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Man claims wife took 007 artwork
The artwork included original designs for Fleming's 007 novels
A James Bond fan's ex-wife helped herself to his artwork collection, including original designs for Ian Fleming's novels, a court has heard.
Colin Larkin, of Lavenham, Suffolk, claims that after their brief marriage ended, Kelly Harte walked away with almost 60 of his artworks.
At London's High Court Miss Harte admitted she had 31 items from her ex-husband's collection.
But Miss Harte, of Keighley, West, Yorkshire, insists he gave them to her.
Mr Larkin, the author of the Encyclopaedia of Pop Music, says the works are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
'Car boot' claim
Miss Harte at first denied she had any of the missing artwork.
She told Mr Larkin in an e-mail that it was "fitting" that anything he had ever given her had "ended up on Keighley's council tip", the court heard.
However, she later agreed she had 31 items from her ex-husband's collection, although she insists he gave them to her and his court bid to get them back is an "abuse of process".
In March this year, a senior court official ruled Miss Harte had no realistic defence to her ex-husband's claims and entered a summary judgement against her.
But Mr Justice Underhill has opened the way for Miss Harte to put her side of the story at a full trial at a date to be fixed.
The court heard how the couple married in April 2000, but their relationship broke down after only a few months.
Mr Larkin claims that, during a brief reconciliation in 2002, she took from his home 58 art works, part of his much larger collection of original designs for books published by Pan.
Mr Larkin says he was informed in 2004 by an art dealer that Miss Harte had approached him to ask him about the sale of 33 Pan cover designs.
He claims his ex-wife told the dealer she had bought the art works "many years previously at a car boot sale".
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Large proportion of young adults in UK suffer from stress or depression
At least one in ten young adults in Britain are suffering from serious depression, according to a new survey.
In a poll of more than two thousand 16 to 25-year-olds, around a tenth said they were struggling to cope with the pressure of day-to-day life.
According to bbc.co.uk, more than a quarter of those in employment said they often suffered from stress. This figure rose to a staggering 48 per cent amongst not those in employment, education or training.
More than in five of those questioned said they felt they had no-one talk to about their problems, which arguably highlights a greater demand for counselling services in the UK. Many of those in counselling careers provide essential help for unemployed people who need someone to talk to about their stress.
The poll was conducted by The Princes Trust. The group's chief executive Martina Milburn claimed that the amount of depressed unemployed people in the UK was "frightening."
In an interview with itv.com, she said: "We know at The Princes Trust that it is often those from the most vulnerable backgrounds who end up furthest from the job market. Life can become a demoralising downward spiral - from a challenging childhood into life as a jobless adult - but with the right support we can help get these lives on track."

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Good morning! Today I am sharing a bunch of ways to organize and store your bulletin board supplies.
Trim and borders, letters and pieces, signs and charts... oh my! All of the components we use to make our classroom displays appealing can become overwhelming when it comes time to organize and store them.
And then when it's time to plan, assemble, and put the bulletin board up... well, having a system in place to organize and store these goodies can save TONS of time, money, and frustration!
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Q: php command line change text output I want to know is it possible to change some output for special php cli base application to change some value on terminal not echo new one. for example this is cli application.
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

$percent = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i <= 100; $i++) {

    echo $percent . "\n";

    sleep(1);

    $percent++;
}

/**
0
1
...
*/

It's a simple app to show the user the percentage. So we must update it after each loop in this example, rather than append it. I want to change percent not show new one.

A: use \r instead of \n. \r is a carriage return, it will jump back to the beginning of the line without a newline.
$percent = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i <= 100; $i++) {
    echo $percent . "\r";
    sleep(1);
    $percent++;
}

This is working on Windows, Linux and MacOS

A: Something like this should work for what you need (tested and verified on a Linux (CentOS) machine):
for ($percent = 0; $percent <= 100; $percent++) {
    echo $percent;
    sleep(1);
    // Print one or more backspaces, erasing current character(s)
    echo str_repeat("\x08", strlen($percent));
}

A: This actually depends on your terminal (emulator) type, not on the language used. Have a few tries using the backspace character (0x08) to 'erase' the current content, then output the new content.

