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Medium Rarities
Metal · 2020
Editors' Notes To celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band, prog-metal sorcerers Mastodon have unveiled a collection of rarities, live tracks, and instrumentals. Spearheaded by the brand-new song "Fallen Torches"—which serves as a tribute to the band's manager Nick John, who passed away in 2018—Medium Rarities also features Mastodon's elusive Feist, Flaming Lips, and Metallica covers alongside originals inspired by Game of Thrones and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. "It's good that this stuff is resurfacing, because I think a lot of people just didn't hear it," Mastodon drummer and vocalist Brann Dailor tells Apple Music. "You could get YouTube versions of some of these songs, but they might not be the best quality. So now they're all together in one collection, sounding good, and it takes me on a trip down memory lane. I'm happy to add it to the Mastodon pile." Below, Dailor discusses some key tracks on Medium Rarities.
Fallen Torches
"This came out of a couple riffs I had strung together, and then [Mastodon guitarist] Bill [Kelliher] had a couple riffs, so we put them together and added that big old monster riff at the end. We haven't had that kind of riff for so long—I was excited to have an actual mosh riff. So then we got Scott Kelly [of Neurosis] to do some vocals, as we like to do. We called it 'Fallen Torches' because we felt like it made sense with our situation with our manager, Nick John. He was kind of our guiding light, and 'Fallen Torches' was very obviously literal to what we were going through at the time."
A Commotion
"We did this split with Feist where we covered her song 'A Commotion' and she covered our song 'Black Tongue.' We had just met Leslie [Feist] on the Jools Holland show, which is a music show in the UK, and her whole band came up to us and said, 'We love Mastodon—we listen to you guys before we go onstage.' So we ended up going out for drinks after, and Leslie suggested we do this Record Store Day 7-inch where we cover each other's songs—and it actually happened. I can't tell you how many side projects and things that I've started with people at like two in the morning—thousands, probably—and they never happen. But this one actually did. And I loved her version of 'Black Tongue,' too, so this is one of my favorite things we've ever done as a band."
A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
"Warner's had this Record Store Day thing going for a while where they would have one of the artists on their roster cover another artist on their roster. We picked The Flaming Lips because they're one of our favorite bands—and actually one of the real selling points that got us on the label in the first place. It was one of those things that made us feel more comfortable about switching from an indie to a major. And their record The Soft Bulletin was kind of a game-changer when it came out. This song in particular reminds me of when I was in a band called Today Is the Day and we were on tour with Neurosis in Europe and their sound guy would tune the PA with this song every day. As soon as I heard the beginning, I'd walk out on the main floor so I could listen to it really loud every day. That tour turned out to be the end of my time with that band and the beginning of trying to start something new, which became Mastodon."
"We met Gibby Haynes when we played the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in England a few years ago with the Butthole Surfers. At some point during our set, I looked back to get my towel and a drink of water from my drum tech at the time. But when I turned around, he wasn't there. Instead it was Gibby Haynes, and he was flipping me off. Later on that evening, we were hanging out backstage and [Mastodon guitarist] Brent [Hinds] starts strangling Gibby, who is turning purple and falls to the ground. It was just a prank, but we thought it was serous. So—surprise—Brent and Gibby become good friends, and when we started writing Once More 'Round the Sun, Brent wanted to write a song for Gibby. And this is that song—Gibby named it and did all the lyrics, and it's pretty wild."
Cut You Up With a Linoleum Knife
"We did this song for the beginning of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. We were huge fans of that show, and when we were touring around in our van we had the DVDs, and if we ever got to stay at somebody's house or had a DVD player, we would put it in and be under the influence and just be cracking up. It was so ridiculous, such an awesome show. One of the creators of the show got my number from one of our friends that worked at Cartoon Network here in Atlanta, so the guy called me on a Friday evening and said they'd love for us to do a song but they wanted to record it on Monday morning. So we just dropped everything and did it, and I got to sing like King Diamond. It was super fun."
White Walker
"We were in Europe playing at this big festival and Brent got approached by some people who wanted to take a picture with him backstage. He noticed they had American accents, so he asked them where they were from, and they started talking—turns out one of them was Dan Weiss, one of the creators of Game of Thrones. And we were huge Game of Thrones fans when that show was on—that was what we'd do every Sunday night on the bus. So he invited us to be extras on the show, which we did, and then asked us to do a song for like a Game of Thrones mixtape. So we decided to approach it as more of like a folk song that was sung by the common people of the realm, like the mythology of the White Walkers that would be sung around the campfire."
"We did this for a tribute album that Kerrang! magazine put out as part of the 20th anniversary of Master of Puppets. When we were recording Blood Mountain at Studio Litho in Seattle, we'd play 'Orion' to get tones. So when Kerrang! asked us to do a Metallica cover from Master of Puppets, we picked 'Orion' because it's a really beautiful song that encompasses the beauty and the beast of Metallica. Most people covering Metallica pick songs that only show the beast side, but 'Orion' showcases a lot of the beauty and also the talents of Cliff Burton. Plus, we already knew how to play it and we didn't have to sing. But the downside is that when the Kerrang! compilation came out, our song was the only one that wasn't mastered, so when you put on the CD, our song was way quieter than everyone else's—which was a bummer. So it's now it's properly mastered."
Asleep in the Deep (Instrumental)
Capillarian Crest (Live)
Toe to Toes (Instrumental)
Circle of Cysquatch (Live)
Atlanta (feat. Gibby Haynes)
Jaguar God (Instrumental)
Cut You Up with a Linoleum Knife (from the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Colon the Soundtrack")
Blood & Thunder (Live)
Halloween (Instrumental)
Crystal Skull (Live)
Iron Tusk (Live)
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What is Gestalt Dreamwork
Gestalt Dream Work
Of course, Fritz Perls had trained as a Freudian psychoanalyst, so initially he would work with dreams as Freud had done, i.e., by interpreting them. Freud had done a great deal of work on dreams, publishing his famous book on Dream Interpretation in 1900
Freud divided dreams into two levels (in fact they are multi-level):
The Manifest Content – what the actual dream appears to be about as the dreamer dreams it. The superficial layer, which often appears to be a mish-mash of the previous day's events.
The Latent Content – which is the hidden meaning.
Freud had said that dreams were: "The Royal Road to the Unconscious", and they can be extraordinarily revealing. Perls became dissatisfied with Freudian-style interpretation; he believed the person who really knew what the dream meant was the dreamer. He referred to dreams as: "The Royal Road to Integration", because he felt that part of the task of psychotherapy was to integrate the different parts of the personality, which had become split off from each other, or 'disowned'. Sometimes we do not want to know that we have the capacity to do terrible things, but we have. Perls believed that every part of the dream represented a part of the personality and needed to be integrated. He also believed (like Jung) that every dream contained a very important existential message for the dreamer

