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Australia's National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot: Part One - Location-based trials
Australia's (Federal) Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities announced in his speech to the Roads Australia Annual Luncheon on 15 December 2017 that Australia will be launching a National Heavy Vehicle Charging Pilot.
The main part of the pilot is a program to investigate and design an on-road pilot for heavy vehicles across Australia, to trial replacing the existing registration/fuel tax based system of charging heavy vehicles for road use. It has distinct stages starting with a desktop modelling simulation through to a phased transition away from the current charging system.
More on that in a later post. An Information Sheet about the principles and objectives for Heavy Vehicle Charging Trials (PDF) explains more.
In parallel, the Minister also announced funding for a business case program for location based trials (the so-called "Business Case Program"). Under this program, state and territory governments will be eligible to apply for Commonwealth Government funding support to develop business cases to undertake their own trials of heavy vehicle charging, to generate additional revenue for infrastructure improvements that specifically benefit heavy vehicle users.
The Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and the Cities released this Information Sheet about the Business Case Program (PDF)
The focus is on:
- Trials for heavy vehicle charging in specific locations, to pay (on a per kilometre basis) additionally to support road improvements that could deliver productivity benefits to heavy vehicle users;
- The additional revenue that it could raise would be specifically for such road improvements, and would not be about replacing the current registration/fuel tax based charging system;
- Funding support would be to support business case development not the trials themselves (it is presumably thought that the trials, being revenue generators, should be able to self-fund, although I am not sure that this support would necessarily be seen as sufficient incentive for interest from states and territories).
The Minister said in his speech:
The benefit might be using high productivity vehicles on routes where they cannot presently be used. Or the benefit might be a targeted program of investments to upgrade roads in a particular area which is of benefit to heavy vehicle operators—for example, livestock or grain transporters in a particular rural area.
Whatever the benefit—be it improved access, faster travel times or more flexible operating arrangements—it would clearly need to outweigh the costs of the additional charge so that heavy vehicle operators would find it worth their while to participate.
These trials could allow us to test such matters as particular technologies to record distance and location travelled; or the willingness to pay of operators; or the development of service level standards.
Again, we will be keen to work with the heavy vehicle industry—as well as state and territory governments—to see if we can work up such trials in different locations around the country. Through funding the development of business cases for trials we hope to catalyse a number of such trials over the next few years.
It should be possible for states and territories to identify gaps in their freight corridors that could be supported, over a forward-looking lifecycle cost basis, by infrastructure improvements paid for by the vehicles that benefit from them.
Additionally, actual on-road trials could complement the proposed National pilot, by having trucks actually paying for road use, on a distance, location (and presumably some vehicle configuration and mass basis). It also encourages road managers to take a more commercial, user-oriented approach to infrastructure development for heavy vehicles.
Which states and territories might be interested?
Labels: Australia, Heavy Vehicle Charging, Network road pricing, pilot, South Australia, Western Australia
Australia's Heavy Vehicle Road Reform programme: An integrated, sound approach to road charging and funding
Although much attention is often given to toll roads in Australia, almost all road distance in Australia does not involve toll roads. As an economy dominated by extraction industries primarily around mining, but with agriculture also important, heavy vehicle use of a large and in many cases, sparsely used road network, is critical to the country's economic progress. Australia is, after all, a continent, the sixth largest country by area (Russia, Canada, China, USA and Brazil are only bigger), but for its size it is the third least densely populated country (only Namibia and Mongolia have fewer people per square km). That sparse population explains little when you note that over two thirds of the population live in the eight state and territory capitals, and another 22% live in the remaining urban areas, most of which are located along the coast in the eastern states. Australia also has some of the largest trucks ever seen in regular use on public roads, with vehicles up to 60 metres long allowed on some routes, and total vehicle mass configurations of well over 100 tonnes.
So Australia has taken heavy vehicle use of the road network seriously, because the productivity of both heavy vehicle use and the provision of the roads they use, has a direct impact on the economy.
Today, Australia charges heavy vehicles (excluding toll roads) through two means:
- Registration fees collected at the state and territory level (excluding some registered for interstate only traffic);
- Fuel excise duty known as the Road User Charge (which is fuel excise duty minus a refund to reduce it the "Road User Charge" rate), collected by the Commonwealth. Currently at A$0.258 per litre (US$0.74/US gallon) of diesel.
The National Transport Commission annually reviews the levels of these, based on its cost allocation model, which uses data on recent spending on roads, allocates a proportion of those costs to heavy vehicles, which informs the
A Cost Allocation Model is used, based on historic spending on roads, to inform the setting of both registration fees (which escalate based on the mass/configuration of the vehicles) and the amount of the refund on fuel duty to set the road user charge rate.
For some years it has been acknowledged that this system is far from optimal. Multiple reports have proposed a shift away from registration and fuel taxes towards direct user charging.
There is a relatively poor relationship between what is paid and the costs that heavy vehicles impose on the roads that they use. Most of the revenue collected through this system is treated as general revenue at the Commonwealth, state/territory levels, so is not dedicated for spending on roads. Numerous studies have noted the scope for reform, and a major reform programme was embarked upon, called the Heavy Vehicle Charging and Investment (HVCI) project, that sought to introduce heavy vehicle road charging. It was abandoned for several reasons, not least the complexity of the proposed programme, and the sequence of reforms, which effectively sought to reform charging before reforming the funding and governance structures for roads. It also struggled to gain sufficient heavy vehicle user support.
Heavy Vehicle Road Reform
The current Commonwealth Government, under Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities, Paul Fletcher, has embarked on a new reform programme that is more holistic and integrated than HVCI. It is notable in that it seeks to reform funding and management of roads, and how existing charges are set and used first, before replacing the current charging system with direct user charges.
Heavy Vehicle Road Reform seeks to not only reform how heavy vehicles pay for road use, but also to reform the funding and management of roads.
The current system is very much a political command and control model, and is depicted in the image below. Funding for roads is traded off with public spending for other activities, and decisions on priorities for road spending although informed by benefit/cost appraisal, is fundamentally a political call. Road managers primarily operate as engineering bodies, building and maintaining roads, with limited relationship with road users. The money that is spent on the roads is used to inform the charges that heavy vehicles pay, as the National Transport Commission uses data on previous spending (and forecasts of heavy vehicle demand) to inform rate setting of registration and the fuel excise "road user charge".
The image below from the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities is a fair summary of the current situation.
Australia's current system of charging and supplying roads for heavy vehicles
It shows a very limited relationship between road managers and road users, and in the use of revenue collected from road charges and money spent on roads.
The reform steps
The reform agenda comprises four key stages as seen below:
Heavy Vehicle Road Reform stages
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Ice Cold is an album about what goes on after a break up. I had moved away from Chile where I was living at the time with my boyfriend. I was unhappy being away from my friends and family as I had already lived there for over a year, had a lot of anxiety about what I was going to do with my life and couldn't be having a meltdown of that proportion in a foreign country. I also secretly wanted to come back and record pop music, but couldn't admit that to anybody because admitting that you want to be an artist to anybody is terrifying. I met Sarah, and told her about DENNIS and brought her a bass and she was in the band. We worked on the Ice Cold EP for about 7 months before deciding to record it and play a show. I recorded everything in my apartment in a week and mixed it myself.
Ice Cold is a love song, but also a song about trying to control my heartbreak through deletion. It's mostly about me needing to unfriend my ex on Facebook because I couldn't bear seeing his name or talking to him because it was so painful knowing that we would never be together. Breakups in the virtual universe are hard because massive global communication makes keeping in touch easier, but it also makes moving on more difficult.
I Don't Want You is a song about the breakup Sarah went through right after I met her. She had been in a longterm relationship that was coming to an end. After a few major blowups and a mutual lease on an apartment, it was apparent that these two simultaneously wanted each other and didn't want each other. Everyone goes through that indecision in relationships or in any aspect of life because decisions are not black and white and many times our desires are contradictory.
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current property market conditions. Is this just a spike in the market?
Current property market conditions – Is the property market in a growth phase or is this just a spike?
Traditionally in the new year we see property prices increase on average 2-5% from the pricing we did before Christmas. We have ascertained that it's created by a combination of factors: the downtime of holidays, sunny weather and general good cheer that get people thinking. On top of that, one of the most sought-after commodities of our day is readily available and that is …TIME… time to think about what next? Know the current property market conditions and be ready for good opportunities.
This year, however, we saw in some areas and price brackets a 5% – 10% increase in property prices over that period. The strength of the market and competition is unsettling buyers and causing a frenzy, as the fear of missing out takes it's stronghold on the sensibilities of Sydneysiders. Post Easter holidays and Anzac Day though, it usually settles down again. For whatever reason the heady days of the first part of the year are left behind with the long summer evenings.
When we are looking back over sales in the winter months, often a common pattern emerges. There is always a spike in the first quarter of the calendar year, but it doesn't always continue beyond April. In stronger real estate markets, when interest rates are up, the global economy is stable and there is a confidence in the air, we see the current property market conditions as the first quarter spike as simply providing a platform for steady growth throughout the rest of the year.
This year however things are a little different. Over 2012 there was less property available for sale, with listings down 30%-50% in some suburbs. In my 12 years in the business, I had not seen it this slow. This lack of stock has created a Tsunami of hungry punters wanting their stake in Sydney real estate, especially in the blue chip areas. Throw in additional factors such as increased consumer confidence, low interest rates and a distinct lack of quality stock and you have a recipe for a massive spike in the market. Auction clearance rates have been consistently high this year and there appears to be no imminent slow down ahead.
As always though "buyers beware"! My feeling is that this is not necessarily a solid growth phase but a market that has all the right ingredients to produce a seller's market, and this too will change as one thing we have learned to live with is market volatility and current property market conditions.
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Evictions Set To Resume In NC Monday As Moratorium Ends
BPR News | By Nick de la Canal
Published August 2, 2021 at 11:54 AM EDT
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Tenant advocates are bracing for a wave of evictions to begin Monday after the federal eviction moratorium expired over the weekend.
The moratorium temporarily stopped courts from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent if the tenants were able to present a document stating that they were experiencing a pandemic-related hardship.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the moratorium in place in September 2020 to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It was extended multiple times before expiring on July 31.
Many evictions that were placed on pause during the moratorium are now set to resume, and staff with Legal Aid NC say they've been overwhelmed with calls from tenants seeking legal help as the deadline neared.
Sean Driscoll, spokesperson for Legal Aid NC, says the nonprofit has been receiving more than 1,000 calls a day, with the vast majority of them housing related.
"We are like the emergency room of the legal world, and the ending of the eviction moratorium is like a mass casualty event," Driscoll said. "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that this is overwhelming us."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey, 96,047 people in North Carolina said they were likely to face eviction or foreclosure as of July 5.
Attorneys working for Legal Aid NC are trying to connect tenants with rent assistance, or reach settlements with landlords, but attorney Chris Shelburn, who represents many landlords in North Carolina, said the patience of some of his clients has grown thin.
"I think most landlords feel like if you haven't gotten it together by now, then maybe it's not the pandemic, it's that people aren't trying hard enough," he said.
Some of his clients are owed between $10,000 and $15,000, Shelburn said, and some have given up hope of recouping their losses. He said they view eviction as a last resort.
Attorney O'Shauna Hunter with Legal Aid NC said she worries that renters who fell behind due to a lost job or other hardship during the pandemic will end up on the street with a stain on their record.
"These are going to remain on people's rental history and it's going to affect them as they try to get future housing down the line," Hunter said.
Crisis Assistance Ministry and RAMP CLT are offering to help tenants behind on their rent.
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January 12, 2018 -- Buchenwald Sixer Memorial Project! The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is working to erect a memorial to the 6th Armored Division in time for the 75th Anniversary of the camp's liberation. The project is gathering steam, and they are looking for additional supoport (not money).
Details at:Buchenwald Memorial Project page.
April 30, 2017 -- Ambush and averted massacre in Brittany. American-born Nancy Diraison has family roots in Brittany, and she has been researching the ambush of a Sixer unit which may have averted a massacre in the small town of Chateauneuf-du-Faou ("CDF"). She has compiled her research and her questions into a PDF here: CDF Liberation Narrative. It's a fascinating read. If you happen to have information that can contribute to the project, please contact Nancy directly at .
