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Our Take: Peace Chord's Self-Titled Ethereal Debut Is One to Be Lauded
by Adrian Vargas
Peace Chord- Peace Chord
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8 Music Quality
9 Content Originality
8 Memorability
6 Lyricism
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8 Arranging
Peace Chord's self-titled debut swells with harmonious synths that evolve into emotive and moving pieces that instill warmth with each note hit.
Stream: 'Peace Chord' – Peace Chord
There isn't a defined structure when it comes to the soundwaves of honesty. Whether it be the singer-songwriter approach of elevated acoustic balladry or sparse synths that crescendo into grand outpours of emotion, the path towards that willingness to share is varied, music offering one of the great mediums to unfold one's story. Canadian-based Daniel Robertson has taken that step into a more open dialogue, putting himself at the center. He calls it Peace Chord.
Peace Chord is a solo effort, and despite his heavy involvement in the band Crack Cloud, its Peace Chord that offers the avenue for Robertson to delve into his own life, offering listeners peeks into his world, and he does it with a sonic flair that, despite its scarcity, manages to create an intensity that envelops and warms listeners. That warmth stems from the stories themselves, Roberston delving into lost love, death of those closest to him, and the celebrations that have made him who he is. This is what his self-titled debut offers, and it's a strong showcasing of not only his artistry but the talent necessary to even pull something of this caliber off.
"Seventy Times Seven" begins the album and offers listeners a sample of what's to come. The piano melody joined by the whispered hushes of Roberston is a haunting duo. As the track progresses, synths enter and break the silence, turning haunting into eerie but never stepping into an uninviting territory. It's a delicate balance, but Roberston has made it clear he certainly has the ability to accomplish it. With "Empty In This House," a lusher soundscape is present that includes acoustic guitar and a more pronounced vocal presence. Lighter in tone, it has an airiness surrounding it that makes it easy to become enraptured by.
Watch: "Memo" – Peace Chord
Building off of the previous track is "Spectral Processor," a song consisting only of a looping synth melody that has a dash of percussion in the faint foreground. It's simple yet at the same time inexplicably alluring. That simplicity is its weapon, something Robertson has brandished well. "Juno" is piano-driven, slowly ramping up into a more frenzied style of play that suddenly ceases. Each note undulates with a hypnotic grace and will have listeners transfixed with ease. The track "Omphalomancy" puts Roberston and his vocals on the main stage, and it's a dream-inducing experience. With piano backing him up and heightening each word sung, the song is able to reach a new state of beauty.
"Memo" offers one of the album's most varied tracks – containing a swath of instrumentation and synth layers that all join together in a harmonious and bewitching style. One of the shorter tracks on the album, its impact manages to last well after that final note, swirling around headspaces with a welcoming aroma. The closing track, "Crescent of Sun," is all that is good and beautiful with Peace Chord. Adorned throughout the song is a blanket of majesty – the synths conjuring the feeling of weightlessness as listeners drift into an ether of Robertson's own creation. It's a close that teeters on somber and hopeful, and with its inspiration being that of the death of a close friend, it balances the two with deftness and poise.
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It's hard for one not to be left breathless after the album's finish, and it's a testament to Roberston and his abilities at creating such artistry that is teeming with sincerity and beauty. A debut is an opportunity to express one's self and create a vision for what is to come. Peace Chord provides a vision of delicate charm and refinement, an album whose influence will be seen for some time. Robertson has created splendor, Peace Chord being a project that has demonstrated its strength to great effect, and it's an effort worthy of praise.
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The team at Conserv is growing! This week we are introducing: Ana Martins. Ana has a background in Analytical Chemistry and received her PhD from the University of Porto in Portugal in 1997. Prior to starting at Conserv, Ana was a Conservation Scientist at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) for thirteen years. She split her time between technical art history and preventive conservation. She recently relocated to Europe where she has strong ties with the museum community. She is a member of the advisory board and will assist with our International expansion and research collaborations. (Banner photo credit: Jom Luiten)
What is your role on the Conserv team?
I was invited to the advisory board in late 2020, to help set a direction for the business, strengthen relationships with the cultural heritage community, and consult on product features. I have since relocated to The Netherlands and will assist Conserv in expanding their market outside of the US while also establishing research partnerships within the EU. I have been part of the cultural heritage preservation community for the past thirteen years and I look forward to sharing my enthusiasm for Conserv with my European colleagues and showcase what they have already been able to create.
What is your experience with collections?
Until a month ago I was working as a Conservation Scientist at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Part of my time was dedicated to technical art history and the study of processes and materials used in modern art and design objects. The rest of the time, I was involved in the museum's collection care, from the monitoring and reporting of environmental conditions and light exposure in galleries and storage facilities to advising on safe conditions and materials for the display and traveling of museum objects and loans, and more recently in the museum's sustainability task force. Through my work in preventive conservation, I became aware of the importance of gathering and relaying meaningful data, but also of the truly collaborative nature of collection care. All institutional departments have a role to play and must be involved in the objects' preservation, from the discussion and adoption of museum guidelines to the exhibition's design and production, or to the lighting or lending policies. But it is also important to support these discussions with scientific data and tools trusted and shared by all. And "by all" I mean not only within the institution, but by the community at large, and that's where I see Conserv play a major role in the future.
What excites you about Conserv?
It was immediately clear to me that Conserv's vision for environmental monitoring had enormous potential and could greatly benefit cultural institutions, small and large. I was at MoMA when I met the co-founders Austin and Nathan in the early days of Conserv, and we had just interfaced our BMS system to a bespoke monitoring and reporting platform for conservation. It was an endeavor that only a few institutions have the means to carry out, and I really wished Conserv had been available then. The platform they have developed since already surpasses any environmental monitoring solution out there for museums and collections, and being such a niche market is a strong incentive for Conserv to keep improving and tailoring their sensors and platform.
As a scientist, I am particularly excited about Conserv's potential for contributing to the ongoing research in preventive conservation. Museum guidelines for climate control, lighting, pest management have been published, revised, and extensively discussed, but a more global and data-driven evaluation of these guidelines is long overdue. The sustainability of current collection care practices, the impact of climate change on buildings operations and collections, and the development of damage functions for objects are all pressing issues. These could all be investigated by existing research frameworks and by using data mining tools if sufficient data was amassed and shared by the community. The Conserv sensors and platform could easily facilitate this research by giving institutions the necessary tools to collect and share relevant data.
Where do you see the company going in the future?
I think the cultural heritage field has suffered from the lack of fully customized and supported live environmental monitoring tools for far too long, especially the smaller institutions that do not have fully dedicated personnel and specially designed facilities. Conserv will continue to take in and build upon the existing knowledge and research to add new features to its platform and sensors; that is certainly very exciting and the team already has a long and ambitious list of projects for the coming years. But what I really hope to see happening very soon is Conserv sensors become ubiquitous and to see them deployed in all the museums, galleries, historical houses, and libraries I hope to visit once we can all safely travel again.
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Don't Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers
In my forthcoming book The Human Advantage, I take on the growing worry that robots and AIs will take all our jobs. (I argue that we should prepare, not panic.) I also discuss the bad philosophy that leads intellectuals to confuse man and machine.
Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both.
There's no evidence for any of these claims, though I see how an atheist might believe them. After all, if you think we're the mere product of physics, random mutations and natural selection, why wouldn't you think that the machines we design will surpass us at some point?
You might expect Christian institutions to push back. Unfortunately, far too many buy into the hype. Take Don Howard. He's a philosophy professor at Notre Dame, a leading Catholic university. In a "Think" piece at NBC.com, he asks whether robots deserve human rights.
I read it expecting a Notre Dame philosopher to take on the bad arguments for "strong AI" (the idea that computers will become conscious persons). Instead, he takes strong AI for granted.
Robots Like Us
He starts out by describing the problem:
A being that knows fear and joy, that remembers the past and looks forward to the future and that loves and feels pain is surely deserving of our embrace, regardless of accidents of composition and manufacture — and it may not be long before robots possess those capacities.
