Here at Buckshaw Primary School we offer a variety of before and after school activities for the children to enjoy. These may be practises for upcoming competitions or just a sport/club they enjoy.
We offer clubs such as Hockey, Football, Dance, Cookery and Choir! Children can book into these clubs on a first come first served basis each term.


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Q: SQL - using flags vs join queries to fetch relevant records Say I have 3 tables:

reviews  | paid, received_feedback (booleans)
payments | review_id
feedback | review_id

Would it be worth the performance jump to perform (psuedo-SQL to demonstrate):
select from reviews where paid = 1
VS
select from reviews, joins payments where payments.review_id = reviews.id

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I'm sure there would be a performance jump using flagged columns

You are right: dropping a join usually improves performance

but is it worth the bother?

This is up to you to decide: if the number of records with which your program must deal is enormous, and you must do it often, then adding flags makes sense. Otherwise, keeping the flags in the correct state would be a continued maintenance liability.
You should also consider the time that your program spends maintaining these flags: if the flags change often, this time may reduce the savings from introducing the flags in the first place.

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Personal health also depends partially on the social structure of a person's life. The maintenance of strong social relationships, volunteering, and other social activities have been linked to positive mental health and also increased longevity. One American study among seniors over age 70, found that frequent volunteering was associated with reduced risk of dying compared with older persons who did not volunteer, regardless of physical health status.[58] Another study from Singapore reported that volunteering retirees had significantly better cognitive performance scores, fewer depressive symptoms, and better mental well-being and life satisfaction than non-volunteering retirees.[59]
The Yoga Yajnavalkya is a classical treatise on yoga attributed to the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. It takes the form of a dialogue between Yajnavalkya and Gargi, a renowned philosopher.[162] The text contains 12 chapters and its origin has been traced to the period between the second century BCE and fourth century CE.[163] Many yoga texts like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads have borrowed verses from or make frequent references to the Yoga Yajnavalkya.[164] The Yoga Yajnavalkya discusses eight yoga Asanas – Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura,[165] numerous breathing exercises for body cleansing,[166] and meditation.[167]
The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions; it is mentioned in the Rigveda,[note 1] but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE,[8] in ancient India's ascetic and śramaṇa movements.[9][note 2] The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Upanishads.[10] The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of the 1st millennium CE,[11][12] but only gained prominence in the West in the 20th century.[13] Hatha yoga texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra.[14][15]
An important way to maintain your personal health is to have a healthy diet. A healthy diet includes a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods that provide nutrients to your body. Such nutrients give you energy and keep your body running. Nutrients help build and strengthen bones, muscles, and tendons and also regulate body processes (i.e. blood pressure). The food guide pyramid is a pyramid-shaped guide of healthy foods divided into sections. Each section shows the recommended intake for each food group (i.e. Protein, Fat, Carbohydrates, and Sugars). Making healthy food choices is important because it can lower your risk of heart disease, developing some types of cancer, and it will contribute to maintaining a healthy weight.[44]
Bhakti yoga is a devotional form of yoga, usually associated with Theistic Hinduism. It is therefore focused on faith, love for and worship of a personal God, such as Shiva, Shakti or Krishna. It is taught in key works like the Bhagavad Gita as one of the forms of yoga, and became a major current of Hindu yoga in the second half of the 1st millenium CE, when it was promoted and celebrated by south Indian poet saints like the Alvars and Nayanars. Forms of Bhakti yoga include the singing of hymns, stories and songs (Kirtan), dancing, prayer, bowing, and performing puja rituals.
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Ascetic practices, concentration and bodily postures described in the Vedas may have been precursors to yoga.[59][60] According to Geoffrey Samuel, "Our best evidence to date suggests that [yogic] practices developed in the same ascetic circles as the early sramana movements (Buddhists, Jainas and Ajivikas), probably in around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE."[9]
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Alexander Wynne observes that formless meditation and elemental meditation might have originated in the Upanishadic tradition.[93] The earliest reference to meditation is in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, one of the oldest Upanishads.[67] Chandogya Upanishad describes the five kinds of vital energies (prana). Concepts used later in many yoga traditions such as internal sound and veins (nadis) are also described in the Upanishad.[59] Taittiriya Upanishad defines yoga as the mastery of body and senses.[94]
Yoga may have pre-Vedic elements.[45][46] Some state yoga originated in the Indus Valley Civilization.[51] Marshall,[52] Eliade[10] and other scholars note that the Pashupati seal discovered in an Indus Valley Civilization site depicts a figure in a position resembling an asana used for meditation, Mulabandhasana. This interpretation is considered speculative and uncertain by more recent analysis of Srinivasan[10] and may be a case of projecting "later practices into archeological findings".[53]
In 1989 and 2003, the Vatican issued two documents: Aspects of Christian meditation and "A Christian reflection on the New Age," that were mostly critical of eastern and New Age practices. The 2003 document was published as a 90-page handbook detailing the Vatican's position.[286] The Vatican warned that concentration on the physical aspects of meditation "can degenerate into a cult of the body" and that equating bodily states with mysticism "could also lead to psychic disturbance and, at times, to moral deviations." Such has been compared to the early days of Christianity, when the church opposed the gnostics' belief that salvation came not through faith but through a mystical inner knowledge.[280] The letter also says, "one can see if and how [prayer] might be enriched by meditation methods developed in other religions and cultures"[287] but maintains the idea that "there must be some fit between the nature of [other approaches to] prayer and Christian beliefs about ultimate reality."[280] Some[which?] fundamentalist Christian organizations consider yoga to be incompatible with their religious background, considering it a part of the New Age movement inconsistent with Christianity.[288]
Buddhist yoga encompasses an extensive variety of methods that aim to develop key virtues or qualities known as the 37 aids to awakening. The ultimate goal of Buddhist yoga is bodhi (awakening) or nirvana (cessation), which is traditionally seen as the permanent end of suffering (dukkha) and rebirth.[note 20] Buddhist texts use numerous terms for spiritual praxis besides yoga, such as bhāvanā ("development")[note 21] and jhāna/dhyāna.[note 22]
Core: Yes. There are yoga poses to target just about every core muscle. Want to tighten those love handles? Then prop yourself up on one arm and do a side plank. To really burn out the middle of your abs, you can do boat pose, in which you balance on your "sit bones" (the bony prominences at the base of your pelvic bones) and hold your legs up in the air.
Onesicritus also mentions his colleague Calanus trying to meet them, who is initially denied audience, but later invited because he was sent by a "king curious of wisdom and philosophy".[108] Onesicritus and Calanus learn that the yogins consider the best doctrine of life as "rid the spirit of not only pain, but also pleasure", that "man trains the body for toil in order that his opinions may be strengthened", that "there is no shame in life on frugal fare", and that "the best place to inhabit is one with scantiest equipment or outfit".[107][108] These principles are significant to the history of spiritual side of yoga.[107] These may reflect the ancient roots of "undisturbed calmness" and "mindfulness through balance" in later works of Hindu Patanjali and Buddhist Buddhaghosa respectively, states Charles Rockwell Lanman;[107] as well as the principle of Aparigraha (non-possessiveness, non-craving, simple living) and asceticism discussed in later Hinduism and Jainism.[citation needed]
Rāmānuja (1017–1137 CE) is of the most important theologians of Bhakti yoga, breaking with the Advaita tradition's absolute nondualism and instead arguing for a "qualified nondualism" (Viśiṣṭādvaita) which allows for a certain difference between atman and Brahman and thus it provides a strong theological foundation for devotional theism.[263] Another influential figure of this tradition is Madhva (1238–1317 CE), who argued for a form of dualism between God and soul.
Prolonged psychological stress may negatively impact health, and has been cited as a factor in cognitive impairment with aging, depressive illness, and expression of disease.[60] Stress management is the application of methods to either reduce stress or increase tolerance to stress. Relaxation techniques are physical methods used to relieve stress. Psychological methods include cognitive therapy, meditation, and positive thinking, which work by reducing response to stress. Improving relevant skills, such as problem solving and time management skills, reduces uncertainty and builds confidence, which also reduces the reaction to stress-causing situations where those skills are applicable.

