Experts from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies plead their case for a U.S. disaster policy, express concerns about U.S. versus international regulations and discuss the impact of insurtech on the mutual insurance sector.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to dealing with natural disasters. That's the message the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies President and CEO Chuck Chamness and Senior Vice President Jimi Grande, communicated to A.M.BestTV in a recent interview. They said the U.S. government's response to disasters has been inconsistent and driven by politics. Focusing on resilience and establishing a policy would help those problems, they said.
Senior Associate Editor John Weber conducted the discussion. Following is an edited transcript of the interview.
What is the government disaster policy?
Chamness: The baseline would be our federal government doesn't have a very good disaster policy. We, of course, have agencies like FEMA that are charged with dealing with disasters, but the policy today is broken. We've been working to fix it.
New Jersey had Superstorm Sandy a few years ago. It's a good example. Obviously, it was a major flood event, it also impacted our industry. That's where insurance and government policy intersect.
Obviously, we're charged with helping people rebuild after disasters from our private insurance market. Then there's federal government aid that is necessary, too.
Today, too often we have situations like post-Sandy where we have a regional group of state delegations from the affected area asking, "Help us rebuild." Then a federal response organized through Congress, done through a special appropriation that's very political, and not very well-planned, and often very wasteful in the way the assistance ultimately makes it to the places that really need it.
It's a policy that needs improvement, and Jimi, and our D.C. office and some efforts there, have been at work on that.
What are some of those efforts?
Grande: For too long the government used hope as a strategy. Hope the storm doesn't hit here. Hope the storm doesn't land there.
We've been asking government at all levels for a number of years now to consider creating a national mitigation investment strategy. As we started to ask that question, I think many elected officials throughout Washington and around the country were almost embarrassed by the fact that we didn't have one and no one had thought that through.
Some very simple principles that we all learn at a young age—an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If we spend a little bit of money on the front end before the storms strike to build resiliently to protect ourselves against the storms, we can reduce the amount of damage that'll happen during a storm. We know this from many perils. It's not just hurricanes along the coast.
We know today—thanks to the great work being done at the Insurance Institute for Business &Home Safety—that simple construction techniques can mean the difference between a home staying up and being gone during a storm.
We've worked with Washington to try to start to shift some of their resources from post-disaster to pre-disaster. In February, the president signed into law an exciting new provision that will change the cost share that the federal government will pay post-disaster. It will be worked out on a scale based on the resiliency and the mitigation that states and localities use.
It's not always a state. It may just be a city. When you look at a state the size of Texas, it may not be the whole state. Perhaps we could strengthen the codes along the coast there.
We could have places like Houston and Rockport that were devastated build using modern science and modern techniques to survive the storm, and at least mitigate the amount of damage and the loss of life and property.
Are there any mitigation strategy models you can work off of in implementing this?
Grande: When you talk about mitigation, generally as an insurance industry, that's what we do. Part of our job is to make sure bad things don't happen to our policyholders and to make sure that we teach people how to mitigate against disaster.
It can depend on the peril. If it's a flood, you can put in flood vents under your house to allow the water to come through or you can elevate the structure so that you don't have the same damage.
You can keep your roof on by using roof straps that you can get for $3 a piece at Home Depot. We've learned a lot about how you build homes.
Each state has a mitigation plan. Some of them do it well. Some of them don't. What we're seeing now for the first time is an awareness amongst public policy officials that they realize and believe that mitigation is an important tool in helping us mitigate against the future.
Where are we headed regarding regulation?
Chamness: We're at an inflection point. Going back a few years—and I've been in this role 15 years—and so the debate back then, early 2000s, was really about do we have our state system of regulation or do we change to a federal system of regulation.
We happen to believe, [and] our members believe, that our state system, while imperfect, does a pretty good job. It needs to be improved, but we think it's worth keeping. We were not in favor of a federal regulator.
The financial crisis, of course, reset the debate entirely. For some, even those that were supporting at the time a federal regulator, they saw that federal regulation's not a panacea.
In fact, some of the damage we saw in our industry was about insurance companies that were regulated by a federal regulatory agency on their financial-services side, not the insurance side, that didn't do its job very well. It caused some of the problems we faced.
Coming out of the financial crisis, there was a call by the leaders of the G20 through their central bankers, organized under a group called the Financial Stability Board, to harmonize regulation to improve financial services regulation, broadly defined. Of course, we're included as part of financial services.
There's no easy system in the U.S. to engineer these improvements. They can't just drive them from the top down even through the Fed because it's a state regulation system, a national system of state regulation. So FSB goes to the IAIS, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, and they start to put in place some new standards. Again, for other countries that have national regulators, they were fairly easy to implement.
It also is worth sharing that at the same time, Solvency II—which had been developed over 14, 15 years in Europe, a new regulatory system from scratch, basically—was coming to the scene. It exerted a lot of authority over the standards being set by the IAIS.
I would say that where we are today is this push-pull with our durable, time-tested, stress-tested national system of state regulation. Improving as it does every year, but still imperfect, faced with changes from international arenas that are incompatible in many ways with some of the ways we do regulation here.
We also have features in our regulation that are not found in other parts of the world. We have rate regulation which is found almost nowhere else. We have market conduct regulation.
We have a guaranty fund system to help deal with insolvency. Again, our system is so different that it doesn't fit easily with some of these new international standards.
We see here in the U.S. even some of the international policy that's being pushed into our system being supported by those companies that may be based in some other markets and more used to Solvency II versus our state system, and they'd rather have it evolve more into a European style of regulation than our U.S. system.
This was part of the debate around the covered agreement which took place over the last few years, another feature of Dodd-Frank that basically set up a regulatory agreement treaty between the U.S. and the EU on issues related to regulation.
We strongly believed, our members asked us to make sure that there was clarification done on that covered agreement. We succeeded in getting Treasury to clarify it before they eventually signed it last year. It's now in the implementation process.
Again, the big theme would be state-federal not really an issue anymore. International versus U.S. is an emerging issue and one that we're working on very closely in all those bodies that I mentioned.
Grande: I think it's fascinating the way Chuck describes this paradigm shift in insurance regulation. The smallest of insurance companies to the largest that are domestic, may have incoming threats from the international community.
If you're an insurance company that's not based or domiciled here in the U.S., you may be used to a different style of regulation with different rules, different levels of capital adequacy.
Only politicians could try to figure out a way to create harmony where it's not necessary, meaning that you don't need every jurisdiction around the globe to have one-size-fits-all insurance regulation. It doesn't work within the political and legal realities that exist around the world.
At NAMIC, what we're trying to do is make sure that our regulators and our officials in Washington understand that it's OK to get on the world stage and talk about the way we regulate the business of insurance here at the state level and how we've been very successful at it for a great many years.
We hear about insurtech all the time. How is technology impacting mutuals?
Chamness: In a way, as it is the rest of the industry. Our member companies which range from very large, national, international writers to regional companies, one-state writers, and then small, rural companies operating in rural America—they're all facing it.
Whether it's something as "simple"—and I put that in quotes because it's not at all simple to convert from a legacy system to some other type of operating system—but our companies are doing that routinely.
We think back to a few years ago, maybe 10 years ago, there were certain technology leaders that were thought of in the industry that had some advantages by virtue of their technology. Now good technology is just table stakes really for any company doing business in the industry.
We're seeing other new elements like all kinds of new AI systems that some companies are implementing. In rating and underwriting, we're seeing the internet of things being used around claims. Really, you can't even begin to list or enumerate these various factors, but they're all there.
Then you see, besides, how companies are adapting to, or indeed, developing technology that they can use in insurance. We're seeing insurance companies increasingly invest in insurtech.
Many of our members now have venture capital affiliates that are, in part, making investments that are expected to earn returns and add to surplus over time. Also in the process, these companies are learning a lot about technology and how it can be applied in our industry.
Finally, we have those companies that have used the technology model to try and disrupt either the industry itself or certain segments of the industry. They are also interesting stories.
I would say the early word—and some of them have reported financial results now based on a year or two of experience—I would say what I've seen in those reports has been that customer acquisition is a very expensive proposition. Starting a new company is a very expensive proposition.
Whether the improvements that they expect will come through—I've never seen an insurance company that can continue to exist that's not good at underwriting. The early results are I haven't seen strong underwriting evidence in the first few years of financials.
How successful they are long term, or whether they become part of the fabric of insurtech that is brought into the industry and used to supplement insurance companies—that in the case of our members are 200-250 years old in some cases—they could just end up being part of what we'd call the industry today, but maybe an improved, future version.
It's a very interesting part. The meetings and things that we attend routinely, you can't talk enough about insurtech and all these developments.
Grande: An area where technology's not just impacting the business of insurance but every one of our policyholders and every American for that matter is the intersection of technology and automobiles where we talk about the autonomous vehicle.
A myth that's been perpetrated in the recent years around this is that tomorrow morning we're going to wake up and there's going to be magical cars that can drive all by themselves, and we won't have to worry about it.
There's even a statistic that gets repeated—93% of highway deaths are caused by humans, which is a true fact. However, there's a leap that gets made that so therefore, if you eliminate the human factor, deaths on the highways would go down by 93%.
We believe that the prospect of autonomous vehicles and autonomy in vehicles can lead to safer vehicles and protect lives. There's all sorts of smart technology that can make driving safer. However, to try to remove the human being from the situation and just have a fully autonomous vehicle, we're probably still a decade away from being able to do that safely.
At NAMIC, what we're trying to do is to make sure that we work with policymakers so that they understand we want to make sure that we support innovation, and we want to bring innovation to the market as soon as we can, but we don't want to move so quickly that we overlook safety.
As an insurance industry, that's our job—to make sure that before we have these on the road and people are in them, that they're safe and they're safer. That's the whole point. We're supposed to make the highways safer, not just a little bit more exciting to talk about.
John Weber is a senior associate editor. He can be reached at john.weber@ambest.com.


