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Established in 1976 by California-based activist Drummond Pike, the Tides Foundation was set up as a public charity that receives money from donors and then funnels it to the recipients of their choice. Because many of these recipient groups are quite radical, the donors often prefer not to have their names publicly linked with the donees. By letting the Tides Foundation, in effect, "launder" the money for them and pass it along to the intended beneficiaries, donors can avoid leaving a "paper trail." Such contributions are called "donor-advised," or donor-directed, funds.
Through this legal loophole, nonprofit entities can also create for-profit organizations and then funnel money to them through Tides -- thereby circumventing the laws that bar nonprofits from directly funding their own for-profit enterprises. Pew Charitable Trusts, for instance, set up three for-profit media companies and then proceeded to fund them via donor-advised contributions to Tides, which (for an 8 percent management fee) in turn sent the money to the media companies.
If a donor wishes to give money to a particular cause but finds that there is no organization in existence dedicated specifically to that issue, the Tides Foundation will, for a fee, create a group to meet that perceived need.
"Under the Tides Center umbrella, the new group can then accept tax deductible contributions without needing to apply immediately to the IRS for tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity tax status.... Besides giving a new project its seal of approval, the Tides Center performs a notable service in showing new groups how to run an office, apply for grants, conduct effective public relations, and handle the many personnel, payroll, and budget problems that might baffle a novice group."
Between 1996 and 2010, the Tides Center served as a fiscal sponsor to some 677 separate projects with combined revenues of $522.4 million; in 2010 alone, the Center was actively managing nearly 200 projects.
The Tides Center's Board Chairman is Wade Rathke, who is also a member of the Tides Foundation Board. Rathke, a protege of the late George A. Wiley, serves as President of the New Orleans-based Local 100 of the Service Employees International Union, and is the founder and chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Maya Wiley, daughter of George A. Wiley, sits on the Tides Center's Board of Directors.
Chip Berlet sits on the Board of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, a Tides Center project formed in 2005 to combat "the growing power of the religious right" and to "fight for the separation of church and state." Berlet is a senior analyst for Political Research Associates, and has had affiliations with the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Friends Service Committee, the Christic Institute, the Socialist Workers Party, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Tides Foundation promotes a multitude of leftist agendas, as evidenced by its assertion: "We strengthen community-based organizations and the progressive movement by providing an innovative and cost-effective framework for your philanthropy." Among the crusades to which Tides contributes are: radical environmentalism; the "exclusion of humans from public and private wildlands"; the anti-war movement; anti-free trade campaigns; the banning of firearms ownership; abolition of the death penalty; access to government-funded abortion-on-demand; and radical gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender advocacy. The Foundation is also a member organization of the International Human Rights Funders Group, a network of more than six-dozen grantmakers dedicated to finaning leftwing groups and causes.
Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Tides formed a "9/11 Fund" to advocate a "peaceful national response." Tides later replaced the 9/11 Fund with the "Democratic Justice Fund," which was financed in large measure by the Open Society Institute of George Soros, who has donated more than $7 million to Tides over the years. Reciprocally, the Tides Foundation is a major funder of the Shadow Party, a George Soros-conceived nationwide network of several dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats.
Tides also set up a Peace Strategies Fund and an Iraq Peace Fund, the latter of which has granted money to such groups as MoveOn.org, the National Council of Churches, the Arab-American Action Network, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the pro-Castro groups United for Peace and Justice and Center for Constitutional Rights. In addition, Tides funds "A Better Way Project," which coordinates the activities of United for Peace and Justice and the Win Without War Coalition/Keep America Safe Campaign.
Tides and the organizations it supports interact closely with one another on a regular basis. For example, Drummond Pike sits on the Board of the Environmental Working Group along with David Fenton, founder of Fenton Communications.
Recent recipients of Tides Foundation grants include: the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute; the American Civil Liberties Union; the ACORN Institute; the Agape Foundation; Alliance For Justice; American Family Voices; the American Friends Service Committee; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Amnesty International; the Border Action Network; the Brennan Center for Justice; Campaign for America's Future; the Center for American Progress; the Center for Community Change; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Center for Reproductive Rights; Changemakers; the Children's Defense Fund; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; the Council on American-Islamic Relations (as revealed in FrontpageMagazine); Democracy Now!; Earth Day Network; Earth Island Institute; Earthjustice; Environmental Defense; Environmental Media Services; the Environmental Working Group; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; the Feminist Majority Foundation; Free Press; Funding Exchange; Global Exchange; Grantmakers Without Borders; Grassroots International; Greenpeace; Human Rights First; Human Rights Watch; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; Institute for America's Future; Institute for Policy Studies; Institute for Public Accuracy; the Israel Policy Forum; the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy; the Jane Addams Peace Association; the League of Conservation Voters; the League of United Latin American Citizens; the League of Women Voters; the Liberty Hill Foundation; MADRE; Medecins Sans Frontieres; Media Matters for America; Mercy Corps; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Mexico Solidarity Network; the Middle East Children's Alliance; Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; the National Council of Churches; the National Lawyers Guild; the National Network of Grantmakers; the National Organization for Women Foundation; the National Wildlife Federation; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Nature Conservancy (of California and of New York); the New Israel Fund; the New World Foundation; Nonviolent Peaceforce; the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Oxfam America; the Pacifica Foundation; Peace Action; the Peace Development Fund; People for the American Way; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Planned Parenthood; the Ploughshares Fund; Population Connection; the Progress Unity Fund; Project Vote; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Rainforest Action Network; the Rainforest Alliance; the Rockefeller Family Fund; the Ruckus Society; the Sentencing Project; September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows; the Sierra Club; the Shefa Fund; Sojourners; the Threshold Foundation; TrueMajority Action; Trust for Public Land; the Union of Concerned Scientists; USAction; Veterans For Peace; Waterkeeper Alliance; the Wilderness Society; Witness For Peace; Women's Action for New Directions; and the World Wildlife Fund.
Tides also runs a tax-exempt "alternative media source" called the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), a leading provider of Web technology to the radical left.
Between 1993 and 2003, at least 91 foundations made grants to the Tides Foundation. These included the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Arca Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; the Barbra Streisand Foundation; the Bauman Family Foundation; Ben and Jerry's Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Blue Moon Fund; the Bullitt Foundation; the CarEth Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Changemakers; the ChevronTexaco Foundation; the Columbia Foundation; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Energy Foundation; the Fannie Mae Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the Foundation for Deep Ecology; the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; the Heinz Family Foundation; the Hoffman Foundation; the Homeland Foundation; the Howard Heinz Endowment; the J.M. Kaplan Fund; the James Irvine Foundation; the JEHT Foundation; the Jenifer Altman Foundation; the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Joyce Foundation; the Lear Family Foundation; the Liberty Hill Foundation; the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the Nathan Cummings Foundation; the New World Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the Pew Charitable Trusts; the Ploughshares Fund; the Proteus Fund; the Public Welfare Foundation; the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund; the Righteous Persons Foundation; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the Roberts Foundation; the Rockefeller Family Fund; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy; the Stern Family Fund; the Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust; the Summit Charitable Foundation; the Surdna Foundation; the Threshold Foundation; the Turner Foundation; the Vanguard Public Foundation; the Verizon Foundation; the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; and the Woods Fund of Chicago.
One particularly notable donor to the Tides entities is Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Senator John Kerry. From 1994 to 2004, the Heinz Endowments, which Mrs. Kerry heads, gave the Tides Foundation and Center approximately $8.1 million in grants. Until February 2001, Mrs. Kerry also served as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which has given Tides numerous six-figure grants.
The Tides Foundation and Tides Center also receive grants from the U.S. federal government. Between 1997 and 2001, these grants included the following: $395,219 from the Department of Interior; $3,350,431 from the Environmental Protection Agency; $3,487,040 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development; $208,878 from the Department of Agriculture; $39,550 from the Department of Energy; $93,500 from the Small Business Administration; $10,986 from the Department of Health and Human Services; and $84,520 from the Centers for Disease Control U.S. Agency for International Development.


