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The Top 13 IPOs That You Need To Watch Out For In 2021
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." – Warren Buffet
The share market has become an area of interest for the millennials recently and has drawn out quite a bit of attention from the younger generation. With an increasing number of companies going public, we set out to identify the top 13 in our books, those that have got us looking forward to it. But before we hand out the names, let's quickly touch upon what an IPO is, and when a company can go public (of course, you can also just scroll past the b.s. and jump straight to the names as well).
The process of a private company offering shares to the public in a stock issuance is known as IPO (Initial Public Offering). Before an IPO, a company remains private. As such, it can grow rapidly but with only enough capital for its small number of shareholders and employees.
Once a private company reaches a threshold in the growth process, where it believes it is mature for the rigors of SEC regulations with all its benefits and responsibilities to public shareholders, they register their IPO with SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India). They are done through an Initial Public Offering Draft Prospectus (DRHP) as well as an IPO Red Herring Prospectus (RHP) or Final prospectus which makes them one of many new IPOs on the market today.
When Can a Company Go Public In India?
In India, a company can go public (offer IPOs), once they meet the following criterion:
The company must have a net worth (assets – liabilities) of at least 1crore for each of the last 3 years.
The company must have tangible assets of at least Rs. 3 crore in each of the 3 preceding years. Out of these assets, a maximum of 50% must be held in monetary assets.
The average operating profit for each of the last three years must be at least Rs. 15 crore.
If the company has changed its name in the last year it must have earned at least 50% of the revenue for the preceding full year from the activity indicated by the new name.
The existing paid-up share capital of the company must be fully paid or forfeited. This means that the company looking for an IPO should not have partly paid-up shares as a part of its equity.
There is something so tantalizing about a company going public, it's like they're putting on their best face for the world to see. Buy those right new stocks at discounted prices and you could wind up making your dreams come true. Investing in IPOs means a chance for quick, easy profit-making with only some risk involved – and there are quite often exceptional opportunities where it pays off tremendously well!
The public sector has been able to successfully raise over ₹ 25,000 crores, despite the pandemic decimating the third and fourth quarters of FY 2020. This robust increase in funds proves that people are still confident about India's future even with a major health crisis looming.
The SEBI has been flooded with requests for IPOs. In the past few months alone over 80 companies have walked through their doors to acquire certifications needed to come out with an IPO next year. For investors, this means more opportunities than ever before. The IPO market is expected to see a variety of major big releases thanks to the strong momentum that's guiding Sensex and Nifty into record highs in 2021. The IPO hype for FY 2021 is already in full swing, with a long list of companies lining up to go public. Let's have a look at the top 13 IPOs that are getting investors excited and optimistic in 2021.
One97 Communications Limited (Paytm)
Paytm is the leader of India's mobile payments market with a whopping 200 million active users and 16 million merchants. It has even acquired an IP while waiting for its IPO, which doesn't make it sound like they're exactly in too big of a hurry to get their money out.
Bajaj Energy Limited
Bajaj Energy is one of the largest private-sector thermal generation companies in Uttar Pradesh. In a partnership with Lalitpur Power Generation Company Limited, (LPGCL), with a total gross installed capacity of 2,430 MW and an 850 MW management contract from LPGCL's 1st plant for 25 years until 2040 where they will be delivering 450 GW to India's grid on behalf of BEL; it seems that this agreement certainly has the potential to grow into something big!
Policybazaar Insurance Brokers Private Limited
Policybazaar, also backed by industry giant SoftBank, the online insurance company is said to be eying a 2021 IPO at a valuation of 3.5 billion dollars or $3.5B for short! The company is also aiming to attain upwards of 250 million dollars (or $250M) at a company valuation of 2 billion dollars before its IPO – which has been set in September 2020 and will take place that same month with an estimated total value from analysts' estimates between 20-30 Billion Dollars ($20-$30B).
SBI Mutual Funds
The State Bank of India (SBI) Mutual fund is reportedly preparing for an IPO this year. The country's largest lender will kick off the IPO process of its mutual fund joint venture in the next few months after asking investment banks for proposals and holding discussions with its board and shareholder Amundi Asset Management. SBI Mutual Fund, whose current value is around $7 billion, could raise about $1 billion from the public offering. The fund's listing would join UTI Asset Management Co. and HDFC Asset Management Co. to be listed in the Indian market. This would be the third such listing in the country. The first-time share sale at $1 billion could be India's biggest since the $1.4 billion listings by SBI Cards & Payment Services Ltd. in March 2020.
Adani Wilmar Limited
The port-to-power conglomerate, Adani Group is preparing to raise nearly $1 billion in 2021 through an initial public offering (IPO) by their subsidiary company, Adani Wilmar, which is aiming to be India's largest food producer by 2027. The $1 billion to be raised through IPO will give them more leverage and power as well as unlock value for investors.
Zomato Limited
Zomato is a Food Services company in India that sells food worth more than $1B. As of December 31, 2020, the app has 350,174 restaurants listed and 41.5 million monthly average users. According to App Annie's estimates, it includes 350000+ listings for restaurants across 526 cities. The most popular application among those who enjoy eating out. Zomato also has 23 countries outside India, being serviced by them. Zomato Limited is planning to raise around ₹8250 crores via IPO.
Flipkart India Private Limited
A couple of years after the news of Walmart acquiring a stake in Indian online retail website Flipkart hit the market, the retail industry giant is all set to unload its recent acquisition onto the IPO markets. With a valuation of about 25 billion dollars as per its last round of funding, the company would be the first-ever Indian original country to be traded on the US exchange.
Delhivery Private Limited
Delhivery is India's leading e-logistics service provider, with over 20% market share in their sector and a cumulative 780 million raised through financing rounds. With backing from industry giants like Softbank, they are hoping to go public by 2021.
Go Airlines (INDIA) Limited
GoAir, backed by the Wadia Group, is betting big on its ultra-low-cost business model to tide over the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline will be rebranded as 'Go First' and it plans to operate narrow-body aircraft types across its fleet which comprises Airbus A320 (A319) & A321 jets in operation currently with a market share exceeding 9.5% in India.
BYJU'S
With its headquarters in Bengaluru, BYJU's is a pioneer of online education. For the past few years, it has been backed by some of India's leading investors like Lightspeed and Sequoia making their total valuation at 10.8 billion dollars with an estimated 300% increase in engagement after schools started to close down due to financial woes. While they are still waiting for the date on when they will go IPO, there have already been rumors about how Ambani plans on entering this space but that does not mean BYJUs should take anything lightly as competition intensifies every day!
Ola, an Indian cab aggregator that is similar to Zomato with a 55% market share and growing revenue of 39%, has been backed by global giants like Tiger Global alongside Tencent. They are looking towards their company IPO in 2021 at over 3 billion dollars raised so far.
Nykaa E- Retail Private Limited (Nykaa)
Nykaa, the top Indian women's online marketplace with around 15 million registered users and 1.5 million orders a month, which is set to go public later this fiscal at a valuation of $4.5 billion has been able to carve out its niche by providing an excessive focus on beauty products for their customers who are looking for something different than Flipkart or Amazon in that specific category. The company plans to raise between 500-700 Million dollars through an IPO as they prepare themselves financially before going into what will be exciting new territory.
LIC – Life Insurance Corporation Of India
The LIC is set to be the biggest IPO to be ever listed on Indian stock markets and will help The Indian Finance Ministry raise funds for India, as hinted by Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman. They are looking to sell off a 10% stake through an IPO in 2021 and raise funds for government projects worth ₹ 80,000 crores.
Nowadays, it has become simpler to register for an initial public offering because of the online registration process. In India, most national banks and popular stock brokers provide facilities for online IPO applications. An investor must open a Demat account or a trading account with the brokerage institution that provides IPO service to apply online.
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The list of prospective IPOs listed above is subject to significant modification because the information has not yet been updated on any exchanges.


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> Keep multiple browsers & devices in sync when building websites.

