What exactly are you saving and investing for? This is a serious moment of self inquiry.
Goals make it far more likely you'll save for each goal in advance—which makes you more likely to achieve them.
Using goals helps you to match your time horizon to your asset allocation, which means you take on the optimum amount of risk.
Before you start putting money into the market, ask yourself one question: What exactly are you saving and investing for?
This is a serious moment of self inquiry. In order to invest for the future you are cutting back on spending your wealth now. There must be some future purpose for this sacrifice—some goal of tomorrow's spending which outweighs the pleasure of today's spending.
Goal-based wealth management is not just a cute way to help you manage your investments as easily as you manage your Gmail account—it is necessary for maximizing how effectively you manage your money and investments, including knowing when you can afford to spend more than you might think today.
For those who are new to goal-based wealth management, goals allow you to bucket your money according to its purpose and when you will need a given amount. When you first sign up with Betterment, you will see the selection of goals below. Each goal you select (and you can select and customize up to 12) has its own portfolio of stocks and bonds customized for the time horizon you set.
"Goals" are a kind of budgeting methodology that have been used for decades (one old version is called the envelope system). Betterment has elevated the framework to apply it to good savings and investment strategy as well. Why? Because research shows it improves outcomes by encouraging optimal behavior and more precise wealth management (see the reference list below).
Below are some of the behavioral and financial reasons why goal-based wealth management is better.
Goal-based wealth management forces you to think about and enumerate your goals, often far in advance. This prevents you from underestimating how much money you'll need at any point in the future—or misaligning your expectations with your savings ability. It means that present-day you and future you have more common ground.
2. Plan ahead, save less, achieve more.
Using goal-based wealth management, you'll likely see future liabilities coming down the road. And the further in advance you start saving for a goal, the less you'll actually have to save. Why? The power of returns. The earlier you start saving , the more time you give the market to grow your savings for you.
Monthly savings amounts assume a nominal 7% annual return. Saving amounts are for illustrative purposes only.
3. Use a data-driven target.
When you set up an investment goal at Betterment—for example, saving $150,000 for a home down payment in 10 years—we give you several pieces of advice: The first is a suggested allocation based on your time horizon and the second is advice on how much you need to save on a monthly basis to reach that goal. We also suggest an initial deposit. When you take guesswork out of your plan, it means you are more likely to hit your target.
4. Save for a tangible outcome.
Goals make it far more likely you'll save for—and achieve— every one of your goals. When you can attach a real outcome to the purpose of your saving, you're more likely to actually work toward that goal rather than blind saving.
In behavioral psychology, this is called affect—or the concept that we are more motivated by real things than abstract numbers.
While some might find it surprising, there are people who actually feel guilty and are uncomfortable with spending large amounts of money. This is true even when it's for a planned, known expenditure. When it comes time to spend your savings, if it comes from an account specifically earmarked for that purpose, you're not overspending. Goals also make it more likely you only spend the amount saved in the goal, rather than scooping out a lump sum from a general savings account.
6. Benefits to an automated plan.
For most people, it's much easier and more practical to invest $125 a week, or $500 a month, than summon up a one-time deposit of $6,000 each year. Automating your saving makes it effortless to do the right thing—save the right amount every month. This kind of of drip-system is not only useful for budgeting and saving on an ongoing basis—it's also great investment strategy.
First, it ensures your money has maximal time in the market. Second, it is a form of dollar-cost averaging, which diversifies your cost-basis entry points over time compared to a lump-sum purchase. With Betterment, regular auto-deposits also provide an opportunity for rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting, which are investing practices that can improve returns and lower your tax bill over time.
7. Turn a bias into a strength.
Goal-based wealth management makes use of 'partitioning' and leverages mental accounting to improve your savings behavior. Mental accounting means that you make decisions based on the red or black of each individual account, rather than view them in the aggregate. While this could lead to unwise decisions as it may limit a holistic view of your finances, you can also use mental accounting as a strength. By creating many different mental accounts, you ensure that you are saving optimally for each of them—and do not rely on one account to cover all your required future liabilities.
8. Better match assets and liabilities, avoid debt.
Goals makes it easier to close the gap between the money you can afford to spend and the money you want to spend. In investing, we call this matching assets to liabilities. By clearly earmarking the assets of today to the liabilities of tomorrow, we ensure that we aren't going to go into debt or fail at those goals.
This can also help determine if you're in danger of paying interest on something you cannot afford. For example, if you fall short of target or goal, like saving $25,000 for a luxury vacation, you have to decide whether to make up the shortfall with credit—or cut back on what you can afford.
When you use credit or unexpectedly downsize, you are using a form of debt. The first is financial and the second is psychological. Goals help you manifest your intentions without incurring debt of any kind.
Goal-based wealth management matches your time horizon to your asset allocation, which means you take on the optimum amount of risk. When you misallocate, it can mean saving too much or too little, missing out on returns with too conservative a setting, or missing your goal if you take on too much risk.
Occasionally, critics of goal-based investing claim that it causes users to deviate from an optimal allocation because they don't look at their portfolio holistically. In fact, it has has been shown through a series of papers (see below) that when done correctly, goal-based investing is just as efficient as holistic portfolio management.
Betterment's algorithms are smart enough to avoid these hazards of goal-based investing. For example, we look across all your goals when utilizing tax-lot information —for example using TaxMin to withdraw—to ensure that one goal is not mis-coordinated with others. You get all the benefit of goal-based wealth management, and none of the downside.
Das, S., Markowitz, H., Scheid, J., & Statman, M. (2010). Portfolio Optimization with Mental Accounts. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Brunel, J. L. (2006). How Suboptimal—if at all—is goal-based asset allocation?. The Journal of Wealth Management, 9(2), 19-34.


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Q: How to demean the data for PCA I have a 75x60 array in Matlab. I'm trying to do PCA. I'm trying to check my work by making sure the largest eigenvalue returned by eig(matrix) returns the same thing as the d(1)*d(1) in [u d v] = svd(matrix). They are wildly off. The only thing I can see that could be going wrong is the demeaning.
Here is how I'm handling the demeaning:
 %v is a 75x60 array
 %rowS is 75
 avgVector= mean(v,1);
 muMatrix = repmat(avgVector,rowS,1);
 v = v-muMatrix;

If I were to call SVD(v) it would return extremely different values than eig(cov(v)), whether v has undergone the above demeaning or not.

