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The Bahamas: A Welcome Home for Businesses and Families
December 15, 2009By @BahamasFSBBFSB News, Industry News, Newsletter
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The Bahamas' reputation as an idyllic refuge for those seeking luxury homes, private islands or a relaxing holiday is well known throughout the world, but the island chain, located just off the coast of Florida, also offers unparalleled opportunities to mix business and pleasure.
In addition to the advantages of great weather, The Bahamas provides an excellent business environment for advisors and their clients. Alternatively, it has many attractive features for those who may wish to relocate permanently or have a second home. So while the benefits of a Bahamas trust, foundation or SMART Fund may point one in the direction of The Bahamas, it is often the personal and lifestyle aspects that may actually convince an advisor or a client of the wisdom of this selection.
##Living and Working in The Bahamas##
It is easy to enter or live and work in The Bahamas. While The Bahamas does not sell passports, the Government maintains a flexible immigration policy suited to the needs of international firms, individuals and families.
##Work Permits##
As a developing country, The Bahamas seeks to provide increased employment opportunities for Bahamians and to employ school and university graduates in increasingly diverse economic sectors. At the same time the Government welcomes non-Bahamians with specialised skills and expertise which are not otherwise locally available. Normally, such persons will be involved in business enterprises which create employment opportunities for Bahamians, such as the financial services industry.
The cost of a Work Permit varies from $350.00 for a farm worker to $12,500 for a senior professional person. Work Permits are usually granted for one year in the first instance for lower skilled works and for periods up to three years for senior personnel.
##Permanent Residence##
Permanent Residence bestows a statutory right to reside in The Bahamas and, as such, allows the holder to pass freely through Immigration hassle free. Persons with permanent residence are for all intents and purposes treated like Bahamians except for the right to vote. There is no physical requirement that you need to be in The Bahamas a minimum or maximum number of days, and spouses and children may be endorsed on the permit which attracts a one time government fee of $10,000.00. Acceleration of the permanent residence application is also available for persons who spend a minimum of $500,000 on a residence.
Permanent residents also have a "right to work" in their own business. The right to work in one's own business is utilized often by the individual with a family office or who simply wants to manage investments or a business that doesn't interact with the Bahamian economy.
There is also a category known as "annual residence" which, as the name suggests, is renewed annually. There is also the ability to apply for a "homeowners resident card", a final category that, while not conferring any of the privileges of a permanent resident, does assist the holder to move freely through Immigration at any port of entry.
Individuals can also bring in their own personal assistants or household staff subject to the clearance of the Director of Immigration and the issuance of a work permit.
##Education##
Educational facilities always are a big concern to families that are looking at a new location. The Bahamas has a number of excellent private schools in New Providence and Freeport, some of which have been internationally accredited by ECIS and NAIS, the two bodies that accredit the leading European and North American schools. In the past years Bahamian students have consistently ranked with some of the best results and routinely matriculate on to the best universities in the United States (US), Canada and Europe. This environment is founded on the commitment by The Bahamas to the development of its human resources. A sizeable portion of the National Budget is allocated to education.
##Medical Facilities##
There are two major hospitals in New Providence and one in Grand Bahama with United States, European and University of the West Indies trained doctors on staff. With ready access to air ambulance services, residents are also within 45 minutes from some of the best medical facilities in Florida.
##Access##
Commercial airlines offer direct daily flights from London – and scheduled flights from Paris and Düsseldorf. From North America there are daily and frequent flights to Miami, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston and many other US cities and Toronto.
There is also an excellent private FBO in New Providence, catering to those who travel by private jet with all of the usual supporting amenities. In total The Bahamas has 14 international airports located in New Providence, Grand Bahama Island and a number of Family Islands.
The Bahamas also has a large number of marinas able to accommodate mega yachts and numerous ports of entry.
##Taxation##
There is no distinction between Bahamians and non-Bahamians, creating an environment in which international persons receive the same benefits that Bahamians do. This includes:
•	The Bahamas commitment to a tax neutral platform in which there are no income, capital gains and inheritance taxes;
•	No stamp duty on security transactions;
•	A 10 per cent Government stamp tax at the purchase of a new home;
•	Attractive real property tax rates; and,
•	A modest monthly national insurance payment of less than $200 for employees.
##Housing and Second Home Development ##
Second home ownership is one of the fastest growing sectors in the real estate industry. Development companies are strengthening their position in the tourism market by developing communities for the second-home market in key tourist destinations – where higher standards of service and a people-friendly culture combined with comfortable climates already exist.
The magic of gated, waterfront communities packed with lifestyle amenities from golf and tennis to marinas is attracting more and more second and third-home buyers from North and South America, Europe and the Far East. From Nassau and Paradise Island, and Grand Bahama to private islands, from grand estates to hideaways on once-slumbering Family islands, the choices are plentiful and prices range from under $100,000 to multi-millions, with one island recently changing hands at more than $45 million.
One of the newest and most popular investment vehicles is the condotel, a condominium or single family residence that converts into fully-furnished, upscale accommodations, managed by a resort company and rented when not owner occupied to earn revenue for the investor, and provide an alternative to the traditional hotel for visitors. Such offerings are available on Paradise Island and on several Family Islands, including Exuma and Eleuthera.
In The Bahamas, there are many conveyancing attorneys who are skilled in property transactions of all kinds. It is not difficult to purchase in The Bahamas although clients will have to comply with the regulations of the Bahamas Government to "know the customer", and investor prior approval is required in some cases (the standard closing time on most transactions is 90 days).
The Bahamas is a service economy accustomed to providing concierge residential management services for homeowners who are not in residence.
It is also worth noting that most high-end residential developments provide full clubs membership with all of the usual golf course, tennis and water sports amenities.
##Financial Services##
Full banking services are available with global currency capability, structured products and personalized service. The country's wide range of companies and advisory services have established The Bahamas as an ideal domicile for the management of personal wealth for both individuals and families. There is also a comprehensive array of opportunities to plan, protect and transfer wealth through trusts, including purpose trusts, foundations, investment funds, particularly the SMART© fund, companies and partnerships.
##An Established, Progressive and Welcoming home for Investors##
In the global marketplace, The Bahamas is also well positioned with its location at the crossroads of the Americas and its traditional ties to Europe to facilitate investment into major centres. A half hour flight from South Florida, The Bahamas has English as its official language, currency that is on a par with the US dollar, a stable government and reliable infrastructure.
Most importantly, investors will find a warm welcome when they come to The Bahamas as the country is committed to creating an environment that is attractive to business and the enjoyment of life.
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Stephen Coakley-Wells
Stephen is a financial sector expert with broad international legal and financial services expertise that includes: Financial Sector Regulatory Compliance, Private Wealth Management , Capital Markets and Securities, Trusts & Estate Planning, Cryptocurrencies/Fintech, Risk and Crisis Management and AML/CFT/ABC.
As a consultant to the Ministry of Finance of The Bahamas, he is an adviser to the Minister of Finance and the Financial Secretary on regulatory and international affairs and is the Director of Regulatory and International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. In this capacity, he is responsible for formulating and executing the financial sector's strategic priorities and overseeing negotiations with multilateral organizations and governments.
Stephen is a former Deputy Executive Director of The Securities Commission of The Bahamas and has held executive positions at blue chip financial institutions in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, he is a recognized thought leader on financial sector integrity, tax policy and regulatory compliance and has been a consultant on financial sector policy for governments, NGOs and institutions in Brazil, The Bahamas, Argentina, Uruguay, Bermuda and Cayman Islands.
Francesco Vanacore
Francesco Vanacore has been working for more than 20 years in the areas of international tax planning, family office, family governance and related regulatory issues. He focuses on the advisor of international families in relation to their comprehensive wealth planning needs. He is a STEP member with the LLM in International Tax Law at the University of Zurich.
After more than 20 years of experience and very senior management positions at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and Credit Suisse in Zurich where he was board member of Credit Suisse Trust, he joined in November 2017 Ansbacher (Bahamas) Limited where he is responsible for the Fiduciary and Wealth Planning Department. One of the major reason for his move to The Bahamas is the possibility to exploit the enormous business opportunities out of The Bahamas.
Antoine Bastian
Antoine Bastian earned his B.Sc. in Accounting from Indiana University in 1989 and qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in 1993. He began his career in 1990 with Deloitte & Touche LLP. From 1993 to 1995, he was a Mutual Fund Administrator with MeesPierson Fund Service (formerly Fund Service International, Limited). Subsequently, he
managed St. Matthew Investment Fund Accounting Limited., a Bahamian fund administrator that was associated with Michael J. Liccar & Co., CPAs of Chicago, Illinois.
In 1999, he joined The Private Trust Corporation Limited as Manager of the Mutual Fund Department and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2001. In September 2002, Mr. Bastian was appointed as Managing Director of Genesis Fund Services Limited, a licensed Investment Fund Administrator. Mr. Bastian is a Founding Member of the Bahamas Association of Investment Fund Administrators and works actively with the development and promotion of fund administration.
Aliya Allen
Aliya Allen re-joined the law firm of Graham Thompson as a partner in February 2016. She returned to the firm after four years as the CEO and Executive Director of the Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB). In that position she provided industry leadership in the development of the Investment Condominium (ICON) legislation. And similarly led the Graham Thompson team of technical advisors to the Bahamas Securities Commission in the revision of the Investment Fund Act.
Her practice areas include banking law, investment funds, securities law, trusts and estate planning and structuring, securitisation and capital markets. She began her career at Graham Thompson in 2007, leaving in 2012 to take up the leadership at the BFSB. She has worked as counsel, to the Office of the Attorney General with focus in international cooperation and civil matters. Aliya Allen has been recognised by the prominent London-based Chambers and Partners as a leader in her field, and Citywealth Leaders List as one of IFC Top 200 Powerwomen.
Brian Jones is the Managing Director of LENO Corporate Services Ltd. Brian is responsible for fund administration, pensions and corporate services. He also serves as a member of Leno's investment management committee as the firm broadens and deepens the scope of its products and services. Brian has over fifteen years of experience in investment funds, corporate governance and financial services. Previously he served as President and Managing Director of Deltec Fund Services Limited. He has also held other senior level positions throughout his career in financial services including President, Director and Manager at internationally reputable firms and industry organizations.
Brian holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics (HONS), from St. John's University in Minnesota. With a strong belief in continuous professional development, amongst his many accolades, Brian is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). Brian is a Director and Treasurer of the Bahamas Financial Services Board and has been acting in this capacity since2012. Brian is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of the Bahamas where he chairs the Investment and Finance Committee.
Linda Beidler-D'Aguilar
Linda Beidler-D'Aguilar joined Glinton Sweeting O'Brien as a partner in July 2015. In her practice she specializes in the structuring and creation of vehicles (including investment funds) for multinational institutional clients as well as private clients; she also advises on corporate transactions, securities law (including public and private offerings) as well as general commercial matters.
Linda graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, and received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. She was called to the bar of the State of Illinois in 1988. After working in a top tier Chicago firm and at Kelley Drye & Warren's Washington D.C. office, she moved to The Bahamas in 1991. Linda was employed by two major trust companies before she was recruited to serve as in-house intellectual property counsel to Bacardi & Company Limited; she returned to private practice in 2003.
Linda served as a Director of the Bahamas Financial Services Board from 2010 to 2014, and continues to be active in BFSB's regulatory, legislative and product development initiatives. She speaks regularly at BFSB events including the 2014 and 2016 IBFS conferences, the 2014 and 2015 Bahamas Landfall events in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and the 2013 Bahamas Landfall event in London, as well as other financial services industry events including the 2017 Private Wealth Latin America Forum, 2015 Private Wealth Brazil Forum and the Third Annual Caribbean Conference on the International Financial Services Sector. She's written articles for magazines including BFSB's Gateway, the IFC Review and LatAm Fund Manager, as well as informational and promotional pieces for BFSB. She was a member of BFSB's ICON Working Group that received the Development and Promotion Award in 2014; in 2016 she received BFSB's Minister's Award for services to the financial services industry.
Linda is actively involved in the education of persons throughout the financial services sector to ensure that participants are up to date and familiar with new legislation, and have the necessary information to perform efficiently and effectively. She has assisted the Bahamas Financial Services Board with training and educational programs for industry as well as public sector employees; independently she has presented to the Securities Commission and Central Bank.
Linda is a non-executive member of the board of directors of Clairmont Trust Company Limited.


In the footsteps of Joseph Rock 重走洛克路: The road to the roof of the world: from China to Tibet.
The road to the roof of the world: from China to Tibet.
Zheduo Shan, originally uploaded by jiulong.
This is Zheduo Shan, the 4200 metre pass between Kangding and Litang. Below, where the cloud is, lies Kangding and beyond it the plains of Sichuan. So this, in effect is where the eastern Himalayas give way to the lowlands of China. From here on it is the highlands of Tibet. I took this picture on the way from Kangding to Jiulong.


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Negotiate with China for zero-duty: CITI tells Centre
04 Aug '18
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To put a break on India's widening trade deficit with China, the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has urged the Union government to push negotiations with its northern neighbour to give duty free access to Indian cotton textiles. With zero-duty access, India can double its textile exports and also reduce its trade deficit with China.
In 2017-18, India's bilateral trade with China was $89.6 billion, and trade deficit was $62.9 billion—much higher than $51.1 billion deficit in 2016-17. In terms of textile trade, India exported $1.362 billion worth of goods to China in 2017-18, while it imported items valued at $2.905 billion, resulting in trade deficit of $1.543 billion.
During 2010-11 to 2013-14, India was a net exporter of textile and apparel products to China. However, after that India's trade deficit with China is constantly increasing, said CITI chairman Sanjay Jain.
To put a break on India's widening trade deficit with China, the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has urged the Union government to push negotiations with its northern neighbour to give duty free access to Indian cotton textiles. With zero-duty access, India can double its textile exports and also reduce its trade deficit with China.#
"India was a market leader in cotton yarn but lost almost 50 per cent of its market to Vietnam over the last 3 years, creating excess capacity in the system. India's cotton yarn exports to China has decreased by 53 per cent from 2013 to 2017 while Vietnam's exports of cotton yarn to China has increased by approximately 88 per cent during the same period," Jain said in a press release.
Another reason for India's widening trade deficit is that its competing countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Cambodia enjoy duty free access to the Chinese market while Indian products carry 3.5 per cent, 10 per cent and 14 per cent duty on yarn, fabric and madeups, respectively.
Moreover, the profit margins in the cotton textiles industry are very thin, in single digit only. "Therefore, the industry is very sensitive to even small changes. Hence, if level playing field is given to India like its competitors, it can double its exports plus help in reducing trade deficit with China," Jain said. (RKS)
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Q: Multiple Counters on algorithm I'm using the algorithm package and want to number two types of algorithms with separate counters.
I would like to know, what you think about my following code
Are there any mistakes? Could something be done better?
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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{caption}

\newcounter{typeACounter}
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A: What you have done is fine as it works. I don't like code duplication so I would do this by defining only one environment that takes the type, A or B, as an argument. The latex counters are quite flexible so that something like \value{type#1Counter} will work.
Secondly, rather than writing \begin{algorithm}...\end{algorithm} inside your environment I would just use \algorithm...\endalgorithm. The two are almost the same except that that the first version puts everything inside its' own group, which isn't really necessary here because your environment starts its own group.
Finally, I'd add some %'s at the ends of the lines to avoid the environment accidentally adding extra space. They are probably not necessary but I'm lazy and don't want to keep track of when spaces matter and when they don't.
Here's an updated version of your code with these changes. The output is the same.
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{caption}

\newcounter{typeACounter}
\newcounter{typeBCounter}

\renewcommand\labelenumi{\bfseries\theenumi.}
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{ \setcounter{algorithm}{\value{type#1Counter}}%
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  \algorithm[H]%
  \caption{#2}%
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  \else\let\myending\relax%
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The \ifxA#1\relax test is there to insert the \STATE and \enumerate environment if we are in type A. It also sets \myending to be \endenumerate in this case and \relax otherwise, which is TeX's way of doing nothing.
Oh, and I moved the \renewcommand\labelenumi out of the environment definition.

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The Best Ultralight Backpacking Tents we Could Imagine: Alto and Telos
In our 30 years of designing and testing camping gear, we've spent countless hours in ultralight backpacking tents. And we've seen them change a lot over that time.
Backpacking tents seem to get lighter and lighter every year - but not necessarily better. Of course, the phrase ultralight backpacking tent is like music to a hiker's ears (including ours). But should comfort, versatility and quality be sacrificed for a few grams?
In our true gear geek nature, we've spent countless nights staring at tent ceilings, thinking about what is and isn't good about the ultralight backpacking tents we use.
Though there are a lot of backpacking tents out there, we knew from our own experiences that there was a lot of room for improvement. So about three years ago, we set ourselves a challenge: To design the best ultralight backpacking tents we could imagine.
To do that, we looked at the good, the bad and the ugly of the best ultralight tents on the market. We pored over every little detail. We had about a million conversations amongst ourselves and with our customers. And, in the end, we knew what areas we wanted to focus on - space, ventilation and versatility.
CREATING A SPACIOUS, ULTRALIGHT TENT
Don't get us wrong, ultralight tents are popular for a good reason—the longer your journey the heavier your pack becomes. However, as tentmakers race to the bottom of the scale, tents have gotten smaller and smaller—with less and less functionality too.
If you've ever wound up in a two person backpacking tent that isn't really meant for two people (perfect if you and your camping buddy want to spoon), then you'll know what we're talking about. Tent designers have been sacrificing usable space to get a lighter product. It's happened so incrementally that you would have barely noticed the walls and ceiling closing in on you until you got a face full of fabric.
To make tents lighter, usually head height is sacrificed across the width of the tent. When you sit up in a tent like this, you end up craning your neck into the apex. That might be manageable when you have a tent to yourself, but it really cramps your style when you're sharing.
Another space issue? The sharp angle of the tent walls. You know when your head gets smooshed into the side of the tent because of the borderline—aggressive slide? We don't love that because a) who wants a smooshed face? And b) touching the tent mesh with your face lets condensation in. You really don't want that.
Tents are breeding grounds for condensation. They can get hot and stuffy when camping in summer and damp when camping in winter. To cut out condensation—and drips on your forehead in the middle of the night—you need good ventilation. Yet most ultralight backpacking tents have vents placed right down the bottom. Given that hot air rises, that doesn't make any sense. It seemed obvious to us that the vents should be at the top of a tent. That way, warm, moist air can actually escape.
So we decided our ultralight backpacking tent needed to have more space and better ventilation.
The golden rule of the wild is expect the unexpected.
We've all been in the situation where you get to camp and it starts pouring. Wouldn't it be great to have somewhere sheltered where you can all hang out, play cards and have some snacks together? Tiny ultralight backpacking tents don't allow such frivolity—instead, you have to hide away in your separate tents.
You can't always take advantage of the weather either—can't sleep under the stars on a warm, clear night or make the most of an unexpected breeze. We wanted to design a tent with multiple setups so you can make the most of your surroundings.
It's not surprising that these details weren't at the forefront of most designer's minds—it's not life or death. But they can make your camping trips infinitely more comfortable and enjoyable.
INTRODUCING OUR ALTO AND TELOS TENTS
To achieve everything we wanted to achieve with our tents, we collaborated with designer Jake Lah, the father of modern tent architecture, to design the Alto and Telos—the best ultralight backpacking tents we could imagine.
Also at the helm of his own 30-year-old design and manufacturing company, DAC, Jake had saved some of his best ideas for this collaboration.
"It was a true partnership—which is unique," said our Head Designer and Owner, Roland Tyson. "Jake had lots of design ideas that he had been waiting to share with the right design company—he hasn't done that with anyone else."
This game changing technology was the Tension Ridge.
TENSION RIDGE TECHNOLOGY IN ULTRALIGHT BACKPACKING TENTS
The Tension Ridge raises the bar for ultralight backpacking tents—both literally and figuratively. This antenna-like structure angles up to create more space and raise the ceiling height without sacrificing lightness.
With Tension Ridge, it's easier to sit up, get changed, stretch and get in and out of the tent (especially if you're tall. And thanks to the taller doors, you get better views outside!
With a higher ceiling, our tents' walls are near-vertical rather than aggressively tapered like a lot of other ultralight backpacking tents out there. That also means there's more room for thicker (read: comfier) pillows and sleeping mats—and you'll never squash your face into the tent wall and let in condensation.
The new technology also allowed us to implement a truly—effective venting system—creating a climate-controlled tent.
"The Tension Ridge gives the opportunity to put the vents in a higher spot," said Roland. "No one has ever done that before, even though it's the most obvious thing to do."
By placing the vents up high, we've improved the ventilation of our tents by 60% compared to other leading tents in this class. When you have better airflow, you get less condensation and humidity than other tents - 31% less humidity to be more precise. No more stifling heat in your tent in summer. And no dripping ceilings.
Finally, we made our tents super adaptable. You don't want to go outdoors to be stuck in a nylon cell. Our ultralight tents help bring the outside in (when you want to). The Telos has a whole smorgasbord of setup modes for different weather. You can choose a set-up of inner only, fly + inner, partial fly, or fly only.
The range of setups improves the social factor of camping too. We don't always go outdoors to be alone. Sometimes we just want to spend some quality time with our mates.
"My personal favorite feature is the Hangout Mode," said Roland. "I see that being so useful when you're camping when it's raining. Everyone has to set up their tent and go and hide away. With the Hangout Mode, you've got a social way to go camping."
ULTRALIGHT BACKPACKING TENTS DESIGNED DOWN TO THE DETAILS
We'll let you in on a little secret: We actually got our first sample tents a few years ago. Even though we felt like we'd pretty much achieved everything we wanted to achieve, we knew 'pretty much' wasn't enough.
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August 9, 2021 at 10:41am
Thomas: sorry for the loss of your spouse! "sorry" is not a great word for the grief you have, the pain you suffer, and the change in your plan.
Find like-minded folks; try to enjoy your life. Read. Engage, No, it will never be the same; you have no choice, you have to go on. You already have a great outlet: hiking. Get a mutt, (emphasis on "mutt" ) train him/her to walk beside you on a leash and carry a weighted pack. Read how best to train your mutt for the trail. Get your canine pal some bootie and a leash light. Train. The two of you will be a hiking machine in just a few months. The dog is a perfect companion for your grief. keeps you busy, and you can plan where to go. PS: get a two person ultralight; the mutt needs to be inside with you on your sleeping bag/pad.
Baz says:
G'Day Eric
Thanks for your question and suggestion.
You can pitch an Alto or Telos in bad weather as follows:
1.	Connect the poleset together
2.	Stretch the rainfly over the poleset
3.	Clip the corners of the rainfly to the base of the poles using the 'C'-shaped aluminum foot connector. Attach the Tension Ridge to the rainfly using the Hypalon pockets. The rainfly will now stand by itself, although in strong winds, you should stake out the corners to prevent the tent from blowing away
4.	Unzip one of the doors of the rainfly and connect the rainfly to the poleset using the velcros
5.	While under the rainfly, stretch the inner tent out so it is correctly aligned with the poleset, then clip the inner tent to the poles
6.	Clip the 'C' shaped connector to the aluminum pole feet
7.	Stake/guy out the tent as needed
Voilà! The tent is pitched and the inner is still dry.
As to a nylon inner tent, we offer the Plus versions of the Alto and Telos which have this type of construction.
Cheers, The Sea to Summit team
Eric B. says:
1.) HOW would I set this tent up in a driving rain without getting the inner tent soaked before I got the fly on it??
2.) suggestion: make the lower 2/3 of the inner tent of very light nylon (Tarptent did it in their Notch Li) This keeps out blowing dust which is very nasty in a tent. (Don't ask…)
Thomas Lessard says:
My wife and I had always planned on doing some longer excursions. From the Appalachian trail to easy single night hiking trips, we shared an amazing love for the outdoors. It was always our dream to go ultralight with our gear.
This past March my wife was in a car accident and passed away. I lost all of my passion and love for the outdoors. Neither beautiful nor dreary days are appealing to me anymore.
I purchased your one person ultralight tent in hopes of getting some kind joy back in my life.
Your product seems promising and at very least so far, has at least got me thinking about going back outside. I'll be doing it alone now… here's hoping your tent will help me. I'm putting a lot of faith into your company.


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After much delay, let me finally welcome you to India Uncut!
Phew. The Blogspot version of India Uncut had a hard-to-achieve Pagerank of 7, which will no doubt take some time to reach on the new site. Also, I have no idea how this will impact my top position on the Blogstreet charts. But I'm excited, and I hope you like this development. If you're reading this on your RSS feed, please do visit the new site and check it out. Do add me to your blogroll or update the existing link—I need to prepare a blogroll for my site as well, which is one of the pendings tasks I have. This site will be in Beta for a while, and we'll still be adding stuff to it.
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North African gerbil
Dipodillus campestris
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Dipodillus
D. campestris
(Loche, 1867)
Gerbillus campestris (Loche, 1867)
quadrimaculatus (Lataste, 1882)
The North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in North Africa where its natural habitats are arable land and rocky areas of the Maghreb, and hot Saharan deserts.
2 Distribution and habitat
4 Status
The North African gerbil has long soft fur and a relatively long tail. The dorsal fur is cinnamon to orange-brown. Each hair has a grey base, a sandy or golden-brown terminal section and often a black tip. The cheeks and throat are white and there is sometimes a dark stripe on the nose. The underparts are white, with a clear division between the dorsal and ventral colours. The legs and feet are white and the soles of the feet are bare. The tail is about 40% of the length of the head-and-body, and is bicoloured, golden-brown above and white below. The tip of the tail forms a pencil, a tuft of longer hair.[2]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The North African gerbil is found in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, and possibly Chad and Mauritania.[1] Its habitat varies across its range, but in general it favours habitats with rocks and vegetation rather than sand.[2]
Ecology[edit]
The North African gerbil lives in a burrow that it digs and is a terrestrial and nocturnal mammal. The timing of breeding depends on location, but in Egypt coincides with the winter rains, and in North Sudan follows the short wet season in September to November. The litter size is about five. The diet of this rodent has not been studied.[2]
Status[edit]
The North African gerbil is a common species that flourishes in a range of different environments and in some locations, such as in Morocco, it is reckoned to be an agricultural pest species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the conservation status of this rodent as being of "least concern".[1]
^ a b c Granjon, L.; Amori, G.; Hutterer, R.; Kryštufek, B.; Yigit, N.; Mitsain, G.; Palomo, L.J.; Aulagnier, S (2008). "Gerbillus campestris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
^ a b c Jonathan Kingdon; David Happold; Thomas Butynski; Michael Hoffmann; Meredith Happold; Jan Kalina (2013). Mammals of Africa. A&C Black. pp. 302–303. ISBN 978-1-4081-8996-2.
Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1214. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Wikidata: Q1769770
ADW: Dipodillus_campestris
ARKive: gerbillus-campestris
MSW: 13001061
NCBI: 41199
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_African_gerbil&oldid=883647619"
Dipodillus
Fauna of the Sahara
Rodents of North Africa
Mammals of Chad
Mammals of the Middle East
Mammals of West Africa
Mammals of Sudan
Mammals of North Africa
Mammals described in 1867
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot


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Q: How to create multiple views in a web Application based on different logins? I want to create a web Application which will have different views based on different logins. Example if a manager logins into the web application, he should see the page differently from a normal trainee Login.
I have tried searching on google for solutions but its not helping me to solve my problem.

A: After getting response from server after user login, you will know type of user like Manager, trainee, guest, based on user type you can simply route user to the designated home page after login is successful.
To get the data from backend you can read read this article.


From outside of the class, according to class user demand, automatically creating any property or method (Which has not been define before) in class is called Overloading. We can also tell that, Overloading is a process of how to automatically create a property and method according to class user demand.
From outside of the class, according to class user demand, automatically creating any property (Which has not been define before) in class is called Property Overloading. We can also call Property Overloading as a way to automatically create property according to class user demand.
At property overloading, we set the value to the overloaded property with the __set() function, Get the value of Overloaded property with the __get() function, With the __unset() function, we set the value of the overloaded property to empty from the outside of the class and check the value of the Overloaded property with the __isset() function from outside of the class.
What is the job of __set() and __get() functions for Overload property?
The __set() function is used to create a new property from the outside of the class. And value can be set on the property created. The value of the overloaded property with the __get() function can be obtained from the outside of the class.
Explanation: First we create a property $a with __set() function (which was not defined in our class),also we set a value for $a. At the same time, keep a property name and its value in a private array property named $data. Then, with the __get() function, we get the value of the $a property from $data array property.
What is the act of the __isset() function to overload the property?
When an overloaded property is checked with the isset() function from the outside of class, Then the __isset () function is automatically executes in class. And allows you to check whether there is a value of overloaded property.
// Checking Property Value is set?
Explanation: Notice, at line number 35 and 36 with function isset(), we have checked that is there any value in the two unknown property in the class, And with the isset () function call, the __isset () function is automatically executed on line 21 in our class. Checks whether the overloaded property has value.
What is the act of the __unset() function to overload the property?
When an overloaded property is checked with the unset () function from the outside of class, Then the __unset() function is automatically executes in class. And allows the value of the overloaded property to be unset.
Explanation: Notice, we have call unset() function at line number 42 to unset the value of a unknown property, With the unset ()function call, the __unset() function is automatically executed on line number 28 in our class. Unset the value of the overloaded property.
From outside of the class, according to class user demand, automatically creating any method (Which has not been define before) in class is called Property Overloading. We can also call Method Overloading as a way to automatically create method according to class user demand.
echo "Calling object method '$name' "
echo "Calling static method '$name' "


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I planned to appear for Tamil Nadu common entrance test for post graduate engineering admissions. I applied and got the hall ticket ten days before the exam. I had applied for the Andhra Pradesh post graduate test also to increase the possibility of getting a seat. I checked with the train ticket availability as I needed to reach Vellore to attend test, as usual the website showed huge number of waiting list. I thought of booking for Tatkal tickets which can be done only two days before the journey. After two days completing the class, checked for tatkal tickets, again there was waiting list and with a hope it will confirm I booked and it was in waiting list. I waited till chart preparation but it doesn't get confirmed. By this time I had no option other than travelling by bus so packed with the luggage and at the same time it started to thunder and rain heavily. I got confused whether to travel or not, as I had two days time and I can start next day.
Thinking over a long time decided to take up bus and went as the rain was almost stopped and started to drizzle. Took the bus and reached Shimoga half an hour late than scheduled time as water had overflowed on roads and blocked roads making unfit for travelling. Reaching Shimoga, crossed the road to take Government bus to Bangalore. Got into the bus and gave a call to home to inform my parents about me reaching to Shimoga and getting into bus. Disconnecting the call I was planning roughly what to do once I reach Bangalore, calculating all these didn't know when I got sleep and woke up only at capital city of Karnataka!


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NRSC Club History & Future
North Rocks Park Centenary 1899-1999 (Part 1 of 2)
Club Foundation - The First 50 Years
Founded in 1965, North Rocks Soccer Club was born out of discussions between the then Principal of the North Rocks Public School, Bob Burns, and interested parents. Jock Scougall was the inaugural President and for the first couple of years games were played at the school grounds.
It is sometimes said that "You never really own a precious item…you can only ever expect to look after it for future generations" and this applies perfectly to the North Rocks Soccer Club. As is the norm, Mums and Dads become team managers and coaches of the teams that their children join and some of them go a bit further and join the management of the club. As many have discovered personally, involvement with NRSC is infectious and, once bitten, it is very hard to get it out of your system, if indeed you wish to get it out.
The club prides itself on its family club image and, as one of the largest clubs in our Association, we are well positioned to cater for both boys and girls, mens and ladies teams from age groups under 6 to over 35's and over 45's. NRSC also leads the way with our very successful "Rockerballers" program for children with special needs.
We live by our motto "Play Hard, Play Fair" and expect nothing less from our members, whether they are playing on the fields, coaching from the sidelines or representing the Club in the community.
North Rocks Soccer Club celebrated 50 years in season 2015, with various 50th anniversary events organised throughout the year to celebrate the milestone. Several significant functions provided both formal and casual ways of ensuring that past and present members kept in touch. As it turned out, 2015 was also to be our final season affiliated with Granville Districts Soccer Football Association (GDSFA) after half a century.
Club Direction - 2016 & Beyond
After decades of discussion and a couple of failed attempts, 2016 saw the birth of the new Sydney Hills Football Association (SHFA) and NRSC was thrilled to be a Foundation club. SHFA was an unsanctioned competition, however near record numbers playing for the club and over 7000 players playing within the association made it a roaring success.
So much so that, after only a single unsanctioned season, FNSW created the fully sanctioned Hills Football Incorporated (HFI) in September 2016. It was then announced that NRSC had been accepted as one of the Foundation clubs for this exciting new Association which has also proven to be a great success from Day 1.
With the end of an era coming to a close and the beginning of a new one, NRSC updated its Club logo in 2016 to a more modern version of the Roc bird, a middle eastern mthyological bird similar to the phoenix or thunderbird.
North Rocks Park Precinct
In late 2018 NRSC was the lucky recipient of a $20,000 Football NSW "Light Up Football" grant and our long-held desire for the lighting at North Rocks Park to be upgraded to 100 LUX suddenly became a reality. The work was completed relatively quickly & the Club hosted an official "Lights On Celebration" on 2 August 2019 at North Rocks Park to thank all stakeholders involved in this special community project. We look forward to playing night games at our spiritual home for the first time ever!
During the 2020 decade and beyond, NRSC will need to balance the growing numbers of participants in our sport and population growth of the local community, with field availability in the area. Last year, Parramatta City Council released a masterplan for the North Rocks Park precinct (see https://www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/recreation-environment/our-parks/park-and-reserve-masterplans/north-rocks-park-precinct-masterplan) however it is unknown when this work will commence or how the current playing fields will be impacted / improved.
Nevertheless, there are exciting times ahead for our Club so stay tuned!!


Has Amazon hit the jackpot with their new action thriller in the form of the iconic Tom Clancy character?
Every year the bloated, super rich film and television industry pumps out a few action thrillers shows full of big explosions, intense fist fights, and game changing plot twists. These shows are so common in today's age that they often get lumped into the same pile and few rise above the pack. The last spy action thriller to prove itself was Homeland. But now, Amazon might have a show to rival some of the best action shows in recent memory, and it comes in the form of Jack Ryan.
Tom Clancy's iconic C.I.A. analyst hit the small screen for the first time on Aug. 31. The "American James Bond," as he is sometimes called, has appeared in five Hollywood films since 1990, and has been portrayed by such greats as Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford. The new Jack Ryan show boasts a new actor, John Krasinski. Krasinski makes his first appearance on T.V. since his role as Jim on The Office. He was offered the role of Jack Ryan mostly because of his performance in Michael Bay's 13 Hours, where Krasinski played a similar character.
The story follows Ryan when he stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers that pulls him from the safety of his desk job and thrusts him into a dangerous cat and mouse game across Europe and the Middle East with a rising terrorist leader who is planning a devastating attack against the U.S. and its allies. Along the way, Ryan negotiates a new boss, James Greer, and a new girlfriend, Cathy Mueller, who are also characters from the Tom Clancy books.
Things that were good: As far as action and drama goes, the show does very well, with increasingly dangerous missions and events as the season goes on that culminate in a pulse pounding climax. The show also brings a unique view, by following the main terrorist and developing his character so viewers can see how a young boy from Syria is changed and turned into a radical. The big thing that the show succeeds at is realism. The locations are plausible, and it shows strategies that real terrorists use to carry out attacks. The way that the C.I.A. operates is very realistic, and the way that they deal with defending attacks is spot on.
Things that were not good: The show has periods where it gets a little slow, and it feels like the characters are just sort of waiting for the next action sequence to come around. The pilot episode is a little slow in that sense, but it picks up as the season goes on. At times, the dialog is a little flat and could use a little more zip, A) because that is more believable to how these people would talk, and B) because it generally makes the dialog more interesting. For all the show's realism, there are only one or two moments where, for the sake of pushing the plot forward, they make things a little farfetched. It isn't that big of problem, but if you're paying attention, it can stick out a little bit.
With this in mind, we revert to an important question: Is Jack Ryan the next Homeland? The answer is "not really." That's not to say that the show isn't good; it's actually a good, solid, action thriller. However, it a little less like Homeland than I had anticipated. There is more action and less tradecraft and actual spy work, which doesn't make it worse, it just makes it different.
Jack Ryan may not be the next big show of the decade, but it succeeds in its goal of being a realistic spy – action show that delivers on plot twists and action scenes. So, if you have an interest in this subject, have any desire to go into the intelligence community, or just need a new show to watch this fall, don't miss the Amazon original Jack Ryan.


To link learning with action to improve the world was Audrey Cohen's lifelong purpose.
The article makes a case for retaining the study of foundational texts in education programs.
The article compares the international relations theory of two seminal political philosophers – John Rawls and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Grace Roosevelt (known as Jinx by friends and colleagues) is an Associate Professor of History and Education at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) where she teaches both in the undergraduate Human Services program and in the Masters of Education program. Her research interests bridge the fields of educational philosophy and political theory and in the past have focused on the educational and political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Roosevelt's present work chronicles the founding of MCNY by educational visionary Audrey Cohen. Central to Roosevelt's current interests are educational reforms that integrate career empowerment with humanistic learning – a melding of theory and practice that MCNY's unique curricular model exemplifies.


Jenny Jones AM, leader of the Green Party on the London Assembly, argues the case for a land value tax to be at the heart of London's economic recovery.
Fairer, smarter taxes are needed for London to recover from the double-dip recession. Therefore I fully support the Mayor of London's move to have another look at them with his London Finance Commission.
Earlier this week I asked its chair, Professor Tony Travers, whether he will look at putting a tax on rising land values as one way to promote useful economic activity in a more fair way.
Land value taxation can get complicated to explain, but could potentially keep down house prices, finance major transport infrastructure projects and switch more of the burden of taxation onto unearned wealth.
The basic idea is very easily explained with an example.
The £15 billion Crossrail project is expected to benefit many businesses in London, so they were required to contribute to the cost. A Business Rate Supplement has been levied on businesses with a rateable value greater than £50,000, raising £4.1bn towards the cost.
But building this new railway line will also benefit land owners along its route, estimated at a minimum to be a £5.5bn windfall gain by property consultants GVA. Their land becomes more valuable when the line is built without their lifting a finger but, unlike businesses paying rates, these landowners get their windfall gain tax-free.
The Jubilee line extension to Stratford is an even more stark example. The £3.5bn cost to the public purse was dwarfed by the estimated £10bn plus in windfall gains to land owners in the area.
A land value tax would enable the Mayor and government to reinvest a proportion of these windfall gains into new infrastructure, ensuring everyone who benefits pays their fair share.
The Metropolitan Line was built in the 1930s using a similar principle. The company who built the line bought up land along its length for housing, and used the uplift in land values to pay for the line.
London desperately needs investment in its transport, energy and waste infrastructure. Fairness also demands we do something about these huge, unearned private gains to already-wealthy individuals and companies resulting from public investment.
There are many other strong economic arguments for land value taxation – putting a dampener on the housing market by making it a less attractive option for investors; giving developers with land banks and other owners of brownfield sites a strong incentive to develop; and possibly using the revenue to reduce business rates are just three that were raised in the debate with Professor Travers by myself and other London Assembly Members.
Land value taxation could reshape London's economy to promote useful economic activity, generate revenue for investment and fairly distribute the benefits. It's popular with economists of all colours and stripes, and was endorsed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies' Mirlees Review.
So it's a shame Travers thinks the proposal is unlikely to make it into the London Finance Commission's final recommendations. While he "definitely won't not look at it", he suggested it wouldn't get buy-in from all political parties and so would be a non-starter. I hope this week's debate will have helped convince more Assembly Members it's a viable option and I urge them to raise it with their parties.
Ah right, you dismiss a valid concern with "UR LIAR".
I am pointing out that if you make it economically efficient for people to live in two adjoining houses to keep the "household" income down and minimise tax, then many middle class people will do so!
The effect on the POOR will be different, of course, and a realistic LVT won't cause the situation above, because it's completely different from the actually proposed LVT's in studies and position papers!
A LVT's effect will depend entirely on the level at which it is set, of course. Moreover, you are making the mistake of seeing the housing market in the UK as supply-driven. It's demand-driven, there is a critical shortage of houses!
You are unable to realise that I am talking about two completely different scenarios, and your instantness that anyone, then use a Toff's sighoff. Well, that explains THAT then!
JohnLVT, you are making a bold and valiant attempt here, but I think that Newsbot is what we would refer to as a "total lying idiot" and that we are wasting our time. Forget about being polite any more and pay him or her back in kind, teh glvoes are off.
Of course you want to "help" me. Certainly – give me the DOI's of the relevant *scientific* studies.
What I won't do, unless you're paying me, is watching videos you youtube, wasting hours when I'm a fast reader and learn primarily from textual sources anyway. Scientific papers, for anything scientific like economics.
Ah yes, suggestions of drug use, a typical social darwinist's totalitarian cry.
Rents cannot be lower than tax. This is quite simple, and what you're ignoring. People cannot afford to make a loss by not passing the tax on!
You keep ignoring the published proposals, since evidently you prefer to work in a world of your own imagination. I work in the real world.
Yes yes, you keep claiming that concerns are the same as supporting freeloading landowners, when you're trying to concentrate land ownership with a few.
People won't keep loss-making land, as you are claiming they will.
LVT encourages maximum use of land which in itself encourages energy efficiency. A block of flats per unit uses far less energy than a detached house. Far less fuel is used in transport as well. LVT and eco are bedfellows.
LVT DOES NOT throw million out of their homes. Quite the opposite. It actually encourages homes to be built. Take to ex Mayor Reed of Harrisburg.
LVT is a revolutionary solution. It is used all over the world and proven., It is what we used before the Income Tax swindle was pushed onto us.
That is fiddling the system as we go along – fire-fighting. LVT encourages maximum use of land and home building. Council homes need not be an issue and the private sector will fill the gap. All homes will be affordable – even owner/occupied. Housing shortages will be a thing of the past.
As Harrisburg's mayor stated, who implement LVT, that LVT protects greenspaces. Planning laws will also protect green gardens, etc.
Your understanding of LVT is near zero,. Get to understand it. It is not difficult. Then the light bulb will light up in your head.
Why would lawyers be involved in LVT? They were not involved in countries and cities that have implemented it. It is simple the levy is on the "value" of the land which is easy to assess. Queensland has it all on-line.
There ARE bad taxes. Taxes that penalize production (income tax) and trade (VAT) are bad taxes. LVT is not a tax despite it name. Many do not like the title. It should titled Community Reclaim Charge, or the likes of. It is reclaiming commonly created wealth to pay for common services.
LVT is not based at all on the buildings at all (or the technical term "improvements"). It is based on the value of the "land only". In the USA they split "property tax" taxes into two: building and land values. Then roll into one and charge. LVT aims to eliminate a charge on buildings (that is like taxing your washing machine) and up the charge on land values to make it a fair charge. Then it cam be done nationally and eliminate income and sales taxes.
No the tenant does not pay he LVT, only the landowner.
He will. He also pays no Income or Sales tax either.
Under full LVT the landlord pays no Income or Sales taxes. He can't pass LVT on to the tenant as that implies he was charging under the market rate before LVT, which they do not. If he attempts to pass it on market forces come into play and people will move to another cheaper place to live, then he has to keep the rent as it was. LVT will move housing more over to the private owner/occupier sector.
What your warped analysis gave was quite the opposite what happened in Harrisburg.
You are guessing. The points I gave came from the mayor of Harrisburg out of real world experience.
Look at this by economist Fred Harrison. He says the opposite of you.
It is best you attempt to understand LVT – all you are doing is making yourself look foolish.
Mark I have just concluded that in my last post. I think he thinks he knows all the answers. He is totally closed to anything his brain is pre-geared to. Sad I know.
??? You've lost me. Why would a household pay twice as much LVT as it had to by occupying two houses rather than one? The LVT is not based on "household income" the LVT is based on the rental value of the land. In fact it is rent. So explain why my wife and I (probably middle class by your standards and who are currently renting) would choose to rent two houses, when we only need one, and it's expensive enough paying the rent on only one?
All LVT proposals are broadly the same, and i am more widely read in these matters than you are. Can you explain where the magic cut off point between middle class and poor is, and then explain why the effects of LVT are equal and opposite on either side of this arbirtary line?
Poor people, by and large, pay rent. The landlord bears the tax. He cannot add it to the rent, because he cannot charge tenants more than they are already paying. His choice would be between have tenants, pay the tax and make a small profit, or demand an above market rent, have no income and just pay the tax.
Consider: the interest which BTL landlords pay is pretty much like LVT being collected privately by the bank. If interest rates go down, does he reduce the rent? No. And if interest rates go up, does he increase the rent? Again no. Or do you genuinely believe that BTL landlords are completely indifferent to interest rates?
Half right. The rents are fixed, by the market, and the tax is set at the total rent minus all running and maintenance and insurance costs. So the correct statement is "the tax will not be higher than the pure location rent".
No landlord will make a loss. If the total rental income for a nice house is £15,000 and the running costs, depreciation and voids and so on are £3,000 a year, then the location rent is £12,000 and the tax would be (say) £10,000.
You appear to be suggesting that the landlord can somehow persuade people to pay £15,000 + £10,000 = £25,000 a year for a home which is only worth £15,000. Which is nonsense of course, the landlord is like any other supplier in this regard, he maximises his income by setting his rent at £15,000 – if he asks for more he gets £ nothing and has no income to pay the £10,000 tax.
As to food prices, I'd be interested to see these proposals you have read (taxing farmland is barely relevant in the context of London) and even if you ignore economic logic, the fact is that the largest chunk of food prices is earned by supermarkets as pure profit. Out of £1 spent in the supermarket, the farmers probably only get 20p, so even if they managed to increase wholesale prices to 25p, the £1 final selling price is also fixed (by the market) and supermarkets will just have to live with lower profits, see if I care.
No, he sells the house, after evicting the tenants, to a major land-holding company. Moreover, you're overlooking the flaw in your plan that everyone needs accommodation, and we have a critical shortage of such.
And er…no, you need to eat too. Moreover, the Supermarkets will simply raise their prices. Again, this is something based on need, you can't forgo food.
Because you stated that "households" would have a tax offset at the median, so households would pay tax only if above it.
Really? So, all "proposals to move things" are the same? Nope. They're all different, but none of the ones I've seen address this properly.
You're the one arguing magic about different scenarios conflated, not me.
Right, in your world he'll eat a major loss every month, because the tax which was formerly paid by the tenants is now paid by him.
MAGIC. Your entire position is MAGIC.
Oh heck yes! It's happened to multiple people I know recently. Increases in cost ARE PASSED ON.
Yes yes, landlords will take a loss in your world. Every month. MAGIC.
You insist that people who don't believe in your magic and don't watch trash youtube propaganda are "foolish".
Guessing? I'm reading the study. You're pushing MAGIC losses as good for landlords.
2. The Landlord passes the LVT onto the tenant.
3. Under the proposal which doesn't exist.
And the Landlord can't afford to take the loss you're telling him he is. You are saying he MUST take a loss under a LVT.
"Market Forces"? Ah yes, you can be homeless. Great alternative! There won't BE cheaper places to live, especially as land passes into the hands of a few under your proposal, as you raise tax on the poor dramatically.
No, energy efficiency isn't the concern of the landlord, he's not the one who pays it.
Your LVT WILL throw millions out of their homes, and Harrisburg's social cleansing is a great example of it.
LVT is a revolution, right, and like all such it will kill a noticeable part of the population and eat it's children. The bodies get stacked up, every time.
You are saying that there will be enough casualties to mean there's a house for everyone, I see. That's a lot of dead bodies. I don't see mass murder as easy.
So property will have even larger mandatory tax bills, ensuring that many of the lower middle class will have to die as well.
Again…Economics IS NOT a science. Look at the youtube vids to put you right.
Watch propaganda, wasting my time, to see stuff which is incorrect? Sure, again, pay me.
Until that point, I'll stick with believing in science, as you do not.
Ah yes, a tax isn't a tax now. You're desperate.
No matter what you name a tax, it remains a tax.
Yes, you keep talking about yourself and your campaign to end shelter for the poor. You have not demonstrated why your bloody revolution is better than a sensible tax change.
But why should you get even half of a windfall just because you happened to own some land that the state built a railway station next to?
And it's nonsense like this that is the cause of our labyrinthine tax system. Energy efficient buildings are worthwhile if the amortized cost of the efficiency features is less than the saving on energy bills. If you think that the balance should be shifted in favour of more energy efficiency, your correct behaviour is to increase energy taxes to capture the harm that the consumption of that energy does. There's no need to mix anything else in.
And don't need to pay rent for housing in your world either I'm sure.
Ah yes, "nonsense". Never mind it would actually encourage landlords to update the terrible quality of housing stock which we have.
It is NOT in Landlord's interest to upgrade most houses while they can continue to press rent rises due to the critical housing shortage, or indeed to do much for tenants at all!
Thanks for that display of nastiness! But no, I actually knew what I was talking about in terms of my own aim!
Land Value Taxation is hard to explain because it has about 14 different facits all of which deserve some careful consideration before the basic idea can be judged. The following list of them is an attempth to present a fair and comprehensive picture.
1. LVT, adds to the national income. .
3. With LVT, the national economy stabilizes and no longer experiences the 18 year housing boom and bust cycle.
8. With LVT, land owners are unable to pass the tax on to their tenant renters, due to the competition for land use.
10. With LVT, there is an incentive to use land for production, rather than it laying idle or being partly used.
12. As LVT is introduced, investment money is withdrawn from land and placed in durable capital goods.
13. The collection of taxes directly from productive effort and commerce is socially unjust. LVT replaces this form of extortion by gathering the surplus rental income which comes without exertion. Consequently LVT is a natural system of money-gathering.
14. Bribery and corruption cease with LVT. Before, this was due to the leaking of news of municipal plans for housing development.
and they intend to go on getting it, the nation be damned.
ever will be advanced, yours are fallacious, absurd, and dishonest.
LVT is automatically affordable, because it is no more than someone is WILLING to pay to use the site: just let them use it. Problem solved. It is also false to claim that LVT bills could "continue to rise without any corresponding rise in their ability to pay them." LVT cannot exceed the land rent. Land rent is the economic advantage obtainable by using the land. If LVT increases, it is because the economic advantage to the land user has increased, and thus their ability to pay the increased rent — IF they are using the land productively, and not just sitting on it, hoarding it expectation of trousering millions for doing nothing.
Your claims are false and dishonest. LVT is a REPLACEMENT for the revenue from stupid, unfair, and destructive taxes. The London Assembly has the power to reduce said taxes. It should do so forthwith, and replace them with LVT.
Your claims are false. Food prices cannot soar, or even rise, as a result of LVT. That is a fact of economics that has been known for 200 years. Google, "Law of Rent" and start reading. Homelessness would be reduced to zero by LVT — though some people would not be able to afford to continue depriving the community of prime sites they are currently under-utilizing to the detriment of the city and the nation.
It is false, absurd, and dishonest to claim that LVT would concentrate land ownership with a few. The current enormous concentration of UK land ownership with a few in the ABSENCE of LVT is proof enough of that.
"Loss-making land"? What would that be? Land's average appreciation is currently far greater than its holding cost, even if you don't collect the rent.
Your claims continue to be false, absurd, and dishonest. Poor people don't own land, and LVT cannot be shifted onto them. Economists do not agree on much, but they do agree on that. It is absurd to claim that people would have to live in very high density housing or slums. LVT is simply the same payment a private landowner would charge for the land. He just doesn't get to trouser it. And that is your whole objection to LVT, in its bare essentials.
Nonsense. There is nothing magical about paying for what you take, and the non-linearity of the economic relationships DOES make it possible for landlords to benefit at modest LVT levels. For example, a 50% increase in location subsidy repayments may stimulate a 100% increase in economic growth. The rent the landlord can charge thus increases even more than the tax he has to pay.
But at higher levels, no one claims location subsidy repayment will be good for landlords because there is a limit to how much faster the economy can grow. If the economy is growing at 1%/yr, doubling the LSR might make it grow at 3%; but if it is already growing at 10%, doubling the LSR isn't going to make it grow at 20%, let alone 30%.


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Notes Chapter 9 Section 14 Page 1043
Chapter 9: Fundamental Physics
Section 14: Elementary Particles
Types of [elementary] particles
Current particle physics identifies three basic types of known elementary particles: leptons, quarks and gauge bosons. The known leptons are the electron (e), muon (μ) and tau lepton (τ), and their corresponding neutrinos (ne, nμ, nτ). Quarks exist inside hadrons like the proton and pion, but never seem to occur as ordinary free particles. Six types are known: u, d, c (charm), s (strange), t (top), b. Gauge bosons are associated with forces. Those currently known are the photon (γ) for electromagnetism (QED), W and Z for so-called weak interactions, and the gluon (g) for QCD interactions between quarks. Gravitons associated with gravitational forces presumably also exist. In ordinary matter, the only particles that contribute in direct ways to everyday physical, chemical and even nuclear properties are electrons, photons and effectively u and d quarks, and gluons. (These, together presumably with some type of neutrino, are the only types of particles that never seem to decay.) The first reasonably direct observations of the various types of particles were as follows (some were predicted in advance): e (1897), γ (~1905), u, d (1914/~1970), μ (1937), s (1946), ne (1956), nμ (1962), c (1974), τ, nτ (1975), b (1977), g (~1979), W (1983), Z (1983), t (1995).
Most particles exist in several variations. Apart from the photon (and graviton), all have distinct antiparticles. Each quark has 3 possible color configurations; the gluon has 8. Most particles also have multiple spin states. Quarks and leptons have spin 1/2, yielding 2 spin states (neutrinos could have only 1 if they were massless). Gauge bosons normally have spin 1 (the graviton would have spin 2) yielding 3 spin states for massive ones. Real massless ones such as the photon always have just 2. (See page 1046.)
In the Standard Model the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking (see page 1047) allows particles with different masses to be viewed as manifestations of single particles, and this is effectively done for W, Z, γ, as well as for each of the 3 so-called families of quarks and leptons: u, d; c, s; t, b and e, ve; μ, vμ; τ, vτ. Grand unified models typically do this for all known gauge bosons (except gravitons) and for corresponding families of quarks and leptons—and inevitably imply the existence of various additional particles more massive than those known, but with properties that are somehow intermediate. Some models also unify different families, and supersymmetric models unify quarks and leptons with gauge bosons.
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namespace performance_manager {

class ProcessPriorityAggregatorAccess {
 public:
  using StorageType = decltype(ProcessNodeImpl::process_priority_data_);

  static std::unique_ptr<NodeAttachedData>* GetUniquePtrStorage(
      ProcessNodeImpl* process_node) {
    return &process_node->process_priority_data_;
  }
};

namespace {

const char kDescriberName[] = "ProcessPriorityAggregator";

class DataImpl : public ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data,
                 public NodeAttachedDataImpl<DataImpl> {
 public:
  using StorageType = ProcessPriorityAggregatorAccess::StorageType;

  struct Traits : public NodeAttachedDataOwnedByNodeType<ProcessNodeImpl> {};

  explicit DataImpl(const ProcessNode* process_node) {}
  ~DataImpl() override {}

  static std::unique_ptr<NodeAttachedData>* GetUniquePtrStorage(
      ProcessNodeImpl* process_node) {
    return ProcessPriorityAggregatorAccess::GetUniquePtrStorage(process_node);
  }
};

}  // namespace

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data::Decrement(base::TaskPriority priority) {
  switch (priority) {
    case base::TaskPriority::LOWEST:
#if DCHECK_IS_ON()
      DCHECK_LT(0u, lowest_count_);
      --lowest_count_;
#endif
      return;

    case base::TaskPriority::USER_VISIBLE: {
      DCHECK_LT(0u, user_visible_count_);
      --user_visible_count_;
      return;
    }

    case base::TaskPriority::USER_BLOCKING: {
      DCHECK_LT(0u, user_blocking_count_);
      --user_blocking_count_;
      return;
    }
  }

  NOTREACHED();
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data::Increment(base::TaskPriority priority) {
  switch (priority) {
    case base::TaskPriority::LOWEST:
#if DCHECK_IS_ON()
      ++lowest_count_;
#endif
      return;

    case base::TaskPriority::USER_VISIBLE: {
      ++user_visible_count_;
      return;
    }

    case base::TaskPriority::USER_BLOCKING: {
      ++user_blocking_count_;
      return;
    }
  }

  NOTREACHED();
}

bool ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data::IsEmpty() const {
#if DCHECK_IS_ON()
  if (lowest_count_)
    return false;
#endif
  return user_blocking_count_ == 0 && user_blocking_count_ == 0;
}

base::TaskPriority ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data::GetPriority() const {
  if (user_blocking_count_ > 0)
    return base::TaskPriority::USER_BLOCKING;
  if (user_visible_count_ > 0)
    return base::TaskPriority::USER_VISIBLE;
  return base::TaskPriority::LOWEST;
}

// static
ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data* ProcessPriorityAggregator::Data::GetForTesting(
    ProcessNodeImpl* process_node) {
  return DataImpl::Get(process_node);
}

ProcessPriorityAggregator::ProcessPriorityAggregator() = default;
ProcessPriorityAggregator::~ProcessPriorityAggregator() = default;

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnFrameNodeAdded(const FrameNode* frame_node) {
  auto* process_node = ProcessNodeImpl::FromNode(frame_node->GetProcessNode());
  DataImpl* data = DataImpl::Get(process_node);
  data->Increment(frame_node->GetPriorityAndReason().priority());
  // This is a nop if the priority didn't actually change.
  process_node->set_priority(data->GetPriority());
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnBeforeFrameNodeRemoved(
    const FrameNode* frame_node) {
  auto* process_node = ProcessNodeImpl::FromNode(frame_node->GetProcessNode());
  DataImpl* data = DataImpl::Get(process_node);
  data->Decrement(frame_node->GetPriorityAndReason().priority());
  // This is a nop if the priority didn't actually change.
  process_node->set_priority(data->GetPriority());
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnPriorityAndReasonChanged(
    const FrameNode* frame_node,
    const PriorityAndReason& previous_value) {
  // If the priority itself didn't change then ignore this notification.
  const PriorityAndReason& new_value = frame_node->GetPriorityAndReason();
  if (new_value.priority() == previous_value.priority())
    return;

  // Update the distinct frame priority counts, and set the process priority
  // accordingly.
  auto* process_node = ProcessNodeImpl::FromNode(frame_node->GetProcessNode());
  DataImpl* data = DataImpl::Get(process_node);
  data->Decrement(previous_value.priority());
  data->Increment(new_value.priority());
  // This is a nop if the priority didn't actually change.
  process_node->set_priority(data->GetPriority());
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnPassedToGraph(Graph* graph) {
  graph->AddFrameNodeObserver(this);
  graph->AddProcessNodeObserver(this);
  graph->GetNodeDataDescriberRegistry()->RegisterDescriber(this,
                                                           kDescriberName);
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnTakenFromGraph(Graph* graph) {
  graph->GetNodeDataDescriberRegistry()->UnregisterDescriber(this);
  graph->RemoveProcessNodeObserver(this);
  graph->RemoveFrameNodeObserver(this);
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnProcessNodeAdded(
    const ProcessNode* process_node) {
  auto* process_node_impl = ProcessNodeImpl::FromNode(process_node);
  DCHECK(!DataImpl::Get(process_node_impl));
  DataImpl* data = DataImpl::GetOrCreate(process_node_impl);
  DCHECK(data->IsEmpty());
  DCHECK_EQ(base::TaskPriority::LOWEST, process_node_impl->priority());
  DCHECK_EQ(base::TaskPriority::LOWEST, data->GetPriority());
}

void ProcessPriorityAggregator::OnBeforeProcessNodeRemoved(
    const ProcessNode* process_node) {
#if DCHECK_IS_ON()
  auto* process_node_impl = ProcessNodeImpl::FromNode(process_node);
  DataImpl* data = DataImpl::Get(process_node_impl);
  DCHECK(data->IsEmpty());
#endif
}

base::Value ProcessPriorityAggregator::DescribeProcessNodeData(
    const ProcessNode* node) const {
  DataImpl* data = DataImpl::Get(ProcessNodeImpl::FromNode(node));
  if (data == nullptr)
    return base::Value();

  base::Value ret(base::Value::Type::DICTIONARY);
  ret.SetIntKey("user_visible_count", data->user_visible_count_);
  ret.SetIntKey("user_blocking_count", data->user_blocking_count_);
  return ret;
}

}  // namespace performance_manager

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The grapes are first gently pressed and fermented into dry, still wine. For a typical non-vintage cuvee, the Champagne house blends this wine with other still wines of varying ages from its cellars in order to create a consistent "house style." The blended still wine is bottled, a bit of sugar and yeast is added to each bottle, and the bottles are sealed with a crown cap.
The added sugar and yeast set off a second fermentation of the wine in the bottle; a byproduct of fermentation is carbon dioxide, but since the CO2 cannot escape the sealed bottle, it is trapped in the wine as bubbles.
The other byproduct is the "lees," the dead yeast cells and other particles that settle to the bottom of the bottle. Champagne is aged for at least 15 months with the lees still in the bottle, which is what gives Champagne is characteristic yeasty, brioche-toast aroma and flavor. The bottles are then gently shaken and gradually upended over a period of several months (a process called "riddling" or "remuage"), pushing the lees to the neck of the bottle.
When all of the lees are collected in the neck, the neck is frozen, the caps are opened, and the frozen plug of lees pops free, leaving clear fizzy wine behind. The bottle is then typically topped up with a combination of sugar and still wine (a "dosage") to the desired level of sweetness — most often "brut" (dryish), although a recent trend is to omit the sugar for a bitingly dry "brut nature" or "zero dosage" Champagne.
While high Champagne prices have been rightly criticized as the product of fierce protectionism by the Champenois of their prized brand, the prices also result from the meticulous process requirements and extraordinarily high levels of quality control self-imposed by the producers. Those requirements and controls mean that when you spring for Champagne, you can be reasonably assured of a quality product. One to try: Canard-Duchêne Brut NV Champagne, about $37.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider Champagne well flattered. While sparkling wine grown and made outside the borders of the Champagne AOC cannot be called Champagne, there is no ban on the use of the traditional Champagne method elsewhere.
In France, many regions have their own sparkling wines — typically called "Cremants" — that are made in the same way Champagne is made, often using the same grape varieties. The wine bottle will usually say "Methode Traditionelle," or less often "Methode Champenoise," to make clear that it was made using the Champagne recipe.
Several regions have been granted their own AOC status for their traditional-method sparkling wines, including Cremant de Bourgogne, Cremant D'Alsace, Cremant de Loire, and Cremant de Jura. While most of these wines are fairly simple fizz made for modest budgets and early enjoyment, the best are serious wines at a great value. One to try: Bechtold Cremant D'Alsace 2011, about $25.
Traditional-method sparklers are made outside of France, too. Catalan Cava was the first, and is one of the best known. The Cava industry pioneered the use of automated riddling, reducing the extraordinary labor costs of hand-riddling and thus driving down prices. While cava producers are not constrained by the same yield and aging restrictions as Champagne houses, the level of quality is high for the considerably lower price. One to try: Mascaro "Pure" NV, about $16.
Traditional sparkling wine is also a particular specialty in the Franciacorta and Trento areas of northern Italy, where Ca del Bosco and Ferrari, among others, make sparkling wines that rival the best of the fancy Champagne brands for complexity and power. Look for the term "Metodo Classico" on the bottle. America makes its fair share as well, in likely places (California and Oregon) as well as very unlikely places (New Mexico and Massachusetts). One to try: Argyle Brut 2012 (Oregon), about $25.
There are methods other than the traditional one for putting bubbles into wine. In the widely used "Charmat Method" or "Metodo Italiano," the second fermentation occurs in steel tanks rather than in the bottle.
The wine is kept under pressure in the tanks until the producer has an order to fill, at which point it is bottled under pressure. This method takes away some of the complexity of true Champagne, since there is no aging on the lees, but it is significantly cheaper to make and store.
The best-known sparkling wine made using the Charmat Method is Prosecco, which is made in the Veneto region of Italy from the Glera grape. Prosecco typically tastes a bit sweeter than Champagne and does not have the mouth-puckering acidity, making it a great all-purpose party sparkler. One to try: Adami Prosecco Garbel NV, about $16.
The "Methode Ancestrale" is a sparkling wine method that predates the Champagne method. In this method, the wine is partly fermented in tanks, but is bottled before this primary fermentation has eaten up all the grape sugars.
The wine continues to ferment in the bottle, but only for a little while, creating a lightly fizzy, usually sweetish wine that is a delight to guzzle.
These fun, low-alcohol sparklers, often called "petillant naturel" and bottled with a crown cap rather than a cork, have long been a specialty of the French regions of Limoux in the Languedoc and Bugey in the foothills of the Alps, and of the Lambrusco region in Italy, but are now being made all over France and Italy.
Even a few adventurous producers in the United States have gotten into the "pet-nat" game. One to try: Patrick Bottex Bugey-Cerdon NV "La Cueille," about $19.
Once you've gotten the basics down, you'll find there's a sparkling wine for nearly every wallet, every taste, and every mood. You might even do the unthinkable: start drinking it on non-holidays.