BrowserSync is developed and maintained internally at JH, follow @browsersync on twitter for news & updates.

##Features
1. **Scroll** - I can keep your pages in sync when scrolling.
2. **Forms** - You fill out a form in one browser, I'll copy the data to all the others.
3. **Links** - I'll watch your clicks and make all the other browsers follow you.
4. **CSS injecting** - I can even watch your CSS files & inject them when they change.
5. **Live Reload** - I can also watch files like HTML and PHP & when they change I can reload all browsers for you.
6. **Built-in Server** - Yep, I can serve static files too if you need me to (uses Connect).
7. **Use with any back-end setup** - I even have a proxy option so that I can be used with existing PHP, Rails, Python, Node or ASP.net setup.
8. **Public URL** - View your website via a URL that any internet connected device can access & maintain all BrowserSync features.
9. **Browser Stack support** - Use the all of my features when viewing your site through Browser Stack.

##When is it useful?
It's pretty useful when used with a single browser, watching a CSS file for changes & injecting it. But the real power comes when you're building responsive sites and using multiple devices/monitors because it can keep all browsers in sync & make your workflow much faster.

##Install
```
npm install -g browser-sync
```
##How to use it

1. [Command line](http://www.browsersync.io/docs/command-line/)
2. [API](http://www.browsersync.io/docs/api/)

## Using Grunt?
There's a [separate plugin](https://github.com/shakyShane/grunt-browser-sync) for that

## Using Gulp?
No problem, here's a [setup guide](https://github.com/shakyShane/gulp-browser-sync)

## Screencasts
[Some listed here](https://github.com/shakyShane/browser-sync/wiki/Screencasts)
Want any more? Something specific? ask me nicely [@shaneOsbourne](http://www.twitter.com/shaneOsbourne)

##Support
If you've found Browser-sync useful and would like to contribute to its continued development & support, please feel free to send a donation of any size - it would be greatly appreciated!

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## Contributors

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## License
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Licensed under the GPL license.

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TemplateMonster Infographic: the Best Cross-Platform UIs of Today
by Nick Campbell
Graphics, News, Tutorials
In the age of technological innovations, most people interact with different gadgets and devices during the day. It can be a smartphone to communicate with friends, a tablet to surf the web, an MP3 player to listen to music, a smartwatch to check the time, a laptop to work, and many others. To provide seamless interaction with these devices, there were created different cross-platform UIs in the course of time. Some of them became popular among users, while others remained underrated.
If you are interested in exploring this subject deeper, the latest Infographic by TemplateMonster professionals will be helpful for you. But before proceeding to the Infographic, let's check the most widespread cross-platform UIs, namely Windows by Microsoft and iOS by Apple.
Windows 8 was developed to provide an operating system consistent with all the Microsoft products. Designed in the metro style, it featured a clean and readable interface spiced up with bold, flat color accents. The platform didn't only facilitate user experience, but also beautified it dramatically. No wonder, Windows 8 won recognition of users eventually, and soon it found its way to multiple devices, e.g. PCs, tablets, Samsung, Nokia, HTC, Huawei phones, and even Xboxes.
Of course, there were still some users annoyed with colorful blocks, but most people found them really cool and convenient. Consequently, this style was also implemented in the later version of Windows, and we bet Microsoft isn't going to stop on this. The company is constantly seeking for new ways to build an optimal platform for all of its Windows-running devices.
An intuitive interface has always been a calling card of Apple, and iOS 7 is a striking example of it. Unlike the previous versions, the 7th one is deprived of any skeuomorphic elements. Instead, its clean interface boasts clear geometric shapes, ultramodern icons, elegant typography, and translucency. These innovative features caused a boom in the Apple fan base, even though some pessimists were dissatisfied with iOS 7 navigation, parallax effect, etc. But such a tendency seems to be a common practice when something new is invented. In general, replacement of skeuomorphism with a clean, flat design was definitely the right step on the way to the iOS perfection.
No doubt, Microsoft and Apple did a good job to have developed their cross-platform UIs, but Google went even further. Not long ago, the company introduced Material Design, a cross-platform visual language incorporating traditional design principles with innovative technology standards. Set in the tactile environment, it conveys the interaction of objects through the fundamentals of light, surface and movement.
The invention of Material Design was aimed at building a single system that would provide the same experience across all the devices, from Android Wear to Android Auto. And Google successfully achieved its aim, having created an easy-to-understand and user-friendly UI. Compared to Windows and iOS, Material Design can exist in a larger environment (portable devices, PCs, Android TV / Wear / Auto), and it's expected to grow more.
Now, study the TemplateMonster Infographic to find the most suitable cross-platform UI for you.
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Blackstar's Bluetooth Tone:Link is the easy way to turn any amp with a line in, into a wireless stereo audio receiver. With it, you can listen to audio or jam along with tracks without the inconvenience of cables. It is designed for guitar amps, PAs, mixer desks, AV systems, home stereos, headphones, car or motorcycle speakers, boats and more. If used with phone it is an easy to use, hands-free Bluetooth speaker for vehicle systems.
You are able to answer/reject calls and also play/pause music by using the large centre button on the device (this button also doubles as the power button).
The box includes: 1 x TONE:LINK Bluetooth music receiver, 1 x Micro USB power cable, 1 x 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable, 1 x 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio adapter, 1 x 3.5mm to 6.35mm (¼") audio adapter.


It is true that many do not care about Google Authorship because they think it is not important. The truth is that Author Rank has become one of the most important methods for Google and such search engines for verifying any piece of content. It becomes easier for the search engines to track down the quality of contents of a site when a real name is put to the content.
The reason behind it is the responsibility that people attach to their works when their names get highlighted in a social platform and they generate better contents. Let's read on and learn more about author rank and why it has a bright future in regard to SEO in the coming years.
Also known as Agent Rank, Author Rank is a system that Google introduced when they came up with Google+ . Google Authorship helps a writer to write their names onto their contents. When Google takes the decisions about placing different websites higher or lower in order, they consider the Author Rank of a person and give the better position to the most deserving one.
How necessary is Google Authorship?
It is not that necessary yet, but there is a possibility that it may arrive real soon in the market. Matt Cutts of Google has also said that the various information would be highly beneficial for the search engine in order to use to keep the index for search free of spam.
Even though it is not yet used a s a ranking signal now, there is a good probability of using it for the same in near future. That would make it mandatory for people to fill up and setup the Google Authorship. As a matter of fact, if Google finds out there are two entities, who have submitted contents, and only one of them has an Author Rank and other doesn't, it will promptly go for the former one; the one it knows about.
As predicted, this is going to alter the equations of SEO quite considerably. Problems will be faced by those random people who pump out hundreds of content about whom the readers or Google knows nothing about. Rather there would be more contents that have an identity attached to it. The others would just vanish from the face of the earth and become extinct.
Such a smart step will make SEO more challenging and it is advisable to sit up and take notice of it before the big change is already here. This is probably the only way one can one can compete with the big shots out there with their truckloads of money. Start by building up your score on Author Rank from now onwards and be prepared for the actual time when Google launches its Google Authorship to rank contents regularly. That way your work will not go unnoticed in the social platform and who knows, you might even be placed in the front pages of the Google searches!
Thanks for sharing. This is quite new to me, I really wasn't aware of any such rank.


