text:
How OTT Platforms Fit Into The Complicated TV Landscape	Here's How The Rest Of The World Is Going After Facebook, Following Its $5B FTC Fine	Amazon Emerges As Google Challenger In Advertiser Perceptions SSP Report	Amperity Raises $50 Million As Mar Tech Heavyweights Turn To CDPs	The Rise And Fall And Rise Of The Global CMO	Leadership Changes At WarnerMedia Are A Sign Of The Times For TV Networks	Bain Capital To Buy Majority Stake In WPP's Kantar For $4 Billion	Zeta Takes Over PlaceIQ's Advertising Business And Marches Into Media	Google's New Sell-Side Chief Jason Bigler Plans To Open The Black Box
Traffic Duplication Might Be A Bigger Problem Than Ad Fraud
by AdExchanger // Monday, January 11th, 2016 – 2:03 pm
"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.
Today's column is written by Oded Poncz, founder and chief technology officer at Ubimo.
With mobile ad spending set to top $30 billion, can anything get in the way of this channel?
I see one potential obstacle: traffic duplication. While the practice is neither illegal nor prohibited, this behavior threatens to limit mobile advertising's potential. For advertisers to feel comfortable increasing their ad spend on mobile, there needs to be an industrywide move toward greater transparency to prevent the kinds of practices that obscure results and decrease the level of trust between advertisers and ad tech vendors.
In a perfect world, the mobile ad-buying supply chain should work like this: Publishers describe their available inventory to a single ad exchange, which in turn auctions it off to many possible buyers represented by demand-side platforms (DSPs). The winning DSP subsequently serves an ad to the end user.
In practice, however, every party in the chain can split the same bid into a few bids, which may each look different, as part of a back-handed effort to maximize profits. They could be publishers, which would prefer to select the highest winning bid to increase the value of their ad inventory, or an exchange that has been unable to auction an ad space and therefore either re-auctions it on another exchange to fill the inventory or re-auctions the same request under another ad space. Sometimes a DSP re-auctions ad inventory by taking low-cost inventory, such as a JavaScript ad space, and repurposing it for sale as video inventory.
Inevitably, those on the demand side have the most to lose because they will pay higher prices and see more traffic, but without additional inventory. They're just bidding against themselves. But traffic duplication is an industrywide problem that affects everyone.
The Cost Of This Inefficiency
Bid duplication costs more in terms of traffic by representing a single user as two separate users and removing the ability to cap ads served in line with advertisers' wishes. A single app will send an ad request to more than one exchange. Each exchange has its own identification system for naming applications and will have a different unique name for each app.
A DSP might see two bid requests that seem to be coming from two different applications. In some cases where exchanges use different user identification methodologies, each bid request seems to originate from two different end users, which makes it impossible to remove duplicates. While this doesn't fall into the category of ad fraud because this practice is not illegal, bid duplication has introduced highly unwanted inefficiency.
Another side effect of bid request duplication is that re-auctioning a bid takes time. In some cases, this could even become apparent to the end user. For example, if an end user is waiting for an interstitial ad to be shown upon opening an application, while behind the scenes there are a few auctions taking place for the same ad space, this will result in the user waiting considerably longer until they're able to access their content.
This doubling of ad requests also adds to the overall latency in the ad ecosystem. If all this duplication means an ad takes five seconds to load, that makes for a poor consumer experience. No wonder so many users want to block mobile ads.
The solution we need to restore trust in all parties involved in the buying and selling of mobile ads is greater transparency. If companies are going to persist in repackaging inventory that nobody wanted, they should be upfront about that. If an ad space is supposed to host JavaScript, it should never be described as a video spot. Transparency will allow all companies in the value chain to make better decisions on which traffic to buy or drop, while also rooting out behaviors that do not bring value to the market.
Some vendors are now taking action. In November, LiveRail, Facebook's video ad exchange, pulled some of its inventory, which it claims will clean up proliferating layers of bids coming through some sources. While this will have short-term effects on LiveRail's available inventory, I believe this investment will strengthen LiveRail's long-term publisher offering.
There is no reason we wouldn't want to stop traffic duplication. Traffic duplication has a negative effect across the entire mobile ad industry. Enhanced efficiency and increased trust will not incur costs for companies that operate transparently. Rather, better practices will boost trust and stability in an industry that will only continue to become more important.
Follow Ubimo (@ubimoinc) and AdExchanger (@adexchanger) on Twitter.
After Sale To PE Firm, IBM Watson Marketing Rebrands As Acoustic 674 views
MH January 11, 2016
This is standard operating procedure at SSPs like OpenX, in fact this iss pitched as a mechanism to generate additional revenue and a competitive advantage over other SSP solutions.
With that said, if DSPs can bid multiple times to try to identify the lowest price to buy inventory, why shouldn't publishers try to sell it multiple times to try to monetize it for the highest price.
All is fair in love, war, and RTB auctions.
Pete H January 12, 2016
The true issue here is not just in providing greater transparency - which is of course necessary - but also in a technical solution for identifying duplicates that goes beyond unreliable metadata. For example, a DSP could receive five ad requests with the same app name and the same user ID but who's to say they're duplicates? Obviously if they happen within the space of milliseconds it's safe to assume they're duplicates, but it's unlikely DSPs have the ability to understand that. Because of the re-auction process described above these dupe requests may have different floor prices, meaning the advertiser can end up paying more.
Bob F January 12, 2016
There are some solutions to some of these issues. If a DSP has done their job correctly they should never see two bid requests from the same app that seem to be coming from two different applications. The OpenRTB spec has two fields, bundle and storeurl, that that provide a unique identifier for each app. That, along with the device ID and the time of the bid requests should the DSP to identify the same mobile app bid request. And DSPs considier blocking apps that they are getting from one SSP/exchange source from appearing in bid requests from other sources.
The Rise And Fall And Rise Of The Global CMO
What Agencies Get Wrong About Measuring TV Advertising


does anyone have access to Stader's book Sammelwerk donauschwäbischer Kolonisten Kar-L?
I am interested in all information regarding Kust family.
I can look it up at my library if you don't get help from someone else here. However, it may take two weeks before I visit the library again.
Besuchen Sie die Homepage von RHab!
Küst Michael, v. Großweier, nwv Achern, Frau, 5 Kr., 1799 n Ung.
Küst Michael from the village of Großweier, northwest of the city of Achern, with woman and 5 children, in the year 1799 to Hungary.
thank you so much for the info! I think these people are not related to me but anyways thanks for the feedback from the book.
Danke fürs nachschauen! Steht dort auch irgendwas zum Herkunftsort, bzw. dass der Adam aus Bayern kommt?
leider nein, der Eintrag steht so im Stader und mehr gibt es da nicht.


On Friday I have the honour of speaking at the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) North East Education Summit. I had hoped that, following the Budget, I would be speaking with optimism. But instead I will be speaking with continued frustration and fear. Our education system is in crisis, and with no significant uplift in funding on the horizon, it's unlikely this will change anytime soon.
£2.8bn has been cut from school budgets since 2015, in real terms, spending per pupil has declined by 8% and capital funding has been cut by a third.
What do these cuts mean for our schools? They mean staff shortages, bigger classes and depleted resources. Ultimately, an education system which is failing our children.
Not only do our schools have a funding crisis, but subsequently a recruitment and retention crisis too. Years of under inflation pay rises and excessive workloads are driving teachers away and deterring new recruits. Teachers are being asked to do more, with less, for less, for longer.
The crisis in teacher recruitment means that whilst schools are struggling to fill vacancies, large numbers of pupils are being taught by teachers who do not have a relevant qualification in the subject, and class sizes are growing.
Research by the School Cuts coalition of unions shows that 62% of state secondary schools had larger classes in 2017 than two years before. Schools don't want to increase their class sizes, but with reduced staffing levels, they have no choice.
Bigger classes result in less individual support for children and the potential for lessons to revert to the Victorian era of 'one size fits all'. In this type of lesson, a child with additional needs, gifts or talents, or a child who simply needs a little extra support, will not get it.
As well as the shortages of staff and rising class sizes, schools are struggling to afford basic supplies and frequently asking parents to pay for things like textbooks and art materials.
And what is the inevitable consequence of all of this? That the quality and safety of our education system deteriorates and the life chances of our children and young people erode.
The recent Budget was the Government's opportunity to change direction and properly fund our schools. But by failing to take this opportunity they have again failed our children.
So we are standing side by side with our unions and sending a message to Government. We need a new approach to education. Instead of cuts, we need investment. Instead of driving teachers into the ground, we need decency and dignity for staff. Instead of real-terms pay cuts, we need fair pay rises.
Only with these changes will the crisis be over and an education system our children deserve exist.


Mad4Music has formalized in these recent days that an agreement was reached with Alex Stefani Insurance who now becomes Official Partner of the band Le Basour for the entire year of 2018.
As an Official Partner, Alex Stefani Assicurazioni will support the band Le Basour in all their live performances here in Italy and also thoose abroad.
It will be the Mad4Music Agency who will be in charge of organizing the live performances of the band in the upcoming Tournèe 2018 that will touch Italian and European Festivals but also national and international Venues .
In the end, the relationship, for our professional philosophy, must always be at the center of everything in order to give value to the person, to the need of eachone of us, and why not to the need of thoose who prefer to listen good music closed between the four walls of their room or in the middle of 10,000 People".
The agreement with the Treviso band will allow Alex Stefani Assicurazioni to have more visibility on the Web, and here we remember the "numbers" of the band: after the Tournèe of 2017 Le Basour have acquired over 24k followers on the Facebook page and more than half a million views in the YouTube channel.


text:
Eric Willam Cochrane Jr. (May 13, 1928 – November 29, 1985) was an American academic who specialized in the Italian Renaissance.

