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Mahidol University School of Music: A Quartet of Jazz Faculty Concert series in Washington DC
You are cordially invited to join us for a quartet of jazz faculty from Thailand's renowned Mahidol University School of Music. The performances are taking place at three different locations in Washington, DC on April 26, 28 and 30, and are free of charge.
This program celebrates the sister-city collaboration between Bangkok and Washington, DC, established since 1962 and as part of Smithsonian's "Year of Music", featuring jazz faculty representatives from Mahidol University School of Music, Thailand's most prestigious music conservatory, and one of the most respected music schools in Southeast Asia. Making up the quartet are Darin "Joe" Pantoomkomol on keyboard, David Parente on drums, Krit "William" Buranavitayawut, on alto sax, and Noppadol "Long" Tirataradol on bass.
The members of this quartet – all faculty at the school — have toured internationally and appeared with the likes of Randy Breaker, Lewis Nash, Jakob Dinesen, and Terumasa Hino.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2019 | 1:00-2:00pm
Venue: Meyer Auditorium Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art (Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW)
No tickets required and seating is first-come, first-served.
Enjoy a lunchtime performance by this hard-driving jazz ensemble from the Mahidol University School of Music, presented as part of the Smithsonian's "Year of Music." For more information visit www.freersackler.si.edu
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2019 | 6:30-9:30pm
Venue: The Brixton (901 U St NW Washington, DC 20001)
No cover charge
This jam session last Sunday of April (4/28/19) celebrates Bangkok and Washington, DC as official "Sister Cities" with a house band made up of jazz faculty from Mahidol University College of Music. Come sit in with this talented group of jazz educators and performers and give them a warm DC welcome. No cover! 6:30-9:30pm @The Brixton (901 U Street NW). For more information visit DC Jazz Jam
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 | 6:00pm
Venue: Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage (2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20566)
Free Performances, No Tickets Required.
Millennium Stage, now in its 22nd season, epitomizes the Kennedy Center's mission to celebrate artists both from the United States and from around the world. Millennium Stage performances happen every day at 6:00pm and at no cost to the public. These intimate and accessible performances connect, inspire, and engage diverse audiences with talented classical and contemporary artists. For more information visit www.kennedy-center.org
Darin Pantoomkomol, Piano and Guitar
David Parente (drum instructor)
Krit Buranavitayawut (Saxophone instructor)
Noppadol Tirataradol (Double Bass instructor)
Mahidol Jazz Quartet


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Q: Parallel footnote and sidenote environments with nested references I am having trouble getting an parallel footnote and sidenote environment with nested references to work.
fnpct is used to create multiple footnote environments and kerning. The bigfoot package allows to create two named enviromenents (one for URL, the other for side notes). Within the sidenotes, there are additional references to URL's printed as regular footnotes.
Currently, the issue is that, when I redefine the footnoteSide, nested footnotes are no longer printed.
Please consider the MWE below:
\documentclass[]{scrbook}

    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \usepackage{url}
    \usepackage[]{bigfoot}
    \usepackage[punct-after=true,multiple=true]{fnpct}
    \DeclareNewFootnote[plain]{URL}[alph]
    \usepackage{alphalph}
    \renewcommand{\thefootnoteURL}{\alphalph{\value{footnoteURL}}}
    \DeclareNewFootnote{Side}[arabic]
    \DeclareRobustCommand{\fnurl}[1]{\footnoteURL{\url{#1}}}

    \renewcommand{\footnoteSide}[1]{%
    \stepcounter{footnoteSide}%
    \Footnotemark\thefootnoteSide%
    \marginpar{\Footnotemark\thefootnoteSide\raggedright#1}}

    \begin{document}

    \addchap{Seerechtsübereinkommen}

    Das Seerechtsübereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen (SRÜ; englisch United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS) ist ein internationales Abkommen des Seevölkerrechts, das alle Nutzungsarten der Meere regeln soll. Die UN-Seerechtskonferenz dauerte von 1973 bis 1982 und war die dritte ihrer Art. Die Konferenzen zuvor werden als 'UNCLOS I' und 'UNCLOS II' bezeichnet.\footnoteURL{\url{http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/conven/unclostable.html}}\footnoteURL{\url{http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:21998A0623(01)&rid=2}}

    Das Übereinkommen fasst das vorher geltende, in den Genfer Seerechtskonventionen kodifizierte Seerecht zusammen, legt die vorher umstrittene Breite des Küstenmeeres und seiner Anschlusszone fest und entwickelt die Regelungen zum Festlandsockel fort.\footnoteSide{Mit dem Übereinkommen wurden mehrere internationale Institutionen geschaffen\footnoteURL{\url{https://www.wikiwand.com/de/Internationaler_Seegerichtshof}}}
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The closest example I have found in the forum is showing how to use these parallel environments, but the nested footnotes do not work this way
Also, using the sidenote package with fpnct seems to be currently broken.
Your help is very much appreciated.

A: If you split the \footnotemarkURL from the \footnotetextURL you can escape this problem. Not that elegant, but it does work:
 \documentclass[]{scrbook}

 \usepackage{lipsum}
 \usepackage{url}
 \usepackage[]{bigfoot}
 \usepackage[punct-after=true,multiple=true]{fnpct}
 \DeclareNewFootnote[plain]{URL}[alph]
 \usepackage{alphalph}
 \renewcommand{\thefootnoteURL}{\alphalph{\value{footnoteURL}}}
 \DeclareNewFootnote{Side}[arabic]
 \DeclareRobustCommand{\fnurl}[1]{\footnoteURL{\url{#1}}}

 \renewcommand{\footnoteSide}[1]{%
 \stepcounter{footnoteSide}%
 \Footnotemark\thefootnoteSide%
 \marginpar{\Footnotemark\thefootnoteSide\raggedright#1}}

 \begin{document}

 \addchap{Seerechtsübereinkommen}

 Das Seerechtsübereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen (SRÜ; englisch
 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS) ist ein
 internationales Abkommen des Seevölkerrechts, das alle
 Nutzungsarten der Meere regeln soll. Die UN-Seerechtskonferenz
 dauerte von 1973 bis 1982 und war die dritte ihrer Art. Die
 Konferenzen zuvor werden als 'UNCLOS I' und 'UNCLOS II'
 bezeichnet.\footnoteURL{\url{http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/conven/unclostable.html}}\footnoteURL{\url{http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:21998A0623(01)&rid=2}}

 Das Übereinkommen fasst das vorher geltende, in den Genfer
 Seerechtskonventionen kodifizierte Seerecht zusammen, legt die
 vorher umstrittene Breite des Küstenmeeres und seiner
 Anschlusszone fest und entwickelt die Regelungen zum
 Festlandsockel fort.\footnoteSide{Mit dem Übereinkommen wurden
   mehrere internationale Institutionen
   geschaffen\footnotemarkURL}

 \footnotetextURL{\url{https://www.wikiwand.com/de/Internationaler_Seegerichtshof}}