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Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov has reportedly offered Russia's Special Forces a brand new adaptive assault rifle, which outmatches all of its previous products.
The AK-400 is superior to the tried and true AK-74 and state-of-the-art AK-12 in terms of both precision and fire dispersion, a source within the Russian military industry told Izvestia newspaper. "AK-400 assault rifles were presented in late 2015 at a meeting organized by the Presidential Security Service. The products have interested customers, and they are now studying the offer," he said. According to the source, the AK-12, which has been in service in the Russian military since 2014, doesn't fully meet the requirements of elite Special Forces. "AK-12 is a weapon for the infantry, paratroopers, and reconnoiters. And the troops in the Special Forces need a more compact rifle, which – on the one hand – isn't inferior to Ak-12 in precision and fire dispersion, but – on the other hand – is compact enough to storm buildings, planes, trains, and buses, as well as jump with a parachute and walk in the forest," he explained.
The source didn't share a lot of information about the AK-400, however, and all that is known about the assault rifle is that it has a length of approximately 940 millimeters and weighs slightly over 3 kilograms. The new Kalashnikov will have a special "cutoff" fire mode that releases bullets only when the trigger is pulled. It also has a retractable telescopic butt-stock that allows it to be shortened in a matter of seconds, allowing the rifle to be used inside of a car or even hidden under clothing.
The AK-400 is equipped with a Picatinny Rail, a mounting platform for various sights, pens, flashlights, and laser target designators. The assault rifle is intended for use by the Presidential Security Service, as well as Alpha, Vympel, and other Special Forces units in the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/343695-kalashnikov-superior-assault-rifle/


What is a bleeding disorder? Bleeding disorders occur when there is poor clotting due to deficient or missing proteins called factor. These disorders can cause heavy and prolonged bleeding, either spontaneously or after an injury. Hemophilia and von Willebrand disease are 2 common bleeding disorders. Bleeding disorders can be mild, moderate, or severe in nature. Severe bleeding disorders are usually detected in infancy, while milder versions of the disease may not be diagnosed until adulthood. Many bleeding disorders, including hemophilia and von Willebrand disease, are inherited conditions. There are other causes as well.
What is an inhibitor? In about 10 – 15% of people with hemophilia, the immune system produces an antibody (called an inhibitor) that destroys the clotting factor before it stops the bleeding. It is unclear as to why this happens. People with inhibitors experience much higher treatment costs than those who don't develop this complication.
What are symptoms of bleeding disorders? Bleeding can happen externally or internally, affecting joints, muscles, and other organs. External bleeds can be characterized by excessive bleeding, including menstrual bleeding, and bruising. Internal bleeds can cause severe pain, swelling, joint damage, and joint destruction.
Who is affected by bleeding disorders? About 20,000 people in the United States have hemophilia, while approximately 1.4 million Americans have von Willebrand disease. All ethnic and socioeconomic groups are affected by bleeding disorders.
How are bleeding disorders treated? There is no cure for hemophilia or von Willebrand disease. Clotting factor replacement therapy which involves the intravenous infusion (i.e. injection) of blood clotting products, enables those with bleeding disorders to lead normal and productive lives. Infusions must be given as soon as possible after the start of bleeding or taken regularly (as prophylaxis) to prevent uncontrolled bleeding. Mild von Willebrand disease may also be treated with an intranasal medicine. The average cost for treating hemophilia is about $60,000 annually, but some may need hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of treatment every year. There are no generic substitutes for these treatments.
Where do people with hemophilia receive medical care? According to the Center for Disease Control, 70% of people with hemophilia receive care from Hemophilia Treatment Centers staffed with doctors, nurses, and social workers. New England HTC's are located at Brigham and Women's Hospital (MA), Children's Hospital (MA), Massachusetts General Hospital (MA), UMass Memorial Hospital (Worcester), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hemophilia Center (NH), Maine Medical Center, Rhode Island Hospital, University of Connecticut Health Center, Yale University School of Medicine (CT), and Fletcher Allen Hospital (VT). Mortality rates and hospitalization rates for bleeding complications from hemophilia were 40% lower among people who received care in Hemophilia Treatment Centers than among those who did not receive this care. Others may receive care from their primary care physician or a local hematologist.
Hemophilia is a genetic disorder which creates problems in the body's blood clotting system. It is caused by a deficiency of factor VIII or factor IX. As a result, stable clots do not form and prolonged bleeding occurs. Hemophilia can be mild, moderate or severe, depending on factor levels in the blood. Contrary to popular myth, persons with bleeding disorders will not bleed to death from a cut or minor injury. They suffer mostly from internal bleeding into joints and muscles.
Inhibitors -- For more information, click here.
Like hemophilia, von Willebrand disease is a genetic coagulation disorder. Symptoms may include easy bruising, frequent and prolonged nose bleeds, bleeding after dental procedures and surgeries, and for women, heavy menstrual periods. There are several different types of von Willebrand disease. Some types are due to a deficiency of von Willebrand factor in the blood, and some are due to a qualitative problem in the nature of the von Willebrand factor. VWD affects males and females in equal numbers. Diagnosis of VWD can be complicated and is best done at a specialized hemophilia treatment center.
Together with the National Hemophilia Foundation, NEHA is supporting "Victory for Women", a campaign to raise awareness among health care providers and the general public about women, girls and VWD.
Factor VII is the most prevalent of the rare deficiencies. The North American Rare Bleeding Disorders Registry (NARBDR) has documented that FVII deficient patients represent 46% of reported rare bleeding disorder patients (excluding FXI deficiency). 35% of FVII deficient patients have documented FVII levels of <20% activity level.
Although specific replacement products have been licensed for this disorder in much of the rest of the developed world, no replacement product is currently licensed to treat factor VII deficiency in the US. Recombinant factor VIIa is licensed to treat patients with iinhibitors to factor VIII and IX. Multiple reports exist in the literature regarding the use of rFVIIa for treatment of factor VII deficiency.
Click a link below for information about the specific rare factor deficiencies.
A common misperception exists that women do not have bleeding disorders. However, we now know this is far from true.
Von Willebrand disease, the most common bleeding disorder, affects both males and females in equal numbers. Carriers of hemophilia with low factor levels often suffer from problem bleeding. They have been called symptomatic carriers and may be said to have mild hemophilia. Women and girls may also have factor I, II, V, VII, X, XI, XIII deficiencies and platelet disorders.
Because of the myth that women do not have bleeding disorders, their condition often goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. This can cause serious consequences for women. Unfortunately it has led to some women suffering with debilitating menstrual bleeding every month without treatment. It has also resulted in unnecessary hysterectomies, life-threatening complications during childbirth, surgery, and after injury and accidents. Because von Willebrand disease is so common, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has issued a recommendation that every adolescent girl with severe menorrhagia (heavy menstrual bleeding) be screened for von Willebrand disease. They have also recommended VWD screening for any adult woman with significant menorrhagia without another cause, and prior to any hysterectomy for excessive menstrual bleeding.
"Victory for Women", an initiative of the National Hemophilia Foundation, seeks to educate health care providers about women and bleeding disorders and build awareness among women and girls themselves. Informational pamphlets, reference lists, research results and other excellent materials are available through the NHF.


