Would you kill a 16-year-old boy with a drone strike if the CIA considered him a potential threat and possible future terrorist due to his familial relations?
What classifies an American citizen as a terrorist?
You have received numerous donations from various international banking and investment companies. Do they have more influence on your decision making than the average American citizen?
Should Kim Dotcom be allowed to set up a new Megaupload website?
Recently, French scientists discovered that GMO corn causes cancer in rats. Should further studies be conducted and should the Monsanto Corporation be investigated?
Al-Qaeda has been shown to be behind the rebellion in the various Northern African and Middle Eastern countries. Should the rebels continue to be supported?
The United States' national debt is now around 16 trillion. Do you have a plan to pay this off along with serious mathematical models to back up your claims?
Recently, the Bilderberg group met in Chantilly, Virginia. What was your role in attending or sending one of your officials to attend? What did you all agree on at that meeting?
If Israel were to attack Turkey, a NATO ally, would the United States remain neutral or come to the aid of its longtime ally Turkey?
Do you agree with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's decision to proceed with indefinite quantitative easing?
In August of 2012, Brandon Raub was committed to a mental institution for posting inflammatory comments on his private Facebook page. Were the Federal, State, and Local police force correct to do this?
Do you support the Department of Homeland Security providing grants to local towns in order to purchase law-enforcement tanks and other assorted armored vehicles?
Do you support the continued use of the Transportation Security Agency to perform pat downs?
Given that the full body scanning machines has been shown to cause cancer in people, do you support their continued usage?
Given that the full body scanning machines have been show to not keep people from getting metallic objects and bombs on airplanes, do you support their continued usage?
Should the United States continue with all of its foreign aid programs?
Should the FBI and various other Federal law enforcement agencies be allowed to continue its policies of entrapment in order to ensnare potential criminals?
Should the House of Representatives be increased to its Constitutional size of 1 House member per 30,000 people?
Is the Federal Reserve a private organization or a public organization? If it is public, should they then be audited? If it is private, should they be shut down as only Congress can print and coin money under the Constitution?
Can you explain how the Gross Domestic Product is calculated?
Can you explain how the Consumer Price Index is calculated?
Can you explain how the unemployment rate is calculated?
Given that Federal defense spending, national debt interest, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security all constitute over two-thirds of the budgetary needs, which of these would you cut in order to reach a balanced budget?
What is the President's role in resolving the abortion debate?
What is your stance on State Nullification?


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Oral Answers to Questions
SDG10: Reducing Inequality
Danielle Rowley (Midlothian) (Lab)
5. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK meets sustainable development goal 10 on reducing inequality. [908417]
The Minister of State, Department for International Development (Harriett Baldwin)
The Department for International Development's mission is to reduce inequality by ending extreme poverty.
Danielle Rowley
We often talk in this place, at least on this side of the House, about the importance of universal public services like the NHS and inclusive education in ensuring that everyone, regardless of income, has access to essential services, which will bring about more equal societies. What is the Department doing to ensure that UK aid better supports the development of universal free public services in the countries in which it works?
The hon. Lady is absolutely right that that forms a core part of our work not only on ending extreme poverty but in providing access to essential, lifesaving services. Whether it is helping with infants and preventing maternal mortality or providing 12 years of quality education, the Department is working around the world on those opportunities.
Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire) (Con)
My hon. Friend will be aware that I am a member of the independent commission on sexual misconduct set up by Oxfam following the Haiti issues and that the commission is about to produce its interim report. Does she agree that the way in which staff are treated by non-governmental organisations, showing proper respect and reducing inequality, is an important step towards meeting this development goal?
I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for the work he is doing on this important issue. Last year the Department took a leadership role on addressing such issues not only within the Department but within the providers we work with around the world.
Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
11. What progress has the Department made in engaging with children and young people to achieve sustainable development goal 16.2 to end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children? [908423]
Through our own work, through the International Citizen Service and through our work with many of our partner organisations, including UNICEF, we are working extensively on this issue. I am glad to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that the UK is the largest donor to the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children.
Dame Caroline Spelman (Meriden) (Con)
Does the Minister agree that it will be impossible to meet sustainable development goal 10 unless people with disabilities are included in all our humanitarian and development work?
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight this, which is why last year the UK held the disability summit and launched the disability strategy to make sure that those people are truly included in all our development work.

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Q: Can I Avoid Tupled Parameters In This Elixir Anonymous Function? I'm working through "Programming Elixir" and I came across the exercise headed "Exercise: Functions 2".  Long story short, basically code a function which emits Fizzbuzz if the first two parameters are 0, Fizz if the first param is 0, Buzz if the second param is 0 and the third param if neither of the first two are zero.  I came up with this:
fizzbuzztest = fn
   {0,0,_} -> "FizzBuzz"
   {0,_,_} -> "Fizz"
   {_,0,_} -> "Buzz"
   {_,_,v} -> "#{v}"
end

Called like so:
fizzbuzztest.({0,0,8}) # "FizzBuzz"

But I'm wondering--is there some way to do this without having to tuple the parameters? It seems there should be some way to pass three arguments and work the pattern match but I haven't found it yet.  Any suggestions from those more experienced with Elixir would be welcome.

A: You can solve this particular exercise with:
fizzbuzztest = fn
   0,0,_ -> "FizzBuzz"
   0,_,_ -> "Fizz"
   _,0,_ -> "Buzz"
   _,_,v -> "#{v}"
end

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It's hard to believe that it has been numerous years, more like a decade and a half, since I was able to be in the company of my mom and sister – just the three of us. I guess when we age, our priorities in life change. We focus more on our lives with our spouse and children then we do with our siblings and parents. There comes a time, though, throughout those years that you miss what you once had and making every effort to gain some of that back becomes important.
Breast cancer struck us all hard two years ago. After life was just settling down from my diagnosis, my sister's breast cancer hit us even harder. A pre-cancer diagnosis changed to a surprised stage 2 and then quickly changed again to stage 3. This became a time in all of our lives where we realized life is too short to ignore that family you still love and hold dear to your heart.
My sister hit a milestone birthday recently. The time where many people describe celebrating life as a climb up hill, and once you hit that magic number of forty, you are now on the downhill side. I have to say, in my sister's case, she is rocking forty. She's still climbing, all while discovering a new self.
My sister's request for her birthday was one I want to continue for years to come. All she wanted was a girl's trip. It didn't matter where we went or what we did, she just wanted to spend time with her mom and sister. After years of missing and yearning for the chance to get us all together again, I couldn't resist this request. I mean really, I jumped at the chance. I didn't care what life was throwing my way; I was going on that trip.
A short trip to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada was just what the three of us needed. There was a little bit of adventure that tested our strengths and weaknesses. A little bit of fun that created moments of joy and memories to last a lifetime. It was not enough time to spend with the ones you love, yet just enough to make you dream for the next trip.
I have to say, this trip was above all expectations. Whistler was just as breathtaking as I figured it would be. The activities offered to not only adults, but children as well could keep you entertained for days. However, most importantly to me, it was the time I desperately needed to spend with my mom and sister to strengthen our bond.