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Used Vehicle Review: BMW 7 Series, 2009-2015
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History/Description
The last complete generation of BMW's iconic 7 Series hit the Canadian market in 2008 as a 2009 model, and carried on until 2015. Packing the latest in luxury implements and high-tech feature content, this generation of 7 Series competed, once again, with the likes of the Audi A8, Lexus LS, and Mercedes S-Class, for the dollars of top-line sedan shoppers.
Available in standard and extended-wheelbase variants, the BMW 7 Series offered up options galore for the shopper after one of the most sought-after luxury sedan experiences in the world.
Look for nothing less than a world-class selection of feature content, including a head-up display system, premium audio systems, four-zone climate control, motorized door cinches and a motorized trunk, memory seating, premium lighting provisions, a full iDrive central command interface with touchpad, climate controlled seats, adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go, and plenty more.
Engines / Trim
Buckle up for the nomenclature! Note that xDrive indicates the presence of all-wheel drive (AWD) in the 7 Series lineup, while the letter 'L' in the vehicle designation represents an extended-wheelbase model. Most used models will offer turbocharged 6-, 8- or 12-cylinder gasoline engines, with output ranging from the low-300 range, to over 500. Depending on the year and engine, automatic transmissions were standard with either six or eight gears. Note that a hybrid-powered 7 Series variant was available, though we'll be focusing on the far more popular gasoline-powered models for this review.
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What Owners Like
No surprises here – owners typically rave about exclusivity, posh-factor, comfort, the technological tour de force that is the 7 Series' feature content list, great headlight performance, great seats, great audio systems and exceptional build quality. Fuel mileage is also highly rated on most models. Largely, and especially in extended-wheelbase models, this is a luxury sedan that specializes in speedy and exceptionally comfortable travel for a full complement of adult passengers. One owner describes his 7 Series as "safe, solid, and offering the room of an SUV with the performance of a sports car."
What Owners Dislike
As it tends to go with six-figure luxury cars, owner complaints are few and far between, though some owners report that the iDrive command interface and other high-tech features can be fussy to learn, and that maintenance costs are higher than expected.
Here are some BMW 7 Series owner reviews.
The Test Drive
Read this not once, not twice, but thrice: the BMW 7 Series is a big-dollar, high-tech flagship sedan, and maintenance, repair and ongoing running costs will reflect this. Though few-year-old units are within reach of more and more shoppers, said shoppers are advised to be aware of the potential costs of keeping a car like the 7 Series ticking, and not to over-extend their budgets. A contingency fund is highly advised if you're set on owning one.
Further, at the recommendation of numerous 7 Series owners, shoppers are advised to budget for the best extended warranty coverage available, and in particular, to seek out an extended warranty package that covers both the drivetrain and all on-board electronics. As one owner in a discussion forum put it, "If you don't buy the extended warranty, be sure to have a credit line available in case anything needs to be repaired."
When shopping, consider avoiding an earlier 7 Series from this generation with the twin-turbocharged V8 engine. Numerous owner discussions in various online forums see this engine identified for several issues, including excessive oil consumption, issues with bad timing chains, and a pricey-to-fix coolant leak from a simple and inexpensive piece of hose that requires engine removal to access. Here's some more reading on oil consumption. And some more reading on the topic of coolant leaks. And some more on the topic of bad timing chains.
Note that these issues didn't affect all 7 Series models, and that by about 2013, the owner's community says updates to the engine fixed most of them at the factory. If you're set on an earlier V8-powered 7 Series from this generation, be sure your extended warranty covers issues like these, and note that BMW launched a Customer Care Campaign that updated various parts within the engine, to address some of these issues. Your local BMW service advisor has the full scoop. End of the day, a 6- or 12-cylinder-powered model will likely be a better choice for maximum peace of mind, especially if you won't opt for an extended warranty.
Another defense against frustrating problems is to have the vehicle scanned by a dealer diagnostic tool, which can reveal potential issues with numerous parts of the 7 Series driveline, electronics network and other features – even if there's no warning message or Check Engine light illuminated. This check takes mere minutes, and could save you purchasing a used 7 Series with one or more potential hidden issues.
Shoppers are also advised to confirm that all door locks and latches, and the smart-key system, work as outlined in the owner's manual. Confirm that the door handle touchpads that lock and unlock the doors all work as expected, and that all included remote keyfobs are able to lock and unlock the doors, and to start the engine via its push-button start system, in quick order.
While test driving the 7 Series you're considering, note that unwelcome vibrations and noises could the result of worn, unbalanced or damaged wheels and tires, or the result of some issue with the transmission, which will, typically, require updated software to fix. Carefully inspect the condition of the wheels and tires on the 7 Series you're considering, especially if any unwelcome vibrations are apparent. If the tires and wheels are in passable shape, ask a dealer service advisor to check whether any outstanding software updates are available for the transmission. Here's some more reading.
Three final notes.
First, on the topic of oil consumption, be sure to religiously monitor the 7 Series oil level on a weekly basis while you own it, and have a dealer inspect the vehicle, and document your concerns, at the first sign of any oil consumption. If the vehicle is nearing the end of its factory powertrain warranty, proper documentation can help speed a warranty claim for oil consumption, if needed.
Second, if you purchase an extended warranty, be certain to have all required fluid changes carried out on time, and keep all receipts as proof. Should you need a warranty claim, you'll need to prove that you've never missed or overshot an oil change interval.
Third, as the 7 Series is brimming with top-level technology and plenty of electronics, consider hooking it up to a battery trickle charger in any period where you won't be driving it for more than a few days, to prevent low battery voltage and associated problems with various systems and features.
As it tends to go with many a pricey luxury car, the prestige factor and driving experience appeal to shoppers more than low running costs and bulletproof reliability. Though many 7 Series owners have enjoyed their vehicles with minimal issues, the potential for numerous problems of the very pricey-to-fix variety mean that most shoppers should consider a top-line extended warranty package as absolutely mandatory as part of their purchase.
Here's a short list of recalls.
IIHS: Top Safety Pick (2013)
NHTSA: N/A
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Author(s): Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, Canada), Hsueh-Ieng Pai (Concordia University, Canada) and Nematollaah Shiri (Concordia University, Canada)
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Since the introduction of the Semantic Web vision (Berners- Lee, Hendler, & Lassila, 2001), attempts have been made for making Web resources more machine interpretable by giving them a well-defined meaning through semantic markups. One way to encode such semantic markups is to use ontologies. An ontology is "an explicit specification of a conceptualization" (Gruber, 1993, p. 199). Informally, an ontology consists of a set of terms in a domain, relationships between the terms, and a set of constraints on the way in which those terms can be combined. By explicitly defining the relationships and constraints among the terms, the semantics of the terms can be better defined and understood. Over the last few years, a number of ontology languages have been developed, most of which use Description Logics (DLs) (Baader, McGuinness, Nardi, & Schneider, 2003) as the foundation. The family of DLs is a subset of first-order logic (FOL) and is considered to be attractive as it keeps a good compromise between expressive power and computational tractability. Uncertainty is a form of deficiency or imperfection in the information/data, where the truth of information is not established definitely. Uncertainty modeling and reasoning have been challenging issues for over two decades in many disciplines, such as database and artificial intelligence. Most of the information in the real world is uncertain or imprecise, for example, classifications of genes in bioinformatics, schema matching in information integration, finding best matches in a Web search, and so forth. Therefore, uncertainty management is essential for the success of many such applications and in particular DLs and the Semantic Web. Despite its popularity, it has been realized that classical DLs are inadequate to model uncertainty. For example, in the medical domain, one might want to express that: "It is very likely that an obese person would have heart disease," where "obese" is a vague concept that may vary across regions and "likely" shows the uncertain nature of this information. Such an expression cannot be expressed using classical DLs. The importance of incorporating uncertainty in DLs has been recognized by the knowledge representation community: "modeling primitives such as … fuzzy/probabilistic definitions" could be the next step for extension (Horrocks et al., 2000, p. 3). For this, a number of frameworks have been proposed to incorporate uncertainty in DLs. This paper provides a survey of these proposals. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We first provide the background on the classical DL framework. We then study representative extensions of DLs with uncertainty. This follows by some possible research directions for incorporating uncertainty in the Semantic Web. We conclude with a summary and some remarks.