Far away in a land known for fog came a news story. Not something you would run and tell a neighbor, not even something that would keep you from flipping the channel or turning to the sports page. This was something between "community gathers to fry world's largest calamari" and the weather man's daily anecdote.
At a press conference scheduled between 10:30 and 11:00 a.m. in Glasgow, Scotland a group of people belonging to an organization called the British Association for the Advancement of Science made public their intention to find the funniest joke in the world. The search would take place in three phases and would conclude sometime in the course of the following year.
To be sure, anyone who gives this question 10 seconds of serioius thought would rightly conclude that there is perhaps no other question that would yeild a more unscientific answer.
It was on the morning of September 6th that President Bush appointed former Senator John Danforth special envoy to lead a U.S. peace initiative to Sudan. This is the same man who led the government probe of the branch Davidian compound investigation back in the Clinton days.
Another, supposedly separate announcement regarding Sudan was made by USAID that same morning informing the world that it was increasing its aid to said country by 25 to 30 million dollars. I wonder if special envoy John Danforth would be carrying the newly bloated stippend with him personally.
Meanwhile the head of state from another country altogether was adressing Congress on this special Thursday. Vicente Fox, the freshly elected president of neighboring Mexico, gave his best reasons to convince U.S. Representatives that cheap mexican labor was in the interest of all elites. Unfortunately, most of them were distracted, gnawing their teeth about not being invited to the big ball that evening.
Only 136 people were on the guest list for Bush's first state dinner. On the menu, buffalo meat.
Clint Eastwood, among the few charmed to be there, was reportedly harassed by Senate majority leader Trent Lott during the cocktail reception party; the latter reaching out for the Hollywood film star´s sleeve proclaiming "We're looking for a candidate for Governer of California…" Clint apparently ignored the man and kept moving.
A bit lower on the alphabetically organized list were Brit Hume and Kim Schiller Hume, a couple that stood out for their isolation. FOX News Editor and Bureau Chief respectively; the only main press staffers invited to the shindig.
Finally, we'll never know what the Archbishop of L.A. was doing at Bush's table… oh wait, I forgot, W is about to become the new leader of the christian world, pass the A1 steak sauce, please.
Friday, September 7th 2001: Launch day.
This day was indeed a special one in a week full of special days. Remember our friends from the British Association for the Advancement of Science ? They came up for air again. No news on the search for the funniest joke, not yet. Today would be the day when one million school children would be choreographed in a one minute jumping session to see if they would be able to casue an earthquake. Does this sound like science to you?
The event was held as an inauguration of sorts to something they called the Year of Science.
The UK is overrun by wannabe pagans, rune-toting ferry-hunters obsessed with celtic lore. No doubt 1 in 5 brits have access to a witch's almanac where it clearly states that fridays are inauspicious days to hold any type of commencement ceremonies, or to begin anything at all.
International literacy day. There's gotta be something on TV., though you wouldn't be able to watch any at the WTC south tower since all electrical power has been shut off in an unprecedented power-down order. Engineers are whisking in and out of the building doing some "re-wiring".
Finally, the results from Friday Launch Day experiment. 1.1 on the Richter scale. Are we beginning to see a pattern here?
Anytime you're about to do something of great importance or exciting like getting on a plane or taking a test, the day before always builds up all the pressure. You can't sleep, you can barely think of anything other than what tomorrow will mean, what it will feel like.
When W woke up on this Monday he knew he was going to be reading the story of a pet goat to a classroom full of children the next day. There are certain kind of people who get a kick out of doing things like that, George W. Bush is not one of them.
Maybe it was the thought of seeing his little brother in a few hours that made him all giddy at breakfast. Maybe.
In any case, the secret service and other affiliated company of security personnel had arrived at the Colony Beach Resort in Sarasota, the hotel where Bush would take up residence for a day and a night. They had begun setting up surface to air missile launchers on the hotel roof top. Sounds exciting.
Even more exciting was the fact that only ten miles from said hotel, on that very day, an ostensibly well known international terrorist and his cohorts would also be arriving for undisclosed business.
Mohamed Atta would, in a few hours, be blamed for leading the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history. What was he doing in Sarasota, Fl on the same day the president of the United States? Maybe Bush was giddy, or maybe he was just nervous. We all get nervous before a big test.
Well, what better than a joke to release tensions?


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Shipments of Apple's iPad 2 could reach 10-12M in Q2 2011
By AppleInsider Staff | 9 years ago
Apple's Taiwanese suppliers have indicated that production of iPad 2 models will reach three million units in the first quarter of 2011, before ramping up to 10-12 million units in the second quarter, a new report claims.
Asian component suppliers have told DigiTimes that shipments of the iPad 2 are expected to reach 2-3 million units in March, given that the company drew down production of the original iPad in February while simultaneously ramping up production of the iPad 2.
Though earlier reports had suggested that the March quarter would see production of as many as 2 million units of the iPad 2, the publication has now revised its estimates with an upper limit of 3 million units.
The second quarter of 2011 could see as many as 10-12 million iPad 2 units shipped, the report added. By way of comparison, Apple sold 15 million iPads from April to December 2010 for a total of $9.5 billion in revenue.
According to the report, Apple remains on track to hit its target of producing 40 million iPads in 2011.
The report assumes a shipment ratio of 4:6 for the first half and second half of the year, so the second half of 2011 could see iPad 2 shipments reach 21.5-25 million units.
Wall Street analyst sales expectations run lower than DigiTimes' 40 million unit production estimate. For example, Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall sees the iPad maker selling 30 million units in 2011, though he believes that to be a conservative estimate.
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, formerly of DigiTimes, has estimated iPad shipments from Foxconn, the tablet's sole maker, will reach 4.5-5 million units in the first quarter of 2011.
For its part, Apple was confident enough in the iPad 2 to declare 2011 "The year of iPad 2" when it took the wraps off the device on Wednesday. The redesigned touchscreen tablet, which has a dual-core CPU, two cameras, and a thinner and lighter form factor, impressed analysts, prompting them to assert that Apple will continue to dominate the tablet market.
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It came out earlier than expected. What I feel disappointed that the iPad 2 is still not capable of running Flash Player. The only one thing I feel puzzled, for some sites, it seems that they got advance preparation for iPad 2 for a long long time, becauz they followed close behind iPad 2 release?.The iPad 2 has been released just a moment ago, they are immediately claimed that some software has been developed for iPad 2? http://technsports.com/free-macx-ipa...ac-users/5766/
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I may not be first at my local Apple Store (less than 2 miles away) but I do plan to go home with one on the 11th sometime after 5 PM. I just hope they will actually have accessories (HDMI adapter, leather cover in black, I may even get a keyboard to stash with it in the MBR).
My big question for all you cell phone knowledgeable folks - Apple mentions a couple of built point items in the Tech Specs (in the 'Wi Fi + 3G column'):
Micro-SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
Assisted GPS only with the WiFi + 3G
From this should I assume that the GPS availability is only available with a data plan - or will the GPS radio actually function without having to have a data plan? Or maybe it can used if you sign u for data for one month (with the month to math plan)?
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I'm buying three. One for my mom, my wife, and myself.
cam Said:
Looking forward to buying one as a birthday gift and one for myself.
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California right now. Going to Boston next week. With the money I'll save in NH no tax, I might get an iPad and 8 core 2.4 although I want the 3.33 hex. Will look into mailing address services while there. Save like $500. Mote than my
Lol. Anyway, have iPhone 4 not sure if I'll jailbreak as I have a gps from magellian and hardly ever used the teether but if I did. I would probably jail break. Maybe. Not sure. Know this has more ram so it won't slow down. Really like smart touch instruments on iPad. Winder how long before it reaches logic and garage band???Godspeed and Blessings. Hope entitled dreams come true.


At a recent conference, a pastor made the above declaration. A radical statement for sure. Why would you close this most common department in a church? Would you then quit funding your missionaries and stop sending mission teams overseas? Why would you do this?
The point that he was trying to make was that missions is not a function of the church- it is the function of the church. For far too long churches have looked at missions as merely a part of what a healthy church does. I submit however, with this pastor, that missions needs to be included in every part of a church. Missions must be in the DNA of the church- the actual fabric that makes up a particular church.
Instead of supporting a few missionaries and mission efforts, the church must instill the missions attitude in every component of the church. Everyone at the church must be a missionary and discipleship efforts must focus on the development of the missional heart. What is the missional heart?
The missional heart understands the true depth of the gift of Jesus and the amazing love that the Father has for us. This love burns in our hearts and compels us to share this gift with others. The overflow of the Holy Spirit spills out with our ability to minister to others as our heart aches for their condition and the world's superficial solutions to the challenges of life and our ultimate purpose here on Earth. The missional church equips all believers to be Christ's messengers and carry the Good News to everyone- not just the third world or the poor. Missions must define all functions of the church. Churches must shift the focus of personal discipleship to missional discipleship- equipping the believer to take every advantage to share their faith with others instead of keeping it bottled up inside of them. This is an outward focus instead of an inward focus. Missions is not a "calling" for a select few radical believers. Missions is the manifestation of everything that it is to be a follower of Christ.


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Lenka Dlhopolcová (born 14 July 1984, in Zvolen) is a former Slovak tennis player.

Dlhopolcová, who won three ITF singles titles in her career, reached a ranking high of world No. 156 on 4 February 2002.

