HSBC India has posted a net profit of Rs 1988cr for the financial year 31-03-12, a jump of 30% over the previous year. The bank had a deposits of Rs 61,400cr plus and advances of Rs 35,500cr as on 31-03-12. The bank's CAR stood at 18.03 percent.
According to sources Future group has finalized plans to exit from stationery joint venture with US based Staples by selling its entire stake to its partner for Rs 170cr. Future group recently sold Pantaloon to Aditya Birla group and exited from the financial arm Future Capital holdings.
The New York based perfume maker has roped in JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America for its proposed $1 billion IPO. The company has some well known brands like Calvin Klein, Cerruti, Marc Jacobs and Avon under its belt.
BJP Government in Karnataka reached a flash point with nine Ministers loyal to party state strongman B S Yeddyurappa submitting their resignations to Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda. They want change in leadership.
The ministers who have submitted their resignation are C M Udasi,Shobha Karndalaje, Jagadish Shettar, V Sommanna, Basavaraj Bommai, Murugesh Nirani, Revu Naik Belamagi, M P Renukacharya and Umesh Katti.
Cairn Energy of U K, which had last year sold majority stake in its Indian unit to mining group Vedanta, today sold 3.5 per cent stake for over Rs 2,000 crore in an open market deal. The shares of Cairn closed at Rs 307, down 6%.
FIIs have pumped in excess of Rs 3,000 crore today in to the markets.The huge dollar supply vaulted the rupee to a intra-day high of 55.60 before concluding at 55.equity 61, a net rise of 119 paise, compared to yesterday's close of 56.80.
The IPO which opened today in the price band of Rs 55-60 has received 0.50 times subscription. The entire subscription has come from QIBs.
Market sentiments turned positive on the news of euro zone bail out and that the government is likely to take retail FDI and pension bill at the earliest. The benchmark Sensex and NIFTY saw one of the highest rise in recent times. NIFTY was up by 130 points and Sensex 439 points. FIIs net purchased in excess of Rs 3000cr in cash markets. Asian Paints, Jindal, Maruti,Rel infra, HINDALCO, Sterlite, BHEL and Tata Power were all up in excess of 4%. Cairn lost 6% with NSE turnover exceeding Rs 2000cr.
All NIFTY stocks, except BPCL and Cairn are trading in green. ITC and Sunpharma have touched 52 week high of Rs 259 and Rs 644.80 respectively. TCS and HUL are also trading near their 52 week high. The volumes too have picked up in almost all counters. NIFTY is up almost 100 points.
In an interview to CNBC TV 18 Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com says that NIFTY would touch 5400 level in July 2012.
Government is likely to announce reforms initiatives once the presidential elections are over.
The NIFTY was up 70 odd points in the early trade, today.
Public sector bank employee unions have called for a two-day nation-wide strike on July 25-26 to protest reforms in the banking sector and outsourcing of jobs.
The government to address the investors concern over taxation issues, may relax some provisions of GAAR. Also government look into mis use of double taxation avoidance treaties.
Lukas Rosol, ranked 100th in the world won against twice former champion Rafa Nadal. The 26 year old Czech defeated the 11 times grand slam champion in electrifying an 6-7 6-4 6-4 2-6-6-4 game. The game lasted over 3 hours.
NIFTY gained 7 points amid heavy selling by foreign institutions. FIIs have net sold in excess of Rs 1100cr in cash markets, today. JP Associates, ITC, ACC and Tata Steel are the main gainers among NIFTY stocks. Axis Bank, Sterlite, Sesa Goa,IDFC and GAIL each lost 2%. Markets are expecting policy reforms initiatives from PM who also holds the additional charge of finance.
The IPO in the price band of Rs 55-60 opens today. Firstchoice IPO has analyzed the IPOs that hit the market in the last two years in this segment.
None of the 15 IPOs that made debut in the last two years are trading above the IPO price. We had recommended only 4 IPOs for subscription. The performance of the IPOs are indicated below.
We recommend staying way from VKS Projects IPO.
In an interview to a leading business channel, Sanju Verma MD of of Violet Arch Capital Advisors says that Sensex will touch 22000 by March 2012 and Sensex seen hitting 19500 by Sept 2012. She says down turn to market from this level is limited.
The beverages giant Coca-Cola would more than double investments in the country to Rs 28000cr plus by 2020.
DERC has raised the electricity tariff by 24.15%. With this hike, consumers will feel the heat in the coming winter too.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose by 32.01 points to close at 12,534.67, on 26-06-12.
Yesterday's Dow Jones points raise and closing both have fancy numbers. There is 0 1 2 3 in points rose and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in the closing figure.
Amid uncertainty in global economies FIIs are still have doubts on India growth story. That is what hindering them to take a definitive view on India. Markets opened with marginal loss and closed with similar gains. GAIL. Grasim, Tata Power and Powergrid are the major gainers among NIFTY stocks. Heromotoco continued its winning streak and closed at Rs 2057, up Rs 26. The stock is one of the major gainer in the last 30 days, having gained 12.47%. FIIs bought marginally where as DIIs are net sellers in excess of Rs 350cr in cash markets.
Microsoft will buy Yammer, a social network site for businesses, for $1.2 billion in cash, as it seeks to strengthen its enterprise software business and compete more directly with Salesforce.com.
Under the terms of the deal, Yammer will be added to Microsoft's office division.
Yammer, which is known as "the enterprise social network," is a sort of Facebook for businesses.
VKS Projects has set the price band at Rs 55-60.
Although the company's revenue has been showing decent growth in the recent years, the negative cash flow in the in the last 5 years is an indication the company's weak bargaining strength and severity of competition.
The company has also not complied with AS 15 of ICAI, with regards to employees benefits.
Further, the IPO grade and the past track record of the BRLM go against recommendations.
RBI hiked the limit of external commercial borrowing (ECB) to USD 10 billion. The regulator also increased the limit of overseas investment in government securities to 20 billion dollars.
However the markets are disappointed with the measures and turned red.The Sensex which was up more than 100 points, was down around 100 points, by close.
In the past Comfort Securities had lead managed Tarapur Tranformers and Ravikumar Distilleries. As against the IPO price of Rs Rs 75 and Rs 64, the stocks are trading around Rs 13 and Rs 10 respectively.
The benchmark Sensex is up 100 points in the early trade. Markets are expecting some corrective actions from RBI to check rupee slide. Sterlite, Coal India Axis bank, JP Associates and Maruti are the top gainers. Almost all the NIFTY stocks are trading in green. Rupee too gained 50 paise and is trading around Rs 56.70 against the dollar.
Samsung Electronics may post better than expected earnings in the 2nd quarter thanks to contribution from hand set division, defying market concerns that earnings could come under pressure due to tight supply of the latest flagship smartphone model and weak global economy. Samsung is expecting its latest smartphone Galaxy S III to top 10 million units during July.
The San Francisco head quartered Wells Fargo, multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world is planning to move jobs to India. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit cards. In 2011, Wells Fargo was the 23rd largest company in the United States.
As part of efforts to increase the efficiency, the company thoughtfully pursuing a strategy for growth and where the company wants to be in the long-term.
Businesses and functional areas are investigating what markets are most economically attractive, with access to the best talent, and India has been chosen as one such destination.
In 2011, Wells Fargo had more than 9,000 retail branches and 12,231 automated teller machines in 39 states and the District of Columbia. It has over 270,000 employees and over 70 million customers.
KFA is making all-out efforts to cut cost and stay afloat. The Arline which has 20 aircraft s presently operating only 14 aircrafts and 120 daily flights. The market share of KFA, apart from AI, is lowest.
Volvo has started the trial run of its multi-axle low floor city bus (Volvo 7400XL) in Bangalore. State owned BMTC bus held the run.
The Volvo 7400XL, showcased at the Auto Expo 2012 in Delhi earlier this year, is India's first multi-axle city bus with a steered axle. It is also the country's first city bus ready to support efficient mass bus-based transport systems and can carry over 100 passengers at a time.
Suzlon the fifth- largest wind power maker by installed capacity sold its Chinese manufacturing subsidiary for Rs 340cr to China Power New Energy Development Company. Suzlon entered China In 2005 with marketing operations and set up a Manufacturing subsidiary in 2006 with 900MW capacity. Suzlon has Rs 10,000cr debt on its books. A little relief is expected from the transaction.
RIL, as of 22-06-12 has purchased 3,00,65494 equity shares at a total consideration of Rs2144.73cr, as per data filed with exchanges.
Citigroup Global Markets and DSP Merill Lynch are the managers to the buy-back scheme.
IPO ANALYSIS: VKS PROJECTS : SYMPTOM OF A VANISHING COMPANY – STAY AWAY.
The IPO is being lead managed by Aryaman Financial Services who had earlier managed Mid Valley Entertainments and Swajas Air Charters. Mid Valley, as against the IPO price of Rs 70 is trading around Rs 7 and Swajas IPO was withdrawn due to poor response from QIBs. VKS carries IPO grade 1 assigned by CRISIL.
VKS Projects is a Mumbai based EPC company. The company intends to raise Rs 55cr from the IPO. The funds are intended to be utilized for procurement of construction equipments, setting of offices in different cities and to meet the long term working capital needs. However the company is yet to place order for procuring the equipments, office place in different cities not identified. The fund raising programme has not been appraised by any bank or financial institutions.
The company had a revenue of Rs 30cr, Rs 60cr and Rs 98cr for the financial year ending 2100, 2011 and 2012 (up to Dec, 9 months) respectively. The net profit earned was Rs 2cr, Rs 3cr and Rs 5.63cr.
However the company had negative cash flow in the last 5 years.
Further, the IPO grade and the past track record of the BRLM go against recommendations. AVOID THE IPO.
NOTE: As per the SEBI's new guidelines short selling is prohibited in initial days. In connivance with promoters and BRLM, some brokers may do speculative trading. High risk investors can take a chance on listing day.
RUPEE BREACHES 57 MARK vs $.
Sustained capital outflows and strong demand from oil importers has made dollar still stronger. For the first time rupee breached 57 mark.
Dollar also gained against euro and other currencies in the overseas forex markets amid global economic growth concerns, Moody's downgrade of world's 15 biggest banks and mounting worries over euro-zone debt troubles including the size of a bailout needed to save Spain's banking sector.
After being isolated and humiliated in the race for the presidential post one more set back for Mamata and TMC. The high court of WB has on Friday struck down the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, as unconstitutional and void.
The court favored the Tata Motors' appeal against a trial court order which upheld the act, and gave the West Bengal government two months to appeal before the Supreme Court.
According to the division bench, sections of compensation in the Singur act were in conflict with the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. It also said the legislation had been enacted without obtaining the assent of the president.
The sensex is down 150 points, as markets across the globe turned jittery after down grading of 15 top banks by Moody's. Except some auto stocks like Maruti, Hero, Bajaj and M&M, most NIFTY stocks are trading in red. NIFTY has lost 50 points. RIL is yet to recover from yesterday's shock. Cement stocks are the hardest hit due to penalty imposed on leading players by CCI for cartelisation.
The Dharmadhikari committee on pay fixation and promotion issues in Air India says minimal pay increments should be given till the airline makes an operating profit.
The report has made various other recommendations on reining in pay and the resulting anomalies. Rationalizing the allowances, an end to five-star accommodation to pilots, lower allowance to pilots at foreign airports at actual expenditure, instead of the fixed $1,600-2,050 are some of the recommendations. Benefits like free tickets to relatives of employees should also be withdrawn.
MOODY'S CUT 15 BIG BANKS RATINGS, INCLUDING CITI, BOA.
Moody's Investors Service has cut the banks' credit scores to new lows, that could further damage their bottom lines and unsettle markets even more.
Moody's approach reflects its belief that large banks have fundamental weaknesses that could still hurt their financial stability. Along with Citigroup and Bank of America, the credit rating agency took action on 13 other banks, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, UBS, HSBC, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Societe Generale, Royal Bank of Canada, and Royal Bank of Scotland.
For most part of the trading hours NIFTY was down. However the trend reversed in the last hour. NIFTY led by infra and bank stocks was up by 44 points to close at 5165. JP Associate, Rel infra, DLF, BHEL, SBI and PNB were the star performers among NIFTY stocks. RIL which was hit by NIKO report was down almost 4% at one time and recovered a bit to close at Rs 719, still down 2.56%. SBI was up by Rs 62 and closed at Rs 2179. In the last one month the stock is up by 9%. Sun Pharma, ITC and HUL closed at 52 week high. These 3 stocks have risen 26,36 and 44 percent respectively in the last one year. The combined turn over of SBI and RIL in NSE exceeded Rs 1000cr. FIIs net sold Rs 257Cr in cash market.
RIL is down 3% after Canada's Niko Resources sharply cut the reserves estimate at the KG D6 gas blocks, off India's east coast.
Niko Resources, has said that total proved plus probable natural gas reserves have fallen almost 51% to 377 billion cubic feet equivalent.
NSE IS LEADING CURRENCY BOURSE IN THE WORLD.
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has emerged as the leading currency bourse in terms of number of contracts traded and second largest for futures and options of equity index trading. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is now the fifth largest exchange for index options trading globally.
According to recent data of the World Federation of Exchanges , in terms of number of contracts traded every month, NSE is ahead of US based Chicago Mercantile Exchange group in currency trading. In equity index derivative, NSE is ahead of Nasdaq and NYSE Euronext of US and Eurex of Europe. The Korea Exchange (KRX) of South Korea is the world's largest exchange for derivative trading in equity indices.
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GOVERNMENT PLANS STAKE SALE IN 15 PSUs.
The government is considering stake sale in as many as 15 state-owned companies to garner an estimated Rs 20,000 crore.
The companies include BHEL, SAIL and Oil India, EIL, RCF, Andrew Yule, NALCO, NHPC, NMDC, MOIL, Hindustan Copper, RINL and HAL.
The government in the budget for 2012-13 proposed to raise Rs 30,000 crore in the current fiscal from sale of its equity in PSUs.
Labels: GOVERNMENT PLANS STAKE SALE IN 15 PSUs.
RBI has issued the final guidelines on "White Label ATMs," to be owned and operated by non-banking entities. At present only banks can set up ATMs.
NBFCs desiring of owning ATMs would need to seek authorization from the Reserve Bank. For setting up ATMs, entities should have a minimum net worth of Rs 100 crore as per the latest financial year's audited balance sheet.
Tata –Dassault electric car is expected to be priced around $20,000 (Rs 10 lakh plus).
Tata Technologies has completed the first feasibility study of the electric vehicle using Dassault Systemes' 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
NIFTY up 17 points led by ACC, Sterlite, HCL and Tata Motors. TCS was the major loser among NIFTY stocks and closed at Rs 1752, down Rs 22. Markets are looking for positive news from U S and Euro zone. Turn over in NIFTY stocks was moderate.SBI again topped with Rs 530cr turn over. The stock was up Rs 24 and closed at Rs 2125.
HUL achieved a milestone when its market cap crossed Rs 1lac crore today. The stock closed at Rs 456, up 2%.
In the last 365 days HUL is up 42%, where as the benchmark NIFTY is down 3% in the same period.
With this , the market capitalization of the FMCG company now stands at Rs 101,198 crore, ahead of Wipro, ICICI Bank and HDFC. HUL currently stands at the eleventh position after Bharti Airtel.
Koutons Retail stock was suspended from trading on account of non-compliance with the provisions of the Listing Agreement.
With the Company satisfactorily meeting with the listing agreement requirements, the NSE has revoked the suspension of trading in the securities of Koutons Retail w.e.f. June 21, 2012.
India, Russia and Brazil have offered $ 10 billion each whereas South Africa made a commitment of $ 2 billions. Asia's big brother China has offered $43 billions making it to $75 billions from BRICS nations.
The five BRICS nations represent 43 percent of the world's population and about 18 percent of global economic output. They have about $4 trillion in combined reserves, with the lion's share held by export powerhouse China.
Sandisk the portable data company has launched new USB 3.0 capable Pen Drive in the market and dubbed it as Sandisk 'Extreme' USB Pen Drive.
This new offering from Sandisk promises up to 190MB/s data transfer speed and comes in sizes starting from 16GB and going up to 64GB. The price ranges from $65 and goes as high as $160.
Facebook, the largest social net working site has acquired an Israeli company, called face.com, that makes facial recognition technology.
Facebook has used the Israeli company for two years to identify and "tag" who is who on the social network. Face.com's last product was an application that allows users to click a picture of their Facebook 'friends' and tag it automatically before posting it on Facebook; for now, it works only on the iPhone.
That alone is alluring for Facebook: Its users upload 300 million pictures a day at last count, but identifying pictures of Facebook friends on mobile devices, which is the next frontier for Facebook, is not as easy as it is on computers.
The US Pharmacy chain giant Walgreens acquired 45% stake in Alliance Boots.
Alliance Boots is owned by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and others, would get $6.7bn in cash and shares.
The two groups will look to a full merger in three years for a further $9.5bn, plus the assumption of Alliance Boots' then outstanding debt.
Pranab Mukherji got surprise support from BSY, the strong man of Karnataka BJP. BSY's stand not only embarrassed the the top brass and made them to think hundred times before announcing their presidential candidate.
It is not very often that market sees a rally led by RIL now a days. Today was different. The stock which has highest weight-age in Sensex and NIFTY was up 2.52% to close at Rs 737. The other stocks which helped the Sensex to close at higher level were ITC, Ambuja, Grasim, GAIL, Siemens and Ranbaxy. NIFTY closed above 5100 level, up 40 points. Some rate sensitive counters which had taken a sever beating yesterday staged a smart rally. SBI topped the turn over on NSE with Rs 777cr.
RIL's market cap improved to Rs 2.41 lac crore, slightly behind TCS's market cap of Rs 2.49 lac crore. TCS closed at Rs 1274.
Microsoft unveiled a tablet computer called Surface that is intended to challenge Apple's iPad.
Microsoft's new tablet, Surface, will run a variation of Windows 8, a forthcoming version of the company's flagship operating system.
The tablet, is about the same weight and thickness as an iPad, with a 10.6-inch screen. The device has a built-in 'kickstand' that allows it to be propped up for watching movies, and a thin detachable cover that will serve double duty as a keyboard.
COAL BLOCKS ALLOTTED TO COAL INDIA.
The government has allocated 116 mines to Coal India for expansion and help to boost production capacity.
This is against 138 mines requested by CIL.
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RCOM shares hit a record intra day low of Rs 59.45, after a critical report from Canadian research firm Veritas, was made public. The stock recovered and closed at Rs 64.
The Veritas report says significant additional downside in the company's stock and said it did not think the company's accounting policies provide a clear picture of the underlying operating and business trends.
ICICI Bank, the largest private sector bank, has increased the remuneration of its Managing Director Chanda Kochhar by 33.2%. Kochhar received Rs 4.25 crore in 2011-12 compared to Rs 3.19 crore she earned in the previous year.
HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri got 25% hike. He earned Rs 4.90 crore last financial year that included basic pay, performance bonus, allowances and perquisites, contributions to provident fund and superannuation fund. His remuneration was Rs 3.92 crore in the previous year.
Shikha Sharma, MD of Axis Bank, received Rs 2.53 crore in 2011-12, or 14% more pay than the previous year.
V G Siddhartha of Coffee Day Group who was one of the first venture capitalists to back MindTree, more than a decade ago, is once again increased his stake further in this mid-tier software exports company. He has acquired 3.84 per cent stake in MindTree for around Rs 95 crore from another early venture fund — Walden International. With this, Siddhartha — along with two of his companies Coffee Day Resorts and Global Technology Ventures — holds little more than 21.5 per cent. The promoter group too holds 21.5 per cent in MindTree.
Global economic troubles affecting Indian firms, IT bellwether Infosys has extended the joining time of new recruits to June 2013 but emphasized there is no freeze on campus placement drives.
Labels: INFOSYS SLOW DOWNS HIRING.
Fitch Ratings has down graded India's outlook to negative from stable.
Fitch says the revision in its outlook is reflective of heightened risks that India's medium- to long-term growth potential will gradually deteriorate if reforms are not hastened.
The much expected CRR cut or rate cut did not happen. RBI has surprised the market by maintaining status quo. The speculative positions on rate sensitive counters came in for unwinding. The NIFTY which was up 50 points before the policy announcements, lost more than 100 points and now is hovering around 5085, down 50 odd points.
New Democracy was set to take 29.7 per cent of the vote and 129 seats in the 300-member parliament, compared with 26.9 per cent and 71 seats for Syriza, with 97% votes counted.
New Democracy and its likely coalition partners are determined to secure some easing of the austerity measures demanded in return for the €174bn agreed in March.
The projected result made it likely that New Democracy would try to form a government with the socialist Pasok party and Democratic Left, a more left-wing party.
ALCATEL MAY GET RCOM DEAL.
SPECIALITY RESTAURANTS SHIFTED TO B GROUP.