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What Did Harriet Tubman Actually Say?
Viola Davis winning her Emmy
Viola Davis has just become the first woman of color to win an Emmy Award as the "best actress in a drama series." This is a historic moment, and so is the text of her courageous speech, confronting the massive discrimination against women of color in TV and in films.
In her speech she delivered these lines, attributing them to Harriet Tubman:
"I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line."
I am blogging today, because I was disturbed by those lines. I believe they are a very loose and inaccurate paraphrasing of a story she told an interviewer for a Boston paper in 1863. This is the excerpt from that paper, a primary source:
"She declares that before her escape from slavery, she used to dream of flying over fields and towns, and rivers and mountains, looking down upon them 'like a bird,' and reaching at last a great fence or sometimes a river, over which she would try to fly, 'but it 'peared like I wouldn't hab de strength, and jes as I was sinkin' down, dere would be ladies all drest in white ober dere, and dey would put out dere arms and pull me 'cross.'"—from an article about Harriet Tubman in The Boston Commonwealth, 1863.
Women performing the Adowa, a traditional dance of the Ashanti people from Ghana.
What's the big deal? The big deal is this: The quotation in Davis' speech has Tubman referring to "beautiful, white women" stretching out their arms to help her. I do not believe that Tubman would have ever characterized white women that way.
In the Boston paper, she refers to "ladies all drest in white" who not only stretch out their arms, but pull her across the line. Tubman's ancestors were Ashanti, and white is a sacred color in African tradition. I believe that she was referring to her ancestors, to African women, as her guardians and her saviors. I believe that this vision was so significant, she made a point of talking about it in an interview. I believe she was explaining the secret of her phenomenal success in leading escaping captives out of the South, over and over, never losing a single "passenger." She was teaching us something about a radical spirituality entailing a practice of worship that was not only Afro-centric, but also gynocentric. She relied spiritually on entities who looked like her and who understood her struggle intimately. They promised her that they would see her succeed.
[I have written a play about Tubman's militant spirituality, Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist: ]
"Arthur's performance [as Tubman] was so powerful and raw that the audience literally could not stop cheering and clapping at the end." --Our Weekly.Com, Los Angeles.
"... unyielding spiritual poetry that is uplifting and lyrically profound." -- LexGo.com, Lexington, KY.
"... the distillation and the lyric intensity of poetry."-- Portland Phoenix.
"The script has the distillation and the lyric intensity of poetry. Harriet's rejoinders to the therapist jump between sullen, enraged, and reelingly comedic..." -- Megan Grumbling, The Portland Phoenix, ME.
The Pill Women Really Want
The Little Blue Nightmare
It's here. It's called Niagra and it's for Male Respectile Dysfunction…
Niagra are shaped, colored and packaged to look exactly like Viagra, and, in fact, the instructions tell women to insert them into their partners' Viagra boxes, replacing the actual Viagra.
What do they do? Nothing. Nothing at all.
And that's the point.
The real diagnosis.
Because Male Respectile Dysfunction has been a living nightmare for billions of women for centuries. Refusing to accept that women's lives and anatomies are not designed as extensions of their own agendas, men have continued to promote penetration as "the sex act," in spite of the fact that women's vaginas have only about 1000 nerve endings, most of which are non-erotogenic. The neuronal wiring of the vagina has, in fact, evolved not to accommodate the phallus, but the passage of the nine-month-old baby. In spite of the overwhelming personal testimony of countless women and a sea of medical statistics, men have stubbornly persisted in defining the primary act of sex in terms of their own desires. In fact, women who refused to fake orgasms were historically labeled "frigid," and whole industries arose to treat this non-existent condition.
But all of this is terribly boring. Read Anne Koedt's classic, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm." That should have laid the entire Viagra thing to rest four decades ago.
Not to be confused with the vagina. Ever.
The point is this: Even young women with young women's vaginas often are not fans of penetration, and it rarely signals the "main event" in terms of female orgasm. For post-menopausal women, what may have been no more than a nuisance is now a serious imposition. Aging women experience thinning of the vaginal walls and decreased lubrication. Penetration can be intensely painful, creating numerous, small lesions with resultant irritation or even infection. Fortunately, older men also undergo an aging process that results in difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection. For the first time since infancy, males and females are actually approaching something like sexual compatibility.
But then along came that blue pill cursed by millions of women around the globe: Viagra. Suddenly, men who hadn't had an erection in years were making the sexual demands of a teenager. The mainstream pharmaceutical companies responded with a drug for women… flibanserin. Not surprisingly and unlike Viagra, this is actually a drug that messes with the brain. In fact, it was originally developed as an anti-depressant. Initially, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted against recommending approval… because flibanserin was about as effective as a placebo and the side effects were terrifying. Five years later, it was approved over the strenuous objections of women's health organizations.
I have no doubt that flibanserin will take its place in the list of "treatments" for "female frigidity" that include electroshock medical torture, surgical removal of the clitoris, compulsory therapy including coerced sex with a surrogate, and the usual array of threats that can be used to force women into collusion with male sexual demands: loss of custody, incarceration, loss of shelter, loss of employment… and physical violence.
So… today, Niagra… with the clever slogan, "For women who give a dam."
Because, sisters, there is not a "dam" thing wrong with you if you don't like penetration. There is Respectile Dysfunction going on any time a man insists on perpetrating on your body an act that you do not find pleasurable or welcome.
You will find that the only side effects to using Niagra will be increased autonomy, enhanced trust in your relationship to your body, and, in many cases, an aroused curiosity about and willingness to explore lesbianism.