As our Everest team are about to embark on the journey to Tibet, here's a detailed outline of what's in store for them over the next couple of months – and we'll be sure to update you on their progress!
Our amazing Sherpa Team who enable this expedition to happen and our very excited team of Western climbers, all packed up and eager for the adventure to commence!
Photo courtesy of Alan Arnette. You can follow his 2019 Everest season coverage here.
The team will set off for the Tibetan border in 4×4 vehicles, via the Langtang region. The drive takes a full day and depending on border checks and security they might need to stay a night in a Nepali village before the border. If things run smoothly, they'll cross and spend a night in a town an hour's drive into Tibet at 2,800m.
The next day is another long driving day. The team drive to Tingri at 4,200m crossing over a 5,000m pass. There are no villages between the border town and Tingri so this day involves a lot of altitude gain. They'll stay in Tingri for a few nights, resting up and going for short walks to 4,800m to properly acclimatise.
From Tingri, it's a 6 hour drive to the basecamp (BC) of Mount Everest, at 5,100m.
Base Camp is a state-of-the-art expedition camp and the team will have many of the luxuries of home provided, including 4G!
The team will remain at basecamp for a short week to fully acclimatise to this critical altitude. Base Camp is the same height as Mount Kenya and just a bit higher than Mont Blanc.
Time at basecamp is spent getting to know the Sherpa team and exploring this fascinating area. Climbers will also be briefed on topics related to high altitude climbing to build knowledge before ascending higher.
At 6400m, ABC is the same altitude as Mera peak, higher than Denali and the same height as Camp 2 on Mount Everest South.
Initially, they'll take two days to trek/climb the 18km to ABC (walking about 6 hours on each day). Later on in the expedition, they'll reduce this to a long single day.
On the first rotation, a temporary intermediate camp will be placed at 5,700m on the edge of the East Rongbuk Glacier. All their camping equipment and the majority of personal luggage is brought up by yak. Climbers will only need to carry the personal items necessary for a day-walk at high altitude for the climb to ABC.
They will be here for a handful of days and nights – anything from 3–6 days. Time at ABC is spent acclimatising to this altitude, learning how to use radios, avalanche transceivers and oxygen equipment and brushing up on various rope techniques. And of course, some socialising! ABC, like Base Camp, is a social hub and everyone there is involved in climbing the mountain. There are many different nationalities and often great friendships are made!
The team will also plan to climb to the North Col (camp one) at 7,050m and all going well, will spend a night there.
After sufficient time at ABC, the team will descend back down to BC to recover. Being at 6,400m for too long in this early stages of the expedition can wear the climbers down and the benefits of recovery in the much lower Base Camp are many. The recovery phase back at Base Camp is dependent on how the team feel and can be from a few days to a week.
The first rotation will feel hard – altitude will be doing what it does best and inevitably kicking their butts but it will seem far easier and quicker once properly acclimatised. The team plan to have 2 – 3 rotations to ABC.
This period is also for around a week and by now the team will be feeling far better acclimatised and feeling generally stronger compared with the first visit here. They will re-ascend the fixed ropes to the North Col (Camp 1) and stay here for another night. The chance might present itself to touch Camp 2 (7,400m) whilst they're based at Camp 1 but the main acclimatisation will happen by sleeping at this altitude.
By this stage, the team will begin to develop a clearer individual ascent strategy and devise a plan which will maximise everyone's chances to stand on the summit. The overall timing for the team as a whole will be discussed and determined as a team when at ABC for this second time.
They will then drop back to Base Camp and start putting the summit plans into action – with potentially having a third rotation first. They'll be flexible and adaptable – the key is to be ready and for some, acclimatising a bit more gives the best chance possible.
The option for pre-summit recovery is available to the team and the plan will be decided in situ.
Pre-summit recovery: In the past 2 years some teams and climbers have descended to Xegar (New Tingri, 4,200m) for a solid recovery period that can be anything from 2 – 3 nights. This option is best taken after the last planned rotation. It is only an option and has become available due to having detailed weather forecasts that we can trust, pinning when we think the best summit push will be. In the past, the risk in leaving Base Camp was too great as the climbers needed to be ready to go at a drop of a hat.
New Tingri offers oxygen rich air, comfy beds, hot showers, beer and burgers – a tantalising rest bite for many.
This period will be closely discussed and prepared for by the entire team. Everyone will be involved in the planning process, weather forecasting and the final build up to this most exciting part of the expedition. Obviously, many factors, both personal and mountain conditions, need to be considered before an individual climber is completely ready to go.
Every climber within our 360 team has their own way of going about reaching the top, each will have trained in their own style and will have adapted to the altitude on their own terms. Each will have different prior experience, and each will have adapted differently in situ to the expedition as a whole. A flexible and hugely individualized strategy catering uniquely for each of our climbers' parameters is what we are all about and each climber will be on their own ascent plan overseen by our head guide Rolfe Oostra.
Ideally, they'll ascend the mountain as one team but we have to consider the high possibility that they might be summiting at various times over a course of a few weeks. Each climber will have their own personal summit Sherpa. This allows greater flexibility and by the time the summit phase comes around they will be feeling comfortable with their allocated Sherpa who they would have come to know and trust since the early stages of the expedition.
The usual summit bid is over 3-4 nights at Camp 1, Camp 2 and Camp 3.
Whilst things can change quickly on the mountain and ascent strategies are subject to many variables, this comes close to how the expedition will develop – and we'll be sure to update you as it progresses.
Let the adventure commence!! Wishing a safe and successful summit to the whole team!


