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AMA ART BALL 2022: METAMORPHOSIS
6:30 PM | Saturday, Feb 26, 2022 | AMA Future Home at 140 W. Broad Ave.
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The signature annual event for the Albany Museum of Art, AMA Art Ball, returns on Saturday, Feb 26 as a celebration of art with a glimpse into the future of the museum.
Art Ball 2022 will take place in the museum's future home in the former Belk department store building, formally introducing the AMA family to the first stage of the museum's Metamorphosis into a grand new downtown arts center. Co-Chairs for this year's event are Meryl K. Joiner and Bronwyn Bates.
The dinner will be catered by Stewbos Group, and dance music will be provided by the popular Atlanta party band The New Royals, which performs popular music from the 1990-2000s, R&B hits and party anthems from the 1960s-1980s.
New this year will be an "after dinner" option in which AMA patrons can join the celebration at 9:45 pm and enjoy cocktails and dancing.
In addition, there will be silent and live auctions, and the Libby Womack Paddle Raise, the latter of which directly benefits educational programming by the AMA.
AMA members also are eligible for a special weekly drawing. Through Feb 14, a member will be randomly selected to receive a free ticket for their choice of the full-evening event or the After Dinner Option.
Tickets for the full evening of Art Ball 2022: Metamorphosis are $200 for AMA members and $250 for future members. Corporate tables also are available. Tickets for the After Dinner Option are $75 for AMA members and $100 for future members. Companies and individuals interested in tickets or sponsorships for Art Ball may contact Hinton at chloe.hinton@albanymuseum.com or by calling 229.439.8400.
Purchase full evening and after-dinner tickets HERE.
Art Ball 2022: Metamorphosis Sponsors
A special thank you to our generous sponsors who make Art Ball 2022 possible.