A: If your matrices follow the standard Matlab convention that variables are columns and samples are rows,  then your approach, basically
v = v - repmat(mean(v, 1), size(v, 1), 1);

is correct. It would be more memory efficient though not to blow up the means to a full-sized matrix:
v = bsxfun(@minus, v, mean(v, 1));

There's also the possibility to use
v = detrend(v, 'constant')

which internally uses the previous code.

The problem lies somewhere else: The singular values of v are the square roots of the eigenvalues of v'*v. If v is mean-free, then v'*v (in this case called "scatter matrix") is identical to the (unbiased-estimator) covariance matrix cov(v) – up to a factor size(v, 1) - 1. If you use the code
[V, D] = eig(cov(v));
[U, S, V] = svd(bsxfun(@minus, v, mean(v, 1)));

you will find that
sort(diag(D), 'descend')

and
diag(S) .^ 2 / (size(x, 1) - 1)

are identical up to rounding error. The additional sort is necessary because eig does not guarantee ordered eigenvalues.

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In the lead up to International Human Rights Day 2016 (SNAP's third anniversary), the Scottish Human Rights Commission held a reception at the Scottish Parliament showcasing some of the action plan's key achievements to date.
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My "career" as a pro-life activist, as well as a university student, began under some rather unusual circumstances. A shadow of sorts had been cast over my first year of post-secondary school, as it marked the anniversary of this infamous incident. I was connected to the pro-life community at my institution, followed by what would become my favourite activist organization, through the arrests. Since then, the events of Oct. 4, 2010, seem to follow me everywhere, even though the "spotlight" of that day was not mine. I wonder if – in fact, I suspect – that day will follow and influence me beyond my college years.
Therefore, it was with a heavy heart that I watched Jill Stanek's coverage of a recent controversy at Biola University in California. Diana Jimenez, a pro-life nursing student in her final year, watched a graphic video of an abortion procedure. The video inspired her to start a pro-life club on her campus, and Gregg Cunningham of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform was invited to speak. (Do you see a pattern here?)
An information table was also set up, containing the controversial visuals CBR and its affiliates are known for. This display was shut down because Diana apparently did not seek permission. Diana maintains that proper procedures were followed. School authorities – Christian and supposedly pro-life ones, no less – wouldn't even let her stand with a CBR sign for one hour. Instead, they told Diana to keep her project confined to a single room, so that passersby could "choose" to see the truth about abortion. (Boy, that sounds familiar.) When she complied, four students saw her signs.
Diana then decided to take matters into her own hands. She displayed a graphic picture on campus, one week before she was due to graduate. This decision to upset the status quo did not bode well for her. The school security chief threatened Diana with arrest and denial of her graduation. Biola's associate dean of students sent a warning that she would be banned from commencement, and the entire campus. The dean of nursing advised the faculty not to write reference letters for Diana's employment.
Last week, however, things began to look up for this young woman. The university president released a letter of apology. He is working to ensure all facets of the school curriculum are tied to pro-life issues. A group of influential pro-life leaders, among them Scott Klusendorf, is creating a program that will eventually lead to a minor in Applied Bioethics. Any interested Christian university will be welcome to use the program, and I hope Biola is one of them. Finally, the troublesome nursing dean has reportedly retired.
As with many other bold pro-lifers – Monica Miller, anyone? – I am not sure whether to call Diana Jimenez brave or foolish. My graphic-promoting friends and I have been called both. I have asked myself many times whether Diana's example inspires me or scares me. For now, I will look to her for the former, while of course obeying all reasonable school policy. There will be no one-room displays while I'm around, and who knows where the future will take me after my undergrad years?
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Genome Pharmaceuticals is the parent company of a growing family of companies (including Netris/Origin Biopharmaceuticals) focused on diverse etiologies including Diabetalogy, Women's Health, Rare Diseases, Neurology, Cardio Metabolic Diseases, Urology, Dermatology and RNA Therapeutics. The collaboration with Genome will be adding EastGate's insulin liquid-to-brain delivery for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to their product pipeline.
Every 67 seconds, someone in the US develops Alzheimer's disease. More than 5 million Americans are living with the condition and it is responsible for around half a million deaths each year. According to Zion Market Research, the Global Alzheimer's drugs market will reach $5.09 billion by 2022. A vast library of information already exists on how insulin improves the working memory for Alzheimer's patients. Liquid insulin delivery could provide a user-friendly treatment that improves compliance.
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"We are very excited about expanding the indication of our liquid insulin mouth rinse solution to include the debilitating Alzheimer's disease", said Anna Gluskin, EastGate Biotech's CEO. "Providing an alternative indication for our innovative product in addition to diabetes adds value to our shareholders". "Most importantly, an alternative drug delivery of insulin will demonstrate the increased viability of a well-known drug with a long historical profile." Along with other potential partners such as Genome we can open up the door for the application of our drug delivery system to other well-known drugs".
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Q: Listview Highlighted onclick instead of item I am trying to highlight an individual item in list view that was split from the string however the whole Listview is highlighted instead of the item.
Please help.
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

        Local.Set(getApplicationContext(), "TicketHolders", result);
        String[] RowData = result.toString().split("\\;");
        List<String> TicketholdersArray = new ArrayList<>();

        for(int x=0;x<RowData.length;x++){
            TicketholdersArray.add(RowData[x].toString());
        }

        // below creates and styles listview
        ListView listView1 = (ListView)       findViewById(R.id.your_list_view_id);
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(GuestlistActivity.this,R.layout.liststyle, TicketholdersArray);
        listView1.setAdapter(adapter);

        listView1.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> ArrayAdapter, View view, int position, long id) {
                view.setSelected(true);
            }
        });

A: for working on the particular view in the listview item row you have to work with you adapter on get view() method fetch the view and set the listner color etc... whatever you need

A: Try this out:
To hold the color of listview item when you press it, include the following line in your listview layout:
android:background="@drawable/bg_key"