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After having an emergency Appendectomy, and recovery for 6 weeks, I didn't stay true to my nutrition and wasn't able to workout so I fell back in my progress I gained over the past year. It is important for me to stick with my goals and work hard to get to where I want to be.
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Top U.S. Computer Science Undergrad Programs Flunk Cybersecurity (Forbes)
A new study out from CloudPassage — a cloud security firm based in San Francisco — concludes that the American higher-education system is failing at preparing students for careers in cybersecurity.
CloudPassage hired a third party consultant to analyze computer science programs at 121 universities listed on three rankings which included U.S. News and World Report's Best Global Universities for Computer Science, Business Insider's Top 50 best computer-science and engineering schools in America, and QS World University Rankings 2015 – Computer Science & Information.
The University of Michigan (ranked #12 on the U.S. News & World Report's list) is the only program in the top 36 which requires a cybersecurity course for graduation.


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Delegating authority of the President under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 2075; January 17, 1974
Amended by: EO 11784, May 30, 1974; EO 11867, June 19, 1975; EO 12608, September 9, 1976
Prescribing the compensation of certain officials in the Domestic and International Business Administration, Department of Commerce
Supersedes: EO 11567, November 16, 1970
Superseded by: EO 12096, November 2, 1978
Designating the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities
Supersedes: EO 11318, December 5, 1966; EO 11351, May 22, 1967
Amended by: EO 12766, June 18, 1991
To facilitate coordination of Federal education programs
Supersedes: EO 11185, October 16, 1964; EO 11260, December 11, 1965; EO 11661, March 24, 1972
Delegating to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs certain authority relating to grants-in-aid to the Republic of the Philippines for medical care and treatment of veterans
Establishing a National Commission for the Observance of World Population Year
Amended by: EO 11806, September 25, 1974
Nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs
Supersedes: EO 11247, September 24, 1965
Revoked by: EO 12250, November 2, 1980
Supersedes: EO 10885, August 31, 1960
Modifying rates of interest equalization tax
Amends: EO 11464, April 3, 1969
Authority repealed by Pub. L. 94-455 (90 Stat. 1814, 26 U.S.C. 4911 note)
See: EO 11754, December 26, 1973
Designating the Organization of African Unity as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 6603; February 21, 1974
Revoked by: EO 13377, April 13, 2005
Placing certain positions in levels IV and V of the Executive Schedule
Supersedes: EO 11708, March 23, 1973; EO 11715, April 24, 1973; EO 11727, July 6, 1973; EO 11736, August 6, 1973
Amended by: EO 11774, March 26, 1974; EO 11780, April 22, 1974; EO 11831, January 9, 1975; EO 11843, March 18, 1975
Superseded by: EO 11861, May 21, 1975
Advisory committee management
Supersedes: EO 11686, October 7, 1972
Revoked by: EO 12024, December 1, 1977
International Symposium on Geothermal Energy--1975
Extending diplomatic privileges and immunities to the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China in Washington, DC and to members thereof
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 10415; March 20, 1974
Delegating certain authority of the President to the Secretary of State
Revoking the authority of the Department of Agriculture to inspect income tax returns
Revokes: EO 11697, January 17, 1973; EO 11709, March 27, 1973
Amending Executive Order No. 11768, placing certain positions in levels IV and V of the Executive Schedule
Amends: EO 11768, February 20, 1974
Abolishing the Energy Policy Office
Amends: Proc. 3279, March 10, 1959
Supersedes: EO 11726, June 29, 1973; EO 11743, October 23, 1973
Revoked in part by: EO 11790, June 25, 1974
See: EO 11748, December 4, 1973
Continuing the President's Committee on Mental Retardation and broadening its membership and responsibilities
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 11865; April 1, 1974
Committee continued by: EO 11827, January 4, 1975; EO 11948, December 20, 1976; EO 12110, December 28, 1978; EO 12258, December 31, 1980; EO 12399, December 31, 1982; EO 12489, September 28, 1984; EO 12534, September 30, 1985; EO 12610, September 30, 1987; EO 12692, September 29, 1989; EO 12774, September 27, 1991; EO 12869, September 30, 1993; EO 12974, September 29, 1995
Superseded by: EO 12994 of March 21, 1996
Amending Executive Order No. 11691, adjusting rates of pay for certain statutory pay systems
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 13519; April 15, 1974
Amends: EO 11691, December 15, 1972 (which was superseded by EO 11811, October 7, 1974)
See: Pub. L. 93-549 (88 Stat. 1743)
Amending Executive Order No. 11692, adjusting the rates of monthly basic pay for members of the Uniformed Services
Amends: EO 11692, December 15, 1972 (which was revoked by EO 11812, October 7, 1974)
Delegating the authority of the President under section 9 of the United Nations Participation Act, as amended, to the Secretary of State
Amends: EO 11609, July 22, 1971
Providing for an orderly termination of the Economic Stabilization Program
Signed: May 1, 1974
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 15749; May 6, 1974
Supersedes in part: EO 11695, January 11, 1973; EO 11723, June 13, 1973; EO 11730, July 18, 1973
See: EO 11588, March 29, 1971; EO 11615, August 15, 1971; EO 11627, October 15, 1971; EO 11748, December 4, 1973
Establishing the Federal Financing Bank Advisory Council
Revoked by: EO 12379, August 17, 1982
Creating an emergency board to investigate a dispute between the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 18067; May 23, 1974
Delegating to the Administrator of General Services certain authority to issue regulations relating to joint funding
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 19443; June 3, 1974
Amends: EO 11758, January 15, 1974
Amending Executive Order No. 10450, as amended, relating to security requirements for Government employment and for other purposes
Revokes: EO 11605, July 2, 1971
See: EO 9835, March 21, 1947
Inspection of tax returns by the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 20473; June 11, 1974
Revoking Executive Order No. 10987, relating to agency systems for appeals from adverse actions
Signed: June 11, 1974
Revokes: EO 10987, January 17, 1962
Providing for the orderly termination of economic stabilization activities
Revokes: EO 11588, March 29, 1971; EO 11627, October 15, 1971; EO 11640, January 26, 1972; EO 11695, January 11, 1973; EO 11723, June 13, 1973; EO 11730, July 18, 1973; EO 11781, May 1, 1974
See: EO 11615, August 15, 1971; EO 11748, December 4, 1973
President's Committee on East-West Trade Policy
Providing for the effectuation of the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974
Revokes: EO 11748, December 4, 1973
Revokes in part: Proc 3279 March 10, 1959; EO 11775, March 26, 1974
Amended by: EO 12038, February 3, 1978; EO 12919, June 3, 1994
See: EO 10480, August 14, 1953; EO 11912, April 13, 1976; EO 11930, July 30, 1976; EO 12287, January 28, 1981
Exemption of Kenneth H. Tuggle from mandatory retirement
Abolishing the Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Personnel Policy
Revokes: EO 11607, July 19, 1971
Designation of certain officers of the Department of Agriculture to act as Secretary of Agriculture
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 25631; July 12, 1974
Revokes: EO 10481, August 15, 1953
Revoking Executive Order No. 10958, relating to the Civil Defense medical and food stockpiles
Delegating disaster relief functions pursuant to the Disaster Relief Act of 1974
Amended by: EO 11910, April 13, 1976; EO 12673, March 23, 1989
Revoked in part by: EO 12148, July 20, 1979;
Continuing the regulation of exports
Federal Register page and date: 39 FR 27891; August 2, 1974
Delegating to the Secretary of Agriculture the function of submitting an annual report to the Congress concerning the location of new Federal facilities in rural areas