So far as I can tell, he accepts strong AI hokum hook, line, and sinker, despite well-known objections to it. In truth, there's no more reason to think computers will become conscious than to think that strong tractors will become oxen. The whole argument rests on the assumption that we and computers are basically the same kinds of things.
I don't blame the man on the street for worrying about killer robots. His ideas are formed by thousands of hours watching sci-fi movies like Star Trek and Terminator. But a philosopher should know better. A philosopher at Notre Dame should really know better.
After reading the first two paragraphs, I expected Howard to argue that robots have, or should have, rights just like we do. But instead, he goes on to argue that there are no rights, human or otherwise!
His argument for that claim is … somewhere between bad and non-existent.
First, he quotes another (often wrong) Notre Dame philosopher: "The eminent moral philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, put it nicely in his 1981 book, 'After Virtue': 'There are no such things as rights, and belief in them is one with belief in witches and in unicorns.'"
That's a sneer, not an argument.
No Objective Grounding?
He then claims that the rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence have "no objective grounding." But what about God? Can't He endow us with rights, as Jefferson wrote? No. Because, Howard writes, "almost no one today takes seriously a divine theory of rights."
Really? There are surely a hundred million Americans who do take the theory seriously. But I guess they don't count. In any case, an idea's lack of status is not a serious argument against it.
Besides, lots of secular academics do defend rights. What about that? "Most of us," Howard explains, "think that rights are conferred upon people by the governments under which they live — which is precisely the problem. Who gets what rights depends, first and foremost, on the accident of where one lives." Translate "Most of us" in the previous sentence to mean: "People who think just like me on this question."
Philosophers call this "begging the question." Howard assumes we don't have genuine rights. Governments merely bestow them on some people. And that's a problem, since it means that means folks in, say, Ghana, have different rights than Americans do.
But that's a flaw with his theory of rights, not the "divine theory" he dismisses. The divine theory says we all have the same rights since we are creatures made in the image of God. On this view, governments don't bestow rights on us. Rather, they recognize our real rights more or less well. The U.S. government recognizes them better than does the People's Republic of China.
Finally, he points to disagreement about rights as evidence that they don't exist. But if that were a good argument, it would mean that pretty much nothing exists. Including his argument.
So, what does Howard propose in place of rights? We should turn to "civic virtues" such as "loyalty, service, civility, tolerance and participation." These will allow us to have a society that is nice to people, and nice to robots. "The world would be a better place," he claims, "if we spent less time worrying, in a self-focused way, about our individual rights and more time worrying about the common good."
He seems not to realize that if his arguments against rights were sound, they could just as easily be turned against "civic virtues." Fortunately, his arguments aren't sound.
For my part, I'm not that worried about the robots. In the short run, they will disrupt how we do things, but they will also make us wealthier and more productive. I'm far more worried about the bad thinking that leads academics to view man as a machine, and future machines as men. Nothing good can come from that.
Jay Richards, PhD, is the Executive Editor of The Stream, an Assistant Research Professor in the Busch School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America, and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute. The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines will be out June 19, 2018, but is available for pre-order now.
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Xiaomi 10 is my favorite product this year. It has good performance, audio, video, and image performance. Wired and wireless charging are both 30W specifications, although it is not the first with fast charging, but it is convenience to have fast charging for both Xiaomi 10 and Xiaomi 11.
Subjectively, although the weight of 209g and the FHD+ screen resolution can make the standby performance better, the feedback to the wrist and the visual experience still need to be improved.
This improvements have become the part of the successor that I most hope Xiaomi 11.
The screen Xiaomi 11
As the first model of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Mi 11 has upgraded the screen to WQHD+, which is 3200×1440. Therefore, whether it is playing games, browsing online content, and watching videos, Xiaomi Mi 11 is much more refined than the Xiaomi digital series in recent years. Through this upgrade, the Mi Digital series is officially removed from the 2K slot.
While the screen refresh rate was upgraded to 120Hz, the touch sampling rate was further increased to 480Hz, which is 4 times the refresh rate. Such an improvement is very friendly to mobile game players. After all, whether it is "PUBG ", or the music games I usually play, higher refresh rate and touch sampling rate is very pleasing. This makes system feedback more timely, even if you don't turn on the high frame rate.
This screen also uses a new E4 luminescent material, which brings a 1500nit peak brightness and a 10-bit color depth display with more than 1 billion colors. With the front and rear ambient light sensors and Xiaomi's self-developed screen calibration algorithm, Xiaomi Mi 11 has outstanding performance in automatic brightness adjustment and color management.
The size of the Mi 11 screen has been increased to 6.81 inches, but it is not a chunky piece, but is more slender, bringing a smaller body width. The weight of the whole machine is light, the measured 195g including SIM card and screen protector will be more handy when used with one hand.
As for the four-curved screen design, the curvature of the upper and lower sides is ok, which has little effect on actual use, mainly because it can reduce the visual thickness of the whole machine.
I think the picture and audio have always been complementary, so with a better screen, the sound quality must be improved together. The sound quality of Xiaomi Mi 11 has been professionally adjusted by Harman Kardon. At the same time, a 1216 super linear speaker unit is used at the bottom, which forms a stereo sound with the two-in-one speaker on the top of the earpiece.
The sound quality and hiding effect of the top two-in-one speakers are good, but they still haven't escaped the problem of different sound on the two sides. Mi 11 has also adjusted the position of the speaker, so it will not need to hold the camera to play games like Mi 10 does.
On the whole, I think the audio and video experience of Mi 11 can still be praised. With the 2K 10bit high-swiping screen and the external amplifier adjusted by Harman Karton, the experience has been further upgraded whether it is playing audio and video, or daily Weibo and games.
Briefly talk about the back of Xiaomi Mi 11. This time we got a plain leather version with smoky purple color. I personally feel that the look and feel needs to be improved. It might be better if the color brightness is adjusted higher. At the same time, I look forward to the actual performance of khaki.
The area of the matrix camera module in the upper left corner is not small, and the three-stage design is visually harmonious, but it is often encountered when playing games on the horizontal screen.
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Xiaomi Mi 11 debuted the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile platform, and it is the only smartphone product equipped with this chip this year. As the flagship platform for next year's high-end Android products, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile platform has been optimized for performance, network connectivity and power consumption.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 mobile platform first launched the ARM Cortex-X1 super core, with three A78 performance cores. The GPU is partially upgraded to Adreno 660, which has significantly improved graphics rendering performance, which is up to 35% higher than the previous generation. With the third-generation Snapdragon Elite Gaming and AI engine, the performance is significantly improved. At the same time, Xiaomi Mi 11 is equipped with a full-blood LPDDR5 memory with a transmission rate of 6400Mbps, which gives powerful performance.
In order to be more energy-efficient, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 uses a 5nm process and has a built-in Snapdragon X60 modem. The latter not only provide a better network environment, but also effectively control the weight and power consumption of the whole machine.
In the Antutu running points, Mi 11 scored more than 700,000 points and successfully achieved the top spot. However, considering that some models using Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 and 865 Plus platforms have reached about 660,000, Xiaomi 11 should not fully realize the performance potential of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888.
Among GeekBench 5, which focuses more on CPU performance, and Androbench, which focuses on flash memory performance, Xiaomi Mi 11 performs equally well.
In terms of game performance, in addition to a few actual game tests (all based on 2K resolution), I also used Mi 11 to run 3DMark's recently launched cross-platform project Wild Life. The results are as follows, belonging to Android's current unique high score.
The actual test part of the game, first of all, is the recently more topical mobile version of "League of Legends". With all special effects turned on, Mi 11 ran out of 60.2 frames per second.
It can be seen that the game is maintained at the highest frame rate throughout the entire process, and no freezes occur. However, Mi 11 keeps the limit of 60 frames per second very well, and does not force it to around 63 frames like some other brands.
Next is "PUBG ". Considering that Xiaomi Mi 11 uses a 2K screen, currently the bottom layer of Android 11 is not easy to crack. So I chose the ultra-high-definition picture quality of 4K texture here, but the highest frame rate at this time is only 40 frames per second.
According to the test results, Xiaomi Mi 11 ran 39.9 frames per second in a game.
