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By DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Jul 27, 2012, 12:25am EDT 91
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The general sentiment on the internet has been that Lubomir Visnovsky's grievance is likely to fail (a dissenting view is here). However, after examining the CBA, I'm having a hard time imagining why the grievance wouldn't succeed (I hashed out some of these points in the comments to this post).
Disclaimer: the text of no trade clauses – including Visnovsky's – is not publicly available nor do we know the details of any communications between Visnovsky's agent and Anaheim. These things can have obvious legal consequences. But if people waited for all the facts before offering their opinions, there would be no internet, right? So here it goes.
First some basics: Trading a player means that the player's contract with his existing team is being transferred -- or, to use the legal term, assigned - to a different team. The result is that each the new team steps in to the shoes of the old team, and inherits all the rights and obligations under that contract. This includes the team's rights to the player's services and the team's obligation to pay him his salary. This concept is built into the CBA and individual player contracts.
A no-trade clause is simply a contractual restriction on a team's right to assign the contract to another team. The CBA allows such clauses, but doesn't say a whole lot about them. The only provision regarding no trade clauses in the current CBA is 11.8(a). It reads as follows:
The SPC [Standard Player Contract] of any Player who is a Group 3 Unrestricted Free Agent under Article 10.1(a) may contain a no-Trade or a no-move clause. SPCs containing a no-Trade or a no-move clause may be entered into prior to the time that the Player is a Group 3 Unrestricted Free Agent so long as the SPC containing the no-Trade or no-move clause extends through and does not become effective until the time that the Player qualifies for Group 3 Unrestricted Free Agency. If the Player is Traded or claimed on Waivers prior to the no-Trade or no-move clause taking effect, the clause does not bind the acquiring Club. An acquiring Club may agree to continue to be bound by the no-Trade or no-move clause, which agreement shall be evidenced in writing to the Player, Central Registry and the NHLPA, in accordance with Exhibit 3 hereof.
The first section of the provision is simply saying that NTCs are only available to UFA eligible players and players that haven't reached that status can negotiate NTCs as long as they don't take effect before they become UFA eligible (fore example, as per capgeek, John Tavares's contract has such a clause but it doesn't take effect until 2016).
The bolded part of the clause is supposed to be relevant to the Visnovsky situation. It provides that if a player with an NTC is traded before the NTC is effective (because the player is not yet eligible at the time of the trade), the acquiring team is not subject to the NTC unless is agrees to be bound by it.
This is the situation that Visnovsky found himself in. He signed a five year contract with the Kings in 2007 with an NTC that didn't go into effect until July 2008. He was traded to Edmonton before July 2008. It seems that Edmonton took the position it wasn't subject to the NTC pursuant to under 11.8 but nonetheless agreed to be bound by the clause. (It's actually unclear whether Edmonton was correct that 11.8 applied to Visnovsky. The rule in 11.8 is about players with delayed NTCs due to their not being UFA eligble. But Visnovsky was 31 when he signed his contract with LA). Accordingly, when Edmonton traded Visnovsky to Anaheim in 2010, Visnovsky had to agree to the trade on account of the NTC.
So why does Anaheim think the NTC he negotiated with LA did not apply to the trade to the Islanders? Why did they think that the NTC disappeared? Two reasons have been cited but neither seems to hold water.
Some have argued that Visnovsky lost his NTC under the language cited above when he was traded to Edmonton before his NTC took effect. But that's not what the language says. The language in the CBA provides a very narrow limitation on an NTC. It merely states that "the acquiring club," namely, the club that acquires the player before the NTC kicks in (in this case, Edmonton), can decide whether or not to be bound by it. Does a club that acquires the player later (in this case, Anaheim) have the same right to accept or reject the NTC? The CBA does not say.
Note that this doesn't mean that the CBA is "ambiguous." The CBA also doesn't say that teams have to treat their players to free ice cream after wins. But this doesn't mean the CBA is ambiguous on the question of ice cream. The failure of the CBA to provide for how the NTC is to be treated in a subsequent trade means the default rule would apply. And that means that the NTC restriction should transfer to Anaheim like any other rights or obligations under the Visnovsky contract.
Another argument I have heard is that Visnovsky lost his NTC when he agreed to waive it to be traded to Anaheim. This argument has no support in the CBA at all. Section 11.8 doesn't say anything of the sort and there is nothing anywhere else in the CBA that suggests it. And in fact, there are many examples of players retaining their NTCs after consenting to a trade pursuant to their NTC.
For example, Brad Richards had an NTC when he signed with Tampa Bay, agreed to a trade to Dallas and was reported to still have an NTC before filing for free agency. Scott Gomez's contract with the Rangers had a no trade clause yet he (Thank Bossy) continued to have a no trade clause after he was sent to Montreal, which supposedly is the reason he didn't wind up Rolsting it on the Island. Another example is Dany Heatley, which some have cited as support for Anaheim's position. He had an NTC when he was with Ottawa, which he aggressively asserted to prevent a trade to Edmonton. Yet, after agreeing to be traded to San Jose, he was reported to still have an NTC when he was later traded to Minnesota.
All this raises the question: Why did Anaheim think he didn't have NTC? It could be there was something in the terms of the NTC itself relevant to the matter. Or it could be that Anaheim made a mistake – they may have thought that they had the same right to ignore the NTC that Edmonton had even though the CBA gives them no such right.
Whatever the result, it's hard to fathom what Garth Snow has been thinking. Is there is a Plan B? Does he think that Anaheim's position is unassailable? Does he have some assurance from Visnovsky that he will agree to the trade to the Islander regardless? Or is Plan B this going to be invited to camp in September?
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Romania's president says the United States has asked to increase the number of troops and aircraft it has stationed at a Black Sea air base in eastern Romania.
The U.S. wants to add up to 600 troops to the 1,000 currently stationed at the base of Mihail Kogalniceanu and military aircraft "for specific missions," President Traian Basescu said Tuesday.
The base, which can accommodate up to 2,000 troops, is a major hub for U.S. forces and equipment leaving Afghanistan and is a few hundred kilometers (miles) from Crimea, which Russia annexed last month.
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2 Hour Private Guided Walking Tour: Heavenly Mainz
A unique opportunity to experience not only the majesty of Mainz Cathedral and the playful style of St. Augustine's but also to bathe in the beautiful blue glow as the light streams through the windows of St Stephan's. Truly a very special heavenly experience.
2 Hour Private Guided Walking Tour: Jewish Mainz
The highlight of the tour is the oldest legible Jewish tombstone in Europe from 1049 kept in the Landesmuseum (State Museum). Guests are also thrilled by the futuristic architecture of the New Synagogue and its contrast with the ruins of the Old Synagogue.