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Q: FluentAssertions AssertionScope Context SubPath Is there anyway to specify what gets appended to the {context} key of the built in assertions or potentially get the value of that context?
Sample
E.g. I managed to append to custom Assertions using AssertionSope keys to custom Execution.Assertions as follows:
Sample Classes
public class Foo
{
    public Bar Bar { get; } = new Bar();
}

public class Bar
{
    public bool IsFull {get; set; }
}

Extension Classes
public static class Extensions
{
    public static FooAssertions Should(this Foo foo) => new FooAssertions(foo);
    public static BarAssertions Should(this Bar bar) => new BarAssertions(bar);

    public class FooAssertions
    {
        public Foo Subject { get; }

        public FooAssertions(Foo subject)
        {
            Subject = subject;
        }

        [CustomAssertion]
        public void HaveFullBar(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (var scope = new AssertionScope())
            {
                scope.AddReportable("SubPath", "." + nameof(Foo.Bar));

                Subject.Bar.Should().BeFull(because, becauseArgs);
            }
        }
    }

    public class BarAssertions
    {
        public Bar Subject { get; }

        public BarAssertions(Bar subject)
        {
            Subject = subject;
        }

        [CustomAssertion]
        public void BeFull(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            Execute.Assertion
                .ForCondition(Subject.IsFull)
                .BecauseOf(because, becauseArgs)
                .FailWith("Expected {context}{SubPath}.IsFull to be {0}{reason} but found {1}", true, Subject.IsFull);
        }
    }
}

Test Method
    [TestMethod]
    public void CustomTest()
    {
        var foo = new Foo();

        foo.Should().HaveFullBar();
    }

Output
Output: Expected foo.Bar.IsFull to be True but found False

Question
How can I append to the build in {context} so that I don't have to re-invent the wheel for every single assertion FluentAssertion already provides?
E.g. calling the standard BooleanAssertions.Should().BeTrue():
        [CustomAssertion]
        public void BeFull(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            Subject.IsFull.Should().BeTrue();
        }

but this loses the SubPath of .Bar.IsFull and outputs:
 Output: Expected foo to be true, but found False.

Attempts
Attempt One
Tried to set the "context" of inner assertion scopes to some value, but it loses the previous values!
        [CustomAssertion]
        public void HaveFullBar(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (new AssertionScope(".Bar"))
            {
                Subject.Bar.Should().BeFull(because, becauseArgs);
            }
        }

        [CustomAssertion]
        public void BeFull(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (new AssertionScope(".IsFull"))
            {
                Subject.IsFull.Should().BeTrue();
            }
        }

This just returns .IsFull which is the most inner AssertionScope:
Expected .IsFull to be true, but found False.

Attempt Two
Tried to add "{context}" into the constructor of AssertionScope
        [CustomAssertion]
        public void HaveFullBar(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (new AssertionScope("{context}.Bar"))
            {
                Subject.Bar.Should().BeFull(because, becauseArgs);
            }
        }
        [CustomAssertion]
        public void BeFull(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (new AssertionScope("{context}.IsFull"))
            {
                Subject.IsFull.Should().BeTrue();
            }
        }

This just outputs the most inner {context}.IsFull
 Expected {context}.IsFull to be true, but found False.

Attempt Three
        [CustomAssertion]
        public void HaveFullBar(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (new AssertionScope(AssertionScope.Current.Context + ".Bar"))
            {
                Subject.Bar.Should().BeFull(because, becauseArgs);
            }
        }

        [CustomAssertion]
        public void BeFull(string because = null, params object[] becauseArgs)
        {
            using (var scope = new AssertionScope(AssertionScope.Current.Context + ".IsFull"))
            {
                Subject.IsFull.Should().BeTrue();
            }
        }

Still loses original context, as the first AssertionScope.Current.Context is
null;
Output:
Expected .Bar.IsFull to be true, but found False.

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Marian Wiśniowski (ur. 14 grudnia 1929, zm. 11 sierpnia 2007) – polski aktor teatralny, filmowy i telewizyjny, reżyser i pedagog.

Życiorys
Dyplom aktora dramatu uzyskał po ukończeniu Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Aktorskiej w Łodzi w 1954 roku. Debiut teatralny w 1954 roku w roli Puka w Śnie nocy letniej Williama Shakespeare'a w Teatrze Powszechnym w Łodzi.

Do wielu spektakli teatralnych, operowych i operetkowych układał szermierkę i techniki walki. Był wykładowcą w Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Muzycznej we Wrocławiu) oraz prowadził przewód na stopień adiunkta w Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Teatralnej w Krakowie.

W latach 2000 - 2006 zajmował się Teatrem Studenckim "Zwierciadło", działającym przy Akademii Humanistycznej w Pułtusku.

Pochowany na cmentarzu w Józefowie k. Otwocka.

