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Cowboys.
What is a Cowboy?
A Cowboy
So you're a fan of the Great American West? In a modern era where cowboys are pretty much relics of days gone by, the cowboy mysteriousness lingers persistently throughout American culture. Cowboys have an appeal and a romance that give them a mythical status in the culture and myth of the United States. Hollywood reinforces this stereotype. Over the years, dozens, if not hundreds of television shows, movies, and even TV commercials have turned the American cowboy into an symbol. Cowboys continue to be the subject of western fiction, its own type. Cowboys are also immortalized in Western Art, that is, the Art of the American West. This artistic sub-genre focuses on cowboys, Indians, and western themes. I have been a follower of cowboys and their way of life all of my life. There are many different types and sorts of cowboys that feed into the cowboy mystique. Here below is a short description of my cowboys, real and fictional.
The Working Cowboy
The working cowboy actually works with cows. They herd or drive cattle to market, and make a hard living off the land. The working cowboy is usually depicted as sleeping outsi de, under the stars, with his head on his saddle or bedroll and his boots turned upside down on a piece of wood in the ground nearby. This is to keep them dry and to prevent small creepy things getting into his boots while he is sleeping. His life is difficult and full of jeopardy, but he is a noble figure. The working cowboy has been the subject of western fiction since the classical novel of this genre was published. The Virginian by Owen Wister portrays a noble working cowboy who is the hero and protector of his isolated community in the wilderness. Modern fictional pieces often include the working cowboy as a main character. Generally these cowboys live for their work and love the land. Wranglers are working cowboys who specialize in working with horses or the remuda. Greenhorns or tenderfoots are new to working on the ranch. Plenty of real people are actual still working cowboys today and there are still some ranches in the U.S. who run and work their ranches in the old traditions. Albeit they now have the help of cell phones, laptop computers and music gadgets to help them through their long working day.
The Vaquero
The Vaquero is a working cowboy of hispanic or Mexican descent. Vaquero is the Spanish name for cowboy. Vaqueros wore distinctive chaps (pronounced Shaps), often made from sheep's wool, and uniquely decorated spurs. In his book Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtrey explores the two-sided relationship of the American working cowboys to the vaqueros. In his novel, the main characters respect the old vaquero's work, but are deeply suspicious of his motives. The historical photos of vaqueros from the early nineteenth century depict tough men who are proud to embrace a different heritage than the American cowboys of the same era, while sharing a deep love for the rough terrain of the southwest.
The Gunfighter
The gunfigh ter comes from the same breed of men as the cowboy, but his motivations are entirely different. Both types are wanderers, without a tether to family or ties to a settled home town. Working cowboys are made rough and tough by a hard life working with cattle and horses, driving them across difficult terrain. Gunfighters are hardened by a life that is ruled by the quickness of the draw and the accuracy of aim. Gunfighters can be found all over the west, on both sides of the law. Sometimes they are soldiers of fortune, and sometimes they are card sharps. Other times they find their calling in law enforcement. Their skill with a gun is the key to their survival and success. Many of the categories of cowboys are also skilled gunfighters, but the cowboy who is a gunfighter first and foremost is a most dangerous breed. Historical figures who were gunfighters include Doc Holiday, a gambler who was a friend of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, Arizona. Doc Holiday was a gambler in poor health, but he was quick to the draw. Despite his poor physical health he was a dangerous and deadly foe, because his reflexes were so quick.
The outlaw wasn't a type of cowboy per se, but like the gunfighter, he shares a common heritage. And what would a cowboy be without a few outlaws around. Rustlers, or cattle thieves, are a common outlaw of the old west, but not the only types. Lawlessness is one of the catchwords of the old west, and outlaws thrived there. Outlaws found easy prey in poorly-policed territories, and could hide from the law easily for weeks or even months in remote canyons and other hideaways. Some outlaws masqueraded as Native Americans and preyed upon stage coaches and other people on the move. The blame was easily cast upon the Indians. It is easy to name famous outlaws. Billy the Kid, the Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy are just a few.
The Caballero
Caballero is a Spanish term that literally means knight, and refers to knights of the middle ages. Caballeros are gentleman cowboys, and are often wealthy enough to pay attendants and a staff to assist them with the care of their horses and cooking while on the trail. Cabelloros are nobility of cowboy kind. Zorro is a famous caballero of TV and movie fame. He is a swash-buckling swordsman and a gentleman in every sense of the word. In Wickenburg, Arizona, the locally famous DC Ride is a by-invitation-only event, and its sponsor is the DC Riders, which stands for the Desert Caballeros Riders. The trail ride is over 40 years old, and takes the riders (almost exclusively wealthy older men) on a three-day catered trail ride into the Arizona back country. The riders hire grooms to care for their horses and have a really good time relaxing after a long day in the saddle. A similar woman's ride, sponsored by Las Damas (the women) has a similar feel.
The Dude Cowboy.
A dude is a weekender who is interested in playing at being a cowboy and then going home. Dudes are tourists experiencing the thrill of the west. Dudes can experience the west by visiting dude ranches, also renamed Guest Ranches, for people who want to have an experience that is completely other than their own urban lifestyle. At a dude ranch, people are paid to do the work of ranch hands, then are put up in a sparsely furnished bunkhouse. I have been around horses most of my life in some form or other but I am not sure what category I would fall into. I don't think myself of being a dude but I don't think I could pass for a real cowboy. Trouble is, many people would love to be a cowgirl or cowboy, but just weren't born to it or they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time (like myself), so I guess I'm not alone. Over the years, being a dude has come to have a mocking and entertaining meaning. The very funny 1992 movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal is a good example of what I am talking about.
The Hollywood Cowboy
The Hollywood cowboy isn't a real cowboy, but he plays one on TV. All dressed up for the silver screen, he hasn't a misplaced hair on his head. He's a pretty boy and a character, usually with a catch phrase, a nickname, and half a dozen movies to his credit. John Wayne, "The Duke" is the most famous of them all. He's the big daddy of Hollywood cowboys. Before him was Tom Mix.
The Loner or Wanderer. A cowboy who lives alone and avoids the company of other men. He is a drifter. W ithout a tether to family or community, the wandering cowboy is viewed with great suspicion. Usually the loner nurses a troubled past, which he keeps heroically and tragically buried to protect the few people he gets close to. When the moment is right, the loner proves his worth as a hero, and is accepted into the community. At this point, the loner packs his bags and rides off into the sunset, never to be seen again. The film "Shane" with Alan Ladd (my all time favourite film) is a typicial example of the loner. Clint Eastwood played many loners in his western roles, including one of my favorite cowboy movies, Pale Rider. Loners are often gunmen, and sometimes outlaws, but usually they are just deeply troubled.
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The Cowb oy Artist
The cowboy artist is a subcategory of cowboy that seems modern, but dates back to the mid and late nineteenth century. The cowboy artist is anyone who primarily chooses cowboys, Indians, the American West, or horses as the subject of their art work. Cowboy artists can also be singers and poets, too. Some cowboy artists are working cowmen (or women, as the case may be), who, being naturally inclined to work with their hands, have turned to some form of artistic expression. A popular form for cowboy artists is sculpture. It is surprising how easily cowboys turn to this difficult craft. Many a cowboy artist has created spectacular works of art with little or no previous art experience. Cowboy art is a well-paid niche for artists who want to make a little money from their work, so the arena of western art is filled with dudes and wannabes. One of the most famous groups of cowboy artists was created by a group of artists who met at a Scottsdale bar and founded the Cowboy Artists of America.
An Urban Cowboy
The urban cowboy lives in the city and looks dang good in his cowboy hat and six-hundred dollar cowboy boots as he angles to some big city bar for a straight up martini, no rocks. I thought the urban cowboy was a passing fad of the 1980s movie bearing the same name starring John Travolta. But after the movie Brokeback Mountain popularized cowboy culture there are a lot of reports of a resurgence of urban cowboy style. Urban cowboys don't even angle at being dudes. Their interest is in the look, not the lifestyle.
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First, a little primer on inflation. The UK inflation rate for June 2017 as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI) was 2.6%, the Office for National Statistics announced this week. That is to say that the cost of living, measured by prices of a representative "basket of goods" from computer games to children's clothing, rose by 2.6% over the prior 12-month period, although it was down from 2.9% the month before.
This rise was less than experts had expected. But the predictions are that we will see numbers over 3% later this year. After that inflation is expected to fall back again towards zero.
Over the past few years we have become used to inflation being very low – indeed, it averaged 0% in 2015. It seems that worries about falling prices, or deflation, have gone for now. Most other countries in the world are experiencing low and falling inflation, including the euro area with a rate of 1.3% in June, down from 1.9% a couple of months ago. The US is at 1.6%, down from 2.8% earlier this year.
The main reason inflation is rising in the UK is because of Brexit. Import prices have risen because of the fall in the value of the pound, which is down about 13% to the dollar from $1.49 on 23 June versus $1.30 today, hence inflation.
Inflation is the rate of change of prices. To illustrate it simply, if prices last year were £100 and this year they are £102 then prices have risen by 2.0% (£102/£100). If next year prices rise to £105 then inflation is £105/£102=2.94%. So even though prices rose in both years the rate of change of prices has increased.
The Brexit vote was largely unexpected and was not priced in by the markets. The fall in the pound occurred because markets felt that UK prospects had deteriorated as a result of the vote to leave the EU. Experts predicted that with this big rise in uncertainty consumers would start to save more and spend less as a precaution, but they didn't. Consumer spending held up and unsecured borrowing rose sharply. That is why the economy took longer to slow than many, myself included, expected.
But that is now in full reverse as prices are rising faster than wages, which are growing at under 2%, so real wages, adjusted for price rises, are falling once more. Pay settlements are coming in at a norm of 2%.
There is little or no likelihood that wage growth is going to pick up beyond 2% any time soon. Consumers will retrench and spend less and demand will drop. The savings rate, which is at historically low rates, will start to pick up. Workers will continue to hurt. According to official data real wages are 7% below pre-recession levels, so pay packets buy less.
The economy in 2017 has started slowing. UK retail sales grew at the slowest rate for four years in June. The index of production was estimated to have decreased by 1.2% in the three months to May 2017 compared with the three months to February 2017. In the first quarter of 2017 the UK economy was the slowest growing economy in the G8 and the EU28. Business confidence has fallen and is now at its lowest point for almost six years, the economic consultancy IHS Markit reports.
The question for the UK's monetary policymakers is what they should do when inflation is high but the economy is slowing, as occurred in July and August 2008, although on a much worse scale. Inflation may be bad – it erodes the value of people's savings – but low growth and unemployment are much worse. There were three votes (out of eight, with one seat currently vacant) for an interest rate rise at the last meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC), but that looks to be a huge mistake, in my view.
If the MPC raises rates to deal with inflation this would cause the economy to slow even faster, as the price of money rises. Interest rate rises could easily push the UK back into recession.
My advice would be that the monetary police committee should wait and watch and see if the economy worsens. If it does then it should cut rates and do more asset buying. The big problem is markets have no idea what a Brexit future will look like. In economic terms, the Brexit chickens have started to come home to roost.


