Women United is made up of some of the most prominent and influential women in Central Florida, making comprehensive change in the areas of literacy and education. With the support of Heart of Florida United Way, the Women United hosts the annual Women United Luncheon, bringing together more than 1,000 guests to be inspired and take part in one of United Way's most important fundraisers.
While Women United has made great progress in helping Central Florida students, there is more work to be done. Last year's event raised nearly $197,000 that was used to fund local education initiatives and helped Title-I Orange County schools receive an online reader program, impacting more than 6,000 students. This program gives students access to a digital library of books while building essential literacy skills, setting them on the path towards academic success. Our goal this year is to bring this love for reading to even more students throughout Central Florida. We are proud to present the 11th annual Women United Luncheon to our community.
Together, Women United, Heart of Florida United Way and women leaders across Central Florida can make a significant impact in the lives of Central Florida students.


The smartphone manufacturer has been sued by German audio accessories company Bragi.
Of the many features that have made OnePlus' 'flagship killer' smartphones famous, perhaps one of the most prominent is the company's rapid-fast charging solution, which is better than most of the competition. OnePlus has always used the term 'Dash Charge' to market and advertise its proprietary charging technology. However, it seems 'Dash' isn't (and has never been) exclusive to OnePlus.
Bragi, a technology company based in Munich, Germany, has sued OnePlus for using the 'Dash' trademark in Europe. According to Bragi, OnePlus is purposefully infringing upon the trademark, which the former uses for its line-up of wireless earphones (marketed under the 'Dash Pro' name). As per a report by Engadget, Bragi claims that OnePlus' 'Dash Charge' moniker sounds confusingly-similar to 'Dash Charger', the powered case which is used to charge Bragi's wireless earphones.
The Engadget report says that Bragi already has a federal lawsuit against OnePlus in the United States, so the audio accessories manufacturer suing the Chinese smartphone maker in Europe shouldn't really come as a surprise.
Interestingly, a few months back, it was reported that OnePlus had applied for getting the term 'Warp Charge' trademarked, as a potential global replacement for 'Dash Charge'. With the company now under fire for alleged copyright infringement, it seems OnePlus knew in advance this thing could land it into trouble in the future.
The news comes just days before the company is set to unveil the OnePlus 6T, its new 'flagship killer' smartphone. It won't be surprise if OnePlus uses the launch to announce 'Warp Charge' as the new name for its fast-charging technology, for all its future smartphones.


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Q: Accessing Azure proxy enterprise app external URL from other registered app using ClientSecret in the background I have following situation
APP1 : Azure enterprise application running through azure proxy. My external URL is https://xxx.msappproxy.net and internal URL for testing purpose I have put is https://reqres.in
Enterprise App is configured to allow login by any user, now this is all applicable when it runs from UI with specific user login, but as I am running the app from the background, I need to create APP2.
APP2 : I need to create another App which has a permission to access (with admin consent in place) enterprise proxy app (APP1). for that I have configured Client secret in APP2, I can successfully get the token from my App
I believe standard method is to set up client secret in APP2, allow permission to access APP1, get the token passing client secret and access APP2.
Following is my code to retrieve token for APP2 and access APP1 external URL.
IConfidentialClientApplication app;
            app = ConfidentialClientApplicationBuilder.Create("7cbb265a-cf6d-xxxx-xx-289bd24d0be0")
                                                      .WithClientSecret("1eanye2~.-I_K-69i4B8kahdkjasxxxlnr~3v")
                                                      .WithAuthority("https://login.microsoftonline.com/877b6ed6-377f-42d5-ab2e-xxxxxxx")
                                                      .Build();
            string[] scopes = new string[] { "api://7cbb265a-cf6d-4adf-8ae2-xxxxx/.default" };
            AuthenticationResult result = await app.AcquireTokenForClient(scopes).ExecuteAsync();
            if(result != null)
            {
                string Need = result.AccessToken;
                HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
                httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", $"Bearer {result.AccessToken}");
                //HttpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", result.AccessToken);
                HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.GetAsync("https://xxx.msappproxy.net/api/users");
                string data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            }

All works fine and I get the token for APP2, but when I try to access proxy URL with Authorization, HTTPresponseMessage still ask me to login as in response rather then actual data from https://reqres.in/api/users,  I am getting whole Azure AD Authentication html page back asking me to authenticate.
I am not sure if I required anything additional configuration to be in done in either APP1 or APP2.
If you can help or give me some direction ahead making this possible would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Hiren.

A: We can give delegate control to other application (app2) and users will be able to access it through app1. please see the below document for more details.
Delegate permissions.
Kindly check these documents 1 and document 2

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So compared to what you currently pay a recruiting company, is there any premium you'd be willing to pay for decently vetted candidates?
I don't pay a recruitment company.
The only time I used one in the past was for a short term contractor; who was pretty rubbish – the contractor placated a customer while we were bogged under with work.
I feel the CV I received (above) is just the "recruitment consultant" sending a CV which mentions PHP to all employers who perhaps have something to do with PHP. He certainly hadn't vetted it.


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Publij Kornelij Scipion je ime nekaterih starorimskih državnikov in vojskovodij:
 Publij Kornelij Scipion (tribun) – vojaški tribun/konzul (395 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Asina – konzul (221 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion starejši – konzul (218 pr.n.št.), oče Scipiona Afriškega
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Afriški – konzul (205 in 194 pr.n.št.) in vojskovodja (bitka pri Zami 202 pr.n.št.), najslavnejši od Scipionov
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Emilijski – konzul (147 in 134 pr.n.št.) in vojskovodja (tretja punska vojna 149-146 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Nasica – konzul (191 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Nasica Corculus – konzul (162 in 155 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Nasica Serapion – konzul (111 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Salviton – Cezarjev vojak (46 pr.n.št.)
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Salviton politik – sin Cezarjevega vojaka in oče Salvitona mlajšega
 Publij Kornelij Scipion Salviton mlajši – konzul (16 pr.n.št.), izgnan iz Rima (2 pr.n.št.)