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Q: Magento OR query I would like to use OR in magento mysql query, I am looking for an equivalent in magento
where (is_in_stock=0 and show_in_front=1) and (is_in_stock=1 and show_in_front=1)
I know following can be used for 'OR', but am not sure how to produce an equiavlent query as above;
 ->addAttributeToFilter(
     array(
          'attribute' => 'is_in_stock',
          'eq'      => '0',
     ),

A: Following is example code for OR condition
$collection->addAttributeToFilter(
array(
    array('attribute'=> 'attribute1','like' => 'value1'),
    array('attribute'=> 'attribute2','like' => 'value2'),
    array('attribute'=> 'attribute3','like' => 'value3'),
    )
);

A: Please check this query
//OR Condition
->addAttributeToFilter(array(array('attribute' => 'is_in_stock','eq' => '0'),array('attribute' => 'show_in_front','eq' => '1')));
//And Condition
->addAttributeToFilter('is_in_stock', array('eq' => '1'));
->addAttributeToFilter('show_in_front', array('eq' => '1'));

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Oh Gosh I am way behind on my 30 in 30 challenge. It was a busy weekend and I took sometime off in the studio for rejuvenation and catching up with friends. So this is #14 but actually should be #18. So I better hustle, or should I.
These 30 in 30 challenges are to make you better not perfect; the idea is to continue to improve, elevate your creativity and build strong habits. It is like boot camp for artists. It forces me to get in there and paint even when the spark is lacking. But deeper than that it is helping me see where my creativity comes from. Somewhere deep inside I pull out glimpses of past experiences, feelings and emotions that silently bubble and wait to be brought forth. Sometimes I don't like what I see but most of the time I do. In all cases it is very cathartic and keeps me mindful of who I am.
Red Hills is one of those paintings that reminds me of how much I love living in the West. It is of no place in particular, but some place I have been to in my dreams.