Cochrane was from Berkeley, California. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship from 1951 to 1953, and completed his doctorate at Harvard University in 1954. Cochrane then taught at Stanford University before serving in the United States Army. Upon his discharge, Cochrane joined the University of Chicago faculty. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961, and the University of Chicago's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1965. He fell ill on a train traveling from Florence to Bologna on November 27, 1985, and died. Cochrane was married to Lydia Goodwin Steinway, daughter of Theodore E. Steinway, with whom he had two children, one of whom is famed University of Chicago financial economist John H. Cochrane.

References

1928 births
1985 deaths
University of Chicago faculty
Stanford University faculty
Harvard University alumni
Writers from Berkeley, California
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American writers

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


In a project activities can be dependent on each other. For example: when you are building a house, the walls need to be built first before you can put a roof on top of them. When there is a delay during the construction of the walls you will have to delay the construction the roof as well.
In Tom's Planner it's pretty easy to keep your chart up to date with these kind of changes manually. But when your project get's larger and more complicated it might be a good idea to link tasks to each other so that if you move one task the dependent tasks will move automatically as well.
To link two tasks in Tom's Planner just right click on the first task, choose the 'add dependency' option in the menu that appears and then click on the second task.
By hovering with your mouse over the left side or right side of the second task, when adding a dependency, you can choose between the two options of: 'task 2 should start after task 1 has finished' or the other way around, 'task 1 should start after task 2 has finished'. To remove a dependency just right click the dependency and click on the 'remove dependency' option in the menu that appears.


According to The Nikkei Asian Review, Japan will face a shortage of 6.44 million workers in 2030, making wage hikes, increased child care and other labor-related reforms vital to ensuring a stable workforce, according to a joint survey by Persol Research and Consulting and Chuo University released on Tuesday.
The figure equals about 5% of the country's 2017 population, and would mark a fivefold increase from 1.21 million in 2017, a shortage estimated by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
The survey projected that demand for workers will reach 70.73 million in 2030 with supply -- excluding the unemployed -- at 64.29 million. Wages should be up 14% in 2030 from 2017, the survey also forecast. "If wages fail to rise as projected, the labor shortage could hit 10 million," said Masahiro Abe, professor of economics at Chuo.
The employment of women, elderly people and foreigners should be encouraged to address Japan's labor scarcity, Persol and Chuo said. The M-shaped curve, which shows how employment declines among child-rearing women, is ending, said Persol research chief Chiaki Tai. "We can add 1 million workers if we eliminate [this trend]."
An increase of 1.02 million workers can be expected if 1.16 million more children are accepted into child-care centers, she noted.
Extending the retirement age and other measures aimed at elderly people could add 1.63 million workers, survey results indicated. The figure comprises 220,000 men and 1.41 million women, suggesting more job opportunities for women. In addition, 810,000 foreign workers could be added if the government pushes ahead with its program of accepting more of them into the country.
The measures mentioned in the survey could add up to 3.46 million women, elderly citizens and foreigners to the labor pool, but would still cover little more than 50% of the projected shortage. Advances in artificial intelligence and other technology could make up for the rest, Abe said.
The scarcity of workers may adversely affect the country's economy. In fiscal 2017, 114 companies went bankrupt due to the labor shortage, marking a year-on-year increase for the fourth consecutive year, a study by Teikoku Databank found.
According to The Australian Financial Review, Melbourne-based Cancer Therapeutics Co-operative Research Centre has struck a blockbuster research partnership with global pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer that could eventually be worth as much as $US460 million ($650 million).
Cancer Therapeutics Co-operative Research Centre (CTx CRC) will earn an upfront fee of $US14 million for granting Pfizer rights to develop and exploit two pre-clinical cancer programs initiated at the Parkville based CRC, which focuses on small molecule drug discovery and works with a host of blue-chip research partners.
If the two programs – which target proteins that drive the development of solid and blood-borne cancers – hit development and sales goals CTx will earn up to $US460 million in milestone payments, as well as royalties on any commercial sales.
According to The Asahi Shimbun, leading convenience store chain Lawson Inc. showcased the shopping experience of the future at the Ceatec Japan 2018 technology trade fair with its cashier-less "walk-through payment" system.
Themed on its vision of a convenience store in 2025, Lawson demonstrated the automated system at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba on Oct. 16, the event's first day.
Many retailers including Lawson are struggling with serious labor shortages, and the unmanned payment system is aimed at solving the problem.
To use the service, customers must first enter credit card information into a smartphone app, which displays the user's Quick Response code.
Once shoppers have bagged everything they need, they simply place their smartphone over an app reader and pass the bag through a merchandise sensor as they exit the store.
Multiple items labeled with wireless RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags in one bag can be simultaneously recognized by the sensor.
The machine then automatically charges the bill to the buyer's credit card, and after payment is taken, the receipt is displayed on their smartphone screen.
At the chain's booth, familiar items including rice balls and snacks were lined up and labeled with RFID tags.
Visitors testing out the system were provided with a smartphone with the app installed so they could virtually purchase goods.
One reporter "bought" two snack packs of "Konnyaku Chips" and "Kinako Kurumi" (walnuts with soybean flour), and the system billed him for 346 yen (US$ 3). The description of "unmanned payment" was displayed on the receipt screen.
It will take another three to five years until the system is in practical use, partly due to the expensive special tags, according to a Lawson official.
It is rare for a retail company to exhibit at the Ceatec Japan trade fair.


Join the Parkside Players for their final performance of, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on December 1st at 8 pm at Grace Lutheran Church, at 103-15 Union Tpke.
An exciting new production of a hilarious Tony award-winning musical! An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake.
Celebration of Love this Sunday, February 10th!
Four Legged Friends: Adopt Don't Shop!


text:
Die vier Prager Artikel () sind das hussitische Reformprogramm zur Erneuerung der Kirche. Es handelt sich um einen Kompromiss, auf den sich im Juli 1420 die radikalen Taboriten und die gemäßigten Prager Hussiten in Prag geeinigt, und den sie König Sigismund als ihre Bedingungen vorgelegt hatten. Während der viele Jahre dauernden Hussitenkriege wurde immer wieder um die Anerkennung dieses Reformprogramms gekämpft. Auf dem Baseler Konzil 1436 wurde schließlich nur der Laienkelch anerkannt, die restlichen Forderungen konnten die Hussiten nicht durchsetzen.

Inhalt

Predigtfreiheit
Erstens, dass das Wort Gottes im Königreich Böhmen frei und ohne Hindernis von den Priestern des Herrn ordentlich gepredigt und nach dem Wort des Erlösers verkündigt werde: "Gehet hin in alle Welt und predigt das Evangelium aller Kreatur."  […]

Die Forderung nach freier ungehinderter Predigt hat ihren Ursprung in der Lehre des englischen Reformators John Wyclif. Jan Hus hatte sein unerschrockenes Eintreten für diese Freiheit mit dem Leben bezahlt. Der Artikel sagt, dass die Freiheit der Predigt durch keine Verordnung geistlicher oder weltlicher Behörden eingeschränkt werden darf; einen Priester darf man in der Erfüllung seiner Pflicht zur Verkündigung der Heiligen Schrift nicht hindern. Diese Freiheit wurde nicht als Anarchie verstanden, der Artikel galt nicht für Wanderprediger oder selbsternannte Propheten.

Für die Hussiten bedeutete es auch die Notwendigkeit, das Wort Gottes breiten Bevölkerungsschichten zugänglich zu machen. Ein Teil ihres Programmes war deshalb die Übersetzung der Heiligen Schrift in die Landessprache und die Verwendung von Tschechisch anstatt Latein in den hussitischen Gottesdiensten.

Laienkelch
Zweitens, dass das Sakrament der göttlichen Eucharistie unter beiderlei Gestalt, Brot und Wein, allen Christgläubigen, die ohne Todsünde sind, frei dargereicht werde nach dem Wort und Befehl des Erlösers, der da spricht: "Nehmet, esset; das ist mein Leib. Und […] trinket alle daraus; das ist mein Blut des Bundes, das vergossen wird für viele."  […]

Die Hussiten stellten sich damit gegen die Tradition der römisch-katholischen Kirche, den Laien bei der Eucharistiefeier nur das Brot (die Hostie) zu reichen. Der Artikel forderte die Gleichberechtigung der Priester und Laien bei der Eucharistie und wurde mit der Aussage Jesu im Johannesevangelium begründet: "Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch: Wenn ihr nicht esst das Fleisch des Menschensohnes und trinkt sein Blut, so habt ihr kein Leben in euch. Wer mein Fleisch isst und mein Blut trinkt, der hat das ewige Leben, und ich werde ihn am Jüngsten Tage auferwecken."

Interessant ist, dass für Jan Hus der Laienkelch nicht so wichtig war. Mit dem Abendmahl in beiderlei Gestalt begann erst Jakobellus von Mies. Der Laienkelch fand schnell zahlreiche Anhänger und wurde zum Wahrzeichen der Hussiten.