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Last year DUTB generated €67 million of profit 25.4.2018
On April 24th 2018 DUTB Board of Directors approved the Annual report of DUTB for 2017 which explains the very successful business year.
In 2017 DUTB generated €434,7 milion of cash inflows and €67 milion of after-tax profit and thus considerably surpassed most of the key performance indicators set by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in the Guidelines on the operations of BAMC. Successful and efficient operations also resulted in substantially reduced financial and operating costs.
€434,7 million of cash inflows were generated by asset sales and debt repayments in 2017, more than twice the statutory target of 10% with 21,5% of all assets' transfer value, thus being the most successful year in BAMC's history. While the loan portfolio remained the main driver of inflows with €322 million, almost €100 million of cash generated from the real estate portfolio confirmed BAMC's effectiveness and direction of repossessing real estate from collateral proceedings, managing and adding value to it for the sale at the appropriate time. Most notably, the large residential complexes of Celovški dvori in Ljubljana and Nokturno in Koper were almost completely sold in 2017, accompanied by the sale of numerous other commercial and business premises as well.
A record‑level after‑tax profit of €67,0 million has been generated in 2017, shooting the company's end-of-year equity up to €146,4 million and raising the EROE (economic return on equity, the average yearly return on invested capital with corrections) to 24,7%, high above the required 8% threshold.
The balance sheet was reduced by 23%, mainly on the claims part as additional real estate repossessions and movements in equity positions resulted in the latter two portfolios remaining at their last year's 'levels.
Surplus liquidity allowed BAMC to perform several early debt repayments ahead of schedule during the year, while the last two outstanding bonds, issued during the transfers of assets, were repaid at the end of the year. Part of the repayment had to be refinanced, with the terms on the new commercial loans being much more favorable, further reducing planned financial expenses and allowing BAMC greater flexibility in future debt management.
Also in the context of public finance consolidation, BAMC exerted a positive effect on reducing the state deficit in 2017. With its transactions BAMC has, in accordance with ESA methodology, which is monitored by the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Slovenia, closed the year with a considerable surplus, exceeding the plans.
KPMG Slovenija, d.o.o., Železna cesta 8a, Ljubljana, performed the audit of the 2017 financial statements, and issued an unqualified opinion on 23 April 2018. The BAMC Board of Directors reviewed the audited annual report on 24 April 2017, and will send it to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for approval at the BAMC General Meeting. The annual report has not yet been approved by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia.
BAMC's audited annual report for the year 2017 is available on this link: http://www.dutb.eu/SiteAssets/en/croporate_documents/BAMC%202017%20annual%20report.pdf
Annual report for the financial year 2016 26.4.2017
In accordance with the provisions of the Act Defining the Measures of the Republic of Slovenia to Strengthen Bank Stability (ZUKSB), Družba za upravljanje terjatev bank, d. d. has published the annual report for the financial year 2016.
The highlights of BAMC's operations in 2016 include the successful merger of Factor banka and Probanka and substantial cash flows generated from asset management operations, which exceeded the statutory goal. Cash generated from asset management in 2016 amounted to €369.2 million, corresponding to 18.3% of the transfer value of the assets and substantially exceeding the ZUKSB requirement of annual liquidation of at least 10% of the estimated value of the assets. Since its incorporation, BAMC thus generated cash flows of €862.8 million, meaning that 43% of the transferred assets' value was cashed.
BAMC reported a €7.8 million loss for 2016. The reported loss comes as a result of the fact that the operating result from loans was not sufficient to cover the financing costs and operational costs, in addition to the costs of the operational restructuring of BAMC as a result of the merger of Factor banka and Probanka. The merger also contributed to lowering the equity of BAMC, which amounted to €79.4 million as of the end of 2016. The decrease of equity was partly covered by the state's €50.0 million capital increase of BAMC's capital reserves. At year-end 2016, the Economic Return to Equity was 9.5%, which is higher than the target set by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in the BAMC Operational Guidelines.
In 2016 BAMC fully repaid €369.0 million of its financial obligations toward the Ministry of Finance, which were acquired in the merger of Factor banka and Probanka, and successfully refinanced the matured bond. This importantly decreased BAMC's of financing costs for 2017 and subsequent periods.
The information contained in this formal announcement will be posted on the official website of DUTB, d.d., Ljubljana, www.dutb.eu, for a period of at least five years from the date of the posting.
Notice of accession to the agreement 21.4.2017
In accordance with the Rules of Ljubljanska borza, d.d., Ljubljana, and applicable law, Družba za upravljanje terjatev bank, d.d. ("BAMC"), Davčna ulica 1, Ljubljana, hereby issues the following announcement:
By signing a statement of accession on 21 April 2017, BAMC formally acceded to the terms of the Service Agreement, signed on 22 March 2017 and amended by Annex 1 dated 21 April 2017 (hereinafter: "Agreement") by and between the companies ALTA Skladi d.d. (on behalf and for the account of mutual funds Alpen.SI, mixed flexible sub-fund - South East Europe, Alpen.Developed, equity sub-fund, Alpen.Emerging, equity sub-fund, Flexible mixed sub-fund ALTA PRIMUS and flexible mixed sub-fund ALTA SENIOR), KD Skladi, družba za upravljanje, d.o.o. (on behalf and for the account of KD Umbrella Fund KD GALILEO, MIXED FLEXIBLE FUND, KD RASTKO, EUROPEAN EQUITY FUND, and KD DIVIDENDNI, DELNIŠKI) and PRIMORSKI SKLADI, d.o.o., Koper (on behalf and for the account of the mutual fund PSP MODRA LINIJA – DEVELOPED MARKETS EQUITY FUND) as the ordering parties, and the companies PUBLIKUM HOLDING d.o.o., ALTA Invest, investicijske storitve, d. d. and ALTA Skupina, upravljanje družb, d. d. as the consultants.
The subject of the Agreement is the provision of consultancy services associated with the sale of shares issued by CINKARNA Celje, d.d. (hereinafter referred to as: "Company") listed under the ticker symbol CICG, ISIN code SI0031103805.
Pursuant to the provisions contained therein, the Agreement shall come into force and effect on the date it is signed or acceded to by the ordering parties who cumulatively hold at least 25% + 1 share of the Company's share capital, and on 21 April 2017 BAMC received notification from the company ALTA Skupina, upravljanje družb, d. d., confirming that the Agreement came into force and effect on the same day.
This notice will also be posted on the company website, www.dutb.eu, for 5 years following the date of publication.
BAMC management
Sava transfer now formally concluded 9.8.2016
Pursuant to the decision of the Slovenian Government of 28 January this year, the transfer of bonds and claims against Sava d.d. from the BAMC to SDH and KAD has been formally concluded. BAMC, which at the beginning of August handed over the necessary documentation and fulfilled all other obligations under the agreement, received the agreed payment on 9 August.
More information: http://seonet.ljse.si/default.aspx?doc=SEARCH&doc_id=61157
The deadline for applications for the position of CEO of BAMC has expired 1.8.2016
The deadline for applications for the position of CEO of BAMC expired on Friday, 29 July 2016. 10 candidates from Slovenia and abroad have applied. BAMC will not divulge the names of the applicants. The Nomination Committee will review the applications and based on its proposals, the non-executive directors of BAMC will select the best candidates based on their own judgment. The name of the selected candidate will be announced before the acting CEO's temporary mandate expires.
New website 1.8.2016
Today, August 1st 2016, BAMC launched a renewed website www.dutb.eu. You are invited to check it out.
International call for applications for the position of CEO 11.7.2016
Družba za upravljanje terjatev bank hereby issues this international call for applications for the position of Chief Executive Officer - CEO. A full-time employment contract will be signed with the selected candidate for a five-year mandate.
BAMC has so far recovered almost a third of the value of transferred assets 31.5.2016
After completing asset takeovers from banks undergoing measures to strengthen the stability of banks and concluding the process of setting up the organization in 2014, BAMC focused on managing the transferred assets in 2015. Cash generated from asset management in 2015 amounted to €356,2 million representing 22,0% of asset transfer value and thus highly exceeded the ZUKSB requirement of yearly liquidation of at least 10% of assets. From inception, BAMC thus generated €493,5 million of cash, meaning that almost one-third of transferred assets' value was cashed.
BAMC's core business is managing non-performing assets, mostly NPLs. Thus, BAMC's operating and financial expenses have to be covered by realized capital gains and revaluation income in order to generate profit. BAMC recorded a net loss of €8,3 million in 2015. Hence, BAMC has not achieved the required 8% return on equity as required by the Guidelines on the Operations of the Bank Assets Management Company. The loss was the result of revaluations, as income from the increase in the fair value of assets due to revaluation was insufficient to cover all financial expenses and operating costs, despite the positive result of transactions. While realized inflows were mostly in line with expectations, the main difference to previous valuations originated in the lower and more distant estimation of cash flows from the remaining portfolio in future years as a result of economic, investor sentiment and other related factors.
Regardless of the net loss and equity decline in 2015 BAMC has, since its inception, increased the equity value by 20% compared to equity fair value after the takeover of assets from the four state-owned banks which includes the return of capital to the owner in various forms. The economic return on equity (EROE) indicator that takes into consideration also the return of capital to the owner, and therefore more appropriately and comprehensively measures BAMC's performance, thus stands at an average yearly return on equity of 11.4% for the each of the two years of operations of BAMC.
In accordance with Article 15 of the ZUKSB, BAMC published a BAMC Report to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for the year 2015.
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Blockchain February 21, 2019 Daily Hodl Staff
IBM's Head of Blockchain Says Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Teases Support for XRP and BTC
IBM's head of blockchain solutions says he expects the price of Bitcoin to reach $1 million.
In an interview with Finder.com, Jesse Lund said he expects Bitcoin will rebound by the end of the year.
"I think it's going to be higher. I'll go with $5,000."
And in the long run, Lund predicts the price of BTC will skyrocket to seven figures.
"I have a long-term outlook. I've actually blogged about this a little bit. It goes back to that discussion about the utility of the network with a higher price. So, I see Bitcoin at a million dollars someday."
In addition, Lund says IBM's cross-border payment network, Blockchain World Wire, will support multiple cryptocurrencies.
"It could be Ripple, it could be XRP even. It could be Bitcoin. But it would also probably include other instruments, like stablecoins, and even eventually soon, hopefully, central bank-issued digital currencies."
According to Lund, a number of banks have already signed letters of intent to join the platform.
"We're going to be supporting more than 50 countries out of the gate, 30 to 40 currencies, and enough market makers to drag along 30 or 40 banks. So we'll have a significant portion of the world covered…
We've got letters of intent with several banks around the world to support and issue digital currencies, stablecoins and other currencies. Our goal is to continue to expand that network and to provide global coverage within three to five years where you can actually send remittances in a consistent way, immediately, at a very low cost, from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world."
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The company currently has 270 stores and projected 2008 revenue approaching $1 billion, with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of roughly $20 million, said two people familiar with its finances. But some of the forces pushing Steve & Barry's growth were not tied to end-consumer demand, but the needs of mall owners in a softening commercial-real-estate market. Much of the company's earnings came in the form of one-time, up-front payments from mall owners. Those payments were designed to lure the retailer to take over vacated sites, say several people familiar with the company.
Without these payments, the stores are barely profitable, if at all, people familiar with the company's finances say. In recent weeks, the retailer has been seeking at least $30 million to fund operations through 2008… Steve & Barry's closing would be another blow for owners of malls and shopping centers, who have struggled to cope with the 6,500 store closures predicted for this year by the International Council of Shopping Centers.
I wonder how widespread this practice has been beneath the glittering surface of America's booming economy in the '00's? Steve and Barry's is a Carousel Mall tenant. Gee, I hope this isn't part of the planned DestiNY USA business model.
Great post, thanks. This is the "war between the states" model of economic development at the shopping-mall level. When a Federal Reserve Bank published a report urging an end to the "war between the states" that lure-type economic development programs were engaging in, there was less competition in the economic development arena between cities. Now, it has gotten down to warring townships and shopping malls. Anyway you cut it, if we set up programs organized to give companies money to have them locate here and not there, and everybody uses them, we (collectively) give companies a huge amount of money, cause them to discount the idea of locating in the best place, and have the same situation we had at the start.
We should just focus on the efficient production of goods, services, and infrastructure.
Look no further than Medley Centre in Irondequoit, NY. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that the owners there had paid Steve & Berry's to come in, which would explain the company's recent departure.
Julia, I see S&B's moved from Medley to a different local mall… probably lured with the promise of a new payment.
Robinia, if you go to Calculated Risk site and read the comments of that post I linked to, plus the post immediately following at CR, there is some discussion of Auburn's Finger Lakes Mall (where S&B's is also a tenant). I never really wondered why the Auburn strip was getting so developed — I just assumed it was a central shopping area for people living in outlying rural towns — but now that gas is going sky high, I sure wonder about the future of the Auburn strip now.
Fascinating story. S & B's recently showed up at The Shops at Ithaca Mall, the awkwardly renamed Pyramid Mall off Route 13. I find myself wondering whether I, too, could cash in on this trend–it beats paying for a storage unit.
I had never been to an S&B's before yesterday, when I decided to check out the one at Carousel (it's in the basement). What a glittering dump! The merchandise seems to consist of nothing but sloganed T-shirts aimed at teens — aisle after aisle of them, simply piles of them. If this chain wasn't doomed to failure before the economic downturn, it certainly has to be now.
Thanks for the Calculated Risk cite, Ellen. This stuff helps me very much to feel OK about not, say, having a 75K-a-year job as an economic developer in Auburn and paying off my student loans. Which is not the Auburn Econ Dev job I actually applied for and didn't get a few years ago (that one paid half that, was working with women- and minority-owned businesses and start-ups). Whomever has that 75K job giving out the "lure" cash probably has less education than me, but dresses much better (does NOT shop at S & B's!– whereas I just do NOT shop… much). Bet they are friendly with the local elected officials, too. Good for insider-pyramid-schemes, bad for getting real jobs for real people, or good land use patterns.