Reading the characters from a standard punch-tape, and converting the code of each punched character into the corresponding Hell-pixel sequence. This is done with a device called a tape-transmitter (tape sender, "Lochstreifensender"). The punched paper tape is produced with a keyboard-perforator ("Handlocher", "Tastenlocher"). The standard 5-bit International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA-2, CCITT-2) was used, as adopted at the 1932 Madrid conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU/CCITT).
Typing the characters directly on a keyboard that is connected to the spinning Hell-character drum. This is done with a keyboard-sender ("Handgeber").
Both the punch-tape Hell-sender and the keyboard Hell-sender generate a sequence of closing and opening of an electrical contact. This stream of switch-actuations is converted into a stream of on/off tone pulses with a tone generator. The resulting tone pulses are then broadcast to subscribers with an AM-transmitter. Hence, a regular AM-radio can be be used to receive those tone pulses - no need for a special telegraphy receiver with a BFO. Note that Hell tone-pulses could also be sent via phone lines, wired-radio lines ("Drahtfunk"), high-voltage power lines, and with a CW-transmitter.
The received tone-pulses at the loudspeaker output of the radio are passed to a keying-amplifier ("Tastverstärker", "Tastgerät", "Schreibverstärker"). This amplifier converts the tone-pulses back into on/off DC-pulses ( = detection), that are amplified to have enough power (at least 2 watt) to energize the printer-solenoid of the Presse-Hell printer. Some special Hell radio receivers have a built-in detector/amplifier and do not need an external keying-amplifier. Radio receivers used with Siemens-Hell "Presse Hell" printers are discussed on this page.
Original 1937-1952 prices of Hellschreiber equipment are presented on this page.
PUNCH-TAPE PERFORATORS - "HANDLOCHER / TASTENLOCHER"
As outlined above, one way to generate a text string in Hell-format, is to create a punch-tape and feed the tape to a Hell tape-sender. Punching the tape is done with a keyboard-perforator ("Handlocher", "Tastenlocher"). This is not specific to the Hell system: perforators are generally used with all teleprinter systems. Using punch tape makes it possible to send messages at a speed that is significantly higher than that of manual typing. One disadvantage of the tape-senders is that no record of the generated message is created.
Fig. 4: Siemens-Halske "T loch 1k"
Fig. 5: the rear of the "T loch 1k"
Fig. 6: motor, gearing, and character counter of the "T loch 1k"
Fig. 7: motor and gearing of the "T loch 1k"
During the early 1950s, model T.loch.1 was replaced by model T.loch.12a (ref. 4). The new design was based on the keyboard of the Siemens-Halske teleprinter T typ 37. It can process up to 15 char/sec. The unit measures 40x30x18 cm (WxDxH, ≈1612x7 inch), and weighs 13 kg (≈ 35 lbs). There is a version that is intended for use with a page-teleprinter. Like the T.loch.1k above, it has a counter (item nr. 2 in the right-hand photo below) for 69 characters per line. It sounds a warning 10 characters before the end of a text line is reached.
The label above indicates "2H" as the year of manufacture ("Baujahr"). This is month 2 of year "H". Siemens-Halske started a new numbering scheme when it resumed operation after WWII: "A" stands for 1945, "B" for 1946, etc. So, this particular unit was built in February of 1952.
SIEMENS-HELL TAPE SENDER/TRANSMITTER - "LOCHSTREIFENSENDER / LOCHSTREIFENGEBER"
Once a tape has been punched with the text message to be transmitted, a Hell tape-sender reads the tape and converts each coded character from the tape into the pulse sequence of the corresponding Hell-character. This requires a tape-reader that drives a number of selector-bars. The selector-bars are used to select a track of the spinning character-drum (cam shaft, stack of notched disks), and engage a contact when the drum passes through its starting position. In one revolution of the drum, the contact closes and opens a number of times, according to the pixel pattern of the particular Hell-character. At the end of the sequence, the contact disengages. The drum-contacts of all characters are connected in parallel, and form the output of the sender. The tape-senders transmit at a speed of 5 or 5.5 characters/sec (300 or 330 chars/min).
The first Siemens-Hell-Lochstreifensender is model T.send.17c. I am not aware of the existence of models 17a and 17b. The unit measures 44x34x19 cm (WxDxH, 17.3x13.4x7.5 inch) and weighs 20 kg (44 lbs), ref. 2.
Fig. 12. Siemens-Hell-Lochstreifengeber "T send 17c"
Fig. 13. Siemens-Hell-Lochstreifengeber "T send 17c"
Fig. 17: Siemens-Hell "T send 17c" fed by a Siemens teleprinter "Blattschreiber mit angebautem Empfangslocher"
Model T send 62a (a.k.a. model "S") is the successor to model T.send.17c. It was made more compact by placing the contacts of the character-drum on both sides of the drum. Also, while one character is being transmitted, the next character is already being scanned from the punch tape. The design is modular, making maintenance and replacement easier and faster. Ref. 13. The unit has buttons for remote control of a T.empf.12 or T.empf.14 printer. There is also push button on the front of the punch tape reader to send the Hell pause-character (like the Feld-Hell). Ref. 12, 13. One version of the T.send.62 has a built-in tone oscillator.
Push-button for sending a start- or stop-signal to the connected T empf 12 or T empf 14 "Presse-Hell" printer; the button has to be pushed for about 1 sec to signal "start", and 7-10 sec for "stop".
Push-button for sending the Hell pause-character.
Option: tape reader-head for chadless punch-tape ("Schuppenlochstreifen"). A "chad" is the small round piece of paper that is created when a hole is punched into the punch tape. A chad can remain attached to the hole and interfere with reading the tape, or interfere with the electromechanical parts of the equipment.
SIEMENS-HELL KEYBOARD SENDERS - "HANDGEBER / HANDSENDER"
As opposed to a punch-tape sender, a keyboard-sender ("Handsender") does not read the text to be sent from a punch tape, but the operator enters it manually with the keyboard. Like a Hell tape-sender, it has a character drum (cam shaft, stack of notched disks). The selector bar mechanism is now between the keyboard and the character drum, rather than between the punch-tape reader and the drum. The drum turns at a constant 150 rpm, equivalent to 2.5 characters per second (150 chars/min). This require a special typing rhythm, as the keys of the keyboard are only enabled briefly, once per revolution of the drum. This is half the speed of the Siemens-Hell tape-senders.
Shown below is the ca. 1933 Siemens-Hell keyboard-sender. I do not know the model's name or the "T.send" type designator. The motor with its centrifugal speed regulator is installed vertically. Like the Hell Feldfernschreiber, the (fixed) typing speed is 2.5 characters/sec (150 chars/min), ref. 3.
Siemens-Hell-Handsender model T.send.18a is the successor to the model shown above. The unit measures 43x39x34.5 cm (WxDxH, ≈17x15.4x13.6 inch), weighed 18 kg (≈40 lbs), and used about 40 watts of electrical power.
Note the rectangular cover plate on top of the unit in the photo above. This is where a printer module could be installed. See photo below. Model version 18b had the attached printer, and was developed for "special purposes" (p.7 in ref. 10). However, as the unit was not battery-powered, it was not suitable for mobile ( = military) operations, and was not widely used. It was succeeded by the Hell Feld-Fernschreiber ("Feld Hell"). Model version 18b was about 3 kg (≈6.6 lbs) heavier than the 18a, and used 5 watts more power.
The output signal of the Siemens-Hell punch tape and keyboard senders is basically the closing and opening of an electrical contact, in the rhythm of the Hell-pixels to be sent. These contact pulses must somehow be sent to the subscribing Hell-printers via a radio transmitter. The easiest way to do this, is to convert those contact pulses to audio tone pulses of the same duration. This is done with a tone generator ("Tonsummer" = "tone buzzer", "Rohrsummer" or "Röhrensummer" = "vacuum tube buzzer") that generates a signal with a constant audio tone frequency. The tone signal is turned on/off (= keyed) by putting it in series with the contact open/close pulses from the tape or keyboard sender. The resulting tone pulses are then simply transmitted via an AM radio transmitter, and can be received with any basic radio receiver. The connection between the tone generator and the radio transmitter via standard phone lines. Note that one version of the Siemens-Hell tape sender model T.send.62 had a built-in tone oscillator. Hence, it did not require an external tone generator.
Siemens-Hell Tonsummer model T.sum.3 is the most basic tone generator. It has two pairs of banana jacks for the signal output at two different signal levels: "high" and "low". There is also an output for a headset. with associated volume control. The unit measures 27x24x18 cm (WxDxH, ≈10.6x9.5x7 inch), weighs 6.5 kg (≈14.3 lbs), and consumes 35 watts of electrical power. It has two vacuum tubes: an RGN 1064 or 1054 dual-diode rectifier, and an RE 134 power-amplifier triode.
I do not know the difference between model 3a and 3b.
The Siemens-Hell T.sum.5 is the successor to the model T.sum.3. It used a single vacuum tube of type EDD 11. This is a dual-triode, one triode for the tone oscillator, the other for the output amplifier. The unit weighed 6.5 kg (≈14 lbs).
KEYING AMPLIFIERS - "TASTVERSTÄRKER / TASTGERÄT / SCHREIBVERSTÄRKER"
As outlined above, Hell-messages are generated with a Siemens-Hell tape-sender or keyboard-sender. The output of the sender is basically an electrical contact that closes and opens in the rhythm of the pixel sequence of the transmitted characters. The sender's keying contact can actually be used to key the final stage of a nearby small ( = low power) AM radio transmitter on/off. In this case, a constant audio tone must be provided to the audio/microphone input of the transmitter. For a remote or high(er) power transmitter, this is not an option. In this case, as outlined above, a tone generator is placed in series with the output contact of the sender. This converts the actuations of the sender's output contact into tone pulses. These tone pulses can be sent to the audio input of a remote AM radio transmitter (e.g., via regular phone lines). The transmitter is turned "on" for the entire duration of the Hell-message. Both of the above two configurations can be implementing without needing a special keying device ("Tastverstärker", "Tastgerät", "Sendertastgerät") to key the radio transmitter on/off.
As stated above, the power rating of the sender's output contact is too low for directly keying a medium or high power radio transmitter. The sender's output contact i splaced in series with a tone genarator and the resuoting tone pulses a passed to the (remote) keying device. Depending on the keying method used in the transmitter, the keying device converts the tone pulses to a high DC voltage of the applicable polarity, or a lower grid-bias voltage. Some WW2 German military transmitters had such a keying device built-in, for high-speed "Morse" telegraphy and Hellschreiber, see this page.
The audio output of a regular radio receiver typically is not powerful enough to directly energize the solenoid of a Hellschreiber printer. Furthermore, the Hell-printers built since ca. 1934, use a DC-powered solenoid. This means that a detector-amplifier must be placed between the radio receiver and the Hell-printer. Such a printer keying device ("Schreibverstärker", "Empfangstastgerät") converts the received tone pulses into DC-pulses that have enough power to key a Hell printer solenoid on/off. This requires 10 or 20 mA DC-current at about 40 volt. In addition, the keying device can provide increased selectivity via a bandpass tone-filter, with a center frequency equal to the audio tone frequency of the Hell-pulses.
The T.verst.16 was the initial, very simple, printer keying amplifier ("Schreibverstärker") for Presse-Hell printers. It only has an input for tone pulses, gain/volume control, an output for DC-current pulses, and an audio output for a headset.
The unit has exactly the same look, size, and weight as the T.sum3 tone generator: 27x24x18 cm (WxDxH, ≈10.6x9.5x7 inch), and 6.5 kg (≈14.3 lbs). It consumed about 45 watts of electrical power. This model was made in at least three versions: 16a, 16b, and 16d (ref. 2). They had the following vacuum tubes: an RGN 1064 or RGN 1054 dual-diode rectifier, an RE 604 triode, and either an RE 904 (model version 16a, 16b) or an RE 924 (version 16d).
Fig. 33: keying-amplifier model "T.verst.16a"
Model T.verst.18a was an upgrade of model T.verst.16. It has separate transformer-coupled inputs for 600 ohm (phone line) and 4000 ohm (high-impedance headset/loudspeaker output of a radio). It also includes a bandpass tone filter that is selectable to 900 Hz / Off / 1500 Hz. Again, there is a gain/volume control knob and a headset output. The connectors for all inputs and outputs are pairs of jacks for banana plugs or equivalent two-prong plugs. Oddly, the power cord enters the unit on the front.
Fig. 34: keying-amplifier model "T.verst.18a"
The version of the T.verst.18 shown below has a ground lug on the front (below the tone-input jacks) and a so-called Siemens-Schuckert teleprinter "OD" jack for the current output to the printer. The power cord now enters the unit on the rear.
Fig. 35: keying-amplifier model "T.verst.18b" - "kleines Sendetastgerät"
The St.V.1 /St.verst.1 comprises a straight forward two-stage detector/amplfier, just like the Feld-Hell machine: a pre-amplifier with manual gain control, followed by a full-wave diode rectifier bridge ( = detector) with a simple smoothing filter, and a DC power-amplifier. Note: ref. 5 erroneously refers to this unit as a tuning-fork tone oscillator ("Stimmgabelsummer").
Per the technical description (ref. 17), it is intended intended for contactless DC-keying of a radio transmitter, and accommodates transmitters that require a high positive or negative keying-voltage, or a grid-control bias voltage (via series resistor).
Nominal output current: 20 mA (also the standard current for Presse-Hell printer-solenoids).
Miscellaneous: push button on the front of the unit, to activate the output without a tone signal being present at the input.
The label above indicates "B2" as the year of manufacture ("Baujahr"). This is month 2 of year "B". Siemens-Halske started a new numbering scheme when it resumed operation after WWII: "A" stands for 1945, "B" for 1946, etc. So, this particular unit was built in February of 1946.
Fig. 40: the military version of the Siemens-Halske model "St.V. 1"
According to ref. 20, Siemens-Halske also built a keying amplifier model T.verst.32. It had two separate standard inputs for 600 ohm (phone line) and 4000 ohm (high-impedance loudspeaker/headset output of a radio receiver), with an input sensitivity of 8 and 20 mV respectively. It was suitable for telegraphy speeds up to 340 Bd.
I do not have any other information on this model, nor a photo - unless it is the one shown below, which is only labeled as "large keying device" ("großes Sendetastgerät", ref. 10).
The Hell company also made keying devices for Hellschreiber and high-speed Morse printers, e.g., the Schreibverstärker SV 36, ref. 19.
Fig. 42: label on my "SV36"
This model comprises a pre-amplifier with an EF12 pentode, followed by a full-wave diode rectifier bridge (4x Siemens-Halske Sirutor 5b diodes), a standard diode/capacitor voltage-doubler, (again Sirutor 5b diodes), and an EBL1 double-diode pentode final amplifier.
The EBL1 has enough current drive capability (36 mA max, 4.5 max anode dissipation) to source 20 mA DC nominal drive current of a Hell-printer. The audio input of the unit is transformer-isolated (i.e., safe to connect to a PC soundcard audio output). The transformer is for 5000 Ω (radio receiver output), with a tap for 600 Ω (phone line). Both inputs are located on the back of the unit. The front of the unit has a neon lamp (directly connected to 220 volt AC), a test button (to activate the final amplifier independent of an audio input signal), and a "Mithören" output. The latter is for monitoring the output of the pre-amplifier with a high-impedance headset, via a separate winding on the isolation transformer between the pre- and final-amplifier. The unit measures 28x22x20 cm (WxDxH, ≈11x9x8 inch), weighs 6.5 kg (≈14 lbs), and is powered by 220 volt AC (30 W).
Fig. 43: front of the Hell "SV 36"
The push button marked "Prüfen" ( = test) is for activating the DC-output of the amplifier, without an input signal.
Fig. 44: rear of the Hell "SV 36"
Fig. 45: front view of the chassis and circuitry of the Hell "SV 36"
Fig. 46: view of the rear of the chassis and circuitry of the Hell "SV 36"
Fig. 47: top view of the chassis and circuitry of the Hell "SV 36"
Fig. 48: bottom view of the chassis and circuitry of the Hell "SV 36"
Be careful when touching the printer-output connector (or hooking up a scope probe): one side is connected directly to the anode voltage (about 250 volt DC)! Also, there is no suppressor diode across the printer's solenoid or in the amplifier output. So, large inductive voltage spikes (several 100 Volt) appear at the connector upon (de-)energizing the solenoid!
Fig. 51: Hell transformer, Rosenthal capacitors, and Siemens Sirutor diodes of the "SV 36"
All transformers (1x power, 2x audio) and chokes (2x) are made by the Hell company. The ceramic tube capacitors are made by the world-famous porcelain company Rosenthal in Selb/Oberfranken. In 1900 Mr. Philip Rosenthal, as a sideline to his established business of porcelain tableware, started to manufacture ceramics for electronic applications such as insulators, capacitors (in the "Werk III" factory), and resistors (in "Werk IV"). In 1936, this electronic ceramics activity was separated from Rosenthal AG and made part of a joint venture with AEG named Rosenthal Isolatoren GmbH (RIG). The RIG name lasted until 1974, when AEG took over all of RIG and renamed it "CRL" because of its portfolio of passive components. The name was changed once again in 1974, to Draloric Electronic GmbH.
The SV36 unit also has a selenium rectifier ("Selengleichrichter") made by AEG, and electrolytic capacitors made by Süddeutsche Apparate-Fabrik GmbH (SAF) in Nürnberg (Nuremberg); the date code suggest they were manufactured in 1951. SAF was founded in 1930, by Felten und Guilleaume (F&G) and Standard Elektrizitätsgesellschaft in Berlin (SEG, subsidiary of AT&T in the USA and majority shareholder of the C. Lorenz AG company since 1930).
The solid-sate diodes in the 4-diode rectifier bridge are "Siemens Rundfunk Detektor" (SIRUTOR, "Siemens broadcast detector"). They are cuprous-oxide-on-copper diodes ("Kupferoxydul-Pillengleichrichter"). Siemens-Halske started to produce these small-signal detector diodes around 1930.
PAPER-TAPE WINDER - "STREIFENZIEHER / AUFWICKELVORRICHTUNG"
By 1937, Siemens-Halske had developed a successor to the above model - the Fm.div.359c. It too was powered by a hand-wound clock-spring. The unit measured 16x25x22 cm (WxDXH, ≈6.3x10x8.7 inch) and weighed about 3 kg (≈6.6 lbs).
1942 Luftwaffe manuals also mention a Hell Streifenzieher (lit. "tape puller"): model "Sz 2" (ref. 21, 22).
The felt ink-roller of the Hellschreiber printers must be re-inked on a regular basis. Doing this by hand is rather messy: the felt ring has to be turned while ink is applied straight from the bottle, or with a pipette, and is spread out over the width of the ring. Many years after introduction of the Hellschreiber, the Hell company developed and marketed a re-inking device ("Einfärbvorrichtung"). I have one of these gadgets, brand new, and it was manufactured in 1970! See ref. 30 for the instruction manual.
Option B: use gummed paper tape. The gum is on the non-printed side of the tape and is water-activated. The back of the printed tape is moistened, and segments of the tape are stuck onto a paper sheet.
Only very few people (that I know) enjoy licking the back of a gummed postage stamp, let alone meters of gummed paper tape, before sticking them on telegram forms. A handy little gadget is used: a tape moistener ("Streifenanfeuchtegerät"). They have been around as long as gummed "Kraft" packing tape, and look like a simple tape dispenser with water in it. Nothing new, nothing special, not an invention for tape-teleprinters - but no doubt sold at a nice "Siemens-Hell" price... Note: for several reasons, Hell recommended using oil-base ink (a colloidal solution of pigment into oil, to be precise). I.e., not water-base ink, that would disperse all over the paper tape when moistened.
Ref. 2: p.7 in "Siemens-Hell-Schreiber", Fernmeldetechnik, Siemens & Halske A. G., Wernerwerk, Berlin-Siemensstadt, 2. 37. 5. T., SH6592, 1937, 7 pp.
Ref. 5: "Siemens-Hell-Geräte", pp.61-77 in "Telegrafentechnik", Band 6, Teil 6 of "Der Dienst bei der Deutschen Bundespost - Leitfaden für die Ausbildung", Fritz Schiweck (ed.), R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, 1960, 970 pp.
Ref. 8: p.7 in "Siemens-Hell-Schreiber", Fernmeldetechnik, Siemens & Halske A. G., Wernerwerk, Berlin-Siemensstadt, 2. 37. 5. T., SH6592, 1937, 7 pp.
Ref. 11: "Der Siemens-Hell-Schreiber", Alexander B. Damjanovic, in "Zeitschrift für Fernmeldetechnik, Werk- und Gerätebau", Siemens & Halske A.G., Wernerwerk, Jg. 17, Nr. 12, 1936, 7 pp., SH 66554, 1. 37. 0,5 T.
Ref. 12: "Siemens-Hell-Lochstreifengeber "S" - T send 62 a", [product brochure] Siemens-Halske A.G., Wernerwerk für Fernmeldetechnik, SH 2969, St KB 1213/1, 11531.T.Fs, 1931?, 2 pp.
Ref. 18: "RG 12 D 60 Doppelweg-Netzgleichrichter", Telefunken Datasheet G.R.B.42 D (5000), May 1940, 1 p.
Ref. 19: "Schreibverstärker SV 36 - Beschreibungs- und Bedienungsanweisung", Hell company, 1950, transcribed by H. Blumberg.
Ref. 20: "Bauarten und Betriebswerte von Telegraphenapparaten für den Funkdienst" table in in "Telegrafentechnik", Band 6, Teil 6 of "Der Dienst bei der Deutschen Bundespost - Leitfaden für die Ausbildung", Fritz Schiweck (ed.), R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, 1960, 970 pp.
Ref. 23: p. 164 in "Die Erde wird kleiner: vom Fackelzeichen zum Bildtelegramm", Johannes Sigleur, Franckh Verl., 1954, 167 pp.
Ref. 24: "Die große 1,5 kW Kurzwellen-Funkstation (G 1,5 K-Station)", Provisorische Ausgabe 1944, Schweizerische Armee Technisches Reglement Nr. T 179d, 20 pp.
Ref. 28: pp. 18-9, 49, 68-70, 126 in "40 Jahre dpa, Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH", Hans Benirschke (ed.), Hamburg 1989, 127 pp.