March 26, 2017 -- A new Super Sixth history has been published: Medics of the Sixth Armored Division, by Al Sims, son of Sgt. John Sims, 76th Medical Bn. .
October 26, 2016 -- Photos and scans from the late M/Sgt Ed Knott, 68th Tank Bn..
September 10, 2016 -- The next 6th Armored Reunion is scheduled for September 28-October 2, 2016 in Oklahoma City. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS PDF.
July 24, 2016 -- Our re-enactor friends in the Netherlands have started a web site devoted to the Super Sixth: http://www.6tharmoreddivision.com/.
August, 2015 -- The reunion crew is going to try for another reunion in about five weeks, but they need to hear from interested attendees NOW. See 2015 Reunion Notice.
May 4, 2014 -- Check out the Faces of Margraten project and help them if you can.
April 3, 2011 -- Finally! An accurate account of Buchenwald! History author Flint Whitlock has published a new book called The Beasts of Buchenwald, a well-researched book about the hell-hole camp and the sadistic Nazis that ran it. It is unusual in that the author has gone to great lengths to filter out the huge amount of disinformation that typical gets included in anything written about Buchenwald. Highly recommended.
November 21, 2010 -- See the new Doing Your Own Research section and "Search this Site" feature to help you find your way through the maze of information available on this site.
July 25, 2010 -- You have a friend in Luxembourg. If you have never heard of the .US Veterans Friends, Luxembourg (USVFL) follow this link and learn about them. They are some of our best friends in the world.
The 6th Armored Division was one of General George S. Patton's famous Third Army divisions during World War II in Europe. Its post-war alumni association disbanded at its final reunion in Louisville, KY in September, 2000.
The majority of this time was spent in General George S. Patton's famous Third Army. The 6th Armored was deactivated September 18, 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York.
In 1947 the Sixth Armored Division Association was organized to perpetuate the memory of 1,274 fallen comrades, to assist in promoting an everlasting peace, and to serve as a medium of contact among the men who served in the division. Its first reunion was held in 1948 in Louisville, KY. On September 12-17, 2000 its 53rd and final reunion occured in Louisville.
You may not recognize the name "Super Sixth", but if you know anything about World War II in Europe, you know about the 6th Armored Division.
If you've ever heard about Patton's Third Army, or watched the movie "Patton", or if you've ever heard about the period known as "The Battle of the Bulge", "The Ardennes Campaign", or sometimes just "Bastogne", you know about the Super Sixth. If you've ever heard about "The Breakout" from Normandy hedgerow country a month and a half after D-Day, or Patton's race across France, or the Third Army's 90-degree turn to the north to the Battle of the Bulge, or the crossing of the Siegfried line, or the liberation of Buchenwald, then you probably know more about the 6th Armored Division than you realize.
"I think that Patton would have done better if the 4th and 6th Armored Divisions had been grouped together in a single corps, reinforced possibly by the French 2nd Armored Division. These were all very experienced formations and ably commanded...combined as a tank army under one commander, these three armored divisions might well have achieved a decisive breakthrough."
He also praised the 6th's performance at Han-sur-Nied, calling it "a dashing coup-de-main".
has been reprinted by Battery Press, for the first time in 25 years. The reprint differs from the original edition in only the following details: Chapter XVI, covering the post-war Association, was very out-of-date and has not been included in the reprint; the dust jacket was not reprinted; and the 6th Armd. patch in the front matter was reproduced in black and white, not color. They are selling this book for 49.95, plus shipping and handling.
Make checks payable to: George F. Hofmann, Ph.D.
This is new book featuring General Grow and a few units from the 6th Armored Division, just published (June 2006) by the University Press of Kentucky. Available from the author at $39.00 including postage and handling (a 20% discount). See ordering instructions above.
Edited by George F. Hofmann and Gen. Donn A. Starry, this book won the Army Historical Foundation's distinguished book award for 2000. It is the only complete history of U.S. armored forces from the advent of the tank in battle in World War I through the campaign to drive Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991. $28.00, including postage and handling. See ordering instructions above.
George F. Hofmann's meticulously researched and documented retelling of the General Robert Grow's tragic court martial in 1952. An indictment of army politics and corruption of the military justice system. $21.00, including postage and handling. See ordering instructions above.
68th Tank Battalion -- Distinguished Unit Citation, for Landroff, France (Company A cited), and for Han-sur-Nied, France (Company B cited. French Croix de Guerre with Silver Gilt Star for Han-sur-Nied, France (Company B cited).
69th Tank Battalion -- Distinguished Unit Citation, for Bastogne (Company C cited).
9th and 50th Armored Infantry Battalions -- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, for Brest, France.
212th Armored Field Artillery Battalion -- French Croix de Guerre with Silver Gilt Star, for Lan Froicourt, France.
231st Armored Field Artillery Battalion -- French Croix de Guerre with Silver Gilt Star, for Han-sur-Nied, France.
86th Cavalry Reconnaisance Squadron -- Distinguished Unit Citation, for action at Eder River, Germany (Troop D cited), and Prum River, Germany (Troop A cited).
25th Armored Engineer Battalion -- Distinguished Unit Citation, for action at Wardin, Belgium, and Prum River, Germany (3rd platoon, Company C cited).
777th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion -- French Croix de Guerre with Silver Gilt Star, for Avranches, France.
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company C, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion.
Place and date: Near Arloncourt, Belgium, 15 January 1945.
Entered service at: St. Ansgar, lowa.
Born: 20 May 1909, Rock Township, Mitchell County, lowa.
Citation: He displayed conspicuous gallantry in action. His platoon, in which he was a tank-destroyer gunner, was held up by antitank, machinegun, and rifle fire from enemy troops dug in along a ridge about 200 yards to the front. Noting a machinegun position in this defense line, he fired upon it with his 76-mm. gun killing 1 man and silencing the weapon. He dismounted from his vehicle and, under direct enemy observation, crossed open ground to capture the 2 remaining members of the crew. Another machinegun, about 250 yards to the left, continued to fire on him. Through withering fire, he advanced on the position. Throwing a grenade into the emplacement, he killed 1 crewmember and again captured the 2 survivors. He was subjected to concentrated small-arms fire but, with great bravery, he worked his way a quarter mile along the ridge, attacking hostile soldiers in their foxholes with his carbine and grenades. When he had completed his self-imposed mission against powerful German forces, he had destroyed 2 machinegun positions, killed 8 of the enemy and captured 18 prisoners, including 2 bazooka teams. Cpl. Beyer's intrepid action and unflinching determination to close with and destroy the enemy eliminated the German defense line and enabled his task force to gain its objective.
Hey, this site looks like it was created in 1996 with Notepad!
Well, that would be because this site WAS originally created in 1996 with Notepad.
This is an all-volunteer, spare-time activity. Family & job take priority over upgrading the appearance of a free, personal web site. If I'm going to devote four hours to this site on a weekend, and I can either upload a new scanned document, or make the home page pretty, the content will win every time.
When (if) I retire, I'll devote some time to the appearance of the site. In the meantime, benefit from the content here, and try to ignore the retro ambience.
Where'd the info about the books go?
I've moved the publications information to a separate page so that this page would load faster.
If this is your first visit to the Sixth Armored Division home page, please spend some time and explore. I've put a lot of information on this site: maps, excerpts from official histories, personal stories from Division veterans, etc.
Excerpts from Combat History of the 6th Armored Division by William Rutledge.
History of the 212th AFA in the ETO (European Theatre of Operations).
Unit History, 68th Tank Battalion.
Seek, Strike, Destroy, History of 1st Platoon, Recon Co., 603rd Tank Destroyer Battalion.
Personal Stories from veterans of the Super Sixth.
Color campaign map of the 6th Armored. Medium-res copies available for downloading.
Information about the 212th AFA and 6th Armored Division veterans' associations.
Unofficial Home Page of the 212th AFA.
Notes about Division Commander Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow (from 212th AFA History).
"There is one great thing that you men will be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you won't have to cough, shift him to the other knee as say 'Well, your granddaddy shoveled sh*t in Louisiana.' No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, 'Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a S.O.B. named Georgie Patton!' "
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The framers were extremely strict about what kind of taxes Washington could impose.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.
As she officially kicked off her presidential campaign last weekend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren rallied her supporters behind her signature proposal: a wealth tax on the rich. The Massachusetts Democrat wants an annual charge of 2 percent on the holdings of anyone with more than $50 million in assets. Billionaires would be subject to a 3 percent tax, to "make sure rich people start doing their part for the country." Polls show that Warren's "ultra-millionaire tax" is overwhelmingly popular, with 60 percent of voters favoring it, including a majority of Republicans.
It is also probably unconstitutional. A legal challenge against it would immediately rekindle a debate first argued by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Our founding document says the federal government can levy only a few, very specific kinds of taxes. Warren's plan is outside the rules.
The Constitution has several provisions limiting federal tax authority. First, all but the enumerated powers are left to the states or the people. That meant very limited taxation powers, at least until the 16th Amendment permitted the income tax in 1913. Some scholars say the stringent original tax provisions were part of a deal struck with Southern states that allowed them to count a slave as three-fifths of a person. Others insist they are an anachronism reflecting how taxes were levied in the earliest days of the republic. It is also true that many framers wanted to constrain the federal government, and one of the best ways to do so was to limit its ability to tax and raise revenue.
Article I, Section 8 allows Congress to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises." But it also requires that these "be uniform throughout the United States." The next section says that "no capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken." That means any tax must be paid on a per capita basis that is uniform among the states. A "capitation tax" is a "head tax," based on population, creating a fixed, even burden, like a sales tax. It's confusing enough that, during the Constitutional Convention, Rufus King of New York asked "what was the precise meaning of direct taxation." The official record says, "No one answd." Nevertheless, courts have generally understood a direct tax to be a levy on income or wealth, as opposed to a tax on purchases or services.
While new federal taxes have been implemented, they have not been directed at a person's wealth per se. Even the inheritance tax was upheld in 1900 as covering transfers of wealth, rather than wealth itself, and the Supreme Court in 1911 said corporate taxes are permissible because they are an excise tax on doing business.
Warren's plan is different from all of these (and from clearly constitutional proposals like the 70 percent income tax suggested by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). It seeks to collect 1 percent of the country's annual gross domestic product from those people with a worth of $50 million or more — not their income but their wealth. Yet if it is treated as a direct tax under Article I (and not construed as an income tax under the 16th Amendment), it would have to be "apportioned" among the states according to their percentage of the national population. It is not clear how that would work. Clearly, it would make no sense to tax all Californians to collect 12 percent of the wealth taxes for the super-rich. But if the tax is applied to just the super-rich in a given state, other weird problems emerge, since Article I uses the percentage of the national population as a whole. Some states, such as Kansas or Mississippi, may have fewer deep pockets that would have to carry the whole tax for that state. The affluent people there could pay more than their rich counterparts in New York or California. Even states of similar size can have different numbers of highly wealthy individuals — leading to unequal burdens. A tax applied in this way could not be tied to each person's actual wealth level, which is what Warren is seeking.
One way to avoid this is to declare that any tax — on wealth or income — is permissible because, over time, the meaning of "tax" has changed . Indiana University professor Dawn Johnsen and Duke professor Walter Dellinger maintain that there is now no "principled . . . interpretive methodology" that would treat a wealth tax differently from an income tax. The University of Chicago's Daniel Hemel, meanwhile, believes that courts could be persuaded to treat personal property like income under the 16th Amendment, though he admits that, based on precedents, judges wouldn't be likely to extend such a broad interpretation to buildings and land under the Warren plan.
But the text, history and precedent do not support such assurances. At best, it would be a close call for judges; those who believe in textual interpretations of the Congress, such as Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, would probably frown on these claims.
This issue came up early in the republic's history. Madison, the principal drafter of the Constitution, insisted that a proposed tax on carriages in 1794 was a direct tax and thus unconstitutional. To him, the carriage tax looked like any other tax on personal wealth. Conversely, Hamilton, then commerce secretary, argued that it was constitutional because the carriage levy was an "excise tax" on purchases. In 1796, in Hylton v. United States, the Supreme Court agreed with Hamilton, permitting the carriage tax. That result works in Warren's favor, but on closer examination, Hamilton's view was more complicated. His definition of a direct tax agreed with Madison that there could be no tax "on the whole property of individuals or on their whole real or personal estate." In other words, a wealth tax. Warren's tax.
Warren's proposal would constitute a radical expansion of federal taxing authority. While Congress currently imposes a wide variety of open and hidden taxes and tariffs (including taxes on property transfers, payroll, inheritance, capital gains, dividends and corporate profits), this would be something new: forcing individuals to account for their assets and annually pay for having such wealth. It's always possible that a future President Warren could pick a Supreme Court majority to uphold her wealth tax. But that would still require a transformative change to our reading of the Constitution.
Warren's proposal is popular, since the only people affected would be what she describes as the "tippy-top 0.1%." The closest most of us will get to this type of wealth is a Monopoly game; currently, less than 1 percent of the country seems to own virtually all the property on the board. Inequality is a serious matter.