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These cause nasty smudges and are, of course, completely inevitable. You'd be amazed at how quickly several hundred fingerprint marks can build up.
Not the delicious kind! I'm talking about bits of grit, dirt and stone flying up from the road surface and causing minor chips in your paintwork. If they're left to collect dirt, they can cause all sorts of problems – spreading, oxidisation, you name it! Also, not washing your car frequently can lead to these chips being hidden under fresh layers of dirt, which means they're doing their dirty work behind the scenes.
Water, wind and sun can all cause issues. They're also inescapable!
They're sticky, messy and not very pleasant to look at when they've been smeared all over your paintwork. But they can also make a real mess of your paintwork.
It's an enemy to itself! Oil, brake dust and fluids are among the worst contaminants – can't live with them, can't live without them!
Well, the good news is that washing your car, and doing it well, isn't particularly time-consuming or difficult to do. Here are a few tips on how to wash your car really well.
A great soap should produce great suds – it's in the suds where the magic happens. Our very own Vital Car Wash Soap separates dirt from paintwork so that you can wipe it away easily, without any risk of scratching. The suds and bubbles are formed as a result of a special pH neutral chemical reaction with water, which is tough on dirt and grease but will not damage any wax or sealant. Vital Car Wash Soap is a professional product designed not to leave any spots, swirls or streaks that a basic water solution can easily do. It's economical – you just need 2oz to do your whole vehicle – and you can use it on glass, plastic and bodywork.
If you wipe away dirt and then put your wash pad straight back in your soap bucket, you're contaminating the soapy water with dirt, which will hugely reduce the effect of the cleaning solution. The two-bucket wash method ensures that you avoid this and get the cleanest possible finish. Ensure that you have separate buckets for water – we've got some great pails you can take a look at - and the Vital Car Wash Soap solution, so that you can rinse your wash pad in the water before you put it back in the solution.
Take a look here at our Vital Car Wash Soap – you'll see all the steps to getting your car looking amazing, plus a really important Expert Tip.
So how often should I wash my car then?
Now, this is a question that's tougher to answer. I'd love to tell you to do it once a week, but I realise that modern lives are busy and that not everyone has the time or the inclination to do it this often. So I'm going to break down a few things for you to consider so that you make the right choice on frequency.
There are a number of things to expand on here. Firstly, if you live in an urban area, you're going to have to wash your car more frequently than if you're a bit out in the suburbs. This is simply because there are far more airborne contaminants in cities than in the countryside. Pollution is one of the number one spoilers of car bodywork, so if you're in a massive city like LA or New York, once a week is the way to go. Also, if you're parking your car on the street, like 90% of people in cities are, then it's even worse. Your car is exposed 24/7 to the elements, and this includes pollution, pigeons and more.
That said, don't think that because you live in the wilderness that you get off so easily! With lush green countryside comes rain, bugs and trees. The rain may mask superficial dirt but it can also cause problems with rusting, swirl patterns and its own acidity. Bugs are a real pain too – their insides are sticky and can bond with the paintwork on your car. The worst of all, though, is tree sap. It's unbelievably sticky and a real pain to get rid of, so think twice before keeping your car under a tree!
Put simply, the more often you drive it, the dirtier it will get. This is an inevitability folks! As you drive, your tyres kick up dirt and dust, and you "collect" all the airborne bugs in your path too. If you're a commuter, your car will be worse hit than anyone else's, because you're doubling distance with city centre parking!
Ideally, a mild, temperate climate provides the ideal conditions for your car. But if you live in conditions like that, you're also in the minority! Down here in Fullerton, we get a lot of beautiful sunshine, which is great. But sunshine is also dangerous – prolonged exposure can cause paintwork to fade and even for surfaces to warp under extreme conditions. The number one problem with heat though? All those YouTube videos of glamorous models washing cars in the glorious sunshine! This is the number one no-no for any kind of cleaning, waxing or polishing. Always do your work out of direct sunlight. Don't ruin your car while being a poser!
Ultimately, this is the most important one. If you want your car to have that showroom shine year-round, then you have to wash it once a week. No choice there! If you're happier with a generally clean finish but with spots of dirt here and there, then you can go to once every two weeks, or even once a month if you're living in a quiet, suburban environment and your car is stored in a garage. Any longer than this though, and you're risking building up some issues that could lead to long-term damage to your bodywork.
So remember – you need to wash your car regularly. It'll prevent more time-consuming, costly issues happening down the line. And it doesn't need to be a chore. At Proje', our motto is "Enjoy the Process!" And we mean it – all of our products have been designed and chosen especially, to make the process of auto detailing easy, efficient and fun. So, from all of us at Proje': Enjoy The Process!
If you have any questions about any of the techniques or products that I've mentioned in this post, just contact us on info@projeproducts.com and one of the Proje' team will be in touch with you! Remember that we stock only the best auto detailing supplies, so why not click some of the links in this blog post, or visit our products page to find out more?


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États-Unis
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Canada
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 Route 7 en Nouvelle-Écosse
 Route 7 en Ontario
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Bolivie
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Paraguay
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Uruguay
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Europe
 Route européenne 7
 Route européenne 007

Allemagne
 Route fédérale 7 ()

France
 Autoroute A7
 Route nationale 7
 Route départementale 7 dans certains départements

Hongrie
 Route principale 7

Lituanie
 Route magistrale 7

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Charlotte Kennedy is a British actor, singer and musical theatre performer. Her musical credits to date include Les Miserables.
Theatre whilst training includes: Linda English in Pal Joey, Niki Harris in Curtains, Judy Turner in A Chorus Line and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
Concerts include: Honeymoon in Vegas (London Palladium), Elaine Paige in Concert (The Royal Albert Hall).


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Verkhnezubrilovsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Mirnoye Rural Settlement, Novonikolayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010.

Geography
Verkhnezubrilovsky is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Kardail River, 61 km northeast of Novonikolayevsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhnezubrilovsky is the nearest rural locality.