We need to have a little talk about kale. More specifically, kale chips.
I love kale. Now, I don't love kale because all crunchy homestead-ish people are supposed to love kale. I don't love kale just because it somehow, somewhere became a thing to grow and eat and love kale.
I just love kale because, well…it's kale, people.
Our first experience with kale was way back before we owned the farm. We were members of a CSA and we loved getting our box 'o veggies every week. One week there were a few bunches of kale with a recipe for how to make kale chips.
You guys. I love kale chips. Kale chips are awesome. In fact, kale chips are so awesome that when my youngest son (12) came down the stairs and realized I was making them for the purpose of this blog post, he said, "Yaaaaaassssssss" and then gave me a hug and a kiss.
A hug and a kiss, you guys.
If that doesn't tell you how awesome these are, then you have no experience with 12 year old boys.
Anyhow. On to the fun.
With a knife or kitchen shears, carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and then cut or tear the leaves into bite sized pieces.
Wash and dry the kale. If you have a salad spinner, more power to you. If Santa hasn't brought you one yet, you can just pat the kale pieces dry between two paper towels.
Place the kale pieces in a single layer on the cookie sheet, and now it's time for the oil.
You can either drizzle it, or you can use my new favorite thing, an oil sprayer, which mists the kale nicely and doesn't leave big puddles.
Because really. Who is any good a drizzling oil?
Now, sprinkle with your salt of choice.
Awwwww, look. It's like a little salty piece of kale art.
Bake at 350 until your kale chips have reached the level of crispy that you like.
We like ours pretty crispy, so we let them bake 10-15 minutes.
Now, Ima tell you something: Pringles don't have anything on these kale chips.
You know, that whole, "once you pop, you can't stop" thing? I am not too proud to tell you that I ate a huge amount of these as quietly as I could before the 12 year old boy who was waiting for them even knew they were done.
Don't judge me. Just go make some kale chips.
Then you will know what I'm talking about. Enjoy!
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The phrase "rest day" sounds so relaxing. But during the World Cup, it signals doom and gloom – an enforced break in the joyously relentless football marathon.
Belgium will play the United States in a World Cup round of 16 match in Salvador Tuesday.
South Korea will play Belgium in a World Cup Group H match in Sao Paulo.
Belgium opened its World Cup Group H campaign with a 2-1 comeback win over Algeria on Tuesday, relying on second-half goals from two substitutes.
Goals from substitutes Marouane Fellaini and Dries Mertens showed that Belgium have the strength in depth to justify their tag as genuine World Cup contenders.