She qualified for the first round of the 2001 US Open, but lost 2–6, 3–6 to the eventual champion Venus Williams.

ITF finals (3–7)

Singles (3–2)

Doubles (0–5)

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Zvolen
Slovak female tennis players
21st-century Slovak women

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Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Thursday said that the emergence of young minds who could pen their thoughts to ignite the minds of the readers is a matter of pride for the Naga society.
Speaking at the release of the book'I Have A Dream'which is a collection of poems authored by 16-year-old Vingunuo Talie, the Chief Minister was overjoyed to see the enthusiasm of budding writers.
"A society is intellectually empowered by the writings of its thinkers. The habit of penning down one's thoughts and emotions, imagination etc is a great way to not only explore your talent, but it stimulates the author's creativity and ignites the readers' imagination. Writings are a powerful source of knowledge and wisdom," Rio stated, reports TNT.
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Part 3: Evolution of Governance Outreach
Written By: Susan H Day MD
In the previous installment, the formation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology as a separate entity, the expansion of its mission and its clarification of governance all occurred while Dr. Bruce E. Spivey was its executive vice president.
The transition to the leadership of H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, as executive vice president occurred in 1993, with new challenges and new directions consequent to both internal as well as external sources.
In searching for the new EVP, the Academy board underwent a membership-wide search. This choice was all the easier because Dr. Hoskins was a known quantity in the Academy's interests. He chaired the media committee, served as secretary for instruction, secretary for the annual meeting, chair of the long-range planning group and, in a life outside of the Academy, was active in the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Hoskins served as chair of the board of a hospital which provided a major turnaround to that organization. He was also active in the speaking circuit, so he was well-known among academic departments. In short, he had experience in organizational management, was fully vetted in the Academy, served as a communicator with business savvy and valued the educational basis of the Academy's existence. On top of all this, he was a Southern gentleman who lived 17 miles away from the offices of the Academy.
H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr., MD, Academy EVP, 1993 - 2009. Pictured with former US Representative, Dick Gephardt.
One of Dr. Hoskins' early conclusions was that the breadth of the Academy's activities was such that the right and the left hand were occasionally at conflict in interests and messaging. Using the reorganization report, he initially created four divisions: advocacy, education, ophthalmic practice and organizational services. He later added divisions for membership and the annual meeting.
At the staff level, each division was assigned a vice president, and he quickly made it clear that at the vice president level, Dr. Hoskins expected professional leadership with clearly defined goals and results. Included in those results was an informational flow across the organization, including physician leadership.
This organizational design plan suggested the inclusion of non-physician positions on the Board of Trustees. These board positions do not vote on clinical matters or dispositions of the Ethics Committee. As a matter of fact, they do not speak a great deal unless the board loses a big-picture focus on any issue. When they do speak, it has a big impact. You should know that this model has worked so well that other national medical organizations have included nonphysicians to their boards.
Shortly after his tenure began, Dr. Hoskins looked into the financial structure of the Academy's building lease (the Academy was a tenant). We had an equity participation lease and learned that we had a lot of participation, but no equity. When he uncovered a shell game by the owner, Dr. Hoskins took him to court and purchased the building for $19 million. The current value of the building is estimated at more than $40 million.
In addition to securing ownership of this prime real estate, Dr. Hoskins was busy with other new projects:
The Mid-Year Forum allows the organization to report and assess issues more rapidly. The communication at this meeting serves as a great sounding board. The march on Capitol Hill provides a powerful voice for the profession and a training ground for younger members whose career are impacted by Washington, D.C. events.
By increasing resources to the office of Governmental Affairs, there was a radical revision of the D.C. office in this era. Cathy Cohen came home as vice president, and Dr. Bill Rich became medical director for Health Policy. The dark years of decline in Medicare coverage for cataract surgery finally stopped. Dr. Rich provided leadership with the Relative Value Update committee; even the American Medical Association told me he was superb.
When it came to planning, Dr. Hoskins recognized that the term "long-range planning" generally ended up becoming a "200-page doorstop" that everyone ignored. He saw that the basic problem with long-range planning is that it is out of date within two years. He clearly understood the importance of mission-values-goal-and functions, and he preferred to refine the planning process around proactive-reactive and resiliency.
Dr. Hoskins' embrace of technology
Did you know that Dr. Hoskins was once involved in a computer company? Did you know that he could write code?
The first Academy computer was a word processor, and it was used to compile the Annual Meeting in 1983. In 1984, it found a home on the desk of the Annual Meeting director. It was the size of a Buick.
AAO Heardquarters in San Francisco, CA
Dr. Hoskins understood the power of computers as a partner in all of our lives. He recognized its value as an organizational management tool. We even explored the possibility of becoming a paperless association. But the complexities of the organization were too great.
When asked in 1997 if he thought that outcomes-data could be used to improve patient care, Dr. Hoskins said yes, but only if a functioning electronic medical record could be developed.
The power of the internet was so prominent in Dunbar's thinking that he pressed to rename the news magazine to EyeNet as we began to establish a full Academy website. The first iteration of the site was very simple. It worked because we'd only begun to unlock its potential. It quickly changed as members and the public began to find the site a trusted source of membership information and support.
Dr. Hoskins' real dream was to leverage the internet to encompass the educational format of the Academy and organized ophthalmology. He organized an effort to collate the immense resources of ophthalmology's basic and clinical information to form what you know today as the ONE® Network.
The ONE Network is accessed from all over the world. Its content is derived from an international pallet of contributors. Other national and international societies are scrambling to follow the lead set by the ONE Network. It took bold imagination, a sizable amount of dollars, hours of time and broad collaboration, but Dr. Hoskins has changed the face of ophthalmic knowledge dissemination forever to the benefit of ophthalmologists and the patients they serve.
Finally, in my opinion the membership of the Academy has been blessed by broad inclusion in its programs and policies; by a board of trustees that develops direction as colleagues, not as combatants; by retaining executive vice presidents who invest the authority to get the job done. Those EVPs have evolved a culture within the Academy staff that allows for broad inclusion, freedom to criticize and a true partnership with the physician leadership.
I try to end each new staff member orientation with the statement that if they can go home every night having assisted just one ophthalmologist in the care of one patient, they should be proud of where they work. I know I am proud to have been included.


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Forest manager discusses players taking their chances - and Tobias Figueiredo's form this season
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Nottingham Forest players warm up before facing Cardiff City (Image: PA)
After strengthening his squad in the January transfer window, Nottingham Forest boss Chris Hughton has options across the pitch.
But he has told those players struggling for game time, there is always a route back into the starting XI.
Be it through form or selection decisions, there are a number in the Reds squad who have found opportunities tough to come by at various stages this season.
The likes of Joe Lolley, Harry Arter, Tyler Blackett and Loic Mbe Soh, for instance, along with others, have sometimes found themselves down the pecking order when fit.
Hughton, though, says it is about grabbing a chance whenever it comes along.
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"We know on a lot of occasions it might just be down to an injury.
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"We've spoken about Cafu, who wasn't very involved and was a little bit frustrated, then he gets in the team and has been a mainstay ever since.
"There are always those opportunities, whether that's down to a little bit of rotation, form or, as we have seen particularly with us, injuries, like we have had."
Tobias Figueiredo is one such example of someone who has got a chance through Forest being hit by injuries.
The Portuguese has had an inconsistent campaign, having come in for criticism for some individual errors.
Nottingham Forest's Tobias Figueiredo and Coventry City's Amadou Bakayoko battle for the ball (Image: PA)
With Scott McKenna facing a number of weeks on the sidelines, however, he finds himself back involved - and has looked solid alongside Joe Worrall in the last two games.
"He has had a good season overall," Hughton said of Figueiredo.
"As with every player, they are going to have difficult moments and difficult games. I think with Toby, he has.
"He's had a couple of games where it hasn't really gone for him and his level of performance wasn't what his general standard has been.
"But overall, he's been really good for us.
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President of Georgian Abkhazia Resigns Under Pressure
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Georgia and Russia Play Nice
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Q: Evaluate the limit $\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{x-2}{\sqrt{x^2+5}-3}$ I need to evaluate the following limit:
$\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{x-2}{\sqrt{x^2+5}-3}$
I have multiplied both sides by the conjugate $\sqrt{x^2+5}+3$ but am getting $x^2-4$ as the denominator. Is this the correct way to go about it?