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Scorpion scare causes delay on United flight out of Houston
By Edmund DeMarche, | Fox News
FILE: A United Airline Airbus A320 aircraft lands at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. (Reuters)
Passengers on a United flight out of Houston were delayed for hours Thursday after reports of a scorpion emerging from a customer's clothing, the airline said in a statement.
Flight 1035 was set to fly from Houston to Ecuador. The plane reportedly left the gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport when the arachnid appeared. The scorpion was seen crawling away from a passenger's clothes.
One of the passengers on board Thursday's flight tweeted, "The captain of my flight just told us it's a scorpion on the plane???!!!!! Good job United!"
The plane returned to the gate and paramedics examined the customer-- who declined medical treatment-- and determined that the unnamed passenger had not been stung.
The airline removed passengers out of precaution and they were ushered onto a new aircraft.
Fox 13 Now reported that this is the airline's second scorpion-related incident in less than a month. The station reported that in a separate incident April 14, a United passenger was reportedly stung by a scorpion on a plane out of Houston.
United has recently been the focus of the national media's attention. Last month, a passenger was videoed being dragged off a plane. Earlier this week, owners of giant rabbit threatened to sue the airline over its death.
Simon, the rabbit, was alive after the flight from London to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, but was found dead in his crate at the airport by a kennel representative from the airline, the airline said.
Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.