Fruits of Success: When outsourcing costs more,is bad value and when the RFQ or RFP is too inflexible is Selling ever Buying's " keeper"?
When outsourcing costs more,is bad value and when the RFQ or RFP is too inflexible is Selling ever Buying's " keeper"?
Most stories of commercial poor practice that hit the news focus on bad behaviour on the Selling side. These stories should be told of course but excessive media coverage does taint the reputation of the majority of those in the profession who try to do a good job for their customer, for their companies and for themselves.
Stories abound about pensions miss-selling, preying loan sharks in the current recession or stories churned out on BBC TV's "Watchdog" or Radio 4 " You and Yours" stereotyping dodgy double glazing selling or mobile phone contract scams abound.
But before we in Selling get any sense of vindictive satisfaction in reading a story for once of Buyers 'getting a good kicking' we should remember the customer in the M25 extension fiasco is the nation.
You would think that if a commercial project was running to time , was under budget and one that will complete its critical deadline of national importance ( London 2012 Games) that all would be well and good.
Indeed as a set of metrics it might suggest good buying and good selling had taken place.
Yet in the report published 8th February 2011, the Public Accounts Committee have cited, "poor cost estimation" and a lack of "robust information" as key flaws in the handling of the project, describing it as "poor value for money for the taxpayer".
The case in question is the massive construction project to widen London's M25 orbital road between junctions 16-23. The Buyer in this case-( the Highways Agency) has been heavily criticised by the Public accounts committee of the UK Parliament.
She derided the 30-year, £3.4bn private finance contract for widening the M25 and said the mishandling had cost the taxpayer as much as an extra £1bn.
She urged ministers to renegotiate the contract, whose management costs she said were "far too high" following "appallingly bad estimations" produced by consultants employed by the Department of Transport.
Margaret Hodge said "The taxpayers have been the main loser. Road users have had to tolerate constant traffic jams, and the only beneficiaries have really been consultants and advisers."
"The public accounts committee had been "shocked" to learn that £80m was spent on consultants to advise the department on "how to build a road".
1. The agency was criticised for being too slow to investigate potentially cheaper alternatives, such as allowing traffic to use the hard shoulder.
3. It estimates this could have saved between £400 million and £1.1 billion. It said slow progress on testing hard shoulder running and the agency's commitment to widening the motorway limited its options and provided less value for money.
4. An 18-month delay in preparing and finalising the procurement work to widen the road meant the contract was let in May 2009, at the height of the credit crisis. This increased the cost of the deal by almost a quarter to £3.4 billion.
5. The report also described "shortcomings in its cost estimation process". The Highways Agency's cost estimates were 27-43 % higher than the bids it received. The NAO recommended the agency investigate the reasons for the difference.
Outsourcing is not always the answer it seems.
The NAO also called on the agency to develop its in-house skills in procurement and contract management because it is "over-reliant" on consultants.
"The agency has not reviewed the total costs of its procurement to identify lessons for future projects," said the NAO.
"The agency continues to rely on advisers for contract management support and documentation about the procurement."
The Highways Agency spent £80 million (7.5 per cent of the capital value) on advice and support from external organisations, including £45 million on technical advice, during the course of the procurement for the road widening.
Caveat emptor "Let the buyer beware" one might think . It is the Buyer's lookout but there is always Caveat venditor "let the seller beware" to consider.
Should Selling take responsibility for the product and be discouraged from selling products or services ( including consultancy) that are unreasonable or unsuitable ?
The dilemma here was for those suppliers who wanted to suggest the cheaper hard shoulder option. Their suggestion would probably have run the risk of being rejected because such a suggestion may not have kept within the strictures of the terms and conditions of the request for proposal RFP.
The Buyers Views of Salespeople Survey has also identified additional changes in Purchasing practice. 15% of the sample had increased their outsourcing. But as we see from the M25 extension case this may not mean best value.
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Along with the ITEA 2 CAP project, the EASI-CLOUDS project received this year's Korea EUREKA day project for developing the most innovative and commercially viable EUREKA project. The award was presented to EASI-CLOUDS consortial leader Mario Lopez Ramos (Thales Communications) during the Korea EUREKA Days dinner in Oslo, 26-28 May 2014. The whole EASI-CLOUDS team is very happy to receive this appreciation of their work.


I'm looking for some good books on Fractals, with a spin to applications in physics. Specifically, applications of fractal geometry to differential equations and dynamical systems, but with emphasis on the physics, even at the expense of mathematical rigor. Hope that was clear and specific enough. Thanks.
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All of renormalization physics is "fractals", in a sense, so this is the entire field of phase transitions, anomalous dimensions, and operator products. It's very big.
I like "The Fractal Geometry of Nature", and all of Mandelbrot's books and articles, they are very lucid and full of interesting original ideas. They are also very different from the usual math papers, they are more like physics papers. There is a wonderful small book by Cardy on renormalization theory, and Cardy's papers are classics all, but the papers are not introductory. I think the 1974 Reviews of Modern Physics article by Wilson is readable, but in my memory it requires familiarity with path integrals. Perhaps Kadanoff's papers will work, but they assume you know OPE. not sure.
@RonMaimon Do you mean this book: Scaling and renormalization in statistical physics by John Cardy?. I have it. Do you recommend it? Maybe I'll read it.
Yes, that's the one. There is a small issue with condensed matter treatments of this: the field theory intuition is often not as fluent and intuitive as in the high energy treatments, but this is compensated to a degree by the more interesting diverse examples and the explicit calculations. There are also a string of books from the 1980s, an encyclopedic collection by Domb and Green, and a nice little book by Parisi called "statistical field theory" doing the perturbation theory while trying to sidestep explicit epsilon expansion (although I am not sure the result is so great).
I've heard positive things about "Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering" by Steven H. Strog but haven't really read it myself.
T. Tél and M. Gruiz, Chaotic Dynamics -- An Introduction Based on Classical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 412.


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"We are dealing with a disappointingly low resettlement ceiling to begin with -- a quota of less than 50,000 for the entire year -- and this was further impacted by COVID-19 delaying departures and pausing some states' resettlement programs," UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs said.
Of the refugees that were resettled this year, Syrians comprised the bulk (41%), followed by Congolese (16%). Others were from 47 countries of origin, including Iraq, Myanmar and Afghanistan.
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We are doing this all in just 4 weeks so don't miss a class!
Anyone that has comfortable belly dance experience can participate.
The routine will be easy!
Absolute beginners wait until next year.
Tuesday and Wednesday Parade Classes are the same. We'll merge the two together in a BIG rehearsal on Thursday the 19th of June.
10+ % dark to medium green. All costumes should be dignified, not funny or too tinselly.
$10 to all other dancers (call ahead). Tell a friend.
The parade class is 4 weeks long on either Tuesday or Wednesday night; both classes are the same, with an additional costume workshop and a party as an added benefit. If you need to switch from a Tuesday to a Wednesday night on a given week, that is Ok (with prior notice). We will be rehearsing outside part of the time, so dress for the weather of the day.
We need everyone to make it to class rehearsals at least once every week because we have so few rehearsals. Choreography will be easy. Don't be shy!
However, if you have never belly danced before, (I can't teach you in 4 weeks). . . you will need to get into classes this Summer or Fall and wait until next year's parade.
Costume colors this year are 80-90% white with green accents.
Will cover how to make circle skirts, belts, cover bras and other costume resources. . .
WE NEED MUSICIANS DRUMMERS, ZORNAS and anything that does not need amplification!
We need your current email address and your commitment to read it each week to stay informed of progress and details. If you do not have email you will need to check in or get it from someone in class.
THURSDAY ADVANCED STUDENTS: The parade class is on Tuesday and Wednesday, so it's best if you come to the 2nd Wednesday class, PLUS One Thursday to jump start our progress.
The parade is June 21. It starts at NOON, but we must be at the staging area at 10:30 am IN COSTUMES. It goes until 3:00 pm and when we finish really depends on where we are positioned, then it takes a bit of time to get out because of crowd congestion. Afterwards there is the Fremont fair with tons of booths, entertainment and food to enjoy. Plan to spend the day!
• Tap hips with both hands, shimmy and slowly raise arms as if there were a weight in your hands (palms toward sky). When hands raise above eye brow level turn palms out toward audience (continue raising arms and hands as well as up on balls of feet, knees together, left foot in front of right) and look up at the sky (maybe zagareet).
• Turn head to the right and grab the little finger of the person to your right. Move to right promptly.
• Powerful Belly Dance to Cheftitelli—Looking mighty fine!
• Wagon wheel down the street.
Keep a holistic view of where the circle is going . If you are in back, you will move side instead of our usual diagonal back. If you are in front, you will take larger steps. Center person with walk forward 8 out of 16 counts.
Corners are considered vertical, gals.
This needs work, so expect a change next week on Tuesday.
Bus drivers may change course.
Goal is to move down the street consistently and quickly.
Begin with group on specified side of the street. Each group is stationed ahead of the next on opposing sides.
All steps move diagonally forward.
Each dancer will have a line of dancers to their sides and a line ahead to be mindful of.
Facing down street, step a cross with the leg closest to the sidewalk audience.
*Everyone should practice this combination everyday by counting out loud. Everyone be on time and be prepared to stay until 9:30 on Tuesday, if possible.
All are welcome to come to Tuesday and Wednesdays rehearsals!
Ok, many of you are looking good! However, just because you have it down doesn't mean you don't need to rehearse. To practice this successfully takes a group effort. We need everyone to be present and those who have it the best are the most important to have in attendance. Does that make sense????
So... please come on Tuesday and THURSDAY! ...Wednesday too! But the biggest night of attendance has been Tuesday. Wednesday we work with the veils or extra tightening.
The dance looks good when people stay focused and remember the tight little details. The tighter the group gets the more noticeable a mistake is now. This is exciting because it means the group has made very good progress.
Beginning around 10 -10:30 AM, you can store purses and other stuff at Faye's massage studio, upstairs at the Planet Earth Yoga (formally Center for Arts and Movement Therapy). The location is a little east of Phinney and 35th across from the old Redhook Brewery. She will lock it up during the parade and then open it for an hour or so after the end of the parade. It will be very difficult to park because people line up on the street to see the parade very early in the morning. It's best to have someone drop you off and call a cab or take a bus to your car later.
Please meet at 10:00-10:30! No later, please! so we can review any last minute factors with musicians and banner carriers and then secure our placement in the parade. We do not want to be at the end. Meet just northwest of the the old Redhook on 35th and Phinney. Please have all your costumes and makeup on before you arrive. You'll find us on the street there somewhere.
Drink some Gator-Aid or other such drink with electrolytes for breakfast.
Take Arnica the night before to head off sore muscles. PCC has it in rub for after the parade or in tablets before and after. Amazing stuff!
Don't forget our parade party on Tuesday night, July 1, at my house. Hopefully we will have pictures and other things to help us celebrate.