Considering that the 2K resolution is used throughout the test, I think the above results are still satisfactory. So I also hope that in the future "PUBG " can better turn on the 120fps switch, and after high frame rate games are enriched, how will Xiaomi 11 perform.
Next is the performance of Mi 11 in terms of charging, battery life, taking pictures and systems.
The first is battery life. When 5G and Wi-Fi networks are turned on, and the screen brightness is 50%, the power consumption of Mi 11 in three games, watching videos, and browsing information content is shown in the following table.
After five hours of continuous testing, the power of Xiaomi Mi 11 went from 99% to 22%.
Considering the pressure of the [email protected] screen and 5G network, the battery life of Mi 11 is still good. But if you are a heavy user or have a higher battery life requirement, you may wish to turn on the smart resolution power saving mode.
Of course, you can also choose to recharge the blood. Xiaomi Mi 11 removes the charging head and data cable from the package this time, but users can choose when purchasing. The official will provide a set of wired chargers for free. It includes a 55W GaN charging head and a USB-A to USB-C data cable.
Mi 11 supports 55W wired second charging and 50W wireless second charging. After actual measurement, with a 55W GaN charger, it can be fully charged in 47 minutes, of which 42% can be charged in 10 minutes, and 85% can be charged in half an hour.
For wireless charging, with Xiaomi's 55W wireless charger, it can charge 45% in 15 minutes, 73% in 30 minutes, and full in 52 minutes. However, if it has been powered off and turned off, it is recommended to put it back again after turning it on, otherwise the fast charge protocol may not be triggered.
It should be noted that the Xiaomi 55W wireless charger needs to be used with a charger above 65W that supports Xiaomi's ultra-fast flash charging, so the 55W charger with Xiaomi 11 cannot achieve full-speed charging.
Based on the above, I think that the phone should not be charged until it is dead, and it does not need to be fully charged, so the charging time should be controlled at about half an hour each time.
In terms of images, Xiaomi Mi 11 uses this year's more mainstream matrix rear camera module. It includes a 100-megapixel Samsung HMX, a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a telephoto macro lens.
Since the product we got this time is equipped with an earlier system, the imaging effect is good under the condition of sufficient light during the day, but the adjustment at night needs to be optimized.
After turning on the night scene mode, Xiaomi Mi 11 can effectively improve the brightness of the picture through long exposure, and the noise is much less. But now there will be a problem of white sky, the background is too bright.
Overall, Xiaomi Mi 11's current camera performance is average, but the official said that it will be optimized in the future system update. But what is certain is that the camera application of Mi 11 is very easy to use.
For example, when shooting a video, in addition to the shortcut options at the top, you can also open the menu as shown on the left, where the resolution, frame rate and various modes are clear at a glance. This time Xiaomi 11 also supports 8K video recording, but it is still limited to 30 frames per second.
Mi 11 also provides preset templates for VLOG creators, and you can generate short videos with good effects through simple selection and recording.
The "More" page of the camera provides two designs. The former has a larger image and is more suitable for placing commonly used functions, which can be easily called up when needed. The other is more comprehensive, and both support custom arrangements.
Back to the system experience, the MIUI on Xiaomi Mi 11 itself is a representative of the domestic customized OS. Whether it is localized functions, small screen applications, game assistance, or overall optimization, all are in place, and this time Xiaomi Mi 11 has made some improvements in fingerprint recognition.
First of all, Xiaomi Mi 11 still uses an ultra-thin optical fingerprint module under the screen, which can reserve more space for the battery, while the brightness is lower, and it is not dazzling when used at night. Moreover, if you continue to press and hold the shortcut icon after unlocking, the Xiaomi Mi 11 has also added a heart rate detection function this time, and it only takes 15 seconds to detect the current heart rate.
The fly in the ointment is that currently this function can only be used in Xiaomi's own health applications. If it can be opened to third-party developers in the future, I believe there will be more ways to play.
Xiaomi Mi 11's upgrades in terms of performance and screen are well in place, and even a little leapfrog closer to the "big flagship" feeling.
Among them, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile platform brings a performance level that surpasses that of this year's Android flagships. Therefore, the frame rate of Xiaomi Mi 11 is more stable when running large-scale mobile games, which is naturally the first choice for enthusiasts.
But I think that the 2K+ resolution 120Hz E4 screen, a thinner and thinner body, and the improved charging rate of both wired and wireless are the more sensitive parts of Xiaomi 11.
So for a "Midrange" product, Mi 11 is a very qualified upgrade, laying the foundation for a good user experience in this series.
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So you want to be a Natural Builder!
Looking forward to glorious days of stacking golden bales with throngs of happy workshop participants, up to your elbows in delicious sun warmed beautiful mud plaster, standing back and admiring another artful edifice made of all local materials?
There is an ever growing group of individuals who want to start a career in 'Natural Building' and I get a lot of inquiries as to the best place for someone to start out.
Here's the advice that i might think in my head, but wouldn't say: 'I hope you are prepared to work excruciating hours, have folks expect you to work for free, and witness your tools get destroyed by dirt and volunteers and somehow you want to do it all again the next day'. That's the half joking, half jaded response two natural builders would say to each other because it's part of the truth of being a natural builder.
Really, getting in to natural building involves a great deal of commitment, study and sacrifice. True of any career. It's not like conventional construction where you are likely to show up on a job with no skills and are put to work for pay. The best advice I can give is to gain some conventional construction skills. Learn carpentry. Acquire tools and the skills to really use them. This can begin in a workshop, but takes years of application. Taking a workshop, even a multiweek apprenticeship does not make you a 'builder'. Years of experience and surviving the responsibilities of building for other people make you a builder. Understanding the interfaces and relationships between all the various trades involved in making a building work makes you a builder. Even after nearly 16 years of experience I am still actively learning.
Work with as many different people as possible, conventional and natural. Do you best to see as many projects through from beginning to end, not just of the wall systems, but from foundation to finish details. OR- pick the facet of natural building that fascinates you, be it plasters, floors, thatch roofing etc. and make it your focus. It will limit you in some ways as to how much work will be available to you in the beginning, but it may be very worth it in the long run.
To become a successful builder you have to understand the enormous amount of coordination and planning that goes into making a good building. There are all the systems that need to be integrated into a building, and integrated well, for a building to function well. It's our responsibility as builders to create spaces that function and last. It is our mission as natural builders to make them 'appropriate' for people, place and planet.
Learn to be a good worker. Learn to be efficient in your work and pleasant to work with. Treat tools with respect. Someone who comes to work for me and they treat their tools poorly is not someone I want handling my tools!
I did a lot of volunteering when I first got started. Although it didn't pay the bills I gained amazing amounts of experience, and the hours put in payed off when I would get asked to stay on for pay, or who I volunteered for gave glowing recommendations for other paying jobs.
Read, read and read, but don't expect to learn everything from books.
Make plenty of mistakes. Make nice big juicy ones! Those you will learn the most from. We all mess up. Being a good builder translates to being able to gracefully repair your mistakes. I have some serious dear-god-i-am-not-crying-on-the-job sized mistakes, but they have made me a better, if not more humble builder and person.
Don't expect it all to happen at once. It takes a long time before you skills are at a comfortable point where you no longer notice that you are concentrating or trying. It's a lovely day when you look back and realize how far you have come and you are no longer doubtful, or stressed about doing the right thing on the job.
Oh, and last but not least, take some small business classes. Being a good builder is one thing, not bankrupting your self to be one is another.
Best of luck and Happy Building!
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Q: Ionic4: give image-size as cover to background image url I want to give background image to ion-toolbar since the image goes too big, so I want to use image-size: cover for the background image so that it best fits in the ion-toolbar.
I tried to give in below format but it did not work, any idea how to make it work.
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A: Finally after struggling so long got the answer
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For more details check https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background.asp

A: you can also refer the following link for Background-size property:
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Single-handed, I'm promoting a new theory of evolution. Coming up with the theory has been the easy part. The hard part has been figuring out how to frame it. As true? Can't be proved. As a humanist alternative to physicalism? "No thank you, we're happy with human nature just the way physicalism defines it." Now I've come up with another framing: what I'm offering is an "intuitive" theory of evolution; evolution for the rest of us; the road not taken (Lamarck, Samuel Butler).