Then define bg_key.xml in drawable folder like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:state_selected="true"
        android:drawable="@color/pressed_color"/>
    <item
        android:drawable="@color/default_color" />
</selector>

Finally, include this in your ListView onClickListener:
listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,long arg3) {
        view.setSelected(true);
        ... //Anything
    }
});

This way, only one item will be color-selected at any time. You can define your color values in res/values/colors.xml with something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="pressed_color">#4d90fe</color>
    <color name="default_color">#ffffff</color>
</resources>

Hope this helps you out

A: listview has a property to show the selected item
add this code to your listView item_layout in xml
 android:background="@drawable/list_selector"

and this is your selector code. create a drawable selector file
 <!-- <item android:drawable="@color/android:transparent"  android:state_selected="true" /> -->
<item android:drawable="@color/list_bg" android:state_selected="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/list_bg" android:state_activated="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/transparent"/>


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Let's start from the beginning: We literally meet him as he's bleeding and on the verge of death. I bet you've. someone.
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Back in December 2013, a musical play for Death Note was put into development before it debuted in April 2015 – and now that play will be making its way to America. And, according to the show's writer.
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Rickie Smith thought he was in big time trouble. He had just made what he thought was a strong run when an IHRA official walked up to his car and told him "they want to see you on the starting line."
"What for?" Smith asked.
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Pontiac's Jim Yates is hoping some midyear performance improvements in his Wiley
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top-10 finish. The veteran driver needs to get around a pair of pretty
formidable opponents with only three races remaining on the NHRA schedule, and
putting together a string of round wins at this weekend's 2nd annual Torco
Racing Fuels NHRA Nationals would go a long way in securing the desired outcome
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Yates. "We've come down to the end of the year, and we're in position to get a
top-10 finish and maybe get a race win. It's the same excitement you get at the
beginning of the season. It's so close that we feel like we can achieve it, and
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of the exciting things for us is to be a player in the Countdown. Not that we
are actually competing for the championship, but if we perform to our potential
we can have a lot of fun, and make or break it for some of the racers in the
Countdown. Being a spoiler is certainly a good reason to get out of bed and go
to work everyday. It makes it kind of fun. They put these Countdown cars up on a
pedestal, and we want to knock the legs off those pedestals and bring them back
down to earth a little bit. The last six or seven races we've had a pretty
strong showing. Bill Jenkins is working up there in Malvern, Pa., rebuilding
engines and giving us a good strong horse to ride."
Since late June,
the Wiley X Eyewear Pontiac has run markedly better than it did during the first
half of the season and the results have put Yates in position for a strong
finish to 2007. Currently 11th in the standings, Yates has advanced beyond the
first round in five of his last six starts including a semifinal round run at
Memphis and a No. 2 qualifying effort, his best of the year, at Indianapolis.
That has moved him to within 10 points of 10th-place V. Gaines and to within 52
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Faced with the knowledge that he can't put weight on a badly broken left
ankle for at least 60 days and the realization that his severely damaged right
knee and foot simply won't hold him up, Force finally acquiesced to the wishes
of orthopedic surgeons treating him at Baylor University Medical Center.
The upshot is that the injured icon will remain at Baylor for an
undermined amount of time under the supervision of trauma specialist Dr. Michael
Foreman, orthopedic traumatologist Dr. Alan Jones and orthopedic surgeon Dr.
David Zehr and immediately will embark on a more intense physical therapy
Although, with assistance, he has been up on his feet since the Sept. 23rd
accident at the Texas Motorplex that left him seriously injured for the first
time in his 30-year career, reports that the 125-time tour winner has been
walking have been greatly exaggerated.
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MILLER WELDERS JOINS CAGNAZZI RACING
Miller Electric Mfg. Co. has been
named the "Official Welding Equipment supplier of Cagnazzi Racing".
"With our in
house chassis fabrication department it is important to have the best welding
equipment in the industry," Dan Pikarsky, Team marketing Manager said. "Our Chassis department takes pride in the workmanship
as well as the craftsmanship on each race car chassis we build. We don't have an
assembly line operation here at Cagnazzi Racing, we hand fabricate each part of
our race cars in house. When it comes time to secure the pieces with smooth
welds and proper heating for maximum strength and safety we choose Miller
Welders. "
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LIVESEY CLINCHES MIDWEST SUPER COMP CROWN
As the twentieth season draws to a close for the Midwest Super Comp
Series, with one race left remaining, Dave Livesey clinched the 2007
championship. Livesey led the points standings from the first of the
season by winning four of the first five races.
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CONNIE SWINGLE PASSES
Connie Swingle, one of the true pioneers of drag racing, passed away Sept. 29, peacefully in his home in Oklahoma City, Okla.,
the city of his birth. He was 72. Swingle had health problems for the
last 10 years and finally succumbed to cancer. His faithful nurse,
Virginia, was at his side.
After serving in the Air Force in the late 1950s, he moved to Tampa Fla.,
and arrived at Garlits Automotive Inc. in 1960 and began welding and
became one of the best welders in the world. Don Garlits' Swamp Rat
III-A had been started, so "Swingle," as he liked to be called,
finished the project and took the new chrome moly car on tour. Swingle
won many races with the car, the biggest being the Hot Rod Drags at
Riverside Raceway in 1962.
Swingle was instrumental in the success of the Garlits chassis
business from 1961 through 1964, at which time Garlits relocated to Troy, Mich., a suburb of Detroit.
Swingle went west and joined up with the
"Old Master," Ed Pink. Driving Pink's AA/FD, Swingle enjoyed his
biggest win at Fontana Dragstrip in the fall of 1965, when he beat
Garlits in the final for the Mickey Thompson 200 mph Meet and took home
all the gold, about $10,000, a very large purse for that era.
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GRAND MARSHALL'S CHRR RECEPTION
Ed "Ace" McCulloch will be the Grand Marshall at the 16th annual California
Hot Rod Reunion October 12 through 14 at the AAA Auto Club Raceway in
Bakersfield, California. A special reception will take place on that Friday
night at 7pm in a huge suite at the Double Tree Hotel. At 9 pm, just outside of
the hotel, a special fire-up by the Ace will take place in the 1965
Northwind fuel dragster.
This car started Ed's storied career in the sport when he drove it to beat "Sneaky" Pete Robinson for the #1 spot
in the nation back then. The car was found in Canada by Jack Coonrod and with a
group of 40 people, over a 16 month period, rebuilt the car to give "Ace" "one
day in the sun" after his long bout with cancer.
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KALITTA'S 329 QUEST IN RICHMOND
At this weekend's, Oct. 5-7, annual running of the Torco Racing Fuels NHRA
Nationals at the Virginia Motorsports Park in Richmond, Va., Doug Kalitta,
driver of the 330-mph, "Big Red" Mac Tools Top Fuel dragster, is looking forward
to seeing "329" next to his name Sunday, and not necessarily in the illumination
of the light bulbs of the finish line scoreboard at VMR.
At the previous event in Dallas, Kalitta reached the 325-round win milestone
in the Top Fuel class, drag racing's quickest and fastest racing division. He is
hoping to add four more to that total this weekend and pick up a long overdue
win for him and his Mac Tools team in the 2007 POWERade Drag Racing Series.
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MCMILLEN MAKES NHRA TF DEBUT
Terry McMillen, driver of the Foley/Lewis Torco Nitro Top Fuel Dragster
backed by Evan Knoll, will make his NHRA debut this week at the Torco
Race Fuels NHRA Nationals October 5-7. The race held at Virginia
Motorsports Park is one that McMillen has been looking forward to all
year long.
"We circled these dates on our calendar right away," McMillen said.
"Evan Knoll does so much for drag racing and this is one of the many
events that he sponsors, so we wanted to be here to support him and to
gets some Top Fuel NHRA experience."
"I'm lucky enough to work along side of Evan at Torco," McMillen
continued. "He's really a great guy to work with. When it comes to
racing, no one does it better. He gives us the best tools to work with
and now this opportunity to race with the best of the best. It's pretty
exciting."
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RACER'S BUSINESS HIT BY TORNADO
Torco's
CompetitionPlus.com has confirmed that IHRA alcohol Funny Car racer Dale
Brand's business was affected by a tornado that hit Sully, Iowa.
Brand was racing this
weekend in Budds Creek, Md., when the severe weather hit his Co-Line
Manufacturing business sending sheet metal flying and damaging walls. Debris
from the accident reportedly wrapped around nearby homes.
No one was in the building
or at home when the storm hit and no injuries were reported.
Brand has made a
triumphant return to the IHRA Funny Car class in qualifying No. 1 during the
last two events.
Torco's CompetitionPlus.com has tried unsuccessful to reach Brand for comment.
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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Doctor Sleep; Joyland; 11/22/63; Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; End of Watch; and the latest novel in the Dark Tower saga: The Wind Through the Keyhole. His acclaimed nonfiction book On Writing is also a bestseller. Stephen is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He was also awarded the 2014 National Medal of Arts. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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This week's milestone I'm sharing with you is that yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 20th anniversary. Now before you get too carried away, it was NOT our wedding anniversary it was in fact a more important anniversary – the anniversary of our first date together. For both of us the first date was when we knew without a doubt that we had fallen in love. That first date was such a pivotal moment in our lives that we choose to celebrate it's importance each and every year – it is the 'moment' that changed the course of our lives.
I am grateful everyday that I have found my one true love. True love is so rare and beautiful, I encourage you to celebrate it everyday.
To help you celebrate the love in your life, I am offering 20% off all portrait sitting fees booked and taken from now until 31st December 2013. Celebrate life, celebrate love, capture your loved ones today and show them how much they mean to you.
Please call me on 0421 279 213 for more information and my available dates.
Recently I was privileged to photograph a lovely young couple, Dean and Storm.
The photography session was held on a beautiful property in the Gold Coast Hinterland. The rustic country sheds and old cattle yards made a perfect backdrop for our session. I was so grateful to photograph this couple, they clearly adore each other and I loved capturing how they whispered sweetly into each others ear. Love is beautiful, Dean and Storm you are a beautiful couple.
Thank you so much Dean and Storm for allowing me in to photograph you both, I wish you many more happy years together.