This kit contains a selection of equipment designed for attachment to hard-to-reach IEC short circuiting equipment and earthing systems (three-phase crossarm networks).
Fully IEC-61230 compliant, this kit includes 3 automatic contact clamps, a clamp dispenser head, an earthing clamp and a carrying bag for everything included.
The kit works by directly attaching the system to an insulated pole (sold separately). The included clamps are attached directly to the dispenser head which is in turn connected to the pole so that the system can be connected to hard-to-reach electrical installations.
Each clamp is easy to attach and detach from an electrical application.
CATU recommends the use of its CM-4, CM-5, CM-7 and CM-4000 poles for use with this kit.


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Perry Township Schools: Award comes with big payday
SOUTHSIDER VOICE PHOTOS BY B. SCOTT MOHR The oversized check, which represents an equally large sum of money, is held by (from left) Josh Barnett, National Institute for Learning co-president and chief learning officer; Dr. Vince Bertram, Indiana State Board of Education; Lowell Milken, institute founder and chairman; Perry Township Schools Superintendent Patrick Mapes; and Jen Oliver, the institute's senior programming specialist.
The cash prize, which came as a surprise to Perry Township Schools, is revealed.
By B. Scott Mohr
"I'm not often at a loss for words, but that pretty much did it," responded Perry Township Schools Superintendent Patrick Mapes upon learning that the district had won $50,000 in addition to being presented its first Award of Excellence for Educator Effectiveness from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching.
The award, presented Oct. 11 at Southport Elementary School, recognizes the district's track record of developing teacher talent as a cornerstone of improving student achievement. Unlike most schools, each Perry Township school has teacher leaders who share instructional duties with administrators, guide learning meetings, tailor strategies to the specific needs of the teachers and students and provide ongoing support.
With more than two decades of on-the-ground expertise, the institute works with schools, states and universities to create structures for teacher leadership, support, training and online tools that put educator effectiveness at the forefront of school improvement. Its initiatives impact more than 250,000 educators and 2.5 million students.
When Lowell Milken, chairman and founder of the institute, took the podium, no one knew the honor included the cash prize. As he instructed some students to hold up placards indicating a $5,000 award, the audience of state dignitaries, district officials, faculty, students and community leaders gave a rousing applause of approval, which grew tenfold when a zero was added to the figure, making it $50,000.
"Perry Township Schools is a shining example of the tremendous achievements that can be made when you develop and maintain top educators," Milken said. "The quality of a district or school cannot exceed the quality of its educators. I commend Perry Township's leaders for their courage and conviction in making educator effectiveness the cornerstone of their efforts to make sustained and meaningful improvement in student achievement. Your work as a district is most deserving of this national recognition and sets a standard for others to emulate. Perry Township excels above its peers."
"This is an extraordinary honor for Perry Township Schools," said Dr. Vince Bertram, a member of the Indiana State Board of Education and CEO of Project Lead the Way, which develops science, technology, English and math curricula for elementary, middle and high schools.
"Teachers inspire and believe in their students; teachers change lives. The most fundamental part of society is education. The work of a teacher matters today and always. They have a tremendous responsibility."
With more than 16,400 students, the district, partnered with the institute since 2010, is challenged to educate a diverse student body as 27 percent are English learner students. Last spring's WIDA assessment, which measures multilingual readers, assessed 47 percent of the English learning students at a reading Level 5, the most proficient level.
This represents a 21 percent increase over the previous year. Graduation rates have also surpassed state averages, increasing from 92.3 percent in 2014-15 to 95.2 percent in 2016-17.
"The institute's framework is a game-changer for our district," Mapes said. "It confirms that success is achieved when educators are trained to adapt their teaching methods to reach children regardless of nationality, socioeconomic background, learning disabilities and personal challenges. NIET has empowered our educators to give their very best and be a catalyst for students to do their best."


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Prolactin release-inhibitory effects of progesterone, megestrol acetate, and mifepristone (RU 38486) by cultured rat pituitary tumor cells.
The prolactin ( PRL) release-inhibitory effects of progesterone, dexamethasone, megestrol acetate, and mifepristone (RU 38486) were studied in cultured pituitary tumor cells prepared from the 7315a and 7315b tumor. Both tumors contain similar numbers of estrogen and progesterone receptors, while only the 7315a tumor also has glucocorticoid receptors. PRL release by the 7315a tumor was stimulated by low concentrations of dexamethasone (10(-10)-10(-9) M) and was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by higher concentrations (-86% by 10(-7) M). In contrast only 10(-6) and 10(-5) M dexamethasone inhibited PRL release by the 7315b cells by 14 and 24%, respectively. Progesterone caused a dose-dependent inhibition of PRL release, which was similar in the 7315a and b tumor cells. Progesterone (10(-9) M) inhibited PRL release by 62% and this inhibition was completely prevented by 100 nM estradiol, which was stimulatory by itself (+48%). Mifepristone inhibited PRL release by both tumors in a dose-dependent manner, but more powerfully in the 7315a tumor; 10(-6) M concentrations of the compound inhibited PRL release by 52% in the 7315a and by 26% in the 7315b tumor cells. Megestrol acetate inhibited PRL release in both tumors in a dose-dependent manner, but more powerfully in the 7315b tumor; a 10(-8) M concentration of the compound inhibited PRL release by 54% in the 7315b tumor and by 14% in the 7315a tumor. In the 7315a tumor 10(-9) M megestrol acetate even stimulated PRL release, suggesting a dexamethasone-like glucocorticoid effect of the drug on this tumor. Thereafter the interaction of mifepristone and megestrol acetate on PRL release was investigated. In the 7315a tumor cells different combinations of both drugs neutralized each other's inhibitory effects on PRL release, while both drugs had additional inhibitory effects on PRL release by 7315b tumor cells. Changes in PRL release by the cultured pituitary tumor cells were in all instances closely correlated with changes in the PRL content, the protein content, and the DNA content of the tumor cells. This suggests that the inhibitory effect of the compounds studied on PRL release is paralleled by an inhibitory effect on the number of pituitary tumor cells. These studies show the importance of the presence of glucocorticoid receptors in the effectiveness and mechanism of action of the antitumor effects of megestrol acetate and mifepristone.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)[1]
Prolactin release-inhibitory effects of progesterone, megestrol acetate, and mifepristone (RU 38486) by cultured rat pituitary tumor cells. Lamberts, S.W., van Koetsveld, P., Verleun, T. Cancer Res. (1987) [Pubmed]