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Christian Baker Wins and Constitution Adversaries Finally Want Limited Judicial Authority
Jake MacAulay June 6, 2018
Justice Felix Frankfurter said, "The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
Practicing his Christianity by not participating in a sinful ceremony, Jack Phillips refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012. The homosexual couple then filed a complaint, which was upheld by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC).
The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the CCRC's ruling, which Phillips appealed to the Supreme Court, and in a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the First Amendment in its dealings with the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado…and their opinion is correct! This opinion, backed by legal authority, brought vindication to an innocent man. This is the exact purpose the Supreme Court was given authority by our Founding Fathers: to secure the rights of the Governed.
Unfortunately, for years, courts have been issuing opinions and claiming to themselves lawmaking powers that are outside of their legal or moral jurisdiction.
Traditionally, courts have used the "Equal Protection Clause" or the "Due Process Clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment to establish national policy. In effect, they use these clauses to accomplish an "end run" around the clear meaning of the words of our Constitution.
A perfect example of this judicial overreach is when the Supreme Court attempted to redefine marriage for everyone in Obergefell, and ipso facto it was wrongly understood to be the new "law of the land."
However, the advocates of Obergefell are taking a different approach to the Supreme Court's authority in this recent decision. Adversaries of the Constitution like Sarah Warbelow, legal director with the Human Rights Campaign, don't want to see this opinion become "the law of the land." Ms. Warbelow stressed that the decision "is so narrow as to apply only to this particular baker." And she is right!
But you can't have it both ways, Sarah.
You see, in ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, the court is deprived of the authority to make sweeping rulings with regards to state or federal laws.
Ask yourself the question, "How can the courts enforce a law about marriage when Congress doesn't have the constitutional authority to pass?"
Like referees, the courts are only responsible to judge the game they officiate today. Their calls, whether good or bad, do not affect and have no authority in tomorrow night's game.
So… stay tuned, America. With more constitutional decisions coming from the Supreme Court, constitutional adversaries might get on board and demand more constitutional, limited government.
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Projects exploring mysterious religious rituals in Russia, Soviet health resorts in Poland, and Ukrainian school graduations all feature on the shortlist for this year's New East Photo Prize. Including 16 photographers from Latvia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Croatia, Slovakia and Azerbaijan, the shortlisted series will be exhibited as part of a group show this autumn.
"Each of the shortlisted photographers demonstrate a unique approach to the people, places and stories that shape the region," says Ekow Eshun, creative director of Calvert. "The prize has proven itself once again to be an important space for emerging photographers to gain international recognition, and we look forward to working with each of them in the exhibition and beyond."
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At gas stations in eastern Caracas, lines appeared this week and this was not due to the lack of gasoline, this time. Drivers have filled tanks in anticipation of the effects that US government sanctions might have on Petróleos de Venezuela.
"We do not know what's going to happen now." We are waiting, "said a worker at the petrol station at Rómulo Gallegos." You have to be aware of the news that you know what's going on, "he added.
The oil sector's restrictions that this week announced by the White House security advisor John Bolton could limit fuel supplies in the country.
"From the second half of December to the first half of January, compulsory gas purchases were made in the United States, enough to meet demand across the country for a period of 10 to 12 days." There was a serious reduction in the number of vehicles in the country. was active in 2012, what was purchased would last only five days, "explained Iván Freites, Director of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers of Venezuela and Secretary General of the Oil and Gas Coalition of Falcón.
The union leader added that despite the recent import of fuel, the deficit will continue in the border areas for smuggling. "We have a consumption of 190,000 barrels of petrol a day, and we had a 60,000 barrel a day last year, and 60,000 barrels were imported from the United States," said Freites.
José Bodas, Secretary-General of the Futpv, said the gasoline deficit had come from 2005.
The union said the US sanctions were also affecting fuel production in the country. "The sanction for the petroleum industry limits the purchase of the necessary gasoline additives to become a convenient petrol for vehicles. We could not make gas."
Engineer and refinery expert Francisco Javier Larrañaga said that because of the collapse of the refineries Amuay, Cardón, El Palito and Puerto La Cruz did not produce high-tech gasoline. "On the one hand, sanctions restrict the currency that could be gained by the illegitimate government of Nicolas Madura and, on the other hand, we have a general deterioration in the production of gasoline. The only catalytic cracking unit in Cardoon is not working.
Bodas added that Paraguayan refinery complex operates between 20% and 25% of its capacity, and that is why imports of large quantities of gasoline are distributed in the country.
Larrañaga stressed that Maduro will have to introduce gasoline from other parts of the region due to diplomatic tensions. "Latin American countries that could import this amount of gas to supply the market break their relationship with Madu, which would be the closest country to those who can buy it."
