' but '…is best understood in the context of rolling-out neoliberal governmentality'. This latter point is the most often used critique of the concept. David Cameron's casual use of the term during his time as Prime Minister (2010-2015) further ensured its centrality within the discourse of austerity and the empty 'all in this together' mantra. Much like Tebitt's simplistic call for young people in the 1980s to emulate his father's generation by getting on their bikes and looking for work, Cameron's doomed Life Chances Strategy (2016) extolled character and resilience as skills to be developed.
The austerity years have not been kind to Youth Work either, with most local authorities cutting their provision entirely or drastically reducing its scope. The often 'diluted' Voluntary Sector provision that has remained, contends with the 'contract culture' of target driven services, and the rising need for support – especially in relation to emotional well-being – from young people in all communities.
However, I feel that it is time to re-examine the concept of resilience, and that this concept can be reclaimed and re-used through reference to other critical writing about it. For instance, in 2009 Dorothy Bottrell wrote about the research she had undertaken with young people in a 'deeply' socially excluded suburb in Australia. She outlined how the principles of Youth Work, especially the key principles of participation and agency, were crucial in framing resilience – but of a kind that was 'resistant' to the dominant neo-liberal usage of the term, and to the imposed 'deficit' identities the young people in this community often resisted.
This linkage between resistance and resilience is one which I think is a good starting point for reclaiming the term from the neo-liberals who see it as an underpinning theory for the 'stoic' acceptance of austerity and disadvantage. My enthusiasm for the concept remains, and in spite of calls to 'resist' resilience (Neocleous, 2013), or arguments that 'resilience is futile' (Diprose, 2014), I hold on to my initial excitement about this term and its possibilities in relation to Youth Work.
Diprose, K(2014) Resilience is Futile, Soundings, Winter 2014, 58, pp:44-56.
Ni Charraighe worked in the Voluntary Sector in Belfast and Newcastle from 1989-2009 as a Community Development Worker, Youth Worker and Researcher. She has worked with a wide variety of groups on issues such as access to employment, family support, mental health, homelessness and participation. Her research interests include young people's friendships and resilience.


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Did you know that all dogs within the City of Penticton must have a licence once they are 4 months or older? This is to help us return your dog to you should he or she decide to go for a stroll! It also covers the cost of those handy bags to clean up after your pup.
*$10.00 late fee will be applied for all renewal tags purchased after the renewal due date.
For more information, you can contact our Poundkeeper.
We have no dog for adoption at our Pound at this time.
For more information, please go to www.dogcontrol.petfinder.org.


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Стаття «Освіта в Кропивницькому» присвячена розвитку освітньої галузі та освітнім закладам обласного центра міста Кропивницький.

З історії

Першу школу (для дітей військових офіцерів) у Кропивницькому (тодішньому Єлисаветграді) було відкрито в 1763 році. Наприкінці XVIII століття у ній навчалося 53 учні.

У 1861 році в місті налічувалося, крім приватних пансіонів, вісім навчальних закладів — у них працювало близько 40 вчителів і навчалося понад 700 учнів.

Велике значення для Кропивницького та й України в цілому мали Єлисаветградська чоловіча гімназія та Єлисаветградське земське реальне училище, ставши alma mater для цілої плеяди діячів культури і громадського життя.

Дошкільна, шкільна і позашкільна освіта на сучасному етапі

На сучасному етапі (кінець 2000-х років) у Кропивницькому 40 закладів дошкільної освіти і 42 загальноосвітніх закладів середньої освіти, в тому числі з числа останніх створених, переважно на базі ЗОШ, декілька гімназій (Гімназія нових технологій навчання), навчально-виховних комплексів і об'єднань, комунальний заклад «Педагогічний ліцей», а також вечірня загальноосвітня школа №38 та загальноосвітня школа-інтернат І–ІІІ ступенів з утриманням дітей-сиріт та класами для дітей зі зниженим зором, 3 спецшколи.

Позашкільну освіту в місті здійснюють такі комунальні заклади:
 Будинок вчителя;
 Школа естетичного виховання «В гостях у казки»;
 Центр дитячої та юнацької творчості «Центр-Юність»;
 Кропивницька міська станція юних техніків;
 Будинок дитячої та юнацької творчості;
 Міський центр науково-технічної творчості учнівської молоді «Каскад».

Діють 4 музичні школи і розгалужена мережа закладів фізичної культури та спорту для дітей і молоді.

Вища освіта в сучасному Кропивницькому

Вищу освіту в місті Кропивницький можна здобути в 14 вищих навчальних закладах різного профілю, з яких 6 мають ІІІ–IV рівні акредитації (по 3 державних і приватних), решта 8 — І–ІІ рівні акредитації (лише один з них є приватним), а також у численних філіях (структурних підрозділах) вищих навчальних закладів України, розташованих у інших містах держави.

 Вищі навчальні заклади ІІІ–IV рівнів акредитації:
Контингент студентів вищих навчальних закладів ІІІ—IV рівнів акредитації у Кропивницькому становить 20,5 тисячі осіб (2000-ні роки).