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With a desire to have beautiful skin and look like all your favorite idols and movie stars, it can be devastating to have a skin condition that makes you feel bad about yourself. But unfortunately that happens all too often especially with teens and singles who are trying to compete with others who have flawless skin. Looking like your peers is what every teen wants and does not want to stand out in the crowd because "they look different."
A skin condition can definitely make you look different no matter what that condition is. If you have blemishes, itchy or blotchy red skin or cracked scaly skin - you are embarrassed and want to go and hide until it all goes away. Symptoms vary with the type of skin condition but some of the more common ones include acne, psoriasis or Rosacea. Eczema is another skin condition that can affect not only the face, but the hands and feet as well. Hyper-pigmentation or melasma is another problem that can occur where the skin is darker in some areas than on your "normal" skin.
Acne is one of the most common skin conditions that affects up to 80% of teens during adolescence and can affect adults into their 40s along with women who are pregnant. It is generally worse in people who have oily skin - although it can occur in any skin type - because the excess oil or debris gets clogged in the pores and becomes blackheads or whiteheads or develops into cystic acne that becomes inflamed or infected. These cysts can rupture and cause scars.
Rosacea has symptoms of facial flushing or red lines caused by enlarged blood vessels. It could also have stinging and burning that may occur when you frown or laugh. It usually results in pimples or similar bumps and a thickening of the skin on the nose. It generally will look like you have sunburn.
Plaque psoriasis is the most common form of psoriasis and will feature red inflamed skin with silver scales that can itch and be painful as well. They sometimes crack or bleed and can merge into one another. It also affects the fingernails and toenails with pitting and discoloration that might start to detach from the nail bed. It can also manifest itself with scaly plaques on the scalp.
Eczema usually happens in childhood but can occur at any age. The most common type is atopic dermatitis that can affect the face, hands, feet or knees and will show itself with itchy skin rash that is most often red and dry. In children it most often occurs in the elbows or behind the knees while adults usually have it on their hands.
Hyper-pigmentation can be natural as in a birthmark that is a darker color of skin than your normal skin color. Melasma is a common skin condition that can occur from over exposure to the sun and is quite common for pregnant women to experience this during pregnancy but it goes away afterwards.
There are many other skin conditions that can occur sometimes only briefly like a rash or fungal infections, cysts, hives, warts or poison oak or poison ivy. But any of these can affect our looks and make us look unattractive even for a little while. Whenever this occurs, we become more sensitive to how we are perceived by our peers.
Some skin conditions can be very serious and have implications that will affect you the rest of your life. If you have a skin condition that you are unsure about or the products you are using are not clearing up or improving the problem, you should seek advice from a dermatologist or skin care professional. There are many skin care products on the market and choosing the right one for your skin type and for the skin condition you are experiencing makes it essential to seek professional advice to ensure that your skin is taken care of properly. If the product you are using is incorrect you could do further damage to your skin without even realizing it.
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Apoyevmatini () ist eine türkische Tageszeitung. Das 1920 gegründete Blatt, ist die letzte türkische Zeitung in griechischer Sprache. Sie erscheint seit 1920 in Istanbul als Wochenzeitung und ab dem 25. Juli 1925 täglich in Istanbul und ist damit die zweitälteste Zeitung der türkischen Republik nach der Cumhuriyet. Verlegt wird sie von Michalis Vasiliadis, Chefredakteur ist Vasiliadis' son Minas.

Geschichte
Gegründet wurde Apoyevmatini von den Gebrüdern Andonis und Konstandinos Vasiliadis, die das Galatasaray-Gymnasium besucht hatten. die Zeitung richtet sich an die alte griechische Minderheit in Istanbul, die als Rûm bezeichnet werden. In den frühen Jahren der Republik unter dem Staatsgründer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk hatte die Zeitung noch Auflagen von 35.000 bis 40.000. Nach einer Flaute zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, während der lediglich 80 tägliche Exemplare gedruckt wurden, beträgt die Auflage 2017 nunmehr 600 Exemplare, die vor allem in den Istanbuler Vierteln mit kleineren griechischen Minderheiten, darunter Beyoğlu, Fener und Balat, im Handverkauf abgesetzt wurden.

2007 begann die Zeitung mit einer Online-Ausgabe und wird seitdem auch im Ausland gelesen. In der Finanzkrise 2010 stand die Zeitung kurz vor dem aus. Rund 300 türkischsprachige Istanbuler sprangen jedoch ein und schlossen aus Solidarität 300 neue Abos ab, obwohl sie den Inhalt der Zeitung nicht lesen konnten.

Durch ein Gesetz der AKP-Regierung von Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wurde die Zeitung 2014 geschlossen, da die dem Stellvertretenden Ministerpräsidenten untergeordnete Presseanstalt für die Verteilung von Werbeeinnahmen, die für die Zeitungen von existentieller Bedeutung sind, ohne vorherige Ankündigung aus dem Verteilungsprogramm nahm. Dennoch wird sie noch verlegt. Fünfmal die Woche behandelt die Zeitung politische Themen der Türkei und Griechenlands.