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Savills top resilient global cities
Source: Savills World Research
The world order of top global cities may feel as though it is set in stone. But with disruption on the menu through technology, demographics and leadership, all that is set to change in the next decade.
For traditional leaders such as London, New York and Tokyo, the battle will be about resilience. How can they continue to harness favourable qualities such as strong economies and demographics to maintain their position?
Emerging locations in China and the Middle East are snapping at their heels, challenging the status quo with rising personal wealth and fast-growing economies. They are joining an increasingly crowded field. In the past decade, the number of cities with gross domestic product (GDP) of more than $50 billion has grown from 177 to 248, underscoring the vital role that cities will continue to play in these disruptive times. By 2028, this number is expected to jump to 317. Those cities with GDP over $50 billion accounted for 83% of global GDP in 2018, an increase from 79% a decade ago. This is forecast to increase to 89% over the next 10 years as the importance of cities continues to accelerate.
Their geographical distribution has shifted significantly over the past decade, too, and is expected to change again. In 2018, Asia-Pacific had the largest share of cities with GDP over $50 billion, overtaking the Americas. By 2028, more than half of these influential cities are expected to be in this region.
A second threat to the traditional order is cities working together. The creation of mega-regions has seen cross-border collaboration in the US and Mexico and across Europe. China can do this all on its own by linking populous metropolises.
Savills Research has undertaken an in-depth analysis of these emerging themes among cities, examining them for resilience, those challenging today's order and growing mega-regions.
Resilient Cities
In a world of change, the search for sustainable cities in which businesses can thrive is increasingly important. The Savills Resilient Cities Index identifies those that will be able to withstand or embrace the many disruptive forces facing global real estate today and in 10 years' time. These are cities that attract talent and encourage the innovation that drives city and personal wealth – factors that feature high in the decisions of real estate investors.
The top 20 ranking for 2028 includes familiar names alongside some of the US's economic powerhouses. The leading four are forecast to be New York, Tokyo, London and Los Angeles, unchanged for the past two decades. These continue to have an inbuilt advantage from their position as world-class cities and are expected to remain resilient over the next decade.
Savills Resilient Cities Index
[Rank of sustainable cities that will be able to withstand or embrace the many disruptive forces facing global real estate today and in 10 years' time]
Methodology: Savills Resilient Cities Index is a measure of city wealth (GDP), personal wealth (households with an income greater than $70,000), and demographics (population dependency ratio) Source: Savills Research
The greatest change during the next 10 years will be the rise of Asian cities. From 2008 to 2028, there are seven new cities from Asia breaking into the top 20. Of these, six are Chinese cities, with Jakarta, Indonesia, taking the final place. These Emerging Resilient Cities have risen dramatically in economic and wealth terms in the past decade, and are expected to cement their position on the back of increasing middle-class wealth.
Despite the changes to the make-up of the top 20, the global percentage of GDP that these cities account for in 2028 is forecast to remain stable at around 25%, compared with 26% in 2018.
Cities with GDP over $50bn
[Chart showing cities with GDP over $50bn]
Source: Savills Research
While Resilient Cities make attractive propositions from a short and long-term economic and demographic perspective, it is interesting to see how this aligns with current real estate capital flows. This demonstrates whether investors are finding the appropriate risk/return profile in each market, and the size and liquidity of the investible real estate universe.
The top 10 cities for investment by volume ranks New York, Los Angeles and London in the first three places: each is in the top four in the Resilient Cities Index. Other US cities in the Resilient Cities top 20 and the top 10 investment volumes globally are Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco and Dallas.
Top 10 cities by investment volume in 2018
[Chart showing the top 10 cities by investment volume]
Source: Savills Research using data from Real Capital Analytics
New York remains the largest market with $57.5 billion invested in 2018, though it has become increasingly domestic with the share of cross-border investment falling from 37% to 30% in a decade. In contrast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago and Dallas have all seen their share of cross-border investment rise over the same period, albeit from a lower base.
London remains third, with investment volumes of $33.5 billion in 2018. Despite Brexit, London is still attractive to foreign investors, with cross-border investment comprising over two-thirds of volumes in 2018, an increase from half in 2008. Paris, the only other European city in the Resilient Cities Index, has an almost even split of domestic and foreign investors, attracted to the city's large and liquid office market.
What our Resilient Cities index means for investors
The Savills Resilient Cities Index informs future real estate investment decisions. The most established – 'Resilient Cities' – have a thriving economy and real estate sector. Emerging Resilient Cities are expected to match this status by 2028, while the rapid progress of 'Challenger Cities' offers a longer-term investment opportunity.
How we define each category
These cities have been in the top 20 for at least the last decade and are forecast to remain so over the next 10 years. They are well-placed to withstand or embrace the many disruptive forces facing global real estate today and in the future.
Emerging Resilient Cities
The new entrants to the top 20, either in the past decade or forecast to be so in the next. Although they're not currently as well-established on a global stage, we expect them to match the status of the Resilient Cities by 2028 as they continue their dramatic rise in economic and wealth terms.
Challenger Cities
Cities that are forecast to make the top 50 by 2028 by jumping at least 10 places. They are poised to rise and challenge the established cities by using disruption to their advantage. For real estate investors with a long-term view, these are the cities to watch.
Increasing climate risks
According to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risks Report 2019, extreme weather and climate-change policy failures are some of the greatest threats to cities over the next decade. "New York is a case in point. When Hurricane Sandy hit, people in high-rise buildings became stuck as elevators flooded," says Alice Charles, Cities Lead at the WEF.
For some cities, this requires new thinking and prioritisation from leadership, while others are already using technology to mitigate the threats of natural disasters. In Japan, for example, integrated systems can halt high-speed trains in the event of a natural disaster. "Similarly, they can communicate with the public quickly by leveraging mobile phones, so they are using all kinds of technology to inform people to take cover," says Charles.
Urban design challenges
For Resilient Cities to thrive, they need to maintain a positive approach to good urban design. For example, Los Angeles, fourth on the Index, has been working hard to discard its image as a car-orientated city.
"This low-rise, spread-out city has made an amazing effort through good urban planning and is overcoming its reputation for poor public transport. The metro system [pictured] has been developed and expanded to areas it didn't reach before," says Jacqueline Beckingham, Creative Director at international architecture and masterplanning practice Benoy. "Along the path of the metro, there is now an understanding that these are places to build with greater density." Los Angeles has also been spurred on by being named host city for the 2028 Olympic Games.
In Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Beckingham sees a different approach. "The Chinese have the capacity to do very ambitious urban planning that is supported by the government," she says. "They do use eminent domain and can develop in a rapid way, when others would come up against special- interest groups.
"These are all ambitious schemes founded on good urban planning principles, but sometimes it can be at the expense of losing the old and favouring the new."
The Resilient Cities research identifies a number of Challenger Cities: ones forecast to be within the top 50 by 2028. They are expected to jump by at least 10 places in the rankings over the decade. The distribution of these cities contrasts with those in the top 20, with no contenders from the US or Europe. Instead, China, India and the Middle East make up the eight.
From India and the Middle East, these are well-known international cities such as Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru (Bangalore), and Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. However, the Challengers from China come from a second-tier league of large, but less internationally recognised, cities such as Hangzhou, Nanjing and Ningbo.
[Ranking of challenger cities]
The Indian Challenger Cities have very different dynamics driving growth, says Anurag Mathur, CEO of Savills India. "Delhi is the seat of government, so attracts industry that needs to be closer to policy-making," he says. "Mumbai is the financial capital, while Bengaluru has traditionally been about science and engineering."
Delhi and Bengaluru have growing tech industries attracting younger talent. "As the home of the Indian Space Research Organisation, Hindustan Aeronautics and the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru had a strong legacy of science and engineering before it saw a new wave of start-ups and other tech companies," says Mathur. "Tech growth in Bengaluru was initially about cost arbitrage, but it has moved up the value chain and is now a core tech research and development (R&D) centre," says Mathur. General Electric and Shell have located their R&D centres here.
For India's young, mobile population – 65% are under 30 – Delhi and Bengaluru are favoured destinations. Mumbai, by contrast, has a higher cost of living which does not support a start-up culture.
The presence of Riyadh and Jeddah in the Challenger Cities rankings come as Saudi Arabia focuses on transforming its retail sector with the rise of e-commerce. With a population of 33 million willing consumers spread across a large area, e-commerce has provided retailers with a solution to get more goods to customers.
Real estate investors have been capitalising on the changes by investing in logistics and warehousing focused on e-commerce tenants, such as Kaden's The Logistics Park in south Riyadh. Here, Noon.com signed a lease on a 40,000 sq m logistics facility at the park, while Jollychic took around 130,000 sq m. Both companies have also signed up for headquarters space at the new Business Front in north Riyadh.
"The change in consumer behaviour has had an effect for physical retail," says Richard Paul, Head of Professional Services and Consultancy, Savills Middle East. "The most successful shopping centres are now anchored by food and beverage and entertainment, to attract customers who generally purchase electronics, durable goods and clothing online."
The rise of Chinese cities stands out as they make up the majority of the Emerging Resilient Cities (those that have risen dramatically in economic and wealth terms in the past decade and are expected to continue to do so to enter the global top 20) as well as many on the Challenger Cities list (those that are expected to enter the top 50 in the next decade).
For Emerging Resilient Cities such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou, this is reflected in their GDP, which is now ahead of Hong Kong's. That said, Hong Kong's importance should not be underestimated. Its location and financial and legal expertise are all factors that make it a real estate investment hotspot, ranked fifth globally.
Shenzhen has been a Resilient City in the making for several decades. Designated the first special economic zone in China in 1980, it is home to established companies, such as insurer Ping An and car-maker BYD. It has also moved with the times, and attracts tech-related companies, such as gaming firm Tencent and mobile giant Huawei.
For Challenger Cities, tech is driving many of the trends. Hangzhou, for example, is attracting tech companies and people that want to cluster near the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba. "A lot of talent was moving to tier one cities, but Hangzhou emerges and people are more willing to move for a good salary and a lower cost of living than nearby Shanghai," says Siu Wing Chu, Managing Director, Central China, at Savills. Shenzhen and Guangzhou will continue to see their influence increase as part of the Greater Bay mega-region that will unite 11 cities through major railway investment.
"It is going to be a powerhouse as the region is becoming more integrated," says Woody Lam, Managing Director of Savills Southern China. "They already have lots in common, such as Hong Kong companies locating their factories in the area, and many people travel in the region to work in the different cities."
Given China's size, there are a number of cities not mentioned that are growing in global importance and attracting real estate investors. By 2028, forecasts suggest that 43 of the top 100 resilient cities will be in China. These include cities such as Wuhan (the most populous city in central China with fast-improving infrastructure) which aims to be the economic engine of China's central region.
The growth of the mega-region
With rising urban populations, metropolitan areas are joining together, often across borders, to form powerful mega-regions. With a level of resilience that goes beyond even city status, this creates a favourable attribute for real estate investors. These regions can be identified using satellite images – continually lighted areas, correspond to economic activity. Mega-regions benefit from shared resources and talent, access to labour, expanded consumer markets and knowledge exchange. Challenges, especially if they cross borders, include differing national legislation, political risks and currency fluctuations.
The bulk of the Southern California mega-region is in the US, stretching from LA to Tijuana in Mexico. As a mega-region, it is one of the largest economies in the US, with key sectors including entertainment, tourism, tech, automotive and finance.
Source: Savills Research using Oxford Economics and national sources Note: Metro area populations cited
Greater Bay Area/Pearl River Delta
This consists of nine Chinese cities in the Pearl River Delta and the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. With a GDP of $1.3 trillion, it is comparable with the San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Tokyo Area, yet will overtake both by 2030. High-speed rail will transform travel times between major cities. What used to take 240 minutes is now 100. Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou can be covered in 48 minutes.
Amsterdam-Brussels-Lille-Ruhr
This mega-region spans four countries in northwest Europe, including the major urban centres of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Brussels. It is an interconnected network for knowledge exchange and business innovation, housing some of Europe's best universities such as Delft University of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, Eindhoven University of Technology and Leiden University.
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Savills Ski Report 2020
Visitor numbers and investment levels are key to a resort's appeal. We examine these trends, and how the performance of national housing markets can influence Alpine property.