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Despite statewide rise in cases, positivity rates, Stamford holds steady on COVID-19
Stamford, Connecticut on March 20, 2021.
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STAMFORD — As the rest of the state keeps its attentions fixed on the rising number of COVID-19 cases across Connecticut, Stamford appears to have staved off a major spike for a few days more.
The statewide test positivity rate this week hit 6 percent for the first time since Jan. 2021. Stamford's case positivity still lags substantially behind. The daily percentage of new positive cases hit 4.86 percent, according to city data last updated on Monday. The seven-day average positivity rate sits at 3.9 percent, according to the same data set.
The last time Stamford's seven-day positivity rate was above 3.9 percent was Sept. 14. Back then, the city was still in the throes of the delta variant and Stamford health officials regularly reported 15 new cases a day or more.
This week's data also shows that the numbers of COVID-19 tests has dropped, despite rising numbers of cases being reported statewide. Between Nov. 26 and Nov. 29, Stamford recorded only 192 new COVID-19 tests among residents. In contrast, over the previous two weekends, city data shows 493 new tests during the weekend of Nov. 19 and 1,660 new tests during the weekend of Nov. 12.
Though the new chapter for the virus is milder in Stamford than it is throughout Connecticut so far, the local level of spread has ramped up significantly since October's lows. The seven-day average of new daily cases has more than doubled from 4.6 to 11.6 after Oct. 26, the day outgoing Mayor David Martin opted to revoke Stamford's indoor mask mandate.
The daily number of new cases sits at 10.5 percent, putting Stamford squarely in the third tier of the state Department of Public Health's four-level response system. According to the ranking system, residents in town reporting between 10 and 15 new cases daily per capita should exhibit caution in indoor settings.
The framework recommends that fully vaccinated people "consider wearing a mask indoors in public spaces, especially crowded indoor settings" and "take additional precautions if you are likely to have close contact with people who are not fully vaccinated or may be immunocompromised."
Those not fully vaccinated should "wear a mask indoors in all public spaces and in crowded outdoor settings" and "avoid any close contact interactions, either indoors or outdoors, with people outside of your household."
The city last reported more than 10 new cases per capita — as per the seven-day average — in late September.


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The Deanery (1885-1968) and Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College
Constructed in 1968, Canaday Library is located at the former site of Bryn Mawr College's Deanery, which was home to college leaders from the time of the college's first dean and second president, Dr. Martha Carey Thomas. Thomas lived at the home from 1885 to 1933, and at that time, the structure held only five rooms but contained works by Louis Comfort Tiffany and other influential designers and artists. The home was also full of items from Dr. Thomas' global travels and the college inherited the home and these items when she passed away in 1935. The home was later expanded significantly for entertaining guests and hosting events but demolished in 1968 above the protests of many students, faculty, and alumni in order to make room for the modern Canaday Library.
Bryn Mawr's first president M. Carey Thomas addresses students from the porch of the home in 1905.
President Thomas' study photographed in 1904
Canaday Library at Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College, named after the estate upon which it was constructed, was the first college in the United States to offer women a path to graduate education up to the level of the Ph. D. Beginning in 1885, Bryn Mawr staunchly challenged the restrictive gender norms placed on women at the time, giving women access to the arts and sciences that was unprecedented in the United States and had few predecessors in the world as a whole. Bryn Mawr now stands proudly as one of the most storied educational institutions in the United States and as a cornerstone of the Bryn Mawr community.
The founding of the College of Bryn Mawr was carried out at the behest of Joseph W. Taylor, a Quaker physician, following his death in 1880. For years prior to his death, Taylor had begun to organize the formation of a school that would provide unique educational opportunities "for the advanced education of females," with the bulk of his efforts occurring in 1879, a year before his death. In his will, he left his plans for the school and a considerable monetary sum with which to establish the institution. His goal was to provide a place that would allow women to perform their own, original research, which was previously available to very few men, let alone women at the time.
Taylor also hoped to inspire strongly in his students the morals and ideals of the Quakers, though it is noted by the College's historians that his trustees prioritized education to faith and chose to make the school non-denominational.
The first dean of the school was a woman by the name of M. Carey Thomas, whose vision for the school would shape its future for decades to come. She was known for her relentless pursuit of knowledge, leaving to study in Europe after being denied from American universities on the basis of gender. Under her leadership, Bryn Mawr became an influence on women's education nationwide and beyond.
Bryn Mawr, though, was not without flaw under the leadership of M. Carey Thomas, and school historians make a point to note that during this era of the school's history, the school leadership, including Thomas herself, held the oddly hypocritical and racially-prejudiced belief that education was reserved for white, wealthy women only. This severe flaw in approach, thankfully, was overcome by subsequent leaders, aided by the school's devotion to student self-government, which allowed incoming students to effectively critique and change policies that were holdovers from previous eras.
Bryn Mawr was, notably, the first school in the United States to offer their students access to a Ph. D. program in social work. The program began following the influence of a previous graduate of Bryn Mawr and would come to be known as the famous Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.
During the Second World War, Byrn Mawr earned further international repute by serving as a sanctuary for scholars fleeing the brutal Nazi persecution of intellectuals and free thinkers that was sweeping Europe. Likewise, during both the McCarthy and Vietnam eras of anti-Communist panic, Bryn Mawr elected to lose federal aid instead of breaching their beliefs in intellectual freedom and student privacy.
The period of time from the late 1970s until the late 1990s, during which the school was led by Mary Patterson McPherson, was one of the most important parts of Bryn Mawr's history. Under McPherson's leadership, the school devoted itself to overcoming bias, growing diversity of viewpoints, backgrounds, and economic class, and reanalyzing its purpose in the greater scope of education as a whole. McPherson was responsible for weighing the possibility of converting Bryn Mawr to a fully co-ed school instead of a single-sex educational institution; she concluded after significant consideration that carrying on the tradition of women's education was still very much relevant to the needs of the country and the world.
The current President, Kimberly Wright Cassidy, earned notoriety for leading the decision to explicitly allow the application of transgender and intersex women in 2015. This decision made Bryn Mawr the fourth women's college in the country to openly protect the application rights of transgender and intersex women.
Bryn Mawr is known for its resume of illustrious alumni and faculty. President Woodrow Wilson taught at the school, as did world-famous chemist Arthur Lindo Patterson. The list of accomplished graduates is at least as impressive, if not considerably more so, counting such influential individuals as Actress Katharine Hepburn, Nobel Prize winner Emily Greene Balch, women's rights activist Agnes E. Wells, and Hanna Holborn Gray, the first woman president of Harvard University.
In the current year of 2018, Bryn Mawr still thrives as one of the nation's foremost educational institutions. It has committed itself continually to modern pursuits of equality, women's education, sustainability, civil rights, and freedom of conscience, keeping in tradition with its long legacy of liberal conviction. As of the creation of this entry, Bryn Mawr's undergraduate program still devotes itself completely to women-only education, though the graduate program has opened its door to the selective admittance of male students.
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Kellaway, Mitch. Bryn Mawr Becomes Fourth US Women's College To Accept Transgender Students. The Advocate. 02/11/2015. Accessed 01/21/2018. https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/02/11/bryn-mawr-becomes-fourth-us-womens-college-accept-transgender-studen. Source for Information about Bryn Mawr's Decision to Protect the Right of Transgender Women's Applications to the school
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This trail includes twenty-five monuments, historical markers, museums, and other historical and cultural sites that are primarily related to the history of women and gender. The trail starts in the center of the city and then expands to the north to include a handful of other sites such as a cluster of landmarks on the campus of Bryn Mawr that were selected for their proximity to other landmarks so that the trail can be driven in a few hours.