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Dog bites sausage-seller after vegan assault
20 Jun, 2011 Updated Mon 20 Jun 2011 17:00 CEST
Man sells sausage. Vegan pushes man. Dog bites man. A bizarre scuffle between animal rights activists and a Berlin bratwurst seller on Saturday was settled abruptly by the intervention of a German shepherd.
Hendrik Z., a 29-year-old "grill walker" – one of Berlin's legion of small businessmen who wear a portable grill and sell hot bratwurst – got into a tiff with passing animal rights activists.
The sausage seller told daily Berlin Kurier he was plying his trade at his usual spot on the Schloß Bridge in central Berlin when a demonstration by the activists passed by. Two of the protesters approached the sausage seller and tried to put vegan stickers on the clear plastic window that surrounds the grill.
"Of course I had to stop that," he said. "I have nothing against vegetarians but I don't let anyone force their opinions onto me."
The situation escalated until one of his attackers, described as about 25, tattooed with earrings, pushed him to the ground and, he told the paper, kicked his leg.
A witness intervened to settle the dispute. However the 27-year-old witness' German shepherd got excited and bit Hendrik Z. on the backside as he tried to get up.
The attacker fled back into the crowd of demonstrators.
Hendrik Z said: "Luckily I'm vaccinated against tetanus so I didn't need to go to hospital."
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Family Business CEOs to Watch 2020
We are proud to announce Vertex President, CEO and Chairperson of the Board, David DeStefano, has been awarded Family Business Magazine's CEO to Watch 2020. To win this award, a family business chief executive must have the talent to steer the business to growth and profitability while maintaining family engagement and harmony, ideally promoting good governance to help smooth the way. Family business CEOs in 2020 have had to emphasize resilience in communicating with a stakeholder group that includes family members not employed in the family company.
This year, business leaders in all sectors were tested as the COVID-19 pandemic challenged them to keep revenues coming in and circumvent supply chain disruption while taking measures to ensure the safety of employees and customers.
The exceptional CEOs recognized here include non-family executives, members of the founding family and married-ins. The family CEOs are members of the first through fifth generations. The non-family CEOs include long-tenured employees who worked their way up as well as those recruited from outside to be the next leader.
However they made their way to the C-suite, these chief executives clearly have earned the respect and admiration of the family business owners.
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LEGO Star Wars II PC demo released
Give it a whirl, build an AT-ST, and then beat up some Storm Troopers
Ben Kuchera - Aug 8, 2006 10:36 pm UTC
We've been waiting for it since the first LEGO Star Wars was released, and now we finally get a taste of the original Trilogy all LEGO-fied. The PC demo of LEGO Star Wars IIhas hit the Internet, and it allows you to tool around Mos Eisley to see if the franchise deserves more than one game. Give it a download, and see if you don't agree with me when I say that this is one of the best kid's games ever released. You come back from the dead quickly, the game has frequent rewards for exploration and using your characters well, and it's Star Wars. What more do you want?
What I love about the game is that it's a good time waster for the older kids (read, everyone) in the audience who want something just for fun and relaxation. Younger children may find it more difficult, but unlike most games with a lower difficulty level for younger players, it doesn't "talk down" to anyone. It has some actual puzzles, and you have to use everyone in your group if you want to get ahead. Frankly I couldn't keep the grin off my face when I was playing, and that rarely happens with games these days.
Be sure to watch the video at the beginning of the demo and see all the great stuff that's coming in the full retail release. Mix and match pieces to make a Yoda-headed Leia metal-bikini LEGO person, and really confuse yourself. If nothing else, you get to build your own LEGO AT-ST in the demo, and who doesn't want to do that?


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"Sorry Somehow" is a song from Hüsker Dü's major-label debut Candy Apple Grey. It was also released an EP and as the first single from Candy Apple Grey. The song was written by Grant Hart.

EP track listing
Side One
"Sorry Somehow" (Hart)
"All This I've Done For You" (Mould)
Side Two
"Flexible Flyer" (Hart)
"Celebrated Summer" (Mould)
"Fattie" (Mould/Hart)

"Flexible Flyer" and "Celebrated Summer" were recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California.

Single track listing
Side One
"Sorry Somehow" (Hart)
"All This I've Done For You" (Mould)
Side Two
"Flexible Flyer" (Hart)
"Celebrated Summer" (Mould)

"Flexible Flyer" and "Celebrated Summer" were recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California.

References

Hüsker Dü songs
Albums produced by Bob Mould
1986 EPs
1986 singles
Warner Records EPs
Hüsker Dü albums
Song recordings produced by Bob Mould
Songs written by Grant Hart

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Seale è un villaggio del Surrey, in Inghilterra, facente parte della parrocchia civile di Seale e Sands. Si trova a sud del Hog's Back tra Farnham e Guildford e fa parte del Surrey Hills. Si trova inoltre sulla Via dei Pellegrini.

Storia
La parrocchia si estende per circa 8 miglia da est a ovest e 3 miglia da nord a sud, in aperta campagna. Il suo nome deriva dalla parola anglosassone per "sala" o, in alternativa, per "salice".

Nella valle si trova la chiesa parrocchiale di St Laurence. Adiacente alla chiesa vi sono fabbricati agricoli conosciuti come Manor Farm, ora trasformata in negozi di artigianato e una sala da tè.

La chiesa è stata fondata nel XII secolo come avamposto della Abbazia di Waverley. Il campanile ospita un carillon di sei campane, la più antica e più grande forgiato nel XVI secolo. La chiesa fu ampiamente restaurata e ampliata nel 1860.

Seale Lodge, costruita come residenza da un gentiluomo nel XIX secolo, fu demolita nel 1970.

La scuola del villaggio è ora chiusa e trasformata in una casa privata. Tuttavia, vi è ancora un municipio, nei pressi della vecchia scuola. Non ci sono negozi o pub e non c'è una stazione ferroviaria.

Seale era, originariamente, parte del grande e ricco maniero di Farnham, di proprietà dei vescovi di Winchester, che ha mantenuto i diritti di Warren e altri privilegi feudali nel XIX secolo. Come altre parti del Surrey, tuttavia, da allora ha attirato persone che desideravano vivere in campagna e a poca distanza da altri centri di lavoro, tra cui Londra.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 historic photographs of Seale