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History meets modernity! Explore present-day Mainz risen from the ruins of World War II. See award-winning buildings and modern works of art on picturesque public squares. Experience how the modern highlights are particularly outstanding against the contrasting background of medieval and baroque buildings.
Private Walking Tour of Worms With A Professional Guide
Meeting point: at Siegfriedsbrunnen or Meeting Point at hotel possible if central, without extra charge Duration: 2h Maximum 25 participants per Guide You will see: • Siegfried's Fountain • Cathedral of Saint Peter • Heylshof Garden • Luther's Monument • Winzer Fountain • Rashi Synagogue • Jewish Quarter • Nibelungen Museum You will learn about: • The history of the city • The myths and legends of Nibelung • Diet of Worms, an imperial court that banished Martin Luther • Important center of Jewish theology in the Middle Ages • Rabi Rashi • Europe's oldest Jewish cemetery with tomb stones • Wine producing city • Architectural style Nibelung
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Visit one of the world's most important museums of ancient seafaring and the remains of the largest Roman theatre north of the Alps. The museum contains impressive life-size reconstructions and a wealth of information about the Romans in Mainz and the visit to the remains of the theatre a short stroll up the road show just how important Mainz was in Roman times.
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"Find the dragon!" "What is Johannes Gutenberg's real name?" Depending upon the option chosen, Children (8 - 12) or Teenagers (13 - 16), there are different sets of questions to be answered while we wander around pedestrianized squares in the old part of Mainz. At the end of each section we will talk about the answers before proceeding to the next location. At the end of the City Quiz a sweet prize will be awarded (if agreed).
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December 22, 2013 | By Mike
By Robert C. Shannon
I hear voices every Christmas—two voices.
I hear the voice of an angel singing, and I hear the voice of a woman crying. The first was as real as your voice or mine. The second is a figure of speech, a metaphor. The first speaks of great joy. The second speaks of great sorrow. The first is familiar. The second is largely forgotten. The first is the voice of the angel who appeared to the shepherds near Bethlehem. The second also comes from Bethlehem: "Rachel, weeping for her children" (Matthew 2:18).
Two Persons
We don't know much about angels, but we know a little. We know angel means "messenger" and the idea is that of a heavenly messenger. The word has not been translated in our English Bible. We know that angels serve God in Heaven and on earth. We know they are neither male nor female. We know that they announce great events. We know some are continually about the throne of God and others are doing his work on earth.
We know a little about Rachel. We know she was the beloved wife of Jacob. We know that the seven years he worked to earn the bride price seemed to him but a few days because of his great love for her (Genesis 29:20). Childless for years, she finally gave birth to a son, Joseph. When they returned to Canaan she gave birth to a second son, Benjamin, but she died in childbirth. She died on the road to Bethlehem! To this very day childless women come to her tomb to pray.
When Jeremiah considered how God's people had been treated brutally by the Babylonians he spoke poetically of Rachel, weeping from her tomb, weeping for her children. If Jeremiah were alive today, would he not compare it to the abortions performed so widely and thoughtlessly and in his mind hear again Rachel weeping for her children? When Matthew reported Herod's massacre of innocent babies at Bethlehem, he thought he could hear Rachel, weeping for her children.
Two Events
How different were these two events recorded in Matthew's gospel? One is about birth and one is about death. In the events recorded by Matthew, the birth caused the death, as it did in the case of Rachel. Both mothers had completed a long and difficult journey made all the more difficult by pregnancy. In both cases the births and deaths occurred at Bethlehem.
We must not make too much of that. Surely it is coincidence. The juxtaposition of these events is not intended to teach us anything—but it does make them memorable and is poetically moving.
The two events evoked two songs. To be precise, we are never told that the angel sang—but it sounds like a song to us, and across the centuries we have always thought of it as a song. So the lament of Rachel is never identified as a song, but surely in some sense it was a song, or very much like a song.
The angel's song is not a sad song. Someone wrote about the Irish:
A strange folk are the Irish.
I think they must be mad;
For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad.
Not all Irish songs are sad, but many are. Not all earth's songs are sad, but many of them are as well. None of Heaven's songs are sad. We read about them in the book of Revelation. They are songs of praise, thanksgiving, and victory.
Two Journeys
Both events involve a journey. The angel traveled from a heavenly home to a distant planet. Rachel traveled from a distant land to her husband's ancestral home. It would have been her home too, had she survived. One is leaving home and one is going home.
We have to use our imagination here. Imagine the angel sent by God to a distant and insignificant planet, to visit an insignificant town, and to sing to insignificant people. Don't you suppose the pasture fields at Bethlehem contrasted poorly with the pearly gates of Heaven?
Doesn't it make you think of Jesus himself, trading the gold streets of Heaven for the dusty lanes of earth? Trading the praise of angels for the jeers of men? It brings us to the consideration of two worlds.
The account of the massacre of the babies had to be told. It happened, and it had to be reported. But did it have to be placed here in the middle of this beautiful account of a beautiful event? We never read this Scripture at Christmas—and with good reason. But here it is staring us in the face.
Once I conducted a funeral on Christmas Eve for a child murdered by a playmate. For the first time I understood why the account of the massacre was included in the Christmas story. It had always seemed to be a painful intrusion into a lovely story. If it had to be told, why not put it in some other place? Why spoil the beautiful story of the baby in the manger with the brutal story of the massacre?
The day I preached that funeral I understood why it was there. Matthew 2:18 was my text that day. It tells us that Jesus came into a real world. He did not come into a storybook world where everybody lives happily ever after. He came into a world like ours where there is cruelty and brutality and senseless tragedy. He came into our world so that we might someday go to his world—where there is no brutality, where there is no sorrow, and where there are no tears.
In the meantime, we travel along a road we cannot always predict. Rachel thought her journey would end in the home of her husband's family. Instead it ended along the side of the road near Bethlehem. Our life's journey does not always end where we expected, or when we expected, or how we expected. Sometimes it is a long journey—longer than we expected. But in the larger sense we do know where our journey will end. If we are believers, it will be a journey home.
Meanwhile, we continue to travel through a world that is seldom safe, often dangerous, and frequently sad. But on our journey we have the option of choosing which song will prevail—the sad song or the glad song. And when we join our voices, we have the option of choosing which song we will sing most often. All of us must sometimes sing the sad song. All of us can choose to sing most often the glad song: "Joy to the World! The Lord is come!"