Praca w teatrze
Występował w teatrach:
 Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza w Olsztynie (1954–1955)
 Teatr Ziemi Opolskiej (1955–1957)
 Teatr Rozmaitości we Wrocławiu (1957–1964)
 Teatr Dramatyczny (Polski) we Wrocławiu (1958–1975)
 Teatr Dramatyczny (Kameralny) we Wrocławiu (1959–1967)
 Teatr Dolnośląski w Jeleniej Górze (1964–1965)
 Operetka Dolnośląska we Wrocławiu (1968)
 Teatr Powszechny w Warszawie (1975–1980)

Ważniejsze role teatralne
 Sen nocy letniej (William Szekspir) jako Puk, Teatr Powszechny w Łodzi (premiera: 26 marca 1954)
 Panna Maliczewska (Gabriela Zapolska) jako Sekwestrator, Teatr im. Stefana Jaracza w Olsztynie (premiera: 11 czerwca 1954)
 Balladyna (Juliusz Słowacki) jako Chochlik, Teatr Ziemi Opolskiej (premiera: 1 grudnia 1955)
 Romeo i Julia (William Szekspir) jako Romeo, Merkucjo, Teatr Ziemi Opolskiej (premiera: 21 kwietnia 1956)
 Pułapka na myszy (Agatha Christie) jako Sierżant Trotter, Teatr Rozmaitości we Wrocławiu (premiera: 28 lutego 1957)
 Hamlet (William Szekspir) jako Laertes, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu
 Singapore 69 (Krzysztof Gruszczyński) jako Selim, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 22 lutego 1959)
 Pierwszy dzień wolności (Leon Kruczkowski) jako Jan, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 3 maja 1960)
 Irkucka historia (Aleksiej Arbuzow) jako Wiktor Bojcow, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 25 marca 1961)
 Otello (William Szekspir) jako Montano, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 17 czerwca 1961)
 Świętoszek (Molier) jako Walery, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 24 marca 1962)
 Sen nocy letniej (William Szekspir) jako Oberon, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (19 lipca 1963)
 Kariera Artura Ui (Bertolt Brecht) jako Ernesto Roma, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (22 października 1966)
 Sprawa Dantona (Stanisława Przybyszewska) jako Barère, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 11 lutego 1967)
 Rzecz listopadowa (Ernest Bryll) jako Ojciec panny młodej, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 15 listopada 1968)
 Don Juan (Molier) jako Don Alonzo, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 20 lutego 1970)
 Wesele (Stanisław Wyspiański) jako Gospodarz, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 14 listopada 1970)
 Księżniczka Turandot (Carlo Gozzi) jako Barach, Teatr Polski we Wrocławiu (premiera: 14 grudnia 1974)
 Burza (William Szekspir) jako Adrian, Teatr Powszechny w Warszawie (premiera: 16 listopada 1978)

Wybrana filmografia i spektakle telewizyjne
 Popiół i diament (1958)
 Lotna (1959)
 Złoto (1961)
 Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (1964)
 Albertusy (1966) – spektakl telewizyjny
 Lalka (1968)
 Tylko umarły odpowie (1969)
 Sąsiedzi (1969)
 Protesilas i Laodamia (1969) – spektakl telewizyjny
 Don Juan czyli Kamienny Gość (1970) – spektakl telewizyjny
 Breinitzer albo tamta wina (1971) – spektakl telewizyjny
 Zbieg z Wyspy Św. Heleny (1972) – spektakl telewizyjny
 Droga (1973)
 Godzina za godziną (1974)
 Urodziny Matyldy (1974)
 Lis (1975) – film fabularny-telewizyjny
 Znaki szczególne (1976) − członek kierownictwa budowy portu
 Justyna (1978) – film fabularny-telewizyjny
 Najdłuższa wojna nowoczesnej Europy (1981)

Źródło: FilmPolski.pl.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Filmowej, Telewizyjnej i Teatralnej im. Leona Schillera w Łodzi
Polscy aktorzy filmowi
Polscy aktorzy teatralni
Wykładowcy Akademii Muzycznej im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu
Urodzeni w 1929
Zmarli w 2007


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The Court of Appeal has ruled that rent paid in advance does not count as a deposit. This decision was reached in the long-running Johnson v. Old case. The tenant, Mrs Old, accepted a six-month tenancy, but, because her income was not fixed, she was asked to pay the six months rent in advance.
Rather than holding over the tenancy upon its expiration, she entered into a new tenancy agreement on the flat, under the same terms, for another six-month term. Six months later this was repeated, only the rent increased from £950 to £1,000 pcm. Mrs Old fell into arrears and the landlord served her with a section 21 notice, requiring possession of the flat. Mrs Old did not vacate the flat, legally challenging the landlord on the grounds that she had paid rent in advance which should have been treated as a deposit and protected.
At the first hearing with the Deputy District Judge, her argument was successful. The landlord appealed to the County Court Judge, where the tenant's previous victory was overturned. From that order, the tenant appealed to the Court of Appeals.
The appeal was dealt with in three parts. In the first, the tenancy agreement was scrutinised in painstaking detail to determine whether it required the tenant to pay six months rent in advance. The Judge found that it did.
The second part of the appeal was the allegation that the payment was actually a 'security' or deposit. The Judge rejected this argument on the basis that, "Money paid in order to discharge a current liability is not paid with the intention that it be held as security for the discharge of that liability.
"The payer's intention is that the liability will be discharged by the payment itself; and so there can be no need to provide security for the discharge of the liability in the future."
The Judge also pointed out that her money could not be held to be security at the time of the section 21 notice being served as the rent money had already fallen due many months earlier.
The third part of the appeal was that the landlord had failed to comply with section 213 of the Housing Act 2004 (in that the deposit had not been dealt with in accordance with an authorised scheme). But, as the court had deemed that the rent payment was not a deposit, this argument could not be considered.
And so the landlord won. Had the court's decision gone the other way, the landlord would have faced a penalty of the return of the six months' rent in advance, with an additional penalty of up to three times the amount.
So it is with much relief that landlords and agents greet the court's decision. Linda Howard, who represented the landlord, said, "We're delighted with this result. The Court of Appeal has applied a bit of common sense in this case. Lots of landlords take payments up-front from tenants who fail referencing. If these payments were all at risk of being treated as a deposit, all sorts of problems would ensure.
"What this case does show is that landlords and their agents need to take care when drafting their tenancy agreements. We weren't involved in drafting the original tenancy agreements in this case, but if it had been a bit clear, this litigation could probably have been avoided.
"Tenancy agreements do need to be written so that ordinary people will be able to work out what they mean, but it's essential that they are also legally and linguistically precise so there is no room for misinterpretation or misunderstanding."
Steve Harriott, chief executive of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, said, "This is a very helpful clarification of an issue which has been concerning landlords and agents.
"The judgement in this Court of Appeal case should assist those landlords and agents who want to ask for rent in advance and who can be reassured that this is not a tenancy deposit that needs protecting under the Housing Act 2004."
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The 2022–23 Coppin State Eagles men's basketball team represented Coppin State University in the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Eagles, led by sixth-year head coach Juan Dixon, played their home games at the Physical Education Complex in Baltimore, Maryland as members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

Previous season
The Eagles finished the 2021–22 season 9–22, 6–8 in MEAC play to finish tied for sixth place. As the No. 7 seed, they upset No. 2 seed Howard and No. 3 seed North Carolina Central to clinch a spot in the MEAC tournament championship, their first such appearance since 2008. Unlike that prior title appearance, they were unable to win, losing to top-seeded Norfolk State.