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I Have Cloned a Human: I can be "As God"
This morning Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, a controversial fertility specialist, is telling the world, "I've cloned a human."
He says he has cloned 14 embryos and placed 11 of them into wombs of four women. A documentary film maker says he filmed the process as evidence that it happened and that the women were consenting.
Zavos is controversial, to say the least. Many researchers dismiss him. However, he seems to reflect a tendency that others, perhaps a couple of years behind him, share.
Zavos said on Kentucky Public Television, just after the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997, "I don't have time to think about the ethics of what I am doing. I'll leave that to someone else."
It is apparent that others, in our rush toward secularism, are agreeing with Zavos. While he and others may not have the time to think about the ethics of what we are doing, people of faith and pastors in particular, must have the time and courage to do so.
If not us, who?
The moral vacuum that is being created in America as a result of running from the biblical principles upon which this country was founded and framed, will certainly lead to a similar place as the first two humans found themselves as a result of believing they could be "As God."
While President Obama has said he will not support human cloning, his new embryonic stem cell research policy and guidelines have some very concerned.
There are those who believe that the Administration is sliding even further down the slippery slope.
While the President has publicly denounced human cloning, Douglas Johnson from the National Right To Life Committee told ONENEWSNOW.COM that he believes the Administration is sliding even further down this slippery slope.
He said, "This seeming restraint is really part of a step-by-step strategy intended to desensitize the public to the whole concept of killing human embryos in federally sponsored research."
Once killing is acceptable, artificially creating life cannot be far behind.
Incrementalism is an important component of the extreme far left agenda. We have seen it in Washington State in regard to homosexual marriage---we are seeing it now in matters of life.
Perhaps all medical research should heed the ancient medico-scientific injunction, Primum non nocere--"First do no harm."
Pushing the envelope can be a good thing in some fields of achievement, however, to do so in this field, without the restraint of biblical morality will be deadly.
The serpent said to the first woman, "You will not surely die, you will be like God."
Pretending to be God when you are not God is a very risky venture.
Oshtur Vishanti 12:46 PM, April 22, 2009
Ok deep breath everyone - we see clones all the time - they are called 'identical twins'.
Yes the idea of producing lots of people with the same genome IS an ethical issue, I can think of more reasons not to do it than I can for, but its no more 'god-like' than any fertility technology.
Anonymous 12:56 PM, April 22, 2009
Wow. Well said.
Anonymous 1:02 PM, April 22, 2009
but its no more 'god-like' than any fertility technology.
That was the point
Cloning is a copy, not the original; and the process involved doesn't "create" a cell; The Scientists used that which was already created. He didn't simply pull anything out of thin air. So, evolutionists have proven nothing, except that the existence of God is still the most probably explanation for the origin of man.


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Detectives say Brooks Houck killed Rogers
Investigators say forensic evidence ties Nick Houck to cover up
By Forrest Berkshire, Editor
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 5:47 pm (Updated: October 20, 6:48 pm)
Golfers question firing of Cox at MOKH
Magistrates want to bid insurance
Brooks Houck confronted Crystal Rogers about her having an affair the night of July 3 while the two of them were at his family's farm, Houck overreacted and killed her, and then called his brother to help dispose of the evidence.
That's the theory Kentucky State Police detectives laid out to former Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck near the end of a 104-minute interview on July 15, 10 days after the 35-year-old mother of five was reported missing by her family.
KSP detectives Jon Vaughn and Ryan Johnson both told Nick they did not believe his or his brother's claims of coincidence and "amnesia" surrounding the days immediately following the report of Rogers missing.
The Kentucky Standard obtained video of the interviews of Nick Houck on July 15 and Brooks Houck on July 8 in response to an open records request filed with the city of Bardstown after Nick Houck was fired from the department Friday. To view more of the video and selected segments, click here.
"We all have times where something just happens," Vaughn told Nick. "He probably found out that some other police officer or some other person in the town was cracking Crystal, and that very easily could happen … Your brother found out about it, confronted Crystal about it and when he did, he probably tried to maybe do something to her, as far as making her understand that wasn't going to fly with him. And then after that point, maybe it went just a little bit too far.
"And when it went a little bit too far, he couldn't turn back time. And when he couldn't turn back time, who's he going to reach out to, but the one person he trusts and knows that will help him out, and that would be you."
The investigators told Nick they thought he was dragged into a cover-up by his brother, first only giving advice to Brooks.
But they said he later became more involved and used his police cruiser to move the body.
As evidence, investigators claimed the KSP forensics lab discovered bodily fluids on a blanket found in Nick's police cruiser after it was seized by the Nelson County Sheriff's Office, which is conducting the investigation into Rogers' disappearance.
The detectives said the lab used Luminol, a chemical used by forensics specialists to detect trace amounts of blood during investigations, on a blanket and trunk of the Bardstown Police cruiser.
"Why would your trunk look like a Smurf if they sprayed it? Why would it fluoresce?" Johnson asked Nick.
"It lit up like Chernobyl," Vaughn added.
"I don't have any idea," Nick replied. "There shouldn't be any bodily fluids in the trunk."
Nick said he had placed the blanket in his cruiser when he was using it to protect furniture while he was moving into a new home, and had left it in his cruiser until he could return it.
Besides the questions about the blanket and alleged bodily fluids, investigators also questioned Nick at length about the night of July 8.
That was the same day a sheriff's detective questioned Brooks, an interview that ended after Nick called his brother and warned him against speaking to Nelson County Sheriff's Detective Jonathan Snow.
Shortly after Brooks' interview with Snow ended, investigators said they had video evidence of Nick and Brooks arriving together at the family farm on Paschal Ballard Lane.
According to a clock on the wall of the interrogation room, Brooks left the interview at 7:10 p.m.
The two left the farm together around 11:22 p.m., police said.
"What we need to know is why you both went down to the farm," Johnson said.
"I can't remember," Nick replied. He said at other times during the interview that he did not recall them meeting at the farm at all, and if they did, it was a coincidence.
At several points during the interview, the KSP detectives voiced their doubts about the veracity of Nick's claims.
"Something … something's just not adding up here," Vaughn said. "One plus one always equals two."
Throughout the interview, Nick maintained his own innocence and his brother's. He also said several times that the two of them had not discussed Rogers' disappearance at any length, and he had never asked Brooks if he killed Rogers.
"I'm not going to cover something like this up for him," Nick said. "I'm just not that kind of guy. Furthermore, there's no way he had anything to do with this. If something has happened to her, it wasn't because of something he did."
At the end of the interview, Nick agreed to take a polygraph test the following Monday (the interview was on a Wednesday). According to documents filed in Nick's administrative hearing that led to his firing Friday, he later backed out of that agreement. Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin filed documents during the administrative hearing indicating Nick finally took the polygraph on July 24, and that the test indicated he was lying on several of his responses to the test.
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COVID-19: Ryanair boss criticises plan for mandatory testing of travellers
8 January 2021, 7:55 am
The chief executive of Ryanair has dismissed the government's plan for mandatory testing of arrivals from overseas as "a shambles".
Reports to Action Fraud have been rising in the last two months, particularly around scam text messages, as con artists seek to gain from the pandemic. Suspicious text messages reported by members of the public urge people to click a link to a bogus booking site which mimics an NHS page, asking for personal details such as bank account numbers. Con artists have also been known to use telephone calls to extract payments.
Dutch PM Rides Bike to King to Offer Resignation Over Child Benefits Scandal
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte cycled over to the Royal Palace of Amsterdam on January 15 to formally offer the king his cabinet's resignation, after investigations revealed thousands of child-welfare recipients had been wrongly accused of fraud.In a televised speech, Rutte told Dutch citizens that his government had failed the parents affected."The rule of law must protect citizens from an all-powerful government, and that has gone horribly wrong here," Rutte said, according to a transcript of his speech provided by Google. "At all levels, throughout the political-administrative-legal system, mistakes have been made that have resulted in great injustice to thousands of parents. But the political responsibility ultimately rests with the incumbent cabinet and nowhere else."Rutte said the government's priority would be financial compensation to the affected parents, and an overhaul of the country's welfare systems. The prime minister said his government would continue in a "caretaker" role until elections take place in mid-March.Shortly after the speech, Rutte took his bicycle to travel to the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, where he said he would offer "further explanation" to King Willem-Alexander. Credit: Auke van Eijsden via Storyful
Mike Pence calls Kamala Harris to congratulate her and offer help – but Donald Trump still hasn't contacted Joe Biden
Phone call between former rivals described as 'gracious and pleasant'