Darwinists have always made a virtue out of the non-intuitiveness of natural selection. For example we're told how impossible it is for non-specialists to appreciate how much can be achieved by selection acting over hundreds of thousands of generations, or how single mutations, each selected for the benefit it alone brings, can each end up a cog in the machinery needed to support human vision. Sufficient understanding of evolutionary theory is out of our reach? Fine, then we'll come up with our own theory, something more intuitive, something we can use to help us account for and enhance our own nature.
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Why Christianity Was Invented and What It Means To Me Today
I didn't think I'd be writing another blog post about Passover this year. After all, I've lost count of the number of times I've addressed that theme, particularly relative to being intermarried and being a "Messianic Gentile." But I had a dream last night that made me look at it from a different direction. Actually, I've had this idea running around in my brain for a while now but chose not to express it before.
No, I don't think my dream was a "prophetic dream" or any such thing. It was probably just my mind processing information.
In my dream, I saw a blog post written by someone whose name many of my readers would recognize (which is why I'm not going to use it) who was criticizing me for being "stuck" in my spiritual development. This person said he wanted to like me but that I needed to move on.
It's true that I've plateaued, but that's not why I'm writing this.
I'm writing this to ask (and then answer) why there's such a thing as Christianity in the first place?
To the vast majority of church-going Christians, the answer might seem obvious. At the end of Matthew's Gospel, Rav Yeshua (Jesus Christ) tells his Jewish disciples to go make disciples of all the nations, that is the Goyim; the Gentiles.
Then in Acts 9, Rav Yeshua creates a vision for Paul (Saul or Rav Shaul if you prefer) specifically commissioning him to be an Apostle to the Gentiles, a mission he would pursue diligently for the rest of his life.
I suppose we could even give a lot of the credit to Constantine for manufacturing the Roman Catholic Church and making them a dominant religious structure that continues to affect the entire Christian Church and all of its denominations to this day (the Reformation didn't change as much as people think and in fact continued to support the many crimes the Church has committed against the Jewish people).
Almost four years ago, largely citing New Testament scholar Magnus Zetterholm, I wrote Zetterholm, Ancient Antioch, and "Honey, I Want A Divorce" describing the cultural and sociological dynamics that likely drove a really big wedge between the ancient Jewish and non-Jewish devotees of Rav Yeshua, effectively sending them on two divergent paths, Judaism and Christianity.
But while normative Jewish devotion to Yeshua waned in the subsequent decades and centuries until it was finally (but not permanently) extinguished, the Gentile Christian Church blossomed or, from some points of view, "grew like a weed." However, Gentile Christianity, in order to form its own identity, had to totally reinterpret the Bible so that not only were Israel and the Jewish people minimized as the focus of God's attention, but all of the covenant promises the Almighty made to Israel were "spiritually transferred" to the Christian Church.
However, for those few of us who are "Hebraically aware" Gentile believers, an honest reading of scripture reveals that God didn't change His mind, lie to Israel about His ultimate intent, or go from plan A to plan B somewhere in the first part of the book of Acts.
Christianity as it has existed for nearly 2,000 years including its modern incarnations, is not the logical and natural expression of the Bible. It's an invention that was required by the ancient Gentile believers in order to form their own identity and praxis completely separate from the Jewish origins of the faith.
So what? A lot of us know that. It's old news.
Here's the deal. It's happening again today. Well, that's not exactly true. Let's say an echo of the original schism is happening again today.
I remain a big supporter of Messianic Jewish community, the active and lived experience of Messianic Jews within normative Judaism. While in Reform, Conservative, and even Orthodox Jewish synagogues, you might find the occasional Gentile (a Jewish member's spouse for instance or perhaps a non-Jew considering conversation), by and large, the people there are almost all Jews and even if a few goys are present, it's still a wholly Jewish community. No one questions that for a second.
In a Messianic Jewish synagogue, you are likely to find the majority of members are not Jewish since modern Messianic Judaism has its origins in the Church. However over the last few decades, the movement has evolved such that Jewish disciples of Rav Yeshua desire to not have to choose between Jewish identity and praxis and their devotion to their Rav.
That all makes sense. The Jews in Paul's day who were devoted to Yeshua were pretty much indistinguishable from the Pharisees (that may come as a shock to some people). Paul himself was an observant Jew in the Pharisaic tradition as were Peter, John, Matthew, and all of the other Jewish disciples. Devotion to Rav Yeshua, even after the crucifixion and resurrection, and even after the Acts 15 decree which applied only to the Gentile believers, did not change that fact on any level.
So why should it be any different today?
One argument is that Judaism then isn't the same thing as Judaism today and that's very true. However, if you accept, as many Messianic Jews do, the idea that Rabbinic authority allows for the evolution of interpretation of Torah such that Judaism today is the natural and logical extention of true Jewish faith and praxis, then there is some basis for Messianic Jewish praxis closely mirroring Orthodox Jewish praxis.
That statement if full of trap doors for a lot of Gentile Messianic believers and probably some Jewish ones, but let's roll with it for the time being.
Where does that leave Hebraically aware Gentiles?
If Messianic Judaism necessitates exclusive Messianic Jewish community, we Gentiles are right back where we were before. Trying to find community that best fits our identity and doesn't tromp all over our Messianic Jewish mentors.
The normative Church isn't the answer. I tried that and my personal experience ended up being pretty frustrating. Hebraically aware Gentile believers for the most part, are a poor fit in that environment.
Acts 13 famously describes what happens when Gentile presence overwhelms Jewish community. Initially, the Jewish leaders of the synagogue in Pisidian Antioch welcomed Paul's message of the Good News of Messiah, but the following Shabbat when scores of Gentiles (and not just the usual crew of God Fearers) showed up at the door, they were shocked and outraged. The Gentiles had invaded Jewish community in force, and while not having malicious intent, still threatened a wholly Jewish space by perhaps rewriting Jewish community and praxis to fit their own requirements.
So Paul, his companions, and probably most of the Gentiles were kicked out and the Apostle to the Gentiles fought an uphill battle for Gentile acceptance from that point on until his death.
Sort of the reverse happened in modern times. Historically over the past several decades, Messianic Jewish and Hebrew Roots spaces were largely composed of Gentiles, often badly imitating Jewish praxis, praying using Hebrew transliteration, reading the Torah portion in English (or in the primary language of their nation), and believing they were "Torah observant" or "Torah compliant" or whatever. Oh, and they absolutely drew a distinction between the written Torah, which they adored (as they understood it), and the oral Torah (Talmud) which they despised as "Man-made."
Of course, there were always Jews present, but many/most of them had not been raised in observant Jewish families, many/most had been raised in intermarried families, and many/most had been raised in normative Christian families, the Jewish parent being more correctly identified as a "Hebrew Christian".
But that's been changing slowly and steadily, at least to the best of my knowledge. Now Messianic Jews (some of them anyway) are embracing what it is to be a Jew on all experiential levels and strongly desire to be among normative, observant, Jewish community.
That's led some Messianic Jews to make the choice to abandon Rav Yeshua and join the Orthodox community in order to realize their desires. It's also seen a number of "Messianic Gentiles" also abandon their Rav and convert to Orthodox Judaism. For them, it was either Rav Yeshua (and the Christians) or lived Jewish community.
Yes, Messianic Jews can have their cake and eat it too, and it's not like they won't let Gentile Messianic believers visit and worship with them or even grant them some sort of "associate membership." However, in order to be Jewish community, it has to be primarily or exclusively Jewish, just like a normative Orthodox synagogue.
I think this is why we have the (Gentile) Hebrew Roots and Two-House movements today. Oh, they've existed for decades and in fact it could be said that modern Messianic Judaism (for Jews) emerged from them. However, that returns us to the question of what to do with these pesky Hebraically aware Gentiles, and the answer (which is uncomfortable to some) is something you'd have to call "bilateral." That is separate but equal. Yeah, that's really uncomfortable and I'm (hopefully) exaggerating to make a point.
In other words, Hebraically aware Gentiles are in the position of having to invent their own communities for the sake of Messianic Jewish exclusivity.