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JSJS Designs have today announced their half year results for the six month period ending 31st March 2013.
"This has been a formative six months for the business with significant progress on our base revenues, improvements in trading margins and a real focus on right-sizing the administrative costs in the business. This together with significant customer acquisition of big brands, positions the company for further improvements in the second half and to set an expectation of profitability in FY2014″.
My accounting skills are rusty, but that does not look promising. Looks like they are in quite a bit of debt and revenues are down. I am concerned about the company going bankrupt and having no replacement parts in the future. Hope I am wrong though.
Any company who can go to the open market and raise £500K cannot be all bad. Plus B&Q, Screwfix and Maplin would not have signed up to sell from a company that was going under. If they do go under, Siemens are likely to pick up the pieces as they have a licencing agreement. The bigger concern would be the Servers (100K users!); no servers, no remote access using the official channels.
I'm surprised the revenue numbers aren't higher. Approx £1m annual t/o with 10,000 active users shows average £100 per head spend. Given the wifi link is £70 ish, that shows on average, customers aren't buying a lot else.
I think there is a lot of potential there as they are good products. Boost the average spend per head and dial in some additional paid for concierge app purchases, (I'd pay for intelligent sequences and better apps) and you could easily treble these numbers.
Isn't £1m income though? i.e. Sales – Expenses? Obviously it costs to manufacture the kit so that will need to come out of the pot or is that the cost of sales figure that is quoted.
Also, the 10K active users will not all be new users. I bought my kit some time ago so one assumes I am one of those users, but my sales won't be reflected in the year end revenue. If there were concierge services available, these would be more interesting figures.
No, the £476k 6 months revenue is headline Sales only. The Cost of Sales includes all the production costs of the units sold.
I was assuming that the Wifi link is relatively new so that the majority of the 10k users were at least in the last year. The debt isn't of concern – you'd be more worried about cash generation which is currently negative.
I'm still confident that this is a good bet though!!