Roster

Schedule and results

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I recently found myself in the position of having to buy a new camera. It is an exciting time, but the new camera will take some getting used to.
If your camera has a viewfinder, there will be a tiny dial near the eye piece. This is called the diopter and it affects how you see through the lens. Be sure to set it for your eyes, or things might not appear sharp when you look through the viewfinder.
Actually, if you've been shooting for a while and have never set your diopter, go ahead and do it now. You might be amazed at how much clearer things appear.
You already know to set your mode dial (get it out of Automatic), but there are some other modes to worry about.
First, set the Drive Mode to what you want. I suggest Continuous because it will allow you to bracket your photos, or just shoot rapidly. If you do it now, you won't be in the field wondering why your camera is only taking one photo at a time.
Any one of these modes is fine, just be sure to set the one you like best (Spot metering is more advanced so use with caution until you are up to speed with it).
Finally, set your Autofocus Mode, and by that I mean setting the focus points. You can either have the camera automatically select the focus points, or you can do it. If you do it yourself, set it so that the camera uses the center point to focus, it is the fastest and most accurate.
Most of the time you will be adding a few things to your camera. Obvious items are the strap and the battery grip, if you have one. But another item you should add right away is the quick release plate for your tripod. That way, you won't forget it, and you will also be able to put the camera on the tripod quickly when you are in the field.
While we are on the subject of external items, this is probably a good time to make sure you have an intervalometer, or remote shutter release, that is compatible with your new camera. These things are very cheap these days, so go ahead and get one.
Length of time: In the camera's menu, there will be an option to set the length of time your image appears. You might as well set this on its longest setting, as you can always click it away.
Orientation: If you shoot with your camera turned to a vertical orientation, sometimes the camera will turn the image on your LCD so it fits horizontally on the screen. The result is a tiny image, so you may want to turn this off (Note: this may be called "Auto Rotate" in some cameras).
Show Histogram: Definitely set your review so that it shows the histogram with the image review. That is the best way to make sure you have a proper exposure.
LCD brightness: Set your LCD brightness level to the highest level. Otherwise, when you are out in the sun you will have a very difficult time seeing the LCD at all.
While I am on the subject of the LCD, I want to mention one tricky little item for Canon shooters. On many Canon cameras, to use the Live View function, you have to go into the menu and enable it. I recently rented a Canon camera and actually thought it was broken because the Live View didn't work. Turns out, I just needed to enable it!
The next setting to check is image quality. This is where you tell the camera what type of file to create.
Do I have to tell you that this setting should be Raw? No? Good. You might as well have the camera also create a JPEG while you are at it though. It won't cost you anything but a small amount of memory.
There are certain things you will only want to access sometimes, but you will want to get to them fast. Mirror Lock-up and Auto Bracketing come to mind for me. Fortunately, most cameras allow you to create a custom menu. That way you can add the features and settings you use the most, to one menu screen. That will save you a lot of time digging around in your camera's menu.
Normally your camera will focus when you press the shutter button halfway down. That works okay, but the better way is to set your camera to instead focus when you press a button on the back of the camera. This way the focus will not automatically reset with each picture. The setting will be in your camera's menu.
I suggest using a label maker to put a label with your name and phone number on each camera, lens, or other piece of equipment you own. We are all careful with our gear, but sometimes things move fast, and I know people that have inadvertently left lenses or other items behind. What are the odds that someone who finds something you left behind will actually call the number on the label to return the item? I don't know. Maybe they are not high. But I do know that the odds of someone returning something with no ability to identify where it came from to be precisely zero percent.
You can also add some protection for your gear by registering it with Lenstag. It is a free service where you register your camera and/or lenses with them, then if your item is stolen they put the word out to help you recover it. Does it actually work? Mercifully I've never had anything stolen, so I don't know. But it is free so you might as well try it.
Almost all new cameras have a Wifi feature these days. To take advantage of it, you will have to download an app to your phone and go through a set-up process. It's best to sit down and do that right away so that when you are out and about you are ready to take advantage of the Wifi feature.
Set up the connection between your camera and your phone to enable remote shooting and camera image viewing.
You knew this was coming, didn't you? Yes, you need to read your camera manual. Yes, it can be tedious, but you'll be glad you did.
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Der Pool of London ist ein Abschnitt der Themse in London. Er beginnt an der London Bridge und geht flussabwärts bis Rotherhithe. Hier befand sich der ursprüngliche Hafen von London, bis ins 20. Jahrhundert war er kommerziell überlebenswichtig für die Stadt. Der Upper Pool reicht dabei von der London Bridge bis zur Tower Bridge, der Lower Pool von der Tower Bridge bis nach Rotherthide.

Die Schifffahrt nach London endet seit Jahrhunderten an der London Bridge, die eine Durchfahrt von großen Schiffen nicht erlaubt. Im 16. Jahrhundert begannen Schiffe durch den zunehmen Verkehr in der Flussmitte zu ankern und dort auf kleinere Boote zu entladen. Bis ins 18. Jahrhundert war der Pool das am dichtesten befahrene Stück Fluss der Welt geworden. Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts war die Enge im Pool so angewachsen, dass Schiffe dort ankerten, wo sie gerade Platz fanden – und damit fast immer anderen Schiffen den Weg versperrten. Berechnungen von 1798 gingen davon aus, dass sich zu einem beliebigen Zeitpunkt im Schnitt 689 Schiffe mit einer Verdrängung von je 141 Tonnen befanden. Ein Drittel davon waren Schiffe aus Westindien, die aufgrund ihrer größeren Verdrängung zwei Drittel der Masse stellten. Die immer größer werdenden Schiffe hatten zudem Probleme die tückischen Flussstellen um die Isle of Dogs zu umfahren, um bis zum Pool zu gelangen.

Der Bau neuer Docks weiter östlich entlastete den Pool im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Hafen verlagerte sich nach Osten. Auf der Isle of Dogs entstanden die West India Docks. Dennoch war der Pool ein Zentrum der Aktivität. Die Bedeutung seiner Schifffahrt verhinderte den Bau von Themsequerungen östlich der London Bridge. Erst entstanden Tunnel, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts dann die Tower Bridge als Klappbrücke.

Durch das Aufkommen des Containers und die Veränderungen in der Schifffahrt verlor der Pool und die dort stehenden Docks an Bedeutung. Die neuen großen Schiffe kamen die Themse nicht mehr weit genug hinauf. Seit den 1990ern bemüht sich London mit der Pool of London Partnership um eine Umwidmung der Gegend. Der Versuch, auch den Begriff Pool of London wieder in der Umgangssprache und bei Touristen zu etablieren, war jedoch erfolglos.

Heute befinden sich mehrere Anlegestellen des London River Service am Pool, ebenso wie die HMS Belfast dauerhaft im Pool befestigt ist.