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India asks China to avoid raising Kashmir dispute at U.N.
by: ASHOK SHARMA, Associated Press
Posted: Jan 16, 2020 / 06:59 AM EST / Updated: Jan 16, 2020 / 06:59 AM EST
NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Thursday asked China to avoid raising the Kashmir dispute at the United Nations Security Council, insisting it is a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan.
The government issued a statement Thursday, a day after China requested a review by the U.N. Security Council of the U.N. observer mission in Kashmir.
"China should reflect on a global consensus on Kashmir and avoid raising it at the United Nations," India's External Affairs Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar told reporters in New Delhi.
Most countries on the 15-member council have urged India and Pakistan to cool the dispute and resolve it between themselves. But on Wednesday, China's U.N. ambassador warned against further escalation of strife between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region and expressed hope that a Security Council meeting called by Beijing might help both countries seek a solution through dialogue.
Kumar said India has raised the matter with China in the past.
The latest flareup in conflict was sparked by a decision by India's Hindu nationalist-led government to end the semi-autonomous status of Muslim-majority Kashmir on Aug. 5.
A harsh crackdown ensued, with New Delhi sending tens of thousands more troops to the already heavily militarized region, imposing a sweeping curfew, arresting thousands and cutting off virtually all communications.
Authorities have since eased several restrictions, lifting roadblocks and restoring landlines and cellphone services, but Internet service is yet to be restored in the Kashmir valley.
Also Thursday, India's External Affairs Ministry said India will invite Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to attend the 19th council of heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization which will be hosted by India later this year.
"As per the established practices and procedures within SCO, all eight members of SCO as well as four observer states and other international dialogue partners will be invited (by India)," the ministry said.
India and Pakistan both became full members of the SCO in June 2017. The SCO was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to promote multilateral economic cooperation.
by ABDI GULED, Associated Press / Jan 18, 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least two people were killed and more than 20 others wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a construction site along a highway outside Somalia's capital, police said Saturday.
Six Turkish nationals were among the wounded, with two in serious condition, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has granted Chevron a special license to keep drilling oil in Venezuela despite a ban on American companies doing business with President Nicolás Maduro's socialist government.
The Treasury Department late Friday renewed until April 22 the license for Chevron and four other U.S. service suppliers that are among the last American companies operating in the oil-rich South American nation. It's the fourth time the U.S. has exempted the companies from the Venezuela ban.