What does any of this have to do with Passover?
I observe Passover (well, without the Temple and Levitical Priesthood, no one really observes Passover) in the traditional manner for one primary reason; my wife is Jewish. If she plans a seder in our home, then I lead the seder as head of household.
Last year, my wife spent Passover with our daughter in California and thus, I did not observe Passover in any way.
If, Heaven forbid, something were to happen to my wife and I were alone, I would not continue to observe Passover.
While there are Gentile applications for the festival, truly the Passover feast is wholly Jewish and describes a uniquely Jewish relationship with the Almighty, even relative to Rav Yeshua. In Messianic Days, when the Temple is rebuilt, the Gentile disciples of Rav Yeshua will not be able to eat of the Pascal lamb. We can eat anything else, but not the lamb. Torah is clear on this matter and there is no example whatsoever of a Gentile eating of the lamb (If you think you can point one out, let me know).
But will Gentiles be in Jerusalem at all for Passover?
I'm guessing "yes" (and I've been wrong before) but only for one reason.
When Rav Yeshua returns, he is going to straighten out all of our communal and identity conflicts. First of all I think the church is in for a really big shock. Secondly, Yeshua will definitively (I hope) describe the roles and communities fitting for both Jewish and Gentile disciples and then hopefully all of this angst will just go away. If not, then we'll still have to figure out for ourselves what it is to be servants of the King and so these pain points will continue.
What do to until then?
Some people think that Messianic Judaism as it currently exists is the forerunner of the Messianic Age as it will be.
Maybe and maybe not. I wouldn't count on it for the simple reason that too many human egos are involved.
I've long since decided to withdraw from anything that even remotely resembles Jewish praxis, well, for the most part. It is true that every Saturday morning, I read the Torah and Haftarah portions along with a reading from the Gospels. There are no prayers or ceremony around this act, I simply read them.
Every morning when I wake up, I recite the Modeh Ani in English. That is the extent of my "Jewish" prayers.
No, it's not that I believe the "Halachah police" are going to kick down my door and bust me for "cultural appropriation." I just don't believe it's right for me to adopt Jewish praxis, especially since my wife, who is Jewish, is pretty sensitive of me, a Christian, doing "Jewish stuff."
So what to do until Messiah returns? Wait.
That's all I can do. I can't see a solution to the conflicts I've raised. If Messianic Judaism is Jewish then it is best left to the Jews. Paul had a vision about how to integrate the Gentiles, but his innovation died with him and Yeshua did not assign him a successor, which I find highly interesting. No one, absolutely no one followed Paul's work. If the Almighty intended for the Gentiles to be integrated into a Jewish faith in our Rav, why did Paul's work cease? At that point, it absolutely necessitated the Gentiles reinventing their identity into something completely different and new (and scripturally inaccurate).
Perhaps it's because only Messiah can accomplish so great and difficult a thing.
So I'm waiting for him to do it because I don't think we can accomplish it on our own.
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What is Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF)?
Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF), also known as identity theft tax refund fraud is a type of identity fraud. In this scam, an identity thief uses your identity to file taxes and claim fraudulent refunds.
According to the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, Stolen Identity Refund Fraud is the No. 1 fraud in the IRS. During the 2013 tax filing season, more than 5 million tax returns were filed using stolen identities which claimed over $30 billion in refunds.
According to J. Russell George, U.S. treasury inspector general for tax administration, Stolen Identity Refund Fraud is a growing epidemic. George said that the number of identities stolen in tax refund crimes in the first six months of 2013 was greater than the total number of identities stolen in the whole year of 2012.
A Stolen Identity Refund Fraud occurs when a criminal steals and uses your personal identifying information such as your name, Social Security Number (SSN), etc. to file for taxes. The criminal files for taxes on your behalf and acquires the fraudulent tax refunds.
Are you one of those Americans who wait until the last day to file their taxes? If yes, then you can be the next victim of this horrifying crime. Never wait till the last moment to file the taxes as identity thieves are behind you. After stealing your personal information, identity thieves plan to file taxes in your name before you actually file them. By filing the taxes earlier than you, the thieves will surely obtain the fraudulent refunds before you can.
Due to paperless e-filing, it has become easier for the criminals to commit this crime. Thieves make up fake income information, submit the relevant information electronically, and then receive the fraudulent tax refunds either through mail or they are directly deposited into their accounts.
How criminals acquire your information?
They may hack the systems of various companies and agencies to obtain sensitive information.
They can call you by impersonating IRS agents to acquire your SSN.
They may pretend to be tax agents or bank officials and email you to acquire your data.
See how the thieves acquired the identities of several individuals in this real life Identity Theft Tax Return Fraud Case.
What is the impact of the scam on the victims?
If an identity thief acquires your personal information and uses it to file taxes, then firstly, you won't receive your tax refunds as the thief has acquired them.
Secondly, the identity thief can also use your personal information to obtain credit/debit cards, acquire loans or mortgages, and get jobs.
What's more? The identity thief can even destroy your credit rating. To clear your records, you will have to spend several hours and lots of money.
Some taxpayers become the victim of Stolen Identity Refund Fraud twice in a row!
What are the warning signs of stolen identity refund fraud?
When you file your taxes, you find that it has already been filed by someone else.
The IRS sends you a letter informing you about a suspicious return using your SSN.
The IRS is working efficiently to combat the threat using its skilled team of investigators. After finding various flaws in its online e-filing system, IRS is working towards implementing the necessary changes. The FBI has teamed up with the IRS and said that IRS is working towards making enhancements in fraud prevention.
How can you reduce the risk of SIRF?
Protect your documents having personal information.
Don't carry your Social Security Card everywhere.
Ensure your tax records are secure.
Obtain a credit report from any of the credit monitoring services.
Keep your computers secure by installing a reliable anti-virus software, firewall, and regularly updating software.
Regularly change your passwords and never open suspicious emails.
What steps must be taken if you become the victim of SIRF?
Contact the institutions which are directly affected by the fraud.
Close any credit accounts opened without your permission or any existing accounts accessed by identity thieves.
File a police report with local police.
By having sufficient knowledge about Stolen Identity Refund Fraud, and taking appropriate measures at the right time, the extent of losses by this crime can be decreased.


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VT Lithyouvong is a producer and director of an award winning music video and short film. He has produced and directed 4 music videos which resulted in the selection to 11 film festivals with 1 winning an award. He has also collaborated with other filmmakers and worked as a crew member in the position of camera operator and assistant editor. A short film which he wrote, produced, and directed were selected to 3 film festivals with 6 nominations and 1 win. When he's not doing film, he's doing photography. His work consist of family portraits, head shots, and weddings. At the moment, filmmaking is a weekend job due to his commitment to the United States Navy.
He enlisted into the United States Navy in 1999 and is currently still on active duty. He has been stationed at Naval Air Station North Island Coronado, Marine Corp Base Kaneohe Bay, Naval Air Station Lemoore, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and USS Carl Vinson. He has deployed to numerous foreign countries from the Caribbean Islands to the middle east and from Asia to Europe.
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When on the road, the feeling of change is best captured by the people you meet most often — cashiers at the petrol stations. Some will politely acknowledge your existence. Others will give you a warm smile. And some will greet you like an old friend, who stopped by for a couple of stories and a good laugh. Scottish folk belong to the last category.
I've discovered that they possess a very important quality — an ability to laugh at themselves. In their self-deprecating ways, Scotts are very similar to Irish. I think that, together with a good bit of banter over the counter, made me feel a bit closer to home.
My next visit was to Sutherland Black, a firm of Scottish Accountants operating in Livingston and Edinburgh. Unlike many other accounting firms, Sutherland Black didn't start with a partner leaving a bigger company with a couple of good clients in their pocket. John Mclaughlin and Rob Meredith built their firm from scratch.
John and Rob told me that they started Sutherland Black to provide a 'different kind of accountancy service.' They are straight-forward in their approach, offer a fixed price, and guarantee to waive their annual fee if a client is charged for a service that they haven't agreed on beforehand.
The most interesting thing I learned, however, was that accounting is dead.