Einzelnachweise

Zeitung (Türkei)
Griechischsprachige Tageszeitung
Ersterscheinung 1925


Cultural Differences in Mobile Messaging?
Regulars have probably noticed the new "Featured at" widget announcing that I am now a featured contributor to Mobile Messaging 2.0, a corporate sponsored blog examining the evolution of mobile messaging. Editorial content is unregulated and independent so the sponsorship by Airwide Solutions has nothing to do with contributors content or opinion. Learn more about the blog here. Drop by and settle in to read my first feature : "Mobile Messaging Culture Codes" regarding the potential differences in how differently American, European, and Asian cultures interface with mobile messaging.
Mobile Point View hosts the Carnival for the first time. Aweh my bru! (Welcome!) It's vacation time around the Mobilists' world so let's head to to the beach...Pick up a snowcone and fries down on the boardwalk, open your umbrella, spread your towel--those of you from the upper crust slip into your cabanna (no worries, this ain't no Redneck Riviera)--and join some of the best global mobile content, comments and community of opinion influencers surfing the web as they gather to thrash on Mobile Point View's beachbreak.
Tide's rolling in, thankfully the line up's a zoo today, so grab a stepdeck and catch the first wave focusing on the consumer with "Isn't it time we put the customer at the centre of the mobile data value chain: A new value chain for the Mobile data industry" by Ajit Jaokar of Open Gardens. Hang ten and stick with consumer dudes by ridding the barrel of Abhishek Tiwari's coverage of the impending Google Phone in "First Free Mobile, Now Free Phones!" a follow up to his post last week at CoM #84, with cool pics brah. Here comes a righthander and Judy Breck at iCommons.org, "Sprint Ahead for Learning", where she covers a missed opportunity by Sprint to highlight the learning power of mobile. Rightous words, Jude. Darla Mack, aka Mobile Diva, feels caught inside between content providers and carriers' ability to universally render games to handsets with "Is it Me or is EA Mobile Just Not Getting it?" C. Enrique Ortiz from ...about Mobility, provides this week's Utopic Post: "The Dimension of Space & Movement in Mobile Applications" covering mobile gyroscopic inertia measures...shaka boggas submision.
Carve into the combo swell from Pocket Picks where Casper Field shoots the pier on both sides of the pond by speculating whether the UK will deregulate spectrum in "FCC Opens up Portion of US Airwaves: Will OFCom do the same in the UK?". Doubling back to Fraser MacInnes also at Pocket Picks who covers Apple's maneuvering for ad driven music services before UK regulators in "Ad-funded iTunes for our great grand-children?" And finally Pocket Picks' Chris Leonard covers how "Nokia Opens its first design centre in India."
Riding a Cnoid, Denis at WAP Review asks "Do Transcoders and the iPhone Make the Mobile Web Obsolete?" illuminating how full web browsers are affecting mobile technology. All bathemetry to me, brah. Debi Jones dials us in with a podcast interview at MobileMessaging2.0 covering Mobile Social Networking in "MoSoSo Experts Panel: MOKO, Twitter, Juice Caster" where she chats with Nick Desai of Juice Wireless, Biz Stone of Twitter & Paul Gruber of Loop Mobile. Paul Lamb of SmartMobs, does the final drop in "Smart Shopping Mobs" addressing consumer swarming buying behavior and how businesses are reacting to this phenomenon.
Dudes, the tide is rolling out! The next CoM hosts are Carlo Longino and Russell Buckley at MobHappy. Put out the bonfire, pack out the trash and all you mobile mobsters drop in at Carlo's & Russell's casa or at another weekly Carnival. All participants writing about mobile are welcome - these are public beaches. Thanks for the mullering-free visit and throwin' serious heat today! Joller rager--we're dunzo.
To submit a post from your blog send your entry to: mobilists at gmail.com. More about how to enter and the advantages (waves of traffic!) you get from being in the Carnival here. Once you meet the "3 Post to Host" requirement, you qualify to host and bring the best mobile bloggers to your website. You can also submit your entry through BlogCarnival using their carnival submission form.
China Mobile and China Unicom acquisition rumors are running as hot as the Beijing weather these days--double 8s yesterday at the Forbidden City.
Two of the leaders in global mobile, China Mobile and China Unicom, are at the center of international M&A rumors. China Mobile (CHL) is looking to acquire British music company EMI for GBP 3.2billion through Terra Firma, a private equity firm in in the UK. I'm not sure of the corporate synergies which may exist between a global music company and a Chinese mobile operator, but lesser deals have come to pass.
Initial reports were that Terra Firma would buy EMI directly, but now it seems the deal was just a stalking horse for China Mobile. The reports indicate that EMI has tentatively accepted Terra Firma's acquisition proposal and has suggested its shareholders agree with this acquisition.
China Mobile has not made any comment on this news. Interesting item, but I don't see the fit or the story. And why use a British PE firm. China is awash with savvy investment bankers these days, I'm sure Chinese backed groups such as The Hina Group, or China Renaissance or others could do just as well.
China Unicom to Acquire APBW?
Hong Kong media report that China Unicom (CHU) is planning to acquire a stake in Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communication, the first 3G broadband wireless service provider in Taiwan, for NT$6 billion.
The report says that China Unicom (CHU) may raise funds through some investment institutions including Merrill Lynch for the acquisition of APBW, a member of Asia Pacific Telecom Group. However, due to the Chinese mainland authority's limit for mainland companies to invest in the Taiwan telecom industry, China Unicom may first purchase and manage APBW's broadband and then wholly acquire it in two years when government limitations are sunsetted.
It is problematic for China Unicom to acquire such a company as APBW, which has recently seen financial losses. How the Chinese government justifies the acquisition strategy is another matter? Seems like a long shot.
Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communication is Taiwan's first 3G broadband wireless service provider. Established in November 2001 US$471 million in capital, APBW won its 3G mobile operating license and successfully commercialized the first CDMA mobile service in Taiwan's in 2003.


Whether it was due to the barrage of political phone calls, rising interest rates or national and world events, it felt as if buyers hit the pause button in October, slowing sales in the Reno real estate market. However, is that correct and, if it is correct, is that bad news? What are the facts?
According to the Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors, Washoe County's October median price for single family homes of $380,000 was up 1.7 percent from September and up just more than 10 percent from October 2017.
This year, we have seen a smaller increase in the median price each month, which I believe is healthy, considering the affordability factor in the lower price range in the Reno real estate market. This is positive, considering that many millennials are first-time homebuyers, must qualify for mortgages and are faced with rising prices and interest rates.
October's 459 unit sales were up just over 1 percent from September and down 17.3 percent compared to October 2017. I don't believe this is due to a lack of demand, but a lack of inventory.
There were 556 new listings in October, which is a decrease of just more than 14 percent compared to September and a slight increase of .5 percent from October 2017.
Available inventory is down from September, but up 33.5 percent over last year.
The months of supply of inventory is up to 2.9 months compared to 1.8 months in 2017.
The price per square foot went up slightly from September and is up 12.6 percent from 2017.
Has the Reno real estate market reached a tipping point?
What do these trends and numbers mean for 2019 and beyond? Lately, it feels as if the only certainty in the Reno real estate market is uncertainty. Opinions from economists and other experts range from a continued great economy to a recession in 2020. Again, let's look at the facts.
The drivers of the real estate market—job growth, low unemployment, rising wages—remain good. So, I believe the leveling of the median price is favorable.
What happened in the Reno real estate market in the third quarter of 2018 was a healthy, modest attitude adjustment on the part of sellers. I believe this signals the beginning of a normalization of our local market over the next 24 months.
Most people realize we have a shortage of homes for sale due to the lack of building during the recession, from which we have not recovered. At the same time, prices increased by more than 10 percent from the same time last year.
Business development groups, such as EDAWN, at the state and local level, have done a remarkable job of attracting companies and workers to our area. So, we have demand.
The attitude adjustment I referred to earlier comes from sellers who pushed the list price of their properties past the perception and comps that buyers had of market value.
Amy Shocket, a Dickson Realtor in Sparks, calculated that 49 percent of the active inventory in the Reno real estate market was reduced in price in part of the third quarter. I believe this is an important trend because we haven't seen price reductions for several years.
Since everyone has an opinion, I will offer mine. From where I sit, our local 2019 Reno real estate market looks much like 2018. We have demand, we will have a shortage of inventory, and we have a growing population in our area.
The challenges will be rising interest rates and affordability. Sellers need to be realistic in setting the list price of their home by gathering facts from Realtors and other experts about the current market value.
Listing too high can delay a home's sale and ultimately costs the seller time and money. Delaying a sale may also move a listing into a period when there is more inventory competition.
The 2019 Reno real estate market looks healthy, with many of the same factors that we adapted to in 2018. However, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco, all feeder markets to our area, are all at risk to have housing crashes in the short future. That will affect our market.
Beyond 2019? We need to watch trends including the state of the economy, new career opportunities, wages and foreign investment in real estate. When the economy is good, people purchase homes.
This article originally appeared in the Northern Nevada Business View on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Nancy Fennell is the president of Dickson Realty. Visit dicksonrealty.com to learn more.


Develop an inventory of the materials of construction (i.e., metallurgy, corrosion allowance, PWHT condition, presence of linings).
Determine the potential damage mechanisms and the anticipated corrosion rates after review of the process chemistry and operating conditions.
Group similar materials prone to similar damage mechanisms/deterioration rates into common corrosion loops.
Review the available inspection history and make adjustments in the corrosion assessment based on the inspection history.
Once completed, the corrosion vulnerability assessment will contain the data required for likelihood component of a Risk Based Inspection (RBI) prioritization, and facilitate the development of inspection plans and Integrity Operating Windows (IOW's) where unregulated operation could result in excessive damage rates.