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About Burnin' for You : "Burnin' for You" is a song by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult . The song is The single spent three weeks in the Top 40 (peaking at #40) on the Billboard Hot 100 chart . It was aided by a popular MTV music video . It was released in 1981. It was released as part of album Fire of Unknown Origin. The genre is hard rock. The track was release in 1981. It is related to the album(s) - Fire of Unknown Origin. The track has an affiliation to the band(s) - Blue Öyster Cult.
About Fire of Unknown Origin : Fire of Unknown Origin is the eighth album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult . It was produced by Fire of Unknown Origin would be the final studio LP featuring the band's original lineup . The album included the Top 40 hit "Burnin' for You" (#1 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart) The title track was written by Patti Smith . Several of the songs were intended for the soundtrack of the animated film Heavy Metal . The lyrics of "Vengeance (The Pact)" follow in detail the plot of the "Taarna" segment of the movie . It had a contribution from notable artists like Martin Birch. It had an affiliation to bands - Blue Öyster Cult. Its music is influenced by genres - hard rock progressive rock heavy metal pop rock.


Drinks were raised at the Lyric to celebrate Scott's purple patch as a snapper.
After eight years working with Horton and Garton as our number one photographer and floor planner, our Scotland expat Scott Clark is returning north of the border to Edinburgh.
Scott became an integral part of the Horton and Garton team and his excellent eye for detail and ability to showcase all our clients' homes became the stuff of legend. Scott always went above and beyond to provide what we like to call the 'purple carpet treatment'.
To send him off in style, we celebrated with a few drinks at the Lyric theatre's bar and roof garden. If you have not seen this amazing space at the Lyric, we can highly recommend it as an after work spot.
The bad news for Scott? We've all now joined his growing list of offers for a house swap for this year's Edinburgh Fringe festival!
On behalf of all of the team here at Horton and Garton, we wish Scott, his wife Maxine and family all the very best as they settle back into life 'north of the border'. Scott will be continuing his successful business, Scott Clark Photography, which includes his wedding and property photography. If you're interested in a testimonial or a recommendation, please do contact me.