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St. James Place is located on the north side of Harris Street about 1/4 mile before Redwood Acres. Going east on Harris toward Redwood Acres St. James Place will be on your left, almost directly across from Freese Avenue. The church is at the end of St. James Place.
Cultural pressures and influences are so intrusive and inwardly destabilizing that Christian spirituality becomes a forlorn pursuit unless the individual is embodied in a structure that gives corporate expression to private spirituality, in which the lone thread is woven into a fabric. In this sense, the local church creates its own Christian culture, its own set of values and ways of looking at the world, its own hopes and dreams, which, because they are corporately held and practiced, become normative. Unfortunately, too much church experience is not like this at all. Too often it amounts to little more than a glancing encounter with others, for a brief period of time, in which some inspirational stories are shared and hands are shaken. If members cannot give more of themselves to the churches than this, however difficult this may be, and if churches will ask for nothing more than this, then Christian spirituality will be that much more easily eroded by the torrents of modernity.
There are at bottom only two types of theology, glory theology and cross theology...the theology of the cross is an offensive theology...it attacks what we usually consider the best in our religion...the pretension that comes with our good works...the word of the cross kills and makes alive.
Where is the church? What is the church? Roman Catholics say that the church is where the bishop is. He constitutes the church. The left wing answers by giving their testimony — "It's in my heart, in my experience, my conversion." Luther proposed that the church is defined by the act of confessing, the actual act of declaring Christ and handing over the goods. Where the goods are being handed over, the actual handing over of Christ Jesus and His benefits to sinners — wherever that happens there is the church. The word of the gospel is what constitutes the church.
The Word of God has this character, that it is made known and comes when man is most desperate over everything… it comes to the weak and the oppressed, to those in need. These also receive it in such a way that all human boasting vanishes and nothing is credited to our own strength and energies, but all to God alone.


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Q: Linq Group on a multi-level object with select statement I've got 3 dataset objects that are nested with each other using entity set objects.  I am selecting the data like this
var newList = from s in MainTable
from a in s.SubTable1 where a.ColumnX = "value"
from b in a.Detail where b.Name = "searchValue"
select new {
    ID = s.ID,
    Company = a.CompanyName,
    Name = b.Name,
    Date = s.DueDate
    Colour = b.Colour,
    Town = a.Town
};

and this works fine, but the trouble is there are many records in the Detail object-list/table for each Name value so I get a load of duplicate rows and thus I only want to display one record per b.Name.  I have tried putting
group s by b.Name into g

before the select, but then this seems to stop the select enabling me to select the columns I want (there are more, in practice).  How do I use the group command in this circumstance while still keeping the output rows in a "flat" format?