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New Deal Sought In Dispute Over Google Book Plan
CONTACT: Larry Neumeister
Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:24 pm
NEW YORK, NY — A $125 million settlement of a lawsuit that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books will be renegotiated in light of the U.S. Department of Justice's contention that the deal probably violates antitrust law, lawyers involved in the case said Tuesday.
Lawyers for The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and other plaintiffs said in court papers that they and Google met with senior Justice Department officials last Thursday and agreed to work with the government to resolve concerns.
The case involves Google's plans to scan millions of books and make them searchable and available for purchase online, with publishers and authors getting most of the money from the sales of books that are still protected by copyright. Google says the service will revitalize works that might otherwise be forgotten.
The Justice Department told U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in a brief filed last week that the agreement threatens to give Google the power to increase book prices and discourage competition, though it said a renegotiated settlement might obey U.S. copyright and antitrust laws.
The government encouraged an improved settlement, saying it "has the potential to breathe life into millions of works that are now effectively off limits to the public."
Lawyers for the authors and publishers said in court papers Tuesday that, "as the United States government put it, no one wants `the opportunity or momentum to be lost.'"
They urged Chin to delay a hearing scheduled for Oct. 7, saying that a new agreement may take away some objections among the roughly 400 opinions, both pro and con, which were filed with Chin by a deadline earlier this month.
The lawyers noted that the responses included hundreds of objections from individuals and corporate entities. In addition, the governments of Germany and France and the attorneys general in Connecticut, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington had objected.
Google rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have also criticized the deal.
Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker acknowledged the court filing by plaintiffs in the case Tuesday and said in an e-mail that the company is "considering the points raised by the Department of Justice and others, and we look forward to addressing them as the court proceedings continue."
Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer advocacy group that has asked the court to reject the settlement, said in a statement that key copyright issues should be settled by Congress in a fully public process.
"Essentially Google and the authors and publishers groups are back at square one and must re-negotiate the deal," said John M. Simpson, a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog who was one of eight witnesses to testify about the deal to the House Judiciary Committee.
Authors Guild Executive Director Paul Aiken said the group wants to address the Justice Department's concerns but remains convinced that a settlement with Google "offers the best path to making millions of out-of-print books available to readers, students, and scholars and opening up new markets for authors."
The settlement was announced by Mountain View, Calif.-based Google and the publishing industry last October to resolve two copyright lawsuits contesting the book scanning plans.
AP Technology Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this report.
corporateering, going to court, justice department, Washington DC

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@elizakeller
Eliza Keller
Policy and Communications Manager, J-PAL Global
Eliza Keller is a Policy and Communications Manager at J-PAL, where she leads global strategic communications and media engagement. She is also a member of J-PAL's Political Economy and Governance policy team, working with governments and NGOs to apply scientific evidence to policies and programs that improve political participation, reduce corruption, and build state capacity.
Prior to joining J-PAL in 2016 Eliza served as Public Affairs Officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US foreign aid agency. At MCC, Eliza built coalitions within the academic, NGO and private sector communities to advocate for MCC's evidence-based approach to foreign aid, and developed strategies to engage stakeholders and the public in MCC's work through storytelling and social media.
Previously, she worked for a data visualization startup in Washington, DC and as a community organizer on local, state, and national political campaigns. Eliza holds an MPA in Development Practice from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, where she was Editor in Chief of the Columbia Journal of International Affairs. She holds a BSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
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Stories from the Cove… Lessons from my mother.
Meditate on the third "Last Word" of Jesus from the Cross: Behold, Your Mother.
Listen to a story about a missionary priest in Russia who was sent to Lubyanka prison and a Siberian Gulag.
Meditate on the healing of the paralytic.
Another chapter of 3 Fingers Cove: Lessons from my Father.
Reflect on the Stations of the Cross on Mondays during Lent, with a different meditation song each week.