In its traditional form that is. Today's accounting is not about bean-counting or keeping records in a shoebox. It's about embracing technology and developing the needs of your customers. Instead of lengthy quarterly reports, clients want access to real-time information at their fingertips. In order for modern accountants to provide this they need to understand and embrace concepts like AI, machine learning, the cloud, and integrated systems.
Today, most of the accounting day-to-day work can be automated. The bookkeeping tasks are taken care of by cloud solutions like Xero, and computers are evolving to process even more data.
The good news is it gives accountants more time to focus on high-level tasks, like supporting business development decisions, tax impact consultations, partnership agreements, or financial strategies. Plus, businesses still need to be trained in new ways and solutions.
Digital doesn't render the accountancy firm obsolete — it pushes them to embrace the change and step up.
Thank you, Rob and John, for a productive and educative meeting! It's great to see your SME leading change in the sometimes more traditioanal world of accounting.


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KAL, which manages 14 leisure facilities and swimming pools on behalf of Kirklees Council, won the category for operators with up to 22 wet sites.
The Amateur Swimming Association recognised KAL for its outstanding programmes, performance and partnerships.
KAL aquatic manager Gemma Hill-Wood said: "Winning a national award is a fantastic achievement for KAL. Aquatics has been a key focus for the organisation and the teams work really hard to provide such a range of activities.
"We have had a fantastic year with KAL Swim Performance, having athletes invited to the GB programmes and the opening of Huddersfield Leisure Centre providing an amazing facility for the whole community. KAL have now been recognised nationally for being the best facility operator for 2015 – it's brilliant."
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Symposium: Three Questions to the Author
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[Elvina Pothelet is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Geneva. Her research interests focus on the international law governing the use of force, the law of armed conflict and war crime law.]
Kubo Mačák's book is a rich and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on IHL applicability. The writing style and structure of the book make it a smooth and enjoyable read – to the extent this is possible for a book dealing with armed conflicts. The author's expert analysis of the law is enriched with plenty of historical and contemporary illustrations.
The book clarifies inter alia when a non-international armed conflict (NIAC) is "internationalized" in a legal sense, i.e. when it transforms into an international armed conflict (IAC). This question is of practical importance because, as Kubo emphasizes, the law that applies to IACs and NIACs is not yet exactly the same. Kubo identifies four types of internationalization: foreign intervention, State dissolution, national liberation wars and "relative internationalization" (through recognition of belligerency, special agreement or unilateral declaration). The case of foreign intervention in a NIAC is of obvious contemporary relevance, with examples from Colombia to the Philippines, including in the Sahel, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan. Such interventions vary in nature and degree and they do not necessarily impact, or impact differently, the law applicable to the conflict.
Listing every compelling argument of the book would take me well over the word limit. Instead, I would like to submit three questions to Kubo. The first is admittedly provocative as it touches on the legal relevance of the very notion of internationalized armed conflicts. The second is a question of clarification concerning his preferred test for when an external intervention truly internationalizes a NIAC (overall control or "joint use of force"). The third related question is an invitation to reconsider the policy reasons in favor of applying only IAC law to a conflict involving a group not subordinated to any State. I will suggest that negating the character of the group as a "party" to a parallel NIAC has non-negligible drawbacks.
1) Is the concept of "internationalized armed conflict" legally relevant?
Kubo argues "for a specific conceptualization of internationalized armed conflict in international law" (p. 2). His ambition is "to set forth a clear, reasoned, and practical conceptualization of conflict internationalization" thereby "confirm[ing] the continuing relevance of the concept of internationalized armed conflicts for the theory and practice of international law" (p. 3, see also p. 241).
If it was not for Kubo's book, the term "internationalized armed conflict" would seem to have vanished from recent IHL scholarship, probably due in significant part to the ICRC's rejection of the phrase. According to ICRC lawyer Tristan Ferraro the term "quite wrongly suggests a blanket application of the law of IAC in such situations, which is contrary to the fragmented approach" favored by the ICRC and "[i]t could also give the impression that these situations form a third category of armed conflicts." Indeed, the use of a term distinct from "IAC" and "NIAC" strongly suggests a different species of armed conflict, subject to its own body of rules.
Kubo explicitly rejects this possibility (p. 27) and indeed defines internationalized armed conflicts as "prima facie NIACs, the legal nature of which has transformed, with the effect that the law of IAC becomes applicable to them" (p. 2). His analysis of the effects of internationalization (on combatant status and belligerent occupation) further confirms that he sees these conflicts simply as IACs. As regards a "blanket application of the law of IAC" in cases of external interventions in a NIAC, Kubo's approach is more nuanced (more on this below).
Hence, the reader is left wondering why Kubo insists that internationalized armed conflict is relevant as a legal concept. After all, it would seem that internationalized armed conflicts as defined by Kubo are nothing more than newly formed IACs. Kubo argues that the reluctance toward this concept is the "product of the prevailing static approach to conflict qualification, which assesses the legal nature of a conflict in isolation at a particular point in time. Instead, the notion of internationalization is better understood as highlighting the dynamic idea of conflict transformation" (p. 27).
I would argue that while the process of qualification requires a dynamic approach – i.e. an analysis of contextual elements which may span over an extended period of time – the act of qualification is static and not dynamic. One always seeks to determine the applicable law "at a particular point in time" (a belligerent contemplating a military operation, the ICRC seeking to gain access to those affected by a conflict, a war crime judge assessing whether a murder was covered by IHL, etc.). The dynamic element reflected in the adjective "internationalized" is irrelevant for the act of qualification. It merely signals a different qualification in the past (a NIAC before the IAC) which has no relevance for which IHL rules now apply to the conflict (irrespective of whether the conflict used to be a NIAC, it is now regulated by IAC rules) or on how these rules apply (IAC rules will cover inter alia the non-state party to the former NIAC but they will not be applied differently than if there was no NIAC prior to the IAC).
Kubo might in fact agree with this, and I think it would have been more true to his conclusions to acknowledge that internationalization is a factual process informing the classification exercise, but that "internationalized armed conflict" is arguably not a legal concept as such.
2) Overall control or "joint use of force": when does indirect intervention transform a NIAC into an IAC?
In Chapter 2, Kubo explores the different ways internationalized armed conflicts may come about. One way is through indirect foreign intervention in support of the non-state party to an NIAC. Kubo indicates that this indirect intervention results in internationalizing the conflict "provided that [the intervening State] wields sufficient control over the group" (p. 39, emphasis mine). The question is then which degree of control is required. Kubo makes two points.
First, the control necessary for internationalization differs from the control necessary to attribute the acts of the group to the State for the purpose of State responsibility (pp. 43-44). Thus, contrary to the ICTY or the ICRC, Kubo accepts the possibility that an intervening State exercises sufficient control over a group to internationalize the conflict while not being responsible for the group's unlawful actions (p. 46). It would be interesting to hear Kubo's views on arguments pointing to the illogicality of this position (how can one establish the existence of an IAC without attributing the use of force to a State?) and the responsibility gap it creates (if the State is not responsible for violations of the law of IAC, who is?) (Marco Sassòli, International Humanitarian Law: Rules, Solutions to Problems Arising in Warfare and Controversies, forthcoming 2019, paras. 6.15-6.17).
Second, Kubo argues that the test for internationalization is whether the intervening State "has used force through a non-state group" and this is achieved if it exercises overall control over the group, i.e. it supports and coordinates the group's military activities (pp. 44-46). In other words, Chapter 2 concludes that when a State exercises overall control over a non-state party to a pre-existing NIAC, it uses force through that group and therefore the entire situation is governed exclusively by the law of IAC. This seems to contradict Chapter 3, where Kubo abandons the requirement of control.
In Chapter 3, Kubo examines how intervention affects the law applicable to these "Complex Conflict Situations". He describes two positions: the "global approach", which argues that intervention results in an overarching single IAC and the "mixed approach", under which the former NIAC co-exists with a new IAC. Kubo proposes a "hybrid model" which adopts the mixed classification as a baseline and provides that, at a certain point on the spectrum of intervention, "the use of force by the outside intervener and the rebels it supports becomes so indistinguishable that it is impossible to separate the conflicts anymore" (p. 101). The entire situation becomes exclusively governed by IAC law. If I follow Kubo's definition of internationalization (see above), only from this moment on is the conflict truly "internationalized" (under the mixed approach, there is no internationalization).