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Since Colorado and Washington passed Amendment 64, legalising the recreational use of marijuana, back in 2012, an additional ten states have approved the development of legal Cannabis markets. The states that have since legalised adult-use recreational Cannabis are California, Nevada, Alaska, Ohio, Oregon, Michigan, Washington, Massachusetts, Vermont, and, most, recently, Illinois.
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A total of 26 US states allow for policy changes through the ballot initiative. This allows a petition to bring about a public vote on a constitutional amendment. These petitions require a minimum number of signatures, which vary between states, in order to progress.
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Your Clothes Might Be Destroying The Rainforest
Rayon might seem like a better alternative to petroleum-based synthetic fabrics, but it's often made from trees in old-growth forests. A new nonprofit is working hard to make sure fashion companies have better options.
"Most people know the link between forests and paper, but they don't know the link between forest ecosystems and the clothing they have in their wardrobes." [Photo: Andrew Wright/courtesy Canopy]
By Alden Wicker 5 minute Read
If you look at the tags inside your clothing, you'll often see "rayon" or "viscose." An increasingly popular fabric–production has doubled in the past decade–these man-made cellulosic fibers are versatile, with a beautiful drape, and a soft and silky feel. They're also often marketed as more eco-friendly, since they're made from plant materials instead of plastics like polyester or nylon.
But rayon, viscose, and modal have a dark secret: They're often made from old-growth trees from endangered rainforests.
"Most people know the link between forests and paper, but they don't know the link between forest ecosystems and the clothing they have in their wardrobes," says Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of the Vancouver-based nonprofit Canopy, which works with businesses who source trees as a raw material to come up with solutions that protect old-growth forests. An Ashoka fellow, Rycroft has turned her organization's gaze over the past five years from the paper industry to the fashion industry.
"All of the brands have been shocked. Some of them weren't even aware that rayon actually came from forests." [Photo: Andrew Wright/courtesy Canopy]
"To be honest, even we were surprised when we found out about the link," she says. "All of the brands have been shocked. Some of them weren't even aware that rayon actually came from forests." The big brands who did know, assumed that it was coming from sustainable, second-growth forests, which turned out to be far from true.
Here's how trees are turned into fashion: A dissolving pulp mill situated near a forest or tree plantation takes a tree, adds chemicals, and produces what's called dissolving pulp. The pulp goes to the viscose producer, who makes it into a staple fiber, which is then sent to a dyer or spinner. Next it's made into a textile, which is sold to fashion brands. It finally lands as a ruffled blouse or sheath dress in your favorite store.
"We have these carbon-rich forests being converted, and as a result climate change is being exacerbated and we're losing critical habitat for vulnerable species." [Photo: Crossover Productions/courtesy Canopy]
"Viscose is a very chemically intensive, nasty, toxic process," Rycroft says. "It's also very inefficient. You lose about 60% of the tree through that chemical breakdown."
Dissolving pulp mills are located all over the world, in Austria, Sweden, South Africa, China, India, even Minnesota. But the most controversial mills source their trees from Canada's boreal forest, Indonesia's rainforest, and the Amazon. "We have these carbon-rich forests being converted, and as a result climate change is being exacerbated and we're losing critical habitat for vulnerable species," Rycroft says. "It is the palm oil of the fashion world."
One particularly controversial pulp mill in Northern Sumatra is located in the middle of a forest that is home to sun bears and tigers, plus communities of native farmers. Up until Canopy got involved, the mill was (with the blessing of the government) logging this ecologically valuable forest and converting it to eucalyptus plantations. One farmer who tried to protect his land by standing in the way of bulldozers was thrown in jail for three months.
"Rayon is the palm oil of the fashion world." [Photo: Nicole Rycroft/courtesy Canopy]
The viscose rayon industry is slated to double again in capacity over the next decade, meaning more dissolving pulp mills will be built to handle the growing demand. Fortunately, this might be a rare opportunity to stop an environmental disaster before it becomes entrenched as business-as-usual.
Canopy takes a three-prong approach to this mission. They engage with corporate fashion brands, whose buyers can pressure rayon viscose suppliers. Every six months, Canopy updates their ranking of rayon producers according to environmental performance, so brands can go into contract negotiations armed with information on sustainability practices. Canopy also engages with rayon viscose suppliers, who can put pressure on dissolving pulp mills. And they engage the pulp mills themselves, using pressure from up the supply chain to essentially give them no choice but to comply, or lose almost all their customers.
So far, Canopy has won commitments to go rainforest-free from 105 fashion brands representing $130 billion in annual revenue, or 5% of the $2.4 trillion global fashion market. In the spring they announced a rainforest-free commitment from VF Corp, with yearly sales of over $12 billion, and whose brands include Nautica, the North Face, Wrangler, Timberland, and Vans. They recently announced a commitment from Gap Inc., which owns Banana Republic and Old Navy, to be old-growth-tree-free by 2020.
"The supply chain is transforming in real time." [Photo: Andrew Wright/courtesy Canopy]
Canopy also has commitments from 10 rayon suppliers, representing 75% of the global market. "There are very few dissolving pulp mills that are going to want to rule out the ability to supply to 75% of their customers," Rycroft says. Most of these rayon suppliers have also committed to drawing on non-tree sources, such as recycled fabrics or agricultural waste. The two largest global suppliers of rayon, Lenzing and Aditya Brila, have also gone through the auditing process put together by Canopy and The Rainforest Alliance, which means 25% of the global rayon viscose market has been certified as at low risk for sourcing from endangered forests.
That mill in Northern Sumatra? Because of pressure from Canopy and rayon producers, it has put in place a zero-deforestation commitment, and has agreed give back 12,800 acres of forest to the local communities. The mill will work with the government to find land to source from that is not old-growth or inhabited by a native community.
Fashion companies aren't moving on this issue because of consumer pressure–most consumers have no idea that fabric can even be made from trees. The brands that have signed on either see it as crucial to their broader sustainability initiatives, or are looking ahead to the point when governments implement cap-and-trade or carbon taxes to comply with the Paris climate accords. They're also wary of bad press as consumers become more aware. It's about risk mitigation.
"The supply chain is transforming in real time," Rycroft says. "I think that's one of the encouraging things about the fashion industry around sustainability. With a clear strategy, with clear tools, with very clear metrics and outcomes, it's a powerful example of the impact that collective action can really have."
Alden Wicker is a freelance journalist covering sustainability and fashion.
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Andranik Voskanyan (; born 11 April 1990), is an Armenian football player who plays as a defender.

Club career
Andranik Voskanyan loved football from early childhood. When he was in the first grade, a football coach visited looking for children interested in playing football. Voskanyan did not miss the opportunity and started to go to training. He began his career in the football school of Malatia Yerevan (now school property of Banants Yerevan) under the direction of Hakob Andreasyan.

He started playing for Mika-2 in the Armenian First League in 2008. Two years later, Voskanyan made his debut for the first team Mika Yerevan in the Armenian Premier League. He played three games that year. In 2011, he got a starter position in the defense and was a major player that season. In the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, Mika had a match against Norwegian club Vålerenga Fotball. Voskanyan did not play on the field and remained at the touch-lines.

Voskanyan was released by FC Urartu on 5 December 2019.

On 5 January 2023, Voskanyan left Alashkert after his contract was terminated by mutual consent.

International career
In 2011, the chief coach of the Armenia national team saw Voskanyan's skills and recruited him in the Armenia U-21 youth team. On June 7 the same year, he made his debut for the youth national team in the qualifying matches for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. His debut came in the opening match against the Montenegro U-21 youth team, which the Armenian youth team dealt a crushing defeat to 4-1. He played 5 games as a youth, all in 2011.

On February 28, 2012, he made his debut in the Armenia national football team in a friendly match against Serbia. Voskanyan played on the field in the 77th minute of the match, replacing Varazdat Haroyan. The match ended in defeat for Armenia 0-2.