A: Appending comment as answer to close question:-
Of course that if you group your results, you cant get select a column of a child, thats because there may be more than one childs and you have to specify an aggregate column for example the sum,max etx –

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package utils

import java.nio.file.{Path, Paths}

import annots.{ConfigProperty, ConfigPropertyImpl, StoragePath, StoragePathImpl}
import com.google.inject.AbstractModule
import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory

import scala.collection.JavaConverters._

/**
  * @author Jenda Kolena, jendakolena@gmail.com
  */
class GuiceConfiguration extends AbstractModule with Logging {

  private lazy val config = ConfigFactory.load().root()

  override def configure(): Unit = {
    bindConfig(config, "")(binder())
    bindStoragePaths(config.toConfig, binder())
  }

  import java.lang.{Boolean => JBoolean}

  import com.google.inject.{Binder, Key}
  import com.typesafe.config._

  import scala.collection.JavaConversions._

  //based on: http://vastdevblog.vast.com/blog/2012/06/16/creating-named-guice-bindings-for-typesafe-config-properties/
  private def bindConfig(obj: ConfigValue, bindingPath: String)(implicit binder: Binder): Unit = obj.valueType() match {
    case ConfigValueType.OBJECT =>
      val configObj = obj.asInstanceOf[ConfigObject]
      // Bind the config from the object.
      binder
        .bind(Key.get(classOf[Config], initConfigProperty(bindingPath)))
        .toInstance(configObj.toConfig)
      // Bind any nested values.
      configObj.entrySet().foreach(me => {
        val key = me.getKey
        bindConfig(me.getValue, bindingPath + "." + key)
      })
    case ConfigValueType.LIST =>
      val values = obj.asInstanceOf[ConfigList]
      for (i <- 0 until values.size()) {
        bindConfig(values(i),
          bindingPath + "." + i.toString)
      }
    case ConfigValueType.NUMBER =>
      // Bind as string and rely on guice's conversion code when the value is used.
      binder
        .bindConstant()
        .annotatedWith(initConfigProperty(bindingPath))
        .to(obj.unwrapped()
          .asInstanceOf[Number].toString)
    case ConfigValueType.BOOLEAN =>
      binder
        .bindConstant()
        .annotatedWith(initConfigProperty(bindingPath))
        .to(obj.unwrapped()
          .asInstanceOf[JBoolean])
    case ConfigValueType.NULL =>
    // NULL values are ignored.
    case ConfigValueType.STRING =>
      binder
        .bindConstant()
        .annotatedWith(initConfigProperty(bindingPath))
        .to(obj.unwrapped()
          .asInstanceOf[String])
  }

  private def bindStoragePaths(config: Config, binder: Binder): Unit = {
    val root = config.getString("play.server.dir")

    config.getConfig("paths").entrySet().asScala.foreach { entry =>
      val key = entry.getKey
      val value = entry.getValue.unwrapped().toString

      val path = Paths.get(root, value).toAbsolutePath

      Logger.info(s"Binding StoragePath('$key') to $path")

      binder.bind(classOf[Path])
        .annotatedWith(initStoragePath(key))
        .toInstance(path)

      binder.bind(classOf[StorageDir])
        .annotatedWith(initStoragePath(key))
        .toInstance(StorageDir(path))

      binder.bindConstant()
        .annotatedWith(initStoragePath(key))
        .to(path.toString)
    }
  }

  private def initStoragePath(name: String): StoragePath =
    new StoragePathImpl(name)

  private def initConfigProperty(name: String): ConfigProperty =
    new ConfigPropertyImpl(if (!name.isEmpty) name.substring(1) else "root")
}

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12 Volt DC Hellfire Quartz heater ( PNP-202).
Power Hunt's New Hellfire Heater PNP-202S generates instant heat and airflow feet away. The Hellfire heater uses quartz heating element technology that generates more than twice the amount of heat, than any other 12 Volt heaters, and by far it is the most powerful 12-volt heater (this needs to be qualified. See "How Much Heat" below). Great features to warm your campers, fishing shack, or deer stand. Save fuel and Sleep with engine shut off.
The high technology carbon fiber allows it to put out substantially more heat while using less power than the older PNP201 heater (this needs to be qualified. See "How Much Heat" below). . The Hellfire also has an effective forced air fan and this combination creates heat that can be felt several feet away from the heater. The older version is still a good heater and is an excellent choice for the cost, but provides less than half the heat that the Hellfire produces.
Does the Hellfire really generates more than twice the amount of heat, than any other heaters? Is it really the most powerful 12 Volt Heater? How can a 500 watt heater put out more heat than a 600/700 watt heater? The answer is efficiency. Power Hunt says "The new Hellfire is much more efficient than other heaters" like RoadPro's 300 watt or Power Hunt's 600 watt (700 at 14 volts).
But wait a minute! Power is watts and heat is BTU and 1 Watt is approximately = 3.41214 BTU/Hr. Unless the science has changed the 500 watt Hellfire produces 500 x 3.4 = 1,700 BTU and the older 600 watt produces 600 x 3.4 = 2,040. 2,380 BTU at 14 volts. So technically, both statements above are false. If that's the case, then why does the Hellfire feel much hotter than the others? In fact, you can get burned with the Hellfire!
The answer is that the Hellfire heats differently, then the RoadPro 300 watt and the Power Hunt 600/700 watt. The Hellfire does not heat the air, but instead heats objects. The Hellfire uses a quartz infrared radiant heat technology that is much more efficient, in the sense that the heat is not dispersed into the air, but instead is delivered more to any object in it's direct path. So as long as you are sitting in front of the Hellfire, it will keep you warmer than any of the other 12 volt heaters.
NOTE: When you add your Power Hunt Hellfire Quartz Heater to the cart, we will also add a 12 Volt Power Port that hooks to the battery via 8' of wire with 2 connecting rings on the end. If you already have one, then click on "remove" in the cart to remove it before completing your purchase. First time Purchase of a Power Hunt Appliance will need the Power Port.
Three heat level settings: HI, LO and FAN only.
Can also be used for defrosting windshields.


Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have made a trademark of their surnames which is known throughout the world. The strong identity of the Dolce&Gabbana brand has evolved over the years without ever forgetting its roots. An unmistakable style, which, season after season, combines strong innovation with the Mediterranean flavour of its origins. A brand whose essence lies in its contrasting features.


Make Christmas extra special and exciting this year with our Santa Footprint stencil! Perfect as decoration and to get the kids excited that Santa has been in the house. You can create magical moments and memories with this fun and easy project.
This ScanNCut project is a great beginner project for those who have just started on the ScanNCut journey!
Step 1: You can either download the ScanNCut file (.fcm) and save this onto a USB to plug directly into your ScanNCut machine or download the ScanNCut CanvasWorkspace file (.svg) which will allow you to alter the design online and send it to your machine via Wireless.
Step 2: Install the Standard ScanNCut Blade into your ScanNCut by following the steps outlined in your machines quick reference guide.
Step 3: Place your scrapbooking card onto a Standard Mat making sure it sticks well. You can use some 505 spray directly to the media and then place it onto your mat to ensure that it sticks properly. The last thing you want is your media moving when it's cutting out your design.
Step 5: Load the design from either the USB or via CanvasWorkspace using your Wireless connection depending on which method you selected in Step 1. Do a scan of the mat to ensure that the design does not go over the edge and allows room for your test cut.
Step 6: (SDX owners may jump to step 7 unless you are using an unfamiliar medium). For all other ScanNCut models don't forget to do a test cut! Cutting a small hole in the corner of your mat is a lot less upsetting than cutting a large design straight through your mat.
On my main screen choose the 'test' button. We usually use the 'square' test and place it in the top left hand side corner of my mat. Referring to the ScanNCut Educational Binder that came with the ScanNCut machine, the cheat sheet on machine settings found on page 9 is very useful. If you have to, do a few test cuts to ensure you have the correct blade settings before moving onto the next step.
Step 7: Once you have the design lined up on the media, choose the 'cut' option and select 'Start' or press play to cut out your design.
Step 8: Once the machine has completed cutting the design, unload the mat from the ScanNCut and gently peel off the card. You will now have a template of a single boot.
Hint: You can either cut out 2 boots or use one and simply flip it over to create a right foot.
Step 9: Place the template on floor in your desired location (we suggest in front of a fireplace or near the Christmas tree) and gently sprinkle flour/icing sugar/baby powder or similar substance to fill in the cut out sections. Take extra care not to spill over the edge of the card otherwise you will be left with an outline.
Step 10: Repeat Step 9 until you have created a trail of foot prints as desired.
Step 11: Enjoy seeing the reaction on the kids faces when they discover Santa has left some footprints in or around the house!


