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Why Hyperwise Ventures?
Among our investors
Zohar Alon
Mickey Boodaei
David Corchia
Eyal Dagan
Dror Davidoff
Ofer Elad
Giora Engel
Dror Erez
Ofer Iny
Harel Kodesh
Shlomo Kramer
Guy Leibovitz
Rakesh Loonkar
Paul Maritz
Stuart McClure
Avery More
Pâris Mouratoglou
Idan Plotnik
Noam Stern
Eyal Waldman
Giora Yaron
Jonathan Yaron
Oren Zeev
Avishai Avivi
Amos Yadlin, Major General (ret.)
Steve Adegbite
Why Hyperwise
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Founder and CEO of Dome9 Security
Zohar Alon was the Founder and CEO of Dome9 Security, a cloud security company that was acquired by Check Point, where Zohar is now serving as the Head of Cloud Security product line. Zohar is a veteran in networking security. He helped shaping the early days of network security while at Check Point Software, where he built Provider-1, Check Point's service provider's management solution, still used today by the world's largest MSPs and enterprises. Alon has held several leadership and advisory positions in both security and venture capital as well as private equity. Alon graduated from Tel Aviv University, and holds several leadership and advisory roles in venture-backed companies.
co-founder and CEO of Transmit Security
Mickey is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and product strategist with over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity. In 2002, Mickey co-founded Imperva (IMPV), the leader in Web and database security. In 2007, Mickey founded Trusteer, a fraud prevention company that was acquired by IBM in 2013. Mickey has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Aorato (now part of Microsoft), Hyperwise and Lacoon (now part of Check Point), FireGlass (now part of Symantec), and others.
Co-Founder of EREN and CEO of Total Eren
Following a career path at the intersection of finance and energy at BNP Paribas and JP Morgan Chase, David Corchia joined EDF EN (the renewable energy arm of EDF founded by Pâris Mouratoglou) in 2004 as Head of North America and became CEO of EDF EN Group in 2006 where he led the company through its IPO and until its friendly takeover by French utility EDF. Together with Pâris Mouratoglou, David then co-founded EREN, a diversified group primarily dedicated to efficient management of natural resources and innovation for excellence. The group is active in renewable energy through Total Eren which became in less than 8 years a leading renewable energy IPP, waste water treatment, energy storage, electricity demand response, infrastructure monitoring by optic fiber data collection and analysis among others and holds minority positions in other industries (AI, thermal energy management software, etc.).
Co-founder and ex-CEO of Leaba Semiconductor
Eyal Dagan was the CEO and co-founder of Leaba Semiconductor Ltd, which was acquired by Cisco in April 2016. Since then Eyal is serving as SVP – Hardware Group at Cisco.
Prior to founding Leaba Semiconductor Ltd Eyal was the CEO and co-founder of Dune Networks, Inc., which was acquired by Broadcom in January 2010.
Eyal holds BASc and MSc in computer science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
CEO and co-founder of Aqua Security
Dror Davidoff is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aqua Security. Dror specializes in cyber security and enterprise software. As part of his wide executive experience, Dror held the following positions prior to founding Aqua Security: CRO of ClickTale, VP Sales – Database Security with McAfee and EVP Sales and business development with Sentrigo.
co-founder and CEO of WIP (WebintPro)
Ofer Elad was the co-founder and CEO of WIP (WebintPro), which was acquired by Verint. WIP was a world leader in web intelligence for over a decade.
WIP helped governments and business organizations to resolve advanced threats, attacks, and suspicious cyber activities in real time.
co-founder and vice president, product & strategy at LightCyber
Giora Engel, is the co-founder and CEO of Apiseq, and was the co-founder and CPO of LightCyber, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Up until recently Giora was working at PANW as VP of Product Management. Giora is a serial entrepreneur with many years of technological and managerial experience. For nearly a decade, he served as an officer in an elite technological unit in the Israel Defense Forces. His broad range of technology experience spans network analysis, cyber-security, algorithmic coding and mission critical systems. His research in the fields of computer vision and physics has been published in Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and the International Journal of Computer Vision, and he holds a patent in the field of image processing. Prior to co-founding LightCyber, Giora co-founded and served as CTO at MeterLive, a consumer insights and audience measurement company, and before that he was Director of Product Management at BQR. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Co-founder and ex-CTO of Conduit
Dror Erez was the founder and CTO of Conduit, one of Israel's largest Internet companies. Prior to founding Conduit, Dror co-founded Effective–i, a learning system that categorized, organized, and delivered information to shorten search cycles within the enterprise. Today Dror is helping startups companies in strategy, technology and product challenges. Dror has extensive experience in Internet, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and cloud technologies. He holds a B.A. in Physics and Computers from Bar Ilan University.
Co-founder and ex-CTO of Leaba Semiconductor
Ofer Iny was the CTO and co-founder of Leaba Semiconductor Ltd, which was acquired by Cisco in April 2016. Since then Ofer is serving as a Fellow with Cisco.
Prior to co-founding Leaba Semiconductor Ltd Ofer was the CTO and co-founder of Dune Networks, Inc., which was acquired by Broadcom in January 2010.
He holds an undergraduate degree from California State University – Northridge, and a graduate degree from California State University – Los Angeles.
Operating Partner at Silver Lake Partners
Harel Kodesh is an Operating Partner at Silver Lake Partners, a global leader in technology investments with 39 Billion Dollars in combined assets under management and committed capital. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Kodesh had been with GE where he served as Vice President at Predix and Chief Technology Officer at GE Digital. Before joining GE, Mr. Kodesh co-founded and served as CEO at Nurego, a spinoff of EMC Corp. At EMC, he acted as Executive VP for Cloud Business Systems and as CEO of Mozy, its wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to Backup as a Service. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Kodesh served as Chief Product Officer at Amdocs. He also served as CEO of Wingcast, the Ford Motor Company-Qualcomm telematics joint venture. Until 2000, Mr. Kodesh held various executive positions at Microsoft, including VP of the Information Appliances Division leading, the development of the Microsoft Windows CE – or Windows Mobile – operating system, and pioneered its mobility business. Mr. Kodesh holds a BS in computer engineering and a MS in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He has served on boards for Mobilitec, DreamBox Learning, BSquare and Blue Phoenix. Mr. Kodesh sits on the Board of Councilors for USC's Viterbi School of Engineering.
co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks
Shlomo Kramer is co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, and numerous others. He was named CEO of the Year by SC Magazine in 2008, one of "20 luminaries who changed the network industry" by Network World in 2006, and was inducted into the InfoSec Hall of Fame in April 2013.Shlomo holds a master's degree in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University.
founder and CEO of Cognigo
Guy Leibovitz was the founder and CEO of Cognigo, which was acquired by NetApp. Guy has over 12 years of experience in technical research and cybersecurity leadership. Prior to founding Cognigo Guy has also served as an independent consultant to top companies, specializing in applying machine learning algorithms to cyber security solutions.
co-founder and president of Transmit Security
Rakesh is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and a seasoned executive. In 2007, Rakesh co-founded Trusteer, which was acquired by IBM in 2013. Previously, Rakesh was the founder of OneSecure, together with Nir Zuk (acquired by NetScreen Technologies) and then served as vice president of North American sales at NetScreen (now part of Juniper Networks). Rakesh has made early investments in successful cybersecurity companies including Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Securent (now part of Cisco), Mi5 Networks (now part of Symantec), Watchdox (now part of Blackberry), and many others.
Paul Maritz is an active technology investor. He has previously served as: CEO/Founder Pivotal Software 2012-2015, CEO VMware 2008-2013, CEO/Founder PI Corp 2003-2008, and Senior VP Microsoft 1986-2000, where he headed product development for system products, including Microsoft Windows. He has had a long standing interest in digital and financial inclusion, serving as Chair of the Grameen Foundation 2003-2010, and the use of technology in development and conservation.
founder and CEO of Cylance
Stuart McClure was the founder and CEO of Cylance – a next gen end point security company that got acquired by BlackBerry for $1.4B. Prior to Cylance, Stuart was EVP, Global CTO and General Manager at McAfee/Intel. Prior to McAfee Stuart was the co-founder and CTO of FoundStone, a network vulnerability scanner that got acquired by McAfee. Stuart is the creator and lead-author of the most successful security book of all time, Hacking Exposed.
Avery More has been investing in Technology companies since 1994 through his own funds and working with larger VC Funds (Sevin Rosen and Menlo Ventures). Recent successful liquidity events were the SolarEdge IPO, the sale of Datorama to Salesforce.com and the Sale of Dome9 Security to Checkpoint Technologies. Prior to his Investment career, Mr. More was the president and chief executive officer of CompuCom Systems Inc. from 1989 to 1993. Mr. More currently serves on the board of directors of Appdome, OverOps & BuzzStream. Avery holds an Electrical Engineer degree from the Technion.
Co-Founder of EREN and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Total Eren
As a serial entrepreneur in the energy sector, Pâris Mouratoglou has previously co-founded Sithe, a leading gas Independent Power Producer listed on NYSE in 1992, and was the founder of SIIF Energies, a renewable energy company which became EDF EN in 2004. Pâris served as Chairman of EDF EN until its takeover by French Utility EDF in 2011. Together with David Corchia, he then co-founded EREN, a diversified group primarily dedicated to efficient management of natural resources and innovation for excellence. The group is active in renewable energy through Total Eren which became in less than 8 years a leading renewable energy IPP, waste water treatment, energy storage, electricity demand response, infrastructure monitoring by optic fiber data collection and analysis among others and holds minority positions in other industries (AI, thermal energy management software, etc.).
co-founder and CEO of Aorato
Idan Plotnik was the co-founder and CEO of Aorato, which was acquired by Microsoft. Prior to founding Aorato, Idan was the co-founder and CEO at Foreity – an MS security subcontractor acquired by Aman Group in 2012.Idan has more than a decade of experience in the security industry. He has a rich and versatile technological background related to the security and IT of mission critical systems. Idan also holds the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for enterprise security.
Serial entrepreneur and Co-founder of Financial Algorithms Ltd.
Noam Stern co-founded Financial Algorithms Ltd., one of the world's most successful High Frequency Trading companies, currently valued at several billions. Noam envisioned the concept and strategic direction of Financial Algorithms and co-managed the company in its early years. In recent years, Noam serves as mentor, angel and consultant to a changing handful of start-up companies. In 2016 Noam co-founded Neural Algorithms Ltd., a machine learning company.
Co-founder and ex-CEO of Mellanox
Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as Mellanox's president and chief executive officer since March 1999 until its acquisition by Nvidia for 7 Billion dollars in April 2020.
Eyal was the co-founder of Galileo Technology Ltd., a semiconductor company, and from March 1993 to February 1999 Eyal served as their Vice President of Engineering. Galileo was acquired by Marvell Technology Group in January 2001.
From August 1989 to March 1993 Eyal held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation.
Eyal is a board member with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Pliops Ltd.
Eyal holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Doctor of Physics, entrepreneur, businessman
Giora Yaron is a Doctor of Physics, entrepreneur, businessman, and was until recently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tel Aviv University. Giora is known as one of the founding fathers of Israel's high-tech industry. Giora was involved in the establishment of many startups: Itamar Medical, P-Cube (sold to Cisco), Quilt, Hyperwise Security (sold to Check Point), Siraj Technologies, Pentacom (sold to Cisco), Qumranet (sold to Red Hat). Giora sits on the following board of directors: Amdocs, Itamar Medical, Quilt, Excelero and Equalum
CEO of Accellion
Jonathan Yaron is the CEO of Accellion, a Palo Alto, California-based private cloud solutions company, focused on secure file sharing and collaboration. He has over 25 years of enterprise software industry experience, as well as extensive strategic and operational expertise. Prior to Accellion, Jonathan was Founder, CEO and Chairman of Enigma, a service lifecycle management company, a position he held for 21 years, before selling the business to PTC. Jonathan is a graduate of Tel Aviv University with a degree in Economics and Management and a specialization in operation research.
Israeli-American venture capitalist and head of Zeev Ventures
Oren Zeev is an Israeli-American venture capitalist and head of Zeev Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with early-round investments in technology companies. Zeev has had notable investments in Houzz, Audible, Tipalti, Chegg, and TripActions.
Chief Information Security Officer – Tax Credit Co. LLC
Avi joined TCC in 2019, with over 20 years as a senior Information Security leader at multiple companies including Wells Fargo and E*Trade. Avi has created and implemented security programs with focus on best practices and control maturity. Avi's Information Security career started with his service at the Israeli Defense Forces Unit 8200. His career spans multiple roles and domains across Information Security including information security product research and development, professional services, customer support, consulting, and strategic leadership. Avi holds a dual MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Columbia University's Business School. He is CISSP and CISM certified and holds the Stanford University Strategic Decision and Risk Management program certification.
Amos Yadlin
Major General (ret.)
Amos Yadlin has been the Director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) since November 2011. INSS is the leading strategic Think Tank in Israel.
General Yadlin served for over 40 years in the Israel Defense Forces, ten of which as a member of the IDF General Staff. From 2006-2010, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yadlin served as the Israel chief of Defense Intelligence. From 2004-2006, he served as the IDF attaché to the United States. In February 2002, he earned the rank of major general and was named commander of the IDF Military Colleges and the National Defense College.
Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yadlin, a former deputy commander of the Israel Air Force, has commanded two fighter squadrons and two airbases. He has also served as Head of IAF Planning Department (1990-1993). He accumulated about 5,000 flight hours and flew more than 250 combat missions behind enemy lines. He participated in the Yom Kippur War (1973), Operation Peace for Galilee (1982) and Operation Tamuz – the destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq (1981).
Yadlin holds a B.A. in economics and business administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1985). He also holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1994).
Steve Adegbite is the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Cotiviti Corporation. He is the primary executive responsible for ensuring the establishing, executing, and maintaining of Cotiviti Corporation vision, strategy and program structure for all company wide security and business continuity programs. Prior to joining Cotiviti, Steve was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for E*TRADE Financial Services. Prior to joining E*TRADE, he was the Senior Vice President in charge of the Enterprise Information Security Program Oversight and Strategy Organization at Wells Fargo & Co. Prior to joining Wells Fargo & Co., he was the Director, Cyber Security Strategies at Lockheed Martin Information Services and Global Services (IS&GS). Prior to that, Steve was the Chief Security Strategist for Adobe Systems Inc. within the Adobe Secure Software Engineering. Prior to joining Adobe, Steve worked in various positions in Microsoft's Trust Worthy Computing (TWC) organization most notably on the Secure Windows Initiative (SWI) and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) EcoStrat team. Before Steve joined the private sector, he was an officer in the United States Marine Corps where he served in Information Operations (IO) positions at various Intelligence community agencies both as a government employee and as an associate consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technologyconsulting firm. Steve is longtime member of the US and International security community.