 державні:
 Центральноукраїнський національний технічний університет (ЦНТУ) — просп. Університетський, 8; надає освіту за спеціальностями: бухгалтерський облік, економіка підприємства, обробка матеріалів на верстатах і автоматичних лініях, інструментальне виробництво, обслуговування верстатів з програмним управлінням і робототехнічних комплексів, обслуговування та ремонт автомобілів і двигунів, обслуговування комп'ютерних та інтелектуальних систем та мереж;
 Центральноукраїнський державний педагогічний університет імені Володимира Винниченка — вул. Шевченка, 1;
 Кропивницька льотна академія — вул. Добровольського, 1, м. Кропивницький-25005.
 недержавні:
 Кіровоградський інститут регіонального управління та економіки — вул. Полтавська, 40, м. Кропивницький-25006;
 Економіко-технологічний інститут імені Роберта Ельворті — вул. Шевченка, 21/27, м. Кропивницький-25006;
 Соціально-педагогічний інститут «Педакадемія» — вул. Шевченка, 32/34, м. Кропивницький-25006.

 Вищі навчальні заклади І–ІІ рівнів акредитації:
Контингент студентів вищих навчальних закладів І—ІІ рівнів акредитації в цілому в Кіровоградській області станом на початок 2004/2005 навчального року становить 12,5 тисячі осіб.
 державні:
 Кіровоградський машинобудівний коледж Центральноукраїнського національного технічного університету;
 Кіровоградський комерційний технікум;
 Кіровоградський медичний коледж імені Є. Й. Мухіна;
 Кіровоградський будівельний коледж;
 Кіровоградський кібернетико-технічний коледж;
 Кіровоградський коледж статистики;
Кропивницький музичний фаховий коледж;
Кропивницький аграрний фаховий коледж.
 недержавний:
 Кіровоградський коледж економіки і права імені М. П. Сая
 Кропивницький інститут державного та муніципального управління Класичного приватного університету

 Структурні підрозділи вищих навчальних закладів України, які надають освітні послуги у Кропивницькому
(як державних, так і приватної форми власності):
 відокремлені:
 Кропивницький юридичний інститут Національного університету внутрішніх справ;
 Кропивницька філія Відкритого міжнародного університету розвитку людини «Україна»;
 Кропивницька філія Міжрегіональної академії управління персоналом;
 Факультет менеджменту туризму Київського інституту туризму, економіки і права у місті Кропивницький;
 Кропивницький факультет Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв (КНУКіМ).
 невідокремлені:
 Кропивницький навчально-консультативний пункт Національного аерокосмічного університету «Харківський авіаційний інститут»;
 Кропивницький навчально-консультативний пункт Київського юридичного інституту МНС України.

 Профтехнічні навчальні заклади:
 Кропивницький професійний ліцей сфери послуг

Виноски

Джерела і посилання

 Інформація про місто Кропивницький на офіційному сайті Кіровоградської міської ради
 розділ освіта на офіційному вебсайті Кіровоградської міської ради
 Навчання у вищих навчальних закладах Кіровоградської області на Офіційний сайт Управління освіти і науки  Кіровоградської державної обласної адміністрації

Освіта в Кропивницькому
Кропивницький

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Alan Sanstad
eta.lbl.gov/people/Alan-Sanstad
Alan H. Sanstad is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Technologies Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Sanstad received the A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research, from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Sanstad's research and publications have included work on the economics and policy analysis of end-use energy efficiency, technological change in energy-economic simulation modeling, and integrated assessment of global climate change. His recent work has focused on developing new approaches to long-run quantitative modeling and decision-making pertaining to energy system transitions, large-scale greenhouse gas abatement, and other issues in the energy, environmental, and technology policy arenas. Dr. Sanstad has worked with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, the California Energy Commission, the U. S. Department of Energy, and non-governmental organizations in developing and implementing research strategies, policies, and projects on energy, greenhouse gas mitigation, and related topics. He is an affiliate researcher of the Energy & Resources Group at U. C. Berkeley and of the NSF-sponsored Center for Robust Decision-Making on Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Chicago.
Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions: Proceedings from an Expert Workshop
Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs
Authors: I.M. Hoffman; C.A. Goldman; G.M. Rybka; G. Leventis; L.C. Schwartz; A.H. Sanstad; S.R. Schiller
Exploring the relationship between planning and procurement in Western U.S. electric utilities
Authors: J.Pablo Carvallo; A.H. Sanstad; P.H. Larsen
Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning
Authors: J.Pablo Carvallo; P.H. Larsen; A.H. Sanstad; C.A. Goldman
Regional Economic Modeling of Electricity Supply Disruptions: A Review and Recommendations for Research
Authors: A.H. Sanstad
Impacts of Demand-Side Resources on Electric Transmission Planning
Authors: S.W. Hadley; A.H. Sanstad
Incorporating Energy Efficiency into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning
Authors: G.L. Barbose; A.H. Sanstad; C.A. Goldman; S. McMenamin; A. Sukenik
Optimizing Energy Savings from Direct-DC in U.S. Residential Buildings
Authors: K. Garbesi; V. Vossos; A.H. Sanstad; G. Burch
Estimating energy-augmenting technological change in developing country industries
Authors: A.H. Sanstad; J. Roy; J.A. Sathaye
Substitution and price elasticity estimates using inter-country pooled data in a translog cost model
Authors: J. Roy; A.H. Sanstad; J.A. Sathaye; R. Khaddaria