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WOMEN ON THE CROSS
MORTAL MIGRATIONS
VISION 20/20
P.I.C.H.A.S.
EVA'n'ESSENCE
ULYSSES, Fate and Destiny
MENORAH Final period
When Death became an Industry
The Everyday SCULPTED
Home » About Me
Memory resides in the bones…
and atavistic, hides a code.
Imagination flutters in the air…
and free, proposes a challenge.
Awareness comes
from deciphering the code
and facing the challenge.
Once Intelligence
has been activated, one can begin
to breathe, to dream, to think,
to delight, to inform, to transform,
to make Art… until our bones
return to the bottom of the sea
and our spirits diffuse
into the freedom
of the total void.
Jean Paul Leon (born 1955) is a French/Spanish artist, sculptor, writer, known mainly for his work Unisson which assembles three art collections on the three Mediterranean Religions, calling for understanding and dialogue among the people of the three cultures. His book Heritage, prefaced by French Minister Jack Lang and recommended by The Louvre Museum curator Lizzie Boubli is the first of the trilogy.
Leon was raised in France and Spain and educated in England in the Classics, Greek, and Latin. At age 7 and a half, Leon met Pablo Ruíz Picasso, a comrade of his grandfather. Meeting the man and visiting his studio had a major and lasting impact on his life. At age 11, Leon won a nationwide writing contest sponsored by Coca-Cola.
As a Writer
By 16, he had published his first article for the newspaper El Norte de Castilla, under the auspices of laureate Miguel Delibes, where years later, he became a columnist. At 19, he began writing as a freelancer for the magazine Triunfo, publishing in-depth interviews with English folk-singer-songwriters John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, and others. His latest publication is Last Judgement, a short story published by Grafein, Barcelona in April 2015 for the benefit of Doctors Without Borders. At 18, he began a series of solo art exhibits curated by Chantal Hinaut through the Alliance Française.
By 23, he had married and moved to New York City, where, on the very first exhibit of his drawings, he was selected as 'most promising young artist' at New York's Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit.
At 24, he had his first one-man-show on Madison Avenue, N.Y.C., at Barbara Walter's Gallery. From there, he continued exhibiting until the 90's when he moved to Hollywood to work in the film and animation industry. In 2003, after 12 years in Los Angeles, he returned to Paris, where he began exhibiting again and continued working on a lifelong choice of subject: Light and Luminaries, their contribution to universal culture.
In 2006, this oeuvre, encompassing 30 years of work on the Menorah as conducting wire and symbol of light was assembled in the art book Héritage, prefaced by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang and recommended by The Louvre Museum curator Lizzie Boubli. The book Heritage, which unites the artist's paintings and his writings, in three languages, was edited by Michael Neugebauer, published by MinEdition France and sponsored by the Culture Mission of La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris. while presided by French Minister Simone Veil, survivor of Bergen-Belsen and first woman President of the European Parliament. Richard Covington, writer for the Smithsonian, New York Times and International Herald Tribune described the work saying: "There's an incandescent energy here that rewards every viewing with unexpected revelations, keeping the eye and brain off-balance and alive".
In 2005-2006, the exhibition of this collection, presented by the Jewish Museum of Belgium at the Royal Cathedral of Brussels as Menorah in the Cathedral, sponsored by Duchess Esther Kervyn and by invitation of Cardinal Godfried Daneels. and dealt with the pain and rift between the Christian and Hebraic communities. This exhibit resulted in a historic meeting of the two communities, as reflected in the Flemish newspaper De Standaard. The exhibit was inaugurated by Bishop of Brussels Monsignor Jozef De Kesel. Addressing Baron Georges Schnek, President of the Consistoire and of the Museum, and Albert Guigi, Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Europe, De Kesel presented his apologies for crimes perpetrated against the Jews in May 1370 and commemorated on the windows of the Cathedral of Brussels and many others in Belgium, known as The Brussels massacre. This milestone marked the first step into the artist's compilation of work later assembled as Unisson.
During this period, while museum, gallery exhibits and public conferences succeeded one another, the artist started work on a new collection: I.N.R.I. Ieusus Nazarenus Rex Iudeurum (oil on wood panels over large crosses) 33 incisive portraits that depict the figure of Jesus Christ and its varying socio/psychological aspects as His myth travelled through the last 2000 years as explained by Clare McAndrews of Arts Economics in her article, Jean Paul Leon: Portrait of an Artist. In the prologue to the book I.N.R.I. by Jean Paul León, notable British writer Philip Pullman, author of The Dark Materials & The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ, observes: ″These pictures represent a formidable attempt to grapple with the legacy of the most strange and enigmatic man who ever lived.″
In 2007, Jean Paul Leon moved his studio to Dublin, starting with an invitation by publisher and founder Noelle Campbell-Sharp for residence artist at the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, where he created Ulysses, Fate and Destiny, an art collection illustrating the 18 chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses (novel), exploring the subject of Leopold Bloom as the figure of the ever wandering Jew, and Homer's Odysseus as the ultimate hero facing the peril of death at every turn of his journey back home to his kingdom, to his Ithaca.
After completing Ulysses, Fate & Destiny in Dublin, Jean Paul Leon settled in Berlin, focusing his energy on a pending collection, Reflections of Islam, started in 1978 when, during his honeymoon in the Sahara, he was given a copy of the Qur'an by a fellow traveller. The work was taken up again in 1991, during the invasion of Kuwait, in another desert, the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, where the bulk of the work was created with 3D objects and mirrors that reflect the viewer and incorporate him/her into the artwork, projecting exterior images and interior reflections. The resulting body of work is based on the readings of the text, on contemplation, on the mirror of the desert, on the oasis, on the sand, on the wind, on his love for calligraphy, on the spell of La Alhambra & its unique tendency to travel with him, not only in the arabesque & the filigree of time but on the most ogival confines of the imagination. The three collections: Hebrew Heritage, I.N.R.I. & Reflections of Islam, conform Unisson, the result of Jean Paul Leon's lifelong dedication and his ultimate conviction… considering that when a seeker enters through the threshold of the three monotheistic religions, he secretly expects Maggid – to hear the voice of God – but inevitably stumbles upon the restricted realm of mankind. Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo. In his introduction to the artist, leading Art Appraiser of the City of Paris, Maître Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, writes: "the light in art, as Jean Paul Leon shows us, will lead us towards intelligence."
© 2022 Jean Paul Leon


Faye has stolen all the money and vanished. Ed is told to track her down on the computer. While Ed doesn't find Faye, she does find a mysterious code name, Julia, coming from the Blue Crow Bar on Jupiter's fourth moon, Callisto. Spike takes off for the moon, much to Jet's chagrin. With his partner gone, Jet begins to look for Faye.


Energy, Enviornment and Climate Change Minister Lily D'Ambrosio, Premier Daniel Andrews, Ripon Labor candidate Sarah De Santis and Ararat Mayor Gwenda Allgood at the announcement at Ararat on Tuesday.
THE announcement of six new solar and wind projects for Victoria is another step in the right direction for the development of Ballarat's renewable training centre says the Committee For Ballarat.
On Tuesday, Premier Daniel Andrews and Energy, Environment and Climate Change minister Lily D'Ambrosio announced the creation of six new wind energy projects which have been secured through Victoria's first renewable energy auction.
They will produce 928MW of renewable energy, enough to power almost 650,000 households.
In Ararat to make the announcement, Mr Andrews said the projects aimed to generate $1.1 billion of economic investment in regional Victoria and create more than 900 jobs, including 270 apprenticeships and traineeships.
It comes as the results of a $50,000 business case into Federation University's proposed $11 million training centre is imminent.
Committee For Ballarat chief executive Melanie Robertson said while she was not aware of specific in confidence details surrounding the winning bids, she understood in-principle support for a Ballarat-based training facility formed part of the auction bids.
"We're talking about 15-30 year jobs," Ms Robertson said.
New solar and wind farms will be constructed near regional cities and towns including Geelong, Mildura, Echuca, Warrnambool, Mortlake, and Benalla.
The announcement comes on top of recent approvals for project including Lal Lal windfarm and large-scale proposals for Rokewood, Moorabool and Stockyard Hill.
Ms Robertson said she was encouraged that the biggest sites would all be within 200km of Ballarat, making the city the perfect training centre.
"It's an energy transformation like we've never seen before. Investment like we've never seen before," she said.
Climate Council acting chief executive Martin Rice said the move would boost clean energy generation, contributing towards renewable energy targets.
"This is a major boost for what was once the nation's brown coal capital," he said.