I recently discovered a great (and seasonal!) way to lighten up your favorite guacamole recipe. Just substitute half of the avocado for mashed spring peas. It make a nice springy appetizer, that isn't as likely to ruin your appetite.
Homegrown has finally been released, and I couldn't be more excited! I was such a long time in the making that it feels amazing that it's finally a real thing out in the world. Oh, and people have been saying some really nice things. To celebrate, I wanted to share an excerpt with you, and do a giveaway of the book!
This Fava Bean Crostini recipe is from the Spring chapter of Homegrown. In the book, this recipe is accompanied with information of how to grow fava beans, and an illustrated how-to peel fava beans. I hope you enjoy it!
Shelling fava beans certainly takes some effort, but their buttery texture and nutty flavor are worth the trouble. Once the fava beans are shelled, this appetizer comes together quickly and maximizes your efforts, literally spreading the reward around. The nuttiness of the fava beans is complemented by the clean, crisp flavors of the lemon juice and mint, and the crunch of the toast adds a great contrast to the soft spread. If you're planning a dinner party, you can shell the beans the night before and the whole thing can be prepared in 15 minutes. You can substitute lima beans or edamame for the favas if you'd like.
Preheat the oven to 400°F (205°C). Arrange the baguette slices in a single layer on a baking sheet and drizzle them with the 1 to 2 tablespoons oil. Slice the clove of garlic lengthwise and rub the cut side all over the top of the bread slices. Put it aside. Toast the bread in the oven for 9 to 10 minutes, until golden.
Peel the fava beans from their outer shell. Put the fava beans, the remaining cup (60 ml) oil, the lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic, and salt in a food processor. Pulse until you have a mixture that is blended but still has a little texture (it shouldn't be completely smooth like hummus). Put a healthy dollop of the fava mixture on each piece of toast. Top with some cheese and a mint leaf and serve.
I want all of you know how appreciative I am of your support of this blog. I started Illustrated Bites came at a time in my life when I was struggling to get on my feet after school, and trying to figure out how to make it as an illustrator. Some of you reading this have been with me since the very beginning. All of you who pinned my images, shared the posts on Facebook, or elsewhere really helped to get me on my feet. The fact that I got a book deal was directly due to you helping me spread the word. Thank you so much, y'all are amazing.
To say thanks, I would love to give one of you a copy of my book. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below. The giveaway will be open until May 1st. I'll announce the winner on that Friday.
If you would like a second chance to win a book for yourself and a friend, I'm also do a giveaway on Instagram. Just follow me there, and check out the instructions on the giveaway post.
Hey y'all. It's been awhile. After two years of working on my book based on this blog; I'm excited to announce the book is finished. HOMEGROWN : Illustrated Bites from your Garden to your Table will be released mid-April! YAY! It was a long haul, but it's finally done and I'm looking forward to sharing more soon. (You can check out some sneak peeks on my Instagram.) I've added an Illustrated Bites Book tab to the menu, so you can order yourself a copy. Tell your friends!
The last year was definitely a difficult one, and when you're super busy it's really hard to eat right and make meals at home. I found myself spending the whole day writing and drawing about cooking, but not actually doing it . When you eat out a lot, or just eat badly, it ends up dragging you down and making you sluggish. It's hard to get stuff done with a pizza hangover.
Mason jar salads SAVED ME. I'm sure you've seen these by now (they're all over Pinterest.) They're a great solution for eating right with a busy schedule. You can make a weeks' worth of lunches on Sunday, and then it's just grab and go during the week. I'm a hungry person, and not exactly a "salad girl", but these are amazing. Just be sure to load the salad up with plenty of protein, whole grains, and nuts to keep you from getting hungry by mid afternoon.
Thank you so much for sticking with me these last few months. I know I've been a bit of an absentee blogger (and by absentee, I mean I haven't posted in two months. Whoops!) BUT I've got a big project that I'm working on, and I think you guys will be excited to hear about it! (Hint, it starts with B, and rhymes with look.) Can't wait to tell you more! As always, I appreciate you visiting my blog. Take care everyone, and I'll be sharing more soon.