Downspouts are the pipes that take the collected roof runoff in your eavestroughs down to the ground. When it rains, or when the snow on your roof melts, the downspout allows for the collection and drainage of your roof by allowing it to flow down to ground level. They are also referred to as "roof leaders".
What is the problem with downspouts?
Downspouts themselves aren't the problem. They are required to properly drain the runoff from your roof. The problem can be where this water gets discharged to.
If the downspouts come down your exterior walls and enter a pipe in the ground, they are most likely going to the sanitary sewer.
Considering that a single home is able to drain quite a bit of water during an intense rainfall, imagine if many homes were doing the same thing, at the same time. This quick and sudden rush of water into the sanitary sewer can rapidly over-fill the pipes and cause sewage backups in basements. Roof runoff is relatively clean storm water which should not be directed into the sanitary sewer system. Your home may not be experiencing flooding as a result, but you may be contributing to sewage backups of a neighbour or someone even further away.
Sanitary sewers are not designed for storm water, and overloading the sanitary system not only causes sewage backups into basements, but also causes bypasses of untreated sewage to the environment – your local rivers and lakes.
If not to the Sanitary Sewer, where should downspouts discharge?
In general, it is best practice to discharge your downspouts to your own lawn so that the water can naturally infiltrate into the ground. If you are unable to do that for legitimate technical or safety reasons, your next alternative is the storm sewer. Discharging to the sanitary sewer is not an acceptable alternative as you put not only your own home at risk, but also the homes of others at risk of sewage backup. You may need to touch base with the City's Engineering Department to assist you in finding a suitable discharge location for your storm water. It's worth noting that there is no "grand-fathering" or acceptance of older downspouts going into the sanitary sewer. Just because it used to be done that way, doesn't mean it's right.
What does the City plan to do about downspouts?
Downspouts are located on private property and generally, the maintenance, upkeep and discharge is up to the homeowner. But, discharge of downspouts to the sanitary sewer system can affect everyone, including your friends and neighbours, and the environment. For this reason, the City of Kingston has made downspout discharge to the sanitary sewer illegal, by way of By-law 2008-192 (Clause 3.11). The City will soon begin enforcing disconnection of downspouts from the sanitary system.
Be a good neighbour, and disconnect your downspouts. We all need to work together to reduce basement flooding!
Q: How do I disconnect my downspouts?
A: Disconnection of downspouts is relatively easy, in most cases and is well within reach of the average Do-It-Yourself'er with some basic tools and tool know-how. It involves cutting the downspout about 30-45 cm above the ground (depending on how far out you want to go with it), and installing an elbow and pipe extension to divert the water to the surface away from the house. You should strive to get the end of the extension 2 metres away from your foundation.
Better yet, install a rain barrel as well to intercept some water for garden irrigation.
There are a number of online resources listed below to provide some instructions on how to do it.
In certain cases, doing some work up on your eaves troughs may be required to relocate the downspout to a more suitable location, for example a corner of the house within easy reach of a large part of lawn. Given that this involves work at height, use of a suitably qualified contractor is recommended.
Sometimes, extension of a downspout onto the lawn requires crossing a pathway, or other features. There are options such as swiveling elbows or flexible hoses that allow movement of the downspout so it is not fixed in a disruptive position at all times.
One thing you need to make sure of is that the positioning of your downspout does not put your neighbours at additional risk of flooding. While it is beneficial to try to get the drainage as far away from your own foundation as possible, make sure you don't create new problems for your neighbours.
Q: Is there any way to get an exemption to By-law No. 2008-192 with respect to downspouts?
A: As By-Law enforcement commences, a formal exemption process will be developed for which homeowners will need to apply. This process has not yet been developed. However, it will likely contain provisions for situations that are either technically non-feasible, or likely to create hazardous conditions.
At this time, it is recommended that residents do their best to disconnect ALL of their downspouts. If it is believed disconnection is not feasible, or would create a hazardous condition, disconnect as many as you can. An exemption may be permitted for individual downspouts as required although this will need to be approved by By-Law officers and will not be granted lightly.
There is no place to discharge downspouts other than right into neighbouring homes or right onto a public sidewalk.
Conditions where re-direction of downspouts from one corner of the house to another would result in an acceptable downspout position.
Q: My downspout is going into the ground, how do I know it is going to the sanitary sewer (illegal) or to the storm sewer (legal)?
A: Most homes in the City of Kingston do not have a storm sewer lateral, only a sanitary sewer lateral. In most cases therefore, if your downspout is going into the ground, it's likely that it is going into the sanitary sewer system, illegally.
In some areas of the City, and in newer development areas, homes may be serviced by a storm lateral. However, putting your runoff drainage into the storm system also has its risks. The best practice is to discharge roof runoff to your lawn where it can infiltrate naturally.
The City and Utilities Kingston don't always have a record of whether a home has a storm lateral or not. If you want to find out, calling Utilities Kingston is the first best bet, but some specialized testing by a qualified plumber might be required to figure it out (for example, using bucket tests, dye tests, or other techniques).
Q: What if the surrounding ground is already wet a lot of the time, or my sump pumps are already running 24/7?
A: If you have perpetually-wet conditions, or frequent surface water pooling, you may wish to consider investigating more significant drainage options for your lot, perhaps even together with your neighbours. Some options may include surface re-grading of lots, or installation of some form of drainage system, such as a "French drain" or ditch/swale. These options are dependent on having some kind of a drainage outlet, i.e. a natural drainage channel, or a storm sewer.
Private-lot drainage is the owner's responsibility, but in extreme cases, it may be worthwhile to touch base with the City's Engineering Department to explore if any other solutions may be available and suitable.
A: Yes, it might. This impact can be minimized by running the downspout extensions as far away from your home as possible (2 metres away from the foundation is considered the minimum) or dispersing the water over a larger area using a flexible perforated pipe or something that can be moved around a bit. There also might be options like building a shallow ditch or swale, or slight re-grading to move the water away from your home.
You may also wish to consider an infiltration garden – a garden that promotes infiltration of water and uptake by plants. Come take a self-guided tour of the Utilities Kingston Water Conservation Garden located at 1211 John Counter Boulevard to see an example.
Q: What if I don't have any green space and/or my only option is to discharge my downspout to a public sidewalk?
A: This is not an acceptable solution as your private lot drainage will create a freeze hazard in the winter and serve as a liability. This is a private storm drainage issue which you will need to address. If you or your plumber cannot find a reasonable solution, you may consider contacting the City's Engineering Department to see if they can help you find a more suitable place for your drainage to go.