Select this option to add a 45 degree "Bull Nose" chamfer on the front edges of your Glock slide.
This is a great standalone addition to your custom slide or add it in conjunction with one of our other slide milling packages.
This option includes the Bull Nose Chamfer cut only.


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Раиса Макаровна Беспалова (по мужу Еремеева; 21 января 1925, Курилово — 18 декабря 1993, Саранск) — советская оперная певица (меццо-сопрано), педагог, народная артистка РСФСР (1970).

Биография
Раиса Макаровна Беспалова (Еремеева) родилась 21 января 1925 года в селе Курилово Саранского уезда (ныне — в , Мордовия) в крестьянской семье. Эрзянка по национальности. Участвовала в работе драматического кружка.

В 1944—1949 годах училась в Мордовской национальной оперной студии при Саратовской консерватории им. Л. Собинова, затем до 1952 года — в Саратовской консерватории.

С августа 1952 года была солисткой Мордовского ансамбля песни и пляски «Умарина». С 1959 года была солисткой Государственного музыкально-драматического театра Мордовской АССР (c 1969 года — Театр музыкальной комедии, сейчас Музыкальный театр имени И. М. Яушева). Однако в 1973 году была вынуждена уйти из театра.

В 1973—1989 годах работала педагогом в Саранском музыкальном училище им. Л. П. Кирюкова.

Избиралась депутатом Саранского горсовета (1957 год) и Совета Национальностей Верховного Совета СССР (1962 год).

Умерла 18 декабря 1993 года в Саранске.

Семья

 Отец — Макар Фомич Беспалов, эрзянин, играл на балалайке, любил петь.
 Мать — Крестиния Силантьевна Хлопотова.
 Муж — певец (тенор) Дмитрий Иванович Еремеев (1927—2006), заслуженный артист РСФСР, народный артист Мордовской АССР.

Награды и премии
 Орден «Знак Почёта» (07.03.1960).
 Народная артистка Мордовской АССР (1964).
 Заслуженная артистка РСФСР (07.02.1966).
 Народная артистка РСФСР (12.06.1970).
 медали.

Арии в операх
 «Пиковая дама» П. Чайковского — Полина
 «Кармен» Ж. Бизе — Кармен
 «Чио-Чио-сан» Дж. Пуччини — Сузуки
 «Литова» Л. П. Кирюкова — Литова и Варда
 «Сильва» И. Кальмана — Сильва
 «Марица» И. Кальмана — Марица
 «Лакме» Л. Делиба — Малика
 «Евгений Онегин» П. Чайковского — Ольга
 «Весёлая вдова» ф. Легара — Ганна
 «Нормальня» Л. Кирюкова — Важяй
 «Цыганский барон» И. Штрауса — Чипра
 «Севастопольский вальс» К. Листова — Нина
 «Вольный ветер» И. Дунаевского — Клементина
 «Русалка» А. Даргомыжского — Княгиня
 «В бурю» Т. Хренникова — Аксинья
 «Невеста грома» К. Акимова и Ф. Атянина — Царица Туча

Литература
 Беспалова Р. М. Творчество жизни // Театральная жизнь. — 1966. — № 7. — С. 5.

Примечания

Ссылки

Выпускники Саратовской консерватории
Народные артисты Мордовской АССР
Персоналии:Музыкальный театр имени И. М. Яушева
Депутаты Саранского городского совета
Депутаты Совета Национальностей 6-го созыва

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The main focus of this coaching is to train you to connect with your audience, engage them and keep them engaged throughout the whole talk.
Usually, when you have a conversation with someone, you automatically adapt your body language, intonation, and storytelling to the person in front of you, which makes the person feel considered, interested and therefore open to your points and willing to listen.
When you face a crowd, however, everything changes: you become focused on yourself, on your words and tone, on your body language, on your slides.
And that makes you lose the personal connection that you have when you talk to one person and that can make a conversation so interesting - the presentation becomes cold and impersonal: it's as if you were talking to a camera.
My goal, then, is to enable you to recreate this personal connection between speaker and audience, and I reach this goal by looking at all the elements that make conversations work and by building them into this coaching.
This is the starting point, it means starting the presentation by focusing only on the audience.
If we do this, we are then able to read them and their non-verbal cues, i.e. their side of the conversation.
Once that is clear, and we can "listen" to them, we can bridge a connection by engaging in a conversation. Basically, if you show the audience that you react to the cues they give you, they will feel considered and more open to listen to you.
This also includes changing your register and vocabulary according to who is in front of you.
Once you have built a basic rapport with the audience by engaging in a conversation, you can build on it and establish an emotional connection with them. Simply put, people are not sitting there to listen to some random person reading the slides, they are sitting in the audience to listen to you and understand who you are. If you give them access to who you are by connecting at an emotional level, you give an added value to your content, which is an easier access to you and your story.
The second reason to use empathy has to do with the effectiveness of your presentation. If you think about it, every memory we have is linked to a strong emotion, and the stronger the emotion, the more vivid the memory. If this is true, then it is also true that emotions frame memories, and if you incorporate an emotional aspect in your presentation, you up your chances of delivering your message and making sure that it stays in the audience's memory.
Stories are an extremely powerful weapon to engage audiences. We - meaning human beings - have told and listened to stories for millennia. Because of this, we resonate tremendously well to good storytelling.
In this section we will work on how to build a story, what the building blocks are and what elements can make it effective and engaging, and how we can incorporate perspective-taking and empathy in a story to build rapport.


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Q: Python vs Java, For-Loop I was trying a simple recursive problem in python and was stumped by the for-loop-esq implementation in python. The implementation uses the range(x,y,z) function.
Here is the code in python:
num = 25
f1 = 0
f2 = 1

for num in range(1,num,1):
    num = f1 + f2
    f1 = f2
    f2 = num

print("num is : ", num)

Same code in java:
int num = 25;
int f1 = 0;
int f2 = 1;
for(int i = 1; i < num; i++){
    num = f1 + f2;
    f1 = f2;
    f2 = num;
}
System.out.println("# at 25 is : " + num);

The java implementation will never spit out the right answer (75025) because num is overwritten in the first line of the for-loop (num = f1 + f2).
Where as in python, the code executes and delivers the right answer. How come? Does python implement some sort of i counter under the hood?
I'm using the pyCharm debugger to test this.

A: I believe the difference is that the range function in Python has arguments passed by value. So even after you give the num variable a new value, the function still holds on to the 25 you gave it originally, and thus iterates 25 times.
In Java the loop is checking the value of num after every iteration to see when to stop. Since the value of num changed to 1 during the first iteration, it met the criteria to stop the loop, so it only iterates one time.
I hope that makes sense!

A: In the first iteration of the for loop, you set num to 1 (num = f1 + f2). Since num is used in your loop condition, the loop will stop after the first iteration. To get it working the same way as the python code you will need another variable and keep num at 25
    int num = 25;
    int f1 = 0;
    int f2 = 1;
    int res = 0;
    for (int i = 1; i < num; i++) {
        res = f1 + f2;
        f1 = f2;
        f2 = res;
    }
    System.out.println("# at 25 is : " + res);

A: My guess is that the function in range(1, num, 1) only sees something like this in range(1,25,1) or in other word it is function with arguments passed by value.
The return value of the function range should be something like [1,2,3 ...25].