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State fee - is a special form of tax which is charged when applying to various authorities as payments for certain acts of the law, or for the issuance of legal documents. Anyone who has to go to court, interested in the question, what the state duty is, in which case it is charged and what are its dimensions. However, introducing the obligation to pay the state fee State, however, exempted certain of its officials from its payment. In this article we will talk about state tax rates in the courts, and those who are exempt from paying a registration fee.
The amount of state due in courts
According to Article 103 of the Civil Procedure Code, the procedure for payment and the amount of state duty, as well as the grounds for exemption from its payment, are determined by the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On taxes and other obligatory payments to the budget" (Tax Code)..
The fee for the types of applications
From the property-related statement of claims:
for the physical bodies – 1 % of the claimed amount;
for the legal bodies – 3 % of the claimed amount;
From complaints of wrongful acts (omissions) and decisions of state bodies and their officials infringing the rights of individuals, 0.3 monthly calculation index established by the law on the republican budget and acting as of the date of payment of the state duty (hereinafter - MCI);
From complaints of wrongful acts (omissions) and decisions of state bodies and their officials, infringing the rights of legal entities, - 5 MCI;
From applications for challenging notifications on acts of inspections and (or) notifications on the results of horizontal monitoring:
for individual entrepreneurs and peasant or private farms - 0.1% of the contested sum of taxes, customs payments and payments to the budget (including penalties) specified in the notification, but not more than 500 MCI;
for legal entities - 1% of the contested sum of taxes, customs payments and payments to the budget (including penalties) specified in the notification, but not more than 20 thousand MCI.
From the claim for divorce - 0.3 MCI;
In the event of the division of property upon divorce, the duty is determined from the price of the claim in accordance with subparagraph 1) of this paragraph.
From the statement of claim on the division of property upon the dissolution of the marriage with persons recognized in the prescribed manner as missing or incapacitated due to mental illness or dementia, or with persons sentenced to imprisonment for more than three years - according to subparagraph 1) of paragraph 1 of Article 610 of the Tax Code;;
From claims for changing or terminating the contract for renting a home, extending the period for accepting the inheritance, releasing property from arrest and other claims of non-property nature or not being evaluated, 0.5 MCI;
From statements of special proceedings, statements (complaints) in cases of special proceedings, with the exception of those specified in subparagraphs 2), 3), 4) and 13) of paragraph 1 of Article 610 of the TC, - 0.5 MCI;
From applications for cancellation of arbitration awards – 50 % of the amount of state duty levied when filing a non-property claim in the court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and on disputes of a property nature – 50 % of the amount of state duty levied when filing a claim of a property nature in a court of the Republic of Kazakhstan and calculated on the basis of the amount contested by the applicant;
From applications for the issuance of a court order - referred to in subparagraph 1) of paragraph 1 of Article 610 of the Tax Code;
From applications for the issuance of a duplicate of the writ of execution, applications for the issuance of writ of execution for the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign courts - 5 MCI;
From applications for the re-issuance of copies (duplicates) of court decisions, sentences, rulings, other orders of courts, as well as copies of other documents from the case, issued by the courts at the request of the parties and other persons participating in the case - 0.1 MCI for each document, as well as 0.03 MCI for each page produced;
From applications for the recognition of legal entities as bankrupt, the application of rehabilitation procedures, the application of an accelerated rehabilitation procedure - 0.5 MCI;
From claims of natural persons for recovery in monetary terms of compensation for moral damage caused by the dissemination of information discrediting honor, dignity and business reputation - 1 %of the amount of the claim;
From claims of legal entities on recovery of losses caused by the dissemination of information discrediting business reputation - 3 % of the amount of the claim.
From petitions for review of judicial acts in cassation order on the decisions on the cancellation of arbitration decisions and the issuance of writ of execution for the enforcement of decisions of arbitration and foreign courts, decisions and decisions of courts on disputes of non-property and property nature the state duty is charged at a rate of 50 % from the corresponding rate of the state duty established above when submitting the statement of claim (statement) on such disputes.
For statements of claim that simultaneously contain claims of property and non-property nature, a state fee, established for statements of claim of a property nature and for statements of claim of a non-property nature, is simultaneously charged.
Who is exempt from the state fee payment?
The following individuals are exempt from payment of the state duty in courts:
1) plaintiffs: on claims for recovery of salary and other claims related to labour activities;
2) plaintiffs - authors, executors and organizations administering their property rights on a collective basis: on claims arising from copyright and related rights;
3) plaintiffs - authors of industrial property objects: on claims arising from the right to an invention, utility models and industrial designs;
4) plaintiffs: on claims for recovery of alimony;
5) plaintiffs: on claims for compensation for damage caused by injury or other damage to health, as well as death of the breadwinner;
6) plaintiffs: on claims for compensation of material damage caused by a criminal offense;
7) individuals and legal entities, except for individuals not related to a case: for issuance of documents in connection with criminal cases and cases of alimony;
8) plaintiffs: on claims for recovery the state funds to compensate for damage caused to the state by violation of the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
9) applicants: on applications for violation of electoral rights of citizens and public associations; rights of citizens and public associations to participate in a republican referendum;
10) vocational schools and vocational lyceums providing training for skilled workers and workers with increased skill level: on claims for recovery of state expenses incurred by the state for keeping students who have left or were excluded from the educational institutions;
11) individuals and legal entities that apply in cases provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan to a court with a statement in defense of the rights and interests of other persons or state;
12) attorney (agent) who applied to the court with a claim for repayment of publicly funded loans, as well as state and state-guaranteed loans in accordance with the budget legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
13) plaintiffs: veterans of the Great Patriotic war, veterans equated to veterans of the Great Patriotic war by benefits, and veterans of combat operations on the territory of other States, persons awarded orders and medals of the former USSR for selfless work and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic war, persons who worked (served) for at least six months from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945 and were not awarded orders and medals of the former USSR for selfless work and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic war, disabled people, as well as one of the parents of a disabled person from childhood, a disabled child: for all cases and documents;
14) plaintiffs-kandas: in all cases related to acquisition of citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
15) individuals and legal entities: for filing appeals to court:
- on cancellation of the court ruling on termination of proceedings on the case or leaving an appeal without consideration;
- on the deferment or installment of a decision;
- on changing the method and order of execution of a decision;
- on securing claims or replacing one type of security with another;
- on revision of decisions, rulings or decisions of the court on newly discovered circumstances;
- on the addition or reduction of fines imposed by court rulings;
- on execution of court decisions to restore missed deadlines;
- on cancellation of judgement in default;
-on placement in special educational organizations and organization of education with a special treatment regime;
as well as complaints:
- on the actions of bailiffs;
- individual complaints on court rulings to refuse to add or reduce fines;
- other individual complaints to court rulings;
- complaints against decisions on cases of administrative violations;
16) Procurator's office: for all claims;
17) state institutions and state educational institutions of secondary education: upon presentation of claims and appeals against court decisions, except for cases of protection of interests of third parties;
18) public associations of the disabled and (or) organizations established by them, where at least 35% of staff is the disabled suffering from hearing loss, speech loss or and sight loss: when filing claims to protect their own interests;
19) insured and insurers: on claims arising from compulsory insurance contracts;
20) plaintiffs and defendants: on disputes related to compensation for damage caused to a citizen by unlawful conviction, unlawful application of a preventive measure in the form of detention or unlawful imposition of an administrative penalty in the form of arrest;
21) National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, its branches, representative offices and departments: when filing claims on matters within their competence;
22) liquidation commissions of compulsorily liquidated financial organizations: on claims, applications, complaints filed in the interests of liquidation proceedings;
22-1) liquidation commissions of compulsorily liquidated branches of non-resident banks of the Republic of Kazakhstan, branches of non-resident insurance (re-insurance) organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan: on claims, applications, complaints filed in the interests of liquidation proceedings;
23) temporary administrations of compulsorily liquidated financial organizations: on claims, applications, complaints filed in the interests of the interim administration;
24) banks authorized for implementation of the state investment policy pursuant to the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan: when filing lawsuits:
- on recovery of debts on loans issued on a returnable basis at the expense of budgetary funds;
- on execution upon property;
- on the bankruptcy of debtors in connection with their failure to fulfill their obligations under external state and state guaranteed loans, as well as loans issued from budget funds;
25) representatives of bondholders: when filing claims on behalf of bondholders on issues of default by issuers of obligations set by the bond issue prospectus;
26) bankruptcy and rehabilitative managers: when filing claims in the interests of bankruptcy procedures, rehabilitation procedures within the limits of their powers provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on rehabilitation and bankruptcy;
26-1) single pension savings fund, voluntarily pension savings funds: when filing claims and appealing court decisions under collection of debts accumulated due to failure of debtors to execute liabilities related to retirement assets;
27) internal affairs bodies: when submitting applications on issues related to the expulsion of foreigners and stateless persons outside the Republic of Kazakhstan for violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
28) plaintiffs (applicants): on claims (applications) for the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individuals and legal entities, including for the benefit of an indefinite range of persons, on environmental protection and the use of natural resources;
29) an organization specializing in improving the quality of loan portfolios of second-tier banks, the sole shareholder of which is the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan: upon filing claims and appealing court decisions;
30) plaintiffs: on claims for recognition of a potential supplier or supplier as an unfair participant in state procurement.
The above-mentioned individuals are exempt from payment of state duty in courts, and also when appealing judicial acts.