Armut der Geistlichen
Drittens, dass die weltliche Herrschaft über Reichtum und irdische Güter, welche der Klerus gegen das Gebot Christi zum Schaden seines Amtes und zum Nachteil des weltlichen Standes innehat, von ihm genommen und aufgehoben und der Klerus selbst zur evangelischen Regel und zum apostolischen Leben Christi und seiner Apostel zurückgeführt werde nach dem Wort des Erlösers: "Diese zwölf sandte Jesus aus, gebot ihnen und sprach: […] Ihr sollt weder Gold noch Silber noch Kupfer in euren Gürteln haben."   und: "Ihr wisst, dass die Herrscher ihre Völker niederhalten […]. Aber so soll es nicht sein unter euch; sondern wer unter euch groß sein will, der sei euer Diener; und wer unter euch der Erste sein will, der sei euer Knecht."  […]

Auch dieser Artikel ist durch John Wyclif inspiriert. Er lehrte, dass, wenn die Kirche nicht von sich aus zu ihrer ursprünglichen pastoralen Mission zurückkehrt, die weltlichen Herrscher sie dazu zwingen müssen. Jan Hus sah genauso wie Wyclif das Grundeigentum der Kirche als die größte Quelle der kirchlichen Missstände und verlangte die Säkularisation kirchlichen Eigentums durch die weltliche Macht, d. h. durch den König und den Adel. Dieser Artikel wurde während der hussitischen Kriege z. T. mit großer Radikalität realisiert, denn das Grundeigentum der Kirche war ein Dorn im Auge nahezu allen Feudalherren und insbesondere der hussitische Adel sah darin ein Mandat zur Enteignung kirchlicher Güter.

Bestrafung der Todsünden
Viertens, dass alle Todsünden, insbesondere die öffentlichen, und die übrigen dem Gesetz Gottes zuwiderlaufenden Missstände in jedem Stand nach der Ordnung und auf vernünftige Weise durch die Verantwortlichen verhindert und abgestellt werden. "Denn die solches tun", wie hl. Paulus sagt, "sind des Todes würdig, aber nicht nur die Täter selbst, sondern auch diejenigen, die es billigen" , als da sind im Volke Hurerei, Schwelgen, Diebstahl, Mord, Lüge, […] und dergleichen, im Klerus hingegen simonistische Häresien und Erhebung von Gebühren für die Taufe, Firmung, Beichte, das Sakrament der Eucharistie, […] und unzählige Täuschungen der einfachen Leute durch falsche Versprechungen. […]

Auch dieser Artikel basiert auf der Lehre von John Wyclif. Es gründet auf der festen Überzeugung, dass der Wille Gottes auf der ganzen Welt befolgt werden müsse. Jeder Gläubige, ob Laie oder Priester, muss im Einklang mit den Geboten Gottes leben und die Sünden meiden. Und weil vor Gott alle gleich sind, müssen die Vergehen der Kleriker in gleicher Weise wie die der Laien geahndet werden. Die Hussiten fordern, dass der Kirche das Recht entzogen wird in irdischen Angelegenheiten zu urteilen. Wegen weltlicher Vergehen soll der Klerus der öffentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit unterworfen werden.

Geschichte
Der erste Entwurf der vier Prager Artikel entstand im September 1419, als nach dem Tod des böhmischen Königs Wenzel IV. die hussitischen Stände ihre gemeinsamen Forderungen an seinen Nachfolger, König Sigismund, formulierten. Die endgültige Form wurde dann im Juli 1420 beschlossen, als Sigismund mit den Kreuzfahrertruppen Prag belagerte und die Taboriten den Pragern zu Hilfe kamen. An der Abfassung waren maßgeblich Theologen der Prager Universität beteiligt, als wichtiger Mitautor wird Jakobellus von Mies genannt. Die hussitischen Forderungen wurden im Heerlager der Kreuzfahrer bekanntgegeben, sie wurden jedoch vom päpstlichen Legaten Ferdinand von Lucca verworfen und König Sigismund hat alle Verhandlungen darüber abgelehnt.

Die vier Prager Artikel enthalten das Mindestmaß der religiösen Forderungen der Hussiten. Sowohl die Prager Theologen als auch die Anführer der Taboriten waren sich einig, dass Friede nur auf Grundlage dieser vier Artikel möglich sei. Sie beabsichtigten, durch eine öffentliche Verkündigung dieses Reformprogramms Sigismund die Bedingungen, unter welchen sie ihn als König anerkennen wollten, bekanntzugeben. Zugleich wollten sie auch den Fürsten der benachbarten Länder und der ganzen Christenheit beweisen, dass ihr Programm nicht in Widerspruch zu den Geboten der Heiligen Schrift steht. Sie hofften, ihre Lehre dadurch auch außerhalb des Landes zu verbreiten und Unterstützer zu finden.

Den Hussiten gelang es später den Prager Erzbischof Konrad von Vechta für sich zu gewinnen, er bekannte sich 1421 öffentlich zu den vier Prager Artikeln. Auf dem Landtag von Čáslav (Tschaslau) im Jahr 1421 wurden die vier Prager Artikel zum Grundprogramm der Hussiten und zum Landesgesetz erklärt. Wegen ihres radikalen – und aus der Sicht des damaligen christlichen Europa ketzerischen – Charakters wurden sie jedoch nie voll umgesetzt. Über die Anerkennung des Reformprogramms wurden immer wieder Verhandlungen zwischen König Sigismund und den Hussiten geführt. Erschwert wurden sie auch durch die Uneinigkeit zwischen den radikalen Taboriten und den gemäßigten und auf Ausgleich mit der katholischen Kirche bedachten Utraquisten. Nach vielen Jahren der Hussitenkriege wurde auf dem Baseler Konzil schließlich nur die Anerkennung des Laienkelches erreicht; das wurde in den Text der Basler Kompaktaten 1436 aufgenommen. Die anderen Reformforderungen konnten nicht durchgesetzt werden. Dieses Datum markiert auch das Ende der Hussitenkriege.

1524 veröffentlichte der Jenaer Pastor Martin Reinhard eine kommentierte Ausgabe der Prager Artikel in einer deutschen Übersetzung, die er im Nachlass des um 1510 verstorbenen Rostocker Theologen Nicolaus Rutze gefunden hatte, unter dem Titel Anzaygung wie die gefallene Christenhait widerbracht müg werd[e]n in jren ersten standt in wölchem sie von Christo vnnd seyne[n] Aposteln erstlich gepflantzt vnnd auff gebawet ist: vor hundert jaren beschriben vnd durch den druck an tag geben. 1524.: das Concilium zü Basel vnnd die Böhem betreffend. Gewidmet ist diese Ausgabe Anton Tucher, Willibald Pirckheimer, Hieronimus Ebner und dem gesamten Nürnberger Rat.

Literatur

Weblinks
 Čtyři artikuly pražské Text veröffentlicht von František Palacký 1844 im Archiv český III, S. 213–216, abgerufen am 28. Februar 2018 (tschechisch)
 Čtyři artikuly pražské auf www.husitstvi.cz, abgerufen am 28. Februar 2018 (tschechisch)
 Čtyři pražské artikuly, abgerufen am 28. Februar 2018 (tschechisch)

Einzelnachweise

Hussitische Bewegung
Geschichte Böhmens im Mittelalter
1420
Eucharistie
Protestantismus in Tschechien
Reformation


Every now and then a number leaps out.
On Oct. 22, it was the size of NBC's Thursday's night audience. On a night that NBC owned for decades, the network averaged less than 5 million viewers. To put it into some context, more people watched antics of Snooki and The Situation on the season finale of MTV's "Jersey Shore" than NBC averaged for the evening. The CW was only 1.5 million viewers behind NBC. Both MTV and the CW are available in far fewer homes than NBC. Univision could soon have more viewers on average than NBC.
It's not as if the network was in rerun mode. It had new episodes of its critical darlings "Community," "30 Rock" and "The Office," all of which seem to have more followers on Twitter than they do viewers on the network.
Of course, NBC's prime-time woes are no secret and sadly this is not even the first time that it has attracted fewer than 5 million viewers on Thursday or that "Jersey Shore" outperformed it. Now, though, it seems to be becoming such a regular occurrence that it barely registers on people who look at ratings every day. The numbers also can't be blamed solely on Fox's coverage of the baseball playoffs.
Thursday is hardly NBC's only trouble spot, but it is jarring even given all the well-publicized attention the network's problems have gotten over the last few years to see how far NBC has fallen on a night that was once home to its legendary hits, including "Friends," "Seinfeld" and "ER."
NBC has ordered additional episodes and scripts for many of its new shows, most of which are failing to connect with viewers. The only show it has given a hook to was the Jimmy Smits legal drama "Outlaw."
With the football season almost halfway over, NBC will face even bigger programming challenges in a couple of months. The network's Sunday night NFL coverage delivers a huge number that somewhat masks the giant holes elsewhere.
Comcast is in the process of acquiring NBC Universal, and soon the performance of the network may be someone else's problem. Perhaps the gang from KableTown has some better ideas than the gang at 30 Rock.


Stylish Party Supplies to Build Your Party Box - Sprinkles & Confetti – Sprinkles & Confetti - Party Supplies to Build Your Party Box Today!
Have the perfect party idea? Let us help you nail it. We'll create a totally personalized party box that brings your vision to life. Delivered to your door - right on time.
No need for a custom party box? No problem. Browse our curated collection of party supplies. We've hand-selected hundreds of party supplies and themes. Let us inspire your next event.
You want people to leave your party with lasting memories.
But by the time you find all your party supplies, the overwhelm can be real.
or on the go without the stressful research and rush.
and you simply ENJOY THE PARTY!
Plan a blockbuster bridal event. See our trendy themes.
Check out our sweet and unique baby party supplies.
Browse our list of celebrations and themes to jumpstart your inspiration.
For parties at least three weeks away - we provide a personalized party box complete with all the decorations you need to bring your unique idea to life.
To get started, complete the party profile form. Share your party vision with us, and we'll get to work fast, combing our collection for the perfect touches. We'll combine your vision with our expertise.
You'll be matched with a personal party stylist with experience in party planning. Your stylist will work with you to curate the perfect decor and supplies for your theme. Ultimately we'll save you hours of time researching and running errands.
Once you approve your party box, we'll ship it straight to your door. Within days, and in advance of your party, you'll receive your party box.
As a busy mom of 3 kids, I found Sprinkles & Confetti to be a lifesaver! My daughter had a "Pinterest Perfect Party" and all I had to do is unpack my decorations, take pictures and enjoy the day.
Isn't a custom party box expensive?
Even though this is a highly personalized service, our design fee is a flat rate of just $25. There are never any upcharges or hidden fees on the party supply items you select. We believe planning a party should feel more fun than overwhelming. We're here to help, without the expensive party planner.
I'm not sure if I need this, what if I just want to plan my party?
No problem - we love the creative, planning phase too! Head over to our collections page and see our hand picked party supplies. We have many ideas and themes to choose from.
Once you've approved your party box, we'll ship it as soon as possible. You can expect delivery within 3 to 5 business days. We strive to have all custom boxes at least 1 week prior to the party.
What if my party is coming up fast?
If your party is sooner than three weeks away, we can't fulfill a custom party box. No worries, though, you can shop our modern and unique collections today.
JOIN THE PARTY @sprinkles_and_confetti for daily party inspiration!