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Beara Peninsula
Peninsula straddling Counties Cork and Kerry, Ireland
View of Glanmore Lake
Location of the Beara Peninsula
Beara (Irish: Béarra) or the Beara Peninsula is a peninsula on the south-west coast of Ireland, bounded between the Kenmare "river" (actually a bay) to the north side and Bantry Bay to the south. It contains two mountain ranges running down its centre: the Caha Mountains and the Slieve Miskish Mountains. The northern part of the peninsula from Kenmare to near Ardgroom is in County Kerry, while the rest forms the barony of Bear in County Cork.
The main features of Beara's landscape were formed during the quaternary period which ended 12,000 years ago. There is evidence of human activity on the peninsula dating from at least 3000 BC. Later it was invaded by Vikings, and in the 17th century became a defensive front for the English army against French invasion. Its population peaked at 39,000 before the Great Famine; today there are less than 6000 living in the area.[1]
The peninsula contains a long and varied scenic coast, two mountain ranges and a number of passes, and forms part of the Wild Atlantic Way.
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Map of ancient sites on the Beara Peninsula
The peninsula was glaciated during the quaternary period; evidence from this era survives in the form of striae around Hungry hill, and erratics on the western road into Glengarriff.[2] The first signs of human activity date to c 3000 BC, and consist of traces of Early Bronze Age settlements.[3] The landscape is rich in megalithic monuments and other prehistoric archeological sites, including over 70 standing stones, 22 stone rows,[4] 38 dolmens, as well as wedge tombs, stone circles. Later the area became a Viking settlement, as evident in place names such as Longhart. Levels of Early Medieval activity can be deduced from the presence of many ringforts, cashels, cairns and fulacht fiadh.[5]
In the modern period, Beara was the traditional seat of power of the O'Sullivan Beare and one of the last points of native Irish resistance after the 1601 Battle of Kinsale. Allihies, on the tip of Beara, later became major copper mines and featured in the Daphne du Maurier novel 'Hungry Hill' - later made into a film. Around 1796, the French navy threatened Bantay Bay, and English forces responded by erecting defences on Bere Island, including martello and watch towers.[1]
A plaque placed by the Beara Historical Society offers the following to explain the origin of the name:
In the early centuries AD, Conn Céad Cathach (Con of the hundred battles) fought a fierce battle against Owen Mór, King of Ireland at Cloch Barraige. Owen was badly injured in the battle. Those of his followers who survived took him to Inis Greaghraighe (now known as Bere Island) as a safe place for him to recover. There, the fairy Eadaoin took him to her grianán (bower) where she nursed him back to full health. Nowadays, this place is known as Greenane.
Owen and his followers then sailed southwards until they reached Spain. There he met and married Beara, daughter of the King of Castille.
Later Owen, Beara and a large army sailed from Spain and landed in Greenane. Owen took his wife to the highest hill on the island and looking across the harbour he named the island and the whole peninsula 'Beara' in honour of his wife. Rossmacowen, Kilmacowen and Buaile Owen most likely are named after Owen Mór and his son. According to local tradition Owen's wife, Princess Beara, died and was buried in Ballard Commons in the remote and peaceful valley between Maulin and Knocknagree Mountains.
The scholar Nollaig Ó Muraíle doubted this story, and instead suggested a connection to the Kerry dialect word béarach, béar[r]a which refers to "rocks on the seashore against which the sea breaks with great force".[6]
Tourist attractions[edit]
Stookeennaloakareha
Tourist attractions on the peninsula include the ruins of Dunboy Castle and Puxley Mansion, the Copper Mines Museum in Allihies,[7] Garnish Island by Glengarriff (maintained by the OPW) and Derreen Garden (privately owned but open to the public).
The "Ring of Beara" follows the roads for about 148 kilometres (92 mi) circumnavigating the peninsula. It starts in Kenmare, crossing the Healy Pass through Adrigole, passing Castletownbere, Allihies, and turn offs to Dursey Island, Eyeries and Ardgroom, ending in Glengarriff. The area has had a long connection with the sea; Castletownbere is one of Ireland's largest fishing ports and the largest white fishing port.[8] It has diving, sailing and boating facilities.
The Beara Way is a long distance walking route around the peninsula with several historical and archaeological sites en route. The main towns on the route are Castletownbere, Kenmare and Glengarriff. There are a number of villages in between including Allihies, Ardgroom, Adrigole, and Eyeries. Bere Island and Dursey Island can be reached by a short trip by ferry or cable car respectively. The Beara Way is part of the Beara-Breifne Way based on the march of O'Sullivan Beare in 1603. The tallest Ogham stone in Europe, the Ballycrovane Ogham Stone, is close to Eyeries.[9]
Glanmore Lake
Healy Pass - distance
Healy Pass - road
Coolcreen
The Hag of Beara
Iveragh peninsula
Dingle peninsula
^ a b Murphy 1997, p. 14.
^ Murphy 1997, p. 7.
^ Murphy 1997, p. 12.
^ "Béarra / Bear". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ "The Copper Mines Museum". acmm.aie. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ "Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre". agriculture.gov.ie. Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ "Eyeries - Historic & Archaeology". Eyeries.ie. Archived from the original on 4 November 2017.
Murphy, Cornelius (1997). The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork. Department of Archaeology. University College Cork.
Beara Tourism website
Coordinates: 51°43′48″N 9°50′24″W / 51.73000°N 9.84000°W / 51.73000; -9.84000
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August 29, 2016 - "Press Releases"
MEGA Electronics Inc introduces the new IEC C13 Lock Rewireable - the world's first locking rewireable C13 IEC connector.
Designed to guard against accidental disconnection of computers, PDUs, servers and most network devices, the new IEC Lock adds additional flexibility and ease of use, as well as LSZH (low smoke zero halogen) compatibility, to its list of features.
The beautifully straightforward high-visibility locking mechanism is combined with a simple release mechanism which allows for disconnection from all sides. Ideal as a retrofit solution, it requires no other equipment or special inlets to secure it, simply plug it into an appliance as you would a standard IEC lead. The red cage release mechanism also marks the connector out from standard IEC leads to allow maintenance and other data centre staff to identify critical power sources.
Its slim design means it can easily be implemented in areas where access is limited and ease of removal is of paramount importance. Its LSZH attribute is crucial for critical applications in military, broadcast, transportation and data centers.
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Converting Japanese chō to fingers - cloth value in the length units scale.
TOGGLE : from fingers - cloth into Japanese chō in the other way around.
Convert length measuring units between Japanese chō (町) and fingers - cloth (finger) but in the other reverse direction from fingers - cloth into Japanese chō.
954.43 finger is converted to 1 of what?
The fingers - cloth unit number 954.43 finger converts to 1 町, one Japanese chō. It is the EQUAL length value of 1 Japanese chō but in the fingers - cloth length unit alternative.
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Folks, you can't make this stuff up; although for a moment I thought it was– like an exaggerated satire from The Onion. The health inspector arrived shortly before the guests sat down to chow down–down on the farm. The farm fresh gourmet menu was not fit for the pigs or composting and had to be sanitized with Clorox and put in the garbage. Apparently, the health department inspector is on a mission from God to protect and promote the health of the planet by preventing a potential disease pandemic–even at private dinners on farms. After all, they cut vegetables without state permission, making them a "unlicensed food processor"–among other violations.
Here is the letter from Monte and Laura Bledsoe from Quail Hollow Farm (Source: Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund) .
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After one year spent back at Everton, Wayne Rooney looks likely be on the move once again. Only this time, the former England captain is looking to become a star in United States football.
Wayne Rooney could be exiting the Premier League at the end of the season. To many football fans, this follows a descending career trajectory and a season for Everton in which the forward has failed to reclaim the form of his younger days.
This is slightly unfair, as the former Manchester United and England captain, has been Everton's top goalscorer and one of their top performers this season. The club itself has received its share of criticism, but that too is slightly uncalled for. After lagging in the bottom half of the league in early games, Everton is now sitting in 8th place, which they're likely to retain should they manage to avoid losing away to West Ham in the last game of the season.
Rooney looks more likely to join fellow Premier League legends Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ashley Cole in the Major League Soccer. And while the U.S. competition has managed to gather its share of famous players through the years, they has failed to shake the image of a haven for former world-class players on their way to their retirement.
D.C. United is the team that has reportedly come to an agreement with the 32-year-old Rooney. England's all-time international scorer is said to have informed the club of his decision. Manager Sam Allardyce denies the existence of any rift and claims that a deal is far from certain.
"Do I want him to stay? Yes. There are rumours about Wayne going abroad – in China and America – but at the moment he is an Everton player and an Everton fan," Allardyce says.
If Allardyce thinks Rooney's career should continue in England, others who have worked with the player seem to think otherwise. "What next? He decides. MLS? In MLS you have always some iconic players who are going to end their career there. You have Gerrard, Lampard, Vieira, so many of them. Now you have Zlatan and Wayne. So I just hope he enjoys it," says his former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho.
Rooney left Man. United at the end of last season, as the club's all time goalscorer, an incredible feat by any means, especially considering he'd achieved this by the time he was 31. Former colleague and Red Devils legend Gary Neville is also of the opinion that all things considered this could be a good time to consider a move.
"My view is that to experience something completely different would be a great thing for him – to get away and try something different. He's got 30-35 years of his life to think about, coming pretty quickly. To experience different things, different cultures, different environments, and to learn about new things is not a bad thing for him. He's got a big decision to make in the next couple of years about what he does in his post-career," the former Manchester United defender says.
If Rooney is indeed to depart the Premier League, he does so, leaving behind some incredible stats and records. However, many fans will be left with the hard to shake impression that the striker has failed to play the decisive role of old, in his most recent seasons. While the MLS' reputation is constantly growing, it's quality cannot be compared to that of the major European leagues.
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By utilizing the numerical technique of principal component analysis (PCA), this work analyses temporal and spatial variations of the ionosphere under various solar conditions during the period 1999–2013. Applying the PCA technique to the time series of the global ionospheric total electron content (TEC) maps provides an efficient method for analyzing the main ionospheric variability on a global scale that is able to decompose periodic variations (e.g., annual and semiannual oscillations) while retaining the asymmetry in the temporal and spatial domains (e.g., seasonal and equator anomalies). The TEC series of different local times are processed separately at two time scales: (1) the whole 15 years of the period of study and (2) the individual years. In contrast with previous studies, the analysis of the dataset of the 15 years shows that dawn (e.g., LT4–6) and late morning (LT10–12) are the more remarkable characteristic times for ionospheric variability. This study also reveals a cyclic trend of the variability with respect to local times. The first two modes, which contain 80–90% of the total variance, represent spatial distributions and temporal variations with respect to the different stages of the solar cycle and local times. Annual and semiannual variations are demodulated from the first two modes, and the results show that these variations evidently have distinct trends for daytime and nighttime. An exception is that, under active solar conditions, extremely strong solar irradiance during the daytime has a residual effect on the variability of the nighttime.