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"I waited and waited and several hours went by," said Ani. "First I texted him then I called him no answer. And this is very unusual for Gilbert."
Ani finally did get a call that December evening in 2014. Her husband, Gilbert, had been in a motorcycle accident and was being flown to Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California.
Ani was given few details, so she prayed it wasn't serious. At the hospital, the head doctor told her otherwise.
"And I thought he'd say go in and visit him but he said, you need to go in and say your good bye."
"I said, "Lord, you – I just, I surrender. You need to take over."
Gilbert had veered off the road and crashed – head first – into a mountainside. Along with multiple broken bones, he had massive brain trauma, and wasn't expected to live. But family and friends who gathered to pray, believed differently.
Ani said, "I was just praying in my heart that, "Lord, you see everything and you know what's ahead." And at that very second when I was praying I knew He was there next to me and listening to me and throughout the whole experience I had supernatural moments with God, kind of Him reassuring me that, "I'm here next to you." So again that's all I could lean on because the doctors didn't give any hope."
Over the course of the night, the prognosis changed.
"They said, "Well, it looks like he's surviving, but he will be paralyzed from the neck down," said Ani.
Two days later Gilbert woke up and tests confirmed he wasn't paralyzed. But it wasn't over. He now had to overcome memory loss, and faced a multitude of surgeries and months of physical therapy. Even then, doctors expected he could be permanently disabled.
"So we kept pushing through and praying," said Ani. "It was constant take a step forward; pray, take a step forward."
Gilbert regained his memory two weeks later. And now he was fully aware of what was at stake.
"I knew that God is going to show up," said Gilbert. "God is going to change things. God is there with me."
That's because this wasn't the first time God carried his family through difficult trials. While living in Iran, they were persecuted.
Gilbert said, "I was 17 years old and when my dad was killed and was martyred with 26 stabs of knife. Was it easy? No. Was his grace enough? Yes. His grace was enough even then."
After a year of surgeries and physical therapy, only one thing hadn't been fully restored, the fingers on his right hand were locked closed because of nerve damage. Of all the possible outcomes, this troubled Gilbert the most. He felt his purpose and passion was leading others in worshipping God through his talent as a pianist.
"I had two doctors that did the surgery – they said, "Gilbert, that's it. There's no hope." And this is (gesturing) my situation. I mean, this was. I couldn't move my fingers and I couldn't even shake hands."
Gilbert's physician in charge of his physical therapy, Dr. Raffi Balian.
"So that was a limitation that we thought would be devastating for him, because that was the end of a career," said Dr. Balian.
But it wasn't. Gilbert pressed on – and managed to get one finger to work.
Gilbert said, "So it was extremely hard, but again, I knew that God is good. I can't see God's goodness in this area right now, but God is good."
Gilbert came to terms with his disability, but he and his family continued to fast and pray for complete healing.
"Almost seven months after the surgery I went to France to share the gospel and share my testimony," said Gilbert. "This couple came up to me and they said, "We are led by the Holy Spirit to pray for your healing."
"They prayed over my hand, my fingers, and I received that word by faith, even though again I had my doubts, but praise the Lord His grace is even beyond and above our faith and understanding," said Gilbert.
"The next morning I woke up and when I woke up my fingers opened up. I couldn't even believe that this is happening. And when I came to Los Angeles where I live I went to EMG test, the nerve test and the doctor said, "Wow, interesting. Your nerves are regenerating."
Dr. Raffi Balian said, "That was a total surprise. And it was unbelievable when we first saw it."
"Nothing can change my mind or reassure me that it was anything other than a miracle," said Ani.
Dr. Balian said, "His faith his determination played a major role in his overall recovery. Exceptional is probably the right word. It's amazing also and I think we can also use the word miraculous also for this recovery."
Gilbert is still using his gift to share Christ's love to people of the Farsi speaking world through his family ministry.
"And I knew my purpose, very clear. My purpose in life is to know Him and to make Him know. And through this accident I got to know him much more, praise the Lord."
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Trond Eiliv Hauge is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Oslo, Department of Teacher Education and School Research, Norway. His publications include numerous books, chapters, and journal articles in the fields of learning and new technologies, teacher education, school leadership and improvement. For many years he was working in the Norwegian Ministry of Education as a curriculum consultant. Since 1991 his main professional work has been in teacher education and in-service training of teachers and school leaders. He was the director of the National Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education until 2013.
Today, digital competency is one of the most important requirements to participate in education and work, as well as to be an active member of society….However, the use of ICT in education is still in its infancy or awaiting acceptance and legitimation as a tool for learning and a way of education. A variety of contradictions between old and new designs of teaching and learning hinder people from taking advantage of the potential of ICT in schools. For example, the test and exam system has a tremendous impact on the manner of learning and assessment of student competencies, and adjusting them to fit new digital practices is difficult. At the same time, ICT in education requires further research and development on a critical basis of what schools are designed for or ought to be.
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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Emma Wein
Platteville pitcher leads Dubuque 14U softball team to USSSA national title
Plattevilles Emma Wein helped the Dubuque Sting Rays win the USSSA 14U National Championship in Rockford, Ill. on Aug. 2. Wien was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Pitcher and received all-tournament honors after leading the Stingrays to a perfect 90 record.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The SWnews4u.com Athlete of the Week is a new web-only feature that will publish each Friday throughout the calendar year.
Platteville's Emma Wein is this week's SWnews4u.com Athlete of the Week for the week of July 27–Aug. 2.
Last weekend Wein helped her Dubuque Sting Rays club softball team win the 14U B division national title at the USSSA National Championship in Rockford, Ill. July 30 through Aug. 2.
During the four-day tournament, Wein started seven games and went 7–0 and struck out 22 batters while walking just three in 34 1/3 innings pitched and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Pitcher, based on nominations from other coaches in the tournament. She was also named to the all-tournament team.
Wein recorded a pair of five-inning shutouts early in the tournament and pitched the Sting Rays to a 10–9 win over Wisconsin Xplozion in the championship game. She also batted .455 with two triples, one double and had an on-base percentage of .655 during the tournament.
Wein's Dubuque club went a perfect 9–0 to finish first out of 29 teams. The Sting Rays went 3–0 in pool play on Thursday with wins over Lake Forest Scouts, St. Louis Fusion and Edge Chaos.
The Sting Rays then defeated Freeport Orange Crush, 16–4, on Friday afternoon, and New Berlin Heat, 12–0, Galesburg Crush, 4–1, and the McHenry Warriors, 10–8, on Saturday to advance to the semifinals. Dubuque then beat Kishwaukee Valley Storm, 4–2, Sunday morning to reach the finals, before defeating Wisconsin Xplozion, 10–8, to win the national title.
In May, Wein helped Sting Rays win the 21-team Iowa USSSA Spring State Championships with a record of 8–1. Dubuque battled back after an early loss to the West Des Moines Tigers by winning five straight games, including back-to-back against West Des Moines on Sunday in the double elimination championship to win the title.
The Dubuque Sting Rays finished the 2015 with a record of 28–8.
Wein has played with the Dubuque Sting Rays club team four the past four summers. She will be a freshman at Platteville High School this fall.
Wein is the daughter of Kory and Amy Wein of Platteville.
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SUPPZ.COM SWNEWS4U ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Camryn Nies