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Today's drawing from the BACAA open studios life drawing session. This is about 2.5 hours worth of work. It's white, black, and sanguine conté on grey textured Canson paper.
Next week I'm going to finish out the form and get some of the environment in there.


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I had a simple work goal when I was in College - to be a bartender. I would love to work behind the bar while I make drinks and talk to guests. After graduation, I got my first job title - a Barista. Not a Bartender. It is pretty much the same - only better - because you serve coffee enthusiasts, sober guests and you feel like a master of some rare skills.
Filipino truly loves their coffee. In fact, we love our coffee so much that the Philippines consistently ranks among the countries with the highest rate of coffee consumption in the world. Needless to say, working as a barista in a country where coffee is embedded in everyone's daily routine is no easy task. Making the perfect blend to satisfy every coffee lover's discriminating taste ultimately requires a great deal of skill, creativity and patience.
One Filipino barista making a name for himself is Justin Dela Fuente of Costa Coffee Philippines. He recently bested other baristas from here and abroad in the Southeast Asia and Indian leg of the annual Barista of the Year (BOY) competition by Costa Coffee.
Seeking to find the crème de la crème in coffee-making, Europe's #1 Coffee Shop challenges all the Costa Coffee baristas in the world to create a signature drink in hopes of winning the Barista of the Year award in London, UK. In January 2017, Justin is set to take a shot at the coveted title as he will proudly represent the whole region of Southeast Asia and India.
Wow, I didn't know you can mix calamansi with coffee.
I once tried mixing orange juice with espresso but my concoction failed.
Have the right amount of patience. - Perfecting your first cup of coffee takes time. Even the greatest baristas didn't make a perfect latte art or even the perfect brew at first try so there's no reason to be intimidated. You'll encounter spills and burns along the way but with the right attitude, everything's going to be worth it. Learn from your mistakes and take a shot at it once more. Or twice. Or even thrice. Just keep on trying until everyone wants a taste of the blend you worked so hard for.
Overflow with passion. - If there's one thing you can put too much of in every cup, it's passion. Keep in mind that being a barista is a privilege and people count on you to make good coffee that'll brighten up their day or be the sweet ending to their night. Make sure you pour some passion into every cup of coffee you make because the customers trust you enough to make their favorite drink. Take that as a challenge and give them the best coffee experience they've ever had.
Throw some fun into the mix. - As a barista, you are not expected to be a robot. You can be who you are and your co-baristas and customers will love you for it. Have fun, maintain a positive outlook and that 9-hour shift of yours will fly by. Trust me, your daily grind won't be as bad if you continue to attract and spread positive energy to everyone who comes in and out of your store.
Serve your best. - Once you've mastered your craft, don't be afraid to let everyone around the world know how far you've come. Join local and international barista competitions to continuously hone your coffee-making skills. With the right amount of dedication and creativity, even first-timers like Justin can bring home trophies and go on to be renowned internationally, thus bringing pride and honor to our country. Soon enough, the Philippines won't just be known as a country of heavy coffee drinkers; we will be known as a nation of talented and world-class coffee makers.
Let's cheer Justin on as he represents not only the Philippines, but the whole of Southeast Asia and India in Costa Coffee's Barista of the Year competition! Share your support online by using the hashtag #JustinForTheWin!
Best of luck, Justin! I am virtually cheering from the other side of the bar!


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Romany Romanic Malco Jr. (ur. 18 listopada 1968 w Brooklynie w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański aktor filmowy i telewizyjny.