Honours

Club
Pyunik Yerevan
Armenian Premier League Runner-up (1): 2009
Armenian Cup (1): 2011
Armenian Supercup (1): 2012-13

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1990 births
Living people
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Your Highness DVD review
A starry cast gathers for raucous fantasy comedy, Your Highness. But does it live up to its premise? Here's Mark's DVD review…
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Perhaps Zooey Deschanel sums this one up best in the DVD's making-of documentary. She describes Your Highness as "a kind of dirty Princess Bride", and it's a shame that it isn't as great in its execution as its premise would suggest.
In a mystical realm, King Tallious has two sons. One of them, Thadeous, is a slacker who can't even acquit himself in the most basic of quests, such as procuring a treaty with dwarves. The other, Fabious, returns victorious shortly after Thadeous, bringing home Belladonna, his virgin betrothed.
Along the way, however, Fabious has pissed off dark sorcerer Leezar, who needs Belladonna to play a crucial part in an ancient ritual called the Fuckening. Leezar recaptures Belladonna on her wedding day, and the King pressgangs Thadeous into joining his brother on a quest to rescue her.
There always seems to be some exception to humour in big-budget comedies. To studio execs, money isn't funny, and it's often the downfall of comedies that might have been made better on a smaller budget. Some speculated that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ran into this problem when making Paul, which pales when measured against their previous hits.
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On its own merits, though, Paul was quite fun, and put all its budget on the screen. Far worse was Just Go With It, the recent Adam Sandler farce that sent the star on his second all-expenses-paid location holiday on the trot after Grown-Ups.
You could never argue that Your Highness was too beleaguered by accountants. Being a 1980s-style fantasy movie with heavy drug use, nudity and profanity, it never would have gotten made, and certainly not with a budget of $50 million if such sticklers were attached to the project. I'm fixating so much on budget, because it feels like it fell back on the money a little too much.
Look at Natalie Portman, for instance, coming off the back of both the acclaim and the controversy around Black Swan. You'll notice no doubles coming forward with accusations this time, because she's doing at least eighty per cent of her own comedy in this one, and it shows.
Her tentative delivery might be preferable to the slight mania she deployed in No Strings Attached, but to be frank, she's here because she's a star. Perhaps you could hearken back to the fact that she's had three movies' worth of experience playing a fantasy maiden character in Star Wars, but Zooey Deschanel outshines her in that regard, with less experience in the genre and more comedic talent.
I've enjoyed Danny McBride's supporting performances, but I was less convinced by his ability to take on a leading role as Thadeous. He puts a good inflection on "fuck" when talking in his cod-genteel accent, but that's the film's other last resort. James Franco fares better as the straight man in their double act, but it's the supporting players who steal the show.
Rasmus Hardiker makes for a fine Baldrick surrogate, Toby Jones has a surreal but hilarious role to play, and Justin Theroux is deliciously camp as the film's villain, Leezar. But as mentioned, they're supporting players, obscured by the presumably much more expensive leads – which really sums up the whole problem with Your Highness.
Truthfully, the film is at its best when poking fun at affably rubbish 80s fantasy films like Clash Of The Titans and Labyrinth, and it sits far less comfortably when deploying big CGI effects, and pushing the mainstream stoner comedy element beyond its limit.
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Steve Jablonsky's score, which sounds like Howard Shore with a synthesiser, should be the icing on the cake, but because the cake has got pot in it, and is trussed up with incongruously big special effects, it feels detached from the more on-the-nose jokes involving mechanical birds, horny minotaurs and yes, that pitch-perfect soundtrack.
Your Highness is very clearly a film with niche appeal, but it's still a big film trying to squeeze into a small space. It could have worked better with poorer special effects, which would have been more endearing in this case. It's far from mirthless, and it's not to say that big budgets are always anathema to comedies, but this one could have been more. Or less, really.
"We never dreamt that anyone would allow us to get away with this", says director David Gordon Green in the feature commentary, which also includes McBride, Franco and Theroux. This is one of the extras on the disc that, like the deleted scenes and the outtakes, exhibits the general sense of fun the cast and crew had making the film.
It's enjoyable to see and hear – even if, like me, you have your reservations about the film itself. In addition to the commentary, the disc also includes a number of other special features. Damn You Gods – The Making Of Your Highness is exactly as the title implies, with behind the scenes footage and cast interviews stitched together in a half-hour featurette.
Then there's the usual cascade of alternate takes that comes along with a comedy like this, on which the actors are encouraged to ad-lib. The best of these features is A Vision Of Leezar, with Theroux cutting loose and coming out with surreal stuff as he shoots his ethereal message to Toby Jones' character.
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Xi Jinping has no interest in succession planning
The Emperor Qin Shi Huang is celebrated for unifying China, starting its Great Wall and building himself a vast mausoleum, guarded by an army of terracotta warriors. Less widely known is what happened after he died in 210BC on a tour of eastern China. According to the historian Sima Qian, aides concealed the death until the imperial entourage reached the capital, in order to stop his eldest son and heir from taking power. They had food sent to the royal carriage and handled business from there as before. Carts of fish were placed nearby to mask the corpse's stench. The ruse paid off at first. The eldest son committed suicide and a younger one, backed by the scheming aides, took the throne. But he proved weak. Within four years he was dead and the Qin dynasty collapsed.
Imperial Chinese history is littered with succession sagas tainted by bloodshed and skulduggery. Communist China was not much better for its first six decades. When Hu Jintao handed power to Xi Jinping in 2012 after ten years in office, it was the first complete, orderly leadership transition since the revolution in 1949. A decade later, however, Mr Xi is set to be granted a third five-year term—breaching the norms Mr Hu helped to establish—after the Communist Party's congress ends on October 22nd. And with no end to the Xi era in sight, China is once again confronting questions that have plagued its history. How does an all-powerful leader retire? And what happens if one suddenly dies or is incapacitated?
China's succession norms were admittedly flimsy and mostly unwritten. Deng Xiaoping, who took power in 1978, introduced them to protect against Mao-era despotism and Soviet-style gerontocracy. That did not stop him from wielding huge power almost until his death in 1997, aged 92. His successor, Jiang Zemin, also meddled in politics long after retiring. Some see 2012 as an anomaly. Yet the partial institutionalisation of succession, combined with collective leadership, provided enough stability to underpin an extraordinary economic expansion. With the shift back to one-man rule, some scholars now foresee succession problems common to other modern-day autocracies—as well as China's own emperors.
Among such scholars is Erica Frantz at Michigan State University, who has compiled and analysed data on 301 authoritarian regimes from 1946 to 2020. She and her colleagues conclude that as autocrats concentrate power in their own hands, they tend to extend their own tenure—often considering themselves indispensable and fearing elite recriminations if they retire. But that often comes at the expense of the regime they represent. "These choices that Xi Jinping is making are positive for him in the short term, but in terms of the longer time horizon, they are elevating the risk that the regime will see instability and perhaps an earlier collapse," says Ms Frantz.
One way for authoritarian regimes to enhance their resilience is to establish rigid term limits. The best example is Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, which enforced a one-term cap on the presidency while in power from 1929 to 2000. That is rare, though. Another way is to designate a successor, clearly and early. But autocrats other than monarchs often avoid that, even when old or sick. Some fear the elite will reject their choice, as when Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe tried to hand power to his wife in 2017. Others worry that the anointed heir will try to seize power prematurely, as Mao's second one, Lin Biao, was accused of doing in 1971.
Another concern for autocrats is that designating a successor implies an intention to step down imminently, limiting their options and undermining their authority. That is a more likely rationale for Mr Xi, who did not elevate a potential heir to the Politburo Standing Committee—the top leadership body—at the previous congress, as earlier norms required. Two or more next-generation Chinese leaders might be on the new Standing Committee to be unveiled on October 23rd. But none is considered a successor and Mr Xi, now 69, is widely thought to be planning another ten years in power, if not longer.
Although that may foster stability by clearly signalling Mr Xi's intent, it also increases the risk that he dies or becomes seriously ill while in office. Democracies can obviously face such problems too: America's current president is 79. Unlike America, though, China has no clear line of succession or procedures for filling unplanned leadership vacancies. An autocrat's sudden death or incapacitation seldom leads to regime collapse in the short term. The elite usually coalesces around a replacement to protect its own interests. But it can cause infighting. A bitter power struggle erupted in China even before Mao's death in 1976. Ill health, often concealed from the public, can also cause the kind of paralysis that plagued the Kremlin under its hospital-bound leaders Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.
Mr Xi appears in fine enough fettle. But as a portly former smoker who was a local official in a period when regular banqueting and heavy drinking were de rigueur, he would be lucky to have avoided some associated ailments. And there have been occasional rumours of ill health, especially after he appeared to walk with a slight limp on a visit to Europe in 2019. The speech he gave at the congress on October 16th was about 90 minutes shorter than his three-and-a-half-hour marathon in 2017. Among the retired leaders on stage (many of whom now forgo the black hair dye they used in office), a white-haired Mr Hu (79) appeared markedly more frail than at past appearances—a reminder of how mortality could catch up with Mr Xi over the next decade.
If Mr Xi's health endures, there is still time for him to identify one or more potential successors, possibly at the next congress in 2027 or the one after. But whoever replaces him will inevitably struggle to match his authority, especially if nominated relatively late. That is one reason why Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's president, has had trouble filling the shoes of Hugo Chávez, who named him as successor just three months before dying in 2013. China's next leader will face an elite dominated by Xi loyalists and highly invested in the status quo—with no clear norms for how long to stay in power. "There will be power fragmentation and struggle after Xi's rule," predicts Yang Zhang of American University in Washington. "Without basic rules, succession means struggle. It's just about when, and who will be involved."
Research on China's emperors reaches some similar conclusions. Yuhua Wang of Harvard University has compiled data on 282 emperors across 49 dynasties. He found that dynasties lasted for 70 years on average and the most common cause of collapse was elite rebellion. About half of all emperors died naturally. But identifying a successor made an emperor 64% less likely to be deposed. And their chances of dying naturally and preserving their dynasty increased further if they appointed an heir within five years of taking power—a similar timescale to the succession norms that Mr Xi is dismantling.
Mr Xi may not have crunched the data in the same way. But he displays an avid interest in China's imperial past, frequently quoting from historical texts. Mao, whom Mr Xi emulates in so many ways, was also a fan of China's ancient history. He often referred to the "Zizhi Tongjian", a chronicle published in 1084 that recounts the lessons learned from previous Chinese emperors. That did not help him engineer a smooth succession. Of his heirs, one died in prison, another was killed in a plane crash after a failed coup attempt, and the last was toppled after just two years in power. Perhaps Mr Xi will fare better. But the longer he clings to power, history suggests, the harder that becomes. ■
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Fondato nel 1952 come campionato Juniores, ha conservato ufficialmente tale denominazione fino alla stagione 2006-2007. Il club che ha vinto il maggior numero di titoli italiani di categoria è la Canottieri Napoli, vincitrice di nove scudetti.