A: From what you have got, you can simply cancel the factor $(x-2)$ from both numerator and denominator. After that, you can substitute $x=2$ into the expression and obtain the limit.

A: Yes indeed, that's the way to go about it. Now, we have $$\begin{align} \lim_{x \to 2}\frac{x-2}{\sqrt{x^2+5}-3} & = \lim_{x \to 2}\dfrac{(x-2)(\sqrt{x^2 + 5} + 3)}{x^2 - 4} \\ \\ & = \lim_{x \to 2}\dfrac{(x-2)(\sqrt{x^2 + 5} + 3)}{(x - 2)(x+2)} \\ \\ & \overset{x\neq 2}{=} \lim_{x \to 2}\dfrac {\sqrt{x^2 + 5} + 3}{x+2} \\ \\
& = \dfrac 64 = \frac 32\end{align}$$

A: You are on the right track.
$\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{x-2}{\sqrt{x^2+5}-3}=\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{x-2}{\sqrt{x^2+5}-3} \frac{\sqrt{x^2+5}+3}{\sqrt{x^2+5}+3}=\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{(x-2)(\sqrt{x^2+5}+3)}{(x-2)(x+2)}$ simplifying
$$\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{(\sqrt{x^2+5}+3)}{(x+2)}$$ and evaluating at $2$ we get
$$\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{(\sqrt{x^2+5}+3)}{(x+2)}= \frac{(\sqrt{4+5}+3)}{(2+2)}=\frac{6}{4}=\frac{3}{2}$$

A: In
$\lim_{x\to 2} \frac{x-2}{\sqrt{x^2+5}-3}$
let $x = y+2$.
This becomes
$\begin{align}
\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y}{\sqrt{(y+2)^2+5}-3}
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y}{\sqrt{y^2+4y+4+5}-3}\\
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y}{\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}-3}\\
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y}{\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}-3}\frac{\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3}{\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3}\\
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y(\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3)}{(\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}-3)(\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3)}\\
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y(\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3)}{(y^2+4y+9)-9}\\
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{y(\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3)}{y^2+4y}\\
&=\lim_{y\to 0} \frac{\sqrt{y^2+4y+9}+3}{y+4}\\
&=\frac{\sqrt{9}+3}{4}\\
&=\frac{6}{4}\\
&=\frac{3}{2}\\
\end{align}
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Paul Erway
Paul Erway started riding horses at an early age, growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania. The vocation that this three-sport high school athlete dreamed of was attending Morrisville (N.Y.) State College to pursue a degree in animal husbandry. During his college days, he was an apprentice at one of the top Reining Stables in the nation under the guidance of Terry Thompson. His vision of the future was to become a trainer for show horses.
The weekend before graduation in 1980 changed that vision. While on a double date, Paul received a severe spinal cord injury as a result of an auto accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. The doctor who performed the surgery told Paul that he would use a wheelchair the rest of his life and that he would "need to deal with it." Thank goodness the rehab doctor came into his room the next day to give Paul the hope that maybe he would have a chance to gain some movement back, but until that day occurred, turn his attention and efforts toward rehab to strengthen his upper body.
After two years, he was stronger but no further movement was gained and the margin remained slim that it would ever happen. Paul realized he was now on a new ride – in a wheelchair that could take him places other than what he initially had in mind. That's just how powerful this man's resolve to live is and even though he has no feeling below his chest, the fire to live and to push himself burns brightly in his heart.
He started helping others through a company that adapts vehicles for a person with a disability. Getting back on the road, to go where I wanted to go when I wanted to go was so important for me. This was the beginning when he realized by helping others made his life so rewarding. If it was that important for me to get back on the road, I knew I can show others how easy it can be to get back on the road of life.
He got on the road in 1982 with his first wheelchair race. He moved to Kentucky in 1994 and 12 years later, he was training for a marathon when he suffered his second major accident.
In July 2006, while speeding down a steep hill in Shelbyville during a training run, he encountered a pickup truck on the other side of the road. While trying to move over, he lost control of his wheelchair and slammed into the driver's door of the truck. He sustained an open fracture of both scapula and collarbone, two broken ribs, a punctured lung, a spinal compression fracture and the avulsion of part of his scalp.
It was 94 degrees that day.
"It's an accident, so, 'Don't touch him, don't move him,'" medical technicians said. Typically that is a good idea but unfortunately I was lying on the hot asphalt, and burned 60 percent of my back.
The accident led to one helicopter ride, two hospital stays, three rehab stints, four operations and five months out of work. I was motivated by the need to race, to push myself.
So Paul set out to tackle the world's premiere wheelchair marathon in Oita, Japan. In 2010 he did just that. Having reached such an incredible goal, he was left wondering where he would find his next motivation.
Then Paul remembered Christopher Reeve and his equestrian accident. He reflected back to all the times he too had come so close to having a similar accident with the uncertainty of riding horses. Paul watched Reeve struggle with what was such a slim chance of gaining movement back to helping increase those odds for others through his foundation. Paul found it rewarding to see the burst of new research with new ideas for therapy – both which changed greatly because of Christopher Reeve. Now what once was a slim margin for so many spinal cord injury victims of getting any movement back has now increased. Now those affected by spinal cord injuries do have a better chance of getting movement back and some full recovery.
Paul's vision has expanded even more to the future with the questions: "What if there was a lot more money for research and treatment? More people with great minds interested to do even better? The possibility to someday have a 100% cure? Wouldn't that be awesome?"
That is the main reason he races … to "set an example for others" with disabilities— to help them see through the fog of their challenges so they can focus on the clarity of living life to its fullest.
My hope is that people see what we do and realize their disability isn't the end of their lives. The first thing people have to learn to do is to 'let it go', before you could do 10,000 things now you can only do 9,000 things, so don't dwell on the 1,000 you can't, you still have too much to do and we hope that our efforts help them do that."
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Author Interview – "The Pirates of Penance" by Eliza Robertson
Our fifth anthology drops in October. In anticipation, we are rolling out a series of interviews with each of the ten stellar emerging authors whose stories Amy Hempel selected for publication. First up: Eliza Robertson, whose story "The Pirates of Penance" is set in England, Poland, and Switzerland. It delves deep into the often-veiled nature of hostility in female relationships. The narrator, after a recent split with her husband, is invited home for Christmas by a female colleague whom she had, until then, politely despised.
"So while men compete in the open, in fun or with fists, women do so silently, our hostility spreading like green mold over shoes at the back of a closet."
We always like to ask our authors: what inspired the idea for your story and how long did it take to develop? Did you outline first, go through many drafts, etc.?
I had been thinking a lot about female hostility: the general phenomenon of it, as well as how it's manifested in my own life. So I pushed a scenario to the extreme, where the character recognizes the absurdity of her resentment and her feelings begin to turn in on themselves. I'm a fan of absurdity in stories for this reason. It pulls all the curtains down.
I'd say it took a few weeks for the idea to develop. The material facts of the story became clear after a visit to Poland in November. Then I started gathering details and writing them down. I didn't outline though. I never outline! Sometimes to my detriment.
"The Pirates of Penance" is set all over Europe: London, England; Łódź, Poland; Interlaken, Switzerland. It displays an intimate knowledge of the geography and cultures of these three places (as shown through the eyes of our narrator, an American woman). I wondered: how did you do research for this story, or do some of these details come from your own travels?
This time, the cities did come from my own travels. They don't always. I've been living in the UK for a few years, so London is pretty familiar. I visited my friend last summer in Switzerland. (She was there for work.) Last November, my boyfriend read at a poetry festival in Łódź, and I tagged along. Since coming here for grad school, I have been militantly seeing as much of Europe as possible.
What is your writing process like? (Do you write at a specific time of day / in a particular setting / on the computer or by hand, etc.)
I typically write in the morning, from home, on a laptop. If I know an important scene is coming, and I am not sure how to get it right, I draft on paper, then transcribe it to the document. Sometimes I light mood candles or incense.
What are some of your favorite stories?
"City of Boys" by Beth Nugent is one of my all-time supreme favorites. "Cocktail Party" in the same collection is also great.
Really anything by Lorrie Moore, but "People Like that are the Only People Here," gets me every time. So does Amy Hempel's "In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried"—her wit and timing are superhuman. I read that she used to regularly watch stand-up.
Your debut collection Wallflowers came out about two years ago from Bloomsbury to wide acclaim! Is "The Pirates of Penance" part of another collection that is in the works? If so, how is it similar to (/different from) you first?
I'm working on a novel right now, so that will be next. But every now and then I've had some downtime between drafts, and I've been accumulating a few stories. I haven't thought about how they might fit together yet, but I didn't with Wallflowers either. Not at first. I do think with Wallflowers I was aggressively exploring language and form. Which isn't to say I am not still exploring, but the experiments may be less obvious.
Are there any other fun facts you would like us to know about "The Pirates of Penance"?
Hmmmmmm. I can't think of any facts about the story, but it may amuse you to know that on dining out in Łódź, after wine, with encouragement from Sophie Collins, a poet whose first collection is coming out with Penguin next year, I stole a water glass from a restaurant because I admired the look of it. It was designed to look like a crumpled cup. I'm not proud, but I left a big tip.
Interviewed by Sadye Teiser
Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver and grew up on Vancouver Island. She attended the creative writing programs at the University of Victoria and the University of East Anglia, where she received the 2011 Man Booker Scholarship. In 2013, she co-won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her first collection, Wallflowers, was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize, the East Anglia Book Award, and selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice. In 2015, she was named by Joseph Boyden as one of five emerging writers for the Writers' Trust Five x Five program. She lives in England.