Robert C. Shannon is a retired minister and freelance writer living in Valle Crucis, North Carolina.
Joy and Sadness
Holidays are bittersweet times. They can evoke deep happiness and dredge up bitter grief. The Bible is not shy about how these feelings can appear simultaneously, but our culture tends to focus only on the positive.
In what ways do you feel both ends of the emotional spectrum at Christmas?
Is there anyone you know who may be facing sorrow this season?
How can you compassionately apply biblical truth and comfort to your own wounds and the pain of those around you?
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A couple of months back I wanted to add a 'neutral' pinky shade to my ever growing MAC lipstick collection, and so I started scouring the internet for swatches of natural shades.
The one that caught my eye was 'Please Me' - a rosy/pinky colour perfect for daytime or Spring.
Even though this has a matte finish, this really glides on the lips - it feels like a satin finish. You do have to prep your lips with lip balm before hand though - because this does have a habit of clinging on itty bitty flaky/dry spots on the lips.
It looks darker in the tube than it applies on the lips. Unlike other shades from the matte finish, I find that this lasts 3-4 hours tops. Most probably it's because it is a lighter shade.
I thought I'd share with you all my everyday morning make-up routine, including all the products that I am currently using on a daily basis.
These products do change overtime [obviously I do try a number of new products every month so that I can review them] - but I've been using this ensemble for the past month or so.
This is because the Pupa BB Cream* is a tad too dark for my skin tone but I love it - so I mix it with the lighter Holika Holika BB cream.
It is either one or the other, but I love love love Tony Moly's concealer. I've bought this a number of times and I've nearly finished this one up [although I do have a new one on the way] - it is really but really cheap - around $5-ish if I'm not mistaken and works wonders.
Both concealers can go on cake-y - but this can easily be fixed by using a really light hand and minimum amount.
I'd been using as setting powder by Nyx for the past couple of months, but then I remembered that I had this one and started using it again.
I do not really like the packaging [check out the link for a more in-depth review] but I do like the powder. Obviously I have to use powder because I have oily/combination skin.
For the longest time ever. I just love love love this - I can't state this enough. It is dirt cheap and works a dream. It is a brush kind of eyeliner [which might take some time getting used to] but this is by far the best eyeliner I've ever used [and I've tried loads].
I'll have to do an in-depth review of this soon.
I am a hoarder. Yep, there I've said it. At the moment I have about 10 open tubes of mascaras. Most of them are unloved and forgotten.
I sometimes use either one or the other or both at the same time. It depends on how on time or late am I. I've heard that the Mini Maxi mascara is going to be discontinued so I'll have to stock on that one.
This bottle comes from the 'Primping with the Stars' set [which I have yet to review]. I'll cry when I'll finish this. Seriously. You only need a tiny amount of this and it lasts all day [and night] long. It also gives a really natural, healthy flush to your cheeks. This is the pricier of all of my other 'routine' products but it is well worth the hype.
This can also be used on the lips.
P.s I also use some kind of lipbalm but I've forgotten to take any photos. But yeah, I wake up with quite dry lips.
That's it for my morning make-up routine. Do you use less or more products than me? Let me know!
This mask costs €2.50 and you can get it from this website *here*. The good thing about individually packaged masks is that there is no commitment if you don't like it - not like when you buy a tub or a jar and then you feel like you have to keep on using it.
What this mask does is to leave you skin feeling radiant and smooth - most probably thanks to the cacao and shea butter. Even though this is a single packet, you can get two servings out of one [even though I did not because I wanted to test it out to the full].
This mask is yummy! It does smell like chocolate cake batter and you do have to stop yourself from licking your fingers while you're smoothing this on your face.
Once set, the mask goes dry [and darker too!]. You should then soften it with a warm washcloth until it dissolves. Then pat dry with a soft towel.
A while back a number of local bloggers and myself were invited to check out some new products by Pupa Milano [Malta] You can read all about that by following this link *here*.
The lovely Stephanie gave us the opportunity to choose some products to test out, and one of the things I got was the Pupa Princess Loose Powder.
The powder comes in a plastic, sifter tub with a cute powder puff [and mirror]. That means you can easily grab this and chuck it in your handbag for fixes along the day.
I must say that I'm not a huge fan of the packaging on this - it reminds me of 'fake' kids makeup that they play with. I know that Pupa tried to instill a princess-y feel on this but it's too tacky for me.
I also think that the name is quite misleading: it says it's a loose powder but in reality it is a shimmery/highlighting powder.
The product though makes up for the packaging. It is finely milled shimmery goodness which applies easily and blends really well. You can either use the puff to highlight your body [i.e cleavage etc] or else you can dip in a small brush and use it over your cheeks, cupid's bow or I even use it in the corner of my eyes instead of a light eyeshadow.
This lasts the good part of the day on me - depending on the amount I've used.
The Pupa Princess Loose Powder retails for €15.60 and you can get yours from pharmacies and selected outlets in Malta and Gozo.
I do believe that they are quite a bit pricey - especially the body wash [when compared with other brands such as Dove - which I normally use].
I won't comment on the packaging because it is familiar with most, if not all, of you. It's bubblegum pink, cute, retro etc.
The 'Scrub 'Em and Leave 'Em' comes in plastic tub. The actual product is light pink [matches the packaging] and it is full of sugar-y granules. This, my dear friends, smells amazing! You just gloop out about a spoonful of scrub and rub all over your body [obviously it is important not to use it on dry skin - do rinse before use]. The result? Soft and wonderfully fragrant skin.
The 'Clean, Girls' body wash comes in a pump dispenser bottle and to me it smells really similar to the scrub [but more like vanilla]. It has built in moisturising properties which come in handy to people like me who most of the time skip the body butter step.
You just need 4-5 pumps and it lathers up quite nicely.
Would you recommend any other Soap & Glory products?
You know how packaging can sometimes make [or break] a product. So it is no wonder how easily I was lured to get some stuff from Anatomicals.
If you've never heard about them, Anatomicals [now also available in Malta] is a budget friendly brand which specializes in body products - hence their tag line 'we only want you for your body'. Check out there Facebook page *here* for more info, updates and special offers.
There are other products in the Hottie Tottie line: from a daily wash to a roll on pimp exterminator to a scrub.
The cream itself has a fruity/minty smell. Once applied it does not leave the tacky residue that some other moisturisers leave [ it is absorbed quickly into the skin] - instead, it leaves your face feeling slightly tingly due to the minty properties in it, and slightly matte. You do have to take care not to get it too close to your eyes though - the first time I used it I did and it left me in tears.
. This is perfect to use when priming your face for makeup and you will find yourself reaching out for this moisturiser on a daily basis, I promise!