This massive book clocks in at 53 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover leaving us with 49 pages of content, so let's take a look!
If you're reading this review, then chances are you understood the entirety of the above, which you may very well overhear at a table. Once we take a step back, though, we'll realize that, for non-gamers, this sounds like gobbledygook.
Every hobby, every science, every component of our lives does have its own terminology, its technical terms. Roleplaying games, as a medium, have more than most, as the hobby is wholly contingent on language and the associations you can conjure forth. As such, we have developed quite a set of terms, and while some, like THAC0 have gone on towards more obscure old-school games, the more rules-heavy recent games have added a copious amount of terms, while also borrowing heavily from video games.
This, surprisingly, can present a quite distinct entry barrier for new gamers. Enter this book.
What we have here, is basically a dictionary of game- and gamer-lingo, focused on Pathfinder.
Oh, and we even get a detailed Index!
Editing and formatting are top-notch, I noticed no serious hiccups or omissions. Layout adheres to a nice two-column full-color standard and the pdf features nice stock art. The pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience and comes with an EPUB-version.
Michael McCarthy's Roleplaying Game Dictionary for Pathfinder is amazing. It is a godsend for new players and really handy as a starting point for people wanting to understand gamer-lingo. This book, in short, is a really great supplement that achieves its goal remarkably well. Organization is excellent…and it's PWYW (pay what you want)! This must have been a ton of work, and frankly, I wholeheartedly suggest dropping the author a tip for this book – any supplement that helps new folks get into our hobby should be applauded. 5 stars + seal of approval, highly recommended for new players!
You can get this super helpful dictionary here on OBS for PWYW!


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GOLD COAST STARTUPS HEADING TO LONDON FOR INTERNATIONAL PITCH COMPETITION
THE creator of of luxury active wear brand Faebella, Alisha Geary, has been crowned a winner of the inaugural [email protected] Australia start-up competition by HRH Prince Andrew, The Duke of York at Government House in Sydney.
Geary (pictured) is one of three national winners, including fellow Gold Coast innovator, Nev Hyman (pictured) of NevHouse and Ben Armstrong of HireUp in Sydney, who will be flown to London to represent Australia at the global final of [email protected], where they will compete against some of the world's best, and most innovative start-ups.
Geary's idea was originally inspired through her volunteer work as a guide for the Corrigan Walk Art Tour Australia's largest, private modern Indigenous art collection which is displayed throughout the Bond University campus, where she is completing Business/Laws.
From this idea, Faebella was born, and through Bond Business Accelerator - the University's incubator program for early stage start-ups, she developed her fledgling business concept into a start-up.
Faebella's mission is to share the rich culture and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by presenting their art on active wear, and now Geary will embark on her first overseas trip and have the opportunity to showcase her idea on a global stage on 6 December at St James' Palace in London.
Geary, who grew up between Cairns and the Torres Strait Islands, received the 2013 Bond University Indigenous Community Excellence Scholarship to study Business/Laws.
"I am the first person in my family to attend university, so receiving the Indigenous Scholarship to study at Bond University really changed my life," she says.
Geary says she is very excited about winning the first-ever [email protected] Australia start-up competition.
"It was very unexpected, but I'm very excited about winning as it will give my business global exposure plus it will be my first trip overseas!"
Bond University Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Tim Brailsford said he was 'extraordinarily proud' of Geary's efforts.
"[email protected] Australia will provide Alisha and her fellow entrepreneurs with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase their talent on the world's stage, and potentially receive global exposure and investment," Professor Brailsford says.
Geary's fellow Gold Coast winner, Nev Hyman, is a former surfboard shaper and the creator of NevHouse, a business which turns recycled plastic and other sustainable materials into low cost homes, schools and medical clinics. The structures are constructed in five days or less and function off the grid.
Hyman says the [email protected] competition was an exciting opportunity that will help his business, NevHouse, access key people in the EU, UN and the World Bank.
Geary and Hyman will be joined in London at the global [email protected] final by Ben Armstrong, the creator of HireUp, creator of a digital platform for people with disability to find, hire and manage support workers who fit their needs and share their interests.
[email protected] is designed to support, enhance and add value to start-up and scale-up companies by providing a platform for entrepreneurs and audiences to meet, network and hear the great ideas that are being commercialised and built by the next generation of entrepreneurs.


how a simple code is turned into flesh and blood.
It begins with a bundle of factors assembling at the start of a gene.
A gene is simply a length of DNA instruction stretching away to the left.
reading off the information that will be needed to make the protein.
Everything is ready to roll, three, two, one, go.
The blue molecule racing along the DNA is reading the gene.
It's unzipping the double helix and copying one of the two strands.
it's made of a close chemical cousin of DNA called RNA.
The building blocks to make the RNA enter through an intake hole.
cs, ts and gs of the gene.
the letter t is replaced with a closely related building block, known as u.
You are watching this process called transcription in real time.
It's happening right now in almost every cell in your body.