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Firefighters battle Colorado wildfire under dry, hot conditions
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Thomson Reuters A satellite image shows the 416 Wildfire burning west of Highway 550 and northwest of Hermosa, Colorado
(Reuters) – Firefighters battling a raging wildfire in southwestern Colorado faced more hot, dry conditions and gusty winds on Tuesday, officials said.
The 416 Fire has already forced people to flee about 2,000 homes in the 11 days since it started while pre-evacuation notices were issued for another 127 homes on Monday, officials in La Plata County said.
Temperatures would reach the mid 80s Fahrenheit (around 30 Celsius) and winds up to 25 miles (40 km) an hour on Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service said. Humidity was expected to stay low, at around 6 percent, it added.
After doubling in size from Saturday to Sunday, the wildfire, 13 miles north of the small city of Durango, covered 20,131 acres (8,147 hectares) and was just 15 percent contained, the service said.
The 416 Fire – named after its emergency service call number – is by far the largest of at least a half-dozen blazes raging across Colorado.
A 32-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 550, which has served as a buffer for homes on the eastern edge of the fire, was closed, officials said.
All 1.8 million acres of the San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado were due to be closed to visitors by Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, citing the fire danger.
No buildings have been destroyed so far, but flames had crept to within a few hundred yards of homes. Aircraft have been dropping water and flame retardant, according to fire information website InciWeb.
The site said containment was not expected before the end of the month.
The National Weather Service posted red-flag warnings for extreme fire danger for large portions of the Four Corners region of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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Pausa Records was een platenlabel voor jazz-muziek dat ongeveer actief was in de periode 1975-1986. Het was de Amerikaanse divisie van de Italiaanse platenmaatschappij Produttori Associati, hetgeen tot de naam leidde: PA-USA. In Italië was deze maatschappij ook bekend door de release van soundtracks van Italiaanse films.

Musici die op het label Pausa uitkwamen waren onder meer Oscar Peterson, Alphonse Mouzon, Art Farmer, Benny Goodman, George Shearing, Gerry Mulligan, Harry James, Ira Sullivan, Jimmy Raney, Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz, Louie Bellson, Monty Alexander, Nancy Wilson, Stéphane Grappelli en Willie Dixon. In 1990 verloor het label een rechtszaak vanwege het niet betalen van royalty's.