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Date published: Thursday 18 January 2018
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The New Year brings both arrivals and departures to the Baptist Care Australia family.
South Australia welcomed a new CEO this week with Graham Brown stepping into the top job. Graham has almost 20 years in executive leadership roles in the community sector including more than 12 years as CEO of community services and housing provider, Junction Australia. He has been an active member of the Baptist movement for more than 35 years and is currently a member at Blackwood Hills Baptist Church in Adelaide.
BaptistCare (NSW & ACT) has said a partial farewell to Senior Chaplain, Trevor Wight, who is moving on to a part-time role teaching in the Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care programs at Morling College. He'll work for BaptistCare for the rest of the week as Church Partnership Manager, strengthening relationships with the 340 Baptist churches in NSW and ACT. Jenny Blok has stepped into the role of Senior Chaplain.
Jenny has been with BaptistCare for 6½ years, working as a chaplain and manager.
Olivia Maclean has left her role of General Manager, Mission Development at Baptcare after 5 years. She's moving on to an exciting new role contributing to social transformation at The Difference Incubator.
Two member organisations have recently announced new Chairs for their Board. Robina Bradley has become Chair of Baptcare in Victoria/Tasmania and Julie Lawrie has stepped up from Deputy Chair to the Chair role for Baptist Care SA. Robina and Julie join Judith Carpenter (Chair of BaptistCare NSW & ACT) to achieve 50% female representation of Board chairs for state member organisations.
Christmas greetings from the team at Baptist Care Australia! Read more
Last month, from the 19th to the 22nd of October, over 300 of the Baptist Care Australia family united virtually for the 2021 National Conference. Read more