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Emergency repair carried out at Falkirk Crematorium to allow funerals to continue
Police continue to hunt driver who fled scene of Falkirk hit and run
Tesco staff rally round Falkirk families devastated by floods
Staff at a Falkirk supermarket chain have donated essential supplies to families and local residents who were affected by flooding earlier this year.
Tuesday, 24th November 2020, 4:00 pm
Tesco support for families in Westquarter, Falkirk, who were flooded out in August - residents Joanne Ure and Pat Parsons collecting the items from Tesco Community Champions Angela Combe and Arlene Campbell.
The team at Tesco in Falkirk joined up with Westquarter and Redding Community Project to help residents of 14 homes in the area affected by the damage caused during August's devastating floods.
It was caused by torrential rain bursting the banks of the nearby Westquarter Burn resulting in serious damage to the homes of residents in the valley. Five families had to be evacuated.
Vet funds pour in after kitten found with throat cut in Grangemouth
Thanks to the kind donations from the team at the store, residents were provided with vital items such as cleaning supplies, mops, buckets, baby clothing and towels.
Angela Combe, community champion at the Falkirk store said: "After seeing the impact of such a major incident to our local area, we wanted to go the extra mile to support the residents through an incredibly challenging time.
"With help from the team at Westquarter Community Project, we were able to donate and hand-delivering necessary supplies such as cleaning equipment and baby clothing to the families impacted over the last couple of months."
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Sylvia Bradley, who chairs the community project, said: "Since the floods, we've been trying to provide assistance to the community in any way we can.
"We've raised over £1500 through a GoFundMe page thanks to kind donations from across the country and have been going door to door to ensure that residents have everything they need.
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Joe Schmidt Sheds Worrying Light On His Future With Ireland
by Jason Hennessy · November 22, 2018
Long time coming.
Head coach Joe Schmidt has said he will make a final decision on his future with Ireland this Sunday following their final November series clash with the USA.
Schmidt says it's a decision that "has been a long time coming" and expects to make an announcement early next week.
"It's a decision that's been a long time coming" Schmidt said following today's USA team announcement.
"The family I've probably committed most to is this family (Irish Rugby) that I live with in Carton House, as much as the family I live with at home. So we've put our heads together and tried to reconcile how we can best maybe cater for both."
"I know I can't continue to just go backwards and forwards. To be honest I've beaten myself up enough about this decision. I'm probably going to be the most please of anyone when it finally is made."
If I was a betting man I'd be worried. It sounds like Schmidt may end end his incredible tenure with Ireland once his contract up after the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
But here's hoping I'm wrong. We'll find out soon enough.