Kubo argues that this tipping point is reached when the intervening State and the group "can be said to use force together". Such joint use of force exists if the two entities "participate in the organization, co-ordination, or planning of their military activities" and "neither of them [are] using force autonomously" (p. 103). Importantly, this test does not require any form of control from the State over the armed group. If the two entities use force jointly, the law of IAC will govern the entire situation, even if there is no relationship of subordination.
This "joint use of force" test in Chapter 3 differs from the overall control test for internationalization in Chapter 2. If a State and an armed group use force in certain joint operations and yet there is no relationship of subordination, does Kubo qualify the situation as a single IAC? What if the State exercises overall control but the group uses force completely autonomously in one specific area of the country: does the law of IAC nonetheless apply to the military activities of the group in this area?
3) Do we really want to internationalize NIACs involving armed groups not subordinated to any State?
Pending Kubo's clarification, I will consider that his preferred test to determine when foreign intervention in a NIAC transforms the situation into a single IAC is "joint use of force". Under this test, "the law of IAC applies 'globally' to the situation at hand" (p. 244) even if the State exercises no control over the armed group.
The absence of a control requirement is problematic not only in terms of State responsibility (see above) but also because it means that the group cannot legally be considered a "party" to the conflict. As a result, many IAC rules addressed to parties to the conflict will not bind the armed group as such. For instance, who will be bound by the duty of parties to take passive precautions to protect civilians under their control (Art. 58 API) in areas not controlled by the State but by its partner armed group? The fact that Kubo's test focuses on joint use of force also means that the State may have no business in the group's activities that are unrelated to the use of force (e.g. detention or recruitment). If only IAC law applies, these activities will not be appropriately regulated.
When no State exercises control over the group we should resist the temptation to internationalize the conflict as would be the case under Kubo's joint use of force test. Maintaining instead a mixed classification, i.e. the existence of a separate NIAC but also the character of the armed group as a party to this NIAC, has a number of advantages. First, a parallel NIAC means that applicable rules would be addressed to the (non-state) party which has the ability to comply with them, rather than to its supporter State. Hence, whereas under the single IAC approach the armed group's recruitment policy would be unregulated by IHL if not controlled by the supporter State, the mixed classification would trigger the prohibition for the group to recruit children (Art. 4(3)(c) APII). Second, and relatedly, if rules are directly addressed to the armed group, actors seeking to enhance compliance with the law will be able to engage with the group more efficiently. Third, NIAC rules are designed to regulate this specific type of conflict and therefore are often more realistic (e.g. with regard to the administration of justice by armed groups). Finally, the "presumption in favor of protection" (p. 249) does not necessarily point to IAC law. Yes, IAC law is more detailed, but when one adds human rights law (HRL) into the picture this is not necessarily a good thing: when an IAC rule regulates a specific question (e.g. can I target an enemy combatant?), it prevails over HRL as far as this specific question is concerned. Inevitably, given the lesser density of IHL applicable in NIACs, the more protective HRL has more influence in this type of conflicts.
I would like to thank Kubo for his enlightening work and Opinio Juris for the opportunity to engage on this important topic.
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Deeds relating to the Cilwendeg estate, Pembrokeshire, 1625-1883, and to the Skerries lighthouse, Anglesey.
A draft by Morgan James Rees of a scheme for hospital inquiries, together with notes of an inquiry, 30 July 1911, relating to hospital service in Pembrokeshire.
A collection of inscriptions and notes by John Rowland (Giraldus), 19 cent., in pencil, from churches in Pembrokeshire.
Lists of the sheriffs of Pembrokeshire from 1540 to 1867, the Queen's Lieutenants of Pembrokeshire, 1867, and the Mayors and Sheriffs of Haverfordwest from 1563 to 1857.
The so-called Llwynwormwood MS, containing legal precedents, many of them of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire interest, medical and culinary recipes, etc.
Material relating to the Smalls Lighthouse.
A memorandum book containing notes of land and financial transactions, together with surveys of land in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, recorded by several owners in connection with those counties, etc.
Copies of memorial inscriptions, etc., mainly in Pembrokeshire.
Some of the papers within the file relate to Milford Haven Bridge and Cleddau Bridge.
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What is 'building work'?
'Building work' is defined in the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016 (BCIIP Act).
You can review the complete BCIIP Act here.
The Code applies to building work, but the definition of building work under the Code is slightly narrower than the definition in the BCIIP Act. There are two types of building work that are subject to the laws in the BCIIP Act but are not subject to the Code:
The off-site prefabrication of made-to-order components to form part of any building, structure or works, unless that work is performed on an auxiliary or holding site that is separate from the primary construction site or sites; and
The transportation or supply of goods to be used for building work, directly to building sites (including any resources platform) where that work is being or may be performed.
Below, you can learn about the various types of building work that are subject to the Code. You can also read about whether the Code applies to:
residential building work
transport and supply
semi-permanent structures
What is building work under the Code?
The definition of 'building work' in the Code is relatively broad and includes the following:
Any of the activities listed below, as they relate to buildings, structures or works that form, or are to form, part of land (including land beneath water), whether permanent or temporary, being:
dismantling.
The same activities listed above, in so far as they relate to railways (not including rolling stock) and docks.
The installation of fittings in any building, structure or works forming, or to form, part of land, such as:
communications systems.
Any operation that is part of, preparatory to, or is for rendering complete, any of the work described above, including:
site clearance, earth-moving, excavation, tunnelling or boring
the laying of foundations
the erection, maintenance or dismantling of scaffolding
the on-site prefabrication of made to-order components to form part of any building, structure or works
site restoration, landscaping or the provision of roadways and other access works.
Building work (as defined above) generally does not include residential building and construction. The Code does not apply to any work that is part of a project involving:
construction, repair or restoration of a single-dwelling house
construction, repair or restoration of any building, structure or work associated with a single-dwelling house
alteration or extension of a single-dwelling house (so long as it remains a single-dwelling house after the alteration or extension).
However, if this same work is undertaken as part of a multi-dwelling development that consists of, or includes, the construction of at least five single-dwelling houses, then the Code does apply.
Generally, the manufacturing of building products does not fall within the scope of the Code unless it's the on-site prefabrication of made-to-order components to form part of any building, structure or works.
Note that work undertaken on auxiliary or holding sites may be considered on-site work.
The Code does not apply to the transportation or supply of goods directly to building sites—for example, the delivery of metal sheeting. However, if the supplier or transporter also performs building work on site, such as installing the goods or materials, then the installation is considered building work and the contractor is subject to the Code while performing that installation work.
Generally, the delivery and pumping/pouring of concrete may be covered by the Code. This is because such activity is considered to be 'part of' building work as described above (ie 'the laying of foundations', included in the definition of 'building work').
General maintenance is not included in the definition of building work. Accordingly, the Code generally doesn't apply to maintenance work. For example, carrying out maintenance work on an existing structure, such as a bridge or road, to maintain its original state and function or to prevent future degeneration, is generally not considered building work.
However, if the work undertaken goes beyond maintenance to include activity such as repairing something that is damaged, broken or malfunctioning (for example, repairs to cladding and other structural repairs), then that work may be considered building work and therefore may be subject to the Code if undertaken by a code covered entity.
A sole trader that is not a constitutional corporation cannot be subject to the Code unless they are performing building work in a Territory or Commonwealth place.
However subsection 8(4) of the Code requires a code covered entity to ensure that any agreement which is entered into in relation to building work with a subcontractor (which would include a subcontractor who is a sole trader) requires the subcontractor to act consistently with the Code in respect of the building work which is the subject of the agreement.
Whether the set-up of a semi-permanent structure falls within the definition of building work depends on whether it is a building or structure that forms, or is to form, part of land.
A semi-permanent structure may also constitute building work if it is preparatory to, or is for rendering complete, the construction of buildings, structures or works that form, or are to form, part of land. Examples include the erection, maintenance or dismantling of scaffolding, or site restoration, landscaping, and the provision of roadways and other access works.