Martello Towers are circular fortified buildings built at the beginning of the 19th Century. They are based on a tower at Mortella Point in Corsica, the strength of which had impressed British soldiers, and their name is derived from it. The towers are built to a similar design, with a brick pillar in the centre, magazine on the lower floor, accommodation on the upper floor and a gun mounted on the roof. They were intended to accommodate one officer and around 15 soldiers. Two main sets of towers were constructed in Britain to counter the threat of an invasion by Napoleon, one on the South Coast and the other on the East Coast. The South Coast towers stretch from Folkestone in Kent to Seaford in Sussex, and are numbered 1 to 74. However, due to coastal erosion, artillery testing and residential development, only 25 remain today. The main barracks associated with the towers was Dymchurch Redoubt, a casemated fort and the towers were backed up by the defensive Hythe Military Canal. On the East Coast, 29 towers were built, between St. Osyth in Essex and Slaghden in Suffolk, and 18 survive. They are lettered A-Z then AA , BB and CC . Some towers have been converted into private residences or museums, but most of the original remaining ones are empty and have fallen into poor state of disrepair.
All 25 standing Martello Towers on the South Coast (and one collapsed tower) are pictured here in their numbered sequence, after a few general photos of the key elements of a tower.
Many of the towers are privately owned, but they can be seen from the outside.
This tower is privately owned and is currently being renovated.
This tower is privately owned and has been converted into home for a holiday lettings. For details click here.
This tower has been converted into a visitor centre, although it seldom seems to be open. A WW2 observation post has been built onto the roof.
This tower is located in a private garden at the end of 'The Leas'. It is completely overgrown with ivy, the brickwork cannot even be seen! It was once used as a Semaphore station.
This tower stands in the grounds of a school, it is fenced off but previously reported to be empty with all windows and doors sealed. The Stucco covering appears be in good condition and the inland location of the tower has meant that coastal erosion and weathering has not affected it.
This privately owned 16th Century castle was updated with a Martello Tower, but does not form part of the numbered sequence of towers. It is in line with Tower 5, which is located on much higher ground.
This tower is located close to Shorncliffe Camp. It is a deep, heavily overgrown moat and is currently empty.
This tower is located close to Tower 6 and is in a similar state. There is no access to either tower due to the depth of the ditch.
This tower is a private residence and the moat has been turned into a garden.
This tower proved to be the most difficult to find, being located at the edge of a large wooded area above Seabrook. The tower's doors are sealed, but there seems to have been recent work on clearing the ditch, and the tower is largely free from ivy. The stones around the parapet have fallen into the ditch, but around half the stucco covering remains.
This tower has been converted into a private residence, but in a very different style to most conversions and it has been altered so much that the shape is the only recognisable feature.
This tower is at the entrance to Hythe Ranges and it is currently empty. Externally, it appears to be in good condition.
This tower is close to 14 on Hythe Ranges, it is empty and bricked up. The next few towers in line with this one have been eroded by the sea.
This tower has been undermined by the sea and has collapsed. It is interesting as the thickness of the walls can be seen. This tower can only be viewed when the Ranges are not being used.
This tower is located on the A259 coast road and has been converted into a private dwelling in the standard style. It appears to have had its Stucco cement covering replaced.
This tower is owned by English Heritage and houses a museum of the Martello Tower system. As with Tower No.3, it doesn't seem to have been open recently. There is a canon mounted on the roof of this tower.
This tower appears to be in good external condition, having been restored in the early 1990s. It remains empty, however and the ground level doorway has been boarded up.
This tower is located in a moat and is known as the 'Enchantress Tower'.
This tower is privately owned and has recently been stripped of vegetation revealing it to be in good condition.
This tower has been converted into a private dwelling in the standard style.
This tower stands inside a caravan park and has had an extension built onto the side. It is obviously used by the owners of the park.
The brickwork on this tower is in a poor state, a door has been added at ground level and remains padlocked. The tower was later used as a machine gun post and has emplacements on the roof and concrete embrasures where the windows used to be.
This tower is located on Langley Point, close to the Sovereign Harbour development. It was used by the Coastguard and has an observation room built on the roof, but is now empty.
This tower is known as 'The Wish Tower' and stands in a prominent location on Eastbourne seafront. The tower has had a colourful life, being used as a coastguard station, WW2 Battery Observation Post and housing various musuems. The ditch is now a public garden and is open, but unfortunately the tower itself is empty and sealed up.
This tower has been renovated and houses a museum. Part of the ditch has been covered to allow more space for the museum, the rest is an open seating area. There is a canon mounted on the roof.
I'm an author from Australia. I included a Jersey Martello Tower in my first historical fiction, The Tide Watchers, available in June 2015 (William Morrow Books/HarperCollins). I would love to arrange a tour while I'm in the UK. We'll be staying at Deal for two nights - that's reasonably close, isn't it? We'll have a car.