Last weekend we had a reunion of our school. 24 years have passed since we all passed X th. But the fun, banter and bonding we had last week were the same as it were 24 years back. Those were the days. Summer of 89, the year we passed out was very special. It was a long vacation without any worries. I remember all the indoor and outdoor games played with friends, swimming, a great Mumbai trip, Wimbledon won by Becker vs Edberg, Ashes (though many compare 2013 ashes places same as 89 when Aussies were weak and Pommies stronger), good academic result and admission to junior college of choice, few Sahyadri night and monsoon treks and to top it all a Himalayan Trek . My romance with Himalayas started then. I have already described in my last post here about my latest visit in May 13, so the Himalayan memories are fresh. And then this tragedy struck last Monday.
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In recent weeks, privacy and data have been at the forefront of the news. The first instance involved a wave of headlines about how social media platforms managed (or sometimes mismanaged) users' data. More recently, your inbox has likely been flooded by technology companies updating user agreements to ensure they conform with the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Since arriving at ReCollect in 2014, I've seen a dramatic shift in the conversation around data and privacy among our customers and users. It was sometimes a struggle to get organizations to understand why privacy and data security matter so much – even to a solid waste department – and why security and privacy are core to our company's culture. And getting it right often easily went unnoticed. In those early days, customers loved our products' convenience, ease of use, and ability to help them educate and communicate with their residents. Today, they still love these benefits, but thankfully they also value our regular security audits, our privacy rules, our security culture, and how some employees contribute to organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
As both a user of online government services and an employee, I'm grateful to see the growing recognition among governments of data privacy and security. Data is a resource whose value has been heralded for some time. Here at ReCollect, the data we collect about usage and queries helps our customers better understand their residents, answer questions more effectively, increase diversion, and generally be more proactive. But, as with any resource, data itself can be recycled or repurposed for ends other than those for which it is initially collected.
Even with the best of intentions, any system attempting to keep data private and secure is only as good as the technology and practices that support it. Unfortunately, as we have recently seen, a lack of secure practices can easily undermine privacy. The consequence goes beyond more spam in everyone's inbox or the potential for fraud in the short term — the longer term consequence is that these events impair trust not only in a specific vendor or industry (including us), but also in the governments that provision these services.
At ReCollect, we believe the collection of any data should serve a single purpose — the delivery and improvement of the service for which it was provided. To do otherwise, intentionally or not, would be to undermine the trust that customers place in us to provide a framework of communications for them.
Have they ever suffered a data breach?
What is the policy on data retention?
Who owns it? And what happens to the data after the service is discontinued?
Where and how is it stored and conveyed?
How often and how extensively are services audited for security?
Buyers of these services need to ask themselves what their operational costs of a data breach are, even if they are not responsible for it. Furthermore, what is the potential impact to the end user and the reputation of the buyer?
Building a culture of security, in which secure practices are intentionally designed and followed, has real costs — but data breaches, the alternative, cannot be considered a cost of doing business. Governments at all levels must take ownership of communications provided on their behalf if they are to fully realize and promote technology's huge benefits. At ReCollect, we ensure that our systems always use the latest in secure protocols, enforce secure practices whenever possible, and proactively commission periodic security audits run by independent third parties. Consequently, we have never had a data breach — that much we owe to our customers.
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On Friday, September 28, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This earthquake triggered a tsunami, with waves as high as 6 meters (20 feet), causing even more damage. The earthquake, which struck during a beach festival being held in Palu, is the latest of many natural disasters that have affected Indonesia due to its location in the "Ring of Fire" created by multiple volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
The earthquake may have been caused by sideways movement along the Palu-Koro fault line.
The earthquake has destroyed homes, a mosque, a hotel, a shopping center, and a road bridge.
The Indonesian Disaster Management Agency estimates that 2.4 million people have been impacted by the earthquake.
The Indonesian Doctors Association has asked local authorities for help with necessities such as tents, medicine, medical equipment, and medical personnel.
The Indonesian Red Cross is currently providing aid, and Save the Children is sending an assessment team to the area.
Residents and aid responders are currently dealing with missing people, looting, lack of clean water, cut off electricity and communications, and roads being damaged and blocked off by landslides.
Continue to stay away from damaged areas, because aftershocks are still possible.
Pay attention to the latest updates on the earthquake and aftershocks from local emergency personnel and be sure to follow their instructions.
Avoid rumors and hoaxes by only listening to information provided by local authorities.
If and when you are able to, use social media to mark yourself as safe.
If you are able to, fill out questionnaires provided by authorities. This helps them to accurately report the extent of damages.
During the coming weeks and months of recovery, make sure to take care of your mental health as well as your physical health. If you need to talk to a trained crisis response volunteer, don't hesitate to reach out to IMAlive, an anonymous online chat service.
Donate blood if you are able to. Even if you don't live in an affected area, your donation can help hospitals in affected areas to treat patients who are in need of blood transfusions.
Check on friends, family, or neighbors in affected areas. Be there to listen to those who are affected, and ask them what you can do to support them.
Collect food or monetary donations for food banks in affected areas. Check with them first to see if they have specific requests.
If you have specific aid relief organizations that you support, check in with them to see how you can help with their current plans to provide assistance to affected areas.
Be patient, be gentle, and be kind. These may seem like simple tasks, but they make a huge difference to everyone you interact with.
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An Overview on Indemnity Clause in Contracts
By admin_samisti April 21, 2020 May 1st, 2020 One Comment
A. INTRODUCTION:
The term indemnity comes from the Latin term "indemnis" which means uninjured or suffering no damage or loss. The same can also be defined as a security or protection against a financial burden. An indemnity clause is one of the important clauses that is usually incorporated in all kinds of contracts. The reason behind the inclusion of this clause in the contracts is that one of the parties to the contract gives assurance to protect and indemnify the other party, in certain circumstances as agreed between the parties to the contract, form any damage or loss.
Section 124 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 ("Contract Act") defines a contract of indemnity as "a contract by which one party promises to save the other from loss caused to him by the conduct of the promisor himself, or by the conduct of any other person"
Thus, it can be understood from reading Section 124 of the Contract Act that indemnity can be claimed when one party gives assurance to the other party to provide protection from any kind of loss or damage that has accrued or incurred by that other party due to the action of the person who is giving such assurance. Further, it is also clear from the aforesaid section that a prior promise should be made to protect the indemnity and the question of indemnification arises only when the loss or damage which has occurred is with regard to the prior promise which was made by the indemnifier to the indemnity holder to protect from such loss or damage.
B. DRAFTING OF AN INDEMNITY CLAUSE:
The drafting of the indemnity clause has to be done in such a manner that it covers all the important aspects. The type of agreement in which the parties enter determine as to which party shall indemnify the other on the occurrence of an event as mentioned under the agreement. Further, the coverage of the indemnity clause with regards to loss has to be looked into i.e. whether only direct losses are covered or indirect loss or consequential loss are also covered. It must also be ensured that the indemnity cap is mentioned in the clause which shall determine the amount beyond which indemnity cannot be claimed. Similarly, the de minimis amount should be mentioned which lays down the minimum amount for invocation of the claim of indemnity. Further, another important area that has to be looked into is tax gross-up, which essentially means that when the indemnifier indemnifies the indemnity holder, then that amount becomes an income on which the indemnity holder has to pay tax. Therefore, while drafting the indemnity clause it may be mentioned that the indemnifier, along with the indemnity amount has to pay the tax amount that shall be payable by the indemnity holder on the indemnity amount.
C. INDEMNITY VERSUS DAMAGES:
The Contract Act already has a provision to claim damages which is laid down under section 73 of the Contract Act. Even after having a provision to claim damages, it is seen that indemnity is preferred over damages. Some of the advantages of indemnity over damages are discussed below:
In case of damages, the party who has suffered loss can claim for damages only after the loss or damage has occurred and the claim shall be to the extent of damage which is due to the outcome of the breach.[1] On the other hand, the indemnity holder can claim for loss or damage even when there is an accrual of liability, which means claims can be made before the loss has actually occurred.[2]
In the case of indemnity, it is not necessary to show a connection between the loss incurred and breach of contract. Whereas, in case of damages, it is vital to show that there is a nexus between the breach of contract and damage caused.
In case of damages, it can only be claimed against the party who has made the promise in the contract and the contract with reference to which claim is to be made must be a concluded contract.[3] Whereas, the indemnity holder has the liberty to claim for losses suffered due to actions of the indemnifier as well as for the actions of any third party.
In the case of indemnity, it covers, if mentioned in the contract, direct losses, indirect losses, consequential losses and third party losses. Whereas, during a claim of damages, it is only permissible to the extent to which the parties have knowledge of while entering into the contract and it must have occurred due to the breach of the contract.
D. CONCEPT ON FRAUD IN INDEMNITY:
While drafting and negotiating an indemnity clause, a carve-out should be provided in the indemnity clause to cover that if the indemnifier commits any fraud and it has a direct implication causing loss or damage to the indemnity holder, then in such situation the cap of indemnity should not apply and if the indemnifier is unable to indemnify for the loss or damage caused to the indemnity holder then it might also happen that personal assets of the indemnifier shall also be attached for successfully indemnifying the indemnity holder. Therefore, it is advisable to always exclude fraud, wilful negligence etc. from the indemnity cap agreed in the agreement.
E. INDEMNITY INSURANCE:
It is referred to as a contractual agreement by which one party promises to pay compensation to another party who has sustained a loss or damages. It can also be an insurance policy which is usually taken by professionals and businesses to protect themselves from an event like negligence or failure to perform which has caused the other party to face legal and financial issues. Professionals like financial advisors, insurance agents, attorneys, accountants etc. can take indemnity insurance for safeguarding themselves from any kind of liability that they might face. Further, warranty & indemnity insurance has become very common these days in Asia with respect to transactions. The sellers such as various private equity firms are willingly seeking exit option with regard to the investments being made. The exits are forsaken either on a no-recourse or a limited recourse basis.
F. IMPLICATIONS OF INDEMNITY:
a. On legal heirs:
The concept of indemnity also extends to the legal heirs of the parties to a contract. This solely depends on the drafting of the indemnity clause wherein, the indemnifier and its legal heirs (only upon the death of the indemnifier) shall be liable to protect and pay compensation in case of loss or damage is suffered by the indemnity holder and in case of the indemnity holder along with its legal heirs (only upon the death of the indemnity holder) shall be protected from any loss or damage. If the clause does not say that clearly then the liability shall not be extended to legal heirs.
b. On successors:
If a company who is an indemnifier has promised to indemnify another company for the loss of damages and during the term of the agreement if the indemnifier company merges with another company, then the liability to indemnify the indemnity holder is also extended to the merged company. Similarly in the case of indemnity holder company if the company merges with another company, then that newly merged company shall also be protected during loss or damage. This also solely depends on the drafting and language of the clause in the agreement to bring such an aspect into the ambit of the indemnifier.
G. CONCLUSION:
The indemnity clause while being drafted goes through a lot of negotiations because it is one of the essential clauses in the contract. This clause is regarded as very important as this is the clause which will not only determine the risk on the part of the indemnifier but also the rights of the indemnity holder. Therefore, consequences may be faced by both the parties in case of ambiguities being present in the clause with regards to the coverage of the losses. Therefore, keeping in mind all these factors, the drafting of the indemnity clause must be done precisely while finalising the contracts.
Authors: Anita Dugar, Senior Associate; Jaisis Srikrishna Das, Associate.
Disclaimer: The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. For any queries, the authors can be reached at (i) anitadugar@samistilegal.in (ii) jaisisdas@samistilegal.in.
[1] Maharashtra State Electricity Board v. Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd., 2000 SCC OnLine Bom 89.
[2] Jet Airways (India) Limited v. Sahara Airlines Limited, 2011 SCC OnLine Bom 576.
[3] Vedanta Limited v. Emirates Trading Agency LLC, 2017 SCC OnLine SC 454.
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The government has issued a stern warning that a household owning more than one LPG connection and not submitting the KYC form by the end of this month will not be able to avail of the cooking fuel at subsidised rates. Most of Indian houses have multiple connection because of the high demand and low availability of the LPG.
However on my Visit to the supplier, I did found that KYC was not compulsory for everybody. The gas companies are listing names of such customer and seems to be notifying them over call or using their transparency report.
If you have more than one LPG connection, you should submit your KYC form. However, you can make a check if you actually need to submit the form or not. Most of the LPG Suppliers have a website (through GAS TRANSPARENCY PORTAL) where this information can be validated.
Go to your respective suppliers website and look for a link or search form which says "Multiple Connection. You will need to search according to your consumer no or check out the transparency report where names of customers who need to fill in the KYC form are listed. Below is an example of Indane.
Most of the time what you need is to fill the form by providing your customer number, distributor's name, city, and state. In few minutes you will get to know weather you need or need not to give your KYC form.
KYC means "Know your Customer", is a term used for customer identification process. It involves making reasonable efforts to decide true identity of the person. KYC has two components – Identity and Address. While identity remains the same, the address may change and hence the company are required to periodically update their records.
Only those customers whose names seem in the respective oil marketing company's (OMC) Transparency Portal as identified using /holding multiple LPG connections (the list is also available with your LPG distributor) need to submit the KYC details along with POI and POA before the revised deadline of 31st of December 2012. Customers whose names do not appear in the transparency portal of oil companies as Multiple Connection Holders or in the list available with your distributor need not, repeat need not, submit the KYC details. The transparency portals of the respective OMC can be accessed through their websites in this website.
However, customer having single LPG connection need not, therefore, rush to their distributors to submit their KYC details as they are not required to do so as of now.
The extended date for filling the KYC formalities is 31.12.2012. The LPG gas connection of multiple connection holders who fail to furnish the KYC forms by this date, will be converted into Non Domestic Exempt Categories rate connections, Lakshmi said. While a subsidised LPG cylinder weighing 14.2 kg costs Rs 410.50 in Delhi, the non-subsidised one is available only at around Rs 900.