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By Associated Press - Tuesday, November 28, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma man convicted in the 1997 disappearance and presumed death of an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Anthony Joseph Palma, 58, was sentenced Monday following his conviction on a first-degree murder charge last month, The Oklahoman reported. Palma was charged in connection to the disappearance and suspected death of Kirsten Renee Hatfield after new DNA tests connected him to the case.
Prosecutors alleged Palma took Kirsten from her home after she went to bed on May 13, 1997. Her underwear was discovered in her home's backyard, but her body was never found, police reported.
Palma was arrested in October 2015 after new DNA testing connected him to blood found on the girl's bedroom windowsill and on the underwear found in the yard. Palma lived near the Hatfield residence when the girl went missing and hadn't moved.
Palma had been questioned about the disappearance in 1997 and again in June 2015. He told police both times that he had been at home the night of the girl's disappearance.
Palma chose not to testify at his trial. He continues to deny involvement in the disappearance but said he doesn't plan on appealing his conviction.
District Attorney David Prater said it's unusual for a defendant to waive their appellate rights, but he said he appreciated Palma's decision. He said Kirsten's family has some finality with the close of the trial, though they still want to know where the child's body can be found.
"The family was very gracious and they forgave Mr. Palma," Prater said. "They showed a lot of class, a lot of grace and really showed their character. And I'm hopeful that something will touch Mr. Palma's heart that will give him the opportunity to tell everyone where Kirsten is."
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Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/, 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
While the Hobby Lobby decision may have lost its cultural appeal, it still carries weight in the federal court system.
They are for corporations like Hobby Lobby, and vast hospital networks, and, yes, adoption agencies.
In the wake of Hobby Lobby, activist lawyers are getting busy too.
Remember, corporations have religious consciences now, thanks to Hobby Lobby.
On March 25, I stood in line outside the Supreme Court, waiting to get into the Hobby Lobby oral argument.
He can usually satisfy his hobby, too, for most travellers steer clear of the berth.
Josh admitted that it did look tempting; and later on the entire party agreed that Nick had profited by his hobby.
But, on the other hand, he indulged himself in his hobby for raising prize cattle for the local Mlas.
Her hobby was curio-collecting, and she lived in perpetual dread of having her treasures stolen.
It was his hobby, and he prided himself especially upon his character as a man of business.