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John Healey: The hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond) is right that amendment No. 18 would remove the restriction preventing compensating adjustments from being claimed in relation to guaranteed loans. It is our view that that would open up the scope for the compensating adjustment mechanism to be abused.
When compensating adjustments were introduced in the Finance Act 2004, their purpose was to ensure that if transactions between members of a group of companies were affected by transfer pricing rules, the position in the group could be balanced out. The compensating adjustments are intended for enterprises such as groups that must apply transfer pricing to different parts of the enterprise. We deliberately limited the scope of the adjustments in 2004 so that they could not be used by third-party lenders. If a company is denied a tax deduction for interest on a guaranteed third-party loan under existing transfer pricing rules, the third party is thus not allowed to claim a compensating adjustment.
The restriction on compensating adjustments in the schedule ensures that that policy is maintained under the new rules. If, for example, an independent lender was able to claim a compensating adjustment, the effect would be to enable the lender to receive interest tax free. A lender should expect to pay tax on the interest received on a loan, whatever the tax treatment of the borrower, so it would be wrong for a lender to receive such a tax benefit.
The hon. Gentleman asked about a loan guarantor's ineligibility to claim the compensating adjustment under the new rules. Our worry is that the adjustments could be abused if they were made available to loan guarantors under the new rules. In many cases, the loan
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guarantor will have a control relationship with the borrower and will thus be able to claim a compensating adjustment under existing rules.
The hon. Gentleman was also concerned that without compensating adjustments, there could be the risk of a double tax charge. Guarantees enable a third party, which is often, although not exclusively, a bank, to lend more than a borrower can borrow on an arm's-length basis. The tax treatment of the lender's income should not be affected by the tax treatment of the borrower in such circumstances. The purpose of compensating adjustments was to ensure that an enterprise did not suffer double taxation because it was structured as several entities, such as a group of companies. The rules of the compensating adjustments for which the Finance Act 2004 provided continue to achieve that.
The approach to compensating adjustments under the new rules is consistent with the policy that underlies the rules under the Finance Act 2004. Those rules did not extend compensating adjustments to a third-party lender, even if the borrower had to make a transfer pricing adjustment in respect of interest on the loan. The schedule is consistent with the 2004 rules, and we are in discussion with the British Bankers Association and others. We are worried that the amendment would narrow the scope of the provision and create the opportunity for precisely the abuse that we are trying to avoid, so, on that basis, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will withdraw it.
Mr. Philip Hammond: The key point in the Minister's response was his last—namely, that discussions are ongoing. Until then, he had closed his mind to the problem as I presented it and had attempted to convince us that there was nothing to address other than that the entire financial world had suffered a bout of collective incapacity in being able to understand what the Government are about. The fact that he is in discussions gives us some cause to hope that the problem will be resolved to the satisfaction of all parties concerned.
We are not here to champion the cause of tax avoiders—that does no one any good—and we recognise that every Government have a duty and necessity to try to close down tax avoidance routes as they open up, as they surely always will. It is a constant battle—a bit like painting the Forth bridge. However, we are concerned that they should get the balance right between protecting revenue on the one hand and using heavy-handed legislation and regulation that will have a negative impact on business on the other. The Minister will agree that no one among the body of official representatives of the financial sector or any other sector would defend tax avoidance. All such bodies agree with the principle of needing to close tax avoidance loopholes, but they want to ensure that it is done in a way that does not inflict collateral damage on other parts of the economy, industry or business.
Ideally, such measures should involve proper consultation with the affected parties and their official trade bodies to find a way forward that not only works—the Government clearly think they have something that works—but is well understood by business so that there is clarity and certainty. I understand that in relation to tax avoidance there is
often a temptation to legislate first and consult afterwards. Perhaps discussions are ongoing as a result of the delay that has occurred this year in implementing those parts of the original Finance Bill that are now in this Bill.
I hope that the Minister is committed to finding an agreed solution to the perceived problem in the financial community so that his undoubtedly correct objective is achieved without creating negative fallout or, if he can resolve that problem, without creating the perception of the possibility of negative fallout, which would be equally damaging to business.
I hope that by the time we discuss the Bill on Report, the Minister will be able to tell us that his discussions have come to a fruitful conclusion. In view of what he said, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Mr. Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster) (Con): I beg to move amendment No. 26, in page 126, line 23, at end insert—
'( ) Paragraph 5D shall be amended as follows—Leave out subparagraphs (1) to (6) and replace with—
"(1) Small enterprise means an enterprise that has no more than 50 staff, and either an annual turnover in the preceding accounting period or a net asset value at the end of the preceding accounting period of less than £7 million.
(2) Medium enterprise means an enterprise that has no more than 250 staff, and either an annual turnover in the preceding accounting period of less than £35 million or a net asset value at the end of the preceding accounting period of less than £30 million.
(3) "Annual turnover" and "net asset value" shall be defined in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice.
(4) The number of staff shall be determined on the basis that staff that are not full time should be counted at the appropriate fraction.".'.
The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means (Sir Michael Lord): With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 21, in page 127, line 5, leave out from 'time' to end of line 7.
No. 24, in page 127, line 7, after 'the', insert
'accounting period immediately preceding the'.
No. 22, in page 127, line 16, leave out from 'satisfied' to end of line 18.
No. 25, in page 127, line 18, after 'the', insert
No. 23, in page 127, line 23, leave out from '1988' to end of line 25.
No. 28, in page 128, line 5, after 'the', insert 'immediately preceding accounting'.
No. 29, in page 128, line 17, after 'the', insert 'immediately preceding accounting'.
Mr. Field: The amendments relate to definitional elements of small and medium-sized businesses. They deal with the proposed Government change to schedule 9 of the Finance Act 1996 which makes an exception if the debtor company is a small or medium-sized enterprise.
It is sensible to break up the amendments into three separate groups, starting with amendments Nos. 21, 22 and 23, which would disapply the
exception. In schedule 8, the exclusion in paragraphs 2(3) and 3(6) of small and medium-sized enterprises from the latest interest rules in paragraph 2 of schedule 9 of the 1996 Act presumably acknowledges the fact that the private equity market provides valid support to start-up businesses as well as ailing companies that might otherwise fail. If that is the correct rationale—I am sure that the Minister will confirm that it is—do those rules produce satisfactory results? In our opinion, the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises derives from the annexe to the European Commission's recommendation in May 2003. The application of that definition to private equities is complex, but in determining which enterprises are being measured we must consider private equity funds and all the investee groups that they control or over which they have significant influence.
Those issues of control and significant influence are at the heart of our concern. The practical implication is that many private equity-backed groups are unlikely to fall within the definition of an SME, regardless of the size of the individual investment. We understand that that is not the Treasury's intention, but I should be grateful for the Minister's guidance. In addition, as the definition of a medium-sized company is relatively low, it will not assist the majority of ailing companies, which will be considered large for these purposes. Any unfavourable treatment of such companies would have a significant impact on the available funding and hence the prospects of those companies. I hope that the Minister can explain in detail why the Government have sought that criterion and whether, on balance, they accept that the size of the debtor company should not be a factor in their anti-avoidance proposals.
Amendment No. 26 seeks to allow businesses, whether SMEs or otherwise, to plan carefully. It would prevent their qualification under the provisions from hinging on the vagaries of the currency markets. As the Minister is aware, the definitional thresholds for small and medium sized enterprises are based on euros in the Finance Act 1996, as amended.