Formula
Ogni comitato regionale organizza autonomamente la propria fase eliminatoria che deve iniziare non prima di novembre e concludersi entro il giugno successivo. Accedono alla fase interregionale dei quarti 24 squadre, divise in base alla rilevanza del comitato regionale.
I quarti si svolgono in quattro gironi di qualificazione, da cui le prime due classificate avanzano alle semifinali nazionali. Le otto squadre ammesse a questa fase vengono suddivise in due ulteriori gironi al termine dei quali le prime due si qualificano per la Final Four.
In determinate stagioni la FIN può abbassare il limite di età agli atleti under 19 per agevolare l'attività giovanile internazionale.

Albo d'oro

Titoli per squadra

Titoli per provincia

Titoli per regione

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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#EVs play a key part in @GM's vision of a #ZeroEmissions future. That's why it has launched a partnership with @Qmerit to make at-home charging easier and more accessible: https://s.gm.com/wv5jd
NEWSROOM: General Motors
CAMPAIGN: Transforming Transportation
CONTENT: Blog
General Motors recently announced a partnership with Qmerit, which will enable electric vehicle owners to more easily find and obtain quotes from pre-approved EV charging station installers. The partnership will give Chevrolet EV owners a seamless way to find electricians to install the charging equipment, making charging their EV an easy part of their daily routine.
The ability to charge at home plays heavily into a consumer's decision to purchase an electric vehicle. This partnership removes perceived barriers to finding a reputable, cost-friendly EV charging station installer. Through Qmerit, EV owners will be able to fill out a simple online survey and be provided with up to three competitive installer quotes. The survey will ensure quotes are precise based on the unique characteristics of the owner's home.
As the first non-luxe car brand to offer this service, Chevrolet's partnership with Qmerit will provide Chevrolet Bolt EV and Chevrolet Volt owners with a more accessible at-home charging solution. Since most EV owners can satisfy their daily needs by plugging in at home, it is essential to make at-home charging easier for current and interested customers. Here are a few other facts to know:
EV owners usually choose either a Level 1 (120V) charger, which offers about four miles per hour of charge, or a Level 2 (240V) charger, which provides up to 25 miles per hour of charge. Read more about this on the Chevrolet charging page. The 240v charging unit is available for purchase via Chevrolet Accessories.
The average daily commute is about 40 miles round trip. With an EPA-estimated 238 miles of range on a single at-home charge, a Chevrolet Bolt EV owner can get through the day – perhaps even three or four days – without needing to plug in.
According to the EPA, the estimated fuel cost for the Chevrolet Bolt EV is around $46 per month. Compared with an average new vehicle of the same size, the EPA estimates the Bolt EV could save an owner about $70 per month in fuel costs. Overnight charging, when utility rates may be at their lowest off-peak price, could mean even greater savings.
According to HomeAdvisor, the median cost for installing a home charger is around $700, plus installation fees. This cost pays for itself in a little over two years through the money saved per month by not purchasing gasoline.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. Early reports are suggesting Netanyahu is going to offer a major trade with an eye toward getting Russia to kick the Iranians out of Syria.
This trade, as reported by the Israeli press, would have Netanyahu offering to see Russia given full relief from US-imposed sanctions in return for Russia expelling Iranian military from Syria. Russia has previously told Israel they don't have the capability of doing so, and that the Iranian presence is up to Syria.
It's less discussed in the media reports, but it's also not clear that Netanyahu could deliver his side of this exchange either. Israel, after all, is not driving US sanctions against Russia, and presumably could not immediately demand and secure full sanction relief.
This meeting comes a week before Putin will meet President Trump, and Netanyahu may try to use his close ties to Trump as an advantage in the Wednesday talks. Still, it is impossible to ignore the questions of whether either side can deliver what the other wants, and may make the reported trade a very difficult issue to approach.
What the hell? So Bibi is really in charge? Is that his to give?
Ha…words are cheap, especially coming from Netanyahu and he might have over-stepped his supposed influence. If this is true, that he actually might offer this to Putin, he'll be pitting the US Congress Russia-haters against the US Congress Israel-firsters who are basically the same people – on both sides, except for a couple here and there. What a conundrum!! I wonder if they'll all go into terminal shutdown attempting to abide by the First Law and follow orders at the same time. Unfortunately, these morons in Congress haven't been reprogrammed to abide by the Zeroth Law – and are unlikely to do so.
He sure seems to think so. We will soon find out how long his leash is on Trump.
More accurately Nuttyahoo's leash on Kushner's leash on Trump, which would be Ivanka.
What makes you think Israel hasn't already been enabling black market Russian-U.S. trade?
Israel wants its place at the head table of the Eurasian century.
I also doubt Israel could deliver such a promise. More likely is the sale of sensitive US technology. Israel has has plenty of that. They're like the Big Lots of US technology.
Phillip Giraldi's 2010 Antiwar article "Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style" Jan. 28, 2010 is a classic.
It can take years for IP theft to pay off, but when it does, its a big payoff.
Maybe Bibi will offer Alaska next.
and presumably could not immediately demand and secure full sanction relief.
Presumably?.. Where ya been the last 50 years?
This is the same thing that was going on before Trump's inauguration. Bibi and the transition team were colluding to get Russia to veto the UN resolution condemning Israel for the ongoing illegal settlements in exchange for sanctions relief from the U.S. under Trump.