Berger Paints splashes onto Social Media with a Facebook Contest! | Bramerz | A digital media and marketing agency.
April 23, 2019 11:47 pm	You are here:Home Case Studies Berger Paints splashes onto Social Media with a Facebook Contest!
Berger is an internationally recognized brand of premium paint products. Berger launched its operations in Pakistan back in 1950, equipped with two centuries of experience in this field and with more than half a decade of understanding the Pakistani market, Berger is going strong, in their business strategies and activities.
Berger turned their attention to social media and created their official Facebook Page for Pakistan on the 18th of September 2011. With over eight thousand fans in its domain and many joining everyday Berger is trying to accelerate its social media presence rapidly.
The initial contest/activity Berger came up with is termed 'Elegant Bedroom Contest'. Berger has reached out to its fans by asking them to post their elegant bedroom pictures to its Facebook page. In return, the page offers a chance for three lucky participants to get two free cans of Berger elegant paints each. The winners are to be selected on the number of likes the bedroom pictures gather.
Its a new leaf for Berger paints in Pakistan. This change is being welcomed by the fans, but unarguably Berger needs to put in further effort to make their page worth while for social media interaction and has a long way to go!


Timothy Leary was many things to many people, and in fact he resisted most attempts to categorise himself. He was fond of saying at these times, "you get the Timothy Leary that you deserve." Overall it is accurate to call him a philosopher and a scientist, whose underlying motivations were human communication and understanding the mind.
He lived from 1920 to 1996, and spent most of his adult life working hard to enliven the human spirit and raise the level of social consciousness. Through the 1940s and 1950s he worked as a psychologist, emphasising human interaction. He tried to revolutionise the science, and proposed radical ideas (including the concept of Group Therapy). It took almost 50 years for the APA to recognise his achievements.
When Leary was introduced to psychedelics in1960, he saw the potential for it as a new therepeutic psychiatric, a chemical brain-changer, and set out to explore its effects on the human nervous system. After experimentng on himself and with friends, he took it to the Harvard psychology department where he was employed. Trained as a scientist, he carefully designed and meticulously observed laboratory experiments studying the emotional, physical, and social effects on volunteer grad students. With a healthy stack of positive results and some experience guiding "sessions", he took it to the next level: "curing" criminals in prison.
Before any meaningful results were attained, LSD made the headlines as a dangerous new drug. Amid the frenzy, LSD was made as illegal as heroin and Leary's experiments were qiuckly shut down. He made appeals, but the establishment considered his research too controversial. Feeling he was on to something big, he sacrificed his professional career and continued the LSD research with private funding, in Millbrook, NY.
Leary continued to publicly advertise the beneficial aspects of LSD, and as the 60s began to take shape he was cast by the mainstream media into the role of an "LSD-guru". As the drug gained popularity with the counterculture, he was happy to provide instruction manuals for safe usage. He encouraged respect for the drug, and urged the practise of "set & setting" as a safeguard against "bad trips". During this time he coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", and published books with titles like "The Psychedelic Experience".
He was arrested in 1966 on drug charges, and escaped from prison in 1970. He sought asyum in Switzerland, but was recaptured by DEA agents in 1973, extradited back to America, and sent back to prison. He was finally released in 1976, when a new judge replaced his predecessor.
Moving to California, he discovered a new brain-change technology and enthusiastically promoted the upcoming computer revolution. Through the 80s he wrote computer software, continued writing books and holding lecture performances, but even though his topics moved from drugs to technology, he was still percieved as the 1960s LSD guru.
When a routine check-up revealed prostate cancer in the early 90s, Leary faced his own mortality. Appalled at the secrecy and taboos surrounding death, he resolved to illuminate the process and leave a map of what he called "Designer Dying". At 75 years old, he died of natural causes, in his own bed, surrounded by friends.


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Sunnyside (br: Idílio campestre / pt: Um idílio nos campos) é um filme mudo de curta metragem estadunidense de 1919, escrito, produzido, dirigido e protagonizado por Charles Chaplin. É o terceiro filme da First National Pictures.

Sinopse
Charles Chaplin interpreta um ajudante de um pequeno hotel que é apaixonado por uma moça da cidade (Edna Purviance). Um moço vindo da cidade grande, começa a se interessar pela moça também. Só resta a Chaplin fazer de tudo para ganhar ela de volta.

Elenco
 Charles Chaplin - Ajudante
 Edna Purviance - Moça da vila
 Tom Wilson - Patrão
 Tom Terriss - Moço da cidade grande
 Henry Bergman - Pai da moça
 Loyal Underwood - Pai do menino
 Tom Wood - Menino

Ficha técnica
 Estúdio: Chaplin Studios
 Distribuição: First National
 Direção: Charles Chaplin
 Roteiro: Charles Chaplin
 Produção: Charles Chaplin
 Fotografia: Roland Totheroh
 Figurino: Mother Vinot
 Edição: Charles Chaplin (não-creditado)

Curiosidades

 Sunnyside foi feito em um período em que a criavidade de Chaplin não estava tão boa. Quando foi lançado, muitos críticos fizeram indiferença em relação ao filme.

Ligações externas
 Sunnyside no Internet Movie Database
 Download do filme no Archive.org
 Charles Chaplin

Filmes dirigidos por Charles Chaplin
Filmografia de Charles Chaplin
Filmes de curta-metragem
Filmes de comédia
Filmes mudos
Filmes em preto e branco
Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1919

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By Lisa Keen|2020-02-25T10:09:20-05:00February 25th, 2020|National, News|
There was troubling news for LGBTQ legal activists coming from the U.S. Supreme Court Monday: The high court announced it will review a lower court decision that held a Catholic foster care agency could not discriminate against same-sex couples.
The conflict is a long-standing one and has implications beyond church-run organizations and foster care. It could have an impact on conflicts involving business vendors who have religious objections to serving same-sex couples.
"Depending on how broadly the Court rules, its holding possibly could apply even to the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws to commercial businesses," said Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. "The Court would have to rule very broadly for that to happen, which it ordinarily tries to avoid. That said, we are in uncharted territory with this Court, which has already shown a penchant to disregard its own precedent and norms."
Lambda Legal voiced optimism.
"The Supreme Court has the opportunity to affirm the basic principle that when agencies accept government money to provide services to children involved in the public foster care system, their religious beliefs are not a license to discriminate," said Lambda Senior Counsel Karen Loewy.
But the Supreme Court could have done that by simply not accepting the case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which was in a preliminary phase of review.
The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision denied Catholic Social Services a preliminary injunction that would have allowed it to continue discriminating against same-sex couples.
The 3rd Circuit decision said that "religious or conscientious objections do not supersede the basic obligation to comply with generally applicable civil rights laws provided those laws are applied neutrally." And, in this case, the court said that "the City has acted only to enforce its non-discrimination policy in the face of what it considers a clear violation."
The case before the court began when the city government of Philadelphia became aware that two of the 30 foster care agencies it works with were refusing to consider same-sex couples as foster parents. Because city and state laws prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, the city said it could no longer work with the two agencies.
One of the two agencies worked out an agreement with the city, but the other, Catholic Social Services, refused to, saying it would violate its religious beliefs to comply with the non-discrimination law.
The city replied that, while it had "respect [for CSS's] sincere religious beliefs," CSS had "chosen voluntarily to partner with us in providing government-funded, secular social services." Equality and non-discrimination, said the city, were "both a legal requirement, and an important City policy and value that must be embodied in our contractual relationships."
CSS and other agencies who have objected to treating same-sex couples in accordance with non-discrimination laws have portrayed the conflict as one in which a city is trying to "force" the agency "act and speak in a manner inconsistent with its sincere religious beliefs about marriage."
Lambda's Loewy said the case "could have implications for people who want to discriminate in the name of religion," but she said this case is "about a taxpayer-funded agency performing public services on behalf of the government for children in the public child welfare system."
"It raises establishment clause concerns that are not usually implicated by a private individual or business who would be subject to state or federal non-discrimination mandates," Loewy said.
But Minter says the Supreme Court could issue a broad ruling that could overrule or weaken its 1990 ruling in Oregon v. Smith. Oregon v. Smith was a landmark ruling that upheld the right of the state to deny unemployment compensation to two people who lost their jobs because they used a hallucinogenic drug. The two people, both Native Americans, said they used the drug as part of their tribal religious practices. The Supreme Court upheld the state's right to deny the compensation.
"That ruling," Minter said, "held that there is no religious liberty exception to neutral laws of general applicability, even when they may have a negative impact on people who hold certain religious beliefs."
And in recent years, the Supreme Court has issued rulings that have chipped away at the Oregon v. Smith decision. Most notably, in 2014, it ruled, in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, that a closely held family company could deny certain health coverage mandated by the federal Affordable Care Act by saying the owners have religious objections to providing the coverage.
The ACLU issued a statement Monday night, saying a ruling in favor of CSS could have "profound implications" for the more than 400,000 children in foster care around the country.
"If contractors providing government foster care services can reject families that do not meet their religious litmus test, children will lose out on countless families they desperately need," the ACLU said. "In addition to LGBTQ people, this could impact people of a different faith than the agency or who do not attend church."
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Screenshot of the NPlot charting library for .NET. Features a 2D candleplot, filled region, line plot and datetime axis.
Graphing program that hasn't had much development recently, but still relatively powerful. Nice interactive scaling/scrolling features of graphs, making it easy to look at lots of data on one chart! Owing to the age and little popularity for this control, tutorials and help are severely limited.
OxyPlot is a good plotting control when you are using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). It uses portable class libraries (PCL), so the same assembly can be used with WinForms, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Store apps. However, this causes a error message to appear in the visual designer when using the PCL library in a WPF application created with Visual Studio 2012. It still compiles/runs fine, it just prevents the graph from being seen visually at design time. This error is discussed extensively here, and a workaround package OxyPlot.Wpf_NoPCL created.
OxyPlot has the ability to smooth out plot lines automatically, which can be enabled with the following code.
Screenshot of the Telerik charting library for .NET applications. Comes with some very nice skins and tutorials.
Although slightly expensive, this is awesome graph/charting software (and not limited to just graphs either).
Screenshot of the ZedGraph charting library for .NET. One of the most powerful and widely used free charting libraries.
Probably the most powerful and easy-to-use free graphing utility out there if you just want to draw 2D graphs. Fast drawing and not system resource intensive. Supports only Windows Forms, and not WPF. However, you can still use ZedGraph in a WPF application by embedding the ZedGraph in a WindowsFormsHost object in the WPF project. See here for detailed instructions.