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Kaduna govt. recruits 10,000 workers – El-Rufai's aide
Kaduna State government says it will continue to hire skilled and essential workers to fill critical gaps in the public service, even as it proceeds with the rightsizing of the workforce.
Special Adviser to the Gov. Nasir el-Rufai on Media and Communication, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye, stated this in a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna.
He said the recruitment would be made from candidates who took part in the suspended recruitment exercise for core civil service and any agency that required additional manpower when the need arose.
Adekeye said that in spite of the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the government had permitted its agencies offering the most essential services to refresh their teams with new staffers.
He said: "Several government agencies had, since 2020, conducted various recruitments for 10,000 workers. These included officers in the health, education and regulatory sectors.
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"Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital employed 283 new doctors, nurses and other essential staffers in November 2020. This has allowed the teaching hospital to grow its doctors to 191, from only 32 in 2015.
"With the 215 doctors in the Ministry of Health, Kaduna State now has 406 doctors working in its public service.
"The Ministry of Health has also recruited 1,064 persons, including 196 technical staffers and 871 non-technical staffers, while 1,225 new staffers have been injected into the primary health care system.''
According to Adekeye, Kaduna State University (KASU) also employed 159 academic staffers in 2020.
"The College of Education, Gidan-Waya, has submitted a report on its recent recruitment process and is awaiting approval for the resumption of 388 new workers, including lecturers and other categories of personnel,'' he added.
Adekeye also disclosed that in the regulatory sector, the State Water Services Regulatory Commission had hired 14 more workers to beef up its workforce. (NAN)
Ondo communities shut markets, shops to honour TB Joshua
Northern Elders to Igbo leaders: Prevail on secessionists in S/East to prevent war


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Q: Aptos SDK - multiple payloads in one transaction Sending one payload is easy, for example:
let payload1 = txBuilder.buildTransactionPayload("0x1::aptos_account::transfer",[],[to.address(),100000])
  let raw = await client.generateRawTransaction(acc.address(),payload1)
  let signed = await client.signTransaction(acc,raw);
  let res = await client.submitTransaction(signed);
  console.log(res)
  let waiting = await client.waitForTransaction(res.hash);

But how do I send more than one payload in a transaction? is it possible in Aptos?

A: This is not possible, you can only send one payload per transaction. However, if your goal is to do multiple things in a single transaction, that is possible with Move scripts. These posts explain that approach in more detail:

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*How do I execute a Move script with the Aptos CLI?

*How do I execute a Move script on Aptos using the Rust SDK?

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Q: Connect to a CloudFoundry datasource of a service that is down When I connect to a datasource that is bound to a CloudFoundry app (service) I use the following command to open an SSH tunnel that allows me to connect to it.
ssh -L 55432:example-service-uri.amazonaws.com:5432 example-service

This works fine as long as the service is up and running. However, there are cases in which the datasource could actually be the problem for a service to not be able to reboot. When the service reboots / shuts down, the tunnel connection is also dropped consequently. The worst-case scenario would now be a state in which the service can not boot due to an inconsistency on the current datasource and no possibility of creating a tunnel to that database to fix the issue.
There is a workaround by simply binding the datasource to another functioning service. But this seems kind of hacky.
I understand that it this will be designed like this on purpose and in an ideal scenario I would not even have to make changes to my datasource at all. However, I would like to know if there is a nice way of connecting to a services datasource even when the service itself is down.