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Mix dressing and crushed red pepper. Pour over fish and peppers in shallow glass dish; turn fish and peppers over to coat both sides of each with dressing mixture. Refrigerate 15 min. to marinate.
Heat grill to medium-high heat. Remove fish and peppers from marinade; discard marinade.
Grill fish and peppers on covered grill 4 min.; turn fish over. Grill, covered, 2 min. or until fish flakes easily with fork. Place fish and peppers on serving plate. Sprinkle with cheese and cilantro; let stand 3 min.
Never refreeze fish or seafood, whether fresh or frozen, once it's been thawed. Store in the refrigerator, tightly wrapped or in an airtight container, for no more than 2 days.
Prepare using other firm white fish fillets, such as halibut or tilapia.


Four-month-old Sienna Lambert, of Huntingdon, in her first halloween costume with her first carved pumpkin.
Huntingdonshire was full of frightfully good spooks and ghouls for Hallowe'en at the weekend.
Nia Baird, 10, from Somersham, off to her friend's Hallowe'en birthday party dressed as a pumpkin.
Fourteen-month-old Evony at Busy Bees Nursery at Hinchingbrooke Country Park.
Lewis Minney, three, from Godmanchester, with the pumpkins he helped to carve.
The Moore family's pumpkin, by mum Katie and daughters Molly and Daisy, of Offord Cluny.
The Murray family from Hartford took this scary selfie.
Antonia Terry, left, as a zombie and Chloe Hay is Little Red Riding Hood.
Spooky goings on as the team at Tesco Extra Huntingdon celebrate Hallowe'en.
Wood Green cat rehomers Georgia Morris and Stacey Willison.
Wood Green cat rehomers Stacey Willison (left) and Georgia Morris.
Wood Green cat rehomer Georgia Morris.
People got into the party spirit by being creative with their creepy costumes and increasingly intricate pumpkin carving.
In Huntingdon, staff at Tesco in Abbots Ripton Road dressed up on Friday and hosted a Hallowe'en fun day. Children had their faces painted and designed a trick or treat bag they could take home with them and use later. There was also a pocket magician doing up-close magic tricks.
At the Godmanchester HQ of Wood Green, The Animals Charity, those working in the cat section wore black cat costumes all weekend, highlighting the plight of the moggies of that colour which traditionally take longer to rehome.
The charity also held an "after dark" fun evening on Friday which included making trick or treat bags for guinea pigs and watching rats go pea bobbing. They also made witch hay kebabs for the rabbits and haunted hotels for the gerbils, and also listened to spooky stories.


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A great looking antique Tibetan silver earring. Typically worn with the additional support of string tied to the top of the ear due to the heavy weight of the silver. Inlaid with a vibrant turquoise. This particular piece is a male earring from Golok in Amdo, however, some Tibetans from the Aba/Ngaba region of Kham also adopt this style.
Origin: Collected in Tibet in the 1980s and part of the Stone Routes Collection.


The Peterhouse Equestrian Centre held a fun Gymkhana for the Pony Club riders this month.
A great afternoon was had by all with some fantastic riding skills on display.
Thanks to the photographers, Mrs and Mrs Griggs, and Mrs Anne Glover for their assistance.
We look forward to the pony club testing days to be held at the end of term.