kevmann16 avait besoin d'un nouveau design de logo et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 38 designs proposés par 17 designers freelance.
At Thap we have spent a long time trying to come up with a new logo and it's time to see what an outsider can do. "Thap" is the name we want on the logo and the tagline of "bespoke development" can be used if you want to but feel free to experiment.
Check the full brief for examples of what we like but again feel free to try different stuff.
The name "Thap" is made up of the first letters of the directors names so has no really meaning.
Feedback will be provide often!
eye, someone outside the company to bring something new to table.
want to but feel free to experiment.
and somehow ended up having a frog both things which we are not keen on.


I vaguegrammed recently about celebrating some exciting news, and now that everything is officially in place I can tell you what happened: last Thursday, in the span of about two hours, Dave received a big promotion and I was offered an awesome new job. Fists were pumped, celebratory cupcakes were eaten, and there was much AC Slater-style rejoicing.
You may be wondering why I'm starting a new job when I just changed jobs less than a year ago. Last November, I applied for a job as a social marketer for a behavioral health program out on a local Indian reservation. It turned out that they already had somebody in mind for the marketing role, and so they asked me to become the program director instead. I decided to take a healthy risk and accept the position, and I've spent the last eight months learning about program outcomes and evidence-based practices and reducing mental health disparities. All awesome things if the mental health field is your passion. And I discovered that for me, it's not.
That's not to say I hated my job. I really enjoyed the youth and families I was working with. I loved my boss. I had lots of fun with my coworkers. I learned so much about Native American communities and the injustice that tribes have suffered at the hands of many generations of Americans. But I didn't wake up in the morning excited to go to work. The days would go by so slowly, except on the rare occasion that I'd get to design a brochure or build a newspaper ad. Those days would fly by, and then I'd spend the drive home berating myself for taking my career in a different direction and wondering why I was such a giant idiot.
Overreacting. It's what I do.
But then! A friend dropped my name in a conversation, which set off a sequence of events that culminated in a crazy awesome job offer. I won't give too many specifics (Internet Boundaries!) but I will say this: I'll get to design and write and be creative every day. My 35-40 minute daily commute will be reduced to barely five minutes. I'll be making more money. I know and like the people I'll be working with. I'm even hoping I'll have more time to blog!
I made myself a to-do list since it's been so long since I've blogged.
And as for Dave: He's been named managing editor of the paper where he's been a reporter the last several years. I think he's as excited as I am, except instead of going on a celebratory shopping spree and writing a sappy blog post, he bought himself a bottle of 14-year Knappogue Castle Irish whiskey.
So that's our awesome news. 2015 is shaping up to be kind of great so far.
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I'm juggling a bunch of different projects and planning several events at work right now, and I think the stress is getting to me because I had a minor panic attack in the car on the way to work yesterday over power strips. Specifically, whether I remembered to add power strips to an event purchase order. I know I *thought* about adding them, but did I actually do it? I don't think I did … GREAT, I'M GOING TO BE FIRED AND I'LL LOSE MY CAR AND MY HOUSE AND I'LL HAVE TO LIVE UNDER THE BRIDGE LIKE A TROLL.
Contributing to the stress is the fact that I haven't taken a vacation in almost a year. Partially because my new workplace puts employees through a six-month probationary period before they're eligible to use vacation time, and partially because I'm one of those people who thinks their office CANNOT POSSIBLY function without them so they hoard their vacation time and wind up having mental breakdowns over power cords.
That mint shrug is near the top of the Terrible Decisions I Made in College list.
I moved up to Northern California the year after I graduated, and it's been way too many years since I've seen them (see vacation hoarder comment above). I tend to put a lot of pressure on myself at work, to the point where I feel genuinely guilty requesting time off, even if I've earned it. However, I'm finding that the older I get, the more I care about doing what's best for myself, and that includes taking time off. Basically what I am saying is God help whoever winds up sitting next to me on the flight to LA.
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How to ensure you are not evicted?
An apartment rent contract must be written when it has a fixed term (e.g. "Rent for 1 year") or you rent an apartment from a company. Otherwise, it may be unwritten. If there is no fixed term it means that the lessor may cancel the agreement any time by informing the tenant 6 months in advance.
It is common that the lessors do not want to sign any written agreement as they avoid taxes. Tenants in such apartments risk being evicted even if it was agreed otherwise. It may happen that the lessor will deny altogether that he/she rented an apartment. Of course, such scams are rare, but a written contract largely prevents them. Therefore signing a contract is good even when it is not necessary (but it may mean a slightly more expensive rent).
However, even if the apartment rent contract is signed it may be so that the tenant will be evicted. This can happen if the lessor will transfer (sell or gift) the apartment to somebody else. The new owner may then evict the tenant and tenant's rights would be limited to demanding compensation from the previous owner if the contract was breached.
However, if the apartment rent contract is registered in the Real Estate Registry of Lithuania then it will be impossible for the new owner to evict the tenant so easily. The contract registration costs money however and a tenant will likely have to pay for it.
Eviction is also possible when the tenant breaches the contract and/or harms the apartment.
What should be written in an apartment rent contract?
Lithuanian apartment rent contract is required by law to have at least the following things mentioned: address, the number of rooms, the rights to shared rooms, rental price and terms to pay it, additional price to be paid for utilities (usually dependent on true usage).
In Lithuania many apartment buildings have their own Community established and the articles of incorporation of such Community should be given to a tenant (they will be Lithuanian-only however).
Some clauses are not required to be specified in the contract but if they are not specified then clauses described in law will hold. For example, if the contract does not specify when to pay for apartment rent the tenant has to pay until the 20th day of every month.
a)Tenant's responsibility without guilt (e.g. that the tenant has to compensate damage if the apartment will burn in a fire started by neighbors) or a responsibility larger than true damage (e.g. " the tenant clogs the toilet he would not only have to unclog it but also pay a fine").
b)Lessor's right to unilaterally change the terms of the contract (e.g. "the lessor has a right to raise the rental price at any time") or a lessor's right to unilaterally decide that the apartment is liveable (e.g. after a fire).
c)Altering tenant's rights based on his family size if the apartment is large enough (e.g. "the contract ends in case the tenant has another child").
d)Removing tenant's ability to choose where to buy things/services (e.g. "tenant must use only IKEA furniture").
e)Requiring the tenant to pay for entire rent after being late once.
Moreover, while it is permitted to rent rooms of the same apartment separately it is not permitted to rent a room that must be passed to reach another tenant's room or to rent a non-residential room (WC, kitchen) separately.
The tenant (and his/her family members) are responsible for the damage they do (or the people they let inside do) but are not responsible for the damages from elsewhere (e.g. done by neighbors).
Who could live in a rented apartment?
The tenant may invite other temporary residents to the rental flat only when the lessor agrees.
The leased apartment may be subleased only with a permission as well.
When the rental contract ends all the people who lived there loses their right to do that.
If the ending date of the contract has been agreed upon the contract ends up on that date if either tenant or lessor wishes so. If nobody wishes that the contract continues to be in power the same way as if it would be signed without specifying the term.
The rental conditions may be changed by lessor when the term ends. However, the new conditions must be first offered to the existing tenant and only if he/she refuses could they be offered to someone else.
If the contract end term has not been specified the contract ends after the lessor writes a termination letter to the tenant. However, this letter must be written not earlier than 6 months before the termination date.
The tenant is always able to cancel the rental agreement by informing the lessor 1 months in advance (regardless of whether the ending term has been specified). He/she may also retract the termination letter if he/she changes his/her mind however if the lessor would have already agreed to rent the apartment to someone else such retraction would not work.
It is harder for the lessor to cancel the apartment rent contract. He/she may only do so if the tenant fails to pay the rental fee for 3 months, fails to pay for utilities, damages the apartment or misuses it (e.g. uses it for business).
The tenant must return the apartment as he received it.
If he made something worse (e.g. damaged the walls) then the tenant must repair or compensate the damage.
If the tenant improved the apartment he could take back the improvements after the apartment rent contract ends if these improvements can be taken away. Otherwise, the improvements become a property of lessor and only if the lessor agreed to make such improvements he/she would be obliged to compensate the tenant. For example, the tenant may easily remove a new lamp he bought (and place back the old lessor's lamp) but he may not be able to get any compensation for the wall paint.
Apartment rent contracts drafting and legal checking.
Hello, do you know if it's légal to put in the contract , interest fees for late in the payment for the month rent?
And if Yes, in which condition we can apply it?
Definitely, this is possible and legal. It can be applied in case the lesee fails to pay the rent on time (from the very next day of such lateness).
Hi, can I find rent apartment one or two room EUR 100 month include all bills in Vilnius or in Kaunas for long time,thanks.
Hi, is it possible for a tenant that wants to break the contract to pay for the last 2 months he will be in the apartment, by using the deposit? The lessor would use the deposit and the tenant would just pay for the bills until the end, in this case.
It should be possible. However, it also depends on the contract.
Is it possible for tenant to break the contract and use the deposit for repairs of damages instead of actually have to repair themselves?
If you mean damages to the apartment – they can be usually compensated either by a repair work or by money that could pay for such a repair work. If the damages cost more to repair than the deposit, however, then you'd have to pay additionally so that the total sum of the money you paid in addition to the regular rental and other fees would cover the cost of damage repairs (including the cost of hiring a person to do those repairs, if you won't do them yourself).
This is assuming we speak of a typical apartment rent contract. There may be many different rental contracts, and the exact outcome depends on the contract.
Hi, if my flatmate brings friends over, is it possible for me, a legal tenant, to call the police and ask them to leave as it's a small flat. Thanks in advance.
It may be possible, depending on the situation: what are these brought-in friends doing there.
What is agreement for living space in Lithuania, a requirement by migration department to register EU and non EU nationals as Lithuanian residents.
The owner has to go to the Department and give his/her consent that a person who seeks a Lithuanian residence permit would declare his site of living at the apartment in question. You should also bring the rental agreement just in case, but it is not enough if there is no possibility to declare the person's site of living at the apartment, and this declaration needs a separate consent of the owner.
1. The owner can go to the migration department and sign a form there.
2. Owner can go to the notary and sign the declaration of living space form and give original copy to the tenant which along with the original rent agreement needs submission at migration centre.
3. If the property is registered at the Lithuanian Register Centre than take the original rent agreement to the migration centre for submission.
Most of the owners chose the first option unless they have their property registered than the third option.
Imp. You only need the above if you are applying for a temporary or permanent residence permit in Lithuania.