"Bicycling...is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own." This was written in 1947 by cyclist and birdwatching author Louis Halle, then a member of the policy planning staff at the US Department of State. It's a well-known quote from an out-of-print book. Thanks to the modern wonder that is Google Books (pity about the copyright 'borrowing'), more of the bike quotes from the book have been found.
"To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product…to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources….The price of power is enslavement."
"Bicycling…is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. There are movements on a bicycle corresponding to almost all the variations in the flight of the larger birds. Plunging free downhill is like a hawk stooping. On the level stretches you may pedal with a steady rhythm like a heron flapping; or you may, like an accipitrine hawk, alternate rapid pedaling with gliding. If you want to test the force and direction of the wind, there is no better way than to circle, banked inward, like a turkey vulture. When you have the wind against you, headway is best made by yawing or wavering, like a crow flying upwind. I have climbed a steep hill by circling or spiraling, rising each time on the upturn with the momentum of the downturn, like any soaring bird. I have shot in and out of stalled traffic like a goshawk through the woods."
Both are from 'Spring in Washington', a birding book first published in 1947 with updates in 1957 and 1963. It's out of print but an extract was found on Google Books.
"The best way to ride, especially downhill, is with both hands in your pockets and leaning backwards. This is not so hard as it looks; like a bird, you control your direction perfectly by unconscious shifts in your balance. Especially on the long downslopes, this is to know the freedom of the wind. The air rushing past your ears reminds you that the birds must be partially deafened by their own speed."


One day, I just got really fed up with Number 1 and his LEGOs that are just everywhere around my home. So I took his bin and told him that I would donate some of the pieces until I stop stepping on them.
Of course, no such thing happened. I wimped out. Don't tell my kids this but the only time I'll be giving their LEGOs away is when they have their own children. My future grandkids will surely think that I'm the coolest grandma in the world.
I told my son to sell these but he never does Photo by: Toys are Tools courtesy of Number 1.
Despite the mess, my son will often make something really cool. His creations show what he likes most about design: symmetry, function, and dreaming. But still, inside me is an unmet need. I must be truthful and say that if I had the patience, I would sell our stash and buy him just plain bricks-- you know... the ones that look like simple 3-D geometric shapes.
I love when he makes something with simple bricks of very few colors. It just looks better. David Wells, Manager of Creative Making and Learning at the New York Hall of Science once taught me that when building blocks are of the same color, you can really see the structure. That made sense to me the moment he said it even though I never once thought of it this way. Additionally I like plain bricks because in them lie the real challenge. Unlike with stylized bricks the challenge of self-expression is not with fulfilling the want for MORE but rather, it is finding the answer for HOW.
That is Problem Solving 101 to me. Some may say "Creativity 101" or "Art 101" or just say, "Make do with what you have," which are the wise words of Petra Pankow, an arts museum educator who teaches at MoMA and the Guggenheim and is now Manager of Tours and Gallery Interpretation at Montclair Art Museum. Because I feel this way, I am asking you to join me in voting for "Small Yellow." This is a creation designed by Nathan Sawaya.
Let's get this amazing kit on store shelves and give our kids a chance to show themselves what they can really do with LEGO bricks. But first, let's hear a little more about the artist.
Is this the first time you are venturing in creating a kit for market?
A few years ago I created a LEGO Statue of Liberty kit. It was the first time I had ever created a kit for the retail market, and was a very surreal feeling when I walked into a store and saw it on shelves for the first time. With this Small Yellow kit, I am hoping to get that same feeling.
My sculpture Yellow has become a bit of an iconic piece of pop art and it is the centerpiece for my touring exhibition, THE ART OF THE BRICK. When I visit the museums around the world that host the tour and talk to fans, I am constantly asked about Yellow. It seems to resonates with people on many levels. Often I've been asked about selling the sculpture or duplicating it for collectors - but it's currently not for sales. So the LEGO Cuusoo crowdsourcing program was a way to share a smaller version of Yellow with many people at once. If it gets enough support on LEGO Cuusoo - it will become widely available and then anyone can create their own iconic work of art.
Why Small Yellow? Why would you choose (is this the first Sawaya kit by Lego?) a monochromatic kit?
A full-scale Yellow would be unwieldy and expensive. I designed the smaller version to still capture the essence and detail of the life-size sculpture while at the same time being more manageable.
Who do you see as the buyer of these kits? What age group? adults? kids? what age?
THE ART OF THE BRICK exhibition has been visited by more than a million fans since it launched. And my new book THE ART OF NATHAN SAWAYA sold-out and went into a second printing in the first few months. Never in my wildest dreams did I think my artwork would resonate with as many people as it has, and with so many diverse groups of people. Kids love the art obviously because of the medium. It is a toy they are familiar with, love and connect to. Their parents and other adults seem to gravitate toward the emotion, whimsy and craftsmanship of the art. The hope is that if this LEGO Cuusoo project is supported and green lit, then it is available to all types of fans - young and old, boys and girls, fans of LEGO and fans of art.
I think it would be a fun day of building.
Sounds stupid but have to ask while I can: Do you ever use glue to hold the sculptures together? If not, then what? There are some kids out there that build Lego sets and do not play with them but rather just admire them. They refuse to glue them but then get upset when a piece (s) falls off and they are unsure about how to put it back together.
Yes, I glue my sculptures together so that they can be shipped to all parts of the world. The LEGO bricks snap together just fine on my sculptures, but the glue is important to ensure the sculptures arrive safely. But with this small Yellow kit, glue would definitely not be necessary.
NOW.... THAT I have shown you all these amazing images... you must do me, yourself, and future makers out there a great gift of kindness and vote for "Small Yellow"
Want to buy Nathan Sawaya's book on Amazon right now? Use my link to support Toys are Tools.
I thought this was amazing and certainly inspiring.
What wonderful artwork. I love it.
I'm not sure if i've seen his before or not. I've looked at so many amazing lego sculptures.
I have seen this before but didn't realize it was made with Legos. So cool! The kids were blown away but made it known to me we don't have enough of a color to create something similar. Possibly an inspiration to them? Hope to vote soon.... just catching up on e-mails. Never heard of Cuussoo. Really great site and creations.
Seen his work before. Amazing.


Academic excellence means striving to ensure every student is college and career ready. The Fund supports DOE's work to meet students' diverse needs with a variety of in-school and after-school programs, and supports front line educators and leadership with opportunities for professional development and collaboration.
As the undisputed arts and culture capital of the world, New York City is home to a vibrant artistic and creative community that forges enriching partnerships with our city's public schools. Private philanthropic support facilitated through The Fund supports a diversity of arts programs, ranging from theater and dance to music and visual arts.
Our College & Career readiness programs help students prepare for life after high school. Thanks to our generous philanthropic partners, we can help guide students through the college preparation and application process, provide hands-on work experience, or prepare them with the critical thinking skills required to succeed in life.
Building on the success of Pre-K for All, the City's full-day Pre-Kindergarten program, The Fund is supporting professional development for teachers and administrators, which ensures our students have a foundation of critical skills for their academic journey.
Providing students with the skills necessary to participate - and succeed - in the 21st century workforce is essential to their future and ours. The Fund is supporting students throughout all five boroughs and at every grade level to gain critical skills in STEM subjects ranging from computer science to robotics, math, and more.
The NYC Department of Education is committed to building and sustaining a pipeline of high-quality teachers and leaders across all levels of school operations. A range of grant-funded programs support the ongoing development of teachers and leaders across NYC.
The Fund is supporting the Department of Education's ambitious goal: Within six years, at least two-thirds of students will be able to read on grade level by the end of 2nd grade, with a target of 100% literacy by 2026.