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Dispute resolution, AIFC arbitration.
We believe in the professional integrity of our experts. We trust our Clients. Therefore, we respect our business relationships. Each employee of MG Partners has an international experience. We guarantee our full devotion, and follow one objective – positive result for the Client. We can speak different languages advise in English, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish, Kazakh.
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Astana International Financial Center
Licensing application in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2017
Business climate in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Lex mercatoria
Each Client and his business is a priority for us. Guided by the norms of legal ethics, we take an individual approach to each case, providing reputable service.
Director of the law firm MG PARTNERS
Nurlan Sultanbayev
Changes in the international tax assessment of Kazakhstan in 2017
Below we can discuss the main developments in the tax assessment of Kazakhstan for non-residents.
Part 26 of the Tax Code of the Republic of Kazakstan (further referred as RK) allows full or partial discharge from the double tax assessment of the various types of profits of non-residents, which were obtained from the sources in RK under the condition of the existence of the agreement between RK and the country of residence of a non-resident in order to avoid double tax assessment.
This means that a non-resident of such a country has a possibility to pay taxes from Kazakhstan originated profits only in his own country, but only in case if he is able to prove the residency by providing Kazakhstan contractor apostilled certificate of residence from his country and the extract from the trade register or, alternatively, a passport copy.
Para 4 and 5 of section 219 of the Tax Code states that the documents approving the citizenship of a non-resident is an official document, which can be in a form of:
an original of such a document;
notary certified copy of such a document;
from 2017 it is necessary to present in hard copy of electronic document that proves residency, located in the internet source of the competent body of the foreign country (Georgia, Spain, Moldova, Czech Republic etc.).
In accordance with para 4 section 212 of the Tax Code in a case when a non-resident provides services or completes works in the territory of RK in a specific time limits, which does not result into the permanent entity in RK, for the purpose of applying international agreement legal non-resident should present to the tax agent both documents proving residency and notary certified copies of the Certificate of Incorporation or extracts from the trade register mentioning incorporators (members) and shareholders of a legal non-resident.
The same documents are needed in order to get return of the income tax for non-resident from the budget or provisional bank deposit.
Additionally from 2017 in a case if the foreign country does not provide such documents (Certificate of Incorporation, extract from trade register) such a non-resident has to provide a document from the foreign country, which was used to become a non-resident, legality of which is proven by the appropriate official body within the foreign country.
International information exchange cooperation
In 2004 Kazakhstan ratified the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, which was signed by 103 countries including 19 offshore jurisdictions.
Convention provides exchange of information on the mutual basis between participating countries in order to prevent shadow economy, money laundering, including avoidance of tax payments.
Therefore, Kazakhstan continues further liberalisation of the tax regime in order to create a fruitful atmosphere for foreign investments and capital growth.
With us you will feel yourself confident in all territory of Kazakhstan. Please contact out specialists for your free consultation.
Tileu Azhikulova
On licensing in Kazakhstan
The statutory tool which governs the area is Permits and Notifications Act, that regulates public relations connected to permits or notifications of entrepreneurship of certain activity types.
Electronic system of licensing in Kazakhstan simplifies the document submission procedure. Further the electronic license itself will be in the public access on elicense.kz. Through the search it is possible to find any license by its validity status. Everyone is able to check the other party for the right to conduct the licensing type of activity. Kazakhstan creates all conditions for the development of businesses and there is a policy for the reduction of regulatory approval system currently in place.
On 29th March 2016 licensing for the activities connected to collection, storing, recycling and realisation of crow-bar and chromatic and ferrous metals was cancelled. Such activities would have a compulsory notification nature, which means that before starting this activity the interested party would need to send the notification about the start of activities to the governmental body governed by Permits and Notifications Act. When finishing the named activities the party would also need to notify the governmental body.
Licensing in the industrial sector is currently central in Kazakhstan. According to the Permits and Notifications Act activities connected to purchase of energy power for the purposes of energy supply and also for operation of mining and chemical manufactures are possible for licensing, particularly:
Extraction of solid commercial minerals
Exploitation and development of solid commercial materials by open surface and underground methods
Process operations within fields boundaries
Operation of explosive works for solid commercial materials
Liquidation works for closure of mines and pits
Underground well workovers, disassembly of equipment and facilities, installations of the lifting machinery
Examination after the well workovers
Cleaning, carbonisation, testing and exploration of wells
Operation of chemical production.
In Kazakhstan very common are license in the area of architecture of urban development and building activities:
License for the building and installation works
License for project activities (I,II, III categories)
License for the development activities (does not have categories)
In Kazakhstan pharmaceutical activity in the sphere of production of drugs is very active. There are more and more drug stores and private clinics opening. In order to work in this are entrepreneurs must get the license for the medical and pharmaceutical activities.
Public places, shops and stores, that work with retail sale of alcohol must get the license for the storage and retail sale of alcohol production, and under the wholesale distribution fill in for the license for the storage and wholesale distribution of alcohol production.
There are also other areas that require licensing , such as production and manufacture of alcohol production, ethyl alcohol and tobacco.
We have been helping to acquire licenses and approval documents "under lock" for more than 9 years. Contact us for your free consultation.
Senior Lawyer MG Partners
Darja Markina
Business climate in Kazakhstan
Due to its geographical position and rich mineral reserves Kazakhstan is one of the most attractive countries for investments. Besides gifts of nature and the ancestral heritage the government of our country uses all opportunities for the creation of the most favourable climate for successful business management.
With regards to the major work done Kazakhstan appeared in the rating "Doing Business 2017" of World Bank, where it took 35th position, upgrading by 16 points compared to "Doing Business 2016", where our republic was placed on 51st position.
Development continues, as World Bank marked top 10 countries with the high share of reforms in the area of improvement of business climate, where Kazakhstan took 2nd position in 7 categories. Additionally, Kazakhstan was awarded as a best reformer for the fourth time in the last 12 years.
