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The Furys Profile
John Dix
The Furys were regarded as one of the wildest bands of their era, largely due to the stage presence of their leader, the flamboyant singer-guitarist Dave McLean. Despite being a favourite of critics and fellow-musicians, the big time eluded them and they had just two commercial releases. But to their loyal fans The Furys were the epitome of New Zealand pub rock.
Dave McLean tended to dominate every room he strutted across. Rugged, loud and brash, opinionated and often cynical, these were attributes he took onstage, creating quite a spectacle, cigarette in hand and a drink close by.
Born in February 1957, the youngest of five, McLean took up guitar in the early 1970s. Always an unlikely candidate for a rock and roll star, stardom passed him by, but he gained an avid following of misfits for his rough-hewn R&B band, The Furys. "Never perfect but the better for it," ran one of their promo lines.
South Auckland may have been McLean's 'hood but his first public performances were at a brief residency at the Kaiwaka Hotel, almost 100kms north of the city ("I think we got paid $10 between us."). The band didn't have a name that he can remember but in 1977 McLean and two of the members – singer Paul Andrews and drummer John Gray, plus bassist Gilbert Virella (aka Joe Gill) and second guitarist Johnny Bachelor – became Johnny & The Hookers, a prototype for The Furys.
Johnny & The Hookers didn't really fit in with the late-70s Auckland scene. Influenced by Dr Feelgood, the Hookers had one foot in the punk camp although McLean's quiff and general demeanour belied that. With their leather jackets, T-shirts and jeans, the Hookers looked like a construction crew and appeared to be pissed most of the time, and none more so than McLean.
Early gigs at the Headquarters Café in Upper Queen Street toughened up the band's sound and by 1979 they were treading the Auckland traps – the Globe, Island Of Real, The Windsor Castle. It was at the Windsor for a series of Sunday afternoon gigs double-billed with Toy Love where the Hookers' standing picked up. The punks loved them!
"I suppose we adopted some of that punk attitude," McLean says, "or at least I did. Mind you, I was never one to pose at parties, I don't like people much so it was easy to spit in someone's face. The Hookers was fun for a while but it got to where I couldn't stand it anymore, I didn't like the music and everyone hated each other, well everyone hated me." In June 1979, mid-gig at The Gluepot, McLean walked out on the band.
In October 1979 The Furys started playing around Auckland with a line-up featuring guitarist Mike Cooney, an old friend, John Berkley (who didn't stick around long before serving time as Herbs' original bassist) and ex-Hooker John Gray on drums.
Largely through RipItUp, the Hookers had created some interest outside Auckland and McLean decided to take his new band on a South Island tour, organised by the fledgling New Music Management. The tour was due to kick off just weeks after the band's first Auckland gigs but when Berkley bailed McLean needed a bass player.
The Hookers, meanwhile, were in disarray in Sydney. Offering Joe Gill the bassist position, McLean also inherited Paul Andrews. The Furys line-up which headed down south featured no fewer than four ex-Hookers, plus Cooney. The tour wasn't a great success (cold sausage rolls for Xmas dinner in Timaru) and by the time they returned to Auckland in February, the old hostilities were to the fore. Only McLean and Cooney remained.
The line-up's final performance, at Mainstreet Cabaret, was on a bill which also featured Madam Rouge, themselves about to disband. The Furys inherited bassist Simon Elton, who was to become McLean's most loyal sideman in the coming years. The drum seat was taken by Steve Butler, ex-Street Talk.
Managed by Charley Gray, The Furys played all the major Auckland venues and undertook regular mini-tours – Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Northland; they were particularly popular in Hamilton. A new Auckland venue, the Rumba Bar in Victoria Street, became the Furys' second home.
Stability wasn't to be a factor of The Furys. In the first year alone, Cooney left to form Billy & The Blue Flames, replaced by Rob Galley, and Butler was replaced by Robbie Peters. They recorded at Harlequin Studios, produced by Ian Morris and later, Paul Streekstra; a demo of 'Auckland Fun', an early McLean original, was delivered to Radio B (now 95bFM), receiving maximum airplay. Ian Morris sang the band's praises and McLean's stage antics ensured regular write-ups; they played the Nambassa Festival and the Greenpeace fundraisers, appeared on Radio With Pictures and toured with Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos. The Furys seemed to be on the verge of a breakthrough. It never happened.
Charley Gray was unable to interest a record company and formed his own label, Muchmore Records, to release the band's four-track EP, Rare Record, released in October 1981, over a year after the initial recording sessions. Reviews were great, sales not so great. The Furys' reputation was to remain largely as a pub band.
Now married, McLean went off the idea of touring. One-week stabs at other North Island regions were okay but the national grind didn't appeal. From this point on, The Fury's performances were to be intermittent. Band members picked up other gigs, line-up changes continued. Some opportunities were too good to knock back – supporting The Troggs for two nights and appearing at a private Mainstreet party for the Highway 61 Motorcycle Club.
"I'd sort of grown sick of it, the apathy,  although that was down to us as much as anything, and the rise of the new romantics, god forbid. I was wondering what part I had to play." There were recording sessions at Azimuth and Montage studios but only a second EP, 4 x 5, saw release.
Having been largely quiet for a couple of years, in 1985 The Furys secured a residency at West Auckland's Westward Ho Tavern. The line-up featured McLean and Elton, plus guitarist Steve Hubbard and keyboardist Dave Curtis; Steve Butler was back on the drum seat. "It was bloody good money," McLean remembers, "and it was three or four nights a week. We tore the place down and had some great nights, which led to us getting ideas above our station and we started doing other gigs, competing in the market again, trips to Hamilton, back in the game."
It didn't last, although three nights supporting Dr Feelgood in 1986 was a career highlight.
In 1988 Dave McLean, the hell-raiser himself, became an unlikely born-again Christian. "I'd realised by then that I was never gonna be a star. What the fuck, I was a short, fat balding old fart. So I joined the church and it was during those years when my songwriting improved. Later, when I started writing secular songs, there was a strong country blues feel to them."
McLean's time in the church lasted "four or five years" and, typically, it was that staunch attitude which led to his departure. "Oh, there was a dispute and, well, I took the sinner's side over the saint's."
In the years since, McLean has performed sporadically – in duos with Dave Curtis and John Kempt, and a stint with sixties retro band The Kingpins. He's held the same 9 to 5 job for over 20 years, kids have grown, he lives on a lifestyle block at Manukau Heads. There have been occasional reformations of The Furys but McLean is dismissive. "I get a hankering to pick up the guitar for a tutu now and then but who would want to see a bald tosser like me? I don't think you can be cynical enough, John."
In 2002 Simon Elton produced a CD, Anthology, comprising all of The Fury's released output, plus demos and live recordings.
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The story of the Monte Rosso estate began about ten years ago on an old neglected estate located in Istria, near Savudrija. The estate was named Crveni Vrh, and thus the name of the winery. Some time ago, the estate was overgrown with weeds and underbrush. However, today the estate seems completely different. On 65 hectares of the estate, there are vineyards of Malvasia and Montepulciano, plantations of different varieties of olives, 2000 cherry trees, 600 figs and 650 almonds. In the summer of 2016 winery doors were opened to visitors. And everyone who wanted to relax and enjoy the nature with a glass of wine and a loaf of bread drenched in widely known Istrian olive oil was welcome.
Nero Montepulciano D 'Abruzzo is a wine with deep ruby color, intensely fruity with notes of cherry and forest fruits on the nose. Fresh and elegant in the mouth, with medium body and a nice finish. The harmonious gentle tannins and balanced acids make this wine very drinkable with great aging potential. Minerals and limestone-rich Istrian soil give Montepulciano from Abruzzo a different dimension and make it possible to enjoy this wine in two variations at the same time. The first one is to enjoy the wine right now because it is fresh, fruity and very tasty even on hot summer days. Other one reveals immediately to a wine lover that if he has enough patience, Nero can achieve its full maturity and be a very pleasant surprise.
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By Xingting Gong, 10 Jan 20 18:42 UTC
Courtesy of Lotte Entertainment.
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 opens with a vignette of the ordinary life of a South Korean woman as she carries out a series of ordinary chores—cooking, taking out the trash, vacuuming the living room carpet—all done with the swift adroitness of someone who can only have performed these tasks countless many times. Her name, Kim Ji-young, is none the less ordinary, with a banality reminiscent of a Jane Doe. But exactly the elements of her life story that suggest the ordinary stands out as a powerful lens into something universal—the confined lives of women, boxed in by the patriarchy that defines them.
Based on an eponymous novel, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 depicts gender discrimination in a manner that is at once up-close and personal, and yet without much contrivance. Kim Ji-young is not a plot heavy film, but rather an honest example of life for an ordinary woman. In this manner, the film shows that sexism is not always a conscious agent, but an invisible force that permeates the lives of both men and women, who either wittingly or unwittingly work to maintain the status quo.
Society's Unquestionable Gender Bias
At the start of the film, Ji-Young is a full time housewife, having quit her job 18 months ago to give birth to a daughter. She is—though perhaps not fully aware of the extent—miserable. For most of the film, she tackles the dilemma of whether or not to return to work, and in doing so, she confronts the bitter reality of gender roles and how seamlessly interlaced they are in her society.
In one instance, Kim Ji-Young accompanies her husband to his mother's home for Korea's Thanksgiving Festival, where she is expected to cook and clean while her husband and his family play with the grandchildren. In a rare outburst, Ji-Young reminds her mother-in-law that she is also someone else's daughter, and should be allowed to go home. The one-sided duty that wives take on—having to prioritize their roles as daughter-in-law before daughter—is a common theme in many Asian cultures. Most striking is the indignation of the mother-in-law, who reacts immediately to chastise Ji-Young. Her tone-deafness with respect to the prejudice against her own sex highlights the complexity of discrimination—the extent to which we internalize and promote the prejudices that work against us.
In a particularly subtle and heartbreaking scene, Ji-Young's younger brother Ji-seok brings her red-bean-paste buns, only to find that she removes the filling before eating them. It was none other than their father who instructed Jiseok to purchase them, claiming that they were his sister's favorite. "They were always your favorite," Ji-Young explains to her brother, who wears a somewhat pained expression on his face.
Throughout the film, Ji-Young's mother emerges as the quiet heroine in her life, someone restricted by the times—she had given up schooling in her younger days to earn money so that her brothers could attend college—but secretly desires a different future for her daughters. Though unable to speak out explicitly, she supports her daughter behind the scenes, and in a pivotal moment, chastises her husband for only ever thinking of his son. Her husband's stunned and guilt-laden expression reveals a proclivity which, until laid bare before him, he didn't even realize he had. Again, the film reminds us that the treachery of discrimination is how unconsciously it is often enforced.
Different Means of Survival for Different Women
Several of the younger women in the film provide foils for Ji-Young, their chosen ways of life revealing how they stand up to or circumvent sexism. We learn that before Ji-Young became a full-time housewife and mother, she worked for a company under the only female boss at the firm whom she deeply admired. When Ji-Young professes her admiration, her boss only smiles and asks, "What's so good about me?" the sadness in her smile reflecting the compromises she's made to get to her position.
In the present, Ji-young is a stay-at-home-mom. She meets up with her friend and coworker at her old firm, who excitedly proclaims that she finally got promoted. Ji-Young admits that she envies her, but her friend playfully reminds her that she's committed herself to the life of a spinster. Ji-Young's elder sister, also a committed spinster, teases her younger brother whenever possible, forcing him to help out with chores even whilst her father and aunts want to spoil him.
Despite how badly she desires to return to work, Ji-young repeatedly states "I can't, it's too hard," but her fears stem not from her own inability to balance professional and personal life, but rather how society would judge her. In a scene that borrows from the author's real life, while out in public with her baby Ji-Young is called a "mom-chung," or mom worm, a term "used to describe housewives who enjoy comfortable lives on their husbands' earnings." Her enemy is therefore not any individual agent—not even her own husband, who seems genuinely concerned for her unhappiness as the film goes on—but the weight of society at large.
Kim Ji-Young: The Everywoman
Despite the contrast of all the strong women who defy standards around her, Kim Ji-Young's role in the film is not one of weakness. Rather, she represents any woman who feels at once confused and unfulfilled by the lifestyle society allows her, but like many young girls, fears disappointing those around them.
"Korean women in their 30s…were told they could do it all. So they grew up studying hard, working hard and playing hard. But reality set in as their careers progressed," said Prof. Lee of Chung-Ang University in an interview with the BBC. Despite being a first world country, South Korea has one of the highest pay gaps among developed nations, with women earning only 63% of mens' salaries.
Despite being rooted in contemporary South Korean society, Kim Ji-Young's story is universal. Whether it's an off-handed remark made by an older woman who grew up in a previous decade, or the dismissive comments made by a male coworker, or even the perhaps unintentionally thoughtless actions of a close male friend or relative, women from all over the world experience similar microaggressions. The effectiveness of Kim Ji-young lies in its subtle punches—moments that make us realize something we've internalized as normal, rather than a symptom of injustice. As deftly put by Jamie Chang, a professor at Ewha Womans University who translated the original book into English, "There was a significant amount of internalized misogyny that I had to face up to in order to translate this book."
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (Korean: 82년생 김지영)—South Korea. Dialog in Korean. Directed by Kim Do-young. Based on an eponymous novel by Jo Nam-Joo. First released October 23, 2019. Running time 2 hours. Starring Jung Yu-mi, Gong Yoo.
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import numpy as np
from KMeansBase import KMeansBase
from KMeansPP import KMeansPP

class ScalableKMeansPP(KMeansBase):
    def __init__(self, data, k, l, r):
        KMeansBase.__init__(self, data, k)
        self.l = l
        self.r = r

    def _initial_centroids(self):
        # pick the initial centroid randomly
        centroids = self.data[np.random.choice(range(self.data.shape[0]),1), :]
        data_ex = self.data[:, np.newaxis, :]

        passes = 0
        while passes < self.r:
            euclidean_dist = (data_ex - centroids) ** 2
            distance_arr = np.sum(euclidean_dist, axis=2)
            # find the minimum distance, this will be the weight
            min = np.min(distance_arr, axis=1).reshape(-1, 1)
            # let's use weighted reservoir sampling algorithm to select l centroids
            random_numbers = np.random.rand(min.shape[0], min.shape[1])
            # replace zeros in min if available with the lowest positive float in Python
            min[np.where(min==0)] = np.nextafter(0,1)
            # take the n^th root of random numbers where n is the weights
            with np.errstate(all='ignore'):
                random_numbers = random_numbers ** (1.0/min)
            # pick the highest l
            cent = self.data[np.argsort(random_numbers, axis=0)[:, 0]][::-1][:self.l, :]
            # combine the new set of centroids with the previous set
            centroids = np.vstack((centroids, cent))
            passes += 1
        # now we have the initial set of centroids which is higher than k.
        # we should reduce this to k using scalable K-Means++
        euclidean_dist = (data_ex - centroids) ** 2
        distance_arr = np.sum(euclidean_dist, axis=2)
        min_location = np.zeros(distance_arr.shape)
        min_location[range(distance_arr.shape[0]), np.argmin(distance_arr, axis=1)] = 1
        weights = np.array([np.count_nonzero(min_location[:, col]) for col in range(centroids.shape[0])]).reshape(-1,1)
        # cluster these r*l + 1 points with K-Means++ to get K points
        kmeans_pp = KMeansPP(weights, self.k)
        _, _, _, min_locations = kmeans_pp.cluster()
        # calculates the new centroids
        new_centroids = np.empty((self.k, self.data.shape[1]))
        for col in range(0, self.k):
            new_centroids[col] = np.mean(centroids[min_locations[:, col] == True, :], axis=0)
        return new_centroids

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Remembering the Battle of Somme, We're Here Because We're Here project, takes social media by storm
Mishall Rehman Send an email July 6, 2016
On July 1, people across the United Kingdom (UK) were captivated by the hundreds of volunteers dressed in World War One uniforms, all of them silent, all of them representing a fallen soldier.
The brainchild of Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, the event was a living, mobile memorial to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
The "ghost soldiers" could be witnessed at train stations, high streets in various cities across the country, each of them handing out the names of the fallen, their regiment and their age when they died on July 1, 1916. Though none of them spoke, at various times during the day they would gather in a rendition of We're Here Because We're Here, a song sung in the trenches of the First World War.
"I wanted to make a contemporary memorial to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one that moved around the UK with an unpredictability in which the participants, by their actions, took the memorial to the public," said Jeremy Deller, according to the project's website.
The volunteers were men ranging between 16 and 52 years. Each of the volunteers were clothed in historically accurate uniforms representing the 15 regiments that suffered casualties on July 1, 1916.
It is estimated that 19,240 men were killed on the first day of the battle in 1916, the bloodiest day in British military history. The project was partly inspired by tales of sightings by people who believed they had seen a dead loved one.
The project was commissioned by 14-18 NOW and carried out through the help of Rufus Norris, director of the National Theatre.
We're Here Because We're Here is said to be one of the largest arts participation projects ever, involving 25 organizations and 1,500 participants.
The We're Here Because We're Here project took social media by storm. Using the hashtag #wearehere witnesses uploaded images throughout the day.
To see more great images like these, please visit: Because We are Here
Mishall Rehman Send an email July 6, 2016Last Updated: September 14, 2018
Mishall Rehman
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Mishall is a freelance journalist pursuing her passion for writing in her new homeland Canada. She currently lives in Trenton, ON with her husband.
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It has been in effect since January 1, 2007.
(h) any person to whom a community development bond is transferred by a person described in clause (e), (f) or (g) and any subsequent transferee of that person.
1(3) For the purposes of this Act, a bank, trust company, loan company, credit union or caisse populaire purchasing a community development bond is not an eligible bondholder with respect to that bond.
S.M. 1993, c. 48, s. 37; S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 2; S.M. 2000, c. 35, s. 77; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3; S.M. 2006, c. 34, s. 256.
2(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act and the regulations, the provisions of The Corporations Act respecting corporations with share capital apply to bond corporations.
2(2) Except as otherwise provided in this Act and the regulations, The Securities Act applies with respect to community development bonds and transactions under this Act.
S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3.
(m) set out any prescribed matter.
3(2) No individual shall be an incorporator of a bond corporation unless he or she is a resident of the municipality in which the corporation is to have its head office or of a nearby municipality.
3(3) and (4) Repealed, S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 4.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 3; S.M. 2000, c. 35, s. 77; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3 and 4.
4(1) No articles of a bond corporation shall be accepted for filing by the Director of the Corporations Branch without the approval of the minister.
(b) if the head office is to be located in Northern Manitoba other than in an incorporated community, of the Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs.
S.M. 2000, c. 35, s. 77.
5(1) No corporation, other than a corporation incorporated in accordance with this Act, shall have a name that includes the words "rural development bond corporation", the words "community development bond corporation", or any similar words that suggest that the corporation is one to which this Act applies.
5(2) No business, other than a corporation incorporated in accordance with this Act, shall have a business name that includes the words "rural development bond", the words "community development bond", or any similar words that suggest that the business is one to which this Act applies.
S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 5.
(c) do any other prescribed thing.
7(1) Despite The Corporations Act, a director of a bond corporation is not liable under section 113 or subsection 117(1) of that Act, if that director votes for or consents to a resolution or exercises his or her powers or discharges his or her duties for the purpose of satisfying a condition imposed with respect to an approval by the review committee under Part 4.
(b) under any rule of law imposing a fiduciary or other duty on him or her with respect to the disclosure of confidential information received in the course of acting as a director of the eligible business, if that information is disclosed in good faith to the board of directors or shareholders of the bond corporation or to the Government of Manitoba for the purpose of protecting its interests.
8 No fees are payable under The Corporations Act for any service performed or for any document filed or issued in respect of a bond corporation.
9(1) The minister shall maintain a register listing the names of all bond corporations.
9(2) A bond corporation shall file with the minister a copy of such documents as may be prescribed within such time as may be prescribed.
9(3) The register under subsection (1) and the documents filed under subsection (2) shall be open to public inspection during normal business hours.
10(1) Repealed, S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 4.
from the closing date of the initial distribution of that bond.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 4.
(f) a provision that requires a bond corporation that withdraws or retracts, or divests itself of, its investment in the eligible business in which the proceeds of the bonds were invested, to repay pro rata the principal amount of the bonds, without delay, to the bondholders.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 5.
(d) a provision setting out the rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions attaching to the bond.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 6.
12(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where a community development bond is guaranteed under subsection 16(3), the Government of Manitoba is liable to pay in respect of that bond the loss sustained by the eligible bondholder in an amount not exceeding the principal amount of the community development bond.
(b) a prescribed circumstance arises.
12(3) Before the Government of Manitoba pays on its guarantee under subsection (2), the Minister of Finance shall give written notice to affected bondholders in such manner as he or she considers appropriate.
12(4) If an eligible bondholder dies, the Government of Manitoba shall, upon application by the personal representative of the deceased, purchase a community development bond that was held by that bondholder for an amount not exceeding the principal amount of the community development bond.
12(5) Despite anything in this section, the Government of Manitoba is not liable to purchase under subsection (4), or to pay on its guarantee of, a community development bond referred to in subsection 20(6).
(c) a receiver or receiver-manager appointed under section 35.
S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3 and 6.
12.1(1) Every security interest granted to a bond corporation in connection with its investment in an eligible business is assignable to the Government of Manitoba as security without the consent of the eligible business.
12.1(2) A bond corporation shall assign to the Government of Manitoba, at the request of the minister, every security interest granted to the corporation in connection with its investment in an eligible business.
S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 7.
(iii) exercise any or all of the Government's rights under a security interest assigned to it under section 12.1.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 7; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3 and 8.
14(1) There is hereby established a Community Development Bonds Review Committee consisting of such members as are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, a majority of whom shall be persons who are not employees of the Government of Manitoba.
(c) authorize, fix and provide for the remuneration and expenses of a member who is not an employee of the Government of Manitoba.
(b) to give such approvals and to impose such conditions as are provided for in this Part.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 8; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3.
(b) by such persons as in the opinion of the minister are appropriate, in the case of investment pool development bonds.
14.1(2) An application by an eligible business under clause (1)(a) shall include a business plan that complies with subclause 15(1)(f)(ii).
14.1(3) The minister may review an application under subsection (1) and, if the minister considers it appropriate, may submit it to the review committee.
(b) may give its preliminary approval to the application, subject to such conditions as the review committee considers advisable.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 9; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3.
(i) include any other information that the minister or the review committee requires.
15(1.1) An application under subsection (1) is not required to include the business plan described in subclause (1)(f)(ii) in respect of an eligible business if an application under clause 14.1(1)(a) in respect of the eligible business has been approved and any conditions imposed by the review committee relating to the business plan have been met.
15(2) Where the minister is satisfied that an application under subsection (1) complies with this Act and the regulations, the minister shall submit the application to the review committee.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 10; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3 and 9.
(b) if it is satisfied that the application complies or will comply with subsection (4), may give its approval to the application, subject to such conditions as the review committee considers advisable.
16(2) If the review committee imposes any conditions on an approval under clause (1)(b), it shall specify whether the conditions must be met before the approval is effective or may be met at a later time.
(b) the bond corporation is authorized to issue and distribute those bonds in accordance with this Act and the regulations.
(f) such conditions as may be prescribed are met.
17 Sections 15 and 16 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to an application to vary or rescind an approval given under clause 16(1)(b).
18 No person shall distribute community development bonds except in accordance with the regulations.
19 A bond corporation shall not issue a community development bond for less than its face value or for a consideration other than money.
20(1) In this section, "associated" means associated in the prescribed manner.
the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, subject to such conditions as he or she considers appropriate and sets out in its order, permit that person to hold community development bonds of the bond corporation not exceeding a specified amount.
20(4) If two or more persons hold a community development bond jointly, each is deemed to be the sole holder of the bond for the purposes of subsection (2).
(b) that other person is not associated with the holder.
(b) who contravenes or fails to comply with any conditions imposed under subsection (3) on holding that other amount.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 11; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3.
21 A bond corporation shall hold the proceeds of the sale of community development bonds, and other money received by it, in the prescribed manner.
(d) include any other information that the minister requires.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 12; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3; S.M. 2002, c. 47, s. 2.
(b) may approve the application if he or she is satisfied that the application complies or will comply with clauses 16(4)(a) to (f), any prescribed conditions and any conditions imposed by the minister, including conditions to be met by the eligible business.
23(2) If the minister imposes any conditions on an approval under clause (1)(b), the minister shall specify whether the conditions must be met before the approval is effective or may be met at a later time.
23(3) Where the minister approves an application under clause (1)(b) and the bond corporation and eligible business satisfy any conditions that must be met before the approval is effective, the bond corporation may, in accordance with that approval and this Act and the regulations, invest the proceeds of the sale of the community development bonds.
23(4) Repealed, S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 13.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 13; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3.
24 Sections 22 and 23 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to an application to vary or rescind an approval given under clause 23(1)(b).
25 A bond corporation shall not disburse the proceeds of the sale of community development bonds except as provided by regulation.
26 An eligible business shall make continuing financial disclosure to The Manitoba Securities Commission in accordance with those provisions of The Securities Act that by regulation apply to eligible businesses.
27 A person who is an insider of a bond corporation or an eligible business is subject to those provisions of The Securities Act that by regulation apply to insiders.
(b) the bondholders have passed a resolution requesting that the bond corporation make application for the approval of the review committee to the conversion or exchange of the bonds of those bondholders who wish to convert or exchange their bonds for securities of the eligible business.
(e) any other information that the minister or the review committee requires.
28(3) Where the minister is satisfied that an application under subsection (1) complies with this Act and the regulations, the minister shall submit the application to the review committee.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 14; S.M. 1997, c. 52, s. 18; S.M. 2002, c. 47, s. 2.
(b) if it is satisfied that it is appropriate to do so, may give its approval to the application, subject to such conditions, including conditions to be met by the eligible business, as the review committee considers advisable.
29(2) If the review committee imposes any conditions on an approval under clause (1)(b), it shall specify whether the conditions must be met before the approval is effective or may be met at a later time.
(b) after being given the disclosure document referred to in clause 28(2)(c) as approved by the review committee, the bondholders pass a resolution directing that the community development bonds of those bondholders who wish to convert or exchange their bonds for securities of the eligible business be converted or exchanged.
30(1) A bond corporation shall keep at its head office in Manitoba, or at another place of business in Manitoba authorized by the minister, its documents, records and books of account that relate to the raising of money by the sale of community development bonds and shall retain them at that location until six years after the date of the redemption, conversion or exchange of the last community development bond to which the documents, records or books of account relate.
30(2) An eligible business in which the proceeds of the sale of community development bonds is invested shall keep at its head office in Manitoba, or at another place of business in Manitoba authorized by the minister, the documents, records and books of account that relate to that investment and shall retain them at that location until six years after the date on which the bond corporation ceases to be an investor in the eligible business.
31(1) The minister may appoint any person as an inspector for the purposes of this Act.
31(2) The minister shall furnish an inspector with a certificate of appointment.
31(3) An inspector exercising a power under this Act shall, on request, produce his or her certificate of appointment.
(c) after giving a receipt for them, remove from the place any documents, records or books of account for the purpose of making copies or extracts.
the justice may, on application without notice, issue a warrant authorizing an inspector, with such peace officers as are required to assist, to enter the place, to take any action that an inspector may take under this Act and to use such force as may be necessary.
(b) furnish the inspector with any information he or she may reasonably require for the enforcement of the Act or the regulations.
32(4) No person shall obstruct an inspector in the carrying out of his or her functions under this Act.
33 Where, on application by the minister, the court is satisfied that a bond corporation has failed to comply with this Act, the regulations or a condition to which an approval under Part 4 is subject, the court may make an order that the bond corporation comply.
(d) any other order it considers appropriate.
(c) the Government of Manitoba is, or is about to become, liable under subsection 12(2) to pay on its guarantee of a bond issued by the corporation.
35(2) For the purposes of The Corporations Act, a receiver or receiver-manager appointed under subsection (1) is deemed to be appointed under an instrument.
unless the minister considers it to be in the public interest that no notice or opportunity to be heard be given.
35(4) If no notice or opportunity to be heard is given under subsection (3), the minister shall, without delay after the appointment of a receiver or receiver-manager under subsection (1), on such notice as he or she considers appropriate, give the directors of the bond corporation an opportunity to be heard with respect to the appointment of the receiver or receiver-manager.
S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 10.
the minister may appoint a person to manage and administer, on behalf of the bond corporation, the corporation's investment, and may establish the terms of the appointment.
35.1(2) A person appointed to manage and administer an investment under subsection (1) has, subject to the terms of the appointment, the authority to exercise, on behalf of the bond corporation, every right that the bond corporation has in connection with that investment.
36 In a prosecution or proceeding under this Act in which proof is required respecting an approval of the minister under subsection 4(1), an approval of the review committee under Part 4 or a condition to which an approval under Part 4 is subject, a certificate signed by the minister is admissible in evidence of the facts stated in the certificate without proof of the minister's signature.
37(1) No action or proceeding may be brought against the minister, a member of the review committee or an employee or agent of the Government of Manitoba for any act done in good faith in the performance or intended performance of a duty or in the exercise of a power under this Act, or for any neglect or default in the performance or exercise in good faith of such duty or power.
37(2) The minister, a member of the review committee or an employee or agent of the Government of Manitoba shall not, in a civil action or proceeding, be required to testify about information or to produce documents or things obtained under this Act, except for the purposes of carrying out the person's duties under this Act.
(j) respecting any matter the Lieutenant Governor considers necessary or advisable to carry out the intent and purpose of this Act.
S.M. 1995, c. 24, s. 15; S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 3.
39(2) If a corporation commits an offence under this Act, a director or officer of the corporation who authorized, permitted or acquiesced in the commission of the offence is a party to and is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to the penalty provided in subsection (3) whether or not the corporation has been prosecuted or convicted.
39(3) An individual who is convicted of an offence under this Act is liable to a fine of not more than $50,000. or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both.
39(4) A corporation that is convicted of an offence under this Act is liable to a fine of not more than $100,000.
39(5) Proceedings in respect of an offence under this Act may not be instituted more than three years after the commission of the offence.
40 This Act may be cited as The Community Development Bonds Act and referred to as chapter C160 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
S.M. 2000, c. 48, s. 40.
41 This Act comes into force on a day fixed by proclamation.
NOTE: S.M. 1991-92, c. 47 was proclaimed in force October 21, 1991.


There are many people who cannot get pregnant and have a child. Some are infertile. Some are single and have no one that wishes to parent with them. Gay couples cannot naturally have children. So how are these folks supposed to get the baby that they want?
This is the question Alana S. Newman was faced with while speaking at the Bonds that Matter conference. It's not the first time Newman has dealt with the idea that children are possessions to be had, and that relationships are irrelevant. A child's needs are irrelevant also.
Newman is herself the product of donor insemination. She never knew her father, but did know a succession of men that she was supposed to accept as her father.
After a wrenching divorce, I never again saw that "dad" of mine. My mother remarried, and I was given a new "dad." But neither the first nor the second man ever made me feel safe in my own home. It was clear to me that all men were evil and vile. I truly thought that either they lacked the capacity to love, or else there was something wrong with me; I was not worthy of love.
What Newman sees in the surrogacy industry is that it IS an industry. It is meant to make money. Children are the products that are sold – commodities, not people. Relationships lose out to the desires of adults, who can then do what they wish with their purchase.
Mitsutoki Shigeta is a Japanese multi-millionaire who recently made international headlines for commissioning sixteen children born via Thai surrogates. He housed the surrogates, along with his children and nannies, in several condos that functioned as holding camps. He apparently has a great deal of sperm stored and was planning to commission at least a dozen pregnancies every year for as long as he could. A family member of one of the surrogates reported that in the surrogacy contract it was stipulated that if the woman were to bear an "imperfect" child, she would be required to pay $24,000 to him, Mr. Shigeta, and raise the baby herself. She would be paid just under $12,000 for carrying and giving birth to a healthy, normal child.
Newman also mentions Nadya Sulemon, whom the press dubbed "Octomom" after she gave birth to octoplets via surrogacy, and had six other children. No one knows what Sulemon's motives were, but sadly, she had this to say about her experience: "I hate babies, they disgust me . . . Obviously, I love them—but I absolutely wish I had not had them." Imagine the impact of that on her children.
As an adoptive mother, I can tell you: adoption is good, but it's not great. The premise of adoption is to find homes for children who, for whatever reason, do not have one. Their parents are either deceased or are incapable of caring for them. Adoption is built on loss; the child has lost their biological family and that is always sad. But adoption is child-centered: how do we find good, appropriate homes for children that need them? Surrogacy is adult-centered: how do I get a child that I want?
The overwhelming majority of donor-conceived people do not have photos, video tapes, or letters from their missing parent. Yet we are told we should be grateful. We're told that if our biological parents had been forced to have a relationship with us, then they would never have agreed to give us life.
Since donor-conceived people are not allowed to grieve, we have few safe outlets for talking about our loss, and especially for talking about the inherent shame in how we were conceived. There is an ugly side to our conception: the masturbation, the anonymity, the payment. It's shameful to say, but my father was paid roughly $75 to promise to have nothing to do with me.
And if children are okay to purchase, why not a liver or a kidney or a heart? Folks with money should be able to buy whatever they wish, right? And those who profit from it are simply good business people. That's the lesson that surrogacy is teaching us.
Read "Children's Rights, or Rights to Children?" at Public Discourse.
Baltimore Mom: Abusive Or Responsible?


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Hawley's Bill to Stop Universities with Massive Endowments from Receiving COVID Aid Sees Momentum in Congress
U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have cosponsored Senator Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) bill to prohibit universities from receiving Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds from the CARES Act if they have an endowment larger than $10 billion, unless they first spend some of their own money on coronavirus-related financial assistance for students. Representatives Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ben Cline (R-Va.) are introducing companion legislation in the House.
"Universities with massive endowments should not be getting taxpayer money unless they spend some money out of their own pockets to actually help their students. This is common sense. Relief funds were intended for schools that need it, not wealthy universities that sit on huge endowments. It's greed, plain and simple, and it's wrong."
Senator Josh Hawley
Senator Blackburn said, "Federal funds to help America through this unpreceded healthcare and economic crisis should be reserved for those who truly need it, and should not go to well-endowed universities."
Senator McSally said, "Universities with large endowments should not receive a dime of federal relief cash without first tapping into their own funds to help struggling students who have been impacted by this crisis. Our legislation will compel universities to set aside a portion of their endowment funds to support suffering students before they can receive federal help."
Senator Rubio said, "The wealthiest colleges and universities in the U.S., which are sitting on tens of billions of dollars in endowments, but extending a hand to federal taxpayers for relief funding need a reality check. The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic plaguing our nation has impacted millions of Americans — including students — who desperately need help to weather this storm. When there is a finite amount of money available for students, Congress should ensure aid is going to those who need it most, and I'm proud to join my colleagues in this effort to do exactly that."
Congressman Jordan said, "This bill shouldn't be controversial or partisan. If universities have large endowments, they should spend some of that endowment on their students first, before seeking a federal bailout. This legislation ensures that large universities are held accountable to taxpayers in the future, while at the same time directing funds to those actually in need. I'm proud to stand behind this important legislation with Senator Hawley and Congressman Cline."
Congressman Cline said, "Colleges and universities with multibillion-dollar endowments should not be requesting funds from the CARES Act. Money allocated through this legislation should be reserved for businesses and institutions in need, not entities that have virtually unlimited resources through their foundations and endowments. This bill ensures that our Nation's wealthiest schools can no longer take advantage of coronavirus relief funding at the expense of the American taxpayer."
Under the proposal, universities with over $10 billion in endowments would have to spend 10 times the amount appropriated to them according to the formula in the CARES Act to be eligible for federal relief funds. The university would have to demonstrate it spent the money on the same uses of funds required by the CARES Act – emergency financial aid grants to students to cover costs like food, housing, healthcare and childcare, and costs related to the disruption to the delivery of instruction due to COVID-19.
The CARES Act provided nearly $14 billion for higher education institutions through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. 90 percent of these funds were awarded to higher education institutions to be used to cover the cost of changes in delivery of education services due to COVID-19 and to provide emergency financial assistance to students. Funds are allocated based on the number of Pell Grant recipients and overall student enrollment at each institution of higher education.


Well, it's been a long time coming and is certainly long overdue, but we've finally launched a new website design for FreshWebz! My previous website was built in 2010 and it looked really dated!
Web Design has moved on in leaps and bounds over the last 4 years and that old site just wasn't up to scratch; especially for a company offering web design to other businesses!
In fact, one half-completed replacement site was completely junked, as it was no longer going to meet the needs of the modern internet user! Mobile, smartphone and tablet browsing has taken off in the last couple of years and it was essential that the new website design was in line with these requirements – the new website design is responsive and therefore looks great on smartphones and tablets as well as desktops/laptops.
There are still plenty of changes I want to make as I go along, but at least the core elements are up and running and it looks a much more appropriate for a web design company!!
We emphasise that we offer web design for small businesses in London and Essex, mention our very affordable web hosting packages, and push WordPress design and e-Commerce to the fore.
The new site is built on the WordPress installation I was using for the old Web Design Blog, which is why there are loads of old (and in some cases irrelevant) blog posts that I am also whittling away! On top of that I now have to carry out a complete SEO audit, ensuring that the new pages are optimised and the old blog posts meet the latest standards of SEO……..could be a big job as there are lots of old blog elements that need removing!
It's nearly been a month since I blogged on here, mainly due to the amount of web design work I am doing.
I've not been able to do much work on Cashback Shopper, or My Travel Extras recently & absolutely NONE on Love Your Pets or UK Shopping Spree & really want to redesign My Travel Extras to be less cluttered & more Web 2.0, but will have to wait for a quiet spell I guess. Once I get paid, I want to promote my dating sites a bit more I recently bought a number of new domains, but guess they will also have to go on the back burner for now: cheapcarhirealicante.com, webtraveloffers.com, travelcheapinfo.com, cheapsmallbusinessbroadband.co.uk, scifigoodies.co.uk, findmegaydates.co.uk, findmelesbiandates.co.uk, plus I wanted to try to resurrect easylolly.com for some sort of financial site.
On top of this Ei42 have just launched in the US, so I've been link building for www.cashbackshoppers.biz, in the hope that I can get some more interest in this, but think this is going to need some articles and forum postings to get anywhere…..I did start writing to schools asking them to consider joining as a way to raise funds for their school, but haven't had the time to carry on.
Maybe I have my fingers in too many pies & am spreading myself a bit too thin, but we'll see.


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Papugoryba dwubarwna (Cetoscarus bicolor) - gatunek morskiej ryby z rodziny skarusowatych (papugoryby).

Poławiana gospodarczo. Hodowana w dużych akwariach morskich.

Zasięg występowania
Morze Czerwone i Ocean Indyjski do Wielkiej Rafy Koralowej, rafy koralowe na głębokościach od 1 do 30 m p.p.m.

Opis
Pokarm stanowią glony i polipy koralowców. Kawałki koralowców papugoryba odłamuje zębami umieszczonymi w pysku, przypominającym papuzi dziób. Następnie mieli kawałki pokarmu za pomocą przekształconych w dodatkowe szczęki gardłowe kości przełyku. Podczas zjadania i trawienia koralowców produkowany jest piasek koralowy. Pospolite jest u papugoryby obojnactwo. Ryba żyje w grupie. Po śmierci osobnika dominującego kolejnym liderem zostaje najsilniejsza i największa samica, która przechodzi wtedy zmianę płci i ubarwienia.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Opis i zdjęcia
 Opis w FishBase.org

Bibliografia

Skarusowate
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1829 roku

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Q: Remove next character jQuery (no html elements given) Suppose the following markup:

      link [ some text here
      link [ some more text here

Is there anyway to use jQuery to remove the ' [ ' from the top line but not the bottom one?
Note: I don't have the access to the markup, but I can add elements, divs etc. using jQuery if I wanted to. BUT jQuery does not need to target the string of ' ] ' in particular - it can be something like "remove next 3 characters after uniqueLink1.

A: jQuery doesn't really help much with manipulating text nodes, but here it is:
var tn = $('a[name="uniqueLink1"]')[0].nextSibling;
tn.nodeValue = tn.nodeValue.replace('[', '');

Demo

$()[n] is a shorthand for $().get(n), so [0] will return a reference to the first matched DOM element inside the jQuery object, the uniqueLink1 anchor.
nextSibling, as the name implies, grabs the next sibling node. In this case, the text node that follows the given anchor element.
nodeValue gets and sets the content of the text node.
String.replace() given a string as the first argument replaces only the first occurrence, thus this should be enough enough given the DOM structure is similar to the posted one.

A: This will filter the textnodes, and remove a [ from the first on it finds:
var textNode = $('body').contents().filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == 3;
}).eq(1);
textNode.replaceWith(document.createTextNode(textNode[0].textContent.replace('[','')));

Example fiddle

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In this image, point to the line that's longest.
You most likely said that the bottom line is the longer of the two. This is clearly true. Except that it isn't.
Both of these lines are the same length. Don't believe me? Get out a ruler and measure them. Come on, you know you want to. Believe me now?
What is it that is causes us to misjudge the length of these lines? It's System 1. System 1 controls our automatic reactions. In this optical illusion, it tells you that the bottom line is longer.
System 2, our slow and deliberate thinking system, just isn't able to engage in effortful thought about every little detail in our lives. We each have a finite amount of brain power, of attention and focus. To make things more efficient, System 2 often lets System 1 handle trivial tasks. But sometimes, an with this illusion, System 1 leads System 2 astray.
Often during our day-to-day lives, we rely on System 1. We don't even realize we're doing so. We lean on gut reactions and impulses when deciding how to act.
For example, when you're at a party and you see a delicious dessert table, your gut reaction might be, "Outta my way, I'm starving!" (As someone formerly self-described as "husky", that's my reaction!). This is System 1 in action.
But if you're like me — and many people are — you probably have a tendency to ignore System 2 and rush the desserts like a wild person. (In a socially acceptable manner, of course.) It's clear that System 2 thinking can be overridden by System 1 thinking.
You can probably guess where we're headed here. Turns out that System 1 can also override System 2 when it comes to handling your money.
You might fail to save, for instance, because you'd rather spend on yourself right now. That's the impulsive, impatient System 1 talking. System 1 doesn't want to "lose' money to your future self.
People hate losing. In fact, research shows that we feel the pain of losing twice as much as the pleasure of gaining. This "loss aversion" leads us to do all that we can to avoid losing — even when we're not actually losing.
When people think about saving money for retirement, it feels like a loss. Why? Because we see our paychecks each month and notice that money is "missing". It's a loss to our present selves. We can't spend the money today, so it feels like it's lost to us.
Now, System 2 knows better, but it's unable to sway System 1. No matter how much we try, System 1 experiences saving money as a loss. And because we hate loses, we do everything we can to avoid them.
This means that, in general, it doesn't feel good to save.
One way to prevent your brain from experiencing loss aversion is to fool it into not realizing that you're saving. Your goal is to trick the System 1 side of your brain. The best way to do this is to make your saving automatic.
All modern banks and retirement savings plans now allow you to automate your transactions. And if you haven't already automated your retirement saving, you should do so. Now. No, I'm serious. I mean right now. Go ahead. We'll wait.
By automating your retirement contributions, you don't have to make the choice each month to save. This is good. You're bypassing System 1. Your brain may still eventually notice that the money is gone, but it won't experience it as a tangible loss.
That's certainly been true in my own case.
I've been saving automatically for several years. The money that comes out of my account is dead to me. I don't even think about it. It's almost in the same category as taxes, unemployment premiums, or charitable giving. I don't even consider it my money, so it doesn't hurt when I "lose" it.
System 1 isn't the only villain, though. Deliberate, methodical System 2 can also get in the way of your financial success.
Have you ever spent an hour on the phone trying to save $10 on a cell phone bill? I have.
This the Pareto principle in action. The Pareto Principle says that 80% of the results for a given activity result from 20% of the effort. System 2 thinks the Pareto principle is bunk. It'll gladly let you spend hours to save pennies…but then refuse to spend a few seconds to save dollars.
This isn't to say that you ought not spend the time to obtain small victories. Go for it! But if it takes thirty seconds to save $200 on a car purchase, you'd have to do twenty of those hour-long phone calls that save you ten bucks.
J.D. often says that money is more about mindset than it is about math. I agree. Our minds cause many of us to struggle with our finances. Between faulty money blueprints and our two thinking systems, it's no wonder we sometimes encounter hardships.
Understanding how our brains work won't necessarily solve your money problems, but it may help you to recognize faulty thought processes when you experience them. And this awareness could help you make smarter choices with your finances — and your future.
What do you do to overcome your natural tendencies to make poor choices with money? How do you trick yourself to be smarter with money? Let me know in the comments below (or on Twitter or on Facebook).
There are 7 reader responses to "Loss hurts: Loss aversion and how to beat it".
Automate your savings is the way to go. As long as the money isn't in your checking account, it doesn't feel like a loss. Who scan their paychecks every month? It only feels like a loss if you see the money in your checking account and has to manually send it to the retirement account. Automation is great for new investors.
I think my brain is largely immune to loss aversion from stock market volatility now. I've been a DIY investor for over 20 years and I went through a few cycles. The stock market always recovered in the past and that experience help build my immunity to loss aversion. I guess the trick is to start investing when you're young and DIY.
Joe, I totally agree about some people having more immunity to market swings than others.
I've been at it about 7 years so I haven't seen the huge market swings, but even with the small ones I can tell I'm not wired to be as stressed by them.
Knowing a bit about psychology, I know I could be prone though to doing something stupid. That's why the automation and ignoring the noise is so critical.
Thanks for checking out the piece Jim!! Appreciate it!!
I'm a big proponent of saving into investment accounts automatically and RARELY looking at them. Over the long run, the market is going to go up. On the other hand, today, this week, or this year, anything can happen. If you're prone to tinker, just don't look at it. Set a date once a year or so to rebalance based on a predetermined asset allocation. Beyond that, let that money grow all on its own. A watched pot never boils.
100% agree on the automatic investment of money. You have to plan ahead and know that System 1 is going to pop up when the market is falling. By planning ahead when times are good, you can automate the decision making progress to eliminate those irrational System 1 decisions. Best thing I ever did was to (1) build up my emergency cash reserve, (2) automate my 401(k) (like you said, that money is dead to me now that I don't see it), and (3) automatically transfer a certain dollar amount from my bank account every month into my brokerage account to dollar cost average.
Final piece of advice: turn off the TV and go for a walk when the markets are stressful. Tune out the noise and focus on the long term.
I think the assumption that saving for the future is the rational choice is often wrong. When someone in their 20's is saving money for retirement they are saving out of fear of the future, not based on a rational choice that the money will be better spent in the future. Even the assumption that saving money early for retirement means you won't have to save as much later is not usually a rational one. Its not unlikely that spending money when you are young is going to be better than the additional money you have to spend when you are 50 because you don't need to save as much for retirement.
The rational approach to savings and spending is to consider opportunity costs on both ends. The uncertainty of the future means it carries increased risk. But that uncertainty works both ways. Its not at all irrational to decide that the immediate reward is more valuable than an uncertain future reward. In fact, a lot of people are saving for the retirement they imagine but is wholly unrealistic regardless of how much money they have. You go to estate sales and you find people who spent all that money they saved collecting nostalgia from their youth. Essentially buying stuff they couldn't afford in their youth or threw out at some point.
The key to savings is not fooling yourself. Its having a clear idea of how the money will be spent. If you are clear about the reward, its a lot easier to understand and accept the immediate opportunity cost. The key to successful financial planning is spending money well, not saving it.
Ross Williams, that's certainly a contrarian viewpoint for the FIRE crowd, when you say: "Even the assumption that saving money early for retirement means you won't have to save as much later is not usually a rational one." I'd look at the numbers on any compound interest calculator for some scenarios on that.
I hope, for your sake, that your rational mind can constantly and consistently override the irrational desires to spend and acquire, ignoring the swiftly oncoming future. "Opportunity costs" are great to recognize, unless that tag gets slapped on a whole lot of things that you regret, woefully, years down the road. In other words, for a lot of people this would not work, and I hope you are not fooling yourself.
I feel like Joe somewhat immune against losses and i´ve been like him a DIY-investor for 15 years now.
During that time i developed a mindset, that helps me to ignore the market cycles.
For me investing in the stock market and buying stocks for my portfolio is the same as paying down debt for a homeloan. I feel it is a kind of "forced saveing".
The result for the houseowner is, that he´s the owner of his house and he can life without paying rent. After i paid down my "houseloan" i´m owner of 20 different companies and the dividends i receive are my method of living without paying a rent for my home.
So, if i buy stocks the most important thing to me are the dividends. Therefore the stocks i buy are mostly dividend aristocrats as they are relative reliable dividend-payers.
Price of a stock is only important when you buy or when you sell stocks.
As long as they pay dividends or even better grow their dividends i don´t even think of selling stocks – so the price of the stock is not important.
And if I want to buy a stock i usually choose the stock in my portfolio with the lowest price so that i can take advantage of the cost-average-effect. So, the lower the prices the better for me as I can buy more "dividends".


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Taptoe (tijdschrift), een Nederlands tijdschrift voor kinderen
Taptoe (militair), een militaire parade met muziek
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\section{Introduction}

Magnetic flux emergence and its successive interaction with the magnetic canopy represent a crucial point in the first stage of the formation of the sunspot penumbrae.

\citet{Sch10b} found that the penumbra forms in sectors and generally on the side opposite to that between the two polarities of an active region (AR). Also, they found that individual filaments form on the side towards the opposite polarity, but these are not stable and disappear on granular lifetimes. In this area, elongated granules are present. They continuously appear and disappear, indicating a region of flux emergence as observed in the numerical simulations of \citet{Cheung08} and \citet{Tort09}. \citet{Sch10b} concluded that a stable penumbra cannot form in the region of flux emergence, because the strong dynamics introduced by ongoing flux emergence prevent the settlement of the penumbral field.

Elongated granules in the photosphere are developed by emerging horizontal fields, being aligned with the horizontal component of the emerged field \citep{Strous99, Cheung07, Cheung08}.
Recently, \citet{Lim13} found that penumbral filaments were formed in a region on the side toward the opposite polarity of the AR. In this region a series of elongated granules was detected in association with an emerging flux region. However, they detected other cases where the flux emergence did not form the penumbra, even if accompanied by a series of elongated granules. They explained this behavior with the presence or absence of strong overlying canopy fields.

In this context, we recall that an important signature of magnetic flux emergence in the chromosphere is a bundle of dark arches crossing the polarity inversion line, called arch filament system \citep[AFS; e.g.,][]{Bruz80,Spad04,Zucc05}. Such a structure is usually observed in the hours following the appearance of H${\alpha}$ brightenings.

Here, we present one of the rare observations of the formation of the penumbra, starting from the side towards the opposite polarity, below an AFS, in the AR NOAA 11490.
In the next Section we describe the whole data set and its analysis. In Section 3 we present the results. Finally, in Section 4 we summarize our conclusions.

\section{Observations and analysis}

We study the following spot of the AR NOAA 11490 using high temporal, spatial, and spectral resolution data acquired by the Interferometric BIdimensional Spectrometer \citep[IBIS;][]{Cav06} operating at the NSO/Dunn Solar Telescope (DST). The observations were carried out on 2012 May 28 from 13:39 UT to 14:38 UT.

The whole data set acquired on 2012 May 28, whose relevant characteristics were already described in detail in \citet{Rom13}, consists of 45 scans through the \ion{Fe}{1} 617.30 nm, \ion{Fe}{1} 630.25 nm, and \ion{Ca}{2} 854.2 nm lines, with 67 s cadence. Among these, 15 scans are relevant to the following part of the AR and were acquired from 14:19 UT to 14:38 UT, as shown in the Figure 1 of \citet{Rom13}. The observed fields of view (FOVs) are shown in Figure 1a. The lines were sampled with a spectral profile having a full with half maximum of 2 pm and an average wavelength step of 2 pm.
The \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm and 630.25 nm lines were sampled in spectro-polarimetric mode with 30 and 24 spectral points, respectively. The signal-to-noise ratio of these measurements is about $3 \times 10^{-3}$  in units of continuum intensity per Stokes parameter. The \ion{Ca}{2} 854.2 nm line was sampled in spectroscopic mode with 25 spectral points. The FOV of each camera was $500\times 1000$ pixels, with a pixel scale of 0\farcs09.

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=0.35,clip, trim=80  70 40 200]{Fig1a.ps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.35,clip, trim=80  70 40 200]{Fig1b.ps}
	\includegraphics[scale=0.35,clip, trim=80  40 40 200]{Fig1c.ps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.35,clip, trim=80  40 40 200]{Fig1d.ps}
	\caption{Continuum filtergrams (a-c-d) and LOS magnetogram (b) taken by SDO/HMI showing maps of AR NOAA 11490 at different times. The black dashed and continuum boxes in (a) indicate the IBIS FOVs containing the leading and the following spots, respectively, while the red box indicates the FOV shown in Figure 2. Here and in the following figures, North is at the top, West is to the right. The axes give the distance from solar disc center. The arrow points to the disc center.}
	\label{Figure 1}
\end{figure*}

For each spectral frame, a simultaneous broad-band (at $633.32 \pm 5$ nm) frame was acquired, imaging the same FOV observed in spectro-polarimetric mode and with the same exposure time. To reduce the seeing degradation, the images were restored using the Multi-Frame Blind Deconvolution \citep[MFBD;][]{Lof02} technique (see details in \citealp{Rom13}).

To determine the strength and the inclination angle of the magnetic field we performed a single-component inversion of the Stokes profiles for all the available scans of the \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm line using the SIR code \citep{SIR}. The procedure was described in detail in a previous paper \citep{Mur16}.

To study the evolution in the forming penumbra, we also analyzed both Space-weather HMI Active Region Patches \citep[SHARPs,][]{Bobra14} continuum filtergrams and magnetograms taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory \citep[SDO,][]{Sch12} satellite. These data are taken in the \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm line with a resolution of 1\arcsec. They cover seven hours of observations, starting from 2012 May 28 at 13:58:25 UT until 20:58:25 UT, with a cadence of 12 minutes.

IBIS and SDO/HMI observations were co-aligned using as a reference the first spectral image in the continuum of the \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm line taken by IBIS at 14:20 UT on 2012 May 28 and the continuum filtergram closest in time taken by SDO/HMI. We used the IDL \textit{SolarSoft} mapping routines to take into account the different pixel sizes.

Maps of the mean circular polarization averaged over the line, $V_{s}$, and of the mean linear polarization signal, $L_{s}$, were calculated using
\begin{eqnarray}
V_{s}=\frac{1}{12\left \langle I_{c} \right \rangle}\sum_{i=1}^{12} \epsilon_{i} V_{i} \\
L_{s}=\frac{1}{12\left \langle I_{c} \right \rangle}\sum_{i=1}^{12} \sqrt{Q^{2}_{i}+U^{2}_{i}}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\left \langle I_{c} \right \rangle$ is the continuum intensity averaged over the IBIS FOV, \textit{i} runs over the 12 central wavelength positions along the line, $\epsilon=1$ for the first 6 positions, and $\epsilon=-1$ for the other 6 positions, in the blue and red wings of the line, respectively.

\section{Results}

\subsection{Formation of the first penumbral sector and its evolution}

AR NOAA 11490 consists of two preceding main sunspots with positive polarity and a more diffuse negative polarity in the following part of the AR (see Figure 1b). The initial stage of the penumbra formation in the leading spot, located in the FOV A indicated with the dashed box in Figure 1a, was already described in a previous paper \citep{Mur16}. The penumbra forms in about 10 hours and the first sector develops on the side located away from the opposite polarity.

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim= 0 200 80 230]{Fig2a.eps}%
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim=85 200 80 230]{Fig2b.eps}%
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim=85 200  0 230]{Fig2c.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim= 0 200 80 230]{Fig2d.eps}%
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim=85 200 80 230]{Fig2e.eps}%
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim=85 200  0 230]{Fig2f.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim= 0 175 80 230]{Fig2g.eps}%
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim=85 175 80 230]{Fig2h.eps}%
\includegraphics[scale=0.285, clip, trim=85 175  0 230]{Fig2i.eps}
\caption{(a-f) Continuum filtergrams taken by SDO/HMI on May 28 at the times given at the top of each panel, showing the evolution of AR NOAA 11490. White contours in the continuum images indicate the edge of the pore ($I_{c}=0.5$). The red box in (a) indicates the subFOV displayed in Figura 3. (g-i) LOS magnetograms taken by SDO/HMI on May 28 at the times given at the top left of each panel. The values are saturated at $\pm 500$~G. Red contours in the magnetograms indicate the area characterized by negative magnetic flux density of about $-900$~G.}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure*}

Here, we study the penumbra formation in the following part of the AR, located in the FOV B (solid box, Figure 1a). This phenomenon occurred in about 15 hours. In particular, the pore that is visible at [-195\arcsec,-185\arcsec]$\times$[-205\arcsec,-200\arcsec] evolved into a mature sunspot: a penumbra almost encircled the spot on 29 May 2012 at 21:00 UT (see Figure 1d).

Figure 2 shows the formation of the first penumbral sector of the following negative polarity from 15:00 UT to 20:00 UT on 28 May 2012. We note that from 15:00 UT to 18:00 UT the area of the umbra enlarges as a result of the merging of a patch of the same polarity as the following pore (see the green arrow in Figure 2g). In fact, comparing the images in the continuum of Figure 2a-f we find that the area of the umbra increases of about 42.5 arcsec$^{2}$ in 5 hours (from about 35~arcsec$^2$ at 15:00 UT to 77~arcsec$^2$ at 20:00 UT). The total area of the umbra is determined by contours with a threshold of $I_{c}=0.5$ (see Figure 2a-f). Similarly, the area characterized by negative magnetic flux grows by about 60 arcsec$^{2}$, as derived by contours at $-900$~G (see the magnetograms in Figure 2g-i).

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=0.385,clip, trim= 70 250 180 340]{Fig3a_new.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.385,clip, trim=115 250 100 340]{Fig3c_new.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.345,clip, trim= 80 140 100 205]{plot_nuovo.eps}
	\includegraphics[scale=0.385,clip, trim= 70 170 180 340]{Fig3b_new.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.385,clip, trim=115 170 100 340]{Fig3d_new.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.345,clip, trim= 80  85 100 150]{plot_nuovo_ic.eps}
	\caption{Left: Maps of the continuum intensity and of the vertical component of the magnetic field, at 15:00 UT (3a and 3b) and at 20:00 UT (3c and 3d), respectively. Values of the vertical magnetic field are saturated at $\pm 500$~G. Black (white) contours indicate the area characterized by $I_{c}=0.9$. Right: Plots of the magnetic flux within the penumbral area (e) and of the total penumbral area (f) comprised in the box. Red (blue) symbols refer to positive (negative) areas. Positive values are amplified by a factor of 5 for a better visualization.}
	\label{fig3}
\end{figure*}

At 18:00 UT we can see that the first penumbral filaments are formed. In the subsequent three hours they increase radially in size, outwards from the spot and toward the opposite polarity. Figure 3 clarifies that these penumbral filaments are stable. We analyze more in detail the region around the first penumbral sector, indicated with the box in Figure 2a, from 14:00 UT to 21:00 UT. To get rid of possible projection errors, we use the vertical component of the magnetic field deduced from SHARP data. In Figure 3a, at 15:00 UT we find the presence of some dark areas with $0.5 < I_{c} < 0.9$. The larger area at [-175\arcsec,-165\arcsec]$\times$[-193\arcsec,-188\arcsec] is characterized by negative polarity, the same as the adjacent pore. There is also a dark patch with positive field facing the pore at [-164\arcsec,-159\arcsec]$\times$[-201\arcsec,-196\arcsec] (see Figure 3b). However, at 20:00 UT the latter disappears, while the dark area with negative field adjacent to the pore increases, as can be seen from Figure 3c-d. In Figure 3e we plot the positive (red symbols) and negative (blue symbols) magnetic flux evolution in the areas with $0.5 < I_{c} < 0.9$, corresponding to the regions of penumbra formation comprised in the box. The simultaneous evolution of the spatial extent of these areas is also reported in Figure 3f. These graphs illustrate that the first penumbral sector grows smoothly without interruption as the negative magnetic flux increases. This trend remains constant in the following hours after 21:00 UT. By contrast, the penumbral areas characterized by positive magnetic field are transient.

\subsection{Elongated granules and Arch Filament System}

Figure 4 shows the whole region observed with IBIS, that is both FOV A and FOV B, observed from 13:39 UT to 14:12 UT and from 14:19 to 14:38 UT, respectively. In particular, in this Figure (top panels) we display the maps acquired in the continuum of the \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm and in the center of the \ion{Ca}{2} 854.2 nm line on May 28. To obtain these images, where both the following and the leading polarity observed by IBIS are visible, we used a cross-correlation technique aligning a common area between the two FOVs.

The map of the continuum (top left panel, Figure 4) reveals that the following spot is characterized by an umbra and a region between the two polarities comprised in [-170\arcsec,-150\arcsec]$\times$[-225\arcsec,-205\arcsec], where elongated granules are visible.
Figure 4 (top right panel) shows the same region in the \ion{Ca}{2} line center. We note the presence of an AFS. This suggests that the area characterized by elongated granules in photosphere corresponds to a region of magnetic flux emergence. This region is also characterized by a magnetic field configuration having a filamentary shape (Figure 4, bottom left panel) with a sea-serpent configuration, i.e., formed by a bundle of bipolar patches \citep[e.g.][]{SainBel08}. In the magnetic field map (Figure 3, bottom left panel) we note that these filamentary structures are not aligned with the structure of the AFS visible in the \ion{Ca}{2} line center. The filamentary and mixed pattern of the magnetic field can be also distinguished in the inclination angle map (see Figure 4, bottom right panel), but on a larger scale. In fact, we find filaments characterized in their inner part by magnetic field inclination both less and larger than 90$^{\circ}$.

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=0.325,clip, trim=0   70 10 110]{Fig4a.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.325,clip, trim=125 70 30 110]{Fig4b.ps}
	\includegraphics[scale=0.325,clip, trim=0    0 10 110]{Fig4c.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.325,clip, trim=125  0 30 110]{Fig4d.ps}
	\caption{Top panels: maps of continuum intensity at \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm line and in the center of the \ion{Ca}{2} 854.2 nm line on 2012 May 28 at around 14:20 UT from IBIS data. Bottom panels: maps of the magnetic field strength and of the inclination angle obtained from the SIR inversion of the Stokes profiles along the \ion{Fe}{1} 617.3 nm line acquired by IBIS. The contours indicate the edge of the pore at $I_{c} = 0.8 $.}
	\label{fig4}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}[htbp]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=0.50,clip, trim=0  180 60 240]{Fig5a.eps}%
	\includegraphics[scale=0.50,clip, trim=84 180 90 240]{Fig5b.eps}
	\caption{Maps of mean linear and circular polarization signals, $L_{s}$ (left) and $V_{s}$ (right), obtained from IBIS data for the FOV B. The red and green contours indicate the edge of the pore at $I_{c} = 0.8 $ as seen in the simultaneous continuum intensity image (see Figure 4).}
	\label{fig5}
\end{figure*}

This filamentary structure can be also recognized in the linear and circular polarization maps relevant to the FOV B, which are displayed in Figure 5. These maps are deduced by IBIS spectropolarimetric data at 14:21 UT, i.e., the scan with the best seeing. We can use these maps as proxies of vertical and horizontal fields, respectively, given the position close to the disc center of the AR.

In the $L_{s}$ map (Figure 5, left panel), we note around the proto-spot a wide region at [-210\arcsec,-205\arcsec]$\times$[-162\arcsec,-152\arcsec] with different values of linear polarization. In particular, in the region where later the first penumbral sector starts to form, the values are larger than 4$\%$, while in the northern part of the pore the linear polarization is smaller than about 1$\%$. The $V_{s}$ map (Figure 5, right panel) shows a diffuse negative polarity corresponding with the area of the proto-spot and its surroundings. The area between the two magnetic polarities is characterized by a pattern of alternate positive and negative bipoles, with a sea-serpent configuration.

\section{Discussion and Conclusions}
Our findings concerning the penumbra formation in the following polarity of the AR NOAA 11490 are that: (i) penumbral filaments form in the side facing the opposite polarity; (ii) elongated granules in the photosphere, an AFS in the chromosphere, and a magnetic field with sea-serpent configuration are present in the region between the two polarities.

The region between the two polarities is characterized by elongated granules, as described in previous observations (see \citealp{Sch10a}). However, \citet{Sch10a} concluded that this region, being characterized by flux emergence, cannot form stable penumbrae. Nevertheless, our observations highlight that the first stable penumbral sector around the pore forms exactly in the region where a large amount of magnetic flux is emerging, as demonstrated by the presence of the AFS in the chromosphere.

The filamentary pattern of the magnetic field, seen also in the inclination angle of the magnetic field, in the polarization map, and in the continuum, is similar to the sea-serpent configuration. Bipolar patches are observed close to the proto-spot. These features are interpreted as being produced by field lines arising (positive polarity) and going down (negative polarity) in the photosphere. Spectropolarimetric measurements have revealed the existence of such field lines that originate in the mid penumbra and propagate toward the outer penumbral boundary \citep[see, e.g.][]{SainBel08,Kitiashvili10}. \citet{Weiss04} suggested that the turbulent pumping by granular convection drags the flux tubes downward in the moat region to form the sea-serpent configuration. This magnetic configuration, due to magnetoconvection in strongly inclined magnetic fields \citep{Kitiashvili10}, is frequently adopted also to interpret observed properties of bipolar magnetic features in relation with penumbral structures \citep{SainPil05,SainBel08}. In this sense, this configuration may be considered as a further precursor of the penumbra formation, in cases similar to our observations.

\citet{Lim13} observed the formation of penumbral filaments associated with flux emergence under pre-existing chromospheric canopy fields. In particular, they linked the presence/absence of a pre-existing horizontal field in the chromosphere not only to the penumbra formation, but also to another issue related to the penumbra, such as the formation of an orphan penumbra.

Recently, \citet{MacTagg} presented simulations of AR flux emergence where they demonstrated that the overlying magnetic canopies are a consequence of how the magnetic field emerges into the photosphere. These canopies mainly form in the region away from the opposite polarities, where the penumbra first forms. However, also in the region between the two main sunspots of the AR there is a low probability, but not null, of finding near-horizontal fields. \citet{MacTagg} suggest that such canopies are the source of highly inclined horizontal fields required to produce penumbrae. This situation may explain the presence of horizontal fields at the photospheric level before the penumbra formation found in our observations (Figure 4, left panel).

From our study we think that formation of the first penumbral sector between the two polarities may be ascribed not only to the presence of strong overlying canopy filds, as suggested by \citet{Lim13}, but also to the rising velocity of the rising velocity of the magnetic flux bundle, which might differ from the other cases presented in the literature. Therefore, it would be important to collect new data sets relevant to penumbra formation, hopefully occurring between the two main polarities of an AR, to provide observational constraints for the rising velocities. This will also allow to have a larger sample of this kind of evolution, in order to unveil the underlying physical mechanism.

\acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to an anonymus referee for constructive comments. The authors wish to thank the DST staff for its support during the observing campaigns. The authors also thank G. Cauzzi for useful information. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme under the grant agreement SOLARNET (project no. 312495). This work was also supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (PRIN-INAF-2014), by the University of Catania (PRIN-MIUR-2012) and by Space Weather Italian COmmunity (SWICO) Research Program.

{\it Facilities:} \facility{DST (IBIS)}, \facility{SDO (HMI)}

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