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How Disease Rates Vary By State — And What States Can Do About It
Side Effects Public Media | By Michael Ollove - Stateline
Chris Bentley/via Flickr
Brenda Gonzalez, a nurse training for Mobile C.A.R.E., a mobile health clinic, goes over medical records with a returning patient and her mother in Chicago.
By many measures, Hawaii is one of the healthiest states in the union. Yet only Mississippi has a higher rate of flu or pneumonia deaths than the Aloha State.
West Virginia, which is usually among the bottom dwellers in state health rankings, is in the middle of the pack when it comes to deaths related to Alzheimer's disease.
Similarly, relatively unhealthy Arkansas has a low rate of drug overdose deaths while Connecticut, which ranks near the top in overall health, has one of the country's highest rates of death linked to drug use.
Health disparities based on race, income and gender tend to draw more notice, but variations related to where people live are attracting the attention of public health officials, who are using the information to craft more-targeted policies. As the data become more precise, health policy experts believe interventions to combat geographic disparities will become even more effective.
The increasing interest comes amid a growing recognition that people's health depends as much on geographic factors such as recreation, transportation, crime and unemployment as it does on what takes place in doctor's offices or hospitals.
This story comes from Stateline, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
"In many ways, your ZIP code is more important than your genetic code when it comes to health," said Jay Butler, Alaska's chief medical officer and its director of public health.
The truth of that observation is evident in a single comparison from a new report from the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Urban Institute: On average, a newborn in Mississippi will live to age 75. One born in Hawaii will make it beyond 81.
From States to Neighborhoods
VCU and the Urban Institute recently released the first of nine reports examining the states according to 39 health outcomes, such as heart disease mortality, cancer mortality and suicides. The project also seeks to correlate 123 social or economic factors such as government spending, proficiency in reading, and rate of incarcerations and health conditions. (The report doesn't offer explanations for the correlations.) The authors say the report examines more measures than any previous state comparison.
For example, the report finds a strong correlation between lower spending on public transportation and higher instances of car accidents, and between adult obesity and deaths related to pneumonia. It also links a shortage of primary care services to higher rates of deaths related to diabetes, heart disease, stroke and pneumonia and to lower life expectancy.
Others, including the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the United Health Foundation, have also compared states by various health measures. In addition, many states and outside groups produce their own health surveys of regions within their states. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute does health rankings of counties in every state. A collaboration between the University of Southern California and PolicyLink, a nonprofit focused on issues of equity, compared the health of 150 metropolitan areas using several indicators, including rates of asthma, diabetes and obesity.
Even smaller geographic comparisons are coming. Next year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Robert Wood Johnson plan to unveil health data from the country's largest 500 cities broken down by census tract or neighborhood. The goal, according to the CDC, is to help cities and local health departments "better understand the geographic distribution of health-related variables" to "help them plan public health interventions."
In many places, health interventions based on geographic data are already happening. Steve Woolf, director of VCU's Center on Society and Health, said in many states tobacco control policies and cigarette taxes "are the direct result of health disparities information related to smoking." Woolf also noted that car accident fatalities have informed state decisions on motorcycle helmets, car seat restraints and speed limits.
Maryland tackled diabetes in the southern part of the state by linking more patients to primary care doctors, and it improved behavioral health on the Eastern Shore by creating mental health crisis services, said Joshua Sharfstein, who used to head the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Local and state health officials also have made changes to help reduce childhood asthma, including coordinating communication between school-based nurses and primary care practices and enabling students to administer their own inhalers rather than relying on school nurses. Sharfstein said statewide efforts also lowered Maryland's relatively high infant mortality rate. The state improved access to health care for expectant mothers and launched educational campaigns to teach parents about safe sleeping practices for newborns.
"Knowing how you compare to other states is very helpful," said Sharfstein, a physician who is now an associate dean at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In Colorado, public health officials several years ago discovered that high blood pressure was much more prevalent in the two sparsely populated frontier counties of Las Animas and Huerfano. The statewide rate was 26 percent, compared to 38 and 39 percent in the two counties.
Kelly Means, clinical quality improvement manager in the state's Department of Public Health and Environment, said that finding led to a program to identify residents in the two counties who had high blood pressure but were not getting treatment and refer them to primary care doctors. The state also encouraged those doctors to direct hypertensive patients to community programs aimed at reducing high blood pressure through healthy eating, exercise and smoking cessation.
Means said that the program, which is supported by $185,000 in grants from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and is now in its second year, has linked 75 previously undiagnosed residents to primary care and 82 existing patients to activities to reduce high blood pressure. One participating primary care practice reported that the number of patients who have their blood pressure under control has increased by 20 percent.
In Alaska, Butler said, geographic health data led to targeted anti-smoking and suicide prevention programs in northern and western parts of the state, where the rates of lung cancer and suicide are particularly high.
In Connecticut, the data indicated a high rate of asthma-related hospitalizations in Waterbury, said Dr. Mehul Dalal, the chronic disease director in the state Department of Public Health. That finding prompted the state to help Waterbury develop a home inspection program in which health workers identify environmental conditions that can trigger asthma and advise residents on how to remove them.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, now sends nurses into homes to combat the city's high rate of infant mortality. Philadelphia, alarmed over its high obesity numbers, this year enacted a soda tax. In Utah, the Health Department recently began promoting gun safety in response to the state's high suicide rate.
But health policy analysts, even those who do geographic analyses, caution that geographic health data isn't perfect. Laudan Aron, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who helped produce the report with VCU, said that problems in data collection, such as poor reporting practices by medical providers, can skew the numbers. That's why comparative findings should only be viewed as a first step to more investigation, she said.
And some findings, while interesting, may not point the way to action that can make a difference. The VCU-Urban Institute report, for instance, ranks states by their rates of mortality associated with Alzheimer's disease. Washington ranks last in that category, but there is probably nothing the state can do about it. "Unfortunately, at this point, there are no evidence-based practices we know of that reduce the rate of Alzheimer's," VCU's Woolf said.
If nothing else, policymakers say, such comparisons prompt discussions across borders to learn best practices in addressing particular health problems. And as Maryland's Sharfstein said, in health policy, a little competitive rivalry between geographic areas can only benefit patients.
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818 F. 2d 260 - Walk-in Medical Centers Inc v. Breuer Capital Corp
818 F2d 260 Walk-in Medical Centers Inc v. Breuer Capital Corp
3 UCC Rep.Serv.2d 1885
WALK-IN MEDICAL CENTERS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee,
BREUER CAPITAL CORP., Defendant-Appellant.
No. 991, Docket 87-7088.
Second Circuit.
Argued April 2, 1987.
Decided May 5, 1987.
Peter R. Silverman, New York City, N.Y., for defendant-appellant.
Michael S. Press, New York City (Whitman & Ransom, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.
Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, TIMBERS and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.
ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:
In January 1984, appellant Breuer Capital Corp. ("Breuer") executed a firm commitment underwriting agreement, in which Breuer contracted to make a public offering of appellee Walk-In Medical Center's ("Walk-In") stock. Shortly thereafter, Breuer unilaterally terminated the underwriting agreement, claiming that it was justified in doing so because of "adverse market conditions." Following a four-day bench trial, Judge Miriam G. Cedarbaum held that Breuer had not been justified in breaching the underwriting agreement, and entered judgment for Walk-In in the amount of $3,298,400.55 (the contract price of the Walk-In stock plus prejudgment interest). We affirm the decision of the district court in all respects.
Walk-In Medical Centers, Inc., is a Florida corporation engaged in the business of establishing and administering out-patient centers for non-emergency medical treatment. Breuer Capital Corp., a Colorado corporation, is an investment banking firm and broker-dealer, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The president of Walk-In, George Resch, was interested in making an initial public offering of Walk-In shares, and commenced negotiations with Breuer in early 1983. On August 11, 1983, Breuer executed a letter of intent to act as the managing underwriter in connection with a proposed firm commitment public offering of 500,000 shares of Walk-In common stock.
On January 18, 1984, Breuer and Walk-In executed the firm commitment underwriting agreement. Under this agreement, Breuer agreed to purchase 500,000 shares of Walk-In common stock at $5.40 per share, with an option granted to Breuer to purchase up to an additional 75,000 shares at the same price, to cover over-allotments. Breuer agreed to make a public offering of the Walk-In stock. The closing date of the agreement was originally set for January 30, but on January 23, the parties agreed to move the closing date up to January 25, 1984.