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Lego activity table can be your choice when you want to give the best thing for your loved ones. It is actually important for you to have the best toy which can improve the child's brain. This will be a good thing for you when you are looking for having the best toy for them. Therefore, you can choose to have the Lego for your child. Lego will improve their brain as this toy will improve the ability of a child to build something. This makes the Lego can be your choice to have fun with your child and also get them to learn and improve their ability in building things and being creative.
The design which is recommended for the children's Lego table is the one which is not too high and simple. The simple design will be good not only for the child's safety but also for the table, too. This is because by having the table which is designed in simple style you will have it to be looked well and will also avoid any damaged. The child will also have the table to be easier to use when s/he play with the Lego. The design should also suitable both for children and the parents, which will make the table to be easier to use.
Besides of the design, you have to also consider about how you will have the Lego table to be suitable with your style. In this case, you can consider about the materials. If you are going to have the table from wood, you are recommended to have them with simple design without any sharp ends. Then, you can also get the plastic Lego table, making it to be easier for you to design and you will even get it to be light and will not get any harm towards the child.


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\subsection*{\large	Supplementary Note 1: \\Classical and quantum chaos in the Dicke model}

The Dicke model displays regular and chaotic behavior~\cite{Lewenkopf1991,Emary2003PRL,Emary2003,Bastarrachea2014b,Bastarrachea2015,Bastarrachea2016PRE,Chavez2016,Chavez2019}. For the parameters selected in the main text ($\omega=\omega_0=1, \gamma=2 \gamma_c$), the dynamics are regular up to $\epsilon\approx-1.6$ \cite{Chavez2016}, then there is a mixed region of regularity and chaos up to  $\epsilon\approx-0.8$, after which strong chaos sets in.
The onset of chaos is illustrated in Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01} for the classical limit (a)-(b) and for the quantum domain (c)-(d).

Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01}~(a) shows the percentage of chaos defined as the ratio of
the number of chaotic initial conditions, determined by the Lyapunov exponent, over the total number of initial conditions for a very large sample. The percentage is presented as a function of the rescaled energy $\epsilon$ and the coupling strength $\gamma$. Following the vertical red dashed line marked at  $\gamma=2\gamma_c$, one sees that energies $\epsilon \sim -0.5$ are already deep in the chaotic region (light color). This is confirmed in Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01}~(b), where the Poincar\'e section for $\epsilon = -0.5$ exhibits hard chaos, that is, all chaotic trajectories cover the entire energy shell densely and have the same positive Lyapunov exponent.

Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01}~(c) displays the distribution $P(s)$ of the spacings $s$ between nearest-neighboring unfolded energy levels. The eigenvalues of quantum systems whose classical counterparts are chaotic are correlated and repel each other. In this case, $P(s)$ follows the Wigner surmise~\cite{Guhr1998}, as indeed seen in Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01}~(c).

In Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01}~(d), we show the quantum survival probability, $S_P(t)=|\langle {\cal R}_\epsilon|e^{-i\hat{H}_{D}t}|{\cal R}_\epsilon\rangle |^2$  for a Gaussian ensemble of random initial states $|{\cal R}_\epsilon\rangle=\sum_k c_k \ket{E_k}$ whose components $|c_{k}|^{2}$ were generated through a random sampling (see Methods) and are centered at energy $\epsilon = -0.5$ in the chaotic region~\cite{Lerma2019, Villasenor2020}. The survival probability of individual random states are shown with gray solid lines, their ensemble average with an orange solid line, the running time average  with a blue solid line, which overlaps with a green line that represents an analytical curve derived from the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of the random matrix theory~\cite{Lerma2019,Villasenor2020}. The asymptotic value of $S_P(t)$ is shown with a horizontal red dashed line. The green and blue curves exhibit a dip below the saturation value of the quantum survival probability known as correlation hole, which is a dynamical manifestation of spectral correlations. It contains more information than the level spacing distribution $P(s)$, since in addition to short-range correlations, it captures also long-range correlations~\cite{Leviandier1986,Wilkie1991,Alhassid1992,Torres2017PTR,Lerma2019}. We verified that most coherent states from the chaotic region develops the correlation hole. Exceptions to this pattern are the states very close to unstable periodic orbits of relatively short periods~\cite{Villasenor2020}.

The four panels of Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01} leave no doubt that the Dicke model reaches a limit of very strong chaos. This is the region for which our analysis of the quantum scars is developed.