Using a Debit Mastercard® is safer than carrying lots of cash, plus you'll have Zero Liability1 for any unauthorized purchases, which means greater peace of mind. And, there's no need to write checks since purchases made with your Platinum Debit Mastercard® are deducted from your Central Pacific Bank account.
Learn more about the Mastercard® benefits.
EMV chip cards—A new level of security.
Central Pacific Bank debit cards now come with the added security of chip card technology. The embedded mircrochip provides dynamic transaction security features; every transaction you make is unique, which makes it extremely difficult for the card to be copied or counterfeited. Using your chip card to make a purchase at a chip-enabled terminal is easy.
EMV Chip Card Frequently Asked Questions.
Watch a quick video to learn more about CardValet.
Simply download the app for your mobile device and link it to your Central Pacific Bank debit card.
Smartphone Mobile Payments = Security and Convenience!
We've partnered with Apple Pay®, Google Pay, Samsung Pay and MasterPass™ to give you a new and easy way to make purchases using your smartphone. After a simple setup, you'll be able to pay for your purchase with one touch at participating merchants. Because you won't be physically handing over your card, your card number and identity is kept secure and your transactions private.
1 See www.mastercard.com/zeroliability or call 1-800-Mastercard (1-800-627-8372) for details.
2 Benefits are provided by Mastercard. Certain terms, conditions and exclusions apply. See www.mastercard.com or call 1-800-Mastercard (1-800-627-8372) for details.
3 Visit mastercard.us/idtheftalerts for information and to enroll.
This card is issued by Central Pacific Bank pursuant to license by Mastercard International Incorporated. Mastercard and the Mastercard Brand Mark are registered trademarks.


text:
Dufour Completes Dundee Roster
The Kitmart Dundee Stars are delighted to announce the signing of Canadian forward, Kevin Dufour.
The 27-year old joins from the Manchester Monarchs and head coach, Omar Pacha was pleased to complete his squad with a player who has explosive speed and natural finishing ability.
The Quebec native started last season with the Indy Fuel of the East Coast Hockey League and from 49 games, he netted 19 goals and assisted on 15 more.
In February he was traded to the Monarchs, where former Stars assistant coach, Doug Christiansen was the general manager and from 12 appearances, he posted five goals and two assists.
The left winger began his ECHL tenure with the South Carolina Stingrays at the tail end of the 2016-17 campaign before signing with the Brampton Beast for the following season and after 26 games, Kevin was traded to the Wichita Thunder, where he put up 30 points in 43 games.
Before going pro in the ECHL, Dufour spent four years with Bowling Green State University in the NCAA and from 154 matches, he scored 54 goals and set-up another 33 for 87 points.
The six-foot forward was also part of a successful side during his junior years, as he was part of the Champlain St-Lawrence Lions team that lifted back-to-back QCHL titles in 2011 and 2012.
In his second year with the Lions, Dufour led his side in scoring and was second in the league points table with 35 goals and 34 assists for 69 points from just 35 games, while also recording the tied-second best all-time number of goals scored in a QCHL season.
After completing his roster for 2019/20 Omar Pacha said:
"I really like his speed, his explosiveness and the way he battles and he works on the ice.
"He is a player that goes to the dirty areas and he has a great shot on him and last season he scored 24 goals in the regular season and he will fit in perfectly to our structure.
"Kevin was another guy we had to be patient on and it finally came through and during the off-season, a lot of teams had interest in him but we were the team that got him and we are very happy.
"He is a guy that I know will do well in his first year here because he works hard, does the extra little things in practice and he keeps wanting to get better.
"We are getting a guy in his prime too and he had a great reference from Mike Sullivan.
"We have had to be patient on for the last few guys but we have got them now and I couldn't be happier."
After signing up with the Dundee Stars for the coming season Kevin Dufour added:
"I'm really excited, it will be my first year playing ice hockey in Europe"
"Omar talked about the programme and the identity of the team and how things were done there"
"Mike Sullivan, a former team mate of mine from college. Told me it is great place to come and a great place to start a pro career in Europe"
"The ECHL is good league, but with my age and the fact I have just married. I thought the best fit would be a move to Dundee. The ECHL helped me to develop my game and improve"
"It's exciting to try and perform in a league that is improving year on year. More and more people are looking at the EIHL and understanding how good it is"
"Personally I have always made playoffs in my career, everyone wants to win and be there. If we stick to the process, we will make the playoff's"
"The community aspect of the club is great, as an only child, I have that family mindset and enjoy meeting the fans and kids in schools."
"I'm a hardworking offensive player, I can skate well and take the puck to the net. I will hopefully score some goals and help the team"
Season tickets are still available for fans to purchase from the DIA. Buy yours NOW.
Odense Bulldog preseason tickets are on sale BUY yours HERE!
Kevin is our 19th signing of the summer and completes the Stars roster for season 2019/20, he will play alongside; Drydn Dow, Jordan Cownie, Craig Garrigan, Matt Marquardt, Kris Inglis, Shawn Boutin, Alex Leclerc, Justin Maylan, Duncan Speirs, Anthony Beauregard, Brett Stovin, Reilly O'Connor, Colton Kroeker, Craig Gans, Jagger Dirk, Egils Kalns, Elgin Pearce and Brython Preece
Dufour will wear #10 for Dundee this year.
To view Kevin's career stats on Elite Prospects click HERE.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


BrunTek is a metal roofing manufacturer, which activates in the residential and industrial sectors. Our portfolio includes projects from various industries, covering the largest cities in Romania. For over 10 years, we have shaped the horizons of our customers, while maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety. Our philosophy is based on continuous innovation of services and products. Therefore, at the end of 2017, we installed a new line of metal tile production, with a unique design on the Romanian market.
of different sheet profiles with different punches, with thickness up to 6mm and length of 6 meters.
of different sheet profiles with different punches, with thickness up to 12mm and length of 3 meters.


text:
REAL PROPERTY-LICENSES-REVOCABILITY OF PAROL LICENSES WHICH HAVE BEEN ACTED UPON
Charles E. Oldfather, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Plaintiff, operator of a boat company, owned land adjoining a river. X held land between that of the plaintiff and a county road. Plaintiff, seeking to secure a way from his property to the county road, offered by letter to purchase forty acres from X, and upon refusal, attempted to buy a forty foot strip, which was again refused. There was further correspondence, in which the parties referred to an "easement" or a "right of way," which terminated in a letter from X saying: ''From the standpoint of this company, there will be no objection to you building a road ... ," and directing plaintiff to proceed with construction, and saying that any further arrangements would be made at a later time. Plaintiff spent $1,000 in developing the road and used it for two years. X sold the property to defendant Cooley, who was fully aware of the arrangements with the plaintiff. Shortly thereafter, defendant Slater, plaintiff's competitor, dynamited the road without defendant Cooley's permission. Plaintiff's action was to enjoin further interference with his use of the road. On appeal by Cooley from a lower court judgment for plaintiff, held, affirmed. The court said that it would be a fraud upon the plaintiff to allow the license to be revoked, and called the interest a "permanent license.'' Hunter v. Slater, 331 Mich. 1, 49 N. W. (2d) 33 (1951).
Charles E. Oldfather, REAL PROPERTY-LICENSES-REVOCABILITY OF PAROL LICENSES WHICH HAVE BEEN ACTED UPON, 50 Mich. L. Rev. 1115 (1952).
Property Law and Real Estate Commons