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Man Rescued After Falling Into Loose Bottom's Hole
Submitted by Take Out on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 16:07
A man was rescued early Friday morning after falling into the man hole of a loose booty bottom where he's been trapped since Sunday.
"I thought I was going to die down there" Markell Wilson said as rescue workers pulled him out of the anus of a date he met online. "I'm happy to be alive."
Markell says Jamari Mason, the bottom, invited him to his home for what he thought was going to be an evening of enjoyable fudge packing until he says things took a turn for the worst.
"I was really looking forward to getting deep in that thing, just not that deep." Markell explained. "Jamari kept telling me that I would have to go slow and take it easy since he hadn't been dug out in awhile. He kept going on and on about how long it had been since he had his back blown out, he said I needed to use a gallon of lube and that he didn't bottom often, so I was expecting some tight boi puss."
What Markell encountered however, was the exact opposite. "As soon as he pulled his pants down I heard a whistling noise but I didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until I put on the condom and got close to entering him before I realized there was a problem. The closer I got to his hole that whistling turned into a vaccum like sound, but by that time it was already too late."
Markell says he remembers being sucked in but shortly lost consciousness.
"Its a good thing he was wearing that condom" police chief Darius Simmons commented. "Luckily it caught air and acted as a parachute so he didn't have such a hard landing. He fell about 30 feet inside Jamari, I've seen people die from that type of fall."
Dr. William Curry explained to us how Markell was sucked in and why he fell so deep into Jamari's ass. "There are a couple things at play here. You've got an ass with no grip, no walls and no friction that can't close and that creates a high and low pressure system similar to what you see with a tornado, hurricane or flushing a toilet. This then gives the rectum Assitational Pull, a force similar to gravity that will draw in anything that gets within a few feet of the hole. Couple that with the fact that this hole was used to taking mack truck sized dick, so a human body was nothing for it engulf. I'm not exaggerating we actually found a mack truck down there."
Trapped for almost 3 days in a pool of sperm and hot sauce, Markell was discovered only after another top, who asked to remain nameless, attempted to climb Jamari's back.
"I thought I heard someone yelling help but I was like naw, thats somebody's ass, there's not anybody down there. But the cries got louder. I took my cell phone out and as soon as I turned on the flash a bunch of ass bats flew out, then I saw a dude waving to me and I called the police."
After pulling Markell out, rescuers found a popeyes 8 piece, a baseball, a kitchen sink, 4 calling birds, 3 french hens, a used enema bottle and the bodies of two unidentified men who also appear to have been sucked in and fell to their deaths.
Police arrested Jamari whose online name is titehole4u, for false advertising, fraud, 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter, and theft because there was no receipt for the popeyes.
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Perception is both an active and a passive skill. It is used continuously in a passive state to determine what events characters are simply aware of, from whispered conversations to bursts of light to scents drifting on the breeze. It can also be used actively to learn more about an event or detect a forgery. Those who put effort into sharpening their senses can even pierce illusions or detect magical transformations in others, sometimes automatically.
All conscious characters are considered to be taking 0 on their perception checks, all of the time, and this does not require an action. They may not be actively paying attention to a particular thing, but they don't ignore everything either. This is true whether they are walking down the street, chatting with a friend, or even sleeping. This change allows us to do away with reactive perception checks and instead make it an active choice to attempt to pay more attention to their surroundings, as a character no longer needs to spend an action or make a check to detect or notice something that they could not fail a check to notice.
This means that anytime a character is not distracted and is exposed to an event with a DC no greater than their perception ranks +5 they are at least aware of it. If the event has a notice DC no greater than their perception ranks, they detect it clearly. And if the event has a DC than their ranks in perception -5, they know details about it because they can make them out. Being distracted just means that the characters have one step less information. This is simply the effects of the Notice ability applied to taking 0 on a roll.
You have eyes, ears, and various other sense organs that allow you to notice things going on in your world. While you are always assumed to be paying some attention to the world, and thus taking 0 with the ability, actually making a check with this ability implies that you are focusing on your senses to better understand something in your surroundings. This ability is constantly in use as a free action, in which you "Take 0" on your roll. This allows you to perceive quite a lot of things, and interact with the world in a normal way as a result. If you get a bonus to a particular sense, then that bonus applies to this ability whenever that sense would help you notice the event.
Sometimes you will want to perceive a particular thing more clearly, like a figure on a distant hill outlined by a campfire or the sound of commotion from a street over. At these times you may spend make a perception check as a standard action. The DC to notice or detect something is 15, plus modifiers.
A notice check uses all of your relevant senses. You do not roll multiple times in a round for multiple senses, and you may not roll multiple times even if you attempt to spend multiple actions on the checks.
Special: Some creatures have enhanced senses, like tremorsense, blindsense, blindsight, and scent. Blindsense, blindsight are resolved as if they were sight, but they ignore cover and concealment. They can not penetrate sealed enclosures, however. Tremorsense is resolved as if it was sight, and it ignores cover, concealment, and even walls and floors. It can not detect anything that is not in contact with the same surface as the creature, however, nor can it detect stationary or unattended inanimate objects. These senses are only able to determine the shape, size, and structure of a thing, and not its color or color variations. It should go without saying that they are useless for reading. Scent is resolved as if it were smell, with double the base range and range increments. Additionally, any check that meets or exceeds the DC allows the creature with scent to determine the exact location of the source.
These senses are checked whenever a notice check is made, and generally reveal more than the normal senses would because they suffer less interference or offer greater fidelity. As a result, passive notice checks are likely to provide the exact location of a creature or object within range regardless of interfering conditions. There are some creatures and objects that show poorly against one or more of these special senses, however. Passive notice checks are unlikely to reveal these targets, and actual checks may be necessary. The results for these abilities are listed in the check results below, as a special entry.
Base DC: 15+ 1 for every 10 feet of distance between you and the target.
Success: You notice the thing in question, and are rather clear about what it is. If you exceed the Dc by 5, you notice the event very clearly, and can make out fine details about it that others might have difficulty with.
Failure: You noticed… something. You're not sure of any details, but there was definitely something there. You know the general direction it came from, and if it's still there next round you may be able to find out more with another check. If you fail the check by more than 5, you didn't notice a thing.
As a standard action, you may "take 10" instead of 0 on your passive perception checks. If you wish to perceive something more clearly, you must make the check as normal and "take 0" with your passive perception checks for the round instead.
People hide secret doors, caches, triggers, traps, and similar bits all over the place. If you want to use, loot, or avoid them you have to be able to find them first, and you have a knack for locating them. Searching a 5' by 5' section of the floor, wall, ceiling, or the surface of an object for these hidden things requires 1 round. Searching a compartment of an object for secrets requires 1 standard action if it is smaller than 1' cube, and a 1 round action if it is as large as a 2' cube. The DC to find a secret door, a hidden cache, a trap trigger or effect, or an obscured sign or object is determined by their construction or conditions. Finding a trap does not grant you any special ability to disable it, though you can plug holes, wedge blocks, trigger it from a distance, or perform other sorts of really crude sabotage if you'd rather not just avoid it entirely.
Note: This ability does not help you find things that have not been deliberately hidden in or on a physical object. It is not used to determine if you find the treasure hidden in the rubble, the gems in the pants in the corner of the room, or the sheet of condemning evidence in the stack as those simply require adequate time to look through. Any published references to using search in this fashion should be instead treated as allowing characters to find the indicated items if they spend 2 rounds searching for every 5 points of the DC.
Success: You find the hidden cache or trigger in the space. You gain no insight into how it is connected to anything else. If there is nothing hidden there, you recognize that instead. If you exceed the Dc by 5, you find any hidden caches or triggers in the space, as well as the general direction to other local connected devices. If you discovered a hidden catch, for example, you would know the direction to the release if it was not in the same space. If there is nothing hidden there, you recognize that instead.
Failure: You do not uncover any secrets within the space, even if there are some. If you fail the check by more than 5 points, if there is something in the space, you believe that it is empty. If there is nothing in it, you believe that there is something in the space connected to a trigger elsewhere. You can only get this result if you spend an action to uncover secrets, not if you are simply taking 0. Sometimes if you look too hard at things you see what you want to.
It now allows you to investigate objects in order to find clues. Each clue represents a specific piece of potential information. Some clues yield their information automatically, but others must be analyzed, which involves making another skill check in a specific skill (often a Knowledge or Craft skill). Clues normally hold information that you cannot uncover without investigating.
Each clue represents a specific piece of information that you can potentially get. When a clue needs analysis, you automatically know which skill you need to analyze it, and what information can be found from it. Sometimes, you'll have a list of skills to choose from. You don't have to analyze the clues you find yourself. Instead, you can have other experts analyze them (and make the skill check) for you; usually, these would be other members of your party.
Clues don't have to be physical objects. They can be more like riddles that need solving. For example, you might notice that a slain creature is lying in a strange posture, or that the burn marks on a wall are reminiscent of a spell. This means that you can't really carry clues around. You have to interpret them on the spot.
It's more difficult to find clues that reveal intricate information. The following table illustrates general Perception check DCs for uncovering clues that provide different levels of information. The examples provided are things you can discover by investigating the remains of a creature, although you can investigate other things as well.
When you investigate an object, you automatically find all possible clues, based on their DC and the result of your check. You don't need to make separate checks to find different clues.
The DC to analyze a clue is the same DC as finding it was. Analyzing a clue requires a skill check appropriate to the nature of the clue. If you are investigating a dead body, for example, clues could require a Heal check.
Some circumstances cause penalties and bonuses on your Perception check to analyze clues.
Base DC: None. The result of the skill check determines the potential information you uncover, and a separate skill check analyzes the clues you find.
As a full-round action, you can bend down and put your ear to the ground to feel for vibration. On a successful skill check, you gain tremorsense with a range based on your check result. On top of solid stone, the range is 5 feet for every 5 points of your check result. On loose stone or cobble, the range is 10 feet per 5 points. On hard-packed earth, the range is 15 feet per 5 points.