Filmografia

filmy fabularne
 1999: Urban Menace jako Syn
 1999: The Wrecking Crew jako Chewy
 2000: True Vinyl jako Nite Owl
 2000: Mistrz przekrętu jako Zeke
 2001: Terrorysta jako T.J.
 2001: MC Hammer: Prawdziwa historia (TV) jako MC Hammer
 2001: The Château jako Allen Granville
 2002: Smoking jako Mitch
 2002: White Boy jako Mike Robinson
 2004: Wojak Churchill
 2005: 40-letni prawiczek jako Jay
 2007: Ostrza chwały jako Jesse
 2008: Mama do wynajęcia jako Oscar Priyan
 2008: Guru miłości jako Darren Roanoke
 2010: Podróże Guliwera jako młody Hank
 2011: Odrobina nieba jako Peter Cooper
 2012: Myśl jak facet jako Zeke
 2012: Last Vegas jako Lonnie
 2014: Myśl jak facet 2 jako Zeke

seriale TV
 1998: Dotyk anioła jako Bulldog
 1998: Kocham tylko ciebie jako Frank "Heavyhands" Cato
 2000-2001: Poziom 9 jako Jerry Hooten
 2003: Mów mi swatka jako Master Z
 2005–2008, 2012: Trawka jako Conrad Shepard
 2006: Amerykański tata jako Skittle/Refugee/Hot Rod (głos)
 2009: Znudzony na śmierć jako gej
 2010-2011: Zwykła/niezwykła rodzinka jako George St. Cloud
 2011: Żona idealna jako Justin Coyne
 2015–2016: Pogadanki Blunta jako Bob Gardner
 2015–2016: Wściekłe psy jako Gus
 2018: A Million Little Things jako Rome Howard

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańscy aktorzy dubbingowi
Amerykańscy aktorzy filmowi
Amerykańscy aktorzy głosowi
Amerykańscy aktorzy telewizyjni
Amerykańscy producenci filmowi
Amerykańscy producenci telewizyjni
Amerykańscy raperzy
Amerykańscy reżyserzy filmowi
Amerykańscy reżyserzy telewizyjni
Amerykańscy scenarzyści XXI wieku
Ludzie urodzeni w Brooklynie
Urodzeni w 1968
Amerykanie pochodzenia trynidadzkiego

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National Whistleblower Center Supports Improvements to IRS Whistleblower Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. | June 15, 2021— Today, Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act of 2021, a bipartisan bill that would ensure the integrity of our nation's tax system by strengthening and improving the IRS Tax Whistleblower Program.
The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) strongly supports the introduction of this bill and Congress' efforts to stop tax fraud and protect whistleblowers. By introducing these important reforms to the successful IRS whistleblower awards program, Congress will provide a safer avenue for whistleblowers who wish to come forward to report evidence of tax fraud.
"NWC commends Senator Grassley and Chairman Wyden for their bipartisan leadership in championing these much-needed reforms for the IRS whistleblower program. NWC has long called for improvements in the IRS whistleblower program and is extremely pleased to see today's legislation introduced. We are hopeful that the bill will be included in any IRS tax administration legislation considered by the Congress this year. Tax whistleblowers often put much at risk to report major tax frauds, helping the government recover millions. It is vital that our country has laws that properly protect and award these whistleblowers for their courage and willingness to come forward," said Siri Nelson, NWC Executive Director.
"As Congress and the Administration are looking to address the tax gap – improving the IRS whistleblower program must be a key part of that strategy. Study after study has made it clear that supporting and encouraging whistleblowers is vital to the government's efforts to uncover fraud. The improvements to the IRS whistleblower program contained in the Grassley/Wyden legislation will take this from a star program to an all-star program in the fight against tax cheats," said Stephen M. Kohn, NWC Board Chairman.
The reforms to the IRS Whistleblower Program put forward in this bill include:
Provide for De Novo Review of whistleblower decisions in Tax Court;
Remove sequestration of whistleblower awards;
Impose interest on whistleblower awards that are subject to significant delay;
Dedicated funding for the whistleblower office;
Assume anonymity for whistleblowers appealing to Tax Court;
Add clarification on deduction of attorney's fees; and
Improve annual report to provide greater information on tax evasion to the Congress and the public.
"Tax whistleblowers will be heartened by these improvements which will encourage more knowledgeable and informed tax whistleblowers to come forward. Strengthening the IRS whistleblower program must be part of any serious effort to deal with the tax gap. The IRS whistleblower program has brought in billions of dollars in revenue – far more than was expected when enacted in 2006. However, with these proposed improvements coupled with expansion of IRS examination, the IRS whistleblower program can bring in billions more – directly through examination and indirectly through improved taxpayer compliance. These proposed improvements to the IRS whistleblower program are good news for tax whistleblowers, great news for honest American taxpayers and bad news for tax cheats," said Dean Zerbe, NWC Senior Analyst and tax whistleblower attorney at Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav.
Whistleblowers have assisted the IRS in collecting over $6 billion from wealthy individuals and companies that were not in compliance with tax laws. However, there has been a clear need for updating the law to ensure tax whistleblowers are protected. In July 2020, NWC wrote to the Senate Finance Committee and House Committee on Ways and Meansrequesting the committee members adopt similar reform measures.
For more information, please contact Nick Younger at nick.younger@whistleblowers.org.


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November 2016 - Alexandra Sinks Final Putt to Win Junior Players Champ
Alexandra Rock, a 12 year old from Prague, holed a 15 foot putt on the final green to win the 2016 Stonham Junior Players Championship with a great score of 32 (3 over par). Alex who lives in Prague, is a member of Podebrady Golf Club and amazingly now has a current handicap of nine, had to hole her par putt on the last green to achieve the outright win. In second place was 11 year old Sawyer Osbourn from Lakenheath Golf Club who scored a 33 (4 over par)
This event started at Stonham Barns in 2001 and has been played every year since. A number of previous winners have gone on to become county players and even England internationals. In addition to rewarding the winners one of the main aims of these events is to encourage players of all standards to come along and enjoy playing some golf and it was really great to see some of the players who did not have their best game still smiling and enjoying their golf.
On a fantastically sunny November day there were players ranging from 6 years old (Michael Kirk) to 14 years old (Matthew Albon). There were four age categories. The winner of the Under 8 was Sebastian Kubitzek who scored a 38. The Under 10's was won by last year's champion, Charlie Goodridge, which score a 40. The Under 12's was won by Sawyer Osbourn with a 33 and the Under 15's was won by the overall winner Alexandra Rock.
This event was played using larger 8' golf holes and Stonham Barns Golf is actively promoting Big HOLE Golf which was developed by Murray Blair in Australia. The concept is now becoming popular all over the world as a way of getting increased participation into golf – QUICKER ROUNDS – MAKES GOLF FUN – HAVE LESS PUTTS. For more information on Big HOLE Golf kits contact Stonham Barns Golf on 01449 711545 or visit their website pagewww.stonhambarnsgolf.co.uk/big-hole-golf.
October 2016 - Sawyer's Record Score Wins Junior Big HOLE Golf Event
Sawyer Osborn, an 11 year old from Lakenheath Golf Club won the Stonham Barns October Junior Golf Tournament with a record best score of 28, that's one under par. Sawyer is a regular at the Stonham Barns Junior events and this amazing round was 4 shots better than his previous best round. With the calm conditions a number of players had their best ever rounds. Stonham Barns player and the Under 15 winner, Adam Scott scored a 33, (4 over par), which was 5 shots better that his previous best round! 10 year old Sophie Kubitzek, the Under 10 winner equalled her best score of 32 and her 8 year old brother Sebastian Kubitzek scored his best score of 32. Both of them are members of Bury St Edmunds Golf Club
September 2016 - Ryan Turnbull has best score of the day - 28
Well done to Ryan Turnbull (Under 15 Winner) on one of the best scores over the Stonham barns 9 hole course, a 28, one under par. Other notable score were from Sawyer Osbourn, 32 (Under 12 Winner), Sebastian Kubitzek, 33 (Under 8 Winner) and Kyran Lewin with his best score of 39 (Under 10 Winner).
August 2016 - 10 Year Old Sophie from Bury has best score of the day
Brother and Sister win the August Stonham Barns Junior Golf Competition. 10 Year old Sophie Kubitzek and her 8 Year Old brother Sebastian won the U10 and U8 Age Categories with scores of 32 (3 over par) and 37 (8 over par) respectively.
JUNE 2016 - East Anglian Under 12 Junior Golf Championship
Charlie Goodridge won the 16th East Anglian U12 Junior Golf Championship by one shot from Alexandra Rock and Henry Meadows. In a close fought event 9 year old Charlie scored 64 (6 over par) over 18 holes around the Stonham Barns course.
In 2nd place were 12 year old Alexandra Rock from Prague and 10 year old Henry Meadows from Fynn Valley Golf Club, who both score a 65 (7 over par). Alexandra from Podebrady Golf Club in Prague was leading after 9 holes and just missed out with a bogey, bogey finish to her round. Henry was the 2015 champion and made an excellent effort in his bid to retain the title.
MAY 2016 - Charlie Wins Stonham Junior Flag Tournament
9 year old Charlie Goodridge amazed us all by reaching the 12th fairway having played his first nine holes in level par 29. He was a clear winner in the U10 age category. The Under 8's was won by Ryan Daley, a 7 year old from Stonham Barns who reached the 8th green. The U12's was won by Sawyer Osbourn, an 11 year old from Lakenheath reaching the 9th green and the U15's was won by 13 year old Soloman Westmancott from Stonham Barns who also reached the 9th green.
APRIL 2016 - 9 Yr Old Henry Wins April Stonham Junior Golf Tournament
Well done to 9 year old Henry Meadows from Fynn Valley Golf Club on winning the Stonham Barns April Junior Tournament with an excellent score of 32 (3 over par). This was the best score of the day and Henry was the winner of the Under 10 Age Category. Henry had a close game with his playing partner, 9 year old Charlie Goodridge, who was only one behind with 3 holes to play but a blistering finish of 2,3,3 (1 under par) by Henry gave him a 4 shot winning margin.
The Under 12 Age Category was won by Sawyer Osborne, an 11 year old from Lakenheath Golf Club, with the second best score of the day, 32 (4 over par). The Under 8 Age Category was won by Ryan Daley, a 7 yr old player from Stonham Barns, with a score of 52.
It was great to see four of the Stonham Barns Junior Academy players have a go for the first time and well done to Rupert Newman, Joshua Newman, Ethan Lewin and Kyran Lewin.
Pettaugh Road, Stonham Aspal
Suffolk IP14 6AT
Tel 01449 711545
Located north of Ipswich on the A1120 Tourist Route
sales@stonhambarnsgolf.co.uk


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Unter Lichtkontrast versteht man in der Fotografie den Helligkeitsunterschied in der Beleuchtung eines Motivs (siehe auch Lichtführung). Die Messung des Lichtkontrastes kann durch Belichtungsmesser erfolgen, die für die Lichtmessung geeignet sind.