text:
LIRON: EMPOWERING LIFE.
LiRON LIB Power is a Singapore based Deep-Tech Company focusing on research, design, development and manufacturing of rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery cells and packs
Watch What We Do
Lithium – Titanium Oxide Voltage: 2.4V
Potential Industries: E-mobility, Renewable energy storage
Good for: Wide temperature range, Long cycle life > 10,000 cycles, Fast charging (<10 minutes), High safety
Lithium - Nickel - Manganese - Cobalt Oxide: 3.7V
OEM Product #1
Potential Industries: Consumer Electronics
Good for: High energy capacity, High cathode voltage, Low cost
Lithium - Iron - Phosphate: 3.2V
Great for: Good cycle life, Safe, Matured technology
For e-bikes, solar energy storage, wireless appliances.
Battery Packs, available in various sizes, consist of many battery cells bonded together to achieve the desired capacity. Available in various sizes depending on end user applications, such as e-Bikes, Solar Energy Storage, Wireless Appliances, etc.
Collaboration with A*STAR, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and their team of highly qualified scientist aiming to develop next generation of high performance 18650 LTO/NCM battery cells.
Batteries developed and produced by LiRON focuses on long cycle life, fast charging, high discharge current and good safety performance that also works well at low temperature and with high temperature tolerance.
Torch Light, vacuum cleaner, power drill, power banks, Smart Devices, Cameras, etc
e-bike, e-scooter, e-rickshaw, drones, wheelchair, hoverboard, cars, e-surfboard, etc
Renewable Energy Storage
Solar Energy storage, Wind Power storage, UPS, off-grid applications, solar lightings, etc
Founders and Team
Goh, Hun Keng
Chairman, COO, Director, Founder
Hun Keng has accumulated over 30 years of industrial experience in product development and manufacturing. He was involved in founding multiple electronics, data storage media and renewable energy industry manufacturing companies, including listing in stock exchange. Hun Keng continues to be involved in technology start-up projects, and plays mentor and corporate advisory role.
Goh, Hak Wei
CEO, Director, Co-Founder
Hak Wei obtained a Bachelor Degree in Business from the University of Queensland. Hak Wei has been in the clean-tech and renewable energy industry for more than 10 years, focusing on energy efficiency, sustainability and off-grid applications like solar power and wind energy. Hak Wei has interest in the areas of smart manufacturing and blockchain technology and is aiming to develop LiRON into an Industry 4.0 manufacturer.
Kim, S J
CTO (Designated)
Mr Kim will take the role of Chief Technology Officer upon joining LiRON LIB Power Pte Ltd. Mr Kim has more than 25 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing in chemical process and lithium ion battery set up. He holds a Bachelor and Master Degree in Chemistry from Yonsei University, South Korea. For the last 5 years, he was based in China playing major roles from setting up and construction, equipment installation to commercial production operations in EV battery cell and pack production plants. Prior to his engagement in China project, Mr Kim started his career in a Korean multinational company group. He was involved in chemical materials for display in monitor production. He was assigned to work in Europe for 5 years as Senior Engineer in the development of silicon metal process used in Colour Display Production. Subsequently he returned to Korea and worked at the lithium battery division as Principal Engineer and was responsible for its automotive battery production. Mr Kim has vast knowledge and experience in the entire battery manufacturing process in pouch and prismatic cell for EVs and ESS.
Lee, SIR LING
Sir Ling joined the company as Chief Financial Officer in August 1, 2019. She has served as Vice President of Finance at Certis CISCO Security Pte Ltd for more than 10 years and was responsible for the accounting, finance, treasury and tax functions for various subsidiaries in the group. Sir Ling has accumulated over 20 years of working experience in the area of auditing, accounting, corporate finance and taxation. She has worked in various companies including public accounting firms and company listed on SGX-ST such as Eastgate Technology Limited. She is familiar with regulatory rules and financial structure for public companies in Singapore. Sir Ling holds a Bachelor Degree in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University and is a Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.
DESMOND TAN
CBDO
Desmond joined the company as Chief Business Development Officer in February 2021. He has 30 years of rich industrial experience in precision engineering, business development and manufacturing. His career experience and focus are mainly in business development, sales and marketing, plant setup and global business. He also co-founded a manufacturing business. Desmond has deep interest in green, sustainable and circular economy products and business. He graduated with B Eng (Mech) from NUS and MBA from Hull University.
Stevanus Alvin
Battery Research Engineer
Alvin received his B.Sc. (2017) degree from Department of Chemical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. In 2019, he graduated with a M.Sc. from the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. During his graduate program, he was involved in collaboration with Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and international battery conference. After receiving his education, he joined LiRON as a battery research engineer and is responsible for managing the activities at LiRON's Research and Innovation Center. His main interest is in the development and design of high-performance Li-ion batteries by selection and modification of cathode and anode. He has been involved in identifying problems related to the manufacturing and research of Li-ion batteries and able to improve the efficiency and performance of Li-ion batteries.
Dr. Wirachai Roynarin
President Thailand Renewable Energy for Community Association (TRECA)
Dr. Wirachai Roynarin (Dr Roy) is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT). He is the Director of Research Centre of Renewable Energy Division and the Assistance Dean in Engineering Faculty. Dr Roy is also the current President of Thailand Renewable Energy for Community Associations (TRECA) Dr Roy's field of expertise is in Renewable energy research on Wave Energy and Wind Turbine system technologies. He leads the design and technology development team in achieving low wind speed wind turbine. These wind turbines were installed at various locations across Thailand and overseas. Dr. Roy received the Best Academic Award in Best Research in Field in Renewable Energy from the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2007, and the Gold Medal for best lecturer from the Thai Government in 2008, and Best Award in Wind Energy of WAESE 2009. Dr Roy obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northumbria University, Newcastle, England. He is the founder of FT Energy Co Thailand in the product development and marketing of wind energy system. In 2019 he was appointed to design and develop the King's Wind Farm Project in Thailand with built-in battery energy storage system (ESS).
Dr. Jing Yuan Liu
General Manager Operations & Marketing, Altech Chemicals
Dr. Jing Yuan Liu is the General Manager Operations & Marketing with Altech Chemicals Ltd based in Perth Australia since 2015 for its high purity alumina (HPA) project. HPA is a critical material in lithium battery separator coating for battery safety and life performances. Dr Liu has over 20 years' experience in project management, process and equipment design for minerals processing and in the chemicals, non-ferrous metals, iron & steel and energy industries, both in Australian and internationally. He was awarded a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has worked in senior chemical engineering roles with leading companies such as Hatch Engineering and Metso Minerals in Australia. Dr Liu was previously General Manager – Development and Technologies with Galaxy Resources Limited, a high purity lithium carbonate producer. Dr Liu's extensive chemicals and processing experience, including plant construction, commissioning and the manufacture of high purity chemicals.
Dr. Chiam Sing Yang
Head of Department, Electronic Materials, Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR
Dr. Chiam Sing Yang is a senior scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). He received his B. Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore, graduating with a Class I degree, before obtaining his Ph. D in Physics from Imperial College London in 2008. He is currently heading the electronic materials department in IMRE overseeing cutting edge semiconductor and battery materials research. He also holds concurrent responsibilities in managing research programs and contributes regularly as a review panelist. Previously, Dr. Chiam was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University from 2011-2019, where he taught a course in Semiconductor Device and Physics for 4 years. He has supervised more than 30 students in final year and doctorate projects and has published more than 70 research papers with >2300 citations in the areas of energy, nanomaterials and semiconductor research. He has more than 15 years of experience in interface physics and electrochemistry of electronic materials and a keen interest in pushing the development and translation of technologies.
DR. YATENDRA SHARMA
CONSULTANT / ADVISOR
Dr Yatendra Sharma holds Bachelor and Master's degree in metallurgy from AMU Aligarh and a PhD degree from Technical University of Graz, Austria in chemical process and electrometallurgy. He worked with Prof Karl Kordesch, Ex-President, Battery Division Union Carbide Corporation and Inventor of Alkaline Batteries, ex-Chairman Fuel Cell Division, European Space Agency and Distinguished Professor at TU Graz, Austria, for several years. Yatendra is currently Consultant/ Advisor to several Lithium processing industries in Australia and the USA. He commenced his career in 1974 and has more than 46 years of experience at top management levels in production, R&D and project managements of various multinational chemical and mineral projects. He held general management (GM) position with Mesa Minerals Limited (2002-2009) where he was responsible for successful implementation of projects such as production of electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) and manganese sulphate etc. from pyrolusite ore, project management (PM) position with Galaxy Resources Limited (2009-2012) where he was actively involved in successfully managing projects such as lithium carbonate from spodumene and brine, and lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and Neometals Limited for their Li processing plants. Yatendra has 16 Patents to his credit and 8 publications in reputed Journals on Li processing and Li-ion batteries.
Gianluca Corbellini
CEO, Hive Power
I have a deep expertise in mathematical modelling and numerical simulations applied to the energy sector. I managed and worked on different projects, starting from oil & gas to renewables, specializing in photovoltaics. Able to switch from the academic to the industrial approach, I am interested in every technical and financial aspect of the energy sector. In the last years, I am focusing on blockchain applications to the energy industry, testing an innovative approach to energy communities with a new market mechanism.
Eduardo Javier Muñoz
CEO, EVshare
Eduardo is a native from Argentina who lived 10 years in Brazil and works in projects in the United States since 2012. Over the past seventeen years Eduardo worked with International business, integration of complex value chains, product development, import export, supply chain operations and business consulting in Brazil, Argentina and US. In the last 4 years developed an impressive career in ArqBravo Grooup, a sustainable mobility innovation company, leading its success in the US, integrating technology companies from all around the world to work over solutions on Sustainable Transportation, Renewable Energy sources application and communications. As company's CEO is in charge of establishing operations, strategic alliances, articulating efforts with private and governmental institutions to create solutions to complex problems.
Liron's Timeline
Admin & Finance
Logistics & Support
Regional partners / Agents (In progress)
R&D Partners (A*STAR) (Others in progress)
Certification and Compliance
OEM partners (in progress)
Battery pack (available)
2019 – PHASE 1
R&D Lab in Singapore
Pilot Line in Singapore
MFG Line in Malaysia
Head Office & R&D Lab:
1 Tampines North Drive 1, T-Space, #03-16, Singapore 528559
e: enquiry@liron-lib.com
Copyright © 2022 Liron


text:
Re/Visionist
An online publication from the Women's History Program at Sarah Lawrence College
Practical Applications of Historical Knowledge
What Tunisia Needs Now
Posted on January 27, 2011 by Nydia Swaby
Western countries that sat on their hands while Ben Ali and his family strangled the country could show more enthusiasm for Tunisia's peaceful revolution, says Zouhair Ouakaa.
After living abroad for 20 years, I returned home to start a new life in Tunis. A sense of fin de régime hung in the air, though I never expected to get caught up in the amazing experience that will mark my county forever: the toppling of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the "ghoul" of Tunisia.
As the revolution unfolded over the past few days, I walked the streets of the capital, exhilarated by the protests, startled at times by sniper fire. Still, I can't help celebrating the achievement: My unarmed countrymen have ejected a strongman who had an iron grip on this nation of 10.5 million on the north coast of Africa.
It makes me proud to be a Tunisian.
After 23 years of brutal dictatorship, Tunisians staged a peaceful revolution that is quite miraculous in these times, for this part of the world. The ouster of Ben Ali ended a regime that confiscated all the basic civil rights of its people. No freedom of speech was allowed; wide censorship of the media and the Internet was the rule; persecution of human rights activists was common. Some say that Ben Ali's rule was gentler than most in the Arab world, but for me it had all the strains of a police state, not unlike that of North Korea, reminiscent even of the Stalinist era.
Ben Ali dominated with the tacit support of major Western powers and the implicit good will of other Arab states in the region. He positioned himself as the last shield against Islamism, especially after Sept. 11, when a lot of countries in the West saw in him a secular president who needed their full support in his fight against terrorism.
As the world turned a blind eye, his autocratic regime busied itself with rampant corruption that reached all levels of the administration. Some 35 percent of the economy was in the hands of Ben Ali and his clan; unemployment was 30 percent among youths, who saw no future in Tunisia. They faced a bleak choice between immigrating illegally to the north border of the Mediterranean and resorting to the most backward interpretation of Islam.
Read the full article at The Root.
This entry was posted in Posts by Nydia Swaby. Bookmark the permalink.