OSLO (Reuters Life!) - Worn out by a fast-paced life and faster-paced television shows but lack a vacation budget? Take a five-day cruise along Norway's scenic fjords, all free and streamed live on Norwegian public television.
For 8,040 minutes straight — including all the boring bits — viewers can follow the Hurtigruten MMS Nordnorge cruise ship and its roughly 670 passengers and crew as the vessel steams north along Norway's jagged coastline.
The "minute-by-minute" coverage started on Thursday and includes all on-board announcements and views from 11 cameras focusing on the spectacular fjords, boat traffic around the ship, officers on the bridge and the mostly elderly passengers strolling the decks and taking in the scenery.
"It is slow, it is very slow," said Rune Moeklebust, the project manager for the show running on the NRK2 channel.
Preliminary viewing data is encouraging, Moeklebust told Reuters, with 1.3 million of Norway's 4.9 million residents at least "stopping by" NRK2 between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. on the first day.
With a peak audience of 325,000 and some 160,000 glued to the broadcast for the entire 7-hour period, the "live documentary" grabbed more viewers than NRK2's usual programing.
Passengers, mostly from Norway and Germany, booked tickets for the 1,460 nautical mile voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes, a Barents Sea port near the Russian border deep in the Arctic, without knowing they would be part of what NRK said is set to be the world's longest uninterrupted live broadcast.
They were informed about the live-broadcasting plan by mail and in meetings after boarding in Bergen on Thursday.
"Some say it's like watching paint dry but it's so fun to sit in the master control room and mix the cameras," said Moeklebust, adding that 22 NRK crew were aboard the vessel providing the non-stop coverage.
Moeklebust said the idea for the cruise livecast came after the success of his previous minute-by-minute coverage from a train making a 7-hour trip between Oslo and Bergen, which was viewed at least in part by 1.2 million people in 2009.


The Leap Blog: Brown and TARP: Are they perpetuating the mess we're in?
Brown and TARP: Are they perpetuating the mess we're in?
by Percy S. Mistry, in Financial Express, 25 and 26 November 2008.
Applauded and replicated around the world for its decisiveness and firm action, the Brown Plan for financial system revival is proving to be seriously flawed in three major respects.
First, Brown recapitalised the banking system before we established what the toxic assets residing in the system were worth. Despite a first expensive round of bank recapitalisation we still do not know how much more capital is needed to cope with toxic assets being written down to 'fair value'. That was what the US 'Troubled Assets Recovery Programme (TARP) was to do. Unfortunately, Congress took some time to pass TARP legislation. The anxiety that created, emboldened Brown to steal the US' thunder and come up with an alternative plan for recapitalising banks, to alleviate global public concern about their solvency.
Predictably, that move started a wave of competitive recapitalisations; leaving the US in danger of a massive shift in global deposits from American to non-American banks. To prevent a debacle, the Fed-UST followed suit and went for premature recapitalisations in the US as well, using the US$700 bn for a different purpose to that for which it was originally approved.
Sadly, Brown jettisoned the reverse auction and asset reconstruction (ARC) features of TARP. These two mechanisms were indispensable. An ARC would have bought toxic assets at a discount and accumulated them in one place. That would have allowed them to be de-synthesised and re-bundled into more appropriate packages with more transparent risks. In other words, an ARC could have separated out sub-prime loans made to immigrant gardeners, from better quality loans to multiplexes, shopping malls, and office buildings. That would have allowed toxic assets to be rearranged, revalued and repriced more acceptably.
Eventually such transformed assets would have been sold back in financial markets at prices resulting in a profit for theARC on the spread between discounts at which they were bought and later sold. But, the speed with which the Brown Plan was replicated globally prevented this essential purgative from working. As a consequence, we are now left with toxic assets still on the books of global banks. They are perpetuating everyone's concerns, not least those of the banks themselves, about the credibility of their balance sheets and their 'real' solvency. That is continuing to impede inter-bank trust and unsecured interbank lending for all purposes including trade credit which is drying up.
To illustrate, the aggregate amount of toxic assets remaining on bank books are estimated to be around US$3 trillion. The fire-sale price at which Merrill Lynch sold its toxic book before being taken over by BoA was US$0.22. No one else wanted to sell at that price. Using the usual mathematics, these assets are unlikely to be worth more than US$0.67. But the range of 22-67 US cents is too large for bank managements, regulators, rating agencies or auditors to arrive at a consensus on fair value. At the fire-sale floor price these assets would be worth US$660 billion. That would result in a loss of US$2.34 trillion requiring an equivalent capital write-down for the system. About US$1 trillion has already been written down. A fire-sale price would therefore create further capital funding requirements of $1.34 trillion. On the other hand, at the 67 cents ceiling of that range, the assets would be worth US$2 trillion resulting in a loss of US$1 trillion. That would give much more comfort about the solvency of banks. The reality probably lies somewhere between those limits (45-50 US cents?) which would still create a requirement for a further $500 billion or so in new capital requirements.
To make matters worse, however, even the prime assets of global banks are now becoming shaky as the recession bites. That is increasing NPAs and provisioning as well as write-down requirements,necessitating a second round of capital fortification of an unknown amount. It will accentuate uncertainty on the part of bank managements about how much more risk can be taken by lending in a downturn when household and corporate cash flows are worsening. That will defeat the intent of the recapitalisation exercise: i.e. to get credit flowing easily again.
Second, in providing national guarantees to get banks to lend to one another again in the global unsecured interbank money market, Brown made a cardinal error. The interbank market is a global seamless market in which the largest participants are not just banks,but money market funds, and other holders of cash liquidity such as large corporate treasuries, acceptance houses, pension funds,insurance companies etc. It is not just a national or banking market. National guarantees are a sub-optimal device to get that market working again. They may unblock British banks from lending to one another in London. But they will not unblock them from lending to non-British banks knowing they are not guaranteed.
Even if understandings are such that British banks are comfortable about lending to EU, US and Japanese banks, because of guarantees provided by those other governments, they are still taking unknown risks by lending to non-EU, non-US and non-Japanese banks (i.e. ASEAN, Indian, Chinese, Brazilian, Middle Eastern, African banks etc.). That is the prime reason trade financing in these regions is drying up. Banks around the world are no longer prepared to accept cross-border LCs, packing credits, bills of exchange, import and export credits that involve an uncovered risk. National guarantees need to be pooled and triggered by an international authority to makethe global interbank market work properly again. The world's central banks need to develop instruments enabling them to operate directly in these markets to restore confidence, and make risks in these markets more acceptable, rather than just keep infusing liquidity through banks against any form of collateral. It is not just liquidity that is the problem. It is the continuing lack of confidence within the banking system.
Third, Brown did not address the critical issue of the uncertainty overhang in the credit default swap (CDS) market which restrains banks from lending because of uncertainty about counter-party credit risk at a time of extreme uncertainty. That risk is changing daily. The pricing of CDS' reflects that. Global central banks and regulatory authorities need to get together immediately to create a central clearing corporation for CDS. Outstanding US$33trillion worth of CDS contracts (US$ 3.3 trillion after netting out) identified by the DTCC should be handled by the CCC acting as counterparty to each side of every bilateral OTC deal. Eventually such contracts should be priced and traded on exchanges. Though this seems complex, it can be done more easily than imagined. Unless the CDS market unfreezes quickly it will continue to act as a brake on credit flows no matter how much liquidity is created.
Haste always makes waste. Trying to be too-clever-by-half (a fundamental failing in Brown's psychological make-up that reveals itself every time a crucial juncture is reached) results in his ending up looking daft. Just a month after the Brown Plan was unveiled and propagated it is becoming apparent how half-baked it was. It put a band-aid on an open wound that is still festering. Is it any wonder then that, despite a sense of brief respite after its arrival, the mood has reverted to one of despair, doom and gloom?
Perhaps the market -- in still trying to find that elusive bottom-- is signalling something we are not sufficiently sensitive to. It may be signalling that, despite everything that has been done so far,the market has no intrinsic faith in political leadership anywhere; particularly in the US, UK, EU and Japan. While everyone is looking to governments to prevent collapse and solve the problem, no one has any faith in the political pygmies presently running them. Will the incoming Obama Administration make a difference? One can but hope.
The market has certainly lost faith in banking leadership; India being no exception. It is now losing faith in industrial leadership to put things right. Yesterday's masters of the universe, whether bankers or industrialists, are today's nervous breakdowns. They are asking forhelp of every sort from every government, to cover up for poor strategic decisions and failed business models, without realising what their demands are adding up to. Governments in a panic seem willing to oblige them, regardless of future consequences. Their actions are having unintended consequences (like the USD appreciating when it should be depreciating) that will continue to delay the kind of global adjustment that is so necessary to put this debacle behind us in a decisive fashion.