Ein Lichtkontrast entsteht immer dann, wenn die Beleuchtung eines Motivs ungleichmäßig ist. Dies kann zum Beispiel der Unterschied zwischen der dem Licht zugewandten und der lichtabgewandten Seite eines Objektes sein. Auch Unterschiede in der Entfernung eines Motivs von der Lichtquelle führen zu einem Lichtkontrast (z. B. die räumliche Tiefe einer mit dem Kamerablitz aufgehellten Szene).

Siehe auch
 Objektkontrast
 Motivkontrast

Fotopraxis


European equity markets had a quiet session.
The FTSE 100 and DAX were essentially flat on the day while the FTSEMIB finished higher. The feel good factor in relation to the US and China was still doing the rounds. On Wednesday, it was reported that Chinese state owned companies had a least 500,000 tons of US soybean – its first major shipment in six months. Dealers viewed this as a sign that the frosty relationship was beginning to thaw.
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates on hold – meeting expectations The central bank has confirmed the bond buying scheme will finish this year, and that marks the end this particular form of stimulus. In a way, it shows show far the eurozone economy has come. Mario Draghi, the head of the ECB issued a statement that was little on the soft side. Mr Draghi, lowered the growth forecast and cautioned that the 'risk is moving to the downside'. The euro came under pressure on the back of the statement.
The session was mixed in New York last night with the Dow Jones finishing slightly in positive territory, while the S&P 500 ended the session fractionally lower.
Overnight, China announced a number of economic indicators. The fixed asset investment reading was 5.9%, and economists were expecting 5.8%. The industrial output came in at 5.4%, while dealers were expecting 5.9%. Economists were predicting an increase of 8.8% for retail sales and it came in at 8.1%. Investors were spooked by the largely disappointing numbers, and there was a sell-off in Asian markets over night.
The firmer US dollar hurt gold as the commodity has enjoyed a strong inverse relationship with the currency recently. Gold has been has been staging a comeback since August, and if the positive move continues it might target the $1,265 region.
Theresa May is trying to get some wiggle room on the Irish backstop, and that is one of the major hurdles she must overcome in order to get her withdrawal agreement passed. Mrs May survived the confidence vote, but her current deal is still deeply unpopular. Sterling held onto much of the gain it made on Wednesday which is impressive.
At 8.15am (UK time) France will announce its flash manufacturing PMI and services PMI reports and dealers are expecting 50.7 and 54.8 respectively. Germany will reveal its flash manufacturing PMI and services PMI reports, and the consensus estimate is 52 and 53.4 respectively.
US retail sales will be reported at 1.30pm (UK time) and dealers are expecting 0.2%.
GBP/USD – bullish engulfing might see a move back toward 1.3000. Another move lower might bring 1.2365 into play.
EUR/GBP – the bearish engulfing might drive the market to the 200-day moving average at 0.8838. If the wider rally continues, it might target 0.9100.


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George Chua: Get in touch with Transportify
Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) President George Chua wrote in his Business Mirror Online column an article titled Transporitify which discussed the on-demand delivery app in general.
In his article, Chua stated that he came to know about Transportify Philippines through Bloomberg TV's television show Bright Ideas, where the said logistics service provider was featured in one of its episodes. Watching the interview and hearing the details about Transportify, Chua came to realize that the Transportify app is a great idea to revolutionize the logistics industry in the country with affordable courier and delivery services.
Chua went on to discuss the different advantages of the logistics support app, including how "everyone is a winner" with Transportify. Chua wrote:
"Customers, driver/operators, and even logistics companies all benefit from this delivery-service app. Maximizing the efficient use of resources enables everyone to profit from this arrangement, which is really nothing more than a customer placing a delivery request on the Transportify app which is then broadcast to the registered drivers who then respond to pick up and deliver the package or packages, which includes furniture, appliances and other goods."
The FPI President also mentioned how Transportify was able to help numerous local entrepreneurs from small, to medium, to big businesses as a third-party logistics partner, commonly known as a 3PL partner. Chua even ended the article by encouraging his readers to consider using Transportify.
"If you are looking to become an entrepreneur or simply need a better way to make your deliveries, get in touch with Transportify…" Chua stated.
Business Mirror Online is the digital and online version of Business Mirror, a daily business newspaper in the Philippines. The publication focuses on news concerning the country's economy and commerce.
George Chua is also the chief executive officer of Bayan Automotive Industries Corporation and the host of Global News Network's Usapang Bayan. You may read his Business Mirror article about Transportify here.


I have 2 beautiful vintage (yet modern looking!) stainless steel Thermador pieces from the 1950s. I bought these appliances in the last month or 2 from people who said the units were working fine up until they took them out of their homes. I didn't have a chance to check them (b/c they were never installed), because I just found a Frigidaire Flair instead.
Located near downtown Los Angeles in El Sereno (close to the 710 x 10 freeways).
Please email csim@cra.lacity.org with questions, appointments to view.


I don't get a lot of high end models like the Collings D3 through from Bill Collings, but when I do I'm always bowled over by the classically understated aesthetic … the jet black bound fingerboard with no face markers (just the all important side dots) … the bound Brazilian rosewood peghead highlighted with gold plated Waverlys … just a hint of flash with the premium Paua shell rosette … BOY this thing looks good!
After I get over the shock of how authoritative this instrument sounds when playing aggressive rhythm work I can really start to appreciate just how solid sounding the trebles on Bill's guitars are. That is not a particularly easy feat when making a dreadnought, believe me. This dreadnought has the entire package, the required gale-force low end, that wonderful dry woody traditional midrange register and trebles that will slice through a fiddle like a hot knife through warm butter!!!


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Dean Briar
CAMBRIDGE CITY- Dea n Briar, 65, of rural Cambridge City, passed away Friday December 2, 2016 at I.U. Ball Hospital in Muncie. A son of the late Ivan "Bill" and Helen P. (Innis) Briar, Dean was born in New Castle, Indiana on October 18, 1951. He was a graduate of Tri High School with the class of 1970. Dean was a farmer and worked the land in Henry, Fayette and Wayne counties. He was proud to have been able to teach his grandson to operate the combine during this year's harvest. Dean loved to spend time with his family and friends. He was a member of the Afternoon Coffee Club.
Survivors include 2 sons, Kevin (Gina) Briar of Straughn and Adam (Missy) Briar of Greens Fork; 4 grandchildren, Jimmy, Amanda, Joe and Courtney; 1 brother, David (Kathy) Briar of Connersville.
Dean was preceded in death by his wife, the former Diana Jo "Jody" Marshall, on March 10, 2015. They were married at the Ebenezer Church on June 17, 1972. An infant brother also precedes him in death.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday December 8, 2016 at the Marshall & Erlewein Funeral Home, Dublin. Burial will follow at the Brick Cemetery south of Hagerstown. Visitation will be at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. on Wednesday December 7th.
Memorial Contributions can be made to the Dean and Jody Briar Scholarship Fund c/o Henry County Foundation- P.O. Box 6006 / New Castle, IN 47362.


projekt w recently worked with the Slotervaart Medical Center in Amsterdam to provide the safety of the seven level parking facility. The car park is now equipped with INTEGRA 943 safety barriers for people and car crash protection.
The 1,200 bay car park caters to both visitors and staff and is a high traffic area. With the INTEGRA safety barriers, pedestrians and drivers can ensure their safety when parking and navigating inside the car park. The car park for the Slotervaart Medical Center is also equipped with additional bamboo cladding to maintain the aesthetic feel of the car park.
The INTEGRA safety barriers offer decisive technical, economic and sustainable advantages to other barriers such as greater compatibility with car park manufacturers and a better aesthetic result. In addition, the safety barriers guarantee that, in case of a crash, the load will be relieved into the substructure provided by the customer ensuring the safety of the overall parking structure.
For this project, projekt w worked together with the Ballast Nedam Parking construction company and the architects at De Jong Gortemaker Algra architecten en ingenieurs B.V.
projekt w was founded on 1984 and is located in central Germany and specializes in safety barriers and urban system housings. We have set ourselves the task of integrating our products harmoniously to new and existing urban housing and parking structures. The INTEGRA product portfolio replaces conventional systems such as concrete parapets or guardrails and meets applicable European and US standards.
Ballast Nedam Parking is a fully owned operating company of the Dutch Civil Engineering and General Building Contractor Ballast Nedam N.V., a renowned Dutch listed company, offering an extensive package of construction-related products and services. The company, established in 1877, ranks among the top-five Dutch construction groups. Ballast Nedam aims to set itself apart by undertaking high-profile construction projects, based on a high degree of knowledge and expertise. At all levels in the organisation, commitment, quality, expertise, reliability and flexibility vis-a-vis the client are the key.