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All young_adults Events (10)
January 9Saturday
Young Adult Mass ~ French Dinner ~ Drinks, Social & Jazz Night
January 9, 2010 from 5:30pm to 9pm – Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary	Join us, The Catholic Fellowship (www.cfnetwork.org), on Saturday January 9th at 5:30pm for the Young Adult Mass at the Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. The chu… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: social, mass, young_professionals, young_adults, catholic, christians
January 17Sunday
Young Adult Mass ~ Dinner ~ Currents\Net TV: Journalism on Catholicism
January 17, 2010 from 5pm to 8:30pm – Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church	Join us, The Catholic Fellowship (www.cfnetwork.org) for the Young Adult Mass on Sunday January 17th at 5pm at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Astoria. The church is located at 23-25 Newtown Avenu… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: young_professionals, young_adults, catholic, christians, social, dinner, drinks, lecture_talk
February 7Sunday
Young Adult Mass ~ Reception ~ Dr. Phil Mango on Manhood, Womanhood & Christ
February 7, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3pm – Our Lady of the Snows Church	Join us, The Catholic Fellowship (http://www.cfnetwork.org), as we launch our new chapter in the Diocese of Brooklyn on Sunday February 7th at 12:30pm for the Young Adult Mass at Our Lady of the Snow… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, young_adults, young_professionals, social, fellowship, reception, mass, guest_speaker
February 13Saturday
Young Adult Mass - Social, Dinner & Drinks
February 13, 2010 from 5:30pm to 9pm – Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary	Our Second Saturday of the Month Young Adult Mass is a popular event and draws a large crowd of young adults for mass as well as the social. Young Adult Mass on Saturday February 13th at 5:30pm at:… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, young_professionals, young_adults, social, mass, dinner, drinks
Coffee House / Open Mic
February 20, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm – Our Lady of the Snows Church	Come join us on Saturday February 20th from 7pm to 10pm for some fun, friendship, refreshments and live music! Venue: Our Lady of the Snows Church Green Room (in the lower church) 258-15 80th Avenue… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: social, young_adults, music
February 28Sunday
Long Island Young Adult Mass - Social & Reception - Guest Speaker - Drinks
February 28, 2010 from 2:30pm to 5:30pm – C.W. Post L.I.U. Chapel	Join The Catholic Fellowship of Long Island (www.cfnetwork.org) for the Young Adult Mass on Sunday February 28th at 2:30pm at: C.W. Post L.I.U. Chapel The Newman Catholic Parish 720 Northern Blvd Br… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, young_adults, young_professionals, mass, social, talk, drinks
March 7Sunday
Young Adult Mass - Social & Reception - Talk on Mid-Lent Crisis
March 7, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm – Our Lady of the Snows Church	Our Young Adult Mass draws a large gathering of young professionals. Young Adult Mass on Sunday March 7th at 12:30pm at: Our Lady of the Snows Church 258-15 80th Avenue Floral Park, NY 11004 www.ols… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, mass, social, reception, talk, young_adults
March 13Saturday
Young Adult Mass - Social & Dinner - Talk: Catholic Apologetics
March 13, 2010 from 5:30pm to 9pm – Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary	Our Young Adult Mass draws a good crowd of young professionals. Join us on Saturday March 13th for the Young Adult Mass at 5:30pm at: Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary 211 East 83rd Street (Between… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, mass, social, reception, talk, young_adults
March 21Sunday
Young Adult Mass - Dinner & Drinks - Dr. Phil Mango on Male & Female Sexuality
March 21, 2010 from 5pm to 9pm – Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church	Young Adult Mass on Sunday March 21st at 5pm at: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 23-25 Newtown Avenue Astoria, NY 11102 (Cross Street is Crescent Street & Newtown Avenue) www.mountcarmelastoria.… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, young_adults, young_professionals, mass, social, talk, dinner, drinks
May 2Sunday
Young Adult Mass - Reception - Talk on Mary of Nazareth
May 2, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm – Our Lady of the Snows Church	Our Young Adult Mass draws a large gathering of young professionals. Young Adult Mass on Sunday May 2nd at 12:30pm at: Our Lady of the Snows Church 258-15 80th Avenue Floral Park, NY 11004 www.olsno… Organized by The Catholic Fellowship of NYC | Type: catholic, christians, church, mass, social, reception, talk, young_professionals, young_adults


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Video Games= Training Children to be Killers
Today, In Moscow, a student named Sergei Gordeyev entered his school and shot and killed his teacher and a police officer. He held twenty students hostage until his father called him and encouraged him to release the hostages. Parliament Security Committee Chief Irina Yarovaya blames aggressive games as part of the cause for the school shooting. The media and many law enforcement officials are arguing that violent games are the cause of students becoming more violent. Law makers want to put a stop to violent video games.
Are video games training young people to be killers? In recent years, there have been several horrific school shootings. Each time the media reports one of the shootings, there is speculation that violent video games are the cause.
On April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, the shooting at Columbine High School occurred. Twelve students, one teacher were killed by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. This was a tragic event. Schools, parents, and the world looked for any reason as to why these two individuals would shoot up their school. One of the common themes that circulated was that the two killers were avid video game players. The media started to say that violent video games make children aggressive and violent.
On April 26, 2007 at Virginia Tech, 32 people being killed. On December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, 26 people were killed. These are just some of the many school shootings in the United States that are well known.
In the 2010 case, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the United States Supreme Court struck down a state law that prohibited the sale of violent video games to minors. The Court held that the law was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment.
Does this case resonate with the views in the rest of the world? Should there be a ban on violent video games? Should law makers try to enforce banning these video games? Are these video games the true cause of violent behavior in children?
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Rachel Sullivan says:
Throughout history there have always been variations of toy guns. Games like cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians have been played amongst kids. I think there is a difference though between role-play games that our parent's generation played when they were young, and the graphic gruesome video games that give current day kids points for killing other players. It used to be that everyone wanted to role-play the cops because they were the good guys. Now, video games do not discriminate between good and bad. It is each player for themselves. The desensitization of mass killing and horror is wrong. Minors are not mentally equipped to handle the false sense of life and death that some video games digitally place in their hands. Horrific and tragic school shootings are increasingly happening too often to be outlier situations. I am a supporter of freedom and the right everyone has to live and express themselves anyway they wish. However, once that expression puts others in danger, especially young children, priorities must be weighed logically.
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I feel that violent video games could be one of the few sources for the increased amounts of school shootings that have recently occurred. In the past, the most violence that would occur on a video game would be when Bowser attacked Mario in Super Mario Brothers. Now games have enhanced to a whole new level. With the advancement in technology that the world has seen over the years, some games have become extremely lifelike. The goriness of some games can make people wonder how a child is not affected by the actions they take while playing. I don't think that there necessarily needs to be a ban on these types of games, there is just a need for more precautions to be taken. Furthermore, I feel that some of the ratings for certain types of games are incorrect, that children of a certain age should only be exposed to specific games which will enhance their growth, not present them with thoughts that they could one day put into action.
Joseph Fortunato says:
Growing up I was never allowed to play any video games that dealt with any sort of violence. I remember always arguing with my parents to let me play, but now I am happy they never gave in. I truly believe these games influence today's children. Especially the one's whose parents do not reassure their children how deviant this behavior is in real life. Otherwise, you have children playing these types of games hours and hours a day thinking it is something society accepts. They may think that if it was so bad, why am I allowed to play it? No doubt in my mind that some children play it to the point where they feel they are living within the game and become brainwashed. With more and more mental conditions occurring these days, my reasonable expectations about people are diminishing slowly. You truly never know what goes through someone's head and what they are thinking. The more real these games become, the more scared I become.