text:
Please Jacinda, don't take the Blackadder approach to tax reform
Jess Berentson-Shaw | Contributing writer
Jacinda Ardern has outsourced Labour's decision on a capital gains tax to a working group. But why? It's time we stopped treating tax working groups as the magical solution to problems in the tax system, writes Jess Berentson-Shaw.
Melchett: Field Marshal Haig has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan.
Blackadder: Ah. Would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy?
Captain Darling: How could you possibly know that, Blackadder?
Blackadder: It's the same plan that we used last time and the seventeen times before that.
Melchett: Exactly! And that is what is so brilliant about it! There is, however, one small problem.
Blackadder: That everyone always gets slaughtered in the first ten seconds?
New Labour party leader Jacinda Ardern has indicated that she will put together (another) tax working group if she becomes prime minster. Arden pointed out on Radio New Zealand what many tax specialists, including Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher in their recent book Tax and Fairness (read it I dare you), have noted – that the New Zealand tax system is inherently unfair. It is unfair because the burden of tax falls primarily on income earners. The imbalance occurs mainly because we don't have a true wealth tax and property investments are not taxed in the same way as income particularly – though there are other tax issues that experts can talk about for hours.
Ardern has also made clear that two of her priorities in government would be children living on low incomes, and the issue of inequality. And that's why I make a plea not to do things the same way they have been done every other time people in government have looked at tax.
There are two recurring problems: 1) that such groups do not explicitly examine how tax policy interacts with welfare policy, and 2) they do not include and empower those with diverse experiences in the process. This time lets not take Field Marshal Haig 's approach to tax policy reform because doing the same thing in the same way will get the same outcome.
Source: blackadderquotes.com
Policy gone pear-shaped
The tax system is unfair in New Zealand, and the burden falls disproportionately those who are at the sharp end of low incomes. This is because welfare policy, Working for Families and tax policy work together to create a nightmare for people on low incomes. What looks good in theory, in graphs and models, has turned into a huge burden for those living on low incomes wanting to work their way out, especially for those with children.
For people on good incomes with simple lives (no student loan, no children etc.), tax policy mainly affects them through income tax thresholds, as earnings go up, each additional dollar they earn over the threshold will be taxed at a higher rate (so they see less of that dollar earned in the hand than previous dollars earned). For people living on low incomes who work sometimes, need welfare support at other times and who also have children, the whole picture of their earnings after tax and welfare interactions have played out is pretty bloody scary.
Associate Professor Susan St John is an economist who has been talking about this stuff for just about her entire career. She spends time both researching the issues and listening to low income families – families who have brutal and distressing stories to tell about how tax and welfare policies work together to push them further into poverty.
At a recent meeting Prof St John told a story of a working family in Auckland she knew who were on the edge of homelessness due to the way tax and welfare policies played out. I would encourage you to read their story in full, including how they ended up facing eviction because Maria, the mother, moved from part time to full time work. The intergenerational impacts of these polices are huge, as children like Maria and Sam's are put at risk from policy gone pear-shaped.
There are so many of these stories told by families trying to live on low incomes, if we are prepared to listen to them. We need to consider, at the highest levels, the uncomfortable reality of people's lives, and how policies made by those who never have to live these lives, are failing people.
Prof. St John carried out a comprehensive critique of the last tax working group, highlighting that the distortions of the tax/welfare interface were not even in the mandate of that group (seriously?). She pointed out then that
"While a family on an income over $48,000 might face an effective marginal tax rate of 51 to 58% due to Working for Families, more serious problems are faced by those on benefits whose effective marginal tax rates may exceed 90%."
What is an effective marginal tax rate?
It is one of those terms economists and tax experts happily throw around, missing the fact that a large part of their audience have no idea what they're talking about. Here is the simplest explanation I can give:
The effective marginal tax rate (EMTR) refers to how much of the income you earn you will receive in the hand once both your personal tax rate and any reductions on your earnings have kicked in. An example of reductions in earnings is the petering off of Working for Family tax credits for each additional dollar earned. The same for welfare payments – once someone earns more than $100 a week their welfare payments are reduced. Other reductions include child care subsidies, which taper off with additional earnings; income-related rent subsides are 'abated' for each additional dollar earned; student loan repayments go up as you earn more; loan repayments to WINZ and child support both come off earnings. As the complexity of people's lives increases, so does the complexity of the EMRT. And those living on low incomes have very complex lives.
In 2015 it was reported that there are around 4000 people in NZ who actually have a 100% EMRT: for every dollar they earn they lose a dollar through tax and abatements.
And while we discuss this problem in meeting rooms, in rundown homes across New Zealand families are finding the EMRTs are so stressful and difficult to manage that they decide there is simply no real benefit to working. Rational economics just does not work; people will not choose to work to get an extra $40 in the hand if the impact on their quality of life, from managing children, transport, sick days, precarious work, and exhaustion, is unbearable. This is no work incentive.
But do tax experts really understand the lived reality; do they listen to welfare experts? Do they include and listen to people with direct experience of this nasty interface, instead of just considering it in theory?
The importance of diversity in tax working groups (and everywhere in government)
I recently wrote about the problem of unconscious bias in policy making – too many of one type of person who, in viewing the world through a prism of their own experiences, are not able to see they are making recommendations and policies that hurt the people they need to be enabling.
If people in government are going to undertake another review of tax (and hopefully welfare) policy, then for goodness sake let's make a commitment to increase the diversity at the table. Include those people who know what the interface feels like in reality – don't just have them making submissions. The real power is often having a seat at the table and being actively listened to.
Let's not do the same thing we have always done and expect the same outcomes. If we did this then Blackadder would have much to say, and nothing involving the words "cunning" or "plan".
Review our unfair tax policy, but review it alongside our unfair welfare polices, and ensure that the right people sit round the table of that review. It would show a commitment to improving outcomes for those who are struggling, because people in power have created policy that limits the choices of too many.
This content is entirely funded by Simplicity, New Zealand's only non-profit fund manager, dedicated to making Kiwis wealthier in retirement. Its fees are the lowest on the market and it is 100% online, ethically invested, and fully transparent. Simplicity also donates 15% of management revenue to charity. So far, Simplicity is saving its 7,500 members $2 million annually. Switching takes two minutes.
The views and opinions expressed above do not reflect those of Simplicity and should not be construed as an endorsement.
Flick is proud to sponsor the Spinoff's Politics section.
Flick is the electricity retailer giving New Zealanders power over their power. With wholesale and fixed price plans available, plus no fixed-term contracts or exit fees, you're in good hands! Support us by making the switch today.
Someone is making terrible Jacinda Ardern deepfake videos and they must be stopped
Peter McKenzie
Alice Snedden's Bad News: How come churches don't have to pay any tax?
Alice Snedden's Bad News


text:
Gaza Man Creates Art by Balancing Objects
In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, photo, Mohammed al-Shenbari demonstrates to balance objects using what he calls a mix of mind and body, in the yard of his home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Whenever Mohammed al-Shenbari sees a new object, he quickly tries to find its "balancing point." In other words, he tries make it stand in a way that appears to defy gravity.
The 24-year-old Palestinian artist says he can balance almost any object. To do this, he uses what he calls a mix of mind and body.
On the grounds of his home in northern Gaza, al-Shenbari stood a chair on one leg and balanced a television (TV) on a bottle of Coca Cola.
"You just need to know the fulcrum of the object and you get it," he told The Associated Press.
Al-Shenbari is also a physical fitness and bodybuilding coach. He says his healthy lifestyle helped him slowly develop "the great focus" necessary for balancing objects.
The internet has been important to al-Shenbari's education. A year ago, he discovered a YouTube video by Korean balance artist Nam Seok Byun. Al-Shenbari liked the way the artist organized layers of rocks. He used small, round pebbles to support each level.
Trying to copy his hero, al-Shenbari said he would spend days working on what seem like basic models. Now, it takes him just a few minutes to find out how to build them.
The Gaza Strip lies between Israel and Egypt. Israel has restricted movement to and from the area for 12 years since the Hamas militant group took power.
Al-Shenbari's skill has made him a popular performer in Gaza. But after years of living under difficult conditions, he, like many young Gazans, wants to leave the territory in search of better opportunities. His dream is to compete on reality TV shows. He also hopes to travel to Asia to improve his skills.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Hatem Moussa reported this story for the Associated Press. John Russell adapted it for VOA Learning English. George Grow was the editor. _______________________________________________________________
defy – v. to go against (something)
fulcrum - n. technical: the support on which a lever moves when it is used to lift something
coach – n. someone who trains
lifestyle – n. the way of life of an individual or group
focus - n. the act of directing something, such as attention, at something
opportunity – n. a good chance or likelihood for success
We want to hear from you. Write to us in the Comments Section.
Balloon Festivals Celebrate First Method of Human Flight
Korean Book-Turned-Movie: Women Love It, Men Hate It