While Ruby is object oriented and imperative, it does have some features that allow for functional programming. In this talk we'll compare Haskell, a functional programming language, with Ruby while exploring these common functional patterns: higher order functions, lazy evaluation, and memoization.
Along the way we'll explore how Ruby works internally, find out whether it's a true functional language, and zoom in to take a close look at Ruby 2.0's implementation of the new "Enumerator::Lazy" feature.
Pat Shaughnessy is a Ruby developer working at a global management consulting firm. Pat also writes a blog about Ruby development at [patshaughnessy.net](http://patshaughnessy.net), and just self-published an eBook on Ruby internals called [Ruby Under a Microscope](http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope). Pat's articles and presentations have been featured multiple times on the Ruby Weekly newsletter, the Ruby5 podcast and the Ruby Show. When he's not at the keyword, Pat enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids. Pat is also a fluent Spanish speaker and travels frequently to Spain to visit his wife's family.


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PANAMA WANTS YOU TO SURF!
Posted October 13th, 2009 - News Posted for ISA News.
A successful meeting between ISA President, Fernando Aguerre and Panamanian Minister of Tourism, Mr. Salomón Shamah was held during the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games in Costa Rica. Shamah showed a great deal of interest in letting the surfing community know that Panama is a "Surfing friendly" country. The campaign has already begun with an initiative by Panama´s main airline, COPA Airlines, by not charging extra fees for surfboards on most of their flights.
The promotion "Bring your Surfboard for Free to Panama," runs between September 15 – November 15, 2009. It will resume on March 1, 2010 and run through May 30, 2010.
One board bag with a maximum of two boards inside is allowed per person on flights coming from the United States of America (Los Angeles, Orlando, Miami, Washington, and New York), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Manaus) and Costa Rica (San José).
The only thing you have to do is call the COPA Airlines call center and let them know that you're going to travel with surfboards.
Wave-rich Panama, home of the world-famous breaks Santa Catalina and Bocas del Toro, is providing the unique chance of going on an exotic surf trip without the added cost of surfboard baggage fees.


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After bowl game canceled, Army coach Jeff Monken calls out Pac-12 for postseason opt-outs
usatoday– As college football teams opt to end their seasons instead of continuing on to bowl games, the attrition has left one program — the Army Black Knights — without a postseason opponent.
Army had been contractually committed to the Independence Bowl against a Pac-12 opponent. But the Independence Bowl canceled its contest after seven Pac-12 teams announced the end of their 2020 seasons. That left Army without an opponent and coach Jeff Monken feeling for his team.
"We had guys in tears," Monken told ESPN. "We pulled off the biggest wins of these seniors' career, they just won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy back, that's going to be their legacy, and they're looking forward to playing in a bowl game one time together, before they go off in the United States Army, and we're sitting here telling them, 'Sorry, guys, you can't play.'"
Army (9-2) is coming off three consecutive wins, the last two against Navy and Air Force. Monken's issue rests not with programs prioritizing health, but by the shift from wanting to play in bowl games compared to not wanting to prepare for Army and its option offense. He named USC and Boise State as teams who had expressed a desire to play in New Year's Six bowl games but decided to end their seasons following losses.
"The bottom line is there were enough people who kept saying, 'No, we don't want to play Army, we don't want to play Army,'" Monken told ESPN. "And I'm sure they don't want to have one week to get ready for the option or whatever, but our players, we've got guys on our team that wouldn't be invited as walk-ons to the teams we're getting ready to play.
"It just doesn't make any sense to me that you can go from wanting to play to not wanting to play in a matter of 12 hours."
Monken didn't rule out a last-minute bowl for the Black Knights, with the team ready to play an opponent whose original foe must drop out due to COVID-19 issues. Players will remain on campus through Thursday before heading home for the first time since May.
"If we got a Dec. 31 bowl game, if you call us on the 29th, we'll have those guys flying there on the 30th," Monken told ESPN. "What I'm hoping is some of these bowl games, when they hear enough of this about Army, they're going to say, 'You know what? If somebody cancels, we're going to take Army."
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Q: Trying to get key from firebase, instead getting a weird path I have a database structure like this:
"users": {
   "school": {
      userId (randomkey) {
         "email": "email@emai.email"
         "provider": "provider"
      }
   }
}

I'm using a recycler view where users can add each other to a group. I'm showing the email for the user in the recycler view and that works fine. But the problem is that I need to retrieve the userId key for the email that is clicked on and append that to a List that I then push to firebase. I'm doing all that with this code.
Adapter class
    class RecyclerViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder implements  View.OnClickListener {

    private ItemClickListenerPeopleToAdd itemClickListenerPeopleToAdd;
    public TextView emailLbl;

    public RecyclerViewHolder(View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        itemView.setOnClickListener(this);
        emailLbl = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.emailLbl);
    }

    public void setItemClickListenerPeopleToAdd(ItemClickListenerPeopleToAdd itemClickListenerPeopleToAdd) {
        this.itemClickListenerPeopleToAdd = itemClickListenerPeopleToAdd;
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {

        itemClickListenerPeopleToAdd.onClick(v, getAdapterPosition());
    }
}

public class PeopleToAddAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerViewHolder> {
    private static final String TAG = "Working";
    public ArrayList<String> peopleList = new ArrayList<String>();
    private List<ModelProject> mModelList;

    public PeopleToAddAdapter(List<ModelProject> modelList) {
        mModelList = modelList;
    }

    private Context context;
    private List<PeopleToAdd> mPeopleToAdd;
    public List<PeopleToAdd> mList;

    public PeopleToAddAdapter(Context con, List<PeopleToAdd> list) {
        this.context = con;
        this.mPeopleToAdd = list;
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public RecyclerViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.people_to_add_listview, parent, false);

        return new RecyclerViewHolder(v);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull RecyclerViewHolder holder, int position) {

        final PeopleToAdd listItem = mPeopleToAdd.get(position);
        holder.emailLbl.setText(listItem.getEmail());
        holder.setItemClickListenerPeopleToAdd(new ItemClickListenerPeopleToAdd() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view, int position) {
                Toast.makeText(context, "Click" + listItem.getEmail(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                peopleList.add(listItem.toString());
                Log.d("value", String.valueOf(peopleList));
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mPeopleToAdd.size();
    }

    public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public TextView emailLbl;

        public MyViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            emailLbl = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.emailLbl);
        }
    }
}

PeopleToAdd
public class PeopleToAdd {
private String email;
private String provider;

public PeopleToAdd(String email, String provider) {
    this.email = email;
    this.provider = provider;
}

public PeopleToAdd() {

}

public String getEmail() {
    return email;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
    this.email = email;
}

public String getProvider() {
    return provider;
}

public void setProvider(String provider) {
    this.provider = provider;
}

}
Activity class
listItems = new ArrayList<>();
    schoolList = new ArrayList<>();

    adapter = new PeopleToAddAdapter(this, listItems);
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);

    mGetSchool = mDatabase.getReference().child("users").child(mCurrentUserId).child("schoolName");

protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();

    mGetSchool.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDataChange(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
            childPath = dataSnapshot.getValue(String.class);
            //peopleAddedTxtView.setText(childPath);
            mPeopleToAdd = mDatabase.getReference().child("users").child(childPath);

            mPeopleToAdd.addChildEventListener(new ChildEventListener() {
                @Override
                public void onChildAdded(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {

                    PeopleToAdd peopleToAdd = dataSnapshot.getValue(PeopleToAdd.class);
                    listItems.add(peopleToAdd);

                    test = dataSnapshot.getKey();
                    Log.d(TAG, test);
                    peopleToAddAdapter = new PeopleToAddAdapter(SetProject.this, listItems);
                    recyclerView.setAdapter(peopleToAddAdapter);
                    peopleToAddAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                }

                @Override
                public void onChildChanged(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {

                }

                @Override
                public void onChildRemoved(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

                }

                @Override
                public void onChildMoved(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {

                }

                @Override
                public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError databaseError) {

                }
            });
        }

        @Override
        public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError databaseError) {

        }
    });
}

I'm somehow getting a strange path as the userID
example: "com.appName.Services.PeopleToAdd@ca8f01". How can I get the right userId (the random key generated by firebase). I have it in the "test" String in activity but how can I add that to the List when a user clicks on that user in the reyclerView. I hope you understand me. Thank you in advance.