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Debbie Korley in development workshops for We Will Be Happy Here at arts depot (photo by Fluxx).
WE WILL BE HAPPY HERE
a collaborative inclusive show by Rebecca Manson Jones, David Lane, Jens Cole with bits made up by the company.
Our next show tells the story of a community. The residents call it a city, the Happy City, but it's not very big, squeezed in between a hillside and a harbour. There's a river running through it, there's a bridge, market-place, sportsgrounds, theatre – the usual stuff. What makes it different is that it's a little bit lost in time – could be the future, could be the past – and the other thing which makes it different is that it's running itself based on equality. Everyone gets a say in how things are done, and everyone has to join in with the decision-making, being on the Committees, organising the fiesta, taking out the trash.
This is all fine until just before we meet the Happy City residents. 7 years into the Happy City – things are getting a bit tense and there's not quite enough to go round, not everyone's playing fair, especially not when it comes to sharing out the sugar.
Not everyone is aware of the changes but there's one woman who notices everything. No-one's really listening to her so she's done two things: She's stopped talking because language has got corrupted, no-one's telling the truth to themselves or anyone else, and she's started recording what's happening in images all around the city.
As the tension mounts and the rules of the game change, her challenge and ours is to find a way to bring the Happy City back to itself, to find a new language and a new way to live.
Find out about how you can be involved in the making of We Will be Happy Here in our participatory work. We're also on the hunt for a Movement Director and in Spring 2018 we will be piloting an inclusive casting process. Find out more here.
We Will Be Happy Here is as an interactive contemporary epic. Winner of a bursary from Dartington Hall 2014, it's a collaboration between Meyer Whitworth nominated Leverhulme Bursary Holder & Associate Artist of The Egg, Bath, David Lane; Linbury Prize finalist Jens Demant Cole and the first UK Ibsen Scholarship winner and Artistic Director of Just Jones &, Rebecca Manson Jones.
Your approach has been truly original, I have never seen anyone tackle a play in the way that you are and it is truly fascinating" – Dr Sonia Massai, King's College, University of London.
Cast for the R&D 2014: Heidi Dorschler, Bryn Holding, Debbie Korley, Samuel Lawrence, Jennifer Lim
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The School Committee will hold their regularly scheduled meeting in the Aldermanic Chambers of City Hall on Monday at 7pm. This meeting is open to the public and all residents/concerned citizens are encouraged to attend.
You can watch the meeting live on Channel 16 (Comcast) or Channel 13 (RCN). This meeting will also be rebroadcast at various times throughout the week. The meeting will also be streamed live on the internet and is saved on the City's Meeting Portal under the Recent Media header.
The agenda is posted on the City's Meeting Portal 48 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting time (Friday at 7pm).


No doubt, the real estate market could be quite enticing and profitable. However at the same time, managing tenants, going through repair work from time to time and property related issues could turn out being a bit challenging at the same time.
You would have to ensure that you get hold of reliable property managers in langwarrin because you probably may not be available for your clients 24X7. It is also possible that the land that you wish to sell or buy is not near to your house and in such a case your real estate manager will do the best from their end.
For how long have they been in the real estate business?
When the company or agent comes with a lengthy record this would be a sign of a reliable service provider. A flotilla of issues and experience, including emergency response, legal issues, accounting and maintenance knowledge, is imperative.
Are they licensed as per the state requirements and industry authorities?
In several states, licensed managers are required to pass through a property managing course. Many of them need to pass through a state licensing exam too. A property agent who is licensed is even permitted to supervise other managers; likewise they can even run their own business.
Will they provide you with referrals of their past clients?
A reliable property agent must provide you with contact information of his or her past or present list of clients if required, for such instances. Potential clients must also check out the address of the business that's given to them to ensure that everything is being run appropriately. Going through the same line, relying on referrals that you get from trusted contacts will turn out being promising and great for you.
How regular are they with the inspection work?
Even though it is important for the real estate managing firm to have a good inspection work done every time a tenant turns up, you need to ensure that regular inspections is done, if it involves a long-standing tenant..


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How do mountains grow?
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Climate controlled erosion is often considered the driving force in managing mountain height; however, a recent study concluded that tectonics may have a greater impact than erosion. Armin Dielforder, Ralf Hetzel, and Onno Oncken, the authors of the study, explained that the maximum potential height of a mountain is limited by what can be upheld by the tectonic and isostatic forces underneath.
In fact, tectonics are essential in the formation of mountains. Interactions between tectonic plates at convergent boundaries, in which one plate slips under another, can lead to mountain ranges arising. Once established, the height of a mountain range is dynamic and is maintained by three forces: tectonic force, isostasy, and erosion. The tectonic force drives the creation, and then supports the mountain from underneath against gravity. On the other hand, the erosion strips away material from the top. Isostasy, also from underneath, is the 'floating' of the mountain range on the Earth's mantle, shifting up and down as material is removed or added on top. Isostasy is a balancing force and acts in response to the two others. It is commonly accepted that all three influence the height, but not necessarily to the same extent or rate. In general, there are two hypotheses: one which favours the impact of climate driven erosion, and the other which credits the tectonic forces underneath.
The basis of the climate driven erosion hypothesis is that the reformation of the topology at top of the mountain by the local climate tends to be balanced by isostasy. A dynamic equilibrium is maintained by those two forces, with tectonic forces from the convergent boundary not playing a major role. A 2009 study by Aarhus University, Denmark, analysed the observed heights of mountain ranges in various different climates, and concluded that the local climate restricts the maximum height, thus outweighing the forces underneath. A major mechanism derived from this is 'glacial buzzsaw', the idea that glaciers restrain the full potential height of mountain ranges by eroding the top of them at the snowline, which is maintained by the local climate. Thus, in cooler climates mountains are affected more than those in warmer climates, where there are less glaciers.
If erosion has a significant impact, the removal of material from the top of mountains would make their height less than what the tectonics underneath are capable of supporting. Dielforder, Hetzel and Onckens' study investigated the average heights of mountain ranges across various climates, mostly in convergent subduction zones. As the tectonic force at the site of the range increased, the quantified average height of the range increased when looking at the data from mountains at convergent boundaries. This strong relationship between the heights and tectonic forces favours the hypothesis that tectonic forces outweigh the erosion caused by local climate, although it is important to note there is an element of uncertainty in the data due to assumptions made by the researchers, for example that vertical and horizontal forces underneath were equal, as discussed by Kelin Wang. Also, as the maximum mean elevation and the estimated tectonically supported elevation (the maximum height that the tectonic forces underneath could support) are similar, there is no suggestion that another factor, such as erosion, plays a major role in regulating mountain height. Erosion can affect the height of mountains, however these findings suggest that it is to a lesser extent than the forces underneath.
As Kelin Wang discusses, further research and broader studies that span even more climate and tectonic zones are needed to illuminate the discrepancies between previous studies observing the impact of climate driven erosion, and the new studies outlining the importance of tectonic forces. Discovering which force has the greatest impact is important not only to understand the maintenance of the mountain ranges, but also perhaps to extrapolate their future, especially with rising concern that shrinking glaciers exposing more and more underlying rock may lead to the shortening of mountains such as the Alps.
Written by Arianna Schneier and edited by Ailie McWhinnie.
Arianna's thoughts… The balance between the forces underneath and the forces above in maintaining the height of mountain ranges is still disputed. Though climate driven erosion is given more attention, it is interesting to see how modeling and calculating the tectonic forces below can give information about mountain heights. A comparison of the two different lenses and seeing how these two approaches help explain the height of the same mountain ranges would be fascinating to see. Also, would placing a greater impact on the influence of tectonic force remove some of the concern over climate related erosion, especially with the changing climate?
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Sarah Barrable-Tishauer (ur. 6 lipca 1988 r. w Toronto) – aktorka kanadyjska. Znana z roli Liberty Van Zandt w serialu Degrassi: Nowe pokolenie.