Disgraced ex-pro cyclist Lance Armstrong will face trial this coming November in a $100 million lawsuit brought by the US government, which claims Armstrong owes the US Postal Service for the millions it invested in him in the early '00s. Conspicuous in the suit is that, while Armstrong was complicit in the doping scandal and use of performance-enhancing drugs, he wasn't the only member of his team involved—so why put the focus of the suit on him alone? According to USA Today, attorneys for the US Department of Justice have filed documents explaining just that, largely citing Armstrong's role as 'ringleader' of the team.
The attorneys continue by listing a number of transgressions: "He monitored his teammates' use of banned substances, and, on at least one occasion, threatened to remove a rider if he did not use PEDs to prepare for races. He used in-race drug couriers, charted private jets to undertake blood extractions, and arranged cross-border transportation of extracted blood.
"No similar body of evidence exists with respect to any of Armstrong's former teammates," they write.
In submitting these documents, the USDJ may deter attempts by Armstrong's representation to claim selective prosecution: that he's been singled out from his teammates unfairly.
Armstrong has tried to get the case against him thrown out before, on the basis that it's unfounded and that the USPS benefitted from the sponsorship.
"This case seeks recovery from the individual most culpable for the fraud against USPS, who directed the fraud, and who gained the most from the fraud," the government's filing reads. And that would be Armstrong.
The suit will be heard by US District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, DC, on November 6.


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Have you tried all week to avoid spoilers for that issue you can't wait to read, only to have a couple of knuckleheads at the comic shop spoil the living daylights out of it? Well, for all of you out there (me included), this one's for you.
How do you handle these guys? Shoot them a nasty look? Snottily "thank them" for spoiling the book for you? Smack them about the head and shoulders with the rolled-up comic? Well, strike that last one. What's the proper comic shop etiquette for handling the dreaded In-Store Spoilers?
Of course since the Internet and sites that discuss comics have become so big, this was/is not such a big deal anymore.
True, with the internet around, it is alot tougher to avoid spoilers, but at least it's an activity an individual can have some measure of control over (just don't visit spoilery websites prior to buying comics), but with the in-store spoilers, there's really nothing a humble customer can do about it beforehand. It's good to know there are a few comic shop employees who monitor this annoying practive. The "it'll get canceled" warning is a good tactic.
I rip their comics in half and then dance on the shredded pieces in glee.
Okay - I don't. But I want to sometimes. Usually, I just ignore them.
I've found that wearing my iPod into the comic shop with the volume up higher than normal can shield me from not only the Spoilers, but the Monologuers and Bored Girlfriends as well (a couple of sneak previews of future Who's Who entries!).