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Yorkshire Chess History
Francis Mortimer Young
Sheffield Sub-Site
07/03/1814, Brompton, South West London
Baptised:
20/04/1815, St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, Middlesex
26/01/1860, Dijon, France
01/02/1860, Headingley Chapel, Leeds
Francis Mortimer Young was born in 07/03/1814, at Brompton, London, (means Brompton, Kent?). His baptism record, which is one of those with the date of birth added, has the remark "said to have been privately baptised at Brompton Chapel" written along the bottom. He was the only son of Francis Young and Mary Iles of the same family as the Iles of Binbrook, who feature in the Caistor chess meetings.
He was educated by the Rev. W.* Tate, at Richmond, Yorkshire, where he attained considerable proficiency in mathematics. He then gained practical engineering experience and employment on the developing railway system.
(* As given in ICE obit., but more probably Rev. James Tate. Baines's History, Directory & Gazetteer of Yorkshire, Vol. II: East & North Ridings, 1823, lists Rev. James Tate, MA, master of the "Free Grammar" academy on Frenchgate, Richmond. Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Cheshire, Cumberland etc, 1828-29, listed Richmond Free Grammar School as run by Rev. Jas. Tate and Rev. Ed. Lockwood.)
In 1831, he became a pupil of Robert Stephenson (of "Stephenson's Rocket" fame), by whom he was first sent for two years to the Stephenson locomotive works at Forth Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to obtain a practical knowledge of mechanics, and then was placed at Coventry, on the London and Birmingham Railway. On the completion of that line, he was appointed one of the Resident Engineers of the Manchester and Leeds, (later the Lancashire and Yorkshire,) Railway.
He's not easy to find in 1841 census records. White's Directory of Leeds & the Clothing District, 1842, appears not to have listed our man.
In 1843-44, he was engaged in preliminary work for the Leeds and Bradford Valley Line. He was then appointed to join the East Lancashire Railway.
He then turned his attention from railways to more general construction works, for which purpose he entered into partnership with a Mr. Bolton, perhaps Thomas Bolton (1790-1853), with whom he successfully executed several contracts in the north of England.
White's Directory of Leeds & the Clothing Districts, 1847, listed Francis Mortimer Young, civil engineer, and John Young, engineer, living at 4 York Place, Leeds. It was therefore perhaps in about 1843 that he came to live in Leeds.
He must have married Frances M. of uncertain surname (Loft?) at some stage from 1835 to 1846. The couple had at least three children:
Francis Joseph Young
born 22/07/1847, at Leeds
Anne S. J. Young
born 1849/50, at Leeds
Frederick Mortimer Young
died 07/06/1927, Hobart, Tasmania
Francis Joseph Young got a BA at Cambridge in 1874, and emigrated to Tasmania. Francis Mortimer Young, junior, got a BA at Cambridge in 1884, also emigrated to Tasmania.
Francis Mortimer Young became a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in 1851.
The 1851 census found him as a 37-year-old civil engineer living at 4 York Place, Leeds, with his 32-year-old wife, a 64-year-old Tadcaster-born widow by the name of Mary Loft, who was described as a landed proprietor, and the oldest of the above two children.
White's Directory of Leeds, Bradford &c, 1854, listed Francis Mortimer Young, civil engineer, of 4 York Place, Leeds, but not John in his former roll. White's Directory of Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield &c, 1858, listed Francis Mortimer Young as a civil Engineer at 3 Park Place, Leeds.
His death occurred suddenly, in a railway carriage, near Dijon, on the 26th January 1860, aged 46, while he was returning home from a working trip to Switzerland. Sons Francis Joseph Young and Anne were 12½ years and about 10 years old respectively, at the time, and wife Frances was carrying the unborn Frederick Mortimer Young.
The body was repatriated and buried at Headingley chapel on 1st February 1860.
He is not recorded as attending any meeting of the Yorkshire Chess Association or of the West Yorkshire Chess Association, yet he attended the 1854 Caistor chess meeting. His presence at Caistor is explained by his mother being a member of the Iles family at Binbrook.
At Caistor he was one of a consulting team playing Staunton, so he was presumably judged to be of reasonable strength.
Sources (other than as stated in the text):
Venn, for details of his sons.
Memoir of Francis Mortimer Young in ICE Minutes of the Proceedings, Volume 20, Issue 1861, 01 January 1861 , pages 159 –160, for early life, professional life, and details of death, found on ICE Virtual Library website:
http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/imotp.1861.23452
Copyright © 2012 Stephen John Mann
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Foumagnac est un groupe de musiques humoristique et folklorique français, originaire de Rouen, en Seine-Maritime. Le groupe est composé de trois musiciens : Éric Saunier (fondateur de Foumagnac, auteur compositeur, chant, guitare, accordéon), Jean-Michel Hamès (flûte, Uilleann pipes, guimbarde, cuillères) et Michel Denis (chœur et guitare), qui comptent à leur actif cinq albums, le dernier en date étant T'in bon la ridelle.

Biographie
Foumagnac est formé en 1998 à Rouen par Éric Saunier, en compagnie du guitariste Gilles Bloquel. La même année, ils jouent en première partie de Matmatah au Sillon à Petit-Couronne. Leur nom évoque une contraction sur les effets de l'Armagnac et « l'ivresse » de leur style musical. Michel Denis, également guitariste du groupe Mission Impossible succède à Gilles Bloquel en juillet 2000 et c'est en mars 2004 que Jean-Michel Hamès rejoint la formation. Le Trio continue à se faire connaître en France sur de nombreuses scènes.