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Hinton é uma cidade localizada no estado norte-americano de Virgínia Ocidental, no Condado de Summers.

Demografia
Segundo o censo norte-americano de 2000, a sua população era de 2880 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 2651, um decréscimo de 229 (-8.0%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
7,9 km², dos quais 6,0 km² cobertos por terra e 1,9 km² cobertos por água. Hinton localiza-se a aproximadamente 505 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 24 km ao redor de Hinton.

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Cidades da Virgínia Ocidental


I can never get my fill of diseased-heart visuals. Just in case I didn't find the examination room comfy enough, I'm provided with these vivid images of cut-open organs. On the other wall is a giant blow-up of a gangrenous toe. What am I supposed to do with this information? Am I now supposed to be able to identify gangrenous toes out in public, so that I may direct the owners of same to appropriate medical care? I'll tell you one thing: if I'm ever thrown into a situation where I'm confronted with a butchered human heart, identifying its disease will have to take a back seat to screaming in terror and voiding my bowels.
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Q: Find ascii Byte if Statement not working correctly I am looking at a value on the text changed event of a text box so when we scan with a handheld it looks at it and if the ascii character 9 is at position 7 it should kick out what we want.  However this isn't working and not sure what I'm missing.  I have tried asciiBytes[0] == 0x80 and asciiBytes[0] == "9" neither worked..
protected void poTextBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(poTextBox.Text);

    if (asciiBytes[7] == 0x9)
    {
        string po = poTextBox.Text.Substring(0, 6);
        string item = poTextBox.Text.Substring(9, 15);

        poTextBox.Text = po;
        itemTextBox.Text = item;
    }

}

A: C# arrays are 0-based. So the 7th position of an array would be asciiBytes[6].
And if you want the character ASCII 9, which is the tab character, then compare to 9. If you want the character '9', then compare to '9'.
Also, the use of Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes() is unnecessary and can cause problems here. Code should look something like this:
protected void poTextBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (poTextBox.Text[6] == 9)
    {
        // Etc...
    }
}

A: Was able to do this by programming a tab key on the scanner so it fired the Text Changed event... then used this code:
if (poTextBox.Text.Substring(7, 1) == "\t")
    {
        string po = poTextBox.Text.Substring(0, 6);
        string item = poTextBox.Text.Substring(8);

        poTextBox.Text = po;
        itemTextBox.Text = item;
    }


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Definition of Racing. Meaning of Racing. Synonyms of Racing
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Race Race, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raced; p. pr. & vb. n. Racing.] 1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port. 2. (Steam Mach.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
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The Exhibition is open to artists working in 2D only, (painting, drawing, photography, printmaking etc.) and all pieces must not excede 92cm.x 92cm. (framed). The size limitation is primarily to facillitate hanging the show and to allow us to exhibit as representative a selection as possible from the submissions received.
It has long been our intention to establish an "open submission" exhibition in Signal and that it should become an annual event in artists' calendars.


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KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Stocks came under pressure since the beginning of the trading session on Thursday. Consequently, the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index shed almost 9 points by noon. Nonetheless, stocks recouped some of its losses in the remaining trading hours to end slightly lower. The Nepse index closed at 1,255.07 points – a drop of 3.74 points -- compared to Wednesday.
The meager movement witnessed in the bourse of late indicates the market trying to consolidate following the recent rally. Market participation improved in the last trading of the week as a total turnover of Rs 555 million was recorded in the exchange. The index trying to stabilize suggests that investors have remained upbeat despite profit booking experienced in some of the trading sessions in the past weeks.
Majority of the market sectors struggled on the day. Sub-indices of only Hotels, Development Banks and 'Others' sub-groups ended the day higher. Significant weakness was visible among Non-life Insurance stocks as the segment's sub-index tumbled 1.75 percent. Life Insurance scrips followed suit as the group's sub-index went down by 1.39 percent. Further, Hydropower, Microfinance and Manufacturing & Processing sub-indices fell 0.54 percent, 0.33 percent and 0.24 percent, respectively. Trading sub-index remained unchanged on the day.
Sanima Mai Hydropower Ltd led the list of active stocks on Wednesday, recording a turnover of over Rs 74 million. The energy sector company has not distributed any dividend till date. However, the sudden increase in its trading indicates investors' optimism toward the possibility of a dividend payout this year. Shares of NIC Asia Bank Ltd were also actively traded on the day. Shares worth Rs 420 million of the commercial bank changed hands on the last trading day of the week. Further, other commercial bank scrips including NMB Bank Ltd, Prabhu Bank Ltd and Nepal Bank Ltd remained active on Thursday.
Global IME Sammunat Scheme-1 turned in the best performance on Thursday as its unit price rallied to hit the upper circuit of 10 percent. Share price of NIC Asia Bank Ltd also jumped 3.93 percent to a 12-month high of Rs 421. Similarly, Deva Bikas Bank Ltd added 3.68 percent on its share price. Likewise, shares of Central Finance Company Ltd, Chhyangdi Hydropower Ltd and Kankai Bikas Bank Ltd rose over 3 percent each.
On the contrary, Synergy Power Development Ltd declined the most as it lost 5.88 percent on its share price. Himalayan Power Partner Ltd's stocks also dropped 4.81 percent on the day. Next on the list was United Finance Ltd which saw its share price drop 4.76 percent after the company declared 5 percent cash dividend to its shareholders. Meanwhile, share prices of Arun valley Hydropower Development Company Ltd and Sanima Equity Fund depreciated by over 4 percent each.
Among the companies announcing dividends, Miteri Development bank Ltd has announced 17 percent bonus shares to its shareholders. The decision, however, is yet to be approved by the development bank's annual general meeting (AGM).
ARKS technical analysis indicates the market entering short-term consolidation with modest movements lately. Relative Strength Index (RSI) has tilted downward after hitting the oversold zone following the day's drop. Meanwhile, Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is trending firmly in the positive territory suggesting that short-term uptrend still in action. The market's immediate resistance rests at 1,270-point level, the breakout of which might see the index climbing further to 1,370 points.