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\vspace*{2em}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.6\columnwidth]{figSM1.pdf}
\captionof{figure}{\textbf{Indicators of classical and quantum chaos.} \textbf{(a)} Percentage of chaos over classical energy shells. The black solid line follows the ground-state energy and the vertical red dashed line marks the coupling $\gamma=2\gamma_c$ chosen for our studies. The green dot marks the separation between the normal and the superradiant phase for the ground state. The blue dot represents the energy $\epsilon = -0.5$ used in the indicators (b) and (d). \textbf{(b)} Poincar\'e section $(p = 0)$ for the rescaled classical Hamiltonian $h_{\text{cl}}$ at energy $\epsilon = -0.5$. \textbf{(c)} Level spacing distribution of the unfolded spectrum (shaded area) for $22458$ levels in the energy region $\epsilon \in (-1,1.755)$ and Wigner surmise (red dashed line), $j=100$. \textbf{(d)} Survival probability for an ensemble of 500 random states (gray solid lines) centered at energy $\epsilon = -0.5$, ensemble average (orange solid line), running average (blue solid line), analytical curve from the random matrix theory (green solid line), and the asymptotic value (horizontal red dashed line)  (${j=100}$).
}
\label{fig01}
\end{center}
\subsection*{\large Supplementary Note 2:\\ All eigenstates exhibit scars}

Supplementary Fig.~\ref{figSM2} shows the Husimi distributions of 160 eigenstates projected over the $(Q,P)$ plane for $j=100$. The eigenstates are selected from a list of 16,000 eigenstates with energies between $\epsilon_\text{GS}=-2.125$ and $\epsilon=0$, sampled in steps of 100 from $k=100$ to $k=16000$. The values of the localization measure $\mathfrak{L}_{k}$ are indicated in the panels. We select $\gamma=2\gamma_c$, so all these eigenstates are located in the red dashed line of Supplementary Fig.~\ref{fig01} (a). States with $k\leq 800$ ($\epsilon_k\leq -1.6$) are in the regular region, those with $800< k\leq 5600$ ($-1.6 < \epsilon_k\leq -0.82$) in the mixed region, and those with $k>5600$ ($ \epsilon_k> -0.82$) are in the region of strong chaos. In all projections, the Husimi distributions display ellipsoidal shapes that can be associated with periodic orbits in the classical limit once they are identified.

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\begin{center}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{figSM2pg1.pdf}
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\end{center}

\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{figSM2pg2.pdf}
\vspace{-2em}
\captionof{figure}{\textbf{Scars in all eigenstates.} Husimi projections $\widetilde{\cal{Q}}_k$ of 160 eigenstates  for  $j=100$. The values of $k$ are indicated in the top left of each panel, along with the value of $\mathfrak{L}_k$. The energy range is indicated on the right side of each row of panels. Lighter colors indicate higher concentrations, while black corresponds to zero.
}
\label{figSM2}
\end{center}

\subsection*{\large Supplementary Note 3:\\ Dependence on system size}
The Husimi distributions for some representative eigenstates are shown in Supplementary Fig.~\ref{figSM3} for $j=30$ and $j=100$.
The patterns marking the periodic orbits are very similar. For each column, compare the top state ($j=30$) with the bottom state ($j=100$). They have very similar patterns, but the lines become better defined as $j$ increases. As the system size increases, more lines also appear, because more periodic orbits scar the states.
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\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{figSM3.pdf}
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\captionof{figure}{\textbf{Husimi projections vs. system size.} Husimi projections $\widetilde{\cal{Q}}_k$ of 7 eigenstates  for  $j=30$ (first row) and $j=100$ (second row). Lighter colors indicate higher concentrations, while black corresponds to zero. The lines marking the periodic orbits become better defined as the system size increases.
}
\label{figSM3}
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Day 3 or Day 5?
Until about 10 years ago, all embryos were routinely placed in the uterus on day 3 of the cycle when they are at the 5-8 cell stage. Culture methods then emerged which allowed healthy embryos to continue developing to day 5, the blastocyst stage which has several attractive features. Most importantly it allows some of the embryos which are doomed to failure due to internal defects to fall by the wayside as they arrest and do not continue to develop.
Thus the more hardy embryos are self selecting and the rate of implantation of each embryo is higher.Initially it seemed that the ability to choose the more robust embryos by self selection in this manner would raise pregnancy rates. In a common IVF scenario, the choice if a patient had 5 embryos available for transfer, all about equal in quality on inspection under the microscope, the option would be to replace 3 embryos on day 3 or two on day 5. It was hoped that the day 5 embryo transfer would yield higher results for the IVF patient. This has not turned out to be the case. It is however true that the number of multiple pregnancies is reduced by use of the day 5 strategy.