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Paperhouse is one of those subtle, haunting works of beauty that sometimes slip under our collective cultural radar. It's a wonderful movie, to be sure, a quiet gem from 1988 that few have seen or heard of (it was released in only a handful of theaters and grossed a whopping $214,278 in the US). It's filled with fascinating little quirks and ideas that come together to make it completely engrossing. Added to that is the fact that it's one of the rare pictures that handles the roles of children realistically and engrossingly. I've always had mixed feelings about films involving children — in truth, good child actors are rarely easy to find, and there's a tendency on the part of filmmakers to telegraph the plots and diminish their characters. These faults can become even more glaring in modern fairy tales, where sometimes a film will be dumbed down in an effort to make it more accessible. Fortunately, such was not the case here.
This particular fairy tale takes place in 1980's England, where a precocious, somewhat bratty young girl named Anna is our heroine. Anna Madden (Charlotte Burke) lives a relatively mundane life with her mother, Kate (Glenne Headly) in their drab London flat (her father, we eventually learn, is rarely home due to his work). She goes to private school where she feuds with some girls and befriends others, but her existence appears otherwise unremarkable. Anna, however, is not well — she has a tendency to faint, to black out sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours. Finally, her mother discovers this and Anna, febrile and frightened, is forced to stay home and rest in bed until her doctor, Sarah Nichols (Gemma Jones) can figure out what's wrong and set her free. Anna also has a secret — when she falls asleep/passes out, she wakes up in another place — a place that mirrors the drawings she scratches out in her sketchbook in the waking world. Among the drawings that come to life are the titular house, and its sole resident, a sad, lonely boy named Marc (Elliott Spiers) who may or may not actually be one of Dr. Nichols' other patients.
Here we encounter the fundamental oddity regarding the worlds of Paperhouse — what Anna creates, is perfectly reflected in her dreamworld, for better or for worse. She soon discovers that the ramifications of that power can affect people and things in ways she did not expect or understand. Initially, she can't get into the house because it has no doorknob, and Marc, who is trapped on the second floor where she drew him, cannot let her in because she failed to draw any stairs. Similarly, Marc cannot walk… because she didn't draw legs. As the film progresses, Anna tries to learn how to master this world she seems to have created, but at the same time, she learns that it appears to be inextricably linked to the real world. When she learns about Dr. Nichol's other patient, she can't help but draw the conclusion that he's either the same boy, or somehow connected to him. When Marc gets sick in the dream house, Dr. Nichols' patient (who real-world Anna hasn't actually met) takes a turn for the worse.
If this sounds confusing, it really isn't. However, Paperhouse is a difficult movie to summarize without either spoiling the plot or over-explaining, which is probably what director Bernard Rose (Candyman) was shooting for. Suffice it to say that it's a curious film, one that is frequently overlooked by the casual viewer. It has moments of nerve-wracking tension, particularly when Anna, in a fit of childish temper, accidentally creates a monster that almost destroys her world. Yet it's not a horror movie by any means. It explores the complex dynamic between a child and her parents — one an estranged father (Ben Cross) who is rarely home, the other an overwhelmed mother trying to deal with her child's illness (not to mention her increasingly alarming and seemingly bizarre mood swings). Yet it's not a family drama either. It's a stark, unsettling amalgamation of ideas and concepts thrown together almost haphazardly, creating a sometimes jolting, but always interesting picture..
The acting is convincing, but inconsistent. Glenne Headly, who almost stole the show in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, is somewhat bland here. Ben Cross is in the film so briefly that his performance is barely notable. Truly, the weight of the picture rests on the slender shoulders of Charlotte Burke and Elliott Spiers — they do their best, but at times it still smacks of low-budget theatrics. However, taken in the context of that era of filmmaking, (I sometimes feel that in general, directors asked less of child actors then they do now) their performances are admirable. Burke manages to effectively capture the persona of a bright, easily bored child who doesn't understand the potential repercussions of her actions. As a result, one of the slowly evolving themes is her gradually accepting responsibility for the her actions and realizing the dangers inherent in the world of the Paperhouse. Spiers is easily the more engaging of the two kids, however. His character is designed, quite literally, to be forlorn — he was drawn with a frown on his colored-pencil face and as a result is cursed with eternal sadness. One of the challenges in playing a character designed around nothing more than a rough sketch of a specific emotion is to somehow create a fully-formed personality. The inherent risk is that the filmmakers and actors might end up that emotion define, and thereby diminish, the character. Spiers managed to harness that emotion and instead create a real boy out of the what is essentially a rough-drawn idea of one.
The sets and production present another fine piece of this little puzzle. For the most part, the real world is drab and forgettable, a boring gray cityscape that reflects Anna's everyday doldrums. Anna's dreams, however, are a fascinating blend of the fantastical and the foreboding. The house itself is rickety, built to look like a child's drawing — full of odd angles and crooked lines, it's part gingerbread house and part carnival fun house. It sits in a field of gold, with a sky that changes with the mood of the drawings themselves. Everything within this world is designed to reflect the mindset of a child's emotions — sometimes angry and red, sometimes gloriously happy and colorful. Despite being filmed on a meager budget, it works well enough that one can easily see why Anna becomes more and more absorbed by her new world. When things go wrong, however, and Anna uses her almost God-like powers in a fit of seemingly trifling temper, the world changes completely, becoming a fearsome inferno that really is the stuff of children's nightmares. Ultimately, this world hinges on her imagination, and as such does an excellent job of showing the sometimes dark places that a child's imagination can go to.
Strangely enough, what makes Paperhouse unique and interesting also almost leads to its undoing. As I sat watching it for the first time in 20 years, I felt myself trying to puzzle out what was so alluring about it. For all of its themes of loss, responsibility, childhood fears and loves, the production is sometimes so stark and grim that it seems at odds with its own story. Yet had the film been made any happier, it would have ultimately felt unfulfilling. Its strength lies in those darker moments — it helps us recognize what we felt like as children, how things that adults take as minor or irrelevant can seem monumentally important to us — whether those things are real, or imagined. The final act is where the film starts to teeter a bit, as if the filmmakers were unsure which world they wanted Anna to wake up in. Taken as a whole, however, the ending successfully bridges her two worlds, while still allowing the viewer to use a bit of their own imagination.
Paperhouse always reminds me of other, more thoughtful fairy tales — Pan's Labyrinth inevitably comes to mind. It doesn't have the darkness or the sheer weirdness of that movie; instead it's more about how the world of Anna's dreams begins to bleed into her real world, until the two become inextricably, and in some ways tragically, linked. Alas, reviewing Paperhouse is a bit unfair to you folks. Unfortunately, it's not actually available on DVD outside of the UK and possibly Canada. So while my neighbors to the north and those of you across the pond have easier access to it, Americans will have to find an alternative means of tracking it down (like I did). However, my hope is that now you'll be prepared for its eventual release, and give it the attention it deserves but never received in its first life.


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Home Ec-news Infotopia, EntrePort to Merge
Infotopia, EntrePort to Merge
By Beth Cox | June 15, 2001
E-learning company EntrePort Corp., which operates several real estate-oriented education sites, said it will merge with health products marketer Infotopia Inc. in an all-stock deal and then spinoff its existing business to shareholders.
Infotopia Inc., based in Ohio with a corporate parent in Nevada, produces and markets a line of health, fitness and consumer products to consumers through marketing channels that include infomercials, distributor alliances and e-commerce.
Vista, Calif.-based EntrePort is expected to change its name to Infotopia and then apply to the American Stock Exchange for a symbol change to IFT.
The complex deal begins with EntrePort executing a 1-for-18.55 reverse split of its common stock.
The company said it would then transfer all of its assets and liabilities to a wholly owned subsidiary (to be spun off, but retaining the EntrePort name) and will distribute shares of stock in the subsidiary to existing EntrePort shareholders.
EntrePort would then acquire all the assets and liabilities of Infotopia by issuing 13.1 million units to parent company Infotopia Nevada -- each unit consisting of one share of EntrePort common stock, a warrant to purchase half a share at $5 per share and a warrant to purchase a quarter of a share at $10 per share.
EntrePort's subsidiary will receive $500,000 in the transaction.
Infotopia Nevada will hold approximately 85 percent ownership in the new share structure in EntrePort after the transaction is completed.
"Upon careful analysis, we believe that our decision to complete this transaction with EntrePort will enable us to achieve a proper valuation of our company," said Daniel Hoyng, CEO of Infotopia. "The ability to move to AMEX and to attract financial institutions that specialize in mid-cap markets will ultimately benefit Infotopia's shareholders."
EntrePort, which operates real estate training subsidiaries University.com and iSucceed.com, was trading at 13 cents a share in the early going today, so clearly a reverse stock split will help bolster the share price. Infotopia was up seven cents to 32 cents a share.