A: A snapshot contains two main things: the key from where the data was loaded, and the value that was loaded. Right now your onChildAdded only uses the value, and throws the key away:
public void onChildAdded(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {

    PeopleToAdd peopleToAdd = dataSnapshot.getValue(PeopleToAdd.class);
    listItems.add(peopleToAdd);

    test = dataSnapshot.getKey();
    Log.d(TAG, test);
    peopleToAddAdapter = new PeopleToAddAdapter(SetProject.this, listItems);
    recyclerView.setAdapter(peopleToAddAdapter);
    peopleToAddAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

And since you need the key later in your code, you can't retrieve it anymore. The value doesn't contain the key.
One solution is to add the key to you PeopleToAdd class. Based on the answer I gave to Is there a way to store Key in class which I cast from Firebase object?, that could look like this for you:
public class PeopleToAdd {
    @Exclude
    public String key;

    private String email;
    private String provider;

    public PeopleToAdd(String email, String provider) {
        this.email = email;
        this.provider = provider;
    }

    public PeopleToAdd() {

    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getProvider() {
        return provider;
    }

    public void setProvider(String provider) {
        this.provider = provider;
    }
}

And then modify your onChildAdded to set the key on the PeopleToAdd it instantiated from the value:
public void onChildAdded(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {

    PeopleToAdd peopleToAdd = dataSnapshot.getValue(PeopleToAdd.class);

    peopleToAdd.key = dataSnapshot.getKey();

    listItems.add(peopleToAdd);

    peopleToAddAdapter = new PeopleToAddAdapter(SetProject.this, listItems);
    recyclerView.setAdapter(peopleToAddAdapter);
    peopleToAddAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

Now you can get the key of the PeopleToAdd from its key field.

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Đồng Tháp farmers supported in safe pesticide use
The Plant Protection Department, Đồng Tháp Province's Agriculture Department and CropLife Việt Nam have signed a cooperation agreement to support Đồng Tháp farmers to use pesticides safely. — Photo courtesy of CropLife Việt Nam
HÀ NỘI — Farmers in the southern province of Đồng Tháp will be trained and supported to use plant protection products safely and effectively under a 5-year cooperation programme between agriculture authorities and CropLife Việt Nam.
Under the cooperation programme, the Plant Protection Department, Đồng Tháp Province's Agriculture Department and Croplife Việt Nam signed on Wednesday, farmers and officers in Đồng Tháp Province will be instructed to use pesticides properly, as well as collect and treat pesticide containers.
It is expected that all pesticide containers in the province will be collected and treated as regulated.
Farmers will also receive support to further protect the environment in farming areas, produce safe and high-quality products and meet criteria to get planting area codes.
Speaking at the online signing ceremony, Head of the Plant Protection Department Hoàng Trung said that the cooperation programme showed the efforts of all parties in supporting farmers, which helped develop responsible agriculture in Việt Nam.
The proper collection and treatment of pesticide containers would help protect the environment and farmers' health, he said.
"We hope that the programme will be implemented effectively and expanded in other provinces in the Mekong Delta region," Trung said.
Nguyễn Phước Thiện, director of Đồng Tháp Province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that using pesticides responsibly and collecting pesticide containers properly played an important role in developing new rural models and sustainable agricultural production.
Trần Thanh Vũ, co-chairman of CropLife Việt Nam, said that that the association and its member companies considered the support on pesticide use for farmers a key activity together with introducing advanced products to farmers.
CropLife Việt Nam is a member association of CropLife Asia - a non-profit society and the regional organisation of CropLife International, the voice of the global plant science industry.
Over the years, the Plant Protection Department and the CropLife Association have coordinated to implement a programme to guide the use of pesticides and develop planting area codes for mango and longan trees for export in Sơn La Province.
They also offered training classes on integrated pest management on rice in the Mekong Delta and launched a week of "Guidelines for the safe and effective use of pesticides" in seven provinces in the region.
The activities showed positive results in raising people's awareness and habit of using pesticides, improving management capacity as well as helping local agricultural produce meet the requirements of demanding import markets. — VNS
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Fiction Friction: Alternatives to Rebooting
Discuss this article by @Thande here
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I think the most interesting thing with timeskips is that the length of timeskip is usually indicative of the story drive behind the new series.
Your 'ok we're just skipping a few years' ones are essentially 'more of the same please' driven- even extending to sequels like Incredibles 2 where the extreme gap between films meant a lot of people were a bit disappointed to find it was going to be 'basically the next week' instead of having a similar in-universe time gap.
Paradoxically, the 'extremely large time skip' examples are also often a desire for 'more of the same please' but where it's a useful way of being able to just do it with a new cast and no strict ties- jumping a century later means our heroes can have won a period of peace and resolution even if the threats just re-emerge later.
I think the 20-70 year time skips are the ones which seem most interested in doing a 'same world, new stories', possibly because it's driven as much by 'what happens when our characters are older' as by 'something similar please'- both the Spidergirl comics allowing us to see Peter Parker as a retired superhero and father, and Legend of Korra giving us a timeskip to show how the changes of the original series of the world have led to a lot of political and cultural fall out really seem driven by that idea.
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The TNG timeskip is a clever one because it came bundled with "and we are not mentioning X, Y, or Z, this is about NEW STUFF" in the bible that mostly held for several years - forcing writers to actually do new stuff instead of "hey, remember the Gorn?" (This may, as Lance Parkin's argued, partly be Roddenberry trying to severe the concept of Star Trek from Nimoy, Spock, and the Vulcans, which was the best thing for Trek's longetivity even if it was because the two men didn't like each other)
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Washington, DC – Today, in an agreement reached with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and its community-based members and allies across the Midwest and Southeast, Fifth Third Bank announced an increase to their landmark community benefits agreement to $30 billion. The commitment covers community development, including lending and investments, between 2016 and 2020.
Fifth Third's Community Development Plan includes mortgage and small business lending, including micro-lending, community development lending and investing, philanthropy, and financial services for low- and moderate-income communities. A summary of the plan can be found here.
The commitment covers locations in 10 states where Fifth Third has branches (Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky) and was reached following meetings with NCRC and 145 community-based organizations.
Fund $11 billion in mortgage lending to LMI individuals and communities.
Fund $10 billion in small business lending in all markets and communities to businesses with gross annual revenue below $1 million.
Fund $9 billion in Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) community development loans and investments. This includes support for affordable housing, revolving loan funds, Community Development Corporations, Community Development Financial Institutions, community pre-development resources, housing rehab loan pools, and community land trusts and land banks.
Fund $93 million in philanthropy.
Work to ensure adequate access to bank branches in LMI communities and communities of color, including opening at least 10 new branches.
"NHS of Greater Cleveland welcomes the opportunity to continue our partnership with Fifth Third Bank to implement this broad-reaching plan that will positively affect the residents and the communities we serve in northeast Ohio," said Lou Tisler, Executive Director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland.
"ESOP applauds Fifth Third for their ambitious commitment, not only to reinvest in the communities across their footprint, but for also committing to partner with communities at a grassroots level to positively effect change together," said Michael Billnitzer, Associate Director of ESOP.
"Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati (HOME) is encouraged by the potential towards economic justice this agreement represents, particularly as a way to expand housing choice for working families," said Jeniece Jones, Executive Director of Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati.
"This agreement is vital for the future communities in the Tampa Bay region – for community development investing, home mortgage lending and capacity building for nonprofit partners of the bank," said Deborah Scanlan, CEO of Neighborhood Home Solutions.
"We look forward to working with Fifth Third to promote and create equal opportunities of inclusion for our residents through housing, employment, education and community development," said Sarah Combs, CEO of University Area CDC.
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The history of skyscrapers in Austin began with the construction of the Scarbrough Building in 1910, which is often regarded as the first skyscraper built in the city. Austin went through a skyscraper boom in the 1970s and 1980s, which resulted in the construction of more than 15 of the tallest buildings in the city. Since 2007, the city has been going through a second building boom, with a multitude of buildings constructed, including The Independent, The Austonian and 360 Condominiums. As of February 2020, the city of Austin has 170 high rises.