An extremely busy day to finish the month!
BNA.PR.B SplitShare -4.3478% Asset coverage of 4.0:1 according to the company. Pre-tax bid-YTW now 6.90% based on a bid of 22.00 and a hardMaturity 2016-3-25 at 25.00.
LBS.PR.A SplitShare -1.1765% Asset coverage of 2.4+:1 as of November 29, according to Brompton. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.26% based on a bid of 10.08 and a hardMaturity 2013-11-29 at 10.08.
ELF.PR.G PerpetualDiscount -1.1696% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.16% based on a bid of 16.90 and a limitMaturity.
BNA.PR.C SplitShare -1.0932% Asset coverage of 4.0:1 according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.62% based on a bid of 19.00 and a hardMaturity 2019-1-10 at 25.00.
WFS.PR.A SplitShare +1.1213% Asset coverage of 1.9+:1 as of November 22, according to Mulvihill. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.82% based on a bid of 9.92 and a hardMaturity 2011-6-30 at 10.00.
FIG.PR.A InterestBearing +1.1518% Asset coverage of 2.1+:1 as of November 28, according to Faircourt. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.11% (mostly as interest) based on a bid of 9.66 and a hardMaturity 2014-12-31 at 10.00.
POW.PR.D PerpetualDiscount +1.1526% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.78% based on a bid of 21.94 and a limitMaturity.
BNS.PR.M PerpetualDiscount +1.2013% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.41% based on a bid of 21.06 and a limitMaturity.
CIU.PR.A PerpetualDiscount +1.2195% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.58% based on a bid of 20.75 and a limitMaturity.
NA.PR.L PerpetualDiscount +1.4829% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.97% based on a bid of 20.53 and a limitMaturity.
IAG.PR.A PerpetualPremium +1.7632% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.70% based on a bid of 20.20 and a limitMaturity.
NA.PR.K PerpetualDiscount +1.9311% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.07% based on a bid of 24.28 and a limitMaturity.
BSD.PR.A InterestBearing +2.2774% Asset coverage of just under 1.7:1 as of November 23, 2007, according to Brookfield Funds. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.21% based on a bid of 9.88 and a hardMaturity 2015-3-31.
FFN.PR.A SplitShare +2.5961% Asset coverage of 2.3:1 as of November 15, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.77% based on a bid of 22.50 and a limitMaturity.
FTU.PR.A SplitShare +2.6667% Asset coverage of 1.8+:1 as of November 15, according to . Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.12% based on a bid of 9.24 and a hardMaturity 2012-12-1 at 10.00.
IQW.PR.C Scraps (would be OpRet, but there are credit concerns) 456,020 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 209.05% (annualized!) based on a bid of 17.80 and a softMaturity 2008-2-29 at 25.00. But don't count on it!
PWF.PR.E PerpetualDiscount 221,500 Scotia crossed 200,000 at 24.71. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.57% based on a bid of 24.62 and a limitMaturity.
TD.PR.P PerpetualDiscount 142,760 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.43% based on a bid of 24.42 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.W PerpetualDiscount 69,809 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.46% based on a bid of 22.58 and a limitMaturity.
GWO.PR.H PerpetualDiscount 54,830 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.69% based on a bid of 21.35 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.D PerpetualDiscount 54,830 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.45% based on a bid of 20.80 and a limitMaturity.
There were seventy-four other index-included $25.00-equivalent issues trading over 10,000 shares today.
it has called 10,584 Preferred Shares for cash redemption on December 14, 2007 representing approximately 0.4% of the outstanding Preferred Shares as a result of holders of 10,584 Capital Shares exercising their special annual retraction rights. The Preferred Shares shall be redeemed on a pro rata basis, so that holders of record of Preferred Shares on the close of business on December 13, 2007 will have approximately 0.5% of their Preferred Shares redeemed. The redemption price for the Preferred Shares will be $25.00 per share. Holders of Preferred Shares that have been called for redemption will be entitled to receive dividends thereon which have been declared but remain unpaid up to and including December 14, 2007.
In addition, holders of a further 91,096 Preferred and Capital Shares have deposited such shares concurrently for retraction on December 14, 2007. As a result, a total of 101,680 Preferred and Capital Shares, or approximately 4.3% of both classes of shares currently outstanding will be redeemed.
Payment of the amount due to retracting shareholders will be made by the Company on December 14, 2007. From and after December 15, 2007 the holders of Preferred Shares that have been called for redemption will not be entitled to dividends or to exercise any right in respect of such shares except to receive the amount due on redemption.
BIG.PR.A is not tracked by HIMIPref™.
it has called 1,350,696 Preferred Shares for cash redemption on December 14, 2007 representing approximately 10% of the outstanding Preferred Shares as a result of holders of 1,350,696 Capital Shares exercising their special annual retraction rights. The Preferred Shares shall be redeemed on a pro rata basis, so that holders of record of Preferred Shares on the close of business on December 13, 2007 will have approximately 10% of their Preferred Shares redeemed. The redemption price for the Preferred Shares will be $10.00 per share. Holders of Preferred Shares that have been called for redemption will be entitled to receive dividends thereon which have been declared but remain unpaid up to and including December 14, 2007.
In addition, holders of a further 585,270 Preferred and Capital Shares have deposited such shares concurrently for retraction on December 14, 2007. As a result, a total of 1,935,966 Preferred and Capital Shares, or approximately 14% of both classes of shares currently outstanding will be redeemed.
FBS.PR.B is tracked by HIMIPref™ with the securityCode A29001. It is currently included in the HIMIPref™ SplitShare Index. It is also currently included in the S&P/TSX Preferred Share Index but will be removed in January.
Last January, the company very proudly announced the underwriters' greenshoe had been exercised … sic transit gloria mundi.
Royal Bank has released its Fourth Quarter, 2007, Report and Supplementary Information; I will analyze this in the same format as was has been recently done for NA, BMO and TD.
Items D & F are my calculations.
We can now show the all important Risk-Weighted Asset Ratios!
Note that, as with all banks examined thus far, the Equity/RWA ratio and Tier 1 Ratio have both deteriorated over the year, but for NA and RY the Total Capital Ratio has also declined. RY's Subordinated Debt outstanding has been fairly constant over the past year, although $1-billion-odd of direct subordinated debt has been replaced with "Trust Subordinated Notes". These are described in RY's Second Quarter 2007 Report – seems to me that RY was able to get away with an extraordinarily low rate of interest on them – about 5bp over 7.5 year deposit notes, as far as I can make out.
It is disappointing to see the deterioration in the Equity/RWA ratio over the year – I consider this to be a measure of the safety of the preferred shares, as it is the "total risk" of the bank's assets (as defined by the regulators) divided by the value of capital junior to preferreds (which therefore takes the first loss). It is by no means anything to lose a lot of sleep over, as it still remains strong – the preferreds are better protected than the sub-debt of a lot of global banks – but … geez, the direction's wrong!
I won't discuss the annual results to any great extent – there will be innumerable reports over the next few months released by analysts with a great deal more time to spend on the matter than I have.
Well … today the TD Bank and National Bank financials were analyzed … and, in addition, month-end is a-coming and duty calls with a shrill, unpleasant voice.
So there won't be much colour today.
American ABCP outstanding was down another $11-billion this week, continuing its decline as the overleveraged economy continues to unwind. Domestic Financial CP outstanding was up $25-billion; although this figure has not picked up all the slack since the peak, this illustrates the Banks Advantage in Cushioning Liquidity Shocks.
It wasn't decided how long the suspension would last. The trustees meet again on Dec. 4.
"We're getting a lot of calls," said Mike McCauley, the spokesman for the State Board of Administration.
The Florida pool crisis is a sign of poor risk management by state officials, said Harvey Pitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mr. Pitt did not disclose his own track-record as a money manager. His criticisms are the kind that really drive me wild – post-hoc criticisms of fund managers by guys who've never done it. It's very easy to be wise after the fact.
The big danger is that such public funds will eventually migrate to nothing riskier than three-month T-Bills; why would a trustee allow anything else if he's going to be vilified whenever he's wrong on something?
Executives of Canada's biggest pension fund agreed after careful study that what constituted a crisis was open to interpretation, but believed the financial institutions would honour their commitments, he said under questioning at the provincial legislature's public finance committee.
Way to go, M. Rousseau! I have no idea whether you're a good or bad manager, either of people or of money, but at least you know the right things to say – and on this occasion, when things have gone wrong, you're willing to wear it. My own question is, regardless of whether or not it was prudent to have $13-billion out of total Caisse assets of $207-billion in Canadian ABCP, was it prudent to have $13-billion in a $35-billion asset class? M. Rousseau's full remarks have been published by the Caisse. He points out that while liquidity is a problem, the credit quality is entirely acceptable. I will confess that I haven't even checked to see what proportion of the entire Money Market portfolio was comprised of ABCP, or what the investment rationale behind the MM allocation might have been.
The US bond market is on fire, with a buying panic and lots of corporate issuance; Bernanke seems to be guiding the market to expect an ease.
Another day of good volume for preferreds, with some evidence of rationalization of prices, although overall performance wasn't all that great. Split shares had a great day, but are still basically clobbered on the month, while floaters are getting hit … trouble is, it's hard to separate the company specifics (BAM & BCE) from the asset types. Still, that's what makes it fun, right?
FTU.PR.A SplitShare -2.7027% Asset coverage of 1.8+:1 as of November 15, according to the company. Pre-tax bid-YTW now 7.74% based on a bid of 9.00 and a hardMaturity 2012-12-1 at 10.00.
MST.PR.A InterestBearing -2.2287% Asset coverage of 2.1+:1 as of November 22, according to Sentry Select. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.49% (as interest net of capital loss) based on a bid of 10.09 and a hardMaturity 2009-9-30 at 10.00.
CIU.PR.A PerpetualDiscount -1.4423% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.65% based on a bid of 20.50 and a limitMaturity.
WFS.PR.A SplitShare +1.0299% Asset coverage of 1.9+:1 as of November 22, according to Mulvihill. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.17% based on a bid of 9.81 and a hardMaturity 2011-6-30 at 10.00.
FIG.PR.A InterestBearing +1.0582% Asset coverage of 2.1+:1 as of November 28, according to Faircourt. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.31% (mostly as interest) based on a bid of 9.55 and a hardMaturity 2014-12-31 at 10.00.
CM.PR.I PerpetualDiscount +1.1158% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.46% based on a bid of 21.75 and a limitMaturity.
BNA.PR.A SplitShare +1.1779% Asset coverage of just under 4.0:1 according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.38% based on a bid of 24.91 and a hardMaturity 2010-9-30 at 25.00.
SBN.PR.A SplitShare +1.2333% Asset coverage of just under 2.3:1 as of November 22, according to Mulvihill. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.57% based on a bid of 9.85 and a hardMaturity 2014-12-1 at 10.00.
PWF.PR.K PerpetualDiscount +1.2785% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.64% based on a bid of 22.18 and a limitMaturity.
GWO.PR.F PerpetualPremium +1.4293% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.07% based on a bid of 25.80 and a limitMaturity.
LFE.PR.A SplitShare +1.4851% Asset coverage of 2.6+:1 as of November 15, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.70% based on a bid of 10.25 and a hardMaturity 2012-12-1 at 10.00.
CL.PR.B PerpetualPremium +1.5082% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of -0.49% based on a bid of 25.90 and a call 2007-12-31 at 25.75. A negative yield-to-worst! It's been a while since we've seen that … will it be called soon, now that GWO has some money in hand?
NA.PR.K PerpetualDiscount +1.5345% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.19% based on a bid of 23.82 and a limitMaturity.
HSB.PR.C PerpetualDiscount +2.2727% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.77% based on a bid of 22.50 and a limitMaturity.
BNA.PR.C SplitShare +2.4533% Asset coverage of just under 4.0:1 as of October 31, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.48% based on a bid of 19.21 and a hardMaturity 2019-1-10 at 25.00. Another long awaited good day – but not as good as yesterday!
HSB.PR.D PerpetualDiscount +2.5846% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.83% based on a bid of 21.83 and a limitMaturity.
BNA.PR.B SplitShare +8.4906% Whoosh! When it goes, it goes! Asset coverage of just under 4.0:1 as of October 31, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.22% based on a bid of 23.00 and a hardMaturity 2016-3-25 at 25.00. All three BNA issues had super days today; the yield on this one may be compared with BNA.PR.A (6.38% to 2010-9-30) and BNA.PR.C (7.48% to 2019-1-10).
BCE.PR.C FixFloat 69,400 Three Macs bought 50,000 from DS at 24.80.
BMO.PR.J PerpetualDiscount 68,715 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.51% based on a bid of 20.55 and a limitMaturity.
BAM.PR.N PerpetualDiscount 65,710 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.96% based on a bid of 17.45 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.B PerpetualDiscount 52,655 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.44% based on a bid of 21.68 and a limitMaturity.
MFC.PR.C PerpetualDiscount 48,100 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.37% based on a bid of 21.00 and a limitMaturity.
There were forty-one other index-included $25.00-equivalent issues trading over 10,000 shares today.
National Bank has released its Fourth Quarter, 2007, Report and Supplementary Information; I will analyze this in the same format as was has been recently done for BMO and TD.
Note that, as with BMO and TD, the Equity/RWA ratio and Tier 1 Ratio have both deteriorated over the year, but for NA the Total Capital Ratio has also declined. Subordinated Debt outstanding has declined over the past year.
Update: An Assiduous Reader pointed out, with great charm and delicacy, that I am a bonehead. My initial attempt to calculate "Equity Capital" in the "Issuance Capacity" table was incorrect, as I did not include non-controlling interest in my first go-round. This adjustment has now been made. The source data are in the table "Risk-Adjusted Capital Ratios", page 16 of the Supplementary.
TD has released its Fourth Quarter Report and Supplementary Information; I will analyze this in the same format as was recently done for BMO.
The Bank's non-controlling interests in subsidiaries as at April 30, 2007 declined $2.4 billion from October 31, 2006 due to the privatization of TD Banknorth in the current quarter.
Items (E) and (F) need a little explanation. The decline in preferreds outstanding is due to the redemption of $344-million worth of preferred shares issued by TD Mortgage Investment Corporation, mentioned in Note 12 of the 2006 Annual Report. The post-Y/E issuance is TD.PR.P, which settled November 1, subsequent to year-end.
Of the $974-million outstanding, $350-million is TD.PR.M and $200-million is TD.PR.N. Both are retractibles, but have been grandfathered by OSFI such that they count towards Tier 1 Capital. I do not have the details of the grandfathering, but given that they both carry coupons less than the TD.PR.P retractible – which is in turn less than what a new issue would carry – we can expect the two retractibles to stay on TD's books for quite a while.
Note that, as with BMO, the Equity/RWA ratio and Tier 1 Ratio have both deteriorated over the year, while the Total Capital Ratio has remained constant. This is largely due to an increase in the amount of Subordinated Debt, which is junior to deposits, but senior to Tier 1 Capital.
Andre Hardy – RBC Capital Markets – Analyst Just a few numbers questions, Colleen, to start with. You usually provide us with a tangible equity ratio as well in your presentation, so could you please update us on that? And as well, where would that Tier 1 capital ratio be under Basel II?
Colleen Johnston – TD Bank Financial Group – CFO So you had a number of questions, Andre. Why don't I start with the Basel II scenario? I think it's probably a little premature at this time to comment on Basel II. We're still going through the process around with OSFI in terms of risk-weighted assets in the new regime which will obviously take effect in Q1 of 2008. And you're well aware of then the deferral that we have in terms of the TDA deduction from Tier 1. So we're not going to talk about Basel II today.
Update: The expected Tier 1 Capital Ratio is announced in the October 2 Presentation, page 5, slide 10. Oops!
Credit rating agencies have lost the trust of investors following the recent meltdown in commercial paper markets, leading to a "systemic shock" in capital markets, a former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday.
Arthur Levitt, who led the SEC between 1993 and 2001, told an Ontario Securities Commission conference yesterday the rating agencies are deeply conflicted because they take money from companies to rate their securities, and also offer them consulting services.
He said regulators must examine the conflicts of interest that "plague" rating agencies. Beyond simply prohibiting them from doing additional consulting work for companies they rate, he said the SEC should be given more authority to regulate agencies.
And, we're talking with credit rating agencies that do business in Canada.
• the transparency of the assets held and leverage embedded in these structured product vehicles.
Wilson's remarks are reasonable enough (a regulator should certainly have some vague idea of what's happening in capital markets!), but the fact that they invited Levitt to speak at their showcase event is more than just a little odd.
It's worrisome. Same old story. If there's one thing that drives a regulator crazy, it's the thought that somebody, somewhere, is not filling out a form. To address this issue, the agencies should hire some staff away from the regulators at, say, $200,000 p.a. + benefits, and get some of that good old revolving door regulation going – just like RS is so proud of.
Note that the sawtooth pattern for the Euribor rate is due to anticipation of well-telegraphed policy increases.
Florida local governments and school districts pulled $8 billion out of a state-run investment pool, or 30 percent of its assets, after learning that the money- market fund contained more than $700 million of defaulted debt.
The Florida pool, which was the largest of its kind in the U.S. at $27 billion before the recent spate of withdrawals, has invested $2 billion in SIVs and other subprime-tainted debt, state records show. Connecticut, Maine, Montana and King County, Washington, are among other governments holding similar investments, in smaller quantities.
The Florida pool's $900 million of defaulted asset-backed commercial paper now amounts to almost 5 percent of its holdings. The paper, which carried top ratings from Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings as recently as August, was downgraded after declines in the value of collateral affected by the subprime mortgage slump.
I've had a look at the State Board's 2005-06 Investment Report, an extremely glossy puff-piece with little worthwhile investment reporting, but there is a description of the fund in question.
reduce the need to impose additional taxes.
It will be most interesting to see how this pans out!
Single-family home sales were unchanged from September at the seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.37 million in October, and are 20.8 percent below 5.52 million-unit level in October 2006. The median existing single-family home price was $205,700 in October, down 6.3 percent from a year ago.
Existing condominium and co-op sales fell 9.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 600,000 units in October from 660,000 in September, but are 20.2 percent below the 752,000-unit pace in October 2006. The median existing condo price4 was $223,500 in October, up 4.9 percent from a year ago.
I love the handy little arrow they added, to ensure we didn't look at the chart upside-down or something. They also provided a round-up of commentary.
So, here's the problem: discount lending requires discretionary evaluations based on incomplete information during a crisis. Deposit insurance is a set of pre-announced rules. The lesson I take away from this is that if you want to stop bank runs – and I think we all do – rules are better.
This all leads us to thinking more carefully about how to design deposit insurance. Here, we have quite a bit of experience. As is always the case, the details matter and not all schemes are created equal. A successful deposit-insurance system – one that insulates a commercial bank's retail customers from financial crisis – has a number of essential elements. Prime among them is the ability of supervisors to close preemptively an institution prior to insolvency. This is what, in the United States, is called 'prompt corrective action," and it is part of the detailed regulatory and supervisory apparatus that must accompany deposit insurance.
In addition to this, there is a need for quick resolution that leaves depositors unaffected. Furthermore, since deposit insurance is about keeping depositors from withdrawing their balances, there must be a mechanism whereby institutions can be closed in a way that depositors do not notice. At its peak, during the clean-up of the US savings and loan crisis, American authorities were closing depository institutions at a rate in excess of 2 per working day – and they were doing it without any disruption to individuals' access to their deposit balances.
Returning to my conclusion, I will reiterate that the current episode makes clear that a well-designed rules-based deposit insurance scheme should be the first step in protecting the banking system from future financial crises.
I quite agree with him. The Northern Rock episode – discussed in the context of deposit insurance on October 18, shows that politicians – and, by contagion, government sponsored departments – have squandered the trust placed in them. There have been too many broken promises, too many excuses. Additionally, it is completely unreasonable to expect small retail depositors to monitor the health of their friendly neighborhood bank, particularly at the height of a crisis. Banks should be supported by government sponsored deposit insurance as a social good; in exchange, they must pay insurance premiums based on their risk and submit to regulation of their capital adequacy.
The recent crisis is showing us that there is some cause for concern that this inner fortress of stability may not have been insulated enough from the outer, much less regulated, ring of the general capital markets; but I feel confident that the gnomes of Basel will be reviewing their stress tests over the next few years to account for new ways around the rules. As I mentioned on October 3, guarantees of liquidity and credit, particularly, need to be charged to risk-weighted assets at a higher rate. The default assumption must be that if the bank's name is on a product – or if the bank is profitting from the product's existence – then the risk of the product should be consolidated onto the bank's books.
People invest in these things because of the banks' reputations. The bank has a good name due largely due to regulation and deposit insurance. When – not if – a product fails, the banks' reputation is harmed. Therefore, regulation should not pretend that there is no risk to capital from an off balance sheet sponsored product.
VoxEU also published an interesting paper on capital integration within the EU by Sørensen and Kalemli-Ozcan. Essentially, the authors argue that capital markets in the EU are, at least to a certain extent, balkanized, with saving regions refusing to invest in growing regions due to lack of trust.
POW.PR.A PerpetualDiscount -1.4980% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.83% based on a bid of 24.33 and a limitMaturity.
BAM.PR.I OpRet -1.3462% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.20% based on a bid of 25.65 and a softMaturity 2013-12-30 at 25.00.
PWF.PR.G PerpetualPremium -1.1853% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.96% based on a bid of 25.01 and a limitMaturity.
ELF.PR.G PerpetualDiscount +1.1723% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.00% based on a bid of 17.26 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.W PerpetualDiscount +1.2489% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.43% based on a bid of 22.70 and a limitMaturity.
POW.PR.D PerpetualDiscount +1.3889% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.79% based on a bid of 21.90 and a limitMaturity.
NA.PR.L PerpetualDiscount +1.5920% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.00% based on a bid of 20.42 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.A PerpetualDiscount +1.6192% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.41% based on a bid of 20.71 and a limitMaturity.
HSB.PR.D PerpetualDiscount +2.0134% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.99% based on a bid of 21.28 and a limitMaturity.
BNA.PR.B SplitShare +2.1687% Asset coverage of just under 4.0:1 as of October 31, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.46% based on a bid of 21.20 and a hardMaturity 2016-3-25 at 25.00.
MST.PR.A InterestBearing +2.4826% Asset coverage of 2.1+:1 as of November 22, according to Sentry Select. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.15% (as interest net of a capital loss) based on a bid of 10.32 and a hardMaturity 2009-9-30 at 10.00.
FTU.PR.A SplitShare +3.1493% Asset coverage of just under 2.8+:1 1.8+:1 as of November 15, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.09% based on a bid of 9.25 and a hardMaturity 2012-12-1 at 10.00.
BNA.PR.C SplitShare +7.0817% Asset coverage of just under 4.0:1 as of October 31, according to the company. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.78% based on a bid of 18.75 and a hardMaturity 2019-1-10 at 25.00. Holy Smokey! It's about time this issue had an up day – but this is ridiculous! The yield may be compared with BNA.PR.A (6.84% to 2010-9-30) and BNA.PR.B (7.46% to 2016-3-25).
SLF.PR.D PerpetualDiscount 569,048 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.51% based on a bid of 20.20 and a limitMaturity.
SLF.PR.B PerpetualDiscount 299,345 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.64% based on a bid of 21.30 and a limitMaturity.
SLF.PR.E PerpetualDiscount 230,700 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.54% based on a bid of 20.31 and a limitMaturity.
SLF.PR.A PerpetualDiscount 166,275 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.61% based on a bid of 21.20 and a limitMaturity.
GWO.PR.H PerpetualDiscount 129,220 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.67% based on a bid of 21.70 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.B PerpetualDiscount 100,465 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.43% based on a bid of 21.78 and a limitMaturity.
Update: cowboylutrell in the comments points out I screwed up the asset coverage for FTU.PR.A in the 'Price Changes' table. It has been corrected. Sorry!