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Top 6 Transfer Pricing Ideas In Covid 19 – Think Tank For MNCs
Our last blog specifically covered broad level strategies that could be implemented by an MNC due to the business impact that COVID 19 pandemic could have on the global organizations. This blog specifically covers the practical pathways including most relevant points to ponder by the tp management of an MNC (including the CFOs and the Tax Heads/ Directors). Let us go through these top 6 transfer pricing ideas relevant to the current position:
Cost-plus entities: Cost plus entities are generally perceived as risk-free or low-risk entities. This means the majority of the risk is passed on to the principal entity and the captive service provider is left-back with a guaranteed return on cost. Even if one considers a risk free environment, every business comes with business risk. If the principal entity is facing business crunch and has survival issues, the possibility of re-working of mark-ups could be looked in to from the captive service provider's perspective. This could be one of the initial and immediate steps that management of MNC could consider in consultation.
Safe Harbour: MNCs that are using safe harbour mechanisms for benchmarking the international transactions could have a re-look at the strategy of implementation of the safe harbour for FY 2019-20. Generally, the comparable rates (or profit percentages) are a notch higher in Safe Harbours thereby providing certainty to the taxpayers. If due to certain reasons, if the margins are under pressure (in line with the industry and economy), it could be wise to reconsider the use of safe harbours and undergo a normal transfer pricing route for the relevant financial year.
Advance pricing Agreements: For all the unilateral agreements that were concluded with certain agreed percentages of profits, may have a risk of non-maintenance of the profit percentages due to independent business circumstances. This might lead to a change in critical assumption thereby making the agreement as void. In such a case, an MNC might want to use the provisions of Rule 10M(4) and 10M(5) of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 and approach the office of Director General of Income-tax (International Taxation) as soon as it is practicable to do so and seek a short term revision to the on-going APA and its critical assumption.
Limitation of Interest Deduction (Section 94B): Section 94B is a Specific Anti-Avoidance Rule (also called as thin capitalisation) in India, which limits the amount of interest deduction on the debts from Associated Enterprises for the purpose of taxability of business income. Such a section limits the deduction of interest as a percentage (30%) of earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBIDTA). With the global slow down, it is expected that the EBIDTA of companies, in general, would drop, thereby reducing the proportion of allowability of the interest expenditure. The management may like to look into such a possibility, analyse further and think of restructuring its financial obligations.
Economic Adjustments and Documentation: Transfer Pricing could be a tight rope walk for the FY 2019-20. An MNC could explore the usage of fixed cost adjustment, capacity utilisation adjustment or working capital adjustments depending upon the facts of the case. Such an adjustment to be justified with appropriate documentation and industry analysis.
Implications under Secondary Adjustments: If an MNC is thinking of undertaking a suo-motu primary transfer pricing adjustment when no other means of economic adjustment is available, one may have to be mindful of the implications around secondary adjustments, where a book position of adjustments is required to be compensated necessarily by the exchange of cash position i.e. making good the debt by paying up and settling in the books of accounts. The effect of not undertaking such settling is an additional tax outgo arising pursuant to Secondary Adjustment (Section 92CE)
Steering a business is an art. A successful business or a transfer pricing model is not the model that earns and spends well in good time but the capacity that the model has to absorb shocks in difficult times. The above ideas could give multinationals a thinking tank to get some buoyancy in its business structure in existing tough times.
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Special appreciation and expression of gratitude for contribution from Mr. Sanjay Kapadia and Mr. Kartik Mehta of KNAV.


Samsung today announced its new Series 5 and Series 7 Slate Pcs and along with this, the company also announced a new touchscreen version of its popular 13-inch Series 5 ULTRA laptop. The Series 5 and Series 7 Slate PCs both have S Pen embedded in a slot on the device. Weighing less than two pounds, both the Series 5 and Series 7 Slates feature an 11.6-inch display. The Series 7 display is 1920×1080 resolutions while the Series 5 has a 1366 x 768 resolution. The Series 5 ULTRA features a 1366×768 resolution display with Samsung's SuperBrightTM Technology (300 nits).
The touchscreen Series 5 ULTRA laptop features third generation Intel CoreTM i3 or i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive with 24GB of ExpressCache. The Series 5 and Series 7 Slates, as well as the touchscreen Series 5 ULTRA, will be available beginning on October 26, 2012. The Series 7 Slate cost your pocket $1,199 while the Series 5 Slate will be available both with the keyboard dock, for $749, or without, for $649. The new Series 5 ULTRA will range from $799-$849.


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If you're ready to ring in a more successful career in 2017, take a minute to make sure you're not about to make a mistake, or continue a pattern, that could hold you back.
Here's a list of some of the best advice from CEOs, self-made millionaires and career strategists on how to make sure you're set for a strong new year, workwise.
1. Staying put because you're afraid of change
According to a former Google career coach who's helped more than 1,000 people, the biggest career mistake people make is "taking action based on fear or 'shoulds.'"
When people are guided by fear or what they think they should do, it keeps them on an unfulfilling path, says Jenny Blake, career strategist and author of the book "Pivot. "
2. Focusing too much on finding your "passion"
The pressure to identify your one true calling in life can be crushing. Blake suggests that workers lift that weight off of their shoulders.
"For some, the pressure to define a purpose or mission statement is stifling and causes much unnecessary angst," she writes in "Pivot. "
Ditch the "passion" mind-set, and instead start smaller projects to figure out what you enjoy doing, Blake says.
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The CEO of a $16 billion business says that the way you write emails could make or break your career. Employees who write a concise email are highly valued, says Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture's North America business.
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Instead, consider asking for something else you want, like more vacation time or flexible hours. Give the person you're negotiating with a way to say yes.
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Before Carla Harris became a Harvard graduate, the vice chairman at Morgan Stanley and one of Wall Street's most influential women, the people around her doubted her.
They told her not to apply to Ivy League schools, and, later on, to avoid a career in mergers and acquisitions. But she didn't listen.
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Comedian and former host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" Jay Leno says that mistakes, including ones in your career, are actually very valuable.
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Other entrepreneurs such as Richard Branson agree that mistakes are great learning opportunities.
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25-year-old CEO Brian Wong says that many people don't realize the importance of keeping your personal problems out of the office.
If you're dealing with personal problems or stresses, leave it at home, Wong says.
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Located a little over 3 kms from Borobudur this temple may appear insignificant to the mighty Borobudur but is home to an exquisitely carved 3 meter high statue of Buddha. Unlike most statues of Buddha that are usually carved in the lotus position or in a laying down position, this Buddha is seated, western-style, majestically in a throne with both feet firmly placed on the ground.
A massive, beautiful, sprawling ficus tree stands next to the temple, a quiet symbol of endurance and patience, two essential qualities on the spiritual path.
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I've been thinking on this topic a lot lately. I'm realizing that I have problems with this in varying degrees, and it's something I want to change.
I think we all, at times, look at the things that others have, their lifestyles, and their accomplishments and think, "If only…." For a long time, I haven't necessarily seen that as wrong. You know, it's just wishful thinking. Some might even call it hoping. And that's where the problem is.
Satan, more often than not, corrupts that which is good and pure by introducing slight changes. You see that in the theology surrounding baptism, priesthood, the doctrine of the Godhead, and so on. Coveting is how Satan has corrupted the principle of hope. He has changed hope from the righteous knowledge and action that is based on principles we know to be true to the selfish wishing non-action of jealousy. Where hope inspires us to be greater, do greater, and see greater, jealousy inspires laziness, selfishness, and anger.
No good can come from merely wishing we were different than we now are.
Another thought that came to my last night as I was thinking on this topic is that jealousy is the poison that kills gratitude. When we are feeling jealous or envious, we cannot feel gratitude for the wonderful blessings we have received. We ignore the great things we have done and accomplished. Jealousy drives away the spirit because it turns our focus inward and away from the bounteous joy of life.
Last night, I felt inspired to write down a list of those things for which I'm grateful for–a task I assigned myself to help me look outward and recognize some of those blessings. I was surprised at how easy it was to write. And write. And keep writing. My list quickly expanded beyond my ability to keep organized, coherent, and flowing. As I listed each thing, I expounded on why I was grateful for it and how I've been blessed, and I kept coming back again and again to other topics to add things I had forgotten.
I realized just how overflowing my cup of blessings really is. How blessed I really am.
We all struggle in some measure with feeling envious of others. I certainly have, and there are times that I've allowed that to get away from me. Like a runaway freight train, those times are when I barrel along with complete disregard for anything but myself. Counting my blessings helps me brake that train, stop and smell the roses so to speak.
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Ethiopia's economic growth has been very rapid and stable over the past decade. While agriculture has been the main growth contributor early on, the service sector has now taken over as the main growth driver, complemented in recent years by a construction boom. "Ethiopia's Great Run," a new World Bank report, gives an extensive explanation on the country's growth thus far, and the economic strategy behind it.