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Even though the Patriots will be off this weekend, it will be a busy one for coordinators Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia, and potentially linebackers coach Brian Flores, director of player personnel Nick Caserio and director of college scouting Monti Ossenfort, as all have reportedly received interest from other teams for various jobs.
Appearing on Dale & Holley with Keefe on Tuesday, Bill Belichick acknowledged what happens isn't in his control, but has had a "very open line of communication" with all parties involved with interviewing with other teams.
Belichick was asked if any of them went to him for advice would he give it, and the coach noted these conversations have been happening for years, as this isn't the first time any of his coaches or executives have interviewed in other places.
The Patriots will practice Wednesday and Thursday before getting the weekend off before their preparations get fully underway for their divisional round game Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8:15 p.m.


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Old Spice deodorant causes painful rashes, burns, lawsuit claims
Rodney Colley displays injuries he says he suffered from using Old Spice deodorant, according to a class-action lawsuit. (KABC)
LOS ANGELES -- Old Spice may not be able to cover up the big stink a new class-action lawsuit is raising against its maker, Procter & Gamble.
The suit comes from Virginia customer Rodney Colley, who claims he's suffered rashes and burns after using Old Spice deodorant.
Rodney Colley displays injuries he says he suffered from using Old Spice deodorant, according to a class-action lawsuit.
The class-action lawsuit names 13 Old Spice products as potentially defective and dangerous, stating that hundreds if not thousands of men suffered severe rashes and painful chemical burns.
The suit seeks at least $25,000 in damages per victim.
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On a recent trip to Mexico color surrounded me. But I went to an exhibit of black and white photos -- on my last day there. It inspired me to get a few parting shots san color.
The next shot is what I wanted. However, look at the following photo -- that is what I got. The woman came walking through the door and ruined my shot. But I love it!


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New research from Northumbria University has revealed that metal-related pollution began in the Balkans more than 500 years before it appeared in western Europe, and persisted throughout the Dark Ages and Medieval Period, meaning the region played a far bigger role in mineral exploitation than previously believed.
The study provides a new perspective on both the timing and extent of metallurgy – the technique of extracting metal from ores prior to heating or working with metals to give them a desired shape – in the Balkans, and the associated economic change this brought to the region, such as the inception of the Metal Ages.
The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) today (Tuesday 29 May 2018).
The exploitation of mineral resources has a broad range of environmental impacts, including metal-contaminated wastewater and the release of microscopic chemical particles into the atmosphere from mining and smelting. As these particles settle on to the surface of a peat bog, an environment in which the sediment develops year on year, a clear history of the bog's development may be established.
Samples recovered from the Crveni Potok peat bog, located on the Serbia/Montenegro border, were geochemically examined by researchers from Northumbria's Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences alongside colleagues from the University of Montpellier and the Romanian Academy. They found the first clear evidence of metal pollution originating from lead in the region dating back to approximately 3600 BC.
The evidence is supported by a concurrent rise in charcoal concentration, which suggests an increase in biomass burning which is potentially related to a broad range of economic activities, including fuel production for metal smelting.
Previously, the oldest European environmental pollution dating to circa 3000 BC had been found in southern Spain, but the new data from Crveni Potok show that metal pollution was evident in this region of eastern Europe more than 500 years earlier. This evidence is the earliest documented in European environmental records and indicates environmental pollution from metallurgy at a time when Britons were still in the Stone Age. This confirms that the Balkans were not only the birthplace of metallurgy in Europe, but also of metallic pollution.
Furthermore, levels of lead pollution decreased dramatically in western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire, a feature not observed in this Balkan record. This suggests that the region – which is metal rich – should be considered more of a major player in environmental metal pollution through Dark and Middle Ages than previously thought.
This contrast between eastern and western Europe indicates that while western Europe was in the 'Dark Ages' there was significant economic development in the Balkan area with high levels of metal environmental pollution throughout the Medieval period. This confirms the large extent and size of the metalworking industry in the Balkans during this era.
As part of his PhD research Jack Longman uncovered these findings, supervised by Dr Vasile Ersek, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography in the University's Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences.
Dr Ersek explained: "Much of the focus in determining sources of ancient pollution has been on established sources such as the Romans or ancient Greeks, but these findings highlight the crucial role that the Balkan metallurgy has played in the economic development of the area.
Dr Longman added: "What is most interesting is that after the Roman Empire falls in the third and fourth centuries AD, lead pollution continues and even increases, indicating that the strong mining and smelting culture developed by the Romans was continued by the local population. This goes against the long-held view of barbaric hordes with little technological know-how ousting the Romans leading to the Dark Ages – as we term the 1,000 years following the Roman period.
The paper Exceptionally high levels of lead pollution in the Balkans from the Early Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution is available via the internationally renowned journal PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Northumbria University undertakes international cutting-edge research in Geography and Environmental Sciences disciplines, with global projects funded by, or in collaboration with, the Department for International Development (DfID), Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), the European Union (EU), the Leverhulme Trust, Environment Canada, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and US National Science Foundation (NSF).
The University's Cold and Palaeo Environment group carries out ground-breaking research in the areas of 'Past Climate and Environment' and 'Ice, Snow and Permafrost', with work recently carried out in Vietnam, Ecuador, Canada, Chile, the Himalayas and the European Alps.
Top physicists from around the world will meet in Newcastle next week to discuss the development of the world's largest solar telescope.
Climate change may have played a more important role in the extinction of Neanderthals than previously believed, according to a new study published in the journal, Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.
A geographer from Northumbria University, Newcastle is leading on a £340,000 research project to examine how ancient civilisations in one of the most remote and inhospitable areas of the Amazon farmed their land.
A new multimillion pound centre to train scientists to transform our understanding of planet Earth has been announced between Northumbria University and Newcastle University.