Filmografia
 2008: Degrassi Spring Break Movie jako Liberty Van Zandt
 2002: Uwierz w Siebie (Red Sneakers) jako Larosa
 2001: Degrassi: Nowe pokolenie (Degrassi: The Next Generation) jako Liberty Van Zandt

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Kanadyjskie aktorki dziecięce
Ludzie urodzeni w Toronto
Urodzeni w 1988

en:Sarah Barrable-Tishauer


Hi everyone! How's you week so far? My daughter and I went to a private shopping event for a new Nordstrom Rack that is opening up near us last night. I picked up this jacket and these slip-ons. It was fun to shop before the store opens to the public later this week! I think spring is finally on it's way to Chicago. The flowers are starting to peek out of the ground and the grass is getting greener. Even though it's still pretty chilly here, I'm trying to incorporate lighter colors into my outfits. One of my girlfriends gifted me this Cabi Napa Vest that she wasn't loving anymore and I couldn't wait to style it. It's definitely a versatile and cozy staple that I can wear three of the four seasons. The marled blue is really pretty, plus, who doesn't love anything with pockets!
How cute are Kristina's ruffled top and embroidered jeans!
Visit her blog, The Kontemporary to see more of this look!


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package org.scalatest.matchers

// T is the type of the object that has a Boolean property to verify with an instance of this trait
// This is not a subtype of BeMatcher, because BeMatcher only works after "be", but
// BePropertyMatcher will work after "be", "be a", or "be an"
/**
 * Trait extended by matcher objects, which may appear after the word be, that can match against a Boolean
 * property. The match will succeed if and only if the Boolean property equals true.
 * The object containing the property, which must be of the type specified by the BePropertyMatcher's type
 * parameter T, is passed to the BePropertyMatcher's
 * apply method. The result is a BePropertyMatchResult.
 * A BePropertyMatcher is, therefore, a function from the specified type, T, to
 * a BePropertyMatchResult.
 *
 *

 * Although BePropertyMatcher
 * and Matcher represent similar concepts, they have no inheritance relationship
 * because Matcher is intended for use right after should or must
 * whereas BePropertyMatcher is intended for use right after be.
 *

 *
 *

 * A BePropertyMatcher essentially allows you to write statically typed Boolean
 * property assertions similar to the dynamic ones that use symbols:
 *

 *
 *

 * tempFile should be a ('file) // dynamic: uses reflection
 * tempFile should be a (file)  // type safe: only works on Files; no reflection used
 *

 *
 *

 * One good way to organize custom matchers is to place them inside one or more traits that
 * you can then mix into the suites or specs that need them. Here's an example that
 * includes two BePropertyMatchers:
 *

 *
 *

 * trait CustomMatchers {
 *
 *   class FileBePropertyMatcher extends BePropertyMatcher[java.io.File] {
 *     def apply(left: java.io.File) = BePropertyMatchResult(left.isFile, "file")
 *   }
 *
 *   class DirectoryBePropertyMatcher extends BePropertyMatcher[java.io.File] {
 *     def apply(left: java.io.File) = BePropertyMatchResult(left.isDirectory, "directory")
 *   }
 *
 *   val file = new FileBePropertyMatcher
 *   val directory = new DirectoryBePropertyMatcher
 * }
 *

 *
 *

 * Because the type parameter of these two BePropertyMatchers is java.io.File, they
 * can only be used with instances of that type. (The compiler will enforce this.) All they do is create a
 * BePropertyMatchResult whose matches field is true if and only if the Boolean property
 * is true. The second field, propertyName, is simply the string name of the property.
 * The file and directory vals create variables that can be used in
 * matcher expressions that test whether a java.io.File is a file or a directory. Here's an example:
 *

 *
 *

 * class ExampleSpec extends Spec with ShouldMatchers with CustomMatchers {
 *
 *   describe("A temp file") {
 *
 *     it("should be a file, not a directory") {
 *
 *       val tempFile = java.io.File.createTempFile("delete", "me")
 *
 *       try {
 *         tempFile should be a (file)
 *         tempFile should not be a (directory)
 *       }
 *       finally {
 *         tempFile.delete()
 *       }
 *     }
 *   }
 * }
 *

 *
 *

 * These matches should succeed, but if for example the first match, tempFile should be a (file), were to fail, you would get an error message like:
 *

 *
 *

 * /tmp/delme1234me was not a file
 *

 *
 *

 * For more information on BePropertyMatchResult and the meaning of its fields, please
 * see the documentation for BePropertyMatchResult. To understand why BePropertyMatcher
 * is contravariant in its type parameter, see the section entitled "Matcher's variance" in the
 * documentation for Matcher.
 *

 *
 * @author Bill Venners
*/
trait BePropertyMatcher[-T] extends Function1[T, BePropertyMatchResult] {

  thisBePropertyMatcher =>

  /**
   * Check to see if a Boolean property on the specified object, objectWithProperty, matches its
   * expected value, and report the result in
   * the returned BePropertyMatchResult. The objectWithProperty is
   * usually the value to the left of a should or must invocation. For example, tempFile
   * would be passed as the objectWithProperty in:
   *
   *

   * tempFile should be a (file)
   *

   *
   * @param objectWithProperty the object with the Boolean property against which to match
   * @return the BePropertyMatchResult that represents the result of the match
   */
  def apply(objectWithProperty: T): BePropertyMatchResult

  /**
   * Compose this BePropertyMatcher with the passed function, returning a new BePropertyMatcher.
   *
   *

   * This method overrides compose on Function1 to
   * return a more specific function type of BePropertyMatcher.
   *

   */
  override def compose[U](g: U => T): BePropertyMatcher[U] =
    new BePropertyMatcher[U] {
      def apply(u: U) = thisBePropertyMatcher.apply(g(u))
    }
}

/**
 * Companion object for trait BePropertyMatcher that provides a
 * factory method that creates a BePropertyMatcher[T] from a
 * passed function of type (T => BePropertyMatchResult).
 *
 * @author Bill Venners
 */
object BePropertyMatcher {

  /**
   * Factory method that creates a BePropertyMatcher[T] from a
   * passed function of type (T => BePropertyMatchResult).
   *
   * @author Bill Venners
   */
  def apply[T](fun: T => BePropertyMatchResult)(implicit ev: Manifest[T]): BePropertyMatcher[T] =
    new BePropertyMatcher[T] {
      def apply(left: T) = fun(left)
      override def toString: String = "BePropertyMatcher[" + ev.erasure.getName + "](" + ev.erasure.getName + " => BePropertyMatchResult)"
    }
}

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