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Petrocapita Income Trust (CSE:PCE.UN) ("Petrocapita" or the "Trust") announces that it has closed a Purchase and Sale Agreement ("PSA"), approved by Order of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta on July 11, 2016 for all, or substantially all, of the assets of Palliser Oil and Gas Corporation ("Palliser") from its Receiver Manager, FTI Consulting Canada Inc. ("FTI") for $3,000,000.00 (plus or minus any adjustments pursuant to the PSA post-closing) and a Gross Overriding Royalty of 1.5% on the assets acquired in favor of Palliser's lender effective for a period of five (5) years from closing and in respect of any calendar month when the average daily selling price for the near month light, sweet crude oil future contracts as reported by the New York Mercantile Exchange in US dollars for West Texas Intermediate oil exceeds $80.00 USD per barrel. The effective date of the transaction is May 01, 2016. Details of the transaction may be found on the website for FTI (http://cfcanada.fticonsulting.com/Palliser).
For the 4 months preceding the effective date, production from the Palliser assets averaged 342 BOEPD. Average daily production from the same assets for 2013, prior to receivership, averaged 2,340 BOEPD.
The acquisition of the Palliser assets results in increasing the Trust's number of wells from 155 gross (147.4 net) to 521 gross (429.7 net). It also increases its operating and approved produced water disposal wells from 9 to 30, its associated produced water disposal facilities from 9 to 19, its multi-well oil batteries from 4 to 9, its custom treating facilities from 1 to 3, its pipelines from approximately 0.50 km to 72.51 km, and its natural gas compressor facilities from 0 to 2. Additionally, it increases its mineral land position from 10,165 gross acres (9,859 net) to 102,868 gross acres (68,643 net) and its proprietary seismic data base from 0 to 237 km of 2D and 10.3 square km of 3D.
Based on the reserve report prepared by third party evaluators of both the Trust and Palliser as at December 31, 2015, proved plus probable reserves increase from 4.1 million barrels with an NPV10 value of $50.3 million to 10.0 million barrels with an NPV10 value of $87 million. In separate valuations prepared by the same evaluators and not included in the reserve valuations, the NPV10 value of facilities increases from $52.2 million to $67.8 million.
Finally, as a result of acquiring all, or substantially all, of the assets of Palliser, and filing of joint elections under Section 66.7 of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and Sub Section 167(1) of the GST Legislation, the Trust, or its subsidiaries shall acquire the cumulative resource expenses of Palliser to the extent permitted under the Act and limit payment of the GST on the Tangible portion of the assets acquired.
Details related to the Trust's reserves and facilities valuations and secured convertible debenture closings to date related to the acquisition and development capital have been filed with the Canadian Securities Exchange (www.theCSE.com).
A copy of the 2015 Update outlining the Trust's activities and development plans, along with details of the acquisitions, have been posted on the Trust's website (www.Petrocapita.com).
Petrocapita Income Trust is a Specified Investment Flow Through trust developing and acquiring heavy oil production and infrastructure assets in the Lloydminster area of east central Alberta and west central Saskatchewan through its wholly owned subsidiary, Petrocapita Oil and Gas L.P. It owns and operates 521 gross (429.7 net) oil wells, 19 produced water disposal facilities, 3 custom oil processing facilities, oil well service rigs, fluid haul trailers, motor graders and well site processing equipment. It is seeking accretive opportunities to acquire both oil production and complimentary midstream assets during a cyclical low in the oil markets.
Certain statements and information contained in this news release constitute forward-looking statements and forward-looking information as defined under applicable securities legislation (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). These forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. The use of any of the words "anticipate", "plan", "contemplate", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "propose", "might", "may", "will", "shall", "project", "should", "could", "would", "believe", "predict", "forecast", "pursue", "potential" and "capable" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In particular, and without limitation, these statements contain forward-looking statements pertaining to the completion of the pending acquisition of the Palliser assets, and to future net revenues and cash flows estimated to be derived from Petrocapita's and Palliser's reserves as well as their disposal facilities and treating facilities (collectively, "Facilities"). These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Although management believes that the expectations conveyed by any forward-looking statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this news release should not be unduly relied upon.
With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this news release, assumptions have been made regarding, among other things: future crude oil prices; the timing of receipt of judicial and other regulatory approvals; the completion of the Palliser acquisition; the level of future utilization of the Facilities; the magnitude of net future revenues derived from utilization of the Facilities; and the duration over which future revenues may be derived from the Facilities. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release involve significant risks and uncertainties and should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the risks related to: failure to receive judicial approvals in a timely manner or at all; volatility in market prices and demand for crude oil; general economic, market and business conditions; difficulties encountered in the development and production of reserves; difficulties encountered in the upgrading and/or operation of the Facilities; the loss of key personnel; the inability to generate sufficient cash flow from operations to meet current and future obligations; the inability to obtain required debt and/or equity capital on acceptable terms or at all; changes in tax law or other adverse regulatory, royalty or tax changes; and diversion of management to manage unforeseen business or operating issues.
Information and statements in this news release relating to the valuation of the Facilities have been prepared by third-party engineering firms and are based on various estimates and assumptions including, facility utilization rates, timing and amount of required capital expenditures, marketability of skim oil, and future operating costs, all of which may vary materially. Accordingly, estimates of future net revenues associated with the Facilities as prepared by different engineers, or by the same engineers at different times, may vary. The estimated values are estimates only and do not necessarily represent fair market values. The actual future net revenues associated with the Facilities will vary from estimates thereof and such variations could be material.
In addition, information and statements in this news release relating to "reserves" are deemed to be forward-looking statements, as they involve the implied assessment, based on certain estimates and assumptions, that the reserves described exist in the quantities predicted or estimated, and that the reserves described can be profitably produced in the future. There are numerous uncertainties inherent in estimating quantities of oil and natural gas and the future cash flows attributed to such reserves. The reserves and associated cash flow information set forth in this news release are estimates only. In general, estimates of economically recoverable oil and natural gas and the future net cash flows therefrom are based upon a number of variable factors and assumptions, such as historical production from the properties, production rates, ultimate reserve recovery, timing and amount of capital expenditures, marketability of oil and natural gas, royalty rates, the assumed effects of regulation by governmental agencies and future operating costs, all of which may vary materially. For these reasons, estimates of the economically recoverable oil and natural gas reserves attributable to any particular group of properties, classification of such reserves based on risk of recovery and estimates of future net revenues associated with reserves prepared by different engineers, or by the same engineers at different times, may vary. The actual production, revenues, taxes and development and operating expenditures with respect to Petrocapita's and Palliser's reserves will vary from estimates thereof and such variations could be material.
Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what Petrocapita's management believes to be reasonable assumptions, Petrocapita cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with such information. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on information currently available to Petrocapita. Petrocapita cautions readers not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and Petrocapita assumes no obligation to update or revise such information to reflect new events or circumstances, except as may be required by applicable securities laws.