Contractors not performing building work
If a contractor is not performing building work as defined above, then the contractor is not subject to the Code.
For example, consultants engaged to conduct design work are not covered by the Code unless they are performing building work on site. Similarly, licensed security guards patrolling and protecting building sites are not considered to be performing 'building work'.
However, if work performed by a contractor is 'part of' the building work then they may be covered by the Code in respect of this work. For example, this could include project managers and engineers. However, each case depends on its particular circumstances.
Not sure whether work being performed on a particular project is covered by the Code?
If your answer is not on this webpage, please email enquiry@abcc.gov.au for information, advice or assistance.


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DuPont Merges Nutrition Arm into IFF
Tax-free deal values the business at $45.5 billion
DuPont merges its nutrition arm into IFF. © margouillat photo/Shutterstock
DuPont announced this week that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge its food and nutrition business into International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF). The Reverse Morris Trust transaction will be tax-free to DuPont and its shareholders.
New York-based IFF reportedly beat out Irish food giant Kerry Group to win the bid. Dutch chemical and life sciences company DSM also had been seen as interested.
DuPont and IFF said the merger will create a global market leader in high-value ingredients and solutions for global Food & Beverage, Home & Personal Care and Health & Wellness markets with sales of $45.4 billion and an EBITDA margin of 23%.
Under the terms of the deal, which values the DuPont Nutrition & Bioscience unit at $26.2 billion, shareholders of the Wilmington, Delaware-headquartered chemicals and agriculture group will hold 55.4% of the new consumer product specialist with combined annual sales of more than $11 billion. IFF shareholders will own 44.6%.
DuPont will receive a one-off special cash payment of $7.3 billion. Closing of the transaction, which is still subject to approval by regulators and IFF shareholders, is envisioned by early 2021.
The new company will be based in New York, with IFF's current CEO Andreas Fibig serving as chairman and chief executive. DuPont's executive chairman, Ed Breen, will initially join the board as a DuPont-appointed director and will serve as Lead Independent Director from Jun. 1, 2021.
With the combination of the two portfolios, which are said to be complementary, the new muscle-bound market player will likely have the number one or two positions in the Taste, Texture, Scent, Nutrition, Cultures, Enzymes, Soy Proteins and Probiotics categories.
The merged company will have double the research and development of any of its rivals, Breen commented.
The proposed combination also has a rationalization component. In a joint statement, the companies said they project cost synergies of about $300 million within three years of closing, along with $400 million in revenue synergies. This, they noted, would result in EBITDA of $175 million.
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Voronezh State Medical Academy - HEALTH-2007-3.5-1: Epidemiological investigations into long-term trends of population health as consequence of socio-economic transitions, including life-style induced health problems - Socially-hygienic aspects of diseases of the population a diabetes in the Voronezh region for the period of social and economic reforms in Russia (1985 – 2005)
Organization name Voronezh State Medical Academy
Organization adress 10 ul. Studencheskaya, 394000, Voronezh, RF
Department/Unit Chair of Endocrinology
Contact person Zoloedov Vladimir, DSc, Professor, Head of Chair
E-Mail endokrinolog-z@mail.ru
Web-site http://www.vsma.ac.ru
Topic number HEALTH-2007-3.5-1: Epidemiological investigations into long-term trends of population health as consequence of socio-economic transitions, including life-style induced health problems - Socially-hygienic aspects of diseases of the population a diabetes in the Voronezh region for the period of social and economic reforms in Russia (1985 – 2005)
Expertise offered Last 20-25 years in Russia are characterized as years of the deep social and economic reforms which have mentioned all of sphere of a life and activity of the our country, including, public health services. Studying epidemiological, socially hygienic, economic consequences of these reforms led change of a way of life sick diabetes in the Voronezh area and Voronezh is planned. The analysis of long-term tendencies of public health services of the population of region will be lead, plans and measures on preventive maintenance of late complications of a diabetes and improvement of quality of a life sick are developed by a diabetes. Scientific novelty of the project is development of new approaches to the analysis of socially hygienic aspects of a diabetes in conditions of reforming of the Russian public health services, introduction of obligatory medical insurance and increase in volume of the paid medical services, rendered to the population. Programs of preventive maintenance of a diabetes and its late complications at inhabitants of Russia and the Europe with a tentative estimation and the account of modern epidemiological, socially-hygienic tendencies of development of a diabetes and its late complications in view of experience of reforming of the Russian public health services will be offered.
Problems to be solved and results: Improvement of quality of a life and increase in life expectancy of the population, including, a diabetes, due to improvement of the organization of rendering of specialized medical aid to the persons, a suffering diabetes, and infringement of tolerance to glucose. Increase of efficiency of treatment of such serious disease of the person, as a diabetes.
Scientific keywords Diabetes mellitus Complications of diabetes mellitus Social problems Economic aspects Diabetology service
Khodykina L.A., Klimenko G.Y., Zoloedov V.I., Nazarenko E.A. The Voronezh endocrinology city center: stages of becoming and development // Applied information aspects of medicine. - 2003. – vol. 6, №2. - P. 111-116.;
Khodykina L.A., Klimenko G.Y., Zoloedov V.I. Financial maintenance of the stationary help on patientsI with endocrinology pathology in conditions of municipal speciality center // Successes of modern natural sciences. - 2004. - №3. – P. 141-143.;
Naumova N.V., Zoloedov V.I., Chernyshova E.P., Dushkin A.V., Petrova L.I., Svapienko V.N. Operational experience of branch "Diabetic stop" MUZ GO of Voronezh GKB № 10 for the period 1996-2005 year // Russian medical magazine. – vol., 14, № 26, 2006. – P. 1894-1895.


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On November 20th, 2013
Marin County Man Heading To Prison For Tax Fraud & Marijuana
"Thanks to the thorough investigation by the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice, we were able to secure a conviction...." - Marin County Deputy District Attorney Sean A. Kensinger
A Marin County man who failed to report nearly $1 million of income from his marijuana operations pleaded guilty November 19, 2013 to six felony marijuana cultivation, filing false tax returns and money laundering charges. The charges stem from a lengthy, complex investigation by the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) which began in 2011.
Alan Flaks, 55, accepted a plea agreement including more than five years in prison, $200,000 in restitution to the state for back taxes and investigative costs, $20,000 in fines, and the forfeiture of $190,000 seized in the investigation in exchange for the dismissal of numerous other charges against him and the dismissal of charges against a woman who was living in his home in San Anselmo at the time of the investigation.
Flaks was running sophisticated indoor marijuana operations in his home in San Anselmo, another home in San Rafael and a third one in Arcata. During the 2011 search warrant, agents from FTB and DOJ Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement seized more than 1,500 marijuana plants, 100 pounds of marijuana, and $200,000 in cash.
From 2004 to 2010, Flaks failed to report nearly $1 million of income from his marijuana operations. He structured cash deposits by breaking them into smaller amounts to avoid the Currency Transaction Report filing requirements. He also laundered money from his indoor marijuana growing operations to pay for expenses to promote and carry on his illegal activity at his home and two other sites.
"Thanks to the thorough investigation by the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice, we were able to secure a conviction which requires Mr. Flaks to repay the People of California the taxes he owed as well as the cost of the investigation which led to his conviction and prison sentence," said Marin County Deputy District Attorney Sean A. Kensinger, who prosecuted the case. "We believe the interests of justice are well served with this result."
"This case highlights the exceptional work FTB and DOJ agents do year round," said Alan Barcelona, president of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA). CSLEA represents FTB and DOJ agents along with nearly 7,000 other law enforcement, public safety and consumer protection professionals who work for the State of California. "FTB agents make dozens of arrests each year, they execute search warrants and they see their cases through to conviction. This should also put those who make money through illegal means, on notice. Income, even from illegal sources, is taxable and FTB agents will catch up with you."
Flaks is scheduled for sentencing on December 18, 2013 by Marin County Superior Court Judge James Ritchie in Department J. He faces 5 years and 4 months in prison along with restitution and fines.
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