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Crain Caton & James provides legal counseling and client-focused solutions locally and around the world. Our attorneys are recognized for their contributions to the legal community, their practical expertise, and their legal scholarship by contributing to standard legal texts and presenting papers and speeches to lay and legal audiences.
Leading Today
In addition to the traditional areas of oil, gas, and real-estate law, Crain Caton & James provides legal services in several other areas. Those areas include: administrative, appellate, banking and financial services, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, business planning and taxation, commercial litigation, employment and labor law, energy, environmental, estate planning, fiduciary litigation, insurance and personal injury, intellectual property, international business transactions, probate, trust and guardianship, real estate, and securities.
Crain Caton & James is a Houston based law firm that not only represents clients in Houston and all over the state of Texas but also represents clients across the U.S. and its borders. Depending on the practice area, some areas have more clients outside of Houston and Texas than other areas. At the end of the day we are able to represent clients either locally or from abroad.
The firm's attorneys are graduates of prestigious law schools and universities. Over 10 attorneys affiliated with the firm are jurists on both the federal and state benches. Four members of the firm have served as president of the Houston Bar Association.
Founded in 1912 as Kennerly & Warnken, Crain Caton & James has grown into a stable law firm of over 40 lawyers and their highly-qualified support staff without a merger.
Thomas M. Kennerly and Charles A. Warnken established the Houston firm Kennerly & Warnken in 1912. Initially named for its founders, the Firm name changed over the years to include new shareholders. In 1985, the Firm institutionalized the name of Crain Caton & James.
Thomas M. Kennerly received no formal legal education, but taught himself the law by reading numerous law books. He apprenticed for a judge in Giddings, Texas before passing the Texas state bar exam at 19. In 1931, he was appointed United States District Judge, affecting Texas jurisprudence for generations to come.
The Houston Oil Company kept attorneys busy with land law in the East Texas oil fields in the early years of the Firm. During the early 1900s, the Houston Oil Company owned or controlled about 800,000 acres of timberland in East Texas and Louisiana. As a result, the Firm played a key role in shaping the modern-day interpretation of real estate and energy law in Texas.
Although the Firm eventually branched into other areas of law, these early years began a strong tradition of oil, gas, and real estate law that continues at Crain Caton & James today.
Crain Caton & James understands the importance of Firm Culture and the need to have a collegial and collaborative environment. After all its employees spend a considerable amount of time at the office and finding a way to make is somewhat enjoyable just makes sense. Longevity of both staff and attorneys can be found at Crain Caton & James. Over 55% of the staff have been at the firm for more than 10 years which goes a long way in supporting the importance of culture by management. Attorneys also tend to remain at Crain Caton & James once they get here.
Our clients are found in various industries, including:
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5 Black Canadian authors you should be reading right now
February 22, 2019 CanCulture Magazine
By Chloe Cook
February is Black History Month, and there's no time like the present to start reading some of Canada's most celebrated black authors.
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Dionne Brand is an award winning poet, novelist and documentarian. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1953, Brand moved to Canada after high school to attend the University of Toronto. In 2017, she was admitted to the Order of Canada. Brand is also an outspoken activist for women's and immigrant issues in Canada.
Dionne Brand's must read: What We All Long For. This is a story of a group of friends who are learning to balance the difficulties that young adulthood and life throw their way. Based in Toronto, this novel shares stories of people from all different backgrounds and shows a true representation of Toronto's diversity.
Photo courtesy Daniel Harasymchuk/Wikimedia Commons
Esi Edugyan is a black fiction novelist from Alberta, Canada. She wrote her first book, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, which gained critical acclaim at just 24-years-old. She often writes about the black experience from a historical perspective, showing that the themes from yesterday still hold true today.
Esi Edugyan's must read: Washington Black. In the latest novel by Edugyan, Washington Black is an 11 year old boy who is born and raised on a plantation in Barbados until his master's brother chooses him to become his personal manservant. Washington Black explores the complexities of relationships and freedom in this deeply moving tale.
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Dany Laferrière is a French Canadian author whose many literary works have garnered a lot of attention throughout the years. He was born in Haiti and moved to Canada in 1978 where he began a career as a journalist. Shortly thereafter, he made the jump into fiction writing in 1985. While his works are written in French, they are mostly all translated into English for us anglophones to enjoy.
Dany Laferrière's must read: How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired. Published in 1985, this novel launched Laferrière's career. Provocative, witty and charming, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, gives a biting look into the life of a Black man living in Montreal.
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Lawrence Hill is a wildly popular novelist from Newmarket, Ont. In his youth, Hill sought to be an Olympic athlete but turned to writing as a teenager. He started his career in journalism and eventually became the parliamentary bureau chief for a newspaper in Ottawa where he covered Parliament Hill and the Supreme Court before moving to Spain to write fiction full time.
Lawrence Hill's must read: The Book of Negroes. Easily Hill's most popular book, The Book of Negroes tells the story of Aminata Diallo, a young woman who escapes her slave owner after being abducted from her village. She goes on to work for the British Army, creating The Book of Negroes, a ledger with all of the names of slaves that were freed by the British side during the Revolutionary War. The Book of Negroes is a real document that can been seen in the National Archives in London, England.
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André Alexis has gained a lot of buzz recently for his fictional works. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1957 and moved to Ottawa where he started a career in theatre. Throughout his stage career and up until present day, he wrote novels and short stories. Alexis now lives in Toronto where he continues writing while also teaching english and creative writing at the University of Toronto.
André Alexis' must read: Fifteen Dogs. This follows the story of 15 dogs who are given human consciousness after Greek gods, Hermes and Apollo, make a wager in a Toronto bar one night. Fifteen Dogs studies the human condition and its many complexities as the dogs adapt to their newfound capabilities. Make sure to keep an eye out for all of the Toronto landmarks named in this novel, too!
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The Zapping Story of Benjamin Franklin's Electricity
Contributor: Jay Gregorio. Lesson ID: 13411
Have you ever wondered how electricity was discovered? Benjamin Franklin's theories on electricity are the focus of this lesson. Learn the truth behind his electrifying story!
Auditory, Kinesthetic
When electricity was first discovered, the feeling must have been electrifying!
While this energizing discovery caused great excitement as it changed the world, it also brought confusion and misunderstanding.
When did this zapping story about electricity begin?
Who were the people behind it?
Let's find out!
Have you ever flown a kite?
Scientist Benjamin Franklin is often shown flying a kite.
What does this have to do with electricity?
Many people associate the image of Franklin flying a kite with the invention of electricity. However, Franklin did not actually invent electricity. He simply discovered it!
Electricity has always existed. Studies have shown that, even as early as 600 B.C., people were intrigued by this unknown phenomenon. In ancient Greece, they would rub fur on amber to observe what we now know is static electricity!
Amber is a fossilized resin from wood. Resin is a sticky substance in which insects or plant debris can easily get entangled, and eventually trapped, as it dries out. When rubbed with fur, they become attracted to each other. This was the first recorded history of electricity!
Benjamin Franklin: Shock and Awe
When people talk about electricity, they always mention Benjamin Franklin and the iconic image of him flying a kite as lightning strikes in the background.
One June afternoon in 1752, as the skies began to darken over Philadelphia, Franklin supposedly conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electrical in nature. He tied a metal key to a kite and let it fly during a thunderstorm!
Many of the stories mention that the key was struck by lightning. If that were true, Franklin would have been electrocuted.
So, how did he prepare for this death-defying experiment?
He made a simple kite and attached a wire to its top as a lightning rod. At the bottom of the kite, he attached a hemp string and then a silk string, which was the part attached to the door of his shed. He used silk string because it remains dry. The last step was attaching the metal key to the hemp string.
Later, he noticed that the loose threads of the hemp string started standing erect. He then placed his finger close to the key and...voila! There was a spark!
He was in awe of, and had a literal shock from, this promising appearance!
Franklin then used a Leyden jar to collect the "electric fire" from the key. A Leyden jar can trap high-voltage electricity so that it can be held and discharged at a later time.
Image by James Edward Henry Gordon, via Wikimedia Commons, is in the public domain.
The Thread-Rising Experience
Franklin's experiment only increased his interest in electricity.
In fact, he turned his home on Market Street in Philadelphia into a laboratory where he designed instruments using available household items. He even used a wire leading from an iron rod attached to his chimney to carry electricity inside his home.
This rod and the key in a lightning storm may sound unsafe, but the truth is much calmer than the lightning bolts of electricity retold in the stories.
No lightning actually hit Franklin's iron rod or metal key. Instead, there was a buildup within clouds of electrical charges that were on the verge of being discharged to the ground in the form of lightning.
Some of these charges were encountered by the kite and rod. This was evidenced by the spark produced by the metal key and the loose hemp thread rising in the kite experiment.
When Franklin used the Leyden jar to collect these charges, he also proved that electricity as we know it can be collected, stored, and distributed later.
To learn more about this electrifying story, you can read The Electric Ben Franklin, from Independence Hall Association, or watch Franklin's Discoveries, from Bobblehead George:
The Century of Enlightenment
About 15 years later, a British chemist named Joseph Priestley published an account of Benjamin Franklin's experiment along with other "discoveries" of electricity in The History and Present Stare of Electricity, With Original Experiments.
During the 18th century, many scientists struggled to understand electricity's natural properties, such as attraction and repulsion. Benjamin Franklin coined the following terms that we know today:
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minus (negatively)
Benjamin Franklin went on to design the lightning rod, an iron rod attached to the top of a building and connected to a wire. The wire-transported lightning strikes harmlessly to the ground. Before this, buildings struck by lightning often caught on fire.
This was a remarkable discovery, and many tall structures and skyscrapers in the United States and Europe still use lightning rods.
Clearly, Franklin didn't discover electricity. However, he was the first to create a hypothesis about lightning and electricity, and then he conducted successful experiments to prove it!
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Virgil Suárez
AWP | January 2018
Event Title: A Reading and Conversation with Ishion Hutchinson, Maggie Smith, and Virgil Suárez
Description: Join three critically-acclaimed poets in conversation. Ishion Hutchinson is the author of two poetry collections, Far District and House of Lords and Commons. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, a Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, and the Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among others. Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. She is the winner of the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry, the Dorset Prize, the Benjamin Saltman Award, and a 2011 NEA Fellowship. Virgil Suárez is the author of over twenty-five books of short fiction, poetry, memoir, and novels, including his most recent collection of poems, 90 Miles: Selected and New.
Participants: Ishion Hutchinson, Maggie Smith, Virgil Suárez
Location: Ballroom A & B, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
Date & Time:Friday, March 9, 8:30–10:00 p.m.
Q: What are some of the conference events (besides your own) or bookfair exhibitors you look forward to seeing?
A: I am looking forward to visiting the bookfair and seeing many old editor friends.
Q: What book or books that you've read over the last year would you most highly recommend?
A: Adam Johnson's Fortune Smile: Stories
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A: To witness, to voice dissent, and to speak out against obvious injustices.
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Q: If you could run into any author, contemporary or historical, at #AWP18, who would it be and what would you talk about?
A: I would love to have a good heart to heart with Edgar Allen Poe.
Q: If you've been to Tampa before, what places do you recommend that our attendees should visit?
A: The Dali Museum. And of course dine and wine in historic Ybor City.
Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba. He is the author of four novels, among them Latin Jazz and The Cutter. He has edited a multitude of anthologies with his wife Delia Poey, including Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction and Little Habana Blues: Cuban-American Literature. With Ryan G. Van Cleave, he also co-edited two anthologies, Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America and Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality.He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently 90 Miles: Selected and New Poems, and The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana is his most recent collection of short stories. An avid photographer and mixed-media artist, when he is not writing, he is out riding his Yamaha V-Star 1100 Classic up and down the Blue Highways of the United States. He lives and works in Florida.