Tallest buildings
This list ranks Austin's delivered (completed and occupied) skyscrapers that stand at least  tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts or other objects not part of the original plans. The "Year" column indicates the year in which a building was completed.

Tallest buildings: site prep or under construction
The following are projects which will rise at least 300 ft (91 m).

Tallest buildings: approved, site plan under review or proposed
The following are projects which are to rise at least 300 ft (91 m).

* Table entries with dashes (-) indicate that information regarding building heights or dates of completion has not yet been released

Timeline of tallest buildings
This list includes buildings that have held the title of the tallest building (as measured by architectural height and not tip or roof height) in Austin as well as the current titleholder, The Independent.

See also

 List of tallest buildings in Texas
 List of tallest buildings in the United States
 List of tallest structures in the United States
 List of tallest buildings in Dallas
 List of tallest buildings in El Paso
 List of tallest buildings in Houston
 List of tallest buildings in San Antonio
 List of tallest buildings in Corpus Christi

References
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External links
 Diagram of Austin skyscrapers on SkyscraperPage

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A shocking low number of Black students are admitted to New York City elite public schools.
The number of Black students entering New York City's elite public schools hit a shocking low that renewed questions about the fairness of using standardized tests as the only measure for admissions.
Only seven Black students gained entrance this year to Stuyvesant High School out of 895 available seats, the New York Times reported on Monday. The number has steadily decreased in recent years, from 13 in 2017 to 10 last year.
The damning report from the New York Times that the highlighted racial inequalities came against the backdrop of the ongoing college admissions scandal in which wealthy parents paid bribes to enable their underperforming children to enter some of the nation's top schools.
At the Bronx High School of Science, another of the New York City's prestigious public schools, Black students were offered 12 seats. Last year 25 African-American students were offered admission.
"Of the nearly 4,800 students admitted into the specialized schools, 190 are black — compared to 207 black students admitted last year out of just over 5,000 offers. About 5,500 black students took the admissions exam this year out of a total of about 27,500 applicants," according to the Times.
That stood in contrast to when the percentages were higher decades ago, an apparent indication of how the overall decline in education quality over the years has hit Black communities the hardest.
Admission to the elite schools depends on performance on a single standardized exam.
The U.S. education system began using "racist" standardized tests more than a century ago to keep elite schools white and upper-class, according to the National Education Association.
The news out of New York prompted some people to take to Twitter to point out that poor quality schools and a lack of family financial resources to pay for test preparation also put low-income students of color at a huge disadvantage.


So last night, I was reading some articles about different things to relax for once in my college life and I came upon an article that talked about a new type of wireless technology that makes our computers, smartphones and several other devices operate much faster than ever before. This technology, known as WiGig, can yield speeds of up to 25Gbps(bytes per second) while a the most recently updated WiFi connection can operate at max rate of 500Mbps. So this WiGig would be the new leve of "blazing fast" Internet that everyone oh so desires. This technology, to my understanding, came out in 2013 as a new establishment from WiFi so that people wouldn't get confused between the two and it has proven to be really fast. Files that are several gigabytes large that usually take several minutes(if not more) to transfer data are transferred in just a few seconds with WiGig!
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Weighing massive stars in nearby galaxy reveals excess of heavyweights
The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
(Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO, D. Lennon (ESA/STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
An international team of astronomers, including many from the UK, has revealed an 'astonishing' overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy.
The discovery, made in the gigantic star-forming region 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, has 'far-reaching' consequences for our understanding of how stars transformed the pristine Universe into the one we live in today.
The results are published today in the journal Science and this work has had substantial UK involvement with over a third of the authors being based in the UK at 8 different UK institutes.
As part of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS), the team used ESO's Very Large Telescope to observe nearly 1,000 massive stars in 30 Doradus, a gigantic stellar nursery also known as the Tarantula nebula. The team used detailed analyses of about 250 stars with masses between 15 and 200 times the mass of our Sun to determine the distribution of massive stars born in 30 Doradus – the so-called initial mass function (IMF).
Lead author Dr Fabian Schneider, a Hintze Research Fellow in the University of Oxford's Department of Physics, said: 'We were astonished when we realised that 30 Doradus has formed many more massive stars than expected.'
Professor Chris Evans from the STFC's UK Astronomy Technology Centre, the principal investigator of VFTS and a co-author of the study, said: 'Our results suggest that most of the stellar mass is actually no longer in low-mass stars, but a significant fraction is in high-mass stars.'
Massive stars are particularly important for astronomers because of their enormous influence on their surroundings (known as their 'feedback'). They can explode in spectacular supernovae at the end of their lives, forming some of the most exotic objects in the Universe – neutron stars and black holes.
Until recently, the existence of stars up to 200 solar masses was highly disputed, and the new study shows that a maximum birth mass of stars of 200-300 solar masses appears likely.
In most parts of the Universe studied by astronomers to date, stars become rarer the more massive they are. The IMF predicts that most stellar mass is in low-mass stars and that less than 1% of all stars are born with masses in excess of ten times that of the Sun. Measuring the proportion of massive stars is extremely difficult – primarily because of their scarcity – and there are only a handful of places in the local Universe where this can be done.
The team turned to 30 Doradus, the biggest local star-forming region, which hosts some of the most massive stars ever found, and determined the masses of massive stars with unique observational, theoretical and statistical tools. This large sample allowed the scientists to derive the most accurate high-mass segment of the IMF to date, and to show that massive stars are much more abundant than previously thought.
Dr Schneider added: "Our results have far-reaching consequences for the understanding of our cosmos: there might be 70% more supernovae, a tripling of the chemical yields and towards four times the ionising radiation from massive star populations. In addition the formation rate of black holes might be increased by 180%, directly translating into a corresponding increase of binary black hole mergers that have recently been detected via their gravitational wave signals.'
The team's research leaves many open questions, which they intend to investigate in the future including how universal are the findings, and what are the consequences of this for the evolution of our cosmos and the occurrence of supernovae and gravitational wave events?
Becky Parker
STFC Media Officer
The results are published in the paper 'An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst' in the journal Science on 5 January 2018.
Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory
A massive star is often defined as having a mass of more than 8-10 times the mass of the Sun. This means that they can explode in spectacular supernova explosions at the end of their lives, thereby forming some of the most exotic objects in the Universe – neutron stars and black holes.
VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
ESO is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive ground-based astronomical observatory by far. It is supported by 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with the host state of Chile.
ESO carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities enabling astronomers to make important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor.
At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and its world-leading Very Large Telescope Interferometer as well as two survey telescopes, VISTA working in the infrared and the visible-light VLT Survey Telescope. ESO is also a major partner in two facilities on Chajnantor, APEX and ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence. And on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope, the ELT, which will become "the world's biggest eye on the sky".


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Get out your magical key ring and prepare for our discussion of "Locke and Key" by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. It's a dark fantasy/horror comic with some touches of Stephen King, fitting since Joe Hill is Stephen King's kid! It's also really good. We drop some mild spoilers for Vol. 1, "Welcome to Lovecraft," which you should go buy right now. Plus: What comics are we reading?