Improvements deal with all areas which the potential investor could face while conducting entrepreneurial activity in Kazakhstan.
Therefore, there have been various unprecedented measures taken in order to improve the business environment and reduce administerial pressure on businesses through reforms of the current legislation, perfection of the regulatory approval system, simplification of business establishment procedures and optimisation of governmental control and supervision activities.
There have been simplified procedures of business registration, cancelled fee payment for registration of small and medium-sized entities, reduced term of registration and minimised the list of the required documents, as a part of the framework of improvement of the investment climate. Duties of all supervisory bodies are clearly stated and reduced to the maximum in relation to subjects of entrepreneurship, fully excluding unlawful checks and intrusion in the internal activities of entities. Businesses will also benefit from the simplified procedure to acquire licenses (permits) and many more other positive developments.
Nevermind that only in 2016 the volume of gross inflow of straight foreign investments in Kazakhstan amounted to 20,6 billion US dollars, our country has a lot of less competitive market spheres, which require new participants.
Consequently, as for the current stage of the development of economy and the country as a whole every company has an opportunity to take over its niche in the market of Kazakhstan and central-Asian region.
We have already helped more than 50 non-resident companies to enter the market of Kazakstan. Contact us for you free consultation.
Daniyar Iklasov,
Lex mercatoria is the part of commercial law which consists of unwritten customs and practice of merchants, so far as satisfying externally set criteria for validation . It happens, when states or any representatives of different legal systems agree to have treaty, or any contracts based on the rules of national law, proceed under the practice of international trade . Therefore, in this case we can also call the process of lex mercatoria as a part of the international trade law . Nevertheless, there is a difference between lex mercatoria and transnational commercial law. Transnational commercial law contains rules and principles in legal systems, whereas lex mercatoria consists of rules of customary commercial law, customary rules of evidence and procedure and general principles of commercial law, including international public policy . With regard to opinion of professor Lando, there is a list of elements of lex mercatoria, which consists of public international law, uniform laws, the general principles of law, the rules of international organisations, uncodified customs and usages, codifications of customs and usages by international, organisations, standard-form contracts and reported arbitral awards . However, professor Goode had observed that only general principles of law and uncodified customs and usages constitute lex mercatoria, but together all of these elements form the part of the transnational commercial law, considering that,
«no reference is made to the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Communities which has itself developed general principles, or of national courts when interpreting or applying international instruments or usage, though these obviously carry a much more general authority than arbitral awards and should be regarded as constituent elements of transnational commercial law».
There is no agreement what the lex mercatoria comprises in present. For someone, it is another tag for transnational commercial law, which surrounded by formal and informal ways of harmonisation. For others it is the product of international law-making through international trade usage as evidenced by rules of trade, associations, standard-term contracts and general principles and rules and restatements formulated by international agencies .
«What has been said of the lex mercatoria may well be applied to "transnational law" in general, i.e. to all kinds of principles and rules of non-national or a-national character used in international business practice as an alternative to domestic law».
We can see it in preamble of Principles of International Commercial Contracts of the UNIDROIT «they may be applied when the parties have agreed that their contract be governed by general principles of law, the lex mercatoria, or the like», which means that the Principles based on common origin and responsive to practices and usages, but also very adaptable to commercial needs and the world of international trade .
Baron, G. (1999). «Do the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts Form a New Lex Mercatoria» Arbitration International. pp.115-130.
Bertman, H. J. Kaufman, C. (1978). «Law of International Commercial Transactions (Lex Mercatoria)». Harvard International Law Journal , pp. 221-277.
Bonell, M. (2000). «The UNIDROIT Principles and Transnational Law». Uniform Law Review.
Goode, R. (1997). «Usage and its Reception in Transnational Commercial Law». International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pp. 1-36.
Goode, R. Kronke, H. McKendrick, E. (2007). Transnational Commercial Law. Text, Cases, and Materials. Oxford University Press
Lando, O. (1985). «The Lex Mercatoria in International Commercial Arbitration». International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pp. 747-768.
UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts.
Temir Ibrayev
Terms of Astana International Financial Center.
Astana International Financial Center (hereinafter – AIFC) represents special legal regime in financial field, advantage in the form of tax preferences for certain types of financial services, created on the model of Dubai International Financial Center. In the AIFC frames, conditions for all types of business were created with its independent judicial system (AIFC arbitrage), and anyone is able to find the niche, regardless whether it is a small or large business. AIFC may become one of the largest financial centers in Asia. One of core elements of AIFC is Islamic financing – which is one of the world trends. In its framework, it is possible to invite investments into small, medium and large business. One more mechanism of financing – green financing – typified by floatation of "green" bonds on the AIFC exchange, which makes it available to additionally finance entities that execute practice in the field of alternative energy.
About special legal regime
The legislation of AIFC is based on Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and consist of Constitutional Law and AIFC Acts. The key point and a substantive aspect of AIFC is a new jurisdiction, based on principles of English law, which regulates relations of AIFC participants and interested parties, purposed to improvement of financial market.
Advantageous tax regime
Zero tax rate for corporate and individual income, land tax and property tax, also for securities sales income, dividends and rewards for delivered securities during 50 years (until the end of 2065). Besides, Tax Code prescribes a list of financial services' totals, that are freed of VAT.
Simplified visa regime
Citizens of 45 countries are exempt from visa requirements for 30 days of presence on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan (OECD countries, Malaysia, Monaco, UAE and Singapore). With the purpose of assuring advantageous conditions for settling business in frames of AIFC jurisdiction an Expat Center was created. It practices assistance in receiving a wide range of state and other services by the principle of "One contact", including: gaining visas, registration of foreign labor force, simplified order of gaining permits for stretching the foreign labor force.
Yuliya Turtayeva
Tax Consultant of MG Partners Law Firm
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Q: Differences and best practices: \onslide vs. \uncover, \onslide+ vs. \visible, \onslide* vs. \only? Page 81 of the Beamer v3.20 user guide describes the behavior of the \onslide command.  In particular, there are three forms when the optional text argument is given:

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According to the user guide,

If a ⟨text⟩ argument is present, \onslide (without a ⟨modifier⟩) is mapped to \uncover, \onslide+ is mapped to \visible, and \onslide* is mapped to \only.

This raises three questions:

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*Is this mapping an exact correspondence?

*If so, what is the point of allowing \onslide to accept an optional ⟨text⟩ argument: why not just require users to use \uncover, \visible, and \only directly?

*Also, if so, is there any reason to prefer one form over the other as a best practice?

A: If {text} is present and indeed starts with a brace, \onslide will just fall through to \only, \visible or \uncover,  respectively.
However if there is no brace, it will fall though to \only, \beamer@noargsvisibleonslide and \beamer@noargsonslide which I vaguely presume are the switch variants of \visible and \uncover. (I really don't like the "can be switch or have an argument" style, so I'm not very motivated to dig deeper into this right now. ;) )


The Handmade Craft Holiday Market is THIS Friday and Saturday at Tampa Upcycle in Ybor!!
PhoenixFire Designs will be there as a vendor along with a bunch of other awesome handmade crafters and artists! Please share and tell your friends!! Hope to see you there!
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For as many years as I've been at this and as many variations as I've made, I'm always amazed at the creativity of my customers in coming up with even more variations then I imagined! It's why I've always been happy to offer customized and personalized pendants in the shop. People come up with ideas I don't think of!
Here's a collection of some of the recent custom full moon trees I've made lately by customer request. All of these are from the past couple weeks and it just goes to show how many more options and variations are possible!
The traditional silver one (left) gets a new spin by request when set in brown wire instead (right.) Both versions available to order.
Brown wire with a dark aqua dyed shell coin moon gives a great take on the popular brown and blue color combo! Available to order.
My rainbow moonstone full moon tree of life gets a different feel in this gunmetal wire. Available as custom order!
Using my fire crackle agate in green, this customer was able to give her mom a full moon pendant featuring her favorite color. Available as custom order.
As you can see, there are so many unique ways to personalize a pendant to your style and likes! Feel free to check out the options in the shop, order your own custom full moon tree or feel free to contact me about getting your own custom piece!
Custom Full Moon Tree of Life Pendants Now Available!
Today, I've listed a new custom option for my very popular Full Moon Tree of Life Pendants! You can now chose the wire and the stone used for the moon. Four wire options are available and SIXTEEN moon options! This is a great way to create something unique and truly customized just for you.
Sixteen different moon options, ranging from various dyed shells to an assortment of natural stones.
There are so many options! I haven't even begun to make all the various options available. I often find my customers come up with great ideas I wouldn't have thought of, so this is the perfect way to tell me what you want.
Just a small handful of versions I've made so far – but many, MANY more combinations are possible. What will you pick?
Available in the shop right now HERE.
My Sun Tree is a unique take on the popular Full Moon Tree of Life Pendants I'm famous for. Featuring a warm yellow jade sun set in sterling silver plated wire, this is a little warm piece of a sunny day.
This pendant is handmade using painstaking wire-wrapping techniques. Non-tarnish, sterling silver plated wire encircles the pendant, and is then used as the roots, trunk and branches of the tree. This tree is bare of leaves and features a large yellow jade round "sun" behind the branches. It warms up the piece reminding me of high noon on the Solstice.
I've long made "night" versions with various Full Moons, but I wanted to celebrate the bright warmth of a sunny day in this piece. The color is so sunny and happy, it's a little bit of wearable sunshine!
Available for purchase HERE at PhoenixFire Designs.


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The Raleigh Adjustable Propstand can indeed be adjusted to fit most sizes of bike, whether it has 20 inch wheels, 700c wheels or any size between.
The Raleigh Adjustable Propstand is mostly steel construction with a non-scratch, grippy plastic 'shoe'.
This propstand telescopes in length from approx 23 to 31cm (measured from the bottom of the chainstays to the sole of the propstand's 'shoe').
Like most kickstands, the Raleigh Adjustable Propstand clamps to the chainstays immediately behind the bottom bracket, in front of the rear wheel.
When the propstand is not required, a sideways flick of your foot pivots it in-line with the left hand chainstay, so it's out of the way when you cycle.
That's why propstands are often called 'kickstands'.
You will need a 14mm spanner to fit the propstand and an 8mm spanner to adjust its height.
250g - based upon weighing one of these propstands at Bike Co-op HQ in September 2014.


Wonders in the Dark reached another plateau this past Saturday when the nearly four year-old blog passed the two million mark in page views. Congratulations are in order to the many writers and loyal friends who have helped boost and sustain this place of ceaseless activities. As I prepare this diary on the evening of a very hot Memorial Day Monday in the New York City area, I join with other WitD staffers in wishing Allan Fish a Happy 39th birthday! As always with a new week we inch closer to some upcoming projects, including Richard (R.D.) Finch's "William Wyler blogothon" at The Movie Projector and WitD's own "Comedy Countdown" which will move into high gear on July 1st, the day final 'Top 50' ballots are due.
At Manhattan's Film Forum, an Erich Von Stroheim Festival kicked off on Monday with an evening screening of Greed with piano accompaniment. Upcoming festivals on spaghetti westerns and the 100th Anniversary of Universal at the same theatre are offering some great classics, many double and even triple features for the price of one.
What did you expect, wit?
2 Million Page Views reached here at Wonders in the Dark!
Wonders in the Dark has reached it's second monumental milestone in the past months that warrants announcing on these pages. In fact this newest achievement trumps the past one, which was an acknowledgement of the number of posts the site has published since it's inception In August of 2008.
Today (Saturday, May 26, 2012) the site surpassed two million page views (hits), a statistic that we are all extremely proud of. So many people are responsible for this staggering figure, one that kept the site on a favored list of places to stop on a regular basis. Above all it's the writers and organizers who deserve the most acknowledgement and praise: Dee Dee, Allan, Jamie Uhler, Maurizio Roca, Jim Clark, Bob Clark, Jaime Grijalba, Tony d'Ambra, Joel Bocko, Dennis Polifroni and the many close friends, who I have mentioned previously on the thread that honored the total number of posts at Wonders in the Dark.
Thanks to all for enabling us to smile for the second time in three months.
Though it's been more and more infrequent in the past fifteen years or more, there used to be a fairly common occurrence of half-hour animated specials produced from American comic-strips, usually centering around some kind of holiday-related special occasion, the gold standard being the classic Charlie Brown Christmas. Those and other Peanuts specials from creator Charles Schulz and director Bill Melendez managed to translate the peculiar mannerisms of the cartoonist's celebrated comic-strip so successfully into animation that for decades they managed to serve as the first introduction many children had to characters like Snoopy, Linus and the like. It helped having actual kids supply the voices for the young characters, of course (with Melendez himself providing grunts and howls rich in personality for Snoopy), and especially the accompaniment of Vince Guaraldi's now standard jazz compositions. But as permanent as that special, the ones that succeeded it, and even the features and series that followed in their wake all marked themselves into the consciousness of whole generations' worth of children, the animated form of Peanuts never quite outstepped the influence of the original home Schulz found on the comics page, where his work served as an inspiration to countless cartoonists and artists of every stripe (even Godard called him one of the best writers in America) until his death in early 2000.
The same can't quite be said for some of the other comic-strips to have succeeded in animated form. Some easily outpaced their comics-page counterparts, only serving to remind just how superficial some of those comics were to begin with– the various Garfield cartoons came to life on television in a way that Jim Davis' strip never approaches thanks to the addition of Lou Rawl's music and most especially the charmingly deadpan voice of the late Lorenzo Music, such to the point that not even Bill Murray himself could follow in those horrible live-action movies. Aaron McGrudder's anime-influenced Boondocks series has long-since outpaced the original strip that sired it, at least in terms of his own involvement. Others managed to remain true to their printed sources, but never really reach people on the same level of impact– Berke Breathed's Bloom County made an honestly charming special centered around Opus the Penguin in A Wish for Wings That Work, but it's strictly for die-hard fans of the strip, and Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse translated well enough into an animated version that's sure to please anybody who still remembers the long-running Canadian strip even exists. Plenty of high profile strips have never been turned into animated forms of any kind (Bill Waterson would turn in his grave before he was even buried should Calvin and Hobbes be licensed in any way), and plenty more have been brought to television with so little fanfare it's a wonder anybody knows about them at all (remember Tales From the Far Side? Or that Dilbert series with Daniel Stern and Kathy Griffin? I didn't think so).


Hurd left HP in 2010 because of his involvement in an expense account irregularity, but is still regarded as a data-driven manager.
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