A debut novel that progresses like crisscross dreams in a damaged head, by a young Englishman whose work has appeared largely in horror and fantasy anthologies. Narrator David Munro, a second-rate painter, has not seen his college roomie Seamus "Shay" Cope since he threw a teacup at him three years ago. But now their shared companion, Helen Soper, has called David to the English seaside town of Morecambe to help revive the unlovable Seamus, who's now suffering some mystery malaise that affects Helen as well'something shapeless and ugly that is unfolding and that David has begun to feel as well. It's winter and something cryptic is exploding within them. Odd figures spur childhood memories; as in a dream, a strange woman in a car slowly parts the skin of David's cheek with her fingernail. Memories filter back: Had Seamus and their schoolmate Dando tried to drown a dog, then tie up David, nearly drown him in mud, and start to bugger him? Seamus tells David about a caving tragedy in New Mexico when his fellow caver got stuck and died of cold—which reminds David of Seamus nearly drowning him in mud. Bad karma comes twisting around David in the form of a murdered girl. Did MacCreadle, a horrible figure from their childhood, do it? Helen explains to David that they—re being stalked. But by whom? The three friends slowly form their own vocabulary to describe the events befalling them. And so they stumble vaguely on, David and Seamus with dreams of suffocation. It's as if, Seamus says, —we've opened up our heads and nailed them together so that we're all sharing the same Widescreen movie.— By novel's end, their worst secrets have fountained upward in a collective dawning and bloodletting. The spine of this waking nightmare is a sad, gasping loneliness, into which any bad thought can fall and spear you. The family love that at last fills this vacancy is quite moving.