Literatur
 Charles Craig, Graham Diprose, Mike Seaborne: London's Changing Riverscape frances lincoln ltd, 2009 ISBN 0711229414

Anmerkungen

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XM-3 Sniper Rifle S6528662
Current price : $13,534.66
Started: 1/6/2016
Up for auction is a DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT AGENCY (DARPA) XM-3 Sniper Rifle used by the United States Marine Corps. In mid-2005, DARPA worked with Lt. Col. Norm Chandler's Iron Brigade Armory (IBA) to field items to expeditionary units in Afghanistan. Since they already had a great working relationship, DARPA contracted IBA to build and test lightweight sniper rifles that incorporated the improvements the snipers desired in combat. The mission was to be lighter and smaller than the existing M40s, while having better accuracy, clip-on night vision that did not require re-zero, better optics, and better stock, and it had to be suppressed. The barrel had to be short enough to allow maneuverability yet long enough to deliver a 10" group at 1,000 yards. If the barrel was too heavy, maneuverability would decrease, yet if the barrel was too light it would only be able to shoot a few rounds before the groups started to shift due to barrel temperature. IBA tested a number of barrel lengths, ranging from 16 to 20 inches and in different contours. Each rifle with a different length was assigned an XM designator starting with XM1 through XM3. In each case, everything on the prototype rifles was kept the same except the barrel. During the final phases of testing it was found that the 18" barrels had no issues keeping up with their longer 20" brethren. The final barrel length was set at 18.5", and the contour was a modified #7. The straight taper on the barrel was only 2" vs. 4" and the overall diameter at the muzzle was .85" vs. .980". This helped reduce a lot of the rifle's weight while not negatively affecting accuracy or effective range. A number of the groups at 1,000 yards were <1 MOA.
The Marines of I-MEF were the first to field test the rifles at Camp Pendleton. Shortly after I-MEF took receipt of the XM-3s, the first units in II-MEF took receipt of theirs. By mid-2006 there were dozens of XM-3s in Iraq. There were 52 XM-3s made.
Rifle serial number S6528662 has a desert camo print with usual wear and tear that comes with a rifle that has been fired.
Also included: Nightforce NXS 3.5-15x50 Scope SN: Q04963; Mildot Master Booklet; Sniper Data Book with some firing information; appears complete tool/cleaning kit with cleaning rod; suppressor case and wrap; SUPPRESSOR NOT INCLUDED; bipod; iM3200 Storm case.
More information on the history of the XM3 as written by Steve Reichert can be found here
This rifle is being sold AS IS and may or may not have defects or other issues.


Danielle Murphy holds a Masters in Social Work from New York University and pursues ongoing training in Somatic Experiencing. Additionally, Danielle is a 2014 NASW Emerging Leader award recipient.
Prior to private practice, Danielle worked in Community Mental Health. She primarily worked with adults with mental illness and individuals recovering from addiction. Danielle worked in a recovery-focused program that emphasized belief in the individual's ability to recover from all types of psychiatric, medical, substance and environmental difficulties. She served in various capacities, including Program Director.
Danielle currently sees adults and adolescents for individual therapy. Danielle specializes in trauma recovery work, integrating mind/body techniques that allow a survivor of physical, sexual, emotional or institutional trauma to make meaning of their experiences and find peace in their lives. She has successfully worked with many diverse clients, who presented such issues and areas for exploration as depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, career difficulties, spirituality, self-esteem, co-parenting, new motherhood, separation/divorce and stress management.


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SOI - ITALIAN SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE
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Italus Hortus (ISSN 1127-3496) is a free Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Italian Society for Horticultural Science (Società di Ortoflorofrutticoltura Italiana; SOI). It is indexed by Scopus®. All accepted articles are published free of charge and have a DOI. The journal DOI is 10.26353/j.itahort. The journal is published four-monthly (April, August and December).
Editor-in-Chief: B. Basile
Associate Editors: C. Andreotti, H. Rogers and Y. Rouphael
Reducing mechanical damage induced by fresh-cut processing
Alessia Incardona et al.
Fresh-cut processing induces mechanical damage on produce, mainly during cutting procedures. This review discusses the biochemical, physiological and morphological responses of the freshcut products a...
Biochemical characterization of seven sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) cultivars in Chile
Sergio Reyes-Manríquez et al.
The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the fruit quality, pigment content, total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant activity (DPPH and ORAC) of the skin, pulp, skin + pulp and see...
Date palm waste compost: a promising alternative for coconut fiber as growing media of melon
Nadia Elabed et al.
The main objective of this research was to compare the effect of local farm resources, date palm waste compost, as growing media, with the imported substrate, coconut fiber, on the fruit yield and som...
An appraisal of horticultural plant morpho-physiological and molecular responses to variable salt stress agents
Petronia Carillo et al.
In the coming years, the scientific community, extension specialists and horticulturists will have to deal with growing agronomic and horticultural crops under sub-optimal conditions dictated by a glo...
Exploring and exploiting anthocyanins for human needs: potato as a research case study
Annalisa Staiti et al.
Anthocyanins are a group of polyphenolic water-soluble pigments, largely distributed in the plant kingdom. Being natural pigments with a health-promoting bioactivity, there is an increasing interest f...
Apple tree transpiration during cycles of progressive drought as assessed via continuous gravimetric and xylem sap flux measurements
Ahmed Ben Abdelkader et al.
As climate change is contributing to increase the pressure on available fresh water, there is a need to develop strategies to reduce the irrigation volumes, without adverse effects on crop productivit...
Changes in carbohydrate and phytochemical content in the bulbs and leaves of ten onion accessions between two developmental stages
Zahra Kiani et al.
Onion (Allium cepa L.) is a rich source of anthocyanins, flavonoids, and polyphenols. Sugars affect the quality and taste of bulbs. The aim of the study is to investigate the changes in phytoch...
Sustainability as the main driver of present-day horticultural advancement
Boris Basile et al.
Two years of COVID-19 pandemic have unquestionably highlighted several aspects of vulnerability of the major economic sectors - including food production - as we designed them before the occurrence of...
The unzipping of sweet cherry fruit skin and strategies to prevent it
Moritz Knoche et al.
Rain cracking in sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) imposes a severe limitation on commercial producers of this high value fruit. In recent years, considerable progress has been made in unraveling ...
DNA-informed breeding in sweet cherry: current advances and perspectives
José Quero-García et al.
Sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) world production has been steadily increasing in the last decades. Accordingly, breeders are releasing new cultivars at an unprecedented pace, in order to meet gr...
Cherry orchard planting systems and rootstocks in the age of precision and technology
Gregory A. Lang
The planting of a sweet cherry orchard is a commitment of land, infrastructure, and anticipated labor availability that must remain relevant, operational, and profitable for at least several decades. ...
Optimizing sweet cherry production efficiencies with mechanization
Modern broad acre farming operations have benefitted from technological innovations that have revolutionized production practices (e.g., harvesting combines). In contrast, tree fruit production proces...
New post harvest technologies for high quality sweet cherries
Juan Pablo Zoffoli
Sweet cherry cultivation is growing worldwide with new production areas with a high volume of international transactions. The high perishability of fruit limits sales in demanding domestic markets, wh...
Planting a new cherry orchard system: evaluation of economic efficiency
Rino Ghelfi, Alessandro Palmieri
Cherry growing is going through an intense phase of renewal. Innovation's economic and financial analysis is crucial for their success and diffusion. The study evaluates three types of planting at dif...
Microalgae in agricultural crop production
Nadezhda Golubkina et al.
Microalgae attract scientific interest due to their high potential as ecofriendly biostimulants, biofertilizers and bioprotectants against biotic and abiotic stresses. Literature reports reveal the po...
Modified Atmosphere Packaging and low temperature storage extend marketability of cherimoya (Annona cherimola Mill.)
Ilenia Tinebra et al.
Cherimoya is a subtropical fruit characterized by a delicious, sweet flavor and beneficial health properties, which found suitable growing conditions in the South of Italy. However, the marketing of t...
Comparison of selected biochemical characteristics of damask rose and dog rose under deficit irrigation conditions
Nader Adamipour et al.
In order to study the effects of drought at different days on biochemical characteristics of two rose species, a factorial experiment based on randomized complete design with three replications was co...
Irrigation improves tree physiological performances and nut quality in sweet chestnut
Giulio Demetrio Perulli et al.
Italy is one of the most important world chestnut producers. The majority of traditional sweet chestnut orchards are still non-irrigated since they are typically located in mountain-hill areas usually...
Exogenous melatonin application affects micro-morphological leaf traits of Melissa officinalis L.
Semra Kilic
Phytomelatonin is a multifunctional molecule playing an important role in plant growth and development. In the present research, we studied the effects of exogenous melatonin (MEL) application on micr...
Enzymatic profile of bell pepper (Capsicum annum) cv. 'Yolo Wonder' as affected by different edible coatings during cold storage
Usman Ajmal et al.
Edible coatings play an integral role in maintaining the postharvest quality of fruits and vegetables by acting as a semipermeable barrier against O2, CO2, and moisture, thus red...
Effects of various combinations of red and blue LEDs on seed germination and growth in Indian spinach (Basella alba L.)
Si-Hong Kim et al.
This study aimed to investigate the effects of various combinations of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on the germination and growth of Indian spinach (Basella alba L.). For this purpose, we expos...
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SC Works Upstate and the VR Gaffney Area Office & Work Training Center will host a job fair at the Broad River Electric facility on October 18th, 2016. This event is sponsored by HTI Employment Solutions and Phillips Staffing.
The event will have special hours for veterans and preferred candidates from 9AM to 11AM, and then be open to the public from 11AM to 1PM.
Vendor registration includes a 6ft table, chairs and lunch for up to two representatives. Registrations must be received by Monday, October 10th, 2016.
TTY: Relay Service Dial 711 "An equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.