Foumagnac participe au Festival des Terre-Neuvas en 2007. En , ils jouent pendant le soir de La Fête de la musique, dans la cour du château Charbonnel, dans la région dijonnaise. Ils joueront aussi à divers lieux comme les Festimusicales de Beg Meil (2006), Is-sur-Tille (2011) et Ciry-le-Noble (2015) avec des groupes comme The Crooks Society, Les Ogres de Barback out Zebda, et des artistes comme Alan Stivell. En 2021, le groupe compte plus de 700 concerts depuis sa formation. Toujours en 2021, Foumagnac anime la veillée de village d'Aure-sur-Mer.

Style musical et influences
Leur inspiration est imprégnée de l'énergie du groupe The Pogues. Les compositions et chansons d'Éric Saunier sont plus axées sur la chanson française ou ballade folk, pop ou rock. Fort de son expérience au sein des groupes espéranto (musiques du monde), Warriors (reggae) et  Mission Impossible (plusieurs albums reggae rock, révélation aux Francofolies de La Rochelle), Foumagnac diffuse désormais ses textes et musiques dans un style festif. Pour Le Télégramme, leur répertoire musical est « un gigantesque cocktail de chansons françaises souvent peu connues ou oubliées, de folk métissé de musiques celtes, irlandaises et écossaises, et tziganes. »

Discographie
 Par les dents qui courent
 T'in bon la ridelle
 2014 : Live 2014

Notes et références

Groupe de musique celtique
Groupe de musique humoristique
Groupe français de musique folk
Groupe de la nouvelle scène française
Groupe musical de Rouen
Groupe musical formé en 1998
Groupe musical des années 1990


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Schapelle Corby: Belief in innocence slips away, but 'cult' supporters battle on
By Michael Bachelard and Michael Lallo
February 10, 2014 — 3.00am
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Schapelle review: Fake corby takes prize
As he lay dying, TV mogul and Australia's richest man, Kerry Packer, called Baptist pastor Tim Costello to his bedside.
Packer, still supremo of Channel Nine, was in a confessional mood. They spoke about leadership and ethics and God, who Packer had no time for. But it was December 2005, and even as death approached, there was no avoiding the story of the year - Schapelle Corby.
In the previous eight months, Packer's TV network had become a kind of Corby innocence factory, taking the unlikely material of a part-time beauty student accused of drug smuggling, and forging from her a martyr.
The story, which Nine sewed up early with exclusive access agreements, made the network millions, and ultimately ensured Corby became a household name, and a part of the zeitgeist.
Kerry Packer. Credit:Reuters
''I said to Kerry, 'What do you think? Is she guilty?' '' Costello recalls asking at their deathbed meeting. ''And Kerry said, 'Yes, I think she is.' I remember saying, 'But Nine is the cheerleader for her innocence.' And Kerry told me that this was how current affairs TV works - the audience was totally convinced of her innocence and so the network goes with what the public feels passionate about.''
Costello says he wondered at the time how that squared with their conversation about ethics and leadership.
Nine years later, she is back in the headlines as the governor of Bali's Kerobokan prison confirmed on Sunday she may be released on Monday.
However, governor Farid Junaedi said he did not know what time she might walk free because, "we are still waiting for the documents" from Jakarta.
The cover of Kathryn Bonella's book.
Polling shows that public belief in Corby's innocence has collapsed from 75 per cent at the height of the frenzy to just 10 per cent, though sympathy for her plight in jail remains strong.
The innocence lobby, however, churns on. Stoking it are the former Nine Network 60 Minutes producer who started it all and the Corby family, along with Australia's foremost UFO conspiracy theorist, a psychiatric nurse and a ruthless band of online activists some describe as a cult.
Between them they try to ensure no deviance from the theory that Corby's boogie board bag was used by Qantas baggage handlers to ferry their drugs, then she was condemned by a political and media conspiracy of silence.
Kathryn Bonella, then a producer at 60 Minutes, was the first to see the potential power of Corby's tale of an innocent abroad.
One journalistic source recalls that when Corby was arrested on October 8, 2004, a large Australian press contingent was already in Bali to cover the second anniversary of the Bali bombing four days later. Bonella started calling people from Sydney. Her pitch, according to one reporter, was blunt: ''Tell the Corby family not to f--- around with any other media organisation … 60 Minutes is the only one that can do it. We push governments to act".
It worked. Journalist Liz Hayes was the first to interview Corby, a month after her arrest, in a police station exclusive for 60 Minutes, produced by Bonella.
After that, few other media outlets got a look in. Corby was Nine's girl and Bonella their contact.
About the time Packer died, in late 2005, Bonella left the network to, in her words, ''work with Schapelle''. She ghost-wrote the prisoner's best-selling book My Story, then books Hotel Kerobokan and Snowing in Bali. She now lives in Bali and, according to multiple sources, acts as a de facto Corby family publicist.
Bonella is also rumoured to be the one negotiating on the family's behalf for the biggest payday of all - the exclusive post-release tell-all interview - though Bonella says she has only passed on a few messages to the family.
There is no doubt of Bonella's sincerity. In her 2006 book she announced: ''Schapelle is one of the most inspiring people I've ever met. She is innocent, stuck in a hellhole for something she didn't do, yet handles her situation with so much dignity … There is no question that Schapelle is innocent. None at all.''
Bonella declined to comment on her role, citing ''Fairfax's tendency to report with bias on this subject''.
Nine years into their public prominence, clearly the idea of granting exclusive access to favoured media organisations has stuck with the Corby family.
They dole out comments sparingly and sometimes for money, and whole groups (including Fairfax and all of its journalists) are cut off from access over perceived bias and slights that are sometimes years old.
Much of the heavy lifting on the innocence story is now done by the contributors to a website, The Expendable Project, and its ''official Facebook group'', titled ''People for Schapelle Corby''.
Expendable has posted a trove of documents it asserts proves Corby's innocence, but its centrepiece is an amateur film alleging a cover-up involving Australian and Indonesian authorities, which also implicates the media.
A cohort of pro-Corby shock troops who link heavily to Expendable trawls the internet for mentions of her name, then bully people who deviate from their view.
A Queensland woman, Diane Frola, the co-founder of the Australian UFO Research Network, has uploaded two videos to it. According to her, governments are suppressing evidence that prove both Corby's innocence and the existence of UFOs.
Expendable denies links with the Corby family itself to ''mitigate the risk that the project could be used against them'' - but the morning after Friday's parole announcement in Jakarta, Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, appeared wearing an Expendable TV T-shirt. Bonella likewise said she had ''no association'' with Expendable, ''although I do think the website has some interesting info''.
People for Schapelle Corby is presided over by Queensland psychiatric nurse Kim Bax. The language from contributors on the site is frequently vitriolic. Actress Krew Boylan, who plays Corby in the TV drama Schapelle, is labelled ''a disgrace … unaustralian [sic], a stain on womanhood''.
Noting the anger there, and fearful of disruptions, when production house Fremantle Media was producing the telemovie, it used secret code names during filming and kept locations under wraps.
Approached for comment by Fairfax Media, The Expendable Project's ''gatekeepers'' issued a ''yellow alert'' about this reporter's potential ''hostile initiative''.
Their response was: ''The Expendable Project has no comment to make to Fairfax Media, its employees, agents, or proxies, on this or any other matter.''
Kay Danes is a woman who should, by rights, be embraced by the pro-Corby lobby. She has spent 10 years advocating through her non-profit organisation for human rights, including those of prisoners in foreign jails. It is work for which she recently received an Order of Australia Medal. She herself was tortured in a Laotian prison in 2000.
But on the online pro-Corby forums, she has been subject to abuse and ridicule by what she describes as the Expendable ''cult''. Her crime is to have pointed out online that their arguments and documents do not constitute proof that a court could accept.
''I have never said a bad word about Schapelle. I have only ever pointed out some very real facts,'' Danes says.
The result, she says, has been ''stalking … intense cyber-bullying, harassment, character assassination and threats''.
She has at times reported Expendable posters to police for threatening behaviour.
Danes says she is sympathetic to Corby herself, and her long prison ordeal, but ''a group of misguided supporters … have hurt Schapelle's support base far more than they have helped''.


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