The underwriting agreement also contained what is known in the securities trade as a "market out" clause, in p 10(b), which provided:
You [Breuer] shall have the right to terminate this agreement at any time prior to the closing date (i) if any domestic or international event or act or occurrence has materially disrupted, or in your opinion will in the immediate future materially disrupt, securities markets; or (ii) if trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or in the over-the-counter market shall have been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been required on the over-the-counter market by the NASD or by order of the Commission or any other government authority having jurisdiction; or (iii) if the United States shall have become involved in a war or major hostilities; or (iv) if a banking moratorium has been declared by New York State or federal authorities; or (v) if a moratorium in foreign exchange trading by major international banks or persons has been declared; or (vi) if the company or any of its future subsidiaries shall have sustained a loss material or substantial to the Company and its subsidiaries, if any, taken as a whole by fire, flood, accident, hurricane, earthquake, theft, sabotage or other calamity or malicious act which whether or not such loss shall have been insured, will, in your opinion, make it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Shares; or (vii) if there shall have been such change in the conditions or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, if any, taken as a whole, or such adverse market conditions as in your judgment would make it inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale and delivery of the shares (emphasis added).
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on January 18, 1984, Walk-In's SEC registration statement became effective, and Walk-In stock began to trade, opening at $6.00 per share. Between Wednesday, January 18 through Monday, January 23, the price of Walk-In stock traded down to approximately $4.00 per share, losing almost one-third of its initial value of $6.00 per share. During the week immediately preceding the Walk-In public offering, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen from a high of 1295.44 on January 10, to 1269.37 at the close of trading on January 18. By the close of trading on January 23, the Dow had fallen to 1244.45, a decline of approximately 25 points since the day of the Walk-In offering.
On the afternoon of January 23, Faye Breuer, the president of Breuer, informed George Resch that Breuer was exercising its right to terminate the underwriting pursuant to p 10(b)(vii) of the agreement--the "market out" based on "adverse market conditions." Breuer confirmed its termination by letter and telegram the following day.
Walk-In commenced this action against Breuer in February 1984. In November 1984, Breuer moved for summary judgment, asserting that there were no disputed issues of fact and that Breuer was entitled to judgment as a matter of law, because it had properly terminated the underwriting agreement due to adverse market conditions. Walk-In, in turn, cross-moved for summary judgment in December 1984.
On February 24, 1986, Judge Robert L. Carter denied both summary judgment motions. Judge Carter found the phrase "adverse market conditions" to be facially ambiguous, because it was susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation. Furthermore, since the parties themselves urged radically different interpretations of the phrase, Judge Carter held that the meaning of "adverse market conditions" was a genuine issue of material fact requiring a trial.
Accordingly, the case was tried before Judge Cedarbaum, who announced her decision from the bench on December 30, 1986. After stating her findings of fact, Judge Cedarbaum concluded:
I am satisfied, after listening to all of the testimony and weighing the credibility of the witnesses, that Mrs. Breuer was worried that she would not get paid by those who had made commitments to purchase the Walk-In shares, and that the defendant's decision to cancel the underwriting was not based on an evaluation of general market conditions but on the decline in the price of the aftermarket of Walk-In stock.1
I am also satisfied that, under any reasonable interpretation, a decline in the aftermarket price of Walk-In's stock does not constitute "adverse market conditions" within the meaning of paragraph 10(b)(vii) of the firm commitment underwriting agreement in this case.
The district court awarded damages to Walk-In under Sec. 8-107 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, in the amount of $2,610,000 (the contract price of the Walk-In shares less $90,000 of expenses to which Breuer was entitled), plus prejudgment interest of $688,400.55. 651 F.Supp. 1009.
I. The denial of Breuer's summary judgment motion
Breuer first contends that Judge Carter erred in denying its motion for summary judgment. Breuer asserts that the meaning of "adverse market conditions" in the underwriting agreement is clear and unambiguous, and encompasses "any unfavorable decline in securities markets." According to Breuer's interpretation, the 25 point drop in the Dow between January 18-23, 1984, coupled with the decline in value of Walk-In stock, entitled Breuer to terminate the underwriting agreement as a matter of law.
Judge Carter did not agree that the phrase "adverse market conditions" was clear and unambiguous. Indeed, he denied Breuer's motion for summary judgment on the ground that the phrase was ambiguous, and that its meaning had to be decided by the trier of fact.
An "ambiguous" word or phrase is one capable of more than one meaning when viewed objectively by a reasonably intelligent person who has examined the context of the entire integrated agreement and who is cognizant of the customs, practices, usages and terminology as generally understood in the particular trade or business.
Eskimo Pie Corp. v. Whitelawn Dairies, Inc., 284 F.Supp. 987, 994 (S.D.N.Y.1968) (citations omitted).
The determination of whether a contract term is ambiguous is a threshold question of law for the court. See Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co. v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 617 F.2d 936, 940 (2d Cir.1980); Sutton v. East River Savings Bank, 55 N.Y.2d 550, 554, 435 N.E.2d 1075, 1077, 450 N.Y.S.2d 460, 462 (1982). Therefore, we are not constrained by the "clearly erroneous" standard in reviewing Judge Carter's conclusion, and we review his determination de novo. We nevertheless conclude that the phrase "adverse market conditions" is susceptible of more than one reasonable interpretation, for the same reasons Judge Carter outlined in his decision.
Breuer, in support of its contention that "adverse market conditions" refers to any unfavorable market decline, cited Funk & Wagnalls New Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, which defined "adverse" as "unpropitious" or "detrimental." Walk-In, on the other hand, argued that "adverse market conditions" meant an "unforseeable and extraordinary" decline in securities markets, citing Webster's New International Dictionary, which defined "adverse" as "calamitous."
Judge Carter correctly observed that Breuer's proposed interpretation of "adverse market conditions" was reasonable, because it accorded with the literal meaning of "adverse." He also was correct in determining that, in the context of the entire underwriting agreement, Walk-In's interpretation was reasonable. The other six "market outs" listed in p 10(b) refer to very serious disruptions either in the securities markets in general or in Walk-In's own business. If "adverse market conditions" were interpreted to mean any unfavorable market decline, all the "market outs" except for 10(b)(vi), which concerns the status of Walk-In only, would be encompassed by 10(b)(vii), and there would have been no need to enumerate them. Moreover, if Breuer were entitled to terminate the agreement due to any unfavorable market decline, the concept of a "firm commitment underwriting" would be rendered illusory.
Because the term "adverse market conditions" was susceptible of at least two reasonable interpretations, Judge Carter correctly determined that the term's meaning was a genuine issue of fact, and properly denied Breuer's motion for summary judgment. See Heyman v. Commerce and Industry Insurance Co., 524 F.2d 1317, 1320 (2d Cir.1975).
II. The judgment in favor of Walk-In
At the trial of this action, Judge Cedarbaum admitted evidence of custom and usage in the securities industry, as well as evidence of the parties' intent, in order to interpret the phrase "adverse market conditions."
Evidence of trade usage was properly admitted pursuant to New York Uniform Commercial Code Sec. 2-202, which authorizes the use of such evidence to explain a contract term, whether or not the term has been found to be ambiguous. See id., Official Comment 1(c). Evidence of the parties' subjective intent was also properly admitted, in light of Judge Carter's preliminary determination of ambiguity. See Paragon Resources, Inc. v. National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp., 695 F.2d 991, 996 (5th Cir.1983) (applying New York law) (evidence of subjective intent is admissible only where court has determined that contract is ambiguous); see also Surlak v. Surlak, 95 A.D.2d 371, 375, 466 N.Y.S.2d 461, 466 (2d Dept. 1983).
After hearing all the evidence, Judge Cedarbaum found that Breuer had not terminated the underwriting agreement due to general market conditions, but rather due to the decline in price of Walk-In's stock. She observed further that the decline in price of a single stock could not, under any reasonable interpretation, be considered "adverse market conditions." Therefore, the district court did not need to define "adverse market conditions" in this case.
There was ample evidence in the record to support a finding that the sharp decline in Walk-In's price was the primary reason Breuer aborted the underwriting. The evidence included Faye Breuer's trial testimony that on January 23, 1984, she received numerous phone calls from individuals who had previously agreed to purchase Walk-In shares. These individuals expressed concern over the declining price of the security, and reluctance to go forward with their purchases. The district judge inferred from this testimony that Breuer was afraid of losing money on the Walk-In deal, and terminated the agreement in order to avert any loss.
Furthermore, on January 18, 1984, when the Walk-In agreement was executed, the equity markets were already in a decline, yet Breuer was willing to proceed with the underwriting at that time. The court observed that the drop in the Dow Industrial index between January 18-23 was "neither drastic nor extraordinary," and that declines of a similar magnitude had occurred many times in recent years. Indeed, during the period that Walk-In was trading, other equity underwriting was successfully taking place in the over-the-counter market. All these facts, the court concluded, made it more likely that Breuer terminated the agreement because of Walk-In's poor showing, rather than because of generally adverse conditions in the securities markets.