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William George "George" NOSWORTHY b. 11 Jan 1849 Princetown, Devon, England d. 13 Aug 1933 McIntosh, Marion, Florida, U.S.A.
William George, son of Mary and John NOSWORTHY, baptised 7 February 1851; father a Labourer, residing Village.
George arrived in Florida in September 1880, temporarily settling in Citra.
George NORSWORTHY purchased his home from William M. Gist. This Victorian Revival home was built in 1890 for William M. Gist, a founder of McIntosh who moved here from Maryland in the early 1880s with his wife, Alice Fenby. In May of 1885, he helped survey the town for its then owners, Percy and Eugene Van Ness of Baltimore. Blocks were platted 300 feet square, and this pattern has not been changed by subsequent development. Col. Charles Brush administered his father's estate, which included the land comprising this town. Brush filed the first plat in 1885 and offered to donate a lot to any settler who would build a house of a certain value. J.S. Neal took him up on his offer, and began to build a house at this location. However, it was struck by lightning before it was completed, and burned down.
The Gists bought this lot in 1890 from Neal and built this home that year. In 1893, his wife died from childbirth complications and he married Ella Nelson. During that year, Gist built another house and sold this one to W.G. NORSWORTHY. It was turned into apartments in 1946. Eric and Sandy Weidegreen bought the house in June of 1975 and restored it to its original appearance. Beginning in 1993, it was owned by Roberta Beam. The home is built entirely of pine and has six fireplaces which served as the original heating source. It was later supplemented by natural gas. The kitchen was originally separated from the main house and connected by a breezeway. The rock wall was built by Mr. NORSWORTHY's brother, a stone mason, prior to World War I.
W. G. NORSWORTHY died, age 84 years, on 13 August 1933 in McIntosh, Marion, Florida. He was born around 1849, the son of John NORSWORTHY [mother's name not known]; husband of Lillian Edith NORSWORTHY.
From the 1909 biography: "William George, as a young man left Canada for the United States and resided at several places, finally came to Florida, about the year 1880. Subsequently married Lillian DUPUY, settling himself permanently here at McIntosh, as an orange grower. They had a family of five sons and four daughters,William Morgan, the eldest, John Ralph and Walter (twins), Mary Ella, Lillian Edith, George Lionel, Henry Edward (died in infancy), Louise Gertrude, and Edna Dupuy. The eldest son, William M. died at the age of seventeen. The eldest daughter married Frank B. HESTER, and died within twelve months".
This Norsworthy biography was written by James C. NORSWORTHY in 1909 during the time when he visited his brother George in Florida. A second biography, was written by Joseph COOMBE, at the same time. Both were placed inside steps to George's home, poured by James. George C. NORSWORTHY states that his own father was about twenty-five and still single when the steps were formed and poured. He thinks that his father possessed the only copies of those two papers that were placed within those steps. He believes it was a minor miracle that those two papers poured into the concrete steps were copied and that they found themselves in his hands for safe keeping through his mother.
Inscribed: L-R Wm. George Norsworthy, Elizabeth Watts, James Counter Norsworthy, Aunt Avis. Photo taken in Walkerton; there is no date.
George and Lillian with a (living) granddaughter.
Published 28 February 1905 in Ocala Evening Star. Stated George arrived in Florida in September of 1880 and settled temporarily in Citra, Marion county.
[S1112] Parish Register, Bovey Tracey, Devon.
[S326] Vital Statistics - Florida, U.S.A.
[S276] NORSWORTHY Saga, Stanley Norsworthy, (Undated).


Lesson PLANNING 26 Topic « Doing Sports».
I. Introductory part a) Т: Good morning, dear pupils! At the previous lesson we successfully started learning a new topic « Doing Sports ». We had a great time while listening to new plans of Chris, Terry and John. By the way, who can remind me about their new idea? Who suggests writing about sports? What new words you learned at the last lesson? Can you give me any explanations of the words in English? To make an easy beginning for you I'll be the first. So, guess what it is: the sport of fighting with a very sharp sword ( STDTs go on the activity). What international words did you hear at the last lesson?
Kate is keen on of walking. Swimming, fencing, climbing.
Choose the one you like the best!
c) Let's deal with the synonyms of the word "to love", the poem will be very helpful to us, won't it?
1. Vocabulary Reinforcement: the synonyms of the word "to love" and the names of sports WB: Ex.1, p.27.
2. Check on home assignment: WB ex. 1p. 26( in a written form), STBook ex.3,p. 44.
3. Listening Comprehension a) Pre-Listening Activity. Т: You are going to listen to and practise the second dialogue. Open your books on page 45, please. Look at the pictures on this page. Who can you see? Do you know the boys' names?
b) While - Listening: search the synonyms to the following words : High jumps, running races. Now give the explanation of the word " track".
c) Checking Comprehension : True or False. 1) Tom Bondarenko is Terry's cousin . 2) He explains the difference between 'a game 'and 'a sport'.3) Running and jumping are games. 4) Running races are called field events.5) Jumping is called a field event.
d )Post- Listening Т: Two of you will act out the dialogue. One is interested in the words 'sailing' and 'fencing'. The other one gives the explanation of the words in English. All the rest will work on ex.2,p.28 (WB).
4. Vocabulary Reinforcement: ex.2, p.28 (WB).
5. A Minute for rest a) CROSS AND NAUGHT (make up sentences with the words in blocks: in the way of competition between boys and girls).
6. Grammar Presentation: Indefinite Pronouns and a rule of negation. a) Т: at the previous lesson you also got to know the rules of Indefinite Pronouns usage. Say to me please what pronouns can be said about a person and about a thing. Now explain to me when we use some/ any and their derivatives. Today we are going to continue on working on the grammar unit, but I want you to remember the rule: It is an obligation – in English sentence there's only one negation.
b)I'll remind you the lines from the poem you read at the last lesson.
Or nothing has fitted your mood to read.
Or nothing has fitted your mood to read ...?
7. Grammar Practice : STBook ex. 5,p. 47.
III.Summing –up: Dear children, we have done well today, haven't we? At home you'll make sports classification Ex. 6, p.45 and get ready to write a short vocabulary test for the next lesson.
Lesson PLANNING 28 Topic « Join The Teams».
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