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October Persons of the Month to mark their work over the years.
Cork Authors William Wall And Tadhg Coakley Honoured.
Award-winning writers William Wall and Tadhg Coakley are very much part of Cork's great literary tradition and both have now been chosen as October Cork Persons' of the Month.
William Wall was born in Cork City but grew up in the East Cork village of Whitegate. He graduated from University College Cork (UCC) with a degree in Philosophy and English and holds a PhD in creative writing, also from UCC. He started his career as a teacher of English at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. But the art of writing was always his first passion. He published his first piece of work, a collection of poetry, in 1997 and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. In 2000, his first novel, 'Alice Falling', was published.
Pics by Harry Moore and Darragh Kane.
To date Wall has published six novels, four collections of poetry and three collections of short fiction. See his full list of work as novelist, poet and short story writer on www.williamwall.net.
Tadhg Coakley from Mallow, who now lives in Ballinlough, began writing later in life. After taking early retirement from his job as a librarian in CIT he turned to writing.
He enrolled in the MA in Creative Writing in UCC. His MA gave him the confidence to write his first novel, 'The First Sunday in September' which was published in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Mercier Press fiction prize. Tadhg's next novel 'Whatever It Takes', a crime novel set in Cork, was published in August 2020 and named as the 2020 Cork One City, One Book. His most recent work is a biography of Cork dual-star Denis Coughlan. Get more information on Tadhg at tadhgcoakley.com.
Speaking on their awards win William Wall said, "It's an honour to be named as Cork Person of the Month. Cork is a city of many writers and great talkers. It has given me so much material to work with over the years, you could say it is city of the month for me every month."
Tadhg Coakley commented, "In my younger days I would never have thought that I'd be receiving this award in honour of my writing. But I am delighted that I chose to pursue my passion, and the fact that people enjoy what I do is truly heart-warming."
Awards Organiser Manus O'Callaghan added "Bill Wall and Tadhg Coakley are two people that Cork people would just like to say "Thank You For The Work," so it's nice that we can do that on their behalf."
William Wall and Tadhg Coakley's names will now go forward for possible selection as Cork Persons' of the Year.


A*STAR has built a testbed for digital twins, the virtual counterparts of real manufacturing equipment. These factory innovations could help companies save huge amounts of time and money by predicting and adjusting for their partner machine's condition on the go.
Imagine that a manufacturing giant has a machine on one of its factory floors in which a spindle is about to snap. In a conventional factory, the whirring machine will give no warning of its impending malfunction, and its failure will come at a random moment. Diagnosis and repair will be relatively slow, constrained by data collection and the organizing of human and material resources. For a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company, the lag can be costly. "Because of the high volume, we're talking about millions of dollars in losses for every hour of down time," says Stuart Wong, the senior group manager at the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) in Singapore, where a number of companies collaborate with A*STAR researchers on advancing manufacturing technology, including making highly intelligent, sensorized machines.
With some help from ARTC's model smart factory, a manufacturing technology testbed that opened in August, kinks could be navigated using a concept known as a 'digital twin'. The idea is that machines will be sensorized, so that the spindle in the machine is continually monitored and its performance data sent to a central control room. There, the data is fed into a computer that acts as a digital twin of the machine – a virtual copy that accurately reflects the machine's current operating status based on real-time sensor data and physics modeling. The digital twin, detecting a slight wobble in the spindle, might adjust its physical counterpart's operating parameters to correct for the wobble. Or, if the wobble can't be corrected for, it might warn of an impending malfunction.
In the control room an operator would then be tipped off, and this person can then set off a standardized response. "The digital twin might then create a maintenance work order, determine whether you could reroute production so that delivery is not impacted, find the appropriate maintenance personnel, and tell them where to go," says Anikath Murali Das, one of ARTC's program managers. Those maintenance personnel could quickly repair or replace the faulty machine, guided, either by a tablet showing a customized data feed on the impacted machine, or by a set of augmented reality glasses. For FMCG companies such as Nestlé, working with ARTC on technologies like this enables them to minimise down time and improve performance and capital efficiency in their factories.
Many of these advances may sound a bit like science-fiction, but all of the necessary technologies are in development at ARTC. For example, ARTC is building augmented reality capabilities using Microsoft's HoloLens, a type of goggle that mixes visuals of the real world with digitally enhanced overlays. Alongside this, ARTC researchers are building a suite of web-based applications that will give roving workers access to dashboards of important data on their phones and tablets, as well as the means to dial into virtual help if needed. "If some maintenance or repair task is beyond the scope of a worker, [using our tools] a colleague somewhere else could see exactly what the worker standing at the machine sees and guide them on what to do," explains Das.
ARTC has also developed a digital-twin of a co-bot, a robot designed to physically assist a human operator with tasks such as moving hot or heavy objects. At the moment, information flows only from the physical co-bot to its digital copy, but Wong says that ARTC's digital twins will eventually be bi-directional, so the digital version can adjust the operation of its physical twin in real time, instantly reacting to the information it receives.
There are security implications of data flowing from smart control rooms directly controlling millions of dollars of expensive, high-precision equipment that ARTC is addressing. "The security of the data is the one thing that everyone is concerned about," says Das. In addition to the security questions raised by having a centralized control room are generalized concerns around having infinitely more data. But this data can be very useful in tracing old faults. For example, when companies hear from their customers that their products have quality problems. Typically, by the time a customer delivers feedback like this, it can be difficult to diagnose what might have caused the problem. So, Das explains, the ARTC digital twin model factory wants to keep all relevant data. "We can go back to a particular day, look at all the dashboards, drill down, diagnose and solve the problem." But in conceiving these systems, Wong says that it's vitally important to focus on designing software architecture that is very secure, as well as scalable, reliable, and lag-free.
And data will flow not just inside individual smart factories, Das says, but also between them. "Machines will be able to talk to machines directly," she explains, and that includes machines located outside the factory. Networked machines will work together to predict failures, and to respond to them. For example, "the machine in my factory could tell a machine in an offsite factory 'shut down, I don't want the part you're making'," Das says.
Sophisticated digital twins are already in use in some of these ways at NASA, which tracks spacecraft using digital twins, and also to some extent at General Electric, which creates digital twins of some of its wind turbines and jet engines to monitor their performance and carry out preventive maintenance. However, many more bespoke versions must be created to harness this technology for manufacturing.
Unfortunately, corporations are sometimes reluctant to test the technology on their own because they didn't want to disrupt their own facilities. It's also just difficult, says Wong, to bring together experts in manufacturing with the wide range of analytical scientists that could provide useful input.
The model factory sandbox built by ARTC provides industry with the freedom to experiment and build, then to take back new technologies and best practices to their factory lines. In addition to FMCG companies like Nestlé, these collaborations have already attracted significant interest from aerospace and heavy industry corporations, among others. "We are bridging the gap between pure research and product development," Das explains. As of today, 69 industries have joined ARTC in doing just that.
It is an era that is less than 10 years old, but Industry 4.0 ambitiously imagines a new kind of factory that merges the cyber world – with its rich information flows, data visualization, and artificial intelligence – and the physical world, with its spindles, machines and presses.
In January, a World Economic Forum analysis of 100 countries placed Singapore at the forefront of this changing landscape, listing it among the 25 countries best positioned to benefit from Industry 4.0. In their discussion, its authors pointed to Singapore's strong competencies in research and development, economic complexity, and openness to trade as major factors.
Media analyses have noted a push by the Singapore government to bolster this enviable position, noting a carrot and stick approach with grants and levies being bestowed on manufacturers, and strong financial backing for a series of support systems that including A*STAR's two model factories initiatives. Singapore has also recently launched of the Singapore Smart Industry Readiness Index, a tool to help industrial companies measure their progress towards Industry 4.0 standards.
A*STAR's Model Factory Initiative aims to bridge technological gaps so businesses can reinvent themselves through technology co-innovation and adoption. There are two locations – one in A*STAR's Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) and the other in A*STAR's Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech). The two play complementary roles to demonstrate the efficacy of advanced manufacturing technologies and guide companies on different legs of their technology adoption journey.
Mobile data displays and augmented reality technology to assist maintenance and repair staff.
Underlying all of these technologies is a scalable, secure and lag-free data architecture.