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By	Jennifer Monaghan
Indie rockers Wild Beasts are the vanguard of a wave of British culture that will come to Moscow in the next year.
If there is one thing that Brits have perfected over the years — besides football chants, queuing, and a good cup of tea — it's music. Chris Talbot of the band Wild Beasts agrees: "The British tend to specialize in music — it's an export we do well," he told The Moscow Times ahead of a gig in the capital this Thursday.
"We've never performed in Russia before. We are very excited, it feels like an adventure for us," says Talbot, whose band will headline the Selector Live party, a British Council initiative, at Shestnadtsat Tonn. "From the eyes of a British boy from a small northern town, Moscow seems like an impossibly exotic and romantic place."
The radio show behind the gig, Selector, is a two-hour weekly program that promotes the very best of underground British music abroad. Transmitting from London, the show pulls an audience of more than three million people worldwide, and has been broadcasting in Russia since April this year; Wild Beasts have been given plenty of airtime by the show.
Not that the group haven't already established themselves in their own right. Describing themselves as an "avant-garde pop, baroque'n'roll, erotic downbeat, sensual alternative," the band's second album, "Two Dancers," was nominated for a British Mercury prize in 2010, but eventually lost out to another indie band, The xx. While one might expect the nomination to have been a career highlight, Talbot insists "it isn't healthy to judge a creative career on such quantifiable things."
As such a response may demonstrate, Wild Beasts can be described as something of musical intellectuals; their lyrics appear well-thought out, referencing — among others — the philosopher Aristotle and Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.
"I do think [literature and music] cross-pollinate one another" says Talbot when asked about the group's lyrical inspiration. "Both express things that the other cannot. A song can speak of an emotion that a library worth of books could never quite capture; but a book can detail and play out that emotion in a way that even the best lyrics could never achieve."
As for bands, Talbot lists Talk Talk, The Blue Nile and Kate Bush as significant influences, "though we're also admirers of more modern artists like Oneohtrix Point Never and Clams Casino."
With a new album out next year, the band are looking forward to 2014: "It is an exciting time for us. New albums mean rebirths, reinventions and re-engagment with what we do. We took some time out … now we're ready to take on whatever a the new record throws at us. Anyone within creative work must make their peace with oblivion, we don't ever fully know what is next, but console ourselves with the adventure of taking it on."
And if Wild Beasts have wet your appetite for all things British, then fear not — 2014 will offer plenty more opportunities to interact with U.K. culture. The British Council and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently announced that 2014 will see the biggest ever programme of U.K. cultural projects take place across Russia, as part of the 2014 U.K.-Russia Year of Culture.
Wild Beasts headline Selector Live, 9 p.m. Thursday at 16 Tons, 6 Presnensky Val. Metro Ulitsa 1905 Goda. 499-253-5300. The Selector radio show broadcasts Sundays on Metropolis 89.5 FM.
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It can take as long as 50 days for the sauce to reach its farthest destination, Naples in Italy, by sea, setting off from Tianjin Port in North China.
"The express train services have cut the journey time to about 12 days, allowing Chinese agricultu
ral goods to overtake their global competitors," said Liu Shaohua, deputy director of the port area.
"We have already received positive feedback from wholesale buyers overseas, who have praised the rail service for its speed and low rate of da
mage (to goods). In the future, we plan to further boost confidence in products made in Xinjiang, and expand avenues fo
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and 11,000 tonnes of steel bars were used to build each tower, whose height is equivalent to a 110-storey skyscraper.
Ning said the huge construction volume is required so that the bridge can withstand
violent typhoons, magnitude-8 earthquakes and impacts from the collision of a 100,000-tonne ship.
The bridge will have a 6-lane expressway on the upper deck and four railway tracks on the lower deck.
The track laying on the bridge will start in January 2020, according to MBEC. The bridge is expected to ensure the river shipping on the Yangtze, while easing the roa
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A wide range of practical events, such as the second Asia-Europe SME Financing Seminar, SME Cross-border M
atchmaking Seminar and Business Promotion of Overseas Exhibition Groups and Purchase Presentation, will be held conc
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With 6,000 standard booths and an exhibition area of 150,000 square meters, the 14th CISMEF is hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Info
rmation Technology of the People's Republic of China, the State Administration for Industry & Commerce, the People
's Government of Guangdong Province, the Department of Small Business Development of South Africa and UNIDO.
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and Development, over a third of new voluntary standards are thought up in developing countries, up from eight percent in 1990.
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In the Middle East and North Africa region for example, researchers found there is large untapped export opportunity in the fresh and processed food sec
tor, while metal and basic manufacturing represent 28.4 percent of Eastern Europe and Central Asia's unexploited export potential.
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held a meeting in Tokyo on May 26-27 to work out policy recommendations for the leaders.
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der of Beijing Xuyuan Culture & Art Development Co, Ltd, are also included in the exhibition.
ritain's Conservative Party leadership contest frontrunner Boris Johnson has backtracked on his prev
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The EU has said it will not return to Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal deal, rejected three
times by UK Parliament, and experts are sceptical a new prime minister can secure any changes to the
controversial Northern Ireland backstop hated by Eurosceptic MPs by the end of October.
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上海夜生活女神会所The exhibition, co-hosted by the Cervantes Institute and the Picasso Museum
in Malaga, where the artist was born, will move to Shanghai after running in Beijing.
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n yuan ($2.07 billi上海楼凤女神会所on) of illegal assets were recovered from abroad, bureau officials said.
"Under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee, we have had significant achievements in nabbing the fugitives and
returning their ill-gotten assets in the past five years," said Cai Wei, deputy director of the International Cooperation Bureau.
"We have cut off the suspects' escape routes and2019/06/25/sh419escom-7/ effectively changed their minds about fleeing overseas, which has laid
a solid foundation for achieving an overwhelming victory in the fight against corruption," he said.
Since late 2012, China has conducted a massive campaign to fight corruption.
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The new policy announcement pointed out three scenarios of property
transfers, including parents granting housing ownership to their children, and discount cou
pons and hongbao, or red envelopes, stuffed with cash used by families and friends online, all should be free from taxation.
Six other taxation items which have been levied in the past have been left out. Stock inves
tors will not have to pay tax for their transaction fee returns from securities firms, for instance.
Zhang said that the announcement reassures the revised individual taxation law w
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nd its missions to pursue happiness for the people and rejuvenate the Chinese nation.
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onary spirit and fighting courage, and required them to eternally remain true to the Party's founding mission.
He highlighted the importance of carrying out self-reform within the Party as some dange
rous problems and risks that possibly undermine the CPC's long-term governance have surfaced from time to time.
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CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. — The woman at the center of a massive manhunt for allegedly making threats against schools in the Denver metro area was found dead, the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday morning.
Sol Pais, who the FBI said was infatuated with the 1999 Columbine massacre, was found in the woods near the Echo Lake Lodge at the base of Mount Evans Road in Clear Creek County.
After receiving threats, several schools, including Columbine High School, were placed on lockout on Tuesday. The lockout later spread to all Denver metro area schools.


Open space is a fundamental component of many projects, but the function of the open space differs for each project. Areas may be active recreational spaces suited to sporting use and play, passive recreational space for relaxation or appreciation of natural environments, a specifically designed visual element to make a statement or create a pleasant community space.
How that space is designed is essential to the success of the project and the resource that the space provides to the community or user.
The projects shown in these images shows the variety and styles of design and recreational spaces that we have created.
The park represents the Hunter River and the town bridge.
A new outdoor area to allow visitors to sit and enjoy the food and wine in a pleaseant shaded area.
Newcastle premium estate providing excellent recreational facilities for this new residential site.
A formal garden space aligned to the Church.
Walkway through the trees designed for the National Parks Wildlife Service walking trail at Glenrock State Recreation Area.
Unique design provides access to historic rock swimming pool originally cut by convicts.
Part of the Honeysuckle precint re-vitalisation for Newcastle, built from dedged materiials.
New playground and active play area.
External Activity Areas and Play.
Renovated site area to provide outdoor seating, decking and playground for new Community Facility.
New estate playground and reserve area.integrating Aboriginal art and storytelling.
Extensive landscape, play and outdoor area for this Primary School creating a fun and interesting space for play.
Developed park and passive recreation area for estate and golf precinct.
New lakeside pathway water deck, sitting area and small foreshore park.