When many people hear about startups, they may think just about the tech startups in places like Silicon Valley. However, startups occur in all industries and in many places around the country. Granted, the startup rate may be higher in industries with low barriers to entry (e.g., retail), and the rate may be lower in industries with high barriers to entry (e.g., capital-intensive industries such as manufacturing).
In this article, we look closely at how firms of different ages contributed to the net growth in jobs between 2011 and 2014. We started in 2011 since this is the year with solid aggregate employment growth after the recession ended, and we ended in 2014 since it is the latest year available in the data we used.
We show what happened on the national level and within the four largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the Eighth District: St. Louis; Little Rock, Ark.; Louisville, Ky.; and Memphis, Tenn.
For this analysis, we used data from the Business Dynamics Statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. This data set contains annual aggregate statistics describing establishment openings and closings, firm startups, and job creation and destruction by firm age and metropolitan area, among other characteristics.2 The data include establishments with paid employees and cover most of the nonfarm private sector. The data provide a snapshot of firms and their employees on March 12 of each year.
The figure shows total net job creation in the U.S. from 2011 to 2014. The line shows the total net job creation across all firms, while the bars disaggregate job creation based on the age of the firm.
A very important pattern emerges from the figure. Business startups, that is, firms that are less than a year old, account for most of the net job creation. Apart from startups, the only other firms with a positive contribution to job creation are very mature firms, those with 11 or more years in operation.
Although startups make a very large contribution to net job creation, they account for only 2 percent of total employment in the U.S. economy. Moreover, a business startup in any given year will join the 1 to 5 year cohort the following year if it remains in business. The figure shows that net job creation for that group is very small and in many cases negative. This small contribution is due to the high probability of exit that young firms face. Successful young firms will continue to add more jobs on net, but about half of these firms will fail and close, resulting in considerable net job losses.
Looking at the Eighth District, the table summarizes net job creation dynamics by firm age for the four largest metropolitan areas (and, for comparison purposes, the U.S. as a whole). In general, startups account for a slightly smaller share of total employment in the District than they do for the nation overall.
There are some important differences in the contribution to net job creation by startups during the recovery in the four MSAs.
The case of St. Louis is similar to the national average, with startups accounting for about 1.6 percent of total employment but 83 percent of net job creation.
In Louisville, startups comprise a slightly greater share of total employment than they do in St. Louis, but older firms account for 45 percent of net job creation compared with the U.S. average of 24 percent. Similar to the situation in St. Louis, firms in Louisville aged 1 to 10 years reported net job losses over the economic recovery.
In Little Rock, 2 percent of employment is accounted for by startups, which is the highest among the four major MSAs in the District. Startups accounted for 22,261 new jobs, on net, which is about four times the net job growth in the region. The contribution to net job creation of firms in other age groups was negative, on net.
Memphis shows a pattern of net job creation that is similar to that in Little Rock. Startups added 30,633 jobs, essentially all the net job growth during this period.
SOURCES: Business Dynamics Statistics and authors' calculations.
Despite the important role startups play in job growth, the importance of mature firms should not be understated. An important difference between young and old firms is the wage they pay. Older firms pay, on average, a much higher wage than younger firms. This is because a firm's success is a function of productivity: Output per worker at surviving older firms is higher and, therefore, workers are paid a higher wage.
Thus, while startups are very dynamic and have an important role in net job creation, in terms of total employment and earnings they tend to have a modest impact. Only the few firms that survive to the 11+ year age group have a lasting impact on employment.
Maximiliano Dvorkin is an economist and Charles Gascon is a regional economist, both at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. For more on Dvorkin's work, see https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/dvorkin. For more on Gascon's work, see https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/gascon. Research assistance was provided by Evan Karson and Hannah Shell, both senior research associates at the Bank.
Decker, Ryan A.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ron S.; and Miranda, Javier. The Role of Entrepreneurship in U.S. Job Creation and Economic Dynamism. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 3-24.
Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ron S.; and Miranda, Javier. Who Creates Jobs? Small versus Large versus Young. The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2013, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 347-61.


Pather Panchali Garia is a new age residential property in Kolkata which has been launched by one of the fastest growing developers of residential property in Kolkata- the Team Taurus group. Pather Panchali offers apartments that have excellent ventilation. It is well connected to all important destinations of the city and has the finest amenities that real estate properties in Kolkata have ever seen. This new residential property in Kolkata offers living options in the form of 2 and 3 BHK flats for sale, which come readily equipped with a host of modernistic comforts and conveniences.
A unique Architectural concept has been used in this development. Rooms inside Pather Panchali are cooled naturally to keep you comfortable and always on a song. Possession is on 2016.
Pather Panchali is a beautifully planned & designed 4-storied complex consisting of 184 units in 5 Blocks equipped with all modern amenities. Located in South Kolkata at Boral, Garia, the project offers express connectivity to Garia metro.
Pather Panchali Garia is beautifully planned 8 acre residential gated development, with 2 & 3 BHK apartments.
Located in Boral, it has an aura that seeps into your heart with its natural surroundings and a design which is in harmony with nature. Sustainable architectural concepts with passive design elements have been used to make them Smart Homes.
The Elevation has only balconies and all utilities are in the rear. A very high efficiency of space inside the apartments have been achieved with zero wastage in passages.
You may travel far and wide, for work, adventure and quest But you remain distant and alone, until you start walking towards your abode.
Pather Panchali Garia is homecoming to the wanderer in your heart. It is where your soul is at peace with itself and the surroundings. It is where the song of the bird perched on the tree is more important.
The streets are the valleys in your mind, and as your traverse and explore, A smile breaks on your lovely countenance As you realize.
The initial pricing per sqft is only Rs. 2800 for a very short time. The price will soon increase to Rs. 2995 per sqft. Rush your enquiries or SMS "REAL ESTATE" to +91-9674321856 today.
In the current price it is a very lucrative investment opportunity for the NRIs and HNIs. We expect the price to be at least double before the delivery.


Can you get USDA Organic Certification Of Aquaponics Systems? Apparently you can. Susanne Friend and Tim Mann of Friendly Aquaponics claim to have the worlds first USDA Organic Certification Of an Aquaponics System in August 2008. That's great news as prices for USDA Organic Certification can be much higher then conventional crops.
The best two companies to use are (Oregon Tilth (http://tilth.org/ on the web) and Organic Certifiers (http://www.organiccertifiers.com/ on the web) as they have alrady been thru the process and are familiar with the process of certifying an aquaponic farm.
Make sure you only use NOP-approved materials and devices according to the OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) guidelines are you will not be approved.
They were also Food Safety Certified in 2009. Lot's of good info in their newsletter about the process.
Search the Products List using the free basic search below or subscribe to use the advanced search. An updated version of the Products List is also available to download as a PDF. Download Now.
The OMRI Generic Materials List©is an authoritative catalog of over 900 materials and their statuses in organic production, processing, and handling.
Search the Generic Materials List using the free basic search below.
To view the complete text, order printed copies of the OMRI Products List or the Generic Materials List.
An updated version of the Products List is also available to download as a PDF. Download Now.
Subscribers receive both lists as well as quarterly updates and our Materials Review Newsletter. As a subscriber, you will be able to access specialized web content and advanced searches of the OMRI Products List. Subscribe now.
This entry was posted on Friday, November 30th, 2012 at 4:36 PM	and is filed under Hydroponics / Aquaponics. Both comments and pings are currently closed.


text:
cable news news June 17, 2010
Looks Like Piers Morgan Is Really Going to Take Over for Larry King
By Chris Rovzar
According to "Page Six," Morgan will drop his gig hosting Britain's Got Talent, but still hopes to host America's Got Talent while also helming an interview show on CNN at 8 p.m. on weeknights. [Page Six/NYP]
cable news news


kohler cimarron review related post kohler cimarron round complete toilet reviews.
tommy bahama baskets furniture bedroom tropical with basket beach art cotton image by decor tommy bahama basket on wheels.
red marquee letter vintage letters eat vintage marquee letter letters eat hard red plastic eat sign 6 1 4 inches tall marquee letters eat sign and industrial chic red marquee letter h.
oval tufted ottoman ivory and blue bathroom with white oval tufted ottoman on caster legs oval tufted leather ottoman.
lowes wall ovens electric wall ovens wall cabinet wall cabinet wall cabinets storage cabinets amazon com door wall cabinet wall ovens lowes double wall oven electric.
performance lighting systems performance lighting systems careers.
stream valley franklin tn stream valley cottages by homes by in stream valley franklin tn hoa.
mobile home cabinet doors mobile home bathroom cabinets replacement bathroom cabinet doors installing bathroom vanity against wall replace bathroom vanity mobile home bathroom vanity mobile home cabin.
st cloud windows window tint st cloud used windows st cloud mn.


From a major period of reform in the 1960s to the present-day influences of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare has evolved into the largest healthcare provider in our nation for older Americans. For 49 years, Medicare has passed significant milestones to become what it is today. Follow us back in time to learn the roots of Medicare and how it has changed in legislation and policy.
In 1935, the Social Security Act was established and included federal assistance for Americans aged 65 and older. Decades later, on July 30th, 1965, the Social Security Act was amended to include Medicare, the health insurance program for nearly all Americans 65 and older and Medicaid, the health insurance program for low income Americans. Medicare is broken down into Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) and Part B (medical insurance). July 30th, 1965 is now considered Medicare's birthday.
In 1966, Medicare was implemented and more than 19 million individuals enrolled at an annual cost of $64 Million. Former President, Harry S. Truman was issued the first Medicare card in history.
In 1977, the Healthcare Finance Administration was established by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to administer the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1980. At this time, Medigap (Supplement Insurance) came under Federal oversight. Shortly after in 1982, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act provided the foundation for substantial growth of Medicare Part C managed care arrangements. This resulted in more health maintenance organizations, or HMOs, servicing Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare Part C also provides the ability to either choose a Medicare private health plan (HMO), or stick with Original Medicare.
The Social Security Administration then separated from the Department of Health and Human Services in 1995. The next year, the Health Insurance Administration Portability and Accountability Act was set in place to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Medicare. In 1997, the Balanced Budget Act ushered in new health plan choices & a coordinated Open Enrollment Process. In 1998, Medicare.gov was launched and then in 1999, a toll-free information line was set up.
In 2001, the Healthcare Finance Administration became the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, while continuing to administer programs. In 2003, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) made the most significant changes to Medicare to date and resulted in Medicare Part D. Part D is voluntary and makes outpatient prescription drug coverage affordable for nearly all Americans aged 65 and up. Part D is commonly explained with the "Donut Hole" metaphor, which describes the coverage gap, or limit, on what the drug plan will cover.
More recently, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the "Affordable Care Act" or "Obamacare," was established to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance. Now, on July 30th, 2014, Medicare reaches its 49th birthday. Projections for the future include an estimated enrollment of 50 million Americans and over $540 billion in annual cost.
With all of these legislation and policy changes, it can be a bit overwhelming to fully understand the Medicare system. This is the reason for SeniorQuote Insurance Services- to help consumers sort through the healthcare coverage options and find the best solution for each individual.
This entry was posted in Featured, Insights, Need to Know. Bookmark the permalink.


Project Nim is a TV show on British national television from BBC2 with an average rating of 3.0 stars by TelevisionCatchUp.co.uk's visitors. We have 2 episodes of Project Nim in our archive. The first episode of Project Nim was broadcast in January, 2014. Did you miss an episode of Project Nim but don't you wan't that to happen in the future? Please set an alarm and add Project Nim to your favourites, so we can remind you by email when there's a new episode available to watch. For free!
Documentary about Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who became the focus of a landmark experiment.