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In the Shadow of Ghandi, Jewish Voice for Peace Urges End to Israeli Crackdown
Alex Ellefson Jun 28, 2014
In the Southwest corner of Union Square, under the gaze of the park's statue of Mahatma Ghandi, demonstrators lined up on Thursday evening to protest the violent crackdown by Israeli forces that have poured into Palestinian territory to search for three Israeli teenagers who disappeared two weeks ago. So far, Israeli soldiers have killed six Palestinians and arrested at least 371 others in their search for the missing boys, who Israel says were kidnapped from a West Bank settlement by members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The demonstration was organized by the New York chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that advocates for divestment strategies to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territory.
Jewish Voice for Peace member Pam Sporn said that group organized the event in order to give context to people in the United States about what's happening in Palestine.
"Israel's reaction, by seizing on these abductions, is totally out of proportion when I think of the kind of violence that is being reigned down on the Palestinians right now," she said. "And I think it could be in response to the unity between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority."
Many of the demonstrators in Union Square said they believed Israel was using the kidnapping as a pretext for driving a wedge between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas which has had 64 of the social welfare operations it maintains in the West Bank shut down by the Israelis according to Time.com. The two Palestinian factions agreed in April to set aside their differences and form a unity government, which caused Israel to abruptly suspend its peace talks with the Palestinian Authority.
Almost immediately after the teens went missing on June 12, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas and said the kidnappings were the result of " bringing a terrorist organization into the government." So far, besides releasing the names of two men affiliated with Hamas that Israel claims are responsible, Israeli authorities have not revealed any evidence that Hamas is behind the kidnappings.
Jewish Voice for Peace member Tami Gold, who returned from Palestine a few days after the three boys went missing, said the Israeli response was so rapid that it almost seemed like they "were waiting for something like this to happen." However, she said that she was shocked by the hostility average Israelis showed to the Palestinians.
"On my last day there I went to the Wailing Wall," she said. "I heard terrible chants. They sounded very much like prayers. It was something like: "kill 1,000 Arabs." They were saying it in English and in Hebrew. It was startling to see people in a religious context talk about killing."
Some of the protestors with Gold carried signs depicting human silhouettes around the names of Palestinians recently killed by Israeli defense forces, including Nadeem Nuwara, the 17-year-old Palestinian who's death by a mysterious bullet during a demonstration in May was recorded by a closed circuit television camera. Another sign depicted Mohammed Dudeen, the 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed last Friday during a clash with Israeli forces.
"We from Jewish Voice for Peace felt it was important to immediately get out here and say that the violence has to stop. People in the U.S. may have heard about the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers but they're not learning about the violence coming from the Israelis," said Sporn. "And they're not learning about the hundreds of Palestinian children who are in detention in Israeli jails. They're not hearing about the Palestinian hunger strikers who are being held without charge and without trial."
Shahar Azani, consul for media affairs at the Israeli Embassy in New York, told The Indypendent that there was no comparison between the abduction of the three teenagers and the incarceration of Palestinians within the Israeli judicial system. He urged Jewish Voice for Peace to stop preaching politics and to loudly condemn the kidnappings.
"Why mention it when you have kids who were just abducted if you're a humanitarian organization that claims to care about human beings?" He said. "Here's a challenge: Don't try to dilute the message. Come out and say abduction by terrorists is wrong."
In a statement posted on its website, Jewish Voice for Peace states that it "condemns the kidnapping of Gilad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach, the Israeli, West Bank teens abducted by, as yet, unidentified individuals while returning home from school." However, the statement also condemns "the collective punishment being imposed on Palestinians as a response to the kidnapping of the three Israeli West Bank teenagers."
Speaking at the protest in Union Square, Jewish Voice for Peace Member Candace Graff said, "I think it's important that we made a fuss. I don't know if this is going to change anything, but we handed out 500 flyers and maybe 15 people read them and thought about it for more than one second."
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Stick with seqnames(). The chrom() accessor is from before GRanges existed. Should probably be deprecated.