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← Jan 23rd Hearing, Part 1: Rep Atkins's Introduction
Jan 23rd Hearing, Part 3: Musicians' Testimony →
Jan 23rd Hearing, Part 2: Michael Henson's Testimony
For part one of this series, click here.
This was testimony given to the Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives on 23 January 2013.
You can listen to Mr. Henson's testimony here. It begins at 22:15.
Rep. Atkins: There was I think a good reference to the fact that there are other lockouts taking place. Each time this issue seems to be talked about it's in the context of the NHL lockout. Whenever I've spoken about it, however, I've talked about there's a number of additional lockouts involving musicians, involving American Crystal Sugar up in Moorhead, and we've been joined next by Michael Henson, who's the President of the Minnesota Orchestral Association. I appreciate your joining us this afternoon. Look forward to hearing your testimony, as well.
Michael Henson: Mr. Chair, and Representatives. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to address the committee today, and I will offer a brief statement.
I am Michael Henson, the President and CEO of the Minnesota Orchestra. I am very proud to be here to represent the Minnesota Orchestra, which is an exceptional organization that enjoys such an acclaimed history in this state. Our board is made up of citizen volunteers who are generous contributors to the orchestra. Speaking on behalf of the board and myself, we feel it is our responsibility and our great privilege to ensure that the 110-year legacy of this organization continues long into the future, benefiting new generations of Minnesotans for years to come.
As a non-for-profit, our orchestra has three sources of income. First, ticket sales from our concerts and our events. Secondly, contributions from generous community members, corporations, foundations, and of course the state of Minnesota. And thirdly, our endowment earnings. Over the years, generous donors have contributed to our endowment and each year we are able to draw a percentage of those earnings to help us sustain our operations.
As an arts organization, we are not immune from the economic challenges facing the rest of the world, and during the recession each of our revenue streams were negatively impacted, particularly our contributions and our investments. We maintained stability within the organization through those volatile years by relying upon our endowment, which was appropriate and responsible action. But it is not a sustainable one. Today we face the reality that if we continue to draw down our endowment at the current rate, it will be depleted in five years' time. We cannot allow that to happen in the future of this organization.
Last December we announced a six million dollar operating deficit for the orchestra. We know that this deficit will continue to grow until we address our financial issues directly, and we have developed a thoughtful strategic plan to do just that. This plan calls for a combination of revenue increases, including our board members increasing their already generous gifts to the organization by twenty percent, as well as significant cost reductions, which we've already undertaken on the management and the administrative side of the operation.
This then is the backdrop against which we are now trying to negotiate a new contract with our musicians. We understand that the impact of the lockout is felt throughout the community, and we have great empathy for those who have been impacted by this, including our musicians. No one wants the orchestra performing back onstage more than our volunteer board. Music and musicians are the very center of our organization, and we are seeking to negotiate a contract with our musicians that is aligned with what our community can afford. This point is worth emphasizing. The Minnesota Orchestra is entirely supported by the generosity of this community, and our expenses need to be based on what this community is willing and able to give. That is the issue at the center of our talks.
I'd like to make two final points. The first is to thank you, the legislature, for the $14 million in bonding dollars you appropriated the renovation of Orchestra Hall. That project is one of our major revenue generating initiatives outlined in our strategic plan, and is one of the fiscal solutions to our current financial challenges. The building project is on budget and on pace for our 2013 opening and we are currently employing approximately 130 union members of the building trades as we speak. When I first visited the site, I was asked by a construction worker what I did and he thanked me and thanked the organization. He said it enabled him to actually sustain a job for a year during this project, and he had been out of work for a number of months before that. We'd like to thank you for making that possible in terms of creating job stimulus.
Secondly, I know that it has been a point of concern for some legislators that our yearly operating support from public money might be used to fund our current negotiations or lockout. In order to eliminate all concerns around this point, we've sequestered in a separate account all state monies received to date this fiscal year, and we will continue to do the same going forward until we've reached our contract resolution. I reiterate that point: no state monies have been or will be used to fund these negotiations.
On a personal note, I would like to close by noting that I have worked my entire professional life managing symphony orchestras in various cities around the world. My family and I were drawn to Minnesota and to this great orchestra because of its outstanding reputation. Along with our board of directors, I see it as my duty to ensure the Minnesota Orchestra remains artistically excellent and financially solvent for the future. These two goals are entirely possible to achieve in tandem, and it is only by achieving artistic and fiscal strength that we can ensure our orchestra will be around to serve this community well into the future.
Mr. Chair and Representatives, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak to this committee.
JA: And thank you, Mr. Henson. Could you speak to one point that I believe has been raised, and that is, at the time the $14 million was awarded, the Capitol dollars from the State, was there an awareness or expectation of the possibility of a lockout, or did the economics of the orchestra tend to indicate that that might be a possibility at that time?
MH: There's been no intention at any point during the application for those fundings to actually have a lockout. The board managed responsibly a very challenging situation three and a half years ago and we continue to hope that we weren't going to have a lockout as we actually approached the conclusion of the negotiations that we had at the start of October 2012.
JA: Thank you, Mr. Henson.
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4 responses to "Jan 23rd Hearing, Part 2: Michael Henson's Testimony"
St. Olaf Musicians (@SOmasty)
this is so full of BS, Mr. Henson. Also, he didn't answer the question at the end. Hmmmm….. wonder why?
He did say "no intention at any point" of having a lockout. As Henson spoke, was Rep. Atkins looking down at papers in front of him (emails? meeting minutes? whistleblower testimony?) that prove otherwise? That would be very cool, because Henson is now on record about this ("no intention at any point") in front of a Legislative committee.
See, that's interesting how you interpreted it differently. I took it as that "There's been no intention at any point DURING THE APPLICATION FOR THOSE FUNDINGS to actually have a lockout." (sorry for the caps, don't know how to use italics in the comment section) The verb tense he used was slippery, however, and may get him in trouble down the line, especially with the second part of the paragraph when he says they were hoping they could solve it until the deadline. Also, I had the thought that theoretically, he could plead that he was expecting a strike, not a lockout. In retrospect Rep. Atkins might have been better off saying "work stoppage" but…it's not his fault, he doesn't know how slippery MH is with the truth!
The Minnesota Orchestra is the latest organization to be locked out due to contractual agreements a few days after the Chicago Symphony had ratified a new three year deal a few days ago. The lockout took place on Monday Oct.1 leading to a protest by members of the orchestra.
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Someone Just Paid $22,750 for an 18-Year Old Civic
It's an Si coupe in pristine condition with just over 10,000 miles on the clock. Still, that's a lot of money for an old Civic.
By Brian Silvestro
The collector car market is a strange one. Porsche 911 prices have gone well beyond what most rational buyers are willing to pay, while prices for 60-horsepower Kei cars are steadily on the rise. One point of interest, though, stands out among the rest. It's this pristine 2000 Honda Civic Si coupe, which just sold on Bring a Trailer for $22,750. That is not a typo.
Of course, this example is perhaps one of the nicest sixth-generation Civic Sis on the planet, having traveled just 10,439 miles since new, remaining unmodified its entire life. The paint is said to be original, and the pictures depict a car that seems to have just rolled off the showroom floor. For some context, you can purchase a brand new Honda Civic Si coupe for just $1350 more.
Bring--a-Trailer is known for drawing in high-quality, high-dollar auctions, but this result is pretty shocking, even by BaT standards. It could perhaps be the market for these cars is actually starting to turn upwards, however. It makes sense considering the generation that grew up with these cars new is finally coming into some money.
It doesn't make that sell price any less painful to look at, though.
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With 15 years industry experience, Brent is your go to guy when you are thinking of taking that adventure of a lifetime to those wonderful places on your bucket list. As you can see, he is an experienced traveller who has visited such diverse countries and cultures across the globe. With his brilliant knowledge and creative flair, I am sure Brent will create some unforgettable memories for you.
My most memorable travelling moment was actually two incredible experiences, when i was fortunate enough to cruise the Galapagos Islands for 10 days where nature's playground is at its best. Swimming with giant sea lions and turtles and seeing the rare blue footed boobie that only exist on Galapagos was such a brilliant and eye opening adventure. Then to be off to the amazing Machu Picchu in Peru and see such history and its colourful people was truly very special.
I love to plan trips to Latin America given my travels there and my vast knowledge. It's a continent I am very passionate about.
Working in travel gives me such joy because I believe everyone must experience this incredible way of connecting with various cultures and see such history and beauty we have on our planet.
My open attitude to be respectful and kind to all cultures and their religions and most importantly ... just have fun!
FINALLY! River Cruising For The Younger Generation. Rolling On The Rhine Delightfully Quirky.