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Q: Executing AWS Lambda Function not working I am trying to create a simple Lambda function ChildFunction with the following Code:
    import json
    import uuid

    def lambda_handler(event, context):

        productName = event['ProductName']
        quantity    = event['Quantity']
        unitPrice   = event['UnitPrice']

        transactionId   = str(uuid.uuid1())

        amount      = quantity * unitPrice

        return {
            'TransactionID' :   transactionId,
            'ProductName'   :   productName,
            'Amount'        :   amount
        }

I am creating a Test Event with the following Test parameters:
{

  "ProductName": "iPhone SE",
  "Quantity": "2",
  "UnitPrice": "499"
}

When I execute the Test Event, I am getting the following output:
Response:
{
  "statusCode": 200,
  "body": "\"Hello from Lambda!\""
}

Request ID:
"9c68e0d8-3781-4046-ac26-127c45321d71"

Function logs:
START RequestId: 9c68e0d8-3781-4046-ac26-127c45321d71 Version: $LATEST
END RequestId: 9c68e0d8-3781-4046-ac26-127c45321d71
REPORT RequestId: 9c68e0d8-3781-4046-ac26-127c45321d71  Duration: 1.19 ms   Billed Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 52 MB

I don't know why the Lambda Function is not executing. What am I doing wrong here?

A: Lambda has a specific response format:
Try this, where out is your output dict:
import json

return { 'statusCode': 200,
    'body' :json.dumps({'response': out})
    }

Related issue: Serverless Framework Python lambda return JSON directly

A: Even if you execute your function correctly, it will not work. There reason is that quantity and unitPrice are strings, not integers. The correct version is:
import json
import uuid

def lambda_handler(event, context):

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    unitPrice   = int(event['UnitPrice'])

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    return {
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        'ProductName'   :   productName,
        'Amount'        :   amount
    }

From what you described it can't be determined why you execute different function. Maybe you are not deploying it before testing, or testing some old version of it. In the first case, you have to explicitly deploy your function before testing, and in the second case you must ensure that you choose correct version of function to test.


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sizingupthesouth September 5, 2019 Covering hurricanes, Journalists
Some citizens stay home even if coastal evacuations are mandatory, journalists ask why
Photo above: There are many reasons why people stay at home even though government authorities are asking them evaluate. For many, they cannot afford it. Flickr photo
Isaiah Singleton | Reporter | SizingUpTheSouth.com
The North American hurricane season each year could be argued as one of the most worrisome times for individuals who live on the Atlantic coast or the Gulf of Mexico, because there is always the potential that they will be asked to evacuate their coastal homes and business. On the other hand, journalists are first responders and local, regional and national newsrooms deploy teams to move toward the possible disasters. It is part of their jobs.
Journalists are the first responders to hurricanes. One journalist covers the equipment dropped during a weather surveillance mission for the U. S. Air Force's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron C130 Hercules. U. S. Air Force Photo | Sgt. Kal Justin
While most deployed journalists find most citizens who are asked to evacuate do adhere to the mandatory evacuations, there is always a small number of citizens who stay and brave the storm for various reasons. For this small number of people, evacuating might be a challenging and an inconvenient process, yet staying in a home or business during a hurricane may not be the safest option.
According to The New York Times, "Even after all of the best practices in emergency communications are exhausted, 5 percent of the population will most likely remain in harm's way."
"It's nearly impossible to determine a storm's approach any sooner than 5 or 7 days in advance – a fact that is not very reassuring if you're planning a trip months (or even weeks) in advance."
National Hurricane Center tells the New York Times
During Hurricane Matthew in 2016, NBC News reports that former Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned residents that there's no excuse for residents in evacuation zones not to leave and strongly urged people to relocate for their safety.
Brian Resnick
Vox's Senior Science Reporter Brian Resnick writes in an article during Hurricane Matthew in 2016 that there are a few common reasons why people ride out the storm at home.
In an interview with Cara Cuite, a Rutgers University psychologist who researched a NOAA-sponsored project and who published "Best Practices in Coastal Storm Risk Communications," said many people who stay have not heard the warnings or may be disabled.
"They simply can't get out of their homes and don't have anyone to help them," Cuite said. "Then there could be cases of people who don't hear the warning. But in an age when warnings can be blasted out on radio, TV, smartphones and through old-fashioned door-to-door notifications, this is becoming less likely."
Eleanor Goldberg
In an article by HuffPost.com Business Reporter Eleanor Goldberg, she reports Florida native, Diane Berberian, who is visually impaired and does not drive, chooses not to evacuate even after several warnings from family members, government officials, and friends. The 59-year old was facing the wrath of Hurricane Irma in 2017. CNN was reporting it was the strongest ever Atlantic basin hurricane outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
The reality of the evacuation decision was that Berberian could not afford to leave her home. She did not have the funds to leave because any flights out of nearby Tampa to Philadelphia would cost her over $1,000.
"I've been through this," Berberian tells Goldberg of her past experiences with hurricanes. "I have respect for weather, so I wouldn't do anything foolish."
Lisa Wade
Poverty could also be a factor of why some people, as well as disabled individuals, don't evacuate during a hurricane. Lisa Wade, a sociologist who reports for the Pacific Standard, writes "Fourteen percent of the people who remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina had a physical disability. Fifty-five percent of them didn't have access to a car or another way to leave. And 68 percent didn't have either money in the bank or a useable credit card".
A common reason that people do not evacuate for hurricanes is that they do not want to leave their pets behind, says ASPCA. Flickr photo
Cuite said people decide not to leave because they don't want to leave their pets behind.
According to a 2011 poll sponsored by the ASPCA, it found that around 30 percent of dog and cat owners who live in the South (where hurricanes are more common) don't know what to do with their pets during an evacuation.
Another reason why people don't leave is due to fear of their homes getting damaged or looted, Cuite said in Resnick's article.
In his article, he writes that Cuite has spent years of research speaking to first responders, asking them what can get people to take the warnings more seriously. She said in the process of trying to convince even the most stubborn people, it's all about trying to make people scared.
However, Resnick's article also reveals that the psychologist encourages journalists to make sure they have the correct information for those who do need to evacuate. During Hurricane Florence in 2018, 1.4 million people were told they must evacuate from the shorelines of North and South Carolina, as well as parts of Virginia. Remember 5 percent decide to stay.
Hurricane Dorian has already taken 20 lives in the Bahamas, according to CBS News. The country's prime minister, Hubert Minnis, expects that number to rise. CBS Nightly News Anchor Norah O'Donnell reports in video below.
While Dorian is slowly approaching the coastlines of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, worst conditions are expected today in Chatham County, Savannah according to the National Weather Service in Charleston.
Isaiah Singleton
Isaiah Singleton is a freelance correspondent for SizingUpTheSouth.com and a recent graduate of Savannah State University majoring in journalism. To contact Singleton email him at isaiahdsingleton@gmail.com
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The Episcopal Church Women in the Diocese of North Carolina are dedicated to sharing the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ by engaging in worship, prayer, study, service and fellowship.
Any woman who is a member of the Episcopal Church automatically belongs to ECW. That's it. There are no special criteria or tests or initiations required. The extent to which a woman is involved in organized ECW activity is up to her.
As a longtime women's ministry within the Episcopal Church, USA, ECW is structured much as the church is structured. That is, there's a national office, a provincial office (Province IV in the case of North Carolina), and a diocesan office followed by parish "branches." Sometimes, an ECW branch is so large and busy it divides into smaller units known as "chapters". Each of these entities builds on the other. All are deeply rooted in "domestic and foreign missionary work," and, importantly, all are led by the laity.
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Almighty God, we pray that You will bless our work in mission and ministry to the world. We give thanks for the gifts of joy and wonder to be found in Your works. Make us so thankful for the power of Your love, given through Your Son, Jesus, that we may pray, labor and give liberally to make known that love throughout the world. Bless us that our lives may shine forth the joy and wonder we share in Your Name. Amen.
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We support, as an organization within the Episcopal Church or as individual church women, many groups that uphold the different gifts, values and ministries of women, and advance the role of women in the mission of the Church.
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