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"Performer avec Lukasz est d'une facilité incroyable, on se sent porté et épaulé!
sa musicalité et sa stabilité de tempo, vous permettent de vous évader sans retenue, dans les hautes sphères !
A très vite pour d'autres moments Musicaux"
— Christian Grassart
''Performing with Lukasz is so incredibly easy, you feel carried along and supported all the way! His sense of musicality and his steady tempo allow for a boundless freedom, where the sky is the only limit! See you soon to share more musical moments''
"Lukasz Chyla has got an excellent technique and is good reader. He can learn very complex pieces in short time and is also good improviser.
I would recommend him for any sessional or live work where a world-class bass player is required."
— Anders Helmerson
"Lukasz is an extremely talented and focused bass guitar player. It is an absolute honour to have him in my band, and I am particularly impressed with his ability to adapt to a wide range of musical genres. Having witnessed Lukasz's technical ability and natural flow I can guarantee that bass lessons with him will be highly rewarding."
— Anne-Marie Allen
"In my fifteen years of playing ascross the Midlands, I have not met a more versatile, focused or technically gifted bassist than Lukasz Chyla. He has excelled in every musical context I have seen him, and I would recommend him to any serious student of bass guitar."
— Dominic James Hyde
"I've worked with Lukasz in the studio and live on many occasions. His knowledge, skill and style always shines through he has become my go to bass player. "
— Pete Styles
"Lukasz Chyla is one of a number of highly talented young musicians active on the music scene in Birmingham today. His bass playing first came to my attention when we both took part in a performance of Terry Riley's ''In C'' as part of the Frontiers Festival in 2014. Following this event, and the impressive contribution he made to it, I asked Lukasz to be part of a new music project of mine, the trio Axis Point also featuring the drummer Tymoteusz Jozwiak. The music I composed for this band was written specially for Lukasz and Tymoteusz, and Lukasz has been instrumental in developing that initial material in new and interesting ways. He is talented and inventive bassist with a bright future. "
— Steve Tromans
"When Lukasz came to play one of my tricky tune, he was precise like an atomic clock and knew my tune better than me. He is the dog bollocks :)"
— Victor Howarth
"Lukasz has been superb student on bass at the Conservatoire. He has a great understanding of the bass tradition in the past and has a real passion for fusion which I feel we will see more invilvement into the future. Already working with many contemporary musicians on recording and live. He always gives full commitment to everything to he does"
— Fred Thelonious Baker
"I have heard Lukasz play in various groups including one led by himself at Birmingham Conservatoire where he is studying for the BMus (Jazz) Honours degree. I have always been impressed by his playing on electric bass and his deep commitment to the music. Recently he has been playing with Steve Tromans' Axis Point in which group his strong rhythmic sense and ability to interact is a key feature of the group's music. "
— Tony Dudley-Evans