An industry that has invested in marketing and research would know better.
We're not in one of those industries.
There are basic marketing premises about "value of content" that must be addressed – and I'm confident the major companies are already dancing around this.
The core marketing principle is audience segmentation. Probably a bit less about lifestyle and geography and a bit more about usage and passion.
According to a survey by the Center for Digital Future at the University of Southern California (USC), heavy internet users spent 42 hours a week online versus 2.8 hours per week for light users. More specifically for the newsmedia industry, heavy internet users spent 65 more minutes per week reading newspaper web sites than do light users.
To lump together all internet users and assign an average value is to ignore these stark disparities.
An emerging rule of thumb in our industry is that only 10% of our audience would be willing to pay anything for the content we produce. I suppose that's based on the pessimistic side of the 10%-15% contribution rates of public radio and television stations.
To see the local media company's business model of the future, we're going to have to segment. Then sub-segment the segment. Then sub-sub-segment the sub-segment. You get the picture.
We must identify the heavy users of the internet. We must identify the heavy users of our web sites. We must identify what passion subjects these heaviest users of our web sites want. From a priority perspective, these are our best targets to charge for content. It is a collection of niche audiences, not a substitute mass market.
We're going to be surprised that this highly segmented customer base is not willing to pay for opinions, readily available news that belongs to the public domain, local news narratives, and rarely even for high-quality investigative journalism. In other words, the premium content that the Journalism Community values most of itself is not what the consuming public values.
Instead, people will pay for in-depth coverage of industries, sports franchises, and unique financial news. Out-of-market people may pay for basic coverage of in-market news. People might pay for contextual services.
That doesn't mean we don't cover city council meetings, have pithy viewpoints, and ding the scumbag politician on his expense account. It simply means we're going to have to find funding beyond the consumer for what we, as artists, view as "quality" but we can't find sufficient audiences for.
Directly by consumers for various unique passion niches.
Directly by businesses for the use of hassle-free databases and directories.
Through foundation monies for specific types of narratives such as investigative journalism.
Some kind of low-cost value-added membership formula for some segment of your audience between "heavy" and "ight" users.
Through contextualisation of commodity content: alerts based on current location, home, friends, timing, and even experience.
Advertising to cover the rest, with print a key component of a strategy to build a large, but unpaying, audience that would be part of a funnel strategy for engagement.
I'm beginning to believe paywalls are less likely in the short-term because the "one-click culture" we live in demands nothing short of brutal simplicity that we can't deliver today.
Technology, of course, will open new doors – and, no doubt, complicate the doors we've created today.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's new president vowed on Monday to strike back quickly if North Korea stages any attack, but the United States said it has seen no worrisome mobilization of armed forces by the North Koreans despite their bellicose rhetoric.
"If there is any provocation against South Korea and its people, there should be a strong response in initial combat without any political considerations," South Korean President Park Geun-hye told the defense minister and senior officials at a meeting on Monday.
The United States, in the latest step taken in response to rising tensions, positioned in the waters off the Korean peninsula a Navy guided-missile destroyer used for ballistic missile defense.
In another development, North Korea appointed a reformer and career technocrat to the reclusive and impoverished communist country's ceremonial prime minister's job.
The appointment of former premier Pak Pong-ju, a key confidant of the leadership dynasty, to the post from which he was fired in 2007 appeared to further tighten the ruling family's grip on power. Pak previously was ousted from the job for failing to implement economic reforms.
North Korea says the region is on the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of U.N. sanctions imposed in response to its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.
North Korea further escalated its rhetoric on Saturday by saying it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in response to what it termed the "hostile" military drills being staged in the South.
South Korea has changed its rules of engagement to allow local units to respond immediately to attacks, rather than waiting for permission from Seoul.
Stung by criticism that its response to the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 was tardy and weak, Seoul has also threatened to target young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and to destroy statues of the ruling Kim dynasty in the event of any new attack, a plan that has outraged Pyongyang.
South Korea and its ally the United States played down Saturday's statement from the official KCNA news agency as the latest in a stream of tough talk from Pyongyang.
"We haven't seen actions to back up the rhetoric," Carney told reporters.
A South Korean defense ministry official also said last week there have been no signs of unusual activity in North Korea's military to suggest imminent aggression.
North Korea stepped up its rhetoric in early March, when U.S. and South Korean forces began annual military drills that involved the flights of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers in a practice run, prompting the North to puts its missile units on standby to fire at U.S. military bases in South Korea and in the Pacific.
The United States also deployed F-22 stealth fighter jets on Sunday to take part in the drills. The F-22s were deployed in South Korea before, in 2010.
The Pentagon said it was the fourth time F-22s were deployed to South Korea. They were on display at the Osan Air Base, in part to provide senior South Korean military leaders an "orientation to the aircraft," the Pentagon said.
A U.S. defense official said the USS McCain, an Aegis-class guided-missile destroyer used for ballistic missile defense, was being positioned to operate off the southwestern coast of the Korean peninsula.
"This is a prudent move that provides greater missile defense options should (they) become necessary," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The ship was not expected to participate in any exercises, the official added.
North Korea has cancelled an armistice agreement with the United States that ended the Korean War and has cut all hotlines with U.S. forces, the United Nations and South Korea.
Park's remarks followed a meeting of North Korea's ruling Workers Party Central Committee where leader Kim Jong-un rejected the notion that Pyongyang was going to use its nuclear arms development as a bargaining chip.
"The nuclear weapons of Songun Korea are not goods for getting U.S. dollars and they are ... (not) to be put on the table of negotiations aimed at forcing the (North) to disarm itself," KCNA news agency quoted him as saying.
Songun is the Korean word for the "Military First" policy preached by Kim's father who used it to justify the use of the impoverished state's scarce resources to build a 1.2-million strong army and a weapons of mass destruction program.
At the meeting, Kim appointed a handful of personal confidants to the party's politburo, further consolidating his grip on power in the second full year of his reign.
The most surprising move was the re-appointment of Pak as premier. Pak, believed to be in his 70s, is viewed as a key ally of Jang Song-thaek, the young Kim's uncle and also a protégé of Kim's aunt and is viewed as a pawn in a power game that has seen Jang and his wife re-assert power over military leaders.
Pak is a career technocrat who took the post of premier in 2003 to implement an ambitious economic reform policy that allowed autonomy in farm production and pricing liberalization, introduced in July 2002.
He was removed in 2007 when it became clear the steps aimed at boosting the North Korean economy, gripped by devastating famine in the 1990s, were not producing desired results and the North's military began protests at the cabinet, wielding greater power on state matters.
Jang, Kim's uncle, was also purged and has since been rehabilitated.
Analysts said the move would not likely change North Korea's approach to a confrontation that appears to have dragged the two Koreas closer to war.