In one of the stranger research projects I've encountered in awhile, French scientists reported on why in the sport of discus throwing, athletes tend to feel more dizzy than those who hammer throw.
Whether discus or hammer throwing, both require spinning on part of the athlete before letting the discus/hammer go for long distances.
59% report dizziness with discus throwing, but none with hammer throwing. Why?
This occurred even among athletes who did both sports eliminating individual susceptibilities to dizziness.
Based on slow-motion video analysis, it was conjectured that visual bearings can be used more easily with hammer throwing than during discus throwing. Moreover, less foot contact with the ground for ground-body tactile feedback and generation of head movements liable to induce motion sickness from acceleration were felt to be contributing factors.
How do these findings translate to patients who are dizzy?
Of note, this research project won the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics.
Dizziness in discus throwers is related to motion sickness generated while spinning. Acta Otolaryngol. 120 (3), 390-5.


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René Le Corre (12 March 1923 – 5 May 2021) was a French poet.

A professor of philosophy, he published numerous poems. He was a member of , which sought to promote literature from Bigouden.

Works
Bretagne, le clos et l'ouvert (1982)
Pourquoi la mer ? (1984)
Couleur du temps (1985)
Livre de chevet des hommes et des femmes du xxie siècle (1995)
L'Ombre bleue (1996)
L'Inespéré (2007)
Les saisons (2011)
Un monde de rosée (2017)

References

1923 births
2021 deaths
French poets
People from Finistère

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DAR chapter to present 'The 18th Century Woman'
The Capt. John Joslin Jr. Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is sponsoring a program presented by Gail White Usher called "The 18th Century Woman" at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7 at the Leominster Veterans' Memorial Center, 100 West St., Leominster.
White Usher is an educator and researcher working in New England's early history. She is currently education coordinator for Historic New England based at Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut, and Arnold House in Lincoln, Rhode Island. She is a principal of Through 18th Century Eyes, a group that presents programs and lectures on diverse topics informing on life in pre- Revolutionary War New England to audiences at historic sites, schools, and public venues. These include Historic Deerfield, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Niagara, The Fort at No. 4, and most recently the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. White Usher is president of the Woodstock Historical Society and chair of the Woodstock Historic District Commission.
Her research centers on Native American and European immigrant women in the 17th and early 18th centuries. She is particularly fascinated by the dynamic interactions between the two cultures and the impacts on these two populations.
"The 18th Century Woman" is one of several programs that are a result of this research. This talk explores New England in the early Colonial period from the perspective of middling and working class women. The audience is led on an investigation of surviving primary source material that includes diary entries, letters, paintings, and objects to gain greater understanding of what it meant to be female in New England prior to the American Revolutionary War.
Following the program, the chapter will hold its annual meeting and installation of officers for the 2016-19 term. Light refreshments will be served. All women 18 years and older are welcome to attend.
For more information, call Chapter Regent Anne Shattuck at (978) 582-4729.


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Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris - January 24 and 27, 2018 (Facing: The story of Others)
Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou) and Elegoa Cultural Productions present:
Presentation/performance by Wanda Nanibush,
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Yanelys Nunez Leyva
January 24 and 27 at Le Centre Pompidou (Paris)
As part of the project Facing: The Stories of Others (an exploration of nations from the "outside-in") curated by Catherine Sicot and supported in large part by the New Chapter Program (Canada Council for the Arts), Elegoa Cultural Productions has partnered with Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou) to participate in a dialogue in Paris that will include curator Wanda Nanibush (Canada), artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (Cuba) and art historian Yanelys Nuñez Leyva (Cuba).
Hors Pistes is a annual multi-disciplinary event involving an investigation of broad news-related themes. It considers the ways in which these themes impact contemporary art and thought. As its title indicates, it aims to question, produce and show works that are "off the beaten track."
This year, the 13th edition of Hors Pistes will focus on "The nation and its fictions". For a 15-day period, the novel framework within the Forum-1 space will welcome various audiences as well as historians, philosophers, anthropologists, writers, cartographers and artists to explore other ways to conceive of the idea of nation, through encounters aiming to articulate other ways of "naming" the nation (one's own or other nations), and the ways in which one can invent para and/or extra nations. It will also provide the opportunity to question other conceptions of nationhood, whether it be First Nations or archipelagos, in order to identify common forms of belonging as well as exclusion. Thus collected, these various perspectives will form a new narrative, both open and collective, which will gradually fit into the framework conceived for Forum-1.
The Hors Pistes Program is developed under the direction of Géraldine Gomez. For this year's edition, Gomez collaborated with philosopher and dramaturge Camille Louis. Catherine Sicot was invited to include Canadian and Cuban participations.
In addition to their contribution to the event's multiple conversations, Wanda Nanibush, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva will take part in the following presentations/ performances:
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Photo of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva by Hannah Berkeley Cohen for the New York Times.
Another Treaty of Paris
By Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (artist) with Yanelys Nuñez Leyva (art historian and critic),
As part of:
Our fabrications: national narrative, political tactics, political performance
Presentation and debate
Forum -1 - Centre Pompidou, Paris
8:00 - 10:00 PM - UNIVERS-CITÉ
Otro tratado de Paris stages the dream of two young Cubans, Yanelys Nuñez Leyva and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: to witness the reconciliation of their nation. The project combines sound performance and audience participation, both at the Centre Pompidou and via social media.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: "As the one-year anniversary of Fidel Castro's death approaches, the leader of the Revolution appeared to me in a dream to inform me that in his final days, he had secretly written a will. That night, he gave me the mission of going to the place where it was hidden. He predicted that I would make it public at an important international event, and that despite the many obstacles that would stand in the way, the presentation would finally be made. He gave me instructions on what the process should be: preferably, I had to use a digital medium, because this needed to be massive; and I had to invite all Cubans to listen to his last words - those inside and those outside Cuba, those who loved him and those who hated him. He trusted me with this mission, because according to him, I was an ordinary Cuban who understood this historic moment, I was free from all extremist hatred, and no matter what the cost may be, I believed in a prosperous future for Cuba".
Yanelys Nuñez Leyva and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara live in Havana, work in the public sphere and the public space through performances, installations and web-based projects. In 2016, they opened a virtual museum, El Museo de la Dissidencia en Cuba; in 2018, they will launch #00Bienal, the first independent contemporary art biennale in Havana.
View the 12 minutes video
presented during the event.
Credits collaborators in USA, Spain, Canada and France:
Enrique Del Risco (Author of the original text of Fidel's testament)
Pedro Ruiz (interpretation of Fidel's voice in the video)
Augusto Prieto (agent of the Pedro Ruiz for this project)
Alex Condis (project communication from Cuba).
Dominique Denis (Translator)
Caroline Pesenti Delage (Subtitles)
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View the article published in Le Monde following the event
Pirates de l'art à Cuba, by Paulo Paranagua.
Photo of Wanda Nanibush by Red Works photography
Storied beings and Kingdom of imaginations
A presentation by Wanda Nanibush, artist and curator
Our maps, the mapping of nations: infranational, transnational, alternational
5:30 PM - UNIVERS-CITÉ
The Anishinaabe people (Ojibway/ Chippewa) conceive of sovereignty and belonging to a nation beyond the notions of nation-state and nationalism, and strive for equality through differences rather than uniformity. What is a nation that defines truth as the knowledge of the heart? A nation that values nature ahead of humans? Wanda Nanibush shares the stories that have shaped her.
Born in the Beausoleil First Nation reserve, Wanda currently lives in Toronto, where she was recently named Curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Otro Tratado de Paris and Storied beings and Kingdom of imaginations were co-commissioned and co-produced by Hors Pistes and Elegoa Cultural Productions (Toronto). For these projects, Catherine Sicot (Elegoa Cultural Productions) received the support of the New Chapter program (Canada Council for the Arts) and of Michael and Amira Dan. Our thanks go to the French Consulate in Toronto and Mercer Union for their contributions to the research.
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Q: How to setup the Rippled server in my local? Any body Please tell me how to setup the rippled server in my local system and how to call the API's for generating address and doing the transactions with out using the Rippled public server(s1.ripple.com   ).
Thanks in advance