A: To my understanding there's no other way but creating some 'proxy-app' which has a binding to your service and which allows you an access.
Just as an example see how Swisscom PaaS (an official Cloud Foundry service provider) is proposing how to migrate a DB service to another in this article

A: I think @LBA's answer is going to be the correct one here, because it gives you interactive access to your service, but I wanted to throw in one more possibility.
Cloud Foundry Tasks might also be a way for you to interact with your service and make the adjustments that you require.  While it wouldn't give you a shell or interactive UI to talk to your service, you could write and run scripts that achieve the same thing.
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/using-tasks.html
Tasks are a way to run a short-lived operation in an application container on the platform.  The classic example of a task is running database migrations.  Tasks can also be combined with cron or some scheduler to run periodic batch jobs or other scheduled tasks.
The reason I mentioning tasks is because while tasks are associated with an application (they share the same droplet), they run independently of the actual application so it doesn't matter if the application is started, stopped or crashing.  As long as the app has staged, you can run the task.
Hope that helps!


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§ 1253. Classification of waters designated; reclassification
(a) The waters of all lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, natural or artificial, used exclusively as a public water source prior to July 1, 1971, and all waters flowing into such lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, and all waters located above 2,500 feet altitude, National Geodetic Vertical Datum, are designated Class A waters and shall be maintained as such unless reclassified.
(b) The remaining waters are designated Class B(2) waters and shall be maintained as such unless reclassified.
(c) On its own motion, or on receipt of a written request that the Secretary adopt, amend, or repeal a reclassification rule, the Secretary shall comply with 3 V.S.A. § 806 and may initiate a rulemaking proceeding to reclassify one or more uses of all or any portion of the affected waters in the public interest. In the course of this proceeding, the Secretary shall comply with the provisions of 3 V.S.A. chapter 25 and may hold a public hearing convenient to the waters in question. If the Secretary finds that the established classification is contrary to the public interest and that reclassification is in the public interest, he or she shall file a final proposal of reclassification in accordance with 3 V.S.A. § 841. If the Secretary finds that it is in the public interest to change the classification of any pond, lake, or reservoir designated as Class A for a public water source, the Secretary shall so advise and consult with the Department of Health and shall provide in its reclassification rule a reasonable period of time before the rule becomes effective. During that time, any municipalities or persons whose water source is affected shall construct filtration and disinfection facilities or convert to a new water source.
(d)(1) Through the process of basin planning, the Secretary shall determine what degree of water quality and classification should be obtained and maintained for those waters not classified by the Board before 1981 following the procedures in sections 1254 and 1258 of this title. Those waters shall be classified in the public interest. The Secretary shall prepare and maintain an overall surface water management plan to assure that the State water quality standards are met in all State waters. The surface water management plan shall include a schedule for updating the basin plans. The Secretary, in consultation with regional planning commissions and the Natural Resources Conservation Council, shall revise all 15 basin plans and update the basin plans on a five-year rotating basis. On or before January 15 of each year, the Secretary shall report to the House Committees on Agriculture and Forestry and on Natural Resources, Fish, and Wildlife and to the Senate Committees on Agriculture and on Natural Resources and Energy regarding the progress made and difficulties encountered in revising basin plans. The report shall include a summary of basin planning activities in the previous calendar year, a schedule for the production of basin plans in the subsequent calendar year, and a summary of actions to be taken over the subsequent three years. The provisions of 2 V.S.A. § 20(d) (expiration of required reports) shall not apply to the report to be made under this subsection.
(2) In developing a basin plan under this subsection, the Secretary shall:
(A) identify waters that should be reclassified outstanding resource waters or that should have one or more uses reclassified under section 1252 of this title;
(B) identify wetlands that should be reclassified as Class I wetlands;
(C) identify projects or activities within a basin that will result in the protection and enhancement of water quality;
(D) review the evaluations performed by the Secretary under subdivisions 922(a)(1) and (2) of this title and update those findings based on any new data collected as part of a basin plan;
(E) for projects in the basin that will result in enhancement of resources, including those that protect high quality waters of significant natural resources, the Secretary shall identify the funding needs beyond those currently funded by the Clean Water Fund;
(F) ensure that municipal officials, citizens, natural resources conservation districts, regional planning commissions, watershed groups, and other interested groups and individuals are involved in the basin planning process;
(G) ensure regional and local input in State water quality policy development and planning processes;
(H) provide education to municipal officials and citizens regarding the basin planning process;
(I) develop, in consultation with the regional planning commission, an analysis and formal recommendation on conformance with the goals and objectives of applicable regional plans;
(J) provide for public notice of a draft basin plan; and
(K) provide for the opportunity of public comment on a draft basin plan.
(3) The Secretary shall, contingent upon the availability of funding, negotiate and issue performance grants to the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies or its designee, the Natural Resources Conservation Council or its designee, and to Watersheds United Vermont or its designee to assist in or to produce a basin plan under the schedule set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection in a manner consistent with the authority of regional planning commissions under 24 V.S.A. chapter 117 and the authority of the natural resources conservation districts under chapter 31 of this title. When negotiating a scope of work with the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies or its designee, the Natural Resources Conservation Council or its designee, and Watersheds United Vermont or its designee to assist in or produce a basin plan, the Secretary may require the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies, the Natural Resources Conservation Council, or Watersheds United Vermont to:
(A) conduct any of the activities required under subdivision (2) of this subsection (d);
(B) provide technical assistance and data collection activities to inform municipal officials and the State in making water quality investment decisions;
(C) coordinate municipal planning and adoption or implementation of municipal development regulations better to meet State water quality policies and investment priorities; or
(D) assist the Secretary in implementing a project evaluation process to prioritize water quality improvement projects within the region to ensure cost-effective use of State and federal funds.
(e) In determining the question of public interest, the Secretary shall give due consideration to, and explain his or her decision with respect to, the following:
(1) existing and obtainable water qualities;
(2) existing and potential use of waters as a public water source, recreational, agricultural, industrial, and other legitimate purposes;
(3) natural sources of pollution;
(4) public and private pollution sources and the alternative means of abating the same;
(5) consistency with the State water quality policy established in section 1250 of this title;
(6) suitability of waters as habitat for fish, aquatic life, and wildlife;
(7) need for and use of minimum streamflow requirements;
(8) federal requirements for classification and management of waters;
(9) consistency with applicable municipal, regional, and State plans; and
(10) any other factors relevant to determine the maximum beneficial use and enjoyment of waters.
(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, when reclassifying waters to Class A, the Secretary need find only that the reclassification is in the public interest.
(g) The Secretary under the reclassification rule may grant permits for only a portion of the assimilative capacity of the receiving waters or may permit only indirect discharges from on-site disposal systems, or both.
[Subsection (h) effective upon amendment of Vermont Water Quality Standards.]
(h)(1) The Secretary shall administer a Clean Water Act Section 401 certification program to review activities that require a federal license or permit or activities subject to regulation under chapter 41, subchapter 4 of this title to ensure that a proposed activity complies with the Vermont Water Quality Standards, as well as with any other appropriate requirement of State law, including:
(A) 10 V.S.A. chapter 37 (wetlands protection and water resources management);
(B) 10 V.S.A. chapter 41 (regulation of stream flow);
(C) 10 V.S.A. § 1264 (stormwater management);
(D) 29 V.S.A. chapter 11 (management of lakes and ponds); and
(E) the Agency of Natural Resources Rules for Water Withdrawals for Snowmaking.
(2) The Secretary of Natural Resources shall not grant an application for certification under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act unless the applicant demonstrates all of the following:
(A) there is no practicable alternative to the proposed activity that would have a less adverse impact on waters and wetlands of the State and provided that any proposed alternative shall not have other significant adverse human health, safety, or environmental consequences;
(B) the proposed activity will not result in the violation of any applicable water quality criteria established in the Vermont Water Quality Standards; and
(C) the proposed activity will not result in a violation of the State's antidegradation policy.
(3)(A) An alternative is considered practicable under subdivision (2)(A) of this subsection (h) if it is available and capable of being completed after taking into consideration cost, existing technology, and logistics in light of overall purposes of the proposed activity.
(B) Failure to comply with the requirements of subdivision (2)(A) of this subsection (h) shall not be the basis for denial of an application for a certification under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act if the proposed activity is exempt from those requirements under a rule adopted by the Secretary.
(4) The Secretary may issue a certification required by this subsection to any general permit or authorization issued by a federal agency. An applicant's compliance with that federal permit or authorization shall be presumed to be in compliance with the certification unless the Secretary determines that an individual review of the applicant's activity is necessary to assure compliance with the Vermont Water Quality Standards and other appropriate State laws. (Amended 1961, No. 100, § 2; 1964, No. 37 (Sp. Sess.), § 4; 1969, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 1971; 1973, No. 3, eff. Feb. 8, 1973; 1973, No. 103, § 16, eff. April 24, 1973; 1981, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 25; 1985, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. May 17, 1986; 1987, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 2, eff. April 20, 1988; 1991, No. 211 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1999, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 19, 2000; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 26, eff. Jan. 31, 2005; 2009, No. 33, § 25; 2011, No. 138 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. May 14, 2012; 2013, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 18; 2015, No. 64, § 26; 2015, No. 79 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 28, 2016; 2015, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. June 1, 2016; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 44c; 2017, No. 168 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. May 22, 2018; 2019, No. 76, § 2; 2021, No. 32, § 1; 2021, No. 135 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 2022.)


In step 1, you compare data and read profiles. See how golf statistics, technique, fitness and mental parameters relate. Investigate what makes you a better golfer. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses (gap and needs profile) and set appropriate goals.
In step 2, you make short, medium and long-term training plans to reach your goals. The system lets you save exercise templates that you can re-use and adjust, so you work faster after each loop.
In step 3 and 4, you input information such as actual training performed, game statistics, fitness test results, mental evaluations and other variables that are required to give and receive feedback. This makes it possible to monitor the results, and later learn what training that will give certain results - evidence based training!
In step 5, you evaluate the steps in the loop to learn from experience. You reconnect and adjust the steps, in a continuing loop. This will make you learn from experience and to optimize the Loop to your personal needs.