Employee Burnout: Are You to Blame?
Employee burnout. It's becoming a very real problem in the U.S. today. It can result in higher stress levels and thus, even health problems associated with stress. Furthermore, employee burnout can be detrimental to relationships, both at work and at home—in the employee's personal life. It's definitely not conducive to a proper work-life balance that many crave, whether they live a life of such balance or not.
Are you contributing to this problem as an employer, whether you mean to or not?
The majority of U.S. workers are putting in more than the average amount of work hours (40) per week. At least 40% of employees say they work more than 50 hours a week and 20% work more than 60 hours a week.
Between working all those overtime hours – plus job-related demands, absentee bosses, and dreadful deadlines – it is no wonder that a lot of workers are burnt out on their careers.
The Mayo Clinic describes "burnout" as "…a state of physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion, combined with doubts about your competence and the value of your work." As a boss or business owner, that isn't where you want your employees standing because once they've reached the state of being burnt out, they are less likely to perform to their full potential.
Even though employees are burning out, many companies are not taking preventative steps to prevent this. According to a recent study, 78% of workers say that putting in more hours is essential to get promoted and doing well in their careers. Only 33% of employees are encouraged to take the paid time off they're entitled to, while only 11% are encouraged to use their sick days for mental health.
Unfortunately, this is all a vicious cycle. Employees get burnt out because they are working so much to try and get ahead. Yet, when workers don't get a break, they are more likely to become less motivated and less productive in their workforce over time.
As a wise business owner or boss, it is your duty to take steps to help your workers avoid burning out.
While some employees are more prone to stress than others, there are steps you can take from a management angle to keep your employees content and engaged in the workforce.
More than half of all U.S. employees leave vacation days on the table every year because they are afraid that if they max out their days, it will look bad or they will fall behind. From a management position, it is important to let it be known that it is perfectly okay (and even desirable) for employees to take time away from the office, whether it's vacation or mental health days. Your workers will be more likely to get the break they need, avoiding burning out.
For example, allow employees with long commutes to work from home a few times a week or give workers a courtesy day off subsequent to a period of extra-heavy assignments. You might even establish a comp time structure where workers who put in a certain number of hours over the norm, get a day back later in the month.
Regular manager check-ins allow you to interact one-on-one with your employees and gauge their stress level and workload. These check-ins could be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. The goal is to allow employees to feel like they have open communication with their managers and an opportunity to air their grievances and concerns.
All of these moves serve the critical goal of giving workers a chance to clear their heads and come back refreshed and ready to work. Happy employees are productive employees. Developing a strong strategy to reduce your role in employee burnout is crucial for not only showing your employees you care about them as more than just a "worker" but also as a human being. Most of the time, they will return this gesture in the form of loyalty and a higher level of production that will benefit your business much more than overworking ever would.


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NDC delegates advised against being influenced by money
Kumasi, Oct 27, GNA - National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates who will attend the forthcoming Oforikrom constituency congress have been advised against being influenced by gifts or monies to vote for some particular candidates.
Mr. Evans Kwablah Ablordeppey, incumbent NDC Organizer of the Constituency who gave the advice said, they should rather be guided by the capacity and ability of the candidate to bring victory to the party than voting for a candidate based on his wealth or popularity. He was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Kumasi on Wednesday, on the need for fair and transparent elections during the congress.
Mr. Ablordeppey, who is seeking re-election as the Constituency Organiser, said it would be a Herculean task to wrestle power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2008 if the right calibre of executive members and candidates were not elected into office. The Constituency congress is scheduled for Saturday, October 29 at the Worker's canteen of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
About 196 delegates are expected to attend the congress, which would assess the party's performance over the years and elect new executives to steer affairs of the party.