Finally, the district court admitted testimony which Mrs. Breuer had given before the Securities and Exchange Commission in February 1984, in connection with its investigation of the Walk-In underwriting. She testified, among other things, that her understanding of the phrase "adverse market conditions" was a market in which everyone wanted to sell their shares, no one wanted to buy, and everyone was losing money.
Mrs. Breuer's understanding of the term was reinforced by George Resch, who testified about a meeting between the parties on August 10, 1983, to discuss the letter of intent, which also contained the phrase "adverse market conditions." According to Resch, he asked if the phrase would have encompassed a recent 20-point decline in the market, and Mrs. Breuer assured him that the term referred to a market in which underwriters could not sell their shares.
Based on our review of all the evidence, we cannot conclude that the district court's findings of fact were clearly erroneous. The court properly concluded that Breuer terminated the underwriting because of Walk-In's sharp decline, and not because of any general market conditions. Therefore, we affirm the judgment in favor of Walk-In.
III. Calculation of damages
Finally, Breuer claims that the district court improperly awarded damages under Sec. 8-107(2) of the New York Uniform Commercial Code. Section 8-107(2) provides an alternate measure of damages to a seller of securities: it permits the seller to recover the contract price of the securities where the purchaser has wrongfully failed to pay for them.
This section departs from the official text of Sec. 8-107 of the Uniform Commercial Code; the automatic alternative of an action for the price is a rule peculiar to New York. See N.Y.U.C.C. Sec. 8-107, Practice Commentary (McKinney 1964) (section "reliev[es] the seller of securities delivered or tendered of any duty to mitigate damages by resale in the market prior to suing for the purchase price").
Breuer argues, however, that a 1982 amendment to Sec. 8-107(2) limited the availability of this alternate measure of damages to cases where the buyer has actually accepted delivery of the securities.
Prior to the 1982 amendment, Sec. 8-107(2) provided:
Where, pursuant to a contract to sell or a sale, a security has been delivered or tendered to the purchaser, and the purchaser wrongfully fails to pay for the security according to the terms of the contract or the sale, the seller may as an alternative to any other remedy recover the agreed price of the security. This subsection does not affect the remedy of a seller if the security has not been delivered or tendered (emphasis added).
Chapter 928 of the Laws of New York of 1982, Sec. 6, amended the italicized portion of the section as follows:
[T]he seller may as an alternative to any other remedy recover the agreed price of (a) certificated securities accepted by the buyer; and (b) uncertificated securities which have been transferred to the buyer or person designated by the buyer.
The district court concluded, and we agree, that the 1982 amendment to Sec. 8-107(2) was merely a technical one, and was not intended to effect any substantive change in New York's law of contract remedies. Chapter 928 of the Laws of New York of 1982 was an "act to amend the uniform commercial code and the business corporation law, in relation to certification of securities." Section 6 of that chapter was a technical amendment designed to conform Sec. 8-107 of the Uniform Commercial Code to the overall statutory scheme involving certificated securities.
Although there are no other reported cases interpreting Sec. 8-107(2) following the 1982 amendment, there is no affirmative indication in the New York Uniform Commercial Code or elsewhere, that the amendment was intended to modify New York's substantive contract law.
Therefore, the district court properly awarded damages to Walk-In in the amount of the contract price.
In concluding, we wish to emphasize that the meaning of "adverse market conditions" in the context of a firm commitment underwriting remains an open issue. We note, however, that even a clause which was not ambiguous, but explicitly allowed for termination in the event of any unfavorable market decline, might still pose problems. The SEC has previously taken the position that market out clauses which permit an underwriter to terminate an agreement based on non-material events are inappropriate in the context of a firm commitment underwriting. See The First Boston Corporation, SEC No Action Letter No. 85-415 (Sept. 3, 1985). This position accords with the purpose of a firm commitment underwriting, in which the underwriter assumes the risk of loss on any shares which are not sold. See, e.g., SEC v. Coven, 581 F.2d 1020, 1022 n. 2 (2d Cir.1978), cert. denied, 440 U.S. 950, 99 S.Ct. 1432, 59 L.Ed.2d 640 (1979). We need not, of course, decide that issue in this case.
The decision of the district court is affirmed.
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ROBIN SHORT: ECHL has been a breeding ground for coaches
Robin Short | Posted: June 22, 2018, 8 p.m. | Updated: June 22, 2018, 8 p.m. | 5 Min Read
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One reader this week couldn't quite figure out why Ryane Clowe would be coming back to coach in the ECHL after two years as an assistant in New Jersey, with the NHL's Devils.
For starters, his contract just expired this past season, though it's believed his job in Jersey was there if he wanted it.
But more to the point, if Clowe hopes to make coaching his full-time job in his post-playing days, he will need head coaching experience, and the ECHL isn't a bad place to start.
While the number of players who advance from the ECHL to the NHL is scattered, the NHL coaching fraternity last season was well represented by ECHL grabs, including five head coaches — Bruce Cassidy in Boston, Jared Bednar in Colorado, Bruce Boudreau in Minnesota, Peter Laviolette in Nashville and Glen Gulatzen, since fired in Calgary.
On top of that, there were 12 coaches who worked as NHL assistants last season who rose up through the ECHL ranks, including former NHL head coach Davis Payne.
So while I'm sure Clowe and his family are looking forward to coming home, make no mistake: this is about a career move for a chap who's all in on the coaching thing.
Nobody asked me, but …
I don't understand how NHL teams work these days in terms of media availability. Not that you, the readers, care. I learned a long time ago readers, listeners and viewers aren't concerned with how reporters get the story. Just get the story. But just to share with you what we're up against sometimes: it was more than a tad perplexing the Toronto Maple Leafs didn't make Ryane Clowe available to the media when his appointment was announced this week as the Newfoundland Growlers coach (this is not on Clowe, by the way; most of the time, the players and coaches are perfectly fine speaking with reporters, and Clowe's always been the consummate pro dealing with the media). And this was, with all due respect, an ECHL appointment. The media is a conduit between the team and the athletes and their fans, so this move by the Leafs makes it quite evident Toronto could care less for the fans of the Newfoundland Growlers. There is no other reasonable explanation. That, or the Leafs' PR crowd couldn't be bothered arranging it. Anyway, c'est la vie …
When will Carl English just make it official and announce he's coming back to play next year? … Look for the Growlers to start signing a few players shortly … Too bad ball hockey is not part of the Canada Games program (it's not officially recognized by Sport Canada), because Newfoundland and Labrador would be a perennial medal contender … Steve Power is the best executive not to win Sport Newfoundland and Labrador's executive of the year award. The provincial and Canadian ball hockey president, Power's helped revive the game in this part of the country…
The Growlers' assistant coach will also be an employee of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which means the organization will have the final say on the hiring. Couple of points. The Leafs received a lot of resumes for the head coaching position — some of whom were said to be very, very impressive — but I'd be inclined to believe many of those applicants won't be interested in working as an ECHL assistant. Secondly, one would think Clowe will have a big say in who's hired. He'll want someone with whom he's comfortable working, someone who has his back. Wondering if that someone could be local? Wondering if it could be long-time friend Mark Lee of Mount Pearl, who played in the ECHL for four winters, and has enjoyed a lengthy pro career in North America and Europe? However, as Telegram colleague Brendan McCarthy points out, though, ECHL roster guidelines can be tangly meaning the Growlers will probably need someone in place who has an intimate knowledge of the league and its rules. As for attracting players, I'm certain Clowe must have a big rolodex full of contacts …
The Field Turf at King George V Park will be replaced after Memorial University concludes its varsity soccer season in the fall. The city's kicking — pardon the pun — in $900,000 towards the project. No word yet on where the old turf's going, but I'm sure some of the existing sports facilities around town could use a bit of it … Still think Adam Pardy would make a great player-assistant coach on the Growlers … Who were the two fools on the NHL awards show the other night, introducing the EA NHL '19 cover guy (P.K. Subban)? Hard to believe someone in the league's office gave that lame skit a stamp of approval … How about these numbers? Of the prep schools/hockey academies that are out there to which Newfoundlanders are attending — at least 10 schools by my count, and there could be more — 17 hockey players in total from that collection of programs were selected among the 250 drafted into the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League earlier this month. That's it. Of the 17, five were Newfoundlanders. Of course, maybe the $30,000 or $40,000 annual tuition to these institutions really is about the education. Let's hope it is … The Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Association has do something to fix the Jubilee Trophy women's league. There is no competitive balance, not with Holy Cross going 5-0 (and likely headed to an unbeaten season), outscoring their opponents 40-0 so far. It's not doing the Holy Cross players any good to have a cakewalk every game, and nor is it good for the other teams to get hammered when they go up against the Crusaders. I don't know what the answer is, but the powers to be need to put their heads together and come up with some sort of plan …
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