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Home TV & Audio TV & Home Theatre How to use a Google Cast Television
How to use a Google Cast Television
Erin Lawrence
You've heard of 1080p, and likely 4K TVs but another new type of TV on the market is emerging, and it operates just a bit differently than regular TVs or Smart TVs; it's called a Cast TV. These TVs exclusively use Google's special TV software called Cast, so they do have some limitations for iOS and Windows users. Let's find out what Cast TVs are all about and how they operate differently.
What is Google Cast and how does it work?
Google Cast is the brand name of Google's TV software package. It can give you multi-screen and audio experiences by connecting the devices like your smartphone, tablet or computer to your TV.
The act of transferring the content from your smart device or computer is called "Casting," as in broadcasting. With Google Cast, casting content is as simple as pressing a button from inside your favourite app. With Google Cast, you can still use your phone or device for other tasks while casting your entertainment to a TV screen.
Your phone is the Casting portal
With Google Cast, and its cousin Google Chromecast (Chromecast is an external streaming device use to help make "dumb" or older TVs, smart. Read more about it, here), you do not have a remote control for your TV. You use apps on your phone, and in essence zap the content in them to your TV. For example, with a Cast TV, (or Google Chromecast) you wouldn't dial up Netflix on your TV, you load the Netflix app on your phone or tablet, and then send it to the TV.
What works with Google Cast?
The Google Cast system is quite accessible. You can of course cast from Google's Android tablets and smartphones, but you can also use iPhones, iPads, Mac, Windows and Chromebooks to cast content to your TV or speakers. It's important to note, however, you can't cast Apple TV content from Apple's iTunes Store to a Google device.
What can I watch on Google Cast?
Using any of the above devices, you'll next need to download TV apps to find content to watch. Apps (think of them as channels) include YouTube, Crackle, MLB.TV, plus sports, gaming, weather, and other TV and movie apps too, like HBO Now, Showtime, and Food Network. There are more than 1,000 apps which are cast-enabled. Click here for the list.
How to Cast on a Cast TV
Google's instructions for using your Cast TV couldn't be more simple:
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2. Open a Cast-enabled app like YouTube or Netflix on your smartphone or smart device.
3. Tap the 'Cast' button from within the app to begin playing.
4. In some cases you'll need to select which Google device to send your content to, for example, if you have a Cast TV, and a Chromecast external streaming device. The content will now appear on your TV.
You can also mirror your smartphone or computer's screen on your Cast TV if you have an Android device running Android 4.4.2 or higher, but sadly mirroring your screen is not possible on iOS or Windows devices.
Who makes Google Cast TVs?
Several manufacturers build TV sets that use the Google Cast platform, such as Sony and Vizio. That lets the manufacturers of the hardware do what they do best, while allowing the software side of things to be handled by a company (Google) that does that side well. Google does not actually build TVs.
When I Cast from my smart device, does it use up data on my phone?
Casting doesn't eat up your data. Your phone essentially becomes a remote control, or what Google refers to as a "pointer and authenticator" to act as a go-between from your Cast TV and your home network. The TV is only using internet data from your home's Wi-Fi.
Casting from a computer
You can use your PC to cast video content from the web to your Cast TV easily. To cast from a Windows or Mac computer, you need to install the latest version of Google's web browser, called Chrome, then install the "Google Cast" extension from the Chrome web store. (Fortunately, later versions of the Chrome browser will come equipped with Google Cast built right in). Chrome is a web browser, just like Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer is, and it's a free download.
Once you've got Chrome installed, simply go to the website you want to play content from, like HGTV.ca , history.ca , or any other website with TV content. Load the video you want to watch, and hit the Cast button which will be imbedded somewhere in your browser's frame.
Admittedly using Google's Cast platform is a bit different than a typical smart TV. Because the content doesn't reside inside the Cast TV, but it lives in your phone, it's a different mindset to get used to. But once you try it, you'll find it's easy enough to operate and get accustomed to.
Check out some of the TVs powered by Google Cast at Best Buy.
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Endowed Professor Spotlight – Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Endowed Professor Spotlight
For the faculty at Hobart and William Smith, there is no greater honor than receiving an endowed professorship. The appointment increases opportunities and financial support for faculty research, scholarship and academic initiatives while celebrating the best and brightest teacher-scholars at HWS. Here we offer a glimpse of some of our current recipients:
Nick Ruth
Professor of Art and Architecture Nick Ruth, the Class of 1964 Endowed Professor, is an award-winning painter and printmaker whose work has appeared in more than 100 exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Kevin Dunn
Political Science Professor Kevin Dunn, the Donald R. Harter '39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, has produced a wide-ranging body of scholarship examining international relations theory, African politics, and punk rock around the world.
Michael Dobkowski
A member of the Colleges' faculty since 1976, Professor of Religious Studies Michael Dobkowski has been named the John Milton Potter Chair in the Humanities. Dobkowski is a scholar of the American Jewish experience, Holocaust Studies, religion and violence, Jewish thought, and anti-Semitism.
Renee Monson
Renee Monson, the 2020-25 Joseph P. DiGangi Professor, studies how gender relations, families, national politics and social policy intersect in society. She has conducted research on student learning outcomes, family patterns and election outcomes, and on the effects of U.S. welfare reform and child support policies.
Kristy Kenyon
Kristy Kenyon, the 2020-2025 Philip J. Moorad and Margaret N. Moorad Professor in the Sciences, has focused her research and teaching in the areas of developmental biology, neuroscience and STEM education.
Clifton Hood
Clifton Hood, the George E. Paulsen '49 Professor of American History and Government, is a nationally recognized expert on the history of New York City, with a particular focus on the city's upper-class, historical memory and mass transit.
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Lara Blanchard, the Luce Professor of East Asian Art and the Lloyd Wright Professor in Conservative Studies, is an award-winning art historian whose scholarship explores the intersections of gender, culture and creativity in a range of eras and media.


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Camila Cabello Reveals Why She Needed Two Tequila Shots Before First Date With Shawn Mendes
Before going out on her first date with Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello says that she calmed her nerves with 2 shots of tequila.
She told the hilarious story about how nervous she was on the latest episode of James Corden's Carpool Karaoke.
"I swear to god, before Shawn and I's first date, I was so nervous I took two tequila shots and sang 'Defying Gravity,'" Cabello said.
"There's just a lot of stakes before the first time. I'm like, 'Oh my god, do I kiss him when I see him?' I don't know," she recalled thinking. "He's about to come over and I'm so nervous I just can't take it. My dad is there and I'm like, 'Pour me two tequila shots, just do it.' And I just sang 'Defying Gravity.'"
The couple's first collaboration was in 2015 for her debut single, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and then, released "Senorita" right before their first public appearance as a couple in the summer of 2019.
The new episode features her, along with Cinderella co-stars Billy Porter and Idina Menzel as they were on their way to the premier of movie. The concept of the film came from James Corden.
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