AUCKLAND, EARTH — Policy changes within the United Earth Ministry for Justice may force the closure of the Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand.
QO'NOS — The bloodwine vintage coming from the Klingon homeworld this year may be remembered as the vintage of a lifetime.
Could the treatment of Lomales prove a stumbling block on the road to Federation membership? FNS guest contributor Doctor Saveron reports on the controversial issue.
PARIS, EARTH — As she promised at her State of the Federation address, President Bacco and the Federation Transport Union have come to an agreement, bringing an end to the strike that began nearly eight months ago.
PARIS, EARTH — The Palais de la Concorde announced that President Bacco has accepted an invitation to visit the new Romulan capital of Rihan on Rator III later this year.


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Pulau Langkawi and Pulau Penang are both inimitable islands in Malaysia. Both islands are officially advantageous to visit. If you do not have to choose only one of them, you can discover both. You will travel to Penang first and visit Langkawi later. We will break down how to travel to Langkawi from Penang in a detailed guide. It is easy to prepare a traveling process.
There are three main options of traveling to Langkawi. You can book an available flight, a direct ferry or a combination of bus and train. It depends on the tourists to have flexible options.
There are two low – cost airlines that provide daily flights from Penang to Langkawi. You could check and book the ticket of Air Asia or Firefly Airline. It takes only 35 minutes when choosing the flight option.
The tickets are really worth and very fast. However, you should consider the travel time, the picking places (from your staying hotel to the airport) and the prices.
In Langkawi, they do not have public transport choices. Therefore, you could pay an amount of money to take to Langkawi International Airport by taxi, hiring a car or something like that.
Most of the travelers prefer getting to Langkawi by direct ferries. There are a lot of boats that open in the route every day. By this choice, you spend between two and three hours to arrive. The travel time could be longer but you can enjoy the sightseeing in the journey.
On the one hand, you need to book the ticket from the Ferry Services. In fact, they have three daily boats to support the customers in arranging the time to come. They have a cruise of high – speed patrons ferries connected with several ports in Kuah Jetty – the main ferry terminal to Langkawi.
For those who have motion sickness, you need to consider the ferry option carefully because you have to sit on the long boat ride. Furthermore, the high – speed fleet can cause some annoyances for your stomach as well as nerves when the boats sometimes have bumpy routines.
If you want to save much more money, you will choose the indirect ferry option. You need to take the Penang ferry at Butterworth. This is the place where you can take the bus at the stations near the ferry terminals – Alor Setar or Kuala Perlis.
When traveling to Alor Setar, you need to take another short bus trip (around 15km) to come to the ferry terminal at Kuala Kedah. This is the place the ferries start going to Langkawi and the ferries open from 7 AM to 7 PM (customers can catch it every hour). You take one hour and 45 minutes to come. The fare costs RM 23.
On the flip side, you can take a bus from Butterworth to the North and Kuala Perlis because the ferries also open to Langkawi from 7 AM to 7 PM (travelers can catch it every hour). It will take one hour and 15 minutes only. This selection is the shortest ferry trip and the cheapest price to get to Langkawi. The fare costs only RM 18.
You can also choose the train and the ferry to travel to Langkawi from Penang. From Alor Setar or Arau – they are the train checkpoints in Butterworth, you need to catch the fleet in the port to get Langkawi.
With the train, you might select the high – speed ETS trains or Komuter trains. The high – speed ETS trains are more expensive than Komuter. If the speed is not your top requirement, you could choose Komuter to save your budget.
In the situation you want to take your own car to Langkawi in order to drive in the streets, you can take it in the ferries. There are two car – ferry companies that are served by Langkawi Auto Express and Langkawi Ro-Ro Ferry Services to opt.
Firstly, you can drive to Kuala Perlis port. Then, you can choose the roll – on – roll – off ferries (the car -ferry forms) and drive your car on the ferries. You could take your seat on the ferry and enjoy the beautiful scenes in short couple of hours over the island. After that, you can drive your car out of the ferry.
Traveling to Langkawi from Penang is not difficult at all when you have the instruction and a detailed plan. If you are getting from Langkawi to Penang, this guide will still be useful for you. You can completely do the reverse things.


15 Gram bottles of QuickBurst H-3 Compound sell for $35.00 each. Shipping is ORM-D USPS Surface only.
H-3 Compound is used to dip e-match chips. The product is shipped as an easy to produce kit. It comes with the mixing jar, wooden stir, clear instructions and everything you need to produce a reliable e-match dip, except acetone, acetone is available at most hardware stores. Fifteen grams of H-3 will produce a great deal of matches, possibly hundreds. Dip your e-match chip so that about half of the chip is covered and hang to dry. Your e-matches will be ready to use the next day. Mix the product exactly as described, thin with acetone as needed.
Do not substitute anything for the acetone, use acetone and acetone only.
Do not coat the finished matches with anything. It is not needed and could possibly affect function.
Ematch chips are not available through QuickBurst.
Your e-matches will work best if they are totally surrounded by the ejection charge. A small cylindrical tube is best. Be sure to fill the void between the top of your ejection charge and the top of your container with non flammable packing. This will prevent the ejection charge compound from shifting during the stress of flight.


Intensive Skin Repair temporarily relieves symptoms such as itchy dry skin. Product Uses are based on Homeopathic Materia Medica. These 'Uses' have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product has not been clinically tested by Puremedy INC.


Israel captured Jerusalem just 6 weeks after a series of 4 red moon lunar eclipses began on the Jewish holidays of Passover and Sukkot in 1967 & 1968.
Jerusalem is a holy city to three major faiths–Judaism, Christianity and Islam–and figures prominently in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since 1004 BCE, when King David established Jerusalem as the capital of his kingdom, there has been a continuous Jewish presence in Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism. Following the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the designation of other holy sites by Constantine the Great in 333 CE, Jerusalem became a destination of Christian pilgrimages. During Umayyad rule from 661 to 750 CE, the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque were built on the site where the Jewish Temples had once stood, and Jerusalem became the third holiest city in Islam.
Jews have constituted the largest ethnic group in Jerusalem since 1820. During the 19 years when Jordan occupied eastern Jerusalem and its holy sites (1948-1967), Jerusalem was divided. Jews were expelled from eastern Jerusalem and barred from visiting their holy places.
As a result of the Six Day War, the entire city of Jerusalem and its holy sites came under Jewish control. Israel reunified the city, extending Israeli law, jurisdiction and administration to the parts previously occupied by Jordan. The Israeli Knesset passed laws to protect holy sites and ensure freedom of worship to all, and offered Israeli citizenship to Jerusalem's Arab residents, most of whom declined.
On the third day of the war, June 7, 1967, IDF paratroopers seized control of the Western Wall, the remnant of Soloman's temple. In an emotional moment, General Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the chief chaplain of the IDF blew a long note on the Shofar (rams horn), announcing the release of the Western Wall and the old city of Jerusalem.


Built it yourself solar robot kits.
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The solar Space Explorer combines 7 different models you can build out of one set. 7 in 1 Solar fun and educational space models to build.
Create 14 different solar powered models; all in one set.