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Coastal NC Hurricanes, Dropbox, Facebook, More: Wednesday Afternoon Buzz, June 20, 2018
By ResearchBuzz on June 20, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )
Coastal Review: 'Harm's Way' Exhibit Shows Century of Storms. "The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center has collected accounts and artifacts from the storms that have molded the coast into what it is today and has compiled 'Harm's Way: How Storms Have Shaped Our Communities, Our History and Us,' an exhibit and online resource that tells how the last hundred-plus years of storms have affected Hatteras, Ocracoke and Down East Carteret County."
Publishers Weekly: Dropbox Expands Media, Entertainment Partnerships. "Dropbox, a popular file hosting and cloud storage service, has announced expanded relationships with such firms as Getty Images, Marvel, and Westchester Publishing as part of its commitment to expand its presence into digital collaboration and content security."
CNET: Facebook opioid searches will go to a federal crisis help line, report says. "Facebook users who are trying to buy opioids or are looking for addiction treatment will be pointed toward information about a federal crisis help line, the company reportedly announced Tuesday." On its face I think this is an excellent idea. But Facebook is so non-transparent about privacy and what it does with user data that this new feature makes me really uneasy.
TechCrunch: Adobe debuts Project Rush, its new all-in-one video editor. "Adobe today announced the launch of Project Rush, a new video editor that takes the core features of its pro tools like Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition and combines them into a single, more accessible tool. Don't get too excited yet, though, the new tool will only be available later this year (and my guess would be a launch at the company's Max conference in October)."
Municipalities and local governments, don't get too comfy about using Google products. Case in point from the New Zealand Herald: Metlink upset over Google Maps price hike of $29,000 a month . "Wellington's Metlink says a $29,000-a-month price increase for its use of Google Maps is unfair and it was not given enough notice of the change. The public transport provider was told yesterday that its monthly bill will increase from $1000 to $30,000, coming into effect in mid-July."
TorrentFreak: YouTube's Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More (Updated). "Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube's piracy filters have been triggered. It's unclear, however, who or what is to blame."
BBC: Facebook ordered to explain deleted profile. "Facebook has been ordered by a UK high court judge to reveal who told it to delete the profile of a jazz musician and his band, six months after he died. The Times reports that the firm said it had acted on a request but had declined to reveal to the family who had instructed it. Mirza Krupalija's partner Azra Sabados says she is certain that it was not a family member or friend."
Ars Technica: Widely used D-Link modem/router under mass attack by potent IoT botnet. "Malicious hackers are mass exploiting a critical vulnerability in D-Link DSL routers in an attempt to make them part of Satori, the potent Internet-of-things botnet that is used to take down websites and mine digital coins, researchers said."
Reuters: Good social media experiences don't outweigh bad ones for young adults. "For young adults, the adverse effect of negative social media experiences on mental health outweigh any potential benefits of positive experiences, a study of university students suggests. Each 10 percent increase in a student's negative experiences on social media was associated with a 20 percent increase in the odds of depressive symptoms, researchers found."
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• What changes are becoming starkly clear that need to be made ?
• How can I shift from a life-negative to a life-affirmative mindset ?
• What needs to be done, let go, removed in order to move forward and grow ?
• Can I remember and believe that I have the strength and determination to do what is necessary ?
What emotions arise for you when you see or hear the words Death, Decay, Transformation ?
We may be feeling as if the weight of the world is bearing down so hard that we can't or don't want to get up and even try to keep going.
But perhaps we are being asked to take a step back and look at things differently. Perhaps we are engaging in unnecessary and ineffective struggle to maintain, to hold on to, creating an inflexibility to even consider the possibility of letting go, of getting rid of.
There is a starkness that is being brought to our consciousness and awareness that we can longer turn a blind eye to, a clarity that shows us the way forward only by clearing away some of the very things that we have convinced ourselves (and maybe even others) that we can't be, can't do, can't live without.
It is time for us to reach deep down, deeper still, to find the strength and determination to do what is necessary, not just what is easy or convenient or safe.
Instead of saying Goodbye, let us say Fare Thee Well … recognising that a shift in the winds of change and parting of ways (whether with people, places, situations or things) is in the best and highest interest of everyone involved … and that the clinging, the desperate holding on to, is suffocating and strangling the very life out of what once was and can no longer be. This can be the root of feeling cut off, confined, being punished for something.
The depths of depression are calling for action, whether it is reaching out for professional help to find the way through a dark period, or cutting off, letting go, leaving behind those things that are at the root of the depression.
We are being asked to recognise how and where we have adopted a life-negative mindset that can cause us to act, accept or settle for things that are not right or good for us.
Instead, let's work on how we can transform that mindset into one that is life-affirmative, ready to see what else there is, what other possibilities may exist, what other futures and paths may await once we step out of and away from the present we're (over)indulging.


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""" Sample a sine wave with gaussian noise """

# NOTE: you may need to put the following line in ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
"""
backend: TkAgg
"""

# Import modules
import  sys
import  math
from    math    import pi
from    pylab   import *

# Initialize variables
DEBUG       = True

def gen_sine(frequency=1, amplitude=1, noise=0.0, cycles=1, rate=10, phase=0.0):
    " Sample a noisy sine wave and return a list of sample amplitudes "

    # Calculated derived values
    dt          = 1/(frequency*rate)
    period      = 1/frequency
    steps       = arange(0, cycles*period, dt)

    samples     = []    # create an empty list

    # calculate amplitude at each sample point
    # for given number of cycles
    for t in steps:
        angle   = 2*pi*t/period + phase     # in radians
        a       = amplitude*math.sin(angle) + noise*randn()
        samples.append(a)
        if DEBUG:
            print "Sample at t=%8.6g is [%4.3g]" % (t, a)

    sys.stdout.flush()
    return samples

# plot results
def plot_sine(samples, amplitude, frequency, noise):
    """ Create a figure and plot the specified sine wave"""

    # Calculated derived values
    dt          = 1/(frequency*rate)
    period      = 1/frequency
    steps       = arange(0, cycles*period, dt)

    figure()
    plot(steps,samples)
    title("Sine wave with amplitude %4.1f,\n" % amplitude +
          "frequency %4.1f, and noise %4.1f" % (frequency, noise))
    xlabel("time (s)")
    ylabel("amplitude")
    savefig("sine.png")
    show()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    frequency   = 1.5e0 # 2200 Hz
    amplitude   = 100.0
    noise       = 5.0
    cycles      = 4
    rate        = 50    # samples per cycle
    phase       = pi/4  # radians

    samples = gen_sine(frequency, amplitude, noise, cycles, rate, phase)
    plot_sine(samples, amplitude, frequency, noise)