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RealityTest's Opening Page
Time Travel -- the State of the Art:
Arnold J. Toynbee -- Time Traveler
Mind Loosed from its Tether -- The Channelled H.G. Wells
The RealityTest Interviews
An Outline of the Future
Old Pages (The Change)
RealityTest has provided glimpses of how the mind can transcend linear time, including Toynbee's unobtrusive visits to other times as a passive observer, Cheeky D's practical communications -- interactions, actually -- with his future selves, the channelled H.G. Wells' pendulum exercise connecting the experimenter, inwardly, with past and future "incarnations," and Seth's preliminary probable self exercise.
All of these serve to demonstrate the limitations of the usual views of time, even while providing conceptual and experiential tools for accomplishing time transcendence.
Then there is the question of physical time travel -- bringing the living body along. Can it be done? Granted, doing so implies the creation of probable realities, as the slightest interaction by a person from, say, 2002, in another moment of linear time cannot occur without changing that other moment in some way, however slightly. (Although travelling "mentally" through time also implies changes, these will be of a different quality -- it's one thing to glimpse a probable version of the "future," leading to a change in thought and action in the present; quite another to make a physical alteration in a "past" situation.)
As travelling physically through time is thus a movement through probable realities, "interdimensional travel" is possibly a better term for such endeavors. Is it possible that some percentage of the UFOs reported over the last half century or so are in fact the outward manifestations of such travel? Do certain ancient constructions begin to acquire new significance, seen in this light?
It's possible that concepts and techniques built upon an elaboration of some present day theory involving quantum entanglement, many dimensioned space/time, black holes, or some other esoteric scientific area will enable the accomplishment of interdimensional travel.
It's also possible that a means of converting matter into energy and back to matter will be part of this, or that such travel will require the development of new and sophisticated mathematics and computers capable of making incredibly swift and complex calculations based on these mathematics, computers well beyond present capabilities.
These are all based on methods of acquiring knowledge never designed for the exploration of subjective reality, key to such an enterprise, and at present really quite inadequate for such a task. Instead of waiting for a new science to take form, a hybrid combination of current disciplines and advanced experiential techniques united by some as yet unimagined principle, RealityTest suggests that interdimensional travel may be possible now, without any of this. This would be accomplished, theoretically, by utilizing naturally occurring features found at various locations on the planet. RealityTest has already verified the existence of such features, but candidly admits to a paucity of knowledge regarding their nature.
RealityTest will gradually outline this seemingly far fetched possibility. Doing so will require an elaboration of concepts of physical reality creation, including redefining the nature of physical reality and the body itself, probing features of the collective space/time continuum associated with what are called coordination points by Seth, and investigating curious "puckerings" of that continuum found in the vicinity of Main Coordination Points. (Main Coordination Points are the "naturally occurring features" mentioned above. Noted: RealityTest sponsors a very informal organization, The Great Coordination Point Expedition, which searches for Main Coordination Points, investigating these little-known oddities at firsthand. See the GCPE's website.)
RealityTest will also find it necessary to review concepts regarding the nature of the physical brain, both as Aldous Huxley's "reducing valve" -- a means of achieving a supreme focus once essential for physical survival -- and as a key component of physical reality creation. This must necessarily include a close examination of the brain's relation to mind.
In short, RealityTest proposes to explore the possibility of creating the physical self in a moment of linear time distinct from an initial perceived present, a creation facilitated by certain unique properties of main coordination points. This rests on the assumption that a person is perpetually creating and recreating their physical body from moment to moment, including the unique space continuum associated with the perceptions of the physical senses, those moments strung together -- usually unconsciously -- to create the illusion of continuity.
Writing a plausible explanation of such an implausible subject -- one which, admittedly, involves procedures which have yet to be perfected by RealityTest and which may in fact be entirely beyond present abilities -- will be challenging, to say the least. In addition, perfecting "mental time travel" skills would aid this task immeasurably, while RealityTest's intended direction may involve "fieldwork" requiring travel and coordinating the activities of any number of interested investigators. Considering all of this, please bear with us -- this section could be "under construction" for quite some time.
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» Articles » Full dual redundant PLC system servicing the £17M water treatment works
Full dual redundant PLC system servicing the £17M water treatment works
People living in and around Wrexham in North Wales have had their water supply secured for many years to come, thanks to the opening of a new £17m water treatment works on the magnificent Llwyn Onn reservoir.
Key to the production of nearly 50,000 m3 of crystal clear drinking water a day is a sophisticated and robust control system based on Mitsubishi Electric Q series modular PLCs. The system integrator, local company Tycon Automation Ltd, has used Mitsubishi Electric control equipment on several previous large water control projects and even has developed some field proven software modules specifically for the water industry.
During the design, build and commissioning of the control system, the Tycon team worked closely with Mitsubishi Electric, the operator Dee Valley Water (DVW) and the main project contractor Black & Veatch.
Process optimisation at Llwyn Onn
The water treatment process consists of dissolved air flotation (DAF) clarification, granular activated carbon (GAC) filtration followed by rapid gravity filtration (RGF) and a chlorine contact tank before being pumped to a storage tank - from where it is fed into the distribution network. Although this is not the conventional process order, it is an arrangement that has been designed to work in this area, which has the additional issue of manganese to deal with.
A crucial aspect to the control system was the use of a full dual redundant PLC system. Complete with its own CPU, the secondary system is fully wired-in and tested, increasing the system reliability by mirroring the primary CPU so that in the unlikely event of a failure of the main CPU, power supply or base unit, the secondary system can take over within 21 milliseconds from the same control point.
Andrew Robertson, Technical Director at Tycon, states;
There were elements in the contract specification which in our opinion meant it suited the Mitsubishi hardware. Historically I believe this was a Rockwell site but Dee Valley Water were flexible in their approach and were looking for a fully redundant system. They could see that we had achieved this before with a very reliable fully redundant architecture on a larger system installed on the Isle of Man, which we arranged for them to visit, it meant that we could meet both the performance targets and the price point set for this project.
Realising control with 1000+ I/O
'We spoke to Dee Valley Water at length about their preferences and reliability was of paramount concern. The Mitsubishi QnPRH PLCs are designed to work in a redundant set-up and therefore met the specification from the outset. The system was designed with two processor racks and three I/O racks in the main MCC, with 1/3 of the plant on each I/O rack. The system lent itself to being designed this way as the process contains three DAF lanes, six carbon filters and six rapid gravity filters which give an inherent amount of redundancy in the process; we matched with the control system design to provide the most robust engineering solution.
'The pump motors are mostly controlled by variable speed drives (VSDs) which are connected using a Profibus network. We used separate Profibus networks within the MCC, with separate networks going out into the field to simplify design and increase robustness. We employed Mitsubishi Slice I/O with Profibus interfaces to manage the I/O locally in the field, which reduces cabling and installation costs and works well with the Mitsubishi PLC which will accept most fieldbus network protocols with a plug-in comms module.
'Speed wise, and because there is a lot of digital and 4-20mA I/O (over a thousand I/O points) including flow meters, level instruments and quality instruments we segmented the Profibus networks to provide maximum redundancy and system resilience. The response time of the PLC however is far beyond what we would need for this application. PID control loops for flow control valves etc are well within the processing capability of the CPU, with the control loops for the chemical dosing system being the most critical. For this application we are talking seconds, rather than milliseconds, which we often work with in other more dynamic higher-speed applications.
'The Mitsubishi GX Works II software is a nice environment for us to work in, it is easy to find your way around and easy to use. We were able to use function blocks previously developed for water treatment applications by Tycon Automation Ltd, which made the job simpler to realise and enabled us to add value to the project. The flexibility of the programming environment meant that the system architecture could be broken down into function blocks representing all parts of the plant. A remote access VPN link into the site means we can access the SCADA layer and therefore the PLC in real time and can easily interrogate the system to see what the raw code is doing and carry out any fault finding activities. It is important with such a large program to have a logical structure which makes it easy to interrogate.'
Mitsubishi Electric QnPRH Series PLC architecture
The QnPRH is Mitsubishi's most sophisticated control solution and represents the top end of the Q Series Automation Platform. It offers a high level of system redundancy which insures complete immunity to process interruptions caused by power or system failures. This is achieved by using a fully redundant architecture that duplicates processors and network links. Hot-swap capability provides an operational level of redundancy. The solution was developed specifically for use in applications where downtime cannot be tolerated for reasons of equipment damage, interruption of service, penalties, or regulatory compliance.
The dual redundant CPUs (control and standby) mean that any failure of the control CPU causes immediate transfer of control to the back-up, preventing system failure or interruption. Synchronization of up to 100,000 words of process data is possible between CPUs per scan. Switchover time is typically around 20-40ms, ensuring a "bumpless" transfer. Because the CPUs reside on physically separate racks, the control CPU can be replaced while back-up maintains system operation. Most parts are interchangeable with standard Q Series systems which controls both purchase cost and total cost of ownership.
If you would like to know more about the project, view the below video.
Mitsubishi Electric Europe
As the UK arm of one of the world's leading manufacturing companies, Mitsubishi Electric has been supplying automation products and solutions to the UK for over 35 years.


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La Serie A1 2019-2020 è stata la 36ª edizione della massima serie del campionato italiano femminile di pallanuoto. La regular season è iniziata il 5 ottobre 2019 ed avrebbe dovuto concludersi il 2 maggio 2020 (con le Final Six Scudetto). Il campionato, a causa della pandemia determinata dal Covid-19 che ha colpito l'Italia è stato prima temporaneamente sospeso nel mese di febbraio e poi definitivamente interrotto nel mese di maggio. La Federazione Italiana Nuoto ha stabilito di non attribuire il titolo di campione d'Italia e di bloccare retrocessioni e promozioni.

Le squadre neopromosse sono: le debuttanti Pallanuoto Trieste e Vela Ancona.

Squadre partecipanti

Allenatori

Regular season

Classifica

Calendario e risultati

Verdetti
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Some people got stuck on a roller coaster for over an hour at Ohio's Cedar Point amusement park due to a power outage on Monday.
SANDUSKY, Ohio (KGO) -- Some people got stuck on a roller coaster for over an hour at Ohio's Cedar Point amusement park due to a power outage on Monday.
Millennium Force, one of the park's tallest roller coasters towers at over 308 feet.
Crews worked to restore power to a portion of the park to get riders back down to safety.
Power has been restored and rides are opening as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.