A: Here is simple steps to setup ripple mainnet server in your system
You can also go through the link as below -
https://developers.ripple.com/install-rippled.html
Minimum System Requirements
A rippled server should run comfortably on commodity hardware, to make it inexpensive to participate in the network. At present, we recommend the following minimum requirements:
Operating System:
Production: CentOS or RedHat Enterprise Linux (latest release) or Ubuntu (16.04+) supported
Development: Mac OS X, Windows (64-bit), or most Linux distributions
CPU: 64-bit x86_64, 2+ cores
Disk: Minimum 50GB SSD recommended (1000 IOPS, more is better) for the database partition
RAM:
Testing: 8GB+
Production: 32 GB
Amazon EC2's m3.large VM size may be appropriate depending on your workload. A fast network connection is preferable. Any increase in a server's client-handling load increases resources needs.
Installation on CentOS/Red Hat with yum
This section assumes that you are using CentOS 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Install the Ripple RPM repository:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh https://mirrors.ripple.com/ripple-repo-el7.rpm
Install the rippled software package:
$ sudo yum install --enablerepo=ripple-stable rippled
Configure the rippled service to start on system boot:
$ sudo systemctl enable rippled.service
Start the rippled service
$ sudo systemctl start rippled.service
Installation on Ubuntu with alien
This section assumes that you are using Ubuntu 15.04 or later.
Install yum-utils and alien:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install yum-utils alien
Install the Ripple RPM repository:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh https://mirrors.ripple.com/ripple-repo-el7.rpm
Download the rippled software package:
$ yumdownloader --enablerepo=ripple-stable --releasever=el7 rippled
Verify the signature on the rippled software package:
$ sudo rpm --import https://mirrors.ripple.com/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-ripple-release && rpm -K rippled*.rpm
Install the rippled software package:
$ sudo alien -i --scripts rippled*.rpm && rm rippled*.rpm
Configure the rippled service to start on system boot:
$ sudo systemctl enable rippled.service
Start the rippled service
$ sudo systemctl start rippled.service
Postinstall
It can take several minutes for rippled to sync with the rest of the network, during which time it outputs warnings about missing ledgers. After that, you have a fully functional stock rippled server that you can use for local signing and API access to the XRP Ledger.
You can use the rippled commandline interface as follows:
$ /opt/ripple/bin/rippled
Additional Configuration (Must needs to do according your IP)-
rippled should connect to the XRP Ledger with the default configuration. However, you can change your settings by editing the rippled.cfg file (located at /opt/ripple/etc/rippled.cfg when installing rippled with yum). You must change the IP setting with your own entered IP and then connected with this setup server using java script code.
See the rippled GitHub repository for a description of all configuration options.
Changes to the [debug_logfile] or [database_path] sections may require you to give the rippled user and group ownership to your new configured path:
$ chown -R rippled:rippled <configured path>

Restart rippled for any configuration changes to take effect:
$ sudo service rippled restart

For more dig into ripple RPC and command kindly go through below link
https://developers.ripple.com/admin-rippled-methods.html
https://developers.ripple.com/public-rippled-methods.html
Hope this will help..


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Several commissioners said the item before the harbor board was just about the land and this was only the start of a long process that will have ample opportunity for public comment.
Others in the standing-room-only crowd — many identifying themselves as being involved in commercial fishing — also noted that they wished the harbor district would put more effort into maintaining the harbor for those who are still trying to make a living off the sea, and some questioned whether the fish farm would end up being their competitor.
"We're going to be selling fish and you're going to be selling fish, so I think there's some conflict there," one speaker said.
"This opportunity represents, to me, the rebirth of the peninsula," she said.
Look for expanded coverage of the fish farm proposal in this week's edition of the Journal.


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BuzzFeed: "Halt and Catch Fire: AMC Has Found A New Don Draper And He's Ginsberg's Worst Nightmare"
The Lee Pace–led Halt and Catch Fire , set in 1983 Dallas, offers up a pitch-perfect pilot about ambition, greed, and visionary dreamers at the heart of the tech revolution. At BuzzFeed, you can read my latest feature, "AMC Has Found A New Don Draper And He's Ginsberg's Worst Nightmare," in which I review the pilot episode of AMC's new period drama Halt and Catch Fire , which begins Sunday at 10 p.m. Mad Men has made the world safe for period dramas: Nearly every cable network seems to be launching a time capsule program (and quite a few broadcasters have tried and failed) designed to penetrate our cynicism and trap a bygone era in amber. As Mad Men, the blue chip iteration of the period drama, wraps up its seven-season run, Showtime's Masters of Sex and even Penny Dreadful, HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and AMC's Turn have sprung up in its shadow. Which brings us to AMC's latest deep dive back in time, the '80s–set computer drama Halt and Catch Fire (which begins June 1
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Lee Pace in an '80s computer-programming drama, a Victorian horror mash-up, sex researchers, Jack Bauer, Louie, and female prisoners? Check, check, check, check, check, and check. At BuzzFeed, you can read my latest feature, "16 New And Returning TV Shows Worth Watching This Summer," in which I round up 16 new and returning shows that are worth watching (or at least checking out) this summer, including Penny Dreadful, Halt and Catch Fire, 24: Live Another Day, Rectify, Last Tango in Halifax , and more. Continue reading at BuzzFeed...


Work at the KMC will be suspended on Thursday due to the elections for the city's deputy mayor.
A meeting was held on Wednesday at Commissioner House to review the arrangements for the election. It was attended by regional election commissioner Ali Asghar Sayal, South Deputy Commissioner Salahuddin (who is also a returning officer), and Metropolitan Commissioner Dr Saifur Rehman.
Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar Shalwani said he wants to make sure peaceful elections are held with foolproof security.
Polling will be held from 9am to 5pm without any break at the City Council Hall and 300 voters — 227 men and 73 women — will case their votes. One presiding officer, two assistant presiding officers and two polling officers will oversee the process. Two polling booths (one for men and another for women) have been set up.


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Pardosa italica valenta is een spinnenondersoort in de taxonomische indeling van de wolfspinnen (Lycosidae).

Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Pardosa. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1976 door Alexander A. Zyuzin.

Wolfspinnen


The most awkward metal band photos…EVER!
Boredpanda.com has thoughtfully collected together some of the weirdest and most awkward photos of metal bands in the history of photographer. Here are a few samples.
There is plenty, plenty more here.
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That first photo looks like Sam Kinison in it.