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College Community Welcomes Nicole Farmer Hurd
College Community Welcomes Nic…
Alumni, staff, students share excitement for Hurd's presidency	Twitter
Nicole Farmer Hurd's inauguration ceremony Oct. 1 brought a variety of speakers to the dais and attracted an audience of alumni, students, faculty, and staff eager to witness and discuss the historic moment. Here's what they had to say.
Rev. Alexandra Hendrickson, College chaplain
"There is a notion among some folks that ceremonies such as this one are just ceremonial, that we dress up and have a bunch of speakers and sing the alma mater, just because we've always done it that way for the 17 previous presidents until now. But if we think of the ceremony as merely a ceremony, we miss out on the enchanted possibilities this day presents to us.
"The inauguration is a moment where we set the direction for the future of the institution and, in many ways, affirm our commitment to the shared values that make us a unique entity. It feels providential that President Hurd so often uses the word community to send her hopes for Lafayette College. So may this gathering be a call to begin anew."
Joshua Smith, associate professor of mechanical engineering and clerk of the faculty
"Lafayette College will benefit greatly from your experience and insight enhancing student access and inclusion. A new presidency provides an opportunity for the campus community to critically examine its current path and possible future paths.
"We look forward to working in partnership with you as we undertake this self-reflection so that we, as teachers and scholars, may provide the best education and experience for our students. Lafayette will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2026, and you will lead the College, its faculty and its students into its third century. The faculty are excited to embark on this journey with you, and, to use your words, we are ready to be bold and brave with you."
David Ellis, former Lafayette College president (1978-1990), representing all presidents emeriti
"President Hurd, as you come to know the College you will learn what a special and wonderful institution it is. Everyone here knows these are unusually challenging times with great opportunities. President Hurd, you bring special talents and experiences to this position. We, your predecessors, like everyone else here, wish you the very best in everything, and we stand ready to be of assistance in any way we can."
Salvatore J. Panto Jr., mayor of Easton
"It is my immense privilege and honor to welcome President Nicole Farmer Hurd to our increasingly vibrant college and city. Our entire region shares in my excitement to have your leadership and vision guiding this institution of higher learning. In your short time on campus, we have already seen the passion that you bring to this important position and the commitment you bring to our community."
Flor de Maria Selena Caceres Godoy '22, president of student government
"I know this job will be very demanding, and at times you will be forced to make difficult decisions. But please never stop making this a place where all kids can feel at home, a place where future generations, especially first-generation, low-income, undocumented, international or Black and Brown students, can feel heard, supported, cared for, and protected. I hope that you are also able to find your own home here as well."
Alison Byerly, president of Carleton College, former president of Lafayette College (2013-2021)
"This has been a time of tremendous challenge for all higher education institutions. The events of the last 20 months have tested our systems, our structures, our assumptions, and our communities. To begin a college presidency at such a time is an act of faith. It represents a commitment to the idea that colleges, universities, and the students we educate have an important role to play in solving the many problems facing our country and our world.
"I am confident that Lafayette College will live up to that expectation. Lafayette has a long tradition of preparing students to be leaders, problem solvers, activists, and dreamers. All of these will be needed in the years to come. As a fellow college president, I am pleased to welcome Nicole Hurd to our ranks, and I look forward to working with her and with Lafayette to make good on the promise that colleges like ours offer the nation."
Tracy Hagert Sutka '82, president, Alumni Association Board
"President Hurd, in the short time you have been on campus you have inspired the alumni with your entrepreneurial energy to make college more accessible and your experience in promoting undergraduate excellence.
"We accept your challenge to be bold and brave with you as you lead the College into our bicentennial in 2026. Your experience aligns with our mission, while your vision pays homage to our College history and traditions. I speak for all 29,000 alumni when I say congratulations on becoming Lafayette College's 18th president."
Sherryta Freeman, director of athletics
"We know your vision will drive us forward and make us stronger, while staying true to our core educational mission. We look forward to being bold and brave with you.
"You will push us to be the best that we can, and in turn, we will be motivated to push beyond our imagination, because there is care and gratitude for the community and how we all contribute to it. President Hurd, you have already redefined what community means to the Lafayette family. We pledge to honor that partnership."
Robert Sell '84, chair of the Board of Trustees and presidential search committee
"We have the opportunity to embrace the moment and move the institution forward. We have a leader who expresses a desire to join us in that journey and lead the charge. I leave it to all of you to decide. I'm committed. She's committed. I think many of you are committed."
Barbara Levy '77, co-chair of the inauguration committee
"Today not only represents a celebratory milestone in Lafayette's history, but a very special moment for Lafayette. President Hurd has shown exceptional leadership and dedication to improving access and excellence in higher education throughout her distinguished career."
Wynne Whitman '86, co-chair of the inauguration committee
"Now, we are fortunate to have her lead Lafayette at a time when the College is on the precipice of opportunity. An upcoming 200th anniversary, the start of a new campaign, and President Hurd's leadership will catapult Lafayette to a bold future."
Kamaka Martin '04
"It is really a momentous occasion to be a part of this wonderful day, to really welcome President Hurd as she shepherds the College into this new phase. It's very exciting, and just a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the College, reconnect with fellow alums, and to see all of the growth and the changes on campus."
Bri Braswell '16
"To hear President Hurd speak about love, community, and accountability, and also speaking about equality, they've chosen such a beautiful person to lead Lafayette into the future. You can see it in the amazing cohort of students that we're bringing here. The first-year class, there are some amazing scholars I've just gotten to connect with. And as somebody who has been an alum to now go through so many iterations, I think we're just at such a sweet spot of where we're going to be moving forward. I'm glad that she's the leader at the helm of that, and that she stands for what she says. I'm so excited for what's to come."
Michael Weisburger '82
"This is such a time of incredible promise and incredible opportunity. President Hurd is the right person at the right time. She's full of positive energy, and that's what I'm all about."
Alex Karapetian '04
"It's a fantastic occasion and one that I wouldn't miss. Lafayette is such a big part of my life and my family's life, and it's like coming back home. It's wonderful to be part of the festivities and celebrations, and to look toward the future of the College."
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Mastercard mulls over prospects of cash withdrawals from POS terminals in Russian stores
Mastercard already provides this service in several countries
© AP Photo/Alastair Grant
MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. The Mastercard international payment system is discussing an option of withdrawing cash through POS-terminals installed at the checkout counters in Russian stores, a representative of Mastercard told TASS.
"Mastercard already provides this service in several countries, we saw that many Russian banks took interest in it and together with our partners we are working on the possibility to introduce this service on this market," the representative of Mastercard said.
According to the company's representative, a research showed that "the availability of cash withdrawal contributes to the fact that people leave more money on cards and as a result they are more likely to use a card to pay for purchases."
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In this regard, providing an opportunity to withdraw cash via POS-terminals in stores could contribute to the growth of non-cash economy, the representative said.
According to the source familiar with the first results of testing the technology the amount that can be withdrawn is limited to 5,000 rubles.
"In particular the technical launch [of the project] was implemented by the Russian Standard bank and Mastercard: cash is withdrawn from a bank card via a POS-terminal in the store, where a customer shops," the source said.
In his turn, the director of the payment services and systems department of FC Otkrytie Alexander Dynin told TASS that the idea of withdrawing cash at checkout counters was discussed about a year ago.
"The Otkrytie bank did not conduct such pilot projects. The technology itself is understandable, but at the moment it is out of the legal environment and is banned by the rules of payment systems. The use of this function was discussed in expert circles about a year ago, and there were quite many questions to the legal aspects and the applicability of the tool in various retail segments. For us, the effect of the initiative is not yet obvious, we are watching the market," he said.
Earlier, the Vedomosti newspaper reported that Russian banks and payment systems are testing a service that allows you to withdraw cash from the card at the checkout of the store via POS terminals. In particular, according to the publication, Sberbank has already conducted several pilot projects. The press service of Sberbank did not comment on this topic.


Whenever I think of the Tex-Mex sound, The Sir Douglas Quintet comes to mind. Here they are performing their 1965 hit, lip-sync and all, "She's About A Mover" on NBC's Hullabaloo on May 4, 1965.
I remember it all!!!!! Thanks!!!!!


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This large church, the burial place of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, boasts a variety of styles: part of the chapel is twelfth-century; the transepts are seventeenth-century Romanesque; and the nave is fifteenth-century Gothic.
Didnt go looking for this church. However i just stumbled into this beautiful building. Wow it is quite a work of art and it free to go inside. The builders of this building and others in Brussels are truly exceptional. Go and enjoy.
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