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In the tags options, I have enable "write tags to file", "clear existing tags", "remove id3 tags from FLAC files", "Remove APEv2tags from MP3 files", "Tag Compatibility 2.3", "ID3v2 Text Encoding UTF-16".
There are 6 files for 2 songs.
For each songs, the music data of the three corresponding files are the same (I made a byte-to-byte comparison after removing metadata from each files to verify). This mean that the only differences are on the metadata. But when I import the files into MusicBrainz Picard, the metadata are the same. I suspected the embeded pictures to be the cause of the differences. With the options I enabled, I expected that saving the files from MusicBrainz Picard would correct the metadata (including the embeded pictures also) but it didn't. In fact, I noticed that if I removed all metadata with MusicBrainz Picard and saving, it was working: the duplicated files were indeed the same, but if I left too many metadata, it was keeping something making each files different even if everything were supposed to be the same.
Since, the only "invisible" metadata were embeded pictures, I tried to remove them with another software (foobar 2000 which as a function to clear embded pictures), and indeed the files were identical as they should be. But maybe foobar 2000 is doing something else than just removing embeded pictures so, I'm not sure it is perfectly relyable.


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Fact Check: ACA Is No Job Killer
Feb 5, 2014Tweet
Washington Post Fact Checker: No, CBO Did Not Say Obamacare Will Kill 2 Million Jobs
TPM: The GOP Has It Wrong: Obamacare Won't 'Cost' 2 Million Jobs
Gawker: Nope, Obamacare Won't Kill Two Million Full-Time Jobs
THE FACTS ARE CLEAR: CBO DID NOT SAY OBAMACARE WILL COST JOBS
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI): "It Is Not That Employers Are Laying People Off":
"Ryan and Elmendorf combined to explain that Obamacare would lead to a decrease in the number of hours worked by up to 2 percent in 2024. Most of that drop, the CBO said, would be the result of Americans choosing not to work, for various reasons, but not because employers would want to hire fewer workers on account of the law. 'Just to understand, it is not that employers are laying people off,' Ryan said. 'That is right,' Elmendorf said." [TPM, 2/5/14]
Washington Post Fact Checker: No, CBO Did Not Say Obamacare Will Kill 2 Million Jobs:
"First, this is not about jobs. It's about workers - and the choices they make. ... Look at this way: If someone says they decided to leave their job for personal reasons, most people would not say they 'lost' their jobs. They simply decided not to work. The CBO, in its sober fashion, virtually screams that this is not about jobs." [Washington Post, 2/4/14]
Fact Check.Org: "To Twist The CBO's Projections On Voluntary Job Reductions Into Job Losses Is Misleading":
"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor falsely claims that a new report confirms the long-held Republican belief that 'millions of hardworking Americans will lose their jobs,' because of the Affordable Care Act. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report says more than 2 million people will decide not to work, or will decide to work less, due to the law - not that they will 'lose their jobs.'...Nonetheless, to twist the CBO's projections on voluntary job reductions into job losses is misleading." [Fact Check.Org, 2/4/14]
LA Times Economy Columnist Michael Hiltzik: Why The New CBO Report On Obamacare Is Good News:
"The CBO projects that the act will reduce the supply of labor, not the availability of jobs. There's a big difference. In fact, it suggests that aggregate demand for labor (that is, the number of jobs) will increase, not decrease; but that many workers or would-be workers will be prompted by the ACA to leave the labor force, many of them voluntarily." [LA Times, 2/4/14]
Washington Post Media Critic Erik Wemple: "That's A Far Different Dynamic From Job-Killing.":
"For a while this morning, the Internet was hopping with job-killing hype, when in fact the truth was vastly different. Obamacare's impact, the CBO concluded, would lessen the supply of labor by encouraging certain folks not to work: 'The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in businesses' demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked. . . .' For someone approaching retirement, notes Kessler, Obamacare could well mean that they needn't hold onto a bad job just to keep health insurance. That's a far different dynamic from job-killing." [Washington Post, 2/4/14]
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Does the late payment legislation apply to everyone?
You can claim interest from a sole trader, partnership or limited liability company. However you cannot apply the late payment legislation to a personal debt.
What if a customer has more than one overdue invoice? How do I claim these multiple debts?
If each invoice relates to a separate order for goods or services, then you are entitled to claim interest and compensation on each overdue invoice. The amount of compensation varies according to the size of the claim. Of course you have the option to add together several claims for compensation and late payment interest in one claim. If you do this, you should calculate each individually and set them out in writing so it is clear which claim relates to which order.
Do I invoice for the interest and compensation?
You should not issue an invoice for the interest and compensation. Your claim must be in writing. Interest accumulates on a daily basis, so the longer the debt is unpaid, the more interest builds up. If your claim for interest remains unpaid, you should contact the customer again explaining that interest is continuing to accrue.
Can I claim compensation for debt recovery costs and VAT, as well as late payment interest?
The right to compensation for debt recovery costs was introduced for contracts dated on or after 7 August 2002. This can be claimed alongside the statutory late payment interest. Businesses are entitled to claim compensation when a debt remains unpaid after the date specified on the contract, or in the absence of a contract, 30 days after the delivery of the goods or service. The claim for compensation and interest is made to the debtor. Please note that businesses with their own contract terms for late payment interest forfeit their right to use the late payment legislation.
In March 2013, the revised legislation entitled creditors to claim the cost of using a solicitor on top of the interest and compensation.
In legal terms, interest continues at the 'daily rate' on the whole of the outstanding debt. Charging interest is designed to encourage payment.
Do I have to notify a customer of my intention to charge late payment interest and debt recovery costs?
It is not necessary for a customer to have been notified in advance of the intention to charge late payment interest and compensation and you do not have to refer to it in your contract.
Should I sue for late payment interest?
You do not need to go to court to claim late payment interest and debt recovery costs. You have a statutory right to both and these should be paid with the principal sum by the debtor.
It may not be necessary at this stage to threaten your debtor with Court action, as that may be enough to prompt your debtor into responding to your calls and hopefully paying your invoice. If you decide to pursue the debt through the court, speak to us.
A customer is refusing to pay. What should I do?
If a customer 'refuses' to pay you, it is important to establish why, rather than immediately seeking to sue the debtor. It could be that they are disputing the payment, in which case the onus is on you to resolve the dispute.
You should write to whomever the commercial contract is with to acknowledge the outstanding payment.
If the customer ignores your letter and phone calls, has not disputed your invoice and has no justifiable reason for withholding payment, then speak to us.
An order to obtain information from a judgement debtor brings the debtor before the Court to be examined under Oath, by the Court.
A third party debt order is a way of obtaining money that is owed to you. If the debtor has money in a bank account, or a building society, the bank or building society can be ordered to pay the money over.
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This unit costing is also known as single costing. It is used in those industries where a single or only a few grades of similar articles are manufactured. For eg. paper, cement, bricks, coal, etc. Unit or output costing is an important method of costing through which cost per unit is ascertained. The cost per unit of an article is obtained by dividing the total production cost by the number of units manufactured during a given period of time.