Exports are in danger
Venetian oil exports will also be affected by sanctions. "It will be difficult to send oil to other markets because our crude oil is heavy, with lots of sulfur and metal waste, which refineries can only buy with deep conversion processes," said José Toro Hardy, former PDVSA executive director.
An expert on oil economics said that they are the only ones interested in purchasing Venezuelan oil, except in the United States, those who want to mix with light oil to achieve an average blend.
Despite the possibility that Maduro will not send more oil to the United States because he has no access to the accounts he is paying for exports, Toro Hardy believes he does not have many short-term options to replace the US market.
"It is possible that Maduro's decision is not to send more oil to the United States, because who would have those resources was Juan Guaido," he said. He argued that restrictions would also have an impact on Citgo's oil company, which would have to import oil at a higher price than other countries supplying heavy or extra heavy oil, such as Canada.
"Citgo can buy oil from other places, but never at the same price it buys from PDVSA and is processing it in the same refineries."
Venezuelan production at risk
Rafael Gallegos, a former PDVSA worker, warned that the restrictions would also have an impact on oil production in the country, which has fallen to the historic level, according to a report by the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries.
"Though you can try to introduce diluents from other countries, you will get less money to buy them, so they may have little impact on belt production," he explained.
Despite these warnings, Maduro has repeated that there is "gasoline for a while" in the country.
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That night, I stayed in the guest room. You could tell Christian wanted me to stay with him, but I just needed some time. The next morning I woke up to an empty penthouse, if you can call it that. I had some shorts on an a tank top and was comfy and cozy. I walked into the small kitchen and opened the fridge. Of course there's no food here.
I wondered if he even came here besides to sleep. He did show me his office on this floor, maybe he's there. I opened the door and quietly headed down the hall. Once I came to his office I focused my hearing in to see if he was in a meeting. It was silent. I knocked on the door. Nothing. I slowly opened the door and came to an empty office.
"Hmph." I let out and decided to look for him. I can also get some breakfast. I walked out the door that leaded to the steps and froze. I needed to change, but when I tugged on the door, it was locked, and I didn't know the code.
"You have got to be kidding me." I grumbled and sighed, I guess i'll take the hit. I headed down the stairs and as I made my way to the main foyer, everyone looked at me with wide eyes. Their attire was elegant and fancy, then there's me in a tank and shorts. I tried focusing on his scent, but too many were around to catch it.
My wolf felt irritated being away from her mate, but as my stomach grumbled I knew I just wanted some food, he can wait.
"Luna!" Someone called out walking towards, me? Luna? Luna, oh my Goddess they called me their Luna.
"Alpha Christian told me to inform you that breakfast is ready in the dining room for you, he just got back from an early meeting." So that's where he was.
"Could you take me there?" I asked and the man smiled nodding. "Of course, follow me." As he took me there I couldn't help but think at how he called me Luna. It was the female version of the Alpha: the Alpha's equal.
Christian's scent swarmed over me as we walked through two big mahogany doors and I grinned spotting him sitting behind an elegant table, food set out perfectly. It was quiet and he was the only one in here besides a servant pouring his coffee.
"Good morning." I called out and he looked up from his newspaper and his eyes roamed my body as I walked in his direction. "Good morning..." He trailed off. "What?" I asked hesitantly and sat next to him.
"You walked out there in front of unmated males like that?" He asked and I could see the gold flecks shine in this eyes as his wolf clawed at the surface. "I didn't know the code to get back into the hall to change." I mumbled as he took off his suit jacket and handed me it.
"I would just feel better if you wore that over your clothes when we head back up, you don't have to now." I nodded understanding, he hasn't marked me yet and until he does, any male attention towards me will infuriate his wolf. Marking was something important in a mate bond and without it, the male is usually very possessive. A mark is a bite to the neck, fully claiming the other as their own.
It was silent as I made my plate. "Chris?" I asked and he turned towards me smiling.
"I like it when you call me that." I grinned rolling my eyes.
"Mason's eyes, they were red, yours are gold, so are all alpha's different?" I asked and saw him tense.
"Mason? You're on first name bases with him?" Is that all he got out of that?
"No, he's just not around, now answer my question." I demanded playfully and he let out a playful growl back and I grinned picking up a strawberry and bit into it.
"As for your question, yes, they're all different. Mine show gold, for a royal and a high status. Mason's pack is war, blood and battles happens in war, his are blood red. Alpha Jackson's are blue, It is often associated with depth and stability, it symbolizes wisdom, confidence, intelligence, and that's what The Intelligence Pack is. Alpha Ryker's are purple believe it or not. Purple represents power." He said and I cocked an eyebrow.


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Dresden (dpa) – Dynamo Dresden is not giving up yet. The club are continuing their pursuit strategy against what they see as unfair relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga – but are apparently also seeking a friendly settlement with the German Football League (DFL).
The association and the DFL confