Catering to the highly specialized research compliance space in the Life Sciences industry, NTM Consulting Services has made it a point to keep client needs at the core of their business strategy throughout the entire eSirius line of products. Besides delivering superior research compliance solutions, NTM's client engagement strategy includes an effective delivery methodology and knowledge support in the post-production environment. For more than 25 years, it is the zeal to understand client problems and develop tailored eSirius solutions that has kept the team at NTM excited about their work. Supporting the research compliance needs of the Life Sciences research industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, academics, government and not for profits, the company remains in the trenches with the clients, brainstorming the planning, development, and implementation of the solutions. NTM brings to its customers its rich expertise that positions them as the leader in the research compliance space today. "Our vision is to empower life science research organizations with intuitive enterprise software to balance resources, streamline workflows, meet the necessary compliance mandates, and achieve greater research outcomes," says Naji Mourad, President, and CTO at NTM.
Working with the different parties to address their unique research compliance requirements, Mourad explains that each entity has a unique way of interpreting compliance based on their work model. To this end, NTM has designed flexible eSirius solutions that can be localized easily, all while maintaining 100 percent upgrade integrity. "Our architectural foundation allows customers to go about reconfiguring the solution without having to update the source code," says Mourad. The system can be easily configured to change document layout, rules, and workflows based on the clients' needs.
Furthermore, Mourad highlights that transparency is critical in an area such as Life Science research compliance, where compliance is observed from multiple viewpoints.
To elaborate, non-profits and academics that often depend on grants have to meet compliance by ensuring that the money is allocated properly. On the other hand, the animal facility staff has to manage animal population and is accountable for their health, the resources available for care delivery, and the orchestration of the workflow, under various compliance regulations. All this requires a comprehensive approach to research compliance. However, legacy or paper-based workflow with archaic practices creates more problems. Stepping-up to the challenge, NTM has been at the forefront of designing solutions that fill these gaps. eSirius integrated solutions bring automation and access to real-time data that enables the operational efficiency of the facilities and improves research compliance and outcomes.
NTM has focused on developing products that easily fit the needs of research organizations of all sizes and complexities. In addition to its on-premise licensing, NTM's cloud capabilities make enterprise-grade research compliance solutions more obtainable for small and medium-sized programs. Additionally, a simple UI design means that users require little to no training and can focus entirely on their core areas.
Mourad believes that NTM's biggest strength has been its expert workforce that is very well-versed in technology and the Life Sciences industry. "While our framework aligns with the industry needs, we are focused on developing a next-generation product that takes advantage of the modern web technologies for better and more secure access to the resources," concluded Mourad.


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Regulation is messy, takes time, and has unintended consequences
We no longer live in a world where Google and Facebook are tiny upstarts that shouldn't be stifled by tough regulation. They can afford more regulation, and they probably should be regulated to reduce negative externalities.
When it comes to possible fixes for the digital woes our societies suffer from, regulation is always an option. To be clear, the digital sphere isn't really unregulated, and never was. Even the most fervent critics of any new regulation argue that existing law also applies to the internet and its offspring. The topic of sometimes hot debate is then whether this law is fitting or not. In some cases, existing regulation stifles the development of new products. In other cases, new products call for new regulation.
Today, the EU Parliament voted on a proposed copyright reform. While this vote is only one step in a process that will take some more months to complete, there was a lot of heated debate. In today's digital world, there are a few big guys, especially Google and Facebook, making tons of money from advertising, while at the same time being platforms for content other people have created. In the past, for example in the TV world, those content creators would license their stuff to the platforms and thus get paid.
A new balance needs to be found
Not so in the digital age, at least not when it comes to Google and Facebook. In general, they don't pay for content that's distributed through their platforms. With some exceptions, their business model is different. But content creators and traditional publishers want their piece of the advertising cake, and they don't like their content be distributed via Google and Facebook without proper license deals, read: without being paid. Fair enough. Regulation can deal with this.
And then, there is the very American notion of free speech, First Amendment and all that jazz. The coalitions we see these days are a bit funny, with freedom activists fighting side by side with web giants like Google and Facebook, who are threatening the same freedom through their sheer size and power. It's a typical value conflict, where a new balance needs to be found between copyrights and freedom of speech. But also between the giants and the rest of the world.
Google and Facebook can afford more regulation
We no longer live in a world where Google and Facebook are tiny upstarts that shouldn't be stifled by tough regulation. They can afford more regulation, and they probably should be regulated to reduce negative externalities. Of course, regulation needs to be balanced (freedom of speech etc.) and feasible for smaller companies as well. And regulation will have negative side effects, regardless how well it is done. That's the price we have to pay. For example, some business models will be invalidated or at least less profitable through regulation.
With the current EU copyright reform as an example, we clearly see that regulation is messy, takes time, and has unintended consequences. But come to think of it, the same is true for digital innovation: it's messy, takes time, and has unintended consequences. I don't think Mark Zuckerberg's intention was to build a machine that can decide elections, but that's what he did. And there's still no regulation in place to fix this. Will Facebook itself fix it? You bet.
With great power comes great responsibility. That's a classic. The digital sphere has risen to great power, but still needs to cultivate the appropriate sense of responsibility. Where self-regulation fails, the political system will step in and regulate, like it or not.
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7. The said agreement shall be executed by the Execution of Mayor and Town Clerk on behalf of the Town of Windsor and sealed with the corporate seal thereof.
purposes of
8. The Town Council may make and enact all By-laws for necessary by-laws for fully and effectually carrying agreement. out the purposes of the said agreement and of this Act.
9. The Town Council of the Town of Windsor is Exemption
from taxation. hereby authorized and empowered to exempt from assessment beyond the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars for ten years any building, plant or machinery erected by the Company within the Town of Windsor within two years from the date hereof for manufacturing purposes.
An Act to Enable the Town of Windsor to enter into a Contract with the Wentworth Gypsum Com
pany Limited for a Water Supply.
(Passed the 19th day of March, A. D. 1926.)
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly as follows:
The Town Council of the Town of Windsor is May enter into
agreement for hereby authorized and empowered on behalf of the water supply Town to enter into an agreement with the Wentworth Gypsum Company Limited or its assigns whereby upon the Wentworth Gypsum Company Limited or its assigns agreeing to pay yearly for ten years from this date the sum of Five Hundred Dollars in the manner and time to be agreed upon between the parties the Town of Windsor shall, for a period of ten
a years next hereafter, subject to the requirements of the Town and its citizens for Municipal and domestic services and suhject to the future supply by the Town of the quantity of water now used for manufacturing purposes and subject to such deficiency as may from time to time affect the water supply through causes
other than the wilful misconduct of the officers of the Town, supply to and at the meter at the Town limits on Wentworth Street for use by the Wentworth Gypsum Company Limited or its assigns for manufacturing purposes not exceeding Nine Hundred Thousand imperial gallons of water per month.
Agreement to
2. The said Town Council on behalf of the Town of supply water for extinguish-Windsor is hereby also authorized to make such further ment of fires.
agreement with the Wentworth Gypsum Company Limited or its assigns to supply during the said ten years a reasonable and necessary quantity of water for the extinguishment of fires injuring or threatening the property of the Company as the said Town Council may deem proper.
An Act to Amend Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1898,
Entitled, An Act Relating to the
Town of Windsor.
Para 6 amended.
1. Paragraph 6 of Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1898 is hereby amended by inserting after the words "Water Street" in the fourth line thereof the following: "Thence running up King Street in a southerly direction sixty-seven feet to the line of the Goudge Lot so called; thence in a southwesterly direction along the line of the said Goudge Lot to the rear or westerly end thereof coinciding with the rear or easterly end of the Sterling Lot so called; thence in a south-easterly direction along the rear line of the Sterling Lot, of the Post Office Lot, of the Christie Lot, of the W. C. T. U. Lot, to the southeasterly corner thereof; thence in a straight line to that point on the northerly side of Gray Street at which the easterly line of lands of W. Estey Cochran intersects Gray Street aforesaid; thence westerly along the northerly side of Gray
Street across Gerrish Street to a 'point one hundred feet in a westerly direction from the westerly side line of Gerrish Street aforesaid; thence in a northwesterly direction parallel to Gerrish Street to the northwesterly side of the Dominion Atlantic Railway; thence along said railway crossing Stannus Street to the Southwestern line of the "Old Curry Lot" so called; thence northwesterly along the line of the "Old
" Curty Lot" to a point one hundred feet to Water Street; thence southwesterly in a line parallel to Water Street to Albert Street; thence along Albert Street and Water Street to the upper side of the wharf formerly known as Churchill Wharf; thence by the side of said Churchill's Wharf to the river Avon; thence down the said river Avon to the southwesterly side line of lands occupied by the Dominion Atlantic Railway Company; thence in a southwesterly direction along the several side lines of the said lands to the Point on Upper Water Street first intersected thereby; thence crossing Upper Water Street at right angles to the southerly side thereof; thence following the southern boundary of Water Street in a southerly direction to King Street; thence across King Street to the point of beginning".
2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to Provisions of
Chapter 103 pot repeal any of the provisions of the said Chapter 103. repealed.
Entitled, An Act to Authorize the Town of
Windsor to Borrow Money.
Acts 1912,
1. Paragraph 1 of chapter 150, Acts of 1912, is Para 1, Ch. 150 hereby amended by substituting for the words "thirty years" the words "fifteen years, twenty years or thirty years" and adding after the word "thereof"
at the end of the said paragraph the words or some in fifteen years, some in twenty years and some in thirty years in the discretion of the Town Council."
2. Paragraph 6 of the said Act is hereby amended by substituting for the words "two per cent. of the amount borrowed under this Act" in the fifth and sixth lines thereof the words "five per cent. of the principal sum in respect of all bonds redeemable in fifteen years, three and one half per cent. of the principal sum in respect of all bonds redeemable in twenty years and two per cent. in respect of all bonds redeemable in thirty years from the date of the said bonds respectively.
Bonds already issued unaffected.
3. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect any bonds heretofore issued under the provisions of the said Chapter
Windsor to Borrow Money for the Purpose
of_Improving, Enlarging, Extending,
Repairing and Maintaining the
Water Works System of the
Town."
Preamble.
WHEREAS under the provisions of the said Chapter 143 of the Acts of 1920, authority is given to the Town Council to issue debentures;
AND WHEREAS a portion of the debentures thereby authorized has not been issued and it is desirable that the debentures remaining to be issued should be redeemable in twenty years after the date thereof;
Therefore be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly as follows:
All debentures hereafter issued by the Town of Pebenture
hereafter issued Windsor under the provisions of the said Act shall redeemable be redeemable in twenty years after the date thereof.
already issued
2. Nothing herein contained shall affect any de- Debentures bentures heretofore issued under the provisions of the unaffected. said Act.
3. All provisions of the said Act inconsistent here- Inconsistent
provisions of with are hereby repealed.
Act repealed.
An Act to Authorize the Town of Wolfville to Borrow
Money to Pay Maturing Debentures.
I. The Town of Wolfville is authorized to borrow Authority to or raise by way of loan on the credit of the Town a sum not exceeding Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars for the purpose of redeeming and retiring at maturity debentures of the Town amounting to Three Thousand Dollars issued under Chapter 131 of the Acts of 1906, and payable on the first day of June A. D., 1926, the sinking fund provided for the purpose not being sufficient.
2. Where any money is borrowed or raised by Sinking Fund. the issue and sale of debentures of the town under this Act and the Municipal Debentures Act the council of the Town shall provide for a sinking fund with respect to such debentures. The amount to be paid annually into the sinking fund shall not be less than three per centum of the aggregate amount of such debentures and shall not be more than the council deems sufficient to provide for the payment of the debentures when the same are payable and the first payment into such sinking fund shall be made within one year from the date of the debentures.


To solve the sleeplessness problem, mainly massage two points in your hands: 1. Chungchung on the middle finger, 2. neikuan on the forearm below the wrist. In addition, massage the "three mile" point on the forearm (see diagram) is also helpful. Massage each point gently before going to bed.


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Favorite Spring Candles
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, March 31st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 1st
The School of Art & Art History welcomes you to join us for the reception of "Favorite Spring Candles," the second in a series of three UIC MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, and New Media Arts. Artists Chris Hoag, Zachary Hutchinson, Nellie Kluz, and Michael Lopez will present artist talks in the Gallery 400 lecture room at 5pm.
Artist Bios:
Chris Hoag completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee where he majored in Philosophy, Art History, and Filmmaking. He works primarily in 16mm film and his practice is inspired by an interest in formalism(s), ontological distinction, and sea worms. His films have shown at the Images Festival, PDX, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Hamilton Gallery of Art, and other venues.
Zachary Hutchinson (b. 1991) comes to art through costume making, make up, theater, video making and an obsessive attention to image and transgressive affect. He received her BFA at from SAIC and is a MFA candidate at UIC. He has had works shown in Montreal, Mexico City, San Francisco CA, Austin TX, Berlin Germany, Athens Greece and extensively in Chicago IL. He created VideoVideoZine.com , a monthly screening series and webzine made to give visibility to moving image makers in 2013.
Nellie Kluz is a filmmaker working in non-fiction video. Using curiosity, observation and analysis, she records and interprets various locations and communities – focusing on social interactions, belief systems and material realities.
Michael Lopez is a Chicago based artist, writer, performer and MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Only two groups are standing behind at least 60% of all hacker attacks on crypto exchanges. For one attack, they earn $90 million.
The blockchain company Chainalysis has conducted a study on cryptocurrency exchanges hacks. The company has determined that more than half of the attacks are the "merit" of only two hacker groups. In general, they managed to steal $1 billion from trading floors, and for one hack, on average, these groups receive $90 million.
Chainalysis named the first group Alpha. Allegedly, this is a huge tightly controlled organization, which is not driven by greed.
Beta is the second one. It is smaller, poorly organized, and the primary motive of its activities lies in the desire for profit.
According to the company, after siphoning off money from the exchanges, Alpha transfers cryptocurrency through various services to cover its tracks. On average, the attackers of this group make 15,000 transactions with stolen coins. Alpha transfers more than 75% of stolen crypto in a fiat only within a month.
Beta, on the contrary, is slower. This group exchanges crypto for fiat within 6-18 months. When Beta decides to take this step, it attacks one exchange, where it cashes out over 50% of the money. Chainalysis claims that once group managed to withdraw $32 million into cash in such attack.
The company also claims the collapse on the cryptocurrency market did not affect the darknet activities with crypto. On the contrary, the number of transactions with coins has doubled.
Chainalysis is confident cryptocurrency crimes are increasingly becoming part of the traditional malefactors' activities. In the future, the situation will only worsen. That is why the crypto industry should develop innovative technologies to combat hackers.


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Q: Pointers confusion char* and int* I got this confusion while learning c++:
int *a = 8 ;

This gives an error because, as I have understood it, i am trying to set an integer to a pointer which is a memory location. But,
const char *name = "name";

works perfectly fine? I don't get it as name should be an hexadecimal memory location but i am trying to set it to a series of characters.

A: A string literal, "name" in your case, is of typeconst char[]. An array can decay to a pointer which is what's happening in this case. That pointer will then point to the first element in the array. Note that since C++11 assigning to a char* instead of a const char* (thus needing a conversion) as you are doing is illegal, always use const char* for string literals, or better yet, std::string.
8 is of type int, which has no conversion to a pointer type that an array has.

A: The rules for int* and char* are the same. However, you compare apples to oranges.

*

*You cannot assign a value of the respective type to its pointer (it doesn't matter whether there is a const here; I made things const for consistency with the next example where it matters to some extend):
int const*  ip = 8;   // ERROR
char const* cp = '8'; // ERROR

*Arrays decay into pointers upon the slightest opportunity. String literals are arrays of type char const[N] where N is the number of chars in the string literal, including the terminating null char.
int  ia[] = { 8 };
char ca[] = { '8' };
int const*  ip = ia;   // OK
char const* cp = ca;   // OK
char const* lp = "8";  // OK

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Home » Relaxing Ice Cream
Breaking NewsDairy
Relaxing Ice Cream
Bebida Beverage Company has formed another corporate entity to capitalize on the first relaxation ice cream.
KEYWORDS ice cream / relaxation
March 4/Statesville, N.C./PRNewswire -- Bebida Beverage Company, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of relaxation drinks and energy products, has formed another corporate entity to capitalize on the first relaxation ice cream available to consumers.
BeBevCo will be a 35% equity partner in the newly formed Relaxation Solutions Inc. Additional private equity investors are currently in negotiations prior to the consumer market launch. The company believes this project has tremendous revenue potential. However, BeBevCo continues to commit its capital to its rapidly growing KOMA Unwind Relaxation Drink brand.
BeBevCo CEO Brian Weber, who developed the company's flagship product, KOMA Unwind, commented, "I already have multiple major distribution partners calling me weekly as we move this project forward. It's very exciting. I have also begun the search for the perfect fit for a management team for Relaxation Solutions Inc., which will be headquartered in BeBevCo's corporate offices."
Additional announcements are pending on product name(s) and branding opportunities.
Weber expressed that the product(s) will initially come in vanilla and chocolate flavors infused with multiple blends of natural supplements and hemp. Chamomile is also under consideration to be used in future products.
Weber added, "The opportunity to thoroughly explain our mission and core behind Relaxation Solutions Inc. will be shared with hundreds of people when I travel to Istanbul in the country of Turkey, for the eighth annual Global Dairy Congress in June."
Magnum Ice Cream Non-Dairy Bar, Two New Ice Cream Tubs Flavors
Marble Slab Creamery, MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery Introduce New Ice Cream Cakes
Re:THINK Ice Cream Lactose-Free Ice Cream Made with A2/A2 Dairy & Collagen
Prairie Farms Naturally Good Ice Cream


Performing maintenance on Verizon building infrastructure.
Performing and/or managing vendor repairs on all HVAC, Generators, Switchgear, UPS, Fire Suppression, Lighting Security, DC Power plants an AC Power Electrical systems.
Ensuring our standards are implemented in everyday activities.
Ensuring we continue to meet all OSHA, State and Federal environmental standards, laws and best practices.
Creating new ways and maintaining existing processes for reducing carbon footprint across the network.
Maintaining equipment used to support our disaster relief efforts such as generators and HVAC systems both portable and stationary.
Maintaining a safe working environment for yourself, our team and our network.
Willing to work in extreme weather conditions (heat, cold, etc) periodically.
Knowledge and experience with building automation/controls.


The Milly Project is a newly unveiled true account of an enslaved woman in Springfield rightfully gaining her freedom over a decade before the Dred Scott case. The yellowed handwritten court manuscript remained shelved and boxed until a Springfield archivist freed Milly Sawyers again. Archivist Connie Yen and reporter (Jack) Giacomo Bologna have now unleashed this piece of history and we feel obliged and honored to enter the life of a woman who was diligent and bold enough to proclaim and imagine freedom and inalienable rights.
We, the teaching artists and actors, extend our gratitude to Springfield Little Theatre for the use of this historic building and the ability to lift the voice of Milly in Springfield.
The first performance begins at 7:00PM and includes an essential talkback. The performance is 30 minutes long and the Q&A/Talkback will last approximately 20 minutes.
An 8:00PM showing + talkback has been added to accomodate all guests who would like to join us.


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The 12 Days of Lootsmas
Sing along. You know the tune.
On the first day of looting my homies stole for me a 60" HDTV.
On the second day of looting my homies stole for me two Yankees ball caps and a 60" HDTV.
On the third day of looting my homies stole for me three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the fourth day of looting my homies stole for me four packs of rolling paper, three pairs of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the fifth day of looting my homies stole for me five gold teeth…..four packs of rolling paper, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the sixth day of looting my homies stole for me six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the seventh day of looting my homies stole for me seven Scarface t-shirts, six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the eighth day of looting my homies stole for me eight Four Lokos, seven Scarface t-shirts, six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the ninth day of looting my homies stole for me nine hair weaves, eight Four Lokos, seven Scarface t-shirts, six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the tenth day of looting my homies stole for me ten scratch tickets, nine hair weaves, eight Four Lokos, seven Scarface t-shirts, six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the eleventh day of looting my homies stole for me eleven gold chains, ten scratch tickets, nine hair weaves, eight Four Lokos, seven Scarface t-shirts, six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
On the twelfth day of looting my homies stole for me twelve Steel Reserves, eleven gold chains, ten scratch tickets, nine hair weaves, eight Four Lokos, seven Scarface t-shirts, six Swisher Sweets, five gold teeth, four packs of rolling papers, three pair of Jordans, two Yankees ball caps, and a 60" HDTV.
Ah, yes. The holiday season is upon us, and the Ferguson Grand Jury verdict came in just as the businesses destroyed by the August riots and lootings had just gotten back on their feet and as fate would have it, when stores were loaded up with product for Black Friday and the holiday weekend. Plenty of goodies to steal, because nothing honors the memory of a dead guy like stealing everything in sight and burning down your neighborhood.
Yeah, nothing says you care about your community like destroying what other people have. Now here we are in the midst of freezing weather and the pending holidays, and you savages have put dozens and dozens of people out of work by destroying their businesses.
What did that poor woman have to do with the death of Mike Brown? You just destroyed her livelihood, built by her hard work and with money she saved for years.
Every police car destroyed has to be replaced at the cost of taxpayer money, but you animals don't pay taxes, so what does it matter to you?
Not content with burning police cars, you then proceeded to torch a car dealership. Some of you vile cretins carjacked an old man, ran him over with his own car, and beat him with his oxygen tank. What the hell is wrong with you animals? Oh, that's right; it was just an old white dude so that's not racist, or even newsworthy.
And snitches get stitches, right? That's why 20-year old DeAndre Joshua was shot in the head as he sat in his car the other night as the riots started. He was rumored to have been a witness who testified at the Grand Jury hearings that exonerated Darren Wilson.
This violence was planned. It was per-meditated. Leaders of the local New Black Panthers were arrested days ago in possession of weapons while trying to buy materials to make pipe bombs.
Mike Brown's stepfather was filmed on live TV screaming for people to "Burn this bitch down!". Ironically his church was burned down by rioters. Days ago, a guy who was leading a "Fuck Tha Police" rally in Ferguson had his car stolen. Karma. Schadenfreude. Animals eventually turn on each other.
I take no joy in the fact that these people lost their son. I take no joy in the fact that another young man fell astray of the law and died as the result of his actions, but when you're high and rob a convenience store and then confront and beat a cop, it's hard to be overly sympathetic. Look, people, the Grand Jury, made up of volunteers from the community,and comprised of exactly the same racial makeup ratio as the community, listened to over 70 hours of evidence and testimony from over 60 witnesses and numerous forensic reports and exonerated Officer Wilson. But exonerated sure as hell doesn't mean he gets his life back. He will never work as a cop in Ferguson again. He'll likely have to move and leave the state in order to find some semblance of normalcy in a new location away from people threatening to kill him. As is, the New York Times is actively assisting those trying to kill him by publishing his home address so that vigilantes may more easily find him.
So out of a sense of fairness, here are the addresses of the Times reporters who are trying to get Wilson killed, courtesy of John Hawkins at Right Wing News and Charles Johnson from GotNews.
Bosman's address
5620 N WAYNE AVE APT 2
Robertson's address
1113 N DUPRE ST
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119-3203
And where is Al Sharpton? Where is Jesse Jackson? Shouldn't they be there in Ferguson to stop the violence? Aw, hell nawwwwww....they're off looking for the next photo-op. And where is outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder? He visited in August to make sure the race-baiting flames were being fanned to take attention away from his boss, so why not make one final appearance to threaten Wislon with Federal charges now that the state case is closed? It would take attention away from Lord Obeezy circumventing the Constitution with Executive Orders on immigration. But that's a blog for another day.
And if you missed my coverage of the earlier riots, go here.
To catch my coverage of the farcical funeral, go here.
Labels: Ferguson riots, looting, race baiting, riots
Giving the Left a swift kick in the crotch: Election 2014
Ahhh, the midterm elections of 2014. Americans FINALLY woke up and realized the mistake they made in 2012 because they were too stupid to figure out the mistake they made in 2008 that we tried to correct in 2010.
Needless to say, the Republicans trounced the Democrats. The GOP took over control of the Senate, and made a bigger majority in the House. The Left lost several key state gubernatorial races and state legislatures. In all, the Red Tide done swamped the donkey party.
Here in South Carolina, we're so racist that we elected the only black Senator, something the Democrats seem unable to do. And because the Republican War On Women is such a big deal, here in South Carolina we re-elected our Governor, a woman whose parents came here from India.
My Governor is not to be trifled with.
Speaking of the War on Women, I think we can finally stop beating that dead horse. The carcass has no more meat on the flayed bones.
Joni Ernst won a Senate seat from Iowa. She's a combat vet and her husband is a former Command Sergeant Major with the Army Rangers. She is the first woman ever elected to Congress from Iowa.
Mia Love of Utah became the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. Her parents are immigrants from Haiti.
Elise Stefanik became the youngest person ever elected to Congress at just 30 years of age. She represents the 21st District of New York. Yes, deeply blue New York. Renee Ellmers defeated Clay Aiken (yeah, that Clay Aiken) in North Carolina. Being a celebrity is no longer enough of a qualification to be in Congress.
In Arizona, the results are still too close to call, but Martha McSally, who was the Air Force's first female combat pilot, could win her district.
In West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito became the first Republican Senator elected out of that state in nearly 55 years, also becoming the state's first female Senator. And also in West Virginia, an 18 year old college freshman and fiscal conservative, Saira Blair, was elected to the West Virginia Legislature and thus became the nation's youngest lawmaker. She trounced her Democrat opponent 63% to 30% after defeating the 66-year old Republican incumbent in the primary when she was just 17. Kickin' ass and takin' names.
Of course, the Left will still claim there's a war on women since many of their women were defeated. Wendy Davis went down in flames in Texas after a dirty, ugly, sickening gubernatorial campaign. It's likely that Mary Landrieu will also go down in flames in Louisiana's Senate race. Kay Hagan was tossed out of the Senate in North Carolina. Sandra Fluke was beaten like a drum, losing her bid for a seat in the California state Senate by 22 points, to a FELLOW| DEMOCRAT. Loser.....
Maryland, which has been deeply blue since I lived there as a kid for my first 14 years, elected a Republican Governor. Liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican Governor, as did Illinois. Yes, you read that right. Illinois. Seriously.
Arkansas, which gave us the Clintons, kicked out both Democrat Senators and the Democrat Governor and replaced them with Republicans. In Florida, Rick Scott was able to hold off a challenge from turncoat sleazebag Charlie"the Chameleon" Crist, who changes parties as the wind blows.
And the liberal leftist lapdog media? They lost their minds. PRICELESS...
So...now what? Lord Obeezy suffered an embarrassing Tuesday but still has two years left to continue destroying the nation.
Don't screw this up, GOP. Remember, WW2 went on another year after D-Day so the war ain't over just because we steamrolled the Donkey Brigade in the mid-terms.
Labels: election 2014, GOP, liberal fail, midterm elections, republican landslide, war on women
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Not sure where this came from, I think somebody had it at one of the field day events, if I knew where to look I'd go get one myself!
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I like computers and trains, as well as taking photos of trains. Eventually learned out I could listen to the railroad dispatchers on a "Radio Scanner" device and immediately wanted one to know what was going on and when the trains were coming. One Christmas I got a RadioShack PRO-97 tripple-trunking analog scanner from my Grandparents, and in addition to finding the railroad and local Fire/EMS I discovered it could scan Ham Radio pre-loaded ranges.
After weeks of scanning different random things on my new toy, I stumbled onto WW4VA 145.270 Stafford, VA where I frequently heard people talking around rush hour, and gathered they were using a device called a "repeater" up on a high tower to talk farther, which is what I was really listening to. After a while of listening to people talking about random things I didn't understand or care about at the time, I heard a few people mention things with computer-technology and trains -- which caught my attention and got me interested in learning how to talk to these people. After some searching I decided it was too hard to figure out on my own, especially finishing High School and looking at college.
As I studied Computer Science in college, one of the required classes was "Computer Systems & Architecture" which included a section on building simple circuits from resistors, and/or/not chips, 555-timers, D-flip-flops, and some other theory of how these all work together. This all seemed interesting though I didn't see much of an application outside my personal hobbies (model train accessories!) All this was fine and good, but then I had to move on and get a job and settle for what I had time for.
When I finally graduated and got a job, I wired up my car with mag-mount antennas for a CB, my scanner, MiFi (streaming music is better with good internet). I happened to use a 19" high-gain multi-band cellular antenna for my MiFi which helped eliminate the one dead spot. Neat, eh? At work, I noticed there was a HAM plate on one of the cars and recalled my interest in Amateur Radio but by now I didn't have sufficeint time to investigate licensing and also the repeater I knew about had been dead quiet for some time, I'd forgotten about it...until one day I was coming or going and ran into Bob, AA2FD who asked about the antennas I had on my car. One thing lead to another, and I got the little bit of help and encouragment I needed to understand how to properly study and what the steps were to take the license exam. After some planning and anticipation, myself and my friend (who also worked with me in my computer class and ended up as a co-worker also interested in Ham Radio) went up to try and get licensed...and passed! Now I could finally talk to some of these people that I used to hear on my scanner (well, after I got a new radio because the used VX-5R died the 2nd day I used it to listen, it was super hot and wouldn't transmit). So now I had a nice VX-6R and say stuff!
As I started work, I ended up with 2 roomates (all 3 of us Computer Science majors with the same classes as background) -- one of them very interested in hardware-hacking type (now KK4TNJ) stuff and the other costume conventions (still nagging to try the license exam). About the same time, I was also falling out of communication with a good college friend (now KM4JPX), but introducing them to my new roomate sparked the surprise they were both interested in the same costume stuff just different aspects of it! (more on this later).
The hardware-hacking roomate caught my interest with the SDR receivers and computer-radio integration, and then one of the costume convention programs shocked me when I noticed a "Fox Hunt Radio Direction Finder" activity and went to one only to learn a lot of people doing that were also Hams and talked on Echolink regularly. Now I had to work Echolink into everything somehow - I didn't like using an "app" but with my interest in hardware stuff, I quickly learned I can connect Echolink to a radio thus feeding into my hardware hacking interest and sort of merging everything together. Somewhere along the lines I was also introduced to a "friend of a friend" (now K2KAT) who got me interested in some elevator hacking DefCon talks (amazing how those things work!) and started finding all sorts of other nifty tech details on all sorts fo topics.
Now one thing has lead to another, so mixing hobbies has led to a number of interesting projects into all sorts of new things in ways I never dreamed of. And it all started because I liked computers and trains.
Got all that? If so, maybe you can explain it to me so I can make it intelligable. If not, no worries.
At this point, most of my "on air" operation is thru the RVARC club repeater as I drive to and from work though I also monitor 146.520 simplex at the same time.
I've started to play with HF a bit, and have a well tuned 40m V-shape "slinkey dipole" (best-case 1.1:1, worst-case 1.7:1) hanging from my apartment cieling, the noise floor is extremely high usually around S8 which makes operating a challenge. It's my goal to get better with operating and come up with a system where I can drive somewhere, park, and operate from temporary locations. For now, I have had the best luck on JT65, the software usually copy contacts even though I can't hear anything but static.
I have an APRS iGate (KK4NDE-1) and Echolink node (KK4NDE-L) running in a mini-ITX computer case for portability all controlled by a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Check out the "Hobby Projects" area of my site for all the details on these and other projects!


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Far Left Professors Push Dems to Pack Courts With Judicial Activists
October 17, 2018 October 16, 2018 ~ kingsjester	~ Leave a comment
The claim that judicial activism is necessary to rescue us from bondage to the past– from having the writers of the Constitution "rule us from the grave"– defies both logic and history. There is no contest between the living and the dead. The contest is between those living individuals who wish to see control of change in judicial hands and those who wish to see it in other hands. – Dr. Thomas Sowell
FoxNews.com reports that
Less than a month after the confirmation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh entrenched a 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, leading law professors are urging Democrats to expand the size of all of the nation's federal courts and pack them with liberals.
Far-left Harvard professors Mark Tushnet and Laurence Tribe are lending their support to the so-called "1.20.21 Project," which was launched by political science professor Aaron Belkin on Wednesday to counter "Republican obstruction, theft and procedural abuse" of the federal judiciary.
That rhetoric reflects the professors' apparent surprise after Democrats lost the 2016 presidential election, which they had hoped would allow the party to continue appointing liberal judges and justices. In 2016, when Hillary Clinton was leading in all major polls in her bid for the presidency, Tushnet definitively declared in a blog post that conservatives were the "losers in the culture wars."
He wrote that liberal judges who "no longer have to be worried about reversal by the Supreme Court" could be useful in marginalizing those Republican "losers," whom he compared to the defeated Japanese in World War II or the Confederacy in the Civil War.
The heated language also highlights what liberals have characterized as the unfair treatment of President Obama's failed nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland. In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, refused to hold a hearing or vote on Garland, saying a lame-duck president shouldn't be able to appoint a justice in an election year. Garland didn't have enough support in the GOP-held Senate to win confirmation.
At Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing-in ceremony earlier this month, President Trump led a standing ovation for McConnell, whom he called a "great" leader who has done an "incredible job for the American people." Under McConnell and Trump, Republicans have now confirmed 26 federal appellate judges and two Supreme Court justices. (Kavanaugh's rise to the Supreme Court creates a new vacancy on the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he had served for 12 years.)
That fast pace of conservative judicial appointments has upended and frustrated some of the assumptions of liberal law professors like Tushnet, who wrote just two years ago: "Right now more than half of the judges sitting on the courts of appeals were appointed by Democratic presidents, and – though I wasn't able to locate up-to-date numbers – the same appears to be true of the district courts."
Liberal academics have long floated the possibility of flooding the bench with Democrats, although the 1.20.21 Project is their most organized effort to date. For example, another far-left law professor, Indiana University's Ian Samuel, wrote on Twitter as soon as then-Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement in June that Democrats should "[p]ack the courts" as urgently as they should "abolish ICE."
Still, this latest effort also underscored the intensely left-leaning politics of most of the nation's academia. During Kavanaugh's confirmation process, thousands of progressive law professors signed a letter saying Kavanaugh's temperament during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in September was disqualifying. Kavanaugh forcefully denied the uncorroborated attempted rape and other sexual misconduct accusations against him.
And Tribe, who has accused President Trump of "orchestrating a massive cover-up" that is "worse" than anything done by former President Richard Nixon, is himself no stranger to partisan politics. In 2015, a piece in The New Yorker by law professor Tim Wu asked, "Did Laurence Tribe Sell Out?" The article noted that "it would … be foolish to ignore the inherent tension in searching for truth while also working for paying clients," as Tribe does.
For the last several decades, and especially during the Obama Administration, the Liberals of the Democratic Party have relied upon Judicial Activism to overturn the will of the American People and to "get their way" on matters of political and societal importance.
Sometimes they win and sometimes they lose.
A big win for the Democrats was the Supreme court ruling allowing gays to get married.
It was taken to the courts by the Democrats after American Citizens voted not to allow gay marriage in their states. Liberal Judicial Activist Judges, some gay themselves, began striking down the referendums passed in individual states, finally leading to a ruling by the United States Supreme Court.
During the Trump Administration, Judicial Activists have attempted to thwart some of the actions taken of behalf of the American People by our President, such as their attempts to stop the Travel Ban, designed to keep those who would seek to do Americans harm out of our Sovereign Nation.
According to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, in the following Federalist Paper, Americans have nothing to fear from the Judiciary when they act alone. It's when they act in concert with others, such as Liberal Politicians in Congress, that Americans need to be afraid.
From The Federalist #78
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
As the 2018 Midterm Elections draw near, we, as Americans, must remember that the Majority Party in both houses of Congress and the President are the ones who will shape our Judicial System for decades to come.
That is why we must get out and vote.
If we do not, and allow the Far Left Democratic Party to take back control of Capitol Hill, our Judiciary will change from one who interprets and enforces the Constitution to one who rewrites and ignores it.
This must not be allowed to happen.
We must, once again, envelop our nation in a "Sea of Red", like we did on November 8, 2016.
Our future as a Constitutional Republic depends on it.
Until He Comes,
Independence Day 2015: These Colors Don't Run.
July 4, 2015 ~ kingsjester	~ 4 Comments
Back in 2011, as I was contemplating what to write about on the 4th of July, I came upon an article titled, "Down on the Fourth of July: The United States of Gloom", on the London Daily Telegraph's website, written by Tony Harnden, their U.S. Editor. Mr. Harnden presented a synopsis of the state of our country and came to the following conclusion:
On this day in 1776 a group of 13 colonies broke away to found a new nation free to govern itself as it saw fit, pledging that each citizen would have the unalienable right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". A nation, as Americans are apt to declare without equivocation, which became the greatest on the face of the earth.
That's the good news. On the flip side, however, a country whose hallmark has always been a sense of irrepressible optimism is in the grip of unprecedented uncertainty and self-doubt.
With the United States mired in three foreign wars, beaten down by an economy that shows few signs of emerging from deep recession and deeply disillusioned with President Barack Obama, his Republican challengers and Congress, the mood is dark.
The last comparable Fourth of July was probably in 1980, when there was a recession, skyrocketing petrol prices and an Iranian hostage crisis, with 53 Americans being held in Tehran.
…The 2010 mid-term elections showed that the Tea Party movement, drawing its small-government, low-tax inspiration from the revolutionaries who overthrew the British, was a phenomenon that could turn American politics upside down.
Previous elections had been about choosing the lesser of two evils but 2010 was about throwing the bums out. Luntz, a Republican, predicts that 2012 will be a "none of the above" contest. What is needed above all is optimism: it is a prerequisite for the risk-taking needed to invest and start new businesses. Its absence could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as belief in American decline helps ensure that the halcyon years are indeed in the past.
The 1980 election was won by Ronald Reagan with his "Morning in America" message. Today, a 10ft bronze statue of Reagan will be unveiled outside the US Embassy in London's Grosvenor Square, which, in another sign of the times, is due to move to Battersea next year because of concerns about its vulnerability to terrorists. Thus far, there is no sign of a new Reagan emerging.
More worryingly, the optimism he embraced and came to personify is all but absent in America this Fourth of July.
Pretty depressing, huh?
Mr. Harden was a bit of a prophet. Things have not gotten any better. In fact, under the poll-proven Worst American President Since World War II, things are actually getting worse.
America's populace is still struggling through the worst economic situation our country has seen since the Great Depression. Approximately 20% of our countrymen are unemployed, underemployed, or have just plain given up. One-sixth of our nation has to rely on assistance from our government just to have food on the table, while remaining under the governance of a president who worships a Far Left political ideology steeped in the redistribution of wealth teachings of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky.
Americans have watched, feeling helpless, as he and his self-centered minions in Congress took our tax dollars and spent all of it and then some, as if there was no tomorrow, leaving our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with a debt that this shining city on a hill may never recover from.
We've watched, with our mouths hanging wide open, as the President of the United States and his State Department, have reached out to embrace the very barbarians that want to murder each and every one of us, while at the same time, criticizing and alienating our closest allies.
And, at the same time, taking away our Freedom of Self-Determination through the use of activist judges, at the state level to overthrow the will of the people, and then, through a Liberal-Majority Supreme Court, who decided to legislate, instead of performing their actual job description, changing the definition of a sacred ceremony, which has meant one thing for centuries.
Meanwhile, my beloved Dixie, is finding itself under attack by condescending Liberals, led by the leaders, who have decided that a Battle Flag from the American Civil War, has the ability to come to life, and willfully kill innocent people, and somehow, constrain their lives., hiding their real goal of eliminating the region's political and economic power.
Finally, on this 4th of July, in the year of our Lord 2015, our Southern Border continues to be invaded by tens of thousands uninvited guests, bringing disease, and perhaps, being accompanied by our enemies, traveling in secret, among them.
However, even now, I do not subscribe to Mr. Harnden's assessment of gloom and doom. Rather, I stand with this man, who embodied the American Spirit that is beginning to once again, reawaken across our Sacred Land.
Why I Love Her
You ask me Why I Love Her? Well, give me time and I'll explain.
Have you see a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you watched a cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines,
Or heard the bellow of a diesel at the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder at her Massachusetts shore,
Where men who braved a hard new world first stepped on Plymouth's rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a new York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies, way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea,
Or bow your head at Gettysburg at our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons? Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you see the Mississippi roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan when on a winter's day
Her waters rage along the shore in thunderous display?
Does the word "Aloha" make you warm? Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades, from the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.
You ask me Why I Love Her? I've a million reasons why:
My Beautiful America, beneath God's wide, wide sky.
-John Wayne
Our American Spirit of Independence, Courage, and Love for our Country , embedded in our souls by the generations of brave Americans before us, often presents itself in the most bleak of situations, as this now-famous account from World Ward II demonstrates:
Per military.com:
Gen. Anthony Clement McAuliffe is best remembered for uttering a single word — no mean feat, considering that even the shortest Bible verse has two. Commanding the U.S. Army's beleaguered and surrounded 101st Airborne Division during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe received a German surrender ultimatum. "Nuts!" he replied, and became a lasting symbol of American courage and determination under fire.
A 1918 West Point graduate, McAuliffe held various field artillery positions before World War II. On the eve of D-Day, McAuliffe jumped with the first wave as a commander of division artillery, although he had never received formal parachute training.
In December 1944, during the siege of Bastogne, Belgium, McAuliffe was acting commander of the 101st in Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor's absence. The Americans had been holding the Belgian town "at all costs," and on Dec. 22, Gen. McAuliffe received the encouraging news that the 4th Armored Division was beginning its drive north to relieve the 101st. Later that morning, members of the division's glider regiment saw four Germans coming up the road carrying a white flag. Everyone hoped they were offering surrender. Instead, they presented two pages demanding the Americans' surrender: "To the USA Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne. . .There is only one possibility. . .the honorable surrender of the encircled town."
McAuliffe glanced at the message and said, "Aw, nuts!" When he told his commanders he didn't know what answer to send, Lt. Col. Harry Kinnard said 'That first crack you made would be hard to beat, General." Everyone laughed as a sergeant typed up the succinct response: "To the German Commander: Nuts! The American Commander."
Between this stoic reply, Patton's troops from the south, and a change in the weather that allowed air reinforcement the following day, the 101st was able to hold Bastogne. Their victory resulted in the first full-Division Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.
McAuliffe's actions at Bastogne helped assure the final defeat of the Germans. Gen. McAuliffe continued to serve on active duty, including assignments as Head of the Army Chemical Corps, Commander, 7th Army, and Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Army, Europe, until his 1956 retirement. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1975 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
In the opinion of this 56-year-old, sitting in the Northwest corner of the Magnolia State in America's Heartland, the current administration and Mr. Harden have underestimated the American Spirit, just as King George and the British Aristocracy did, so many years ago.
As our enemies, both foreign and domestic, have discovered since the birth of our nation, Americans will fight for our freedom. And we shall prove it again, in November of 2016, with an electoral explosion of nuclear magnitude, which shall make November of 2014 seem like a firecracker in comparison.
May God Bless you and your family on this 4th of July, the Year of Our Lord, 2015, and may God Bless America.
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THE National Coal Mining Museum is ready to dig in for another decade of success.
The attraction near Grange Moor celebrated a decade of national status at a special lunch yesterday.
Museum director Margaret Faull said: "When I came here in 1986 we had a 10-year plan, which we finished in 1995.
"We've just completed a second and we're ready for the third.
"We now have more land in Kirklees than Wakefield and I know the people of Huddersfield have a real bond with the museum."
Museum chairman Baroness Lockwood said: "We're hoping to rebuild a miner's cottage and refurbish some of the underground passages.
"This is the beginning of a new phase for the museum."
Since achieving national status 10 years ago, the museum had been given cash by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and is now free to all visitors.
It has recently opened a £6.5m renovation and display scheme on the Hope Pit site and a £1.4m water treatment scheme near Hope Pit.


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Longer answer: Having been away from the show, I've had time to reflect. I realized that no show warrants the viewer frustration it put me through. I was weak and holding on to past glories. But no more. I was on the right track when I said that season 2 sucked. I have now decided what I could not commit to before, in my mid-season recap: I have officially jumped off the Heroes train. I believe it is destined to be a slow, regrettable decline to the end.
…those who were looking forward to seeing Heroes prove itself anew might have to wait a little longer. According to executive producer Tim Kring, even if his creative team went back to work ASAP — and assuming that NBC still plans to wrap its TV season at the end of May as usual — Team Heroes would only be able to complete three more (quality) episodes. Why so few? Blame the show's sprawling scope and complicated F/X (that fantastical time-stopping stuff takes actual time, you know). Moreover, Kring & Co. had been hoping to redeem the show's shaky second season with a new "volume" of stories (titled "Villains") that would have basically rebooted the series. But when the strike began in November, they had just begun plotting the comeback. In fact, the first episode of that arc, which they wanted to play like a season premiere, hadn't been fully written. All things considered, Kring would rather relaunch Heroes when he has more episodes to play with. If NBC extends its strike-screwed season into June, that could happen sooner. If not, he'd rather wait, perhaps till fall.
Whether Heroes returns with a neutered season 2 or a season 3 reboot is no longer a concern of mine. Heroes is dead to me.
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Perhaps I'm still nostalgic for those glory days of the first season, but I still have hope, if not faith. So long as they don't rush it back and wait until the fall, they can resurrect it. Stranger things have happened at sea.
Hear, hear, John! Acceptance is the first step to recovery! It's long past the time to move on — I'm hoping the other bloggers at the 'Signal will take your lead and talk less about this annoying show too.
The writer's strike has been useful in some ways. It has made me realise how little I miss their rubbish output when it's not being made. The vast majority of what these so-called "artists" produce is undiluted sewage and it's all too easy to get suckered into watching shows (like Heroes) that are good for a while but quickly pale as the effort of producing programmes of a consistently high quality strains the limited capabilities of the writers and producers.
A (non-SF) example would be a comparison between the Letterman show and Leno's equivalent. The former has its full writing staff; the output is insipid, banal and smug. The Leno show, on the other hand, without its writers but with its host's considerable talent has an edge to it and is far more watchable as a result.
I am unconvinced that having far fewer writers would be a bad thing.
A challenge, eh? I will now try to find at least one thing to post about Heroes, just for Peter!
I don't understand the dedication to be a relentless viewer when you have a Tivo John? Tivo it, and watch it on a night you are completely bored. Wouldn't evaluating the latest failure of Heroes be more entertaining that flipping channels for an hour? I mean really, what else are you going to bleat on about on the blog here without a sub-par Heroes episode to kick around?
@Trent: I did watch it on Tivo. And thankfully I have plenty of other stuff to do before I turn to to Tivo for yet another drawn out episode of Heroes.
I had planned to "chop" your face on to a sheeps body… but alas, no one had a picture of you John, and the Google, she had nothing.
On the one hand, I think you should give Heroes another chance, on the other hand I have been watching LOST forever and after every show I am frustrated about something (like you are with Heroes). I guess what I am trying to say is it's better to get out while you still can… eventually you get to the point where you want to get out, but you keep thinking there is hope (like me with LOST) and you are stuck watching a show that frustrates you all the time.
I just finished Season 2 last night and can say that even though it started a bit slow, I throughly enjoyed the story arc.
I'm glad it was picked up to continue. We need all the shows we can get that buck the mainstream sitcom formula and strive to give us something new and different.
I agree that much of the existing TV is becoming frustrating to watch and the main purpose of the any given episode is to convince you to watch the next one. I'm also sick of waiting for the next season of Heroes to pick up again in the fall and have pretty much written it off. I Tivo pretty much everything I watch anymore and live life pretty much outdoors. If it didn't Rain (or snow in my case) I'm sure I would watch TV at all.
there is one thing I do have to give credit though. It is still better then the myriad of reality TV shows that pretty much ruin the idea of needing actors at all. Heroes IRL anyone? Or has that already been done too?


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Pharmacy Practice faculty help create Snap the Stigma
NDSU provides a supportive community that cares about student success in and out of the classroom. Students, faculty and staff often work together to create a positive learning environment and caring campus atmosphere focused on personal well-being.
The Snap the Stigmacampaign is an example of this relationship. Snap the Stigma was created by Elizabeth Skoy, associate professor of pharmacy practice, Amy Werremeyer, associate professor of pharmacy practice, and Meghan Kirkwood, assistant professor of visual arts, to help NDSU students living with mental illness.
"Our goal of this project is to see the stigma of mental illness evaporate on campus," Werremeyer said. "That's the kind of environment we want to create here."
The program uses a website, Instagramand Facebookpage to post submitted photos and captions reflecting an individual's experience with mental illness. The photos range from an empty office space to a group of prescription pill bottles on a counter to a closeup of video game art. The captions are personal and insightful.
Skoy said posting the photos and writing the personal captions has been described as therapeutic for people living with mental illness. The photos also show users they're not alone in their struggle. In addition, the website gives people with no history of mental health issues an inside look at the experience of other people on campus. A list of national, local and NDSU mental health resources are available on the website to help students with immediate needs.
Photos and captions can be uploaded by anyone whose life has been affected by mental illness, including friends and family.
The hope is to have more open conversations about mental illness, and to create a campus atmosphere where students feel comfortable seeking the help they need. It also could have a broader impact.
"This started with trying to help our students," Skoy said. "But this therapy is for everyone. This project has no boundaries. It's online and can be used for anyone to go to the website, participate or just look and learn about mental illness."
Several departments and student groups on campus have partnered with Snap the Stigma to help promote the website and help students. Last year, students in an NDSU communication class helped rebrand the website and proposed a marketing strategy. NDSU's counseling center and Healthy Herd Champions, a student wellness peer education group, recommend participation in Snap the Stigma as education for students.
Ethan Johnson, a strategic communication major, and Alison Peters, a marketing major, are in charge of presenting details of the program to student groups and marketing Snap the Stigma to the student body. Johnson was part of the communication class that help set the direction for the program last year.
In addition to learning more about mental illness, Johnson gained valuable career experience that will help him when he enters the workforce. He graduates in December.
"I gained a lot of new skills in marketing and promotion from being involved in this project," said Johnson, from Galesburg, North Dakota. "Being able to apply what I've learned in my classes to this project has been very insightful and beneficial. And everyone I've talked to about the project has been very interested in how they can help or how they can get involved.
"I think that speaks volumes about how accepting and supportive we are at NDSU."
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Top 10 Insurance Companies in the World 2017 | MBA Skool-Study.Learn.Share.
Insurance industry has become important not only for customers but also for enterprises. With growing businesses and increasing incomes of people, the business for these top insurance companies has also increased manifold. Most of these Insurance companies are strong financial institutions offering life insurance, health insurance, property insurance, car insurance etc. Some of the top insurance companies include Berkshire Hathaway, UnitedHealth, AXA, Allianz along with Generali, Metlife, Nippon, PingAN, ING etc. Safeguarding businesses, protecting families & ensuring the good health of family members are the prime reasons why the largest insurance companies are expanding their businesses. With the growing demand for ease of service among customers, the best insurance brands in the world are providing online services through web and smartphone apps. Joint ventures and partnerships with leading global as well as local financial institutions has enabled the biggest insurance companies in the world to serve customers across 200 countries worldwide. Here is the list of the top 10 Insurance Companies in the World 2017 based on total revenue and net income (profit).
ING group was founded in 1991 through a merger and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
ING Group is headed by Ralph Hamers with an active workforce of more than 90000 employees. ING group provides insurance products in the provision of banking, investments, life and non-life insurance and retirement and asset management services.
ING Group operates globally in many countries some of them are Australia, China, Russia, Canada, Italy, US, UAE, India etc. The organization has proved huge natural and inert development and has obtained a significant rundown of business with center zones including Asset Management, Insurance and Banking.
ING group is comprised of about 50+ subsidiaries. ING's profit in 2016 went up by 27% owing to the sale of its Indian subsidiary Vyasa Bank for 367 million euros. Also in September 2016 ING sold around $300 million worth stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank.


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Ford Valley Golf Club. Instituted 1924. A 9-hole course at Pathhead.
"Ford Valley 9-hole golf course, laid out on ground south of Pathhead village is the latest addition to the golf courses in the county of Midlothian. It lies beside Ford village and runs under the magnificent five arched Lothian Viaduct designed by Thomas Telford in 1831. The course was opened on Saturady by the Earl Of Stair.
It was towards the end of last year that the scheme was set afoot, and Lord Stair and Mr Henry Callander, the respective proprietors of the lands of Oxenfoord and Prestonhall, readily fell in with the promoters wishes in providing the facilities. As a result, a fine, sporting course has been secured.
At the opening ceremony there were present, The Earl Of Stair, Lady Menzies, and Lady Eglinton; Mrs and Miss Callander, Prestonhall; Lt-Commander Chalmers and Mrs Chalmers, Edinburgh; Mrs Steuart, Bothwell Castle; Mr Robert Smith, Cranstoun Riddell; Dr and Mrs Craig, York; Rev. S.S. Walker, Rev. S. McNab, Mrs Spalding, Gorebridge; Mr W. Alexander, Prestondene; Mr A.M. McKinlay, Pathhead; Mr W.B. Torrance, Portobello; Bailie Ross, and Mr J.P. Herriot, Dalkeith.
The Captain, Dr Craig, Presided, and asked his lordship to accept a silver figure of a golfer driving, mounted on Ebony base. To Miss Callander, Dr Craig also presented a gold brooch in the form of a golf club, with platinum head.
The Earl Of Stair, acknowledged the gift, and declared the course open. Miss Callander teed the ball, and Lord Stair drove off. Mr Wm. Pringle, Mr James P. Gray, Provost Doughty, and Mr George G. Mercer also spoke.
Ben Sayers and J. Black, North Berwick, afterwards played an exhibition game."


Don't leave your plastic trash lying around on the beach. These days that's a no-brainer for anyone who has the decency to care about their environment. After all, we are repeatedly warned of the harms that plastic refuse causes to wildlife, not to mention that it may take hundreds or even thousands of years to degrade, because bacteria, responsible for breaking materials down in the soil, have a hard time digesting this stuff humans have invented.
While not littering, using biodegradeable plastic when possible, and minimising plastic packaging use are all becoming everyday items on the "how to be a better person" agenda, here's a new one — don't buy abrasive toothpastes and facial scrubs. These are the products containing 'microbeads' of some persuasion, devised to buff away stains on your teeth or dead skin on your cheeks.
Unless a scrub contains coffee grounds, salt or some other natural substance, chances are those microbeads are made out of polymer plastic. Once they've done their cosmetic duty, a quick rinse sends them right down the drains into the sewage system. Here, the little plastic pellets are too small to be stopped by the filters intended to keep sewer pollution from reaching rivers, seas, and oceans. This pollution becomes known as microplastic – fragments of plastic no larger than 1-5 millimetres, and often much smaller, like grains of sand.
In a nutshell, we're flushing plastic right into the oceans of the world. You might be thinking that tiny plastics such as these would potentially cause fewer environmental problems, however research is showing that's not the case. Furthermore, when plastic items break down into smaller pieces in the environment, they eventually become microplastics, too.
By nature of their size, microplastics have a greater surface area in relation to volume, simply because a handful of plastic beads taken together would have more surface than a palm-size tupperware lid. This larger surface area means more space for synthetic pollutants, such as benzene and DDT, to aggregate — a common occurrence with plastics that float around in water. Eventually, some poor albatross fledgling will ingest these tainted microplastics as they're floating on the surface of the ocean, get an intestinal blockage and die. Or a marine lugworm will do the same as he's foraging along the bottom of the sea, performing the same role that earthworms do in soil.
The large amounts of toxins ingested with microplastic travel up the food chain, readily accumulating from worms to crabs, to fish, to — potentially — humans. These toxins can affect reproduction, contribute to cancer, cause liver problems, lung problems and more. Because tiny plastic pellets are basically impossible to remove from the water or filter out of the marine sediment (even if somebody wanted to do this), they will keep slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean and pollute the food chain for centuries to come.
Hence, a good way to minimise microplastic pollution is to simply avoid microplastics to begin with. Earlier this year, the US state of Illinois banned the manufacture and sale of cosmetics with plastic microbeads. There is talk about making this ban nation-wide in America, and possibly introducing it in the European Union as well. I can't wait.
Using the occasional plastic bag or wrapper may be inevitable, but deliberately flushing plastics into the ocean is just plain stupid. I think we can all agree to stop, and go back to nice scrubby things like salt, sugar, apricot kernels, and a gazillion others things Not Made Out Of Plastic. At least nature knows how to deal with organic matter.


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Harry Kane's penalty earns Tottenham draw against 10-man Southampton
Victor Okoye
Tottenham Hotspur came from a goal behind to secure a 1-1 draw against 10-man Southampton on Tuesday.
James Ward-Prowse gave Southampton the lead with a spectacular strike in the first half but Spurs were able to draw level.
This was when Mohammed Salisu gave away a penalty and was sent off. Harry Kane slotted the spot-kick into the net.
Despite their numerical advantage for most of the game, Spurs were unable to capitalise.
"Disappointed especially after they went down to 10 men. We've got to win the game and we couldn't do that.
"They defended very well and fought for each other but that doesn't matter from our side of it.
"We have to be able to break them down. We weren't good enough at doing that.
"We've got to keep things in perspective. Everyone can see the progression," Eric Dier said after the game.
Southampton took the lead after 25 minutes when Dele Alli failed to clear a corner and Ward-Prowse hit a left-footed shot into the net.
However, their lead only lasted until 41 minutes when Salisu fouled Son Heung-Min in the box.
He was red carded and Kane hit the penalty with force into the goal.
Kane did find the net again early in the second half but it was not awarded as he was deemed offside.
West Ham United's 4-1 win at Watford meant that Tottenham dropped to sixth on 30 points, one point behind David Moyes' side and five behind fourth-placed Arsenal, but with two games in hand over both.
Southampton are 13th with 21 points.
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If you were going to start a home business on a parttime basis, what factors would you need to sonsider? I will share the issues we had and maybe these will help you to clarify your thoughts as well.
1. A business must require little to no investment.
2. It must require no inventory stocking and no shipping.
3. It must not require us to handle money - let the vendor do that.
4. It must not require us to drive around and do parties.
5. It must be internet marketable.
6. It must allow us to keep our home as our home and not be turned into a business office.
7. It must also allow us to work at our pace and set our own goals.


Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting you caught up on milestones and important historical events in aviation from February 18 through February 21.
February 18, 1939 – The first flight of the Martin PBM Mariner. From the earliest days of the airplane, the US Navy saw the seaplane and flying boat as vital tools for maritime surveillance, search and rescue, and defense against submarines. (Generally, seaplanes are fitted with both floats and landing gear, making them amphibious, while flying boats can only operate from the surface of the water). With America's entry into the truly global conflict of WWII, the Navy now had vast reaches of ocean to cover, particularly in the Pacific, a duty that was well-suited to far-ranging flying boats. The Glenn L. Martin Company had a long history of building large aircraft, and their work with flying boats began with the PM-1, a biplane flying boat they produced for the Naval Aircraft Factory. They followed that with production of the Martin P3M, a parasol wing flying boat that had originally been designed by Consolidated, who called it the P2Y. But the P3M's design still hearkened back to an earlier era, with its fabric-covered wing and parasol design, and Martin knew that there was room for improvement to bring the large flying boat into a more modern era. Development of the Mariner began in 1937 with the Model 162, which was intended both as a replacement for the P3M and as a complement to the smaller Consolidated PBY Catalina. Where earlier flying boats had employed the parasol wing to keep the engines clear of ocean spray, Martin designed the Mariner with a distinctive gull wing to raise the engines higher above the water while still enjoying the benefits of the more modern cantilever wing. A matching dihedral tail replaced the original flat tail to help reduce tail flutter. To reduce aerodynamic drag during flight, initial Mariners were fitted with retractable wing floats, though later production aircraft reverted to fixed floats, and the final variant, the PBM-5A, was fitted with a retractable undercarriage, making it a true amphibian.
February 19, 1982 – The first flight of the Boeing 757. For whatever reason, February has been a very busy month in the history of the Boeing Company. Many of their most iconic aircraft have taken their maiden flight in February, and the list includes the 247, one of the world's first truly modern airliners, the tri-jet 727, the 737 Classic, the 737 Next Generation, the world's first wide body, the 747, and the 747-8. Completing that list of February first flights (though not chronologically) is the 757, Boeing's largest single-aisle airliner, which first took to the skies on February 19, 1982. By the early 1970s, Boeing had to decide what to do with the 727. While the tri-jet had become Boeing's biggest seller, the increasing popularity of air travel meant that airlines were looking for an airliner with more seats, but also one that didn't sacrifice the 727's ability to operate from shorter runways at smaller airports. At first, Boeing considered revamping the 727, stretching it further than the already-lengthened 727-200, or develop an entirely new airplane, dubbed the 7N7 at the time. Although it would have been cheaper to develop the established 727, airlines were showing greater interest in aircraft equipped with more efficient high-bypass turbofans which provided significant fuel savings over the older low-bypass turbofans that drove the 727. Eventually, with firm commitments from Eastern Air Lines and British Airways in 1978, Boeing decided to go ahead with the new airliner. For the first time, a Boeing airliner would be powered by engines produced outside the US, as Eastern and BA both opted for the Rolls-Royce RB211-535C turbofan. Later, when Delta signed on with the 757, they would select Pratt & Whitney engines. Since the 757 was being developed alongside the widebody 767, both jets shared common elements, such as identical, two-person flight decks with computerized glass cockpits, and engine management systems which rendered the flight engineer obsolete. By sharing the cockpit designs between the two airliners, pilots who were rated on the 757 could also be qualified to fly the 767, and vice versa. Similar to the process in place at Boeing's chief competitor Airbus, Boeing farmed out about half of the aircraft's components to manufacturers across the US, and final assembly took place at Boeing's facility in Renton, Washington.
February 20, 1959 – The Canadian government cancels the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow. Nuclear weapons were used for the first time at the close of WWII in 1945, but the nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles we know today weren't fielded for the first time until 1959 with the Soviet R-7 Semyorka. Before that time, large strategic bombers were still the vehicle of choice to deliver nuclear weapons against one's enemies. These bombers were designed to be increasingly faster and able to fly higher than the interceptors sent to stop them in an aeronautical arms race run between the Cold War adversaries. Though the Mercator map that students learn in school seems to show otherwise, the shortest route for US and Russian bombers to attack each other passed over the North Pole, and any Russian bombers headed for the US would first have to pass over Canada on their way to American targets. Canada and the US were longtime allies, and committed to mutual defense against the Soviet Union since the early 1950s. So, for any nuclear-armed bombers coming to attack the US, Canada would be the first line of defense. Avro Canada had already produced Canada's first indigenous interceptor, the CF-100 Canuck, which was introduced in 1952. But that fighter was incapable of reaching the latest jet-powered Russian bombers. So Avro began work on a truly supersonic interceptor, one that would be built in Canada, meaning that they wouldn't have to rely on their allies for fighter protection. In April 1953, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) issued Specification AIR 7-3 which called for a fighter with a two-man crew, a Mach 1.5 cruising speed at an altitude of 70,000 feet. It also specified that the interceptor be able to reach 50,000 feet within five minutes of starting the engines. After visiting other aircraft manufacturers, the RCAF determined that no existing aircraft could meet those specifications. Avro submitted their design, a modified CF-104 (itself a delta-winged upgrade of the CF-100), with the wing moved to the shoulder position and provisions for an internal weapons bay. In 1953, the RCAF accepted Avro's proposal, and in order to save time, prototype aircraft were built on the same rigs that would be used for production aircraft. Employing state-of-the-art control mechanisms, and making use of titanium and stainless steel in portions of the airframe, the first CF-105 was rolled out on October 4, 1957, and the aircraft went supersonic for the first time on its third flight.
February 21, 1945 – The first flight of the Hawker Sea Fury. During WWII, the British Royal Navy operated aircraft carriers in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. In Europe, they served as far north as the Arctic Circle, where they harassed German shipping and U-boat operations, and carried out operations throughout the Mediterranean Sea against Axis forces in Europe and North Africa. In the Pacific, the British Pacific Fleet, consisting of 6 fleet carriers and 15 smaller carriers, was one of the largest British fleets ever assembled. Flying from the carriers was a wide mix of aircraft, from the biplane Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber to a more modern mix of American- and British-built aircraft. Two of the dominant land-based British fighters, the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, had been adapted to naval use, but the results were mixed. Neither aircraft had been designed specifically for the specialized needs of carrier operations. But what would eventually become the best British carrier aircraft to come out of the war had its basis in a design for the Royal Air Force. Development of the land-based Hawker Fury began in 1942, as the RAF sought a successor to the Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber and the Hawker Tempest fighter. By 1943, the Air Ministry formalized the work already done by Hawker by issuing Specification F.2/43 which called for a fighter with a high rate of climb, good maneuverability and a maximum speed of at least 450 mph at 22,000 feet. The new fighter would be armed with four 20mm Hispano V cannons in the wings and would also be capable of carrying two bombs of up to 1,000 pounds each. Around the same time, Hawker had also received a request for a new carrier-based fighter, and famed Hawker designer Sydney Camm saw an opportunity to develop the Fury into both a land-based and carrier-based fighter. The RAF version would be called the Fury, while the Royal Navy version would be called the Sea Fury. With the end of the war in 1945, the RAF was putting their efforts into the development of new jet fighters, so they pulled out of the project. The Navy, however, had fought the war with a combination of lend-lease aircraft that would need to be returned or purchased outright, and the Supermarine Seafire, a carrier-based version of the Spitfire that never quite worked out, as it had been designed first as a land-based fighter and had significant structural weaknesses that were never completely rectified. So development of the Sea Fury went ahead, and its introduction in October 1945 made it the last piston-powered fighter to enter Royal Navy Service. Since the Sea Fury had begun as a fighter for the RAF, the first prototype was fitted with an arrestor hook but did not have folding wings necessary for carrier storage. This was rectified in the second prototype, and a new five-bladed propeller was added. Production Sea Furies were powered by a Bristol Centaurus 18-cylinder twin-row radial engine that produced 2,480 hp, and its top speed of 460 mph made it one of the fastest piston-powered fighters ever produced.
If you enjoy these Aviation History posts, please let me know in the comments. And if you missed any of the past articles, you can find them all at Planelopnik History. You can also find more stories about aviation and aviators at Wingspan.


Join us for Habitat for Humanity of Horry County and Coastal Carolina Sertoma's Annual Derby Event at Marina Park at Grande Dunes.
Dress in your best Derby attire and watch the Run for the Roses along the Intracoastal Waterway. The event will also include: live entertainment, a live auction, silent raffle, horse raffle and prizes for best Derby attire.


The perception of beauty is a sudden realization of an alignment between a clear spirit and the form.
It has to do with aesthetic values and tastes as well.
Expressing beauty through life and art is a way towards inner awakening.
You communicate a sense of absolute perfection through your being.
Your life is itself the greatest art form.
Even if you are not an artist, you can express beauty through your actions, thoughts and emotions.
Your life is an evolving creation which is a true, unique expression of your life force.
Think beyond crystallization of the form as well.
Beauty can have this sense of ever renewed impermanence.
You don't need to hold it or control it.
You can create it in the the words you speak and how you connect to others.
Beauty is like a seal of energy recognition.
It is like a spirit's flow which embodies itself in what you create.
If you don't know where to start, trust and ask Mataji to help you express and connect with it.


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Opportunity Fund Management: Assembling the Right Team
"You need three things: a lawyer, an accountant, and us." — Michael Richards, Head of Fund Administration
When starting an Opportunity Zone Fund, expert third-party fund administration can help with everything from attracting investors to complying with mandated reporting. However, a fund administrator isn't the only service provider you'll need.
If you've wondered what exactly a Opportunity fund administrator does, you've come to the right place. Here's a rundown of the capabilities of JTC Americas', formerly NES Financial, fund administration and the roles that other providers play on the perfect OZ team.
What an Opportunity Fund Administrator Provides
Investor onboarding. In the document review stage, we vet individual investors to make sure they're not prohibited from investing by anti–money laundering (AML) or combating financial terrorism (CFT) laws. We process their documents, run all necessary background checks, and then accept them into the fund following completion of their subscription agreements.
Fund accounting. We handle the investment into the various securities the fund chooses, while also tracking all expense accruals. We generate a quarterly valuation of the fund and distribute these financial statements to investors, so that all fund activity is transparent to all stakeholders.
Audit and financial statements support. At the end of each year, our team drafts all the financial statements and passes them to the audit firm, which provides an opinion on their accuracy. We support the audit from end to end until we get a clean audit opinion back from the audit firm. (For a deeper look into this process, see here: "Ending the Year Right: 8 Ways JTC Americas Helps Private Equity Funds with Their Annual Audits.")
Tracking and reporting to the Treasury. We stay on top of all reporting requirements to make sure your fund complies with all laws and investors are able to realize OZ tax benefits. The specific requirements are still evolving, but our reporting capabilities already exceed certain standards.
Investor transparency and communication. Our proprietary JTC Americas Portal offers your investors 24/7 access to all relevant documents and fund status, from any device. Individual logins and inboxes mean the Portal doubles as a communication tool — so you and your investors are always on the same page.
What an Opportunity Fund Administrator Can't Provide
Legal advice. Your OZ Fund will need to hire a law firm to draft the partnership or limited liability company agreement and associated documents. We discuss these documents with our clients, and we provide them with industry trends and best practices and provide suggestions on how to solve common problems. This can help funds interact with their lawyers more efficiently.
An audit opinion. JTC Americas can generate all the paperwork associated with an annual audit, but the final opinion can only be provided by an accounting firm. Due to independence rules, an auditor (accounting firm) is not able to actually do the books and records of the fund and/or produce the financial statements. All that they're allowed to do is to audit and review — and provide an opinion on — the financial statements that are provided to them. Hence the reason why, complementary to each other, your fund will need both an administrator and an accounting firm.
The Right OZ Team
Fund administrator
These three complementary roles cover the full range of third-party assistance your fund will need.
But what about the possibility of in-house fund administration?
"Somebody has to do the work," says Michael Richards, JTC Americas, Head of Fund Administration, "and an Opportunity Zone Fund is not your average private equity fund — there are evolving program-specific reporting requirements that require careful attention. So, the question fund managers need to ask themselves is: Can we handle all of the bookkeeping, tracking and reporting ourselves? Do we have the capacity and the systems to do it?"
In addition to the regulatory requirements specific to Opportunity Zones, which are still being developed, OZ Funds are required to keep full books and records, based on US GAAP, of the fund and all of its activities.
"It may seem like a simple task," Richards says, "but there's a lot of accounting and record keeping that needs to be done for the duration of the fund — and in the case of an Opportunity Fund, by definition, that's 10+ years."
If you'd like more information on Opportunity Zone Fund Administration, please take a look through our web-based OZ resource center — or feel free to contact us at 1-800-339-1031.
Gabriel Salazar2021-06-16T04:10:27-07:00March 21st, 2019|Categories: Blog, Opportunity Zones|Tags: Best Practices, Opportunity Funds, Opportunity Investing, Opportunity Zone Funds, Opportunity Zones, Q&A|
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