It discloses the total cost and cost per unit.
It helps to determine the profitable volume of production.
It helps to determine the selling price of the product.
It enables a manufacturer to keep a close watch and control over the cost of production.
It helps to prepare the tender sheet.
It helps to make a comparison on current cost with the previous cost.
It provides the necessary cost information to the management.
It is not suitable for those industries, which produce varieties of products.
It is not suitable to the services oriented organizations like school, college, hospital, etc.
It can be used only for homogeneous products and not for heterogeneous products.
Under this costing, a cost is produced to determine the total and unit cost of an article. Cost sheet is a statement, which shows the detailed cost under different headings like factory on cost, office on cost and selling on cost for a particular period. It also shows the element of costs as prime cost, factory cost, the cost of production and total cost.
Cost sheet is an operating statement. It analyzes and classifies the expenses on different items for a particular period in a tabular form. It may be prepared weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly at any convenient interval of time. Similarly, it may be prepared on the basis of actual or estimated cost depending on the purpose to be achieved. It is only a memorandum statement, not an account. It does not form a part of the double entry system.
It helps in fixing selling price more accurately.
It helps comparisons of costs of similar jobs or between costs of similar periods.
It gives information for compilation of estimates i.e. Quotations or tenders.
It provides useful information to trace wastages, loss and inefficiencies and thus, affects economics.
It acts as a guide to the producer and helps him in formulating a definite production policy.
Factory or work cost is the total of prime cost and factory or works overheads, which include indirect material cost, indirect labour cost and indirect expenseswhich are added to prime cost then the total is called factory or work cost. It is also known as total manufacturing cost.
If office and administrative overheads are added to factory cost, then cost of production can be obtained. In other words, cost of production is the total of factory cost and office and administrative overheads.
Office and administrative overheads includes those expenses which are concerned with the management of office, administration, finance and other arrangements.
If selling and distribution overheads are added to the cost of production, it is called cost of sales or total cost. In other words, the total cost of production and selling and distribution overheads is known as the cost of sales or total cost.
Opening and closing stocks of raw materials are adjusted to ascertain the cost of materials consumed which is considered as a direct material cost, a part of the prime cost.
In a cost sheet, opening stock of raw materials is shown first. Thereafter, purchase of materials, carriage inward, import duty, etc. are added to it and closing stock of raw materials is deducted there from end result " cost of materials consumed".
In the case of opening and closing stocks of work in progress, factory overheads are added to the prime cost and gross factory cost or cost of goods manufactured is determined first. Then after, opening stock of work in progress is deducted there from to get factory cost or works cost.
After ascertaining factory cost, office and administrative overheads are added to it and cost of production is determined. Thereafter, opening stock of finished goods is added to it and closing stock of finished goods is deducted there from to get "cost of goods sold".
If opening and closing stocks of finished goods are given in units, then these units should be valued on the basis of cost per unit.
Unit costing is also known as single costing.
It provides useful information to trace wastages, losses and inefficiencies and thus affect economics.
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The assault is not on Melchizedek. It is on the false and foolish doctrine you are deceiving well-meaning people with. I will debate anyone in a public forum on this deception.
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Wikileaks releases a fascinating secret chat between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange
Devindra Hardawar
What would a lengthy conversation between Google's chairman and Wikileak's controversial head honcho reveal?
What would a lengthy conversation between Google's chairman and Wikileak's controversial head honcho reveal?
Now you can find out for yourself. Wikileaks has published the full transcript of a secret five-hour chat between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange that took place in June of 2011.
The conversation was a part of research for Schmidt's latest book, The New Digital Age, which is conveniently going on sale this Tuesday. Also in attendance was Jared Cohen, a former Secretary of State advisor to Hillary Clinton, who co-wrote the book with Schmidt.
It's a lengthy discussion, with topics ranging from Bitcoin (which Assange had to explain to Schmidt) to the Patriot Act. There's a lot to dive into, but here are some choice bits:
Eric Schmidt and Tor
In this early exchange, Schmidt has a little mixup between Tor, the anonymizing web browsing technology, and Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
Eric Schmidt: Can we start… I want to talk a little about Thor. Right. The sort of, the whole Navy network and…
Julian Assange: Tor or Thor?
ES: Yeah, actually I mean Tor. Uh…
JA: And Odin as well.
ES: That's right, sorry. Tor, uh, and the Navy network, and I don't actually understand how all of that worked. And the reason I'm mentioning this is I'm…I'm fundamentally interested in what happens with that technology as it evolves.
On Bitcoin
A year ago, Bitcoin wasn't making the headlines it is today. Back then it was still an experimental currency that mostly attracted geeks and anarchists. Wikileaks began accepting Bitcoin donations in June 2011, around the time this interview took place. Here it's intriguing to see how Assange is approaching Bitcoins as a new form of currency, while Schmidt, one of the smartest people in technology, doesn't even have a clue.
JA: On the publishing end, the magnet links and so on are starting to come up. There's also a very nice little paper that I've seen in relation to Bitcoin, that… you know about Bitcoin?
ES: No.
JA: Okay, Bitcoin is something that evolved out of the cypherpunks a couple of years ago, and it is an alternative… it is a stateless currency.
JA: And very important, actually. It has a few problems. But its innovations exceed its problems. Now there has been innovations along these lines in many different paths of digital currencies, anonymous, untraceable etc. People have been experimenting with over the past 20 years. The Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off. The different combination of these things. No central nodes. It is all point to point. One does not need to trust any central mint….
On the Patriot Act
Here, Assange slyly asks Schmidt to leak all of the PATRIOT Act requests from law enforcement and government agencies for Google's user data. Google typically reveals the number of data requests it receives from governments in its Transparency Report, but it would be illegal for the company to reveal the specific requests.
JA: We wouldn't mind a leak from Google, which would be, I think probably all the PATRIOT Act requests.
ES: I've actually spent quite a bit of time on this question. Because I am in great trouble because I have given a series of criticisms about PATRIOT 1 and PATRIOT 2. Because I think they're… because they're non transparent. You know, because the judge's orders are hidden and so on. And the answer… the answer is that the laws are quite clear about Google and the US. We couldn't do it. It would be illegal.
JA: So we're fighting this case now, with Twitter, we've done three court hearings now, trying to get the names of the other companies that fulfilled the subpoenas for the grand jury in the US. Twitter resisted and so that's how some of us became aware. They argued that we should be told that there was a subpoena. I wasn't told, but…
ES: I can certainly pass on your request to our general counsel.
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Q: cglobal() behaves differently when used with a "my" or "our" variable I found out something I cannot explain, so I golfed it to what I think is the bare minimum:
# file OurTest.rakumod
unit module OurTest;

use NativeCall;

our $our-errno is export := cglobal('libc.so.6', 'errno', int32); # note the "our"

# file test.raku
use NativeCall;
use lib '.';
use OurTest;

my $my-errno := cglobal('libc.so.6', 'errno', int32); # note the "my"

say $my-errno.^name;   # output: Int
say $our-errno.^name;  # output: Any

Why do the variables declared as my and our seem to contain different type of data?
No hint of that behavior in the documentation, this was unexpected to me.


McPhee noted that Ovechkin's commitment to the game is "a lot better than it was," but yikes – 242 pounds?
Anyway, McPhee also said he wants Dale Hunter to keep coaching next season and – since he believes injuries to Mike Green and Nicklas Backstrom are to blame for most of the team's struggles – isn't planning any big changes if the Caps miss the playoffs.
We wonder if owner Ted Leonsis feels the same way.


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Q: macOS Focus: How to allow notifications from commandline apps I use a small utility to notify me when a commandline application finishes (in this case https://github.com/variadico/noti, but there are various solutions for this). I also use the new Focus modes. But how do I make sure these notifications are allowed?
They show up in the notification center, but are suppressed. I can't find the app, nor the "Terminal" application to add to the list of allowed apps:

Any idea how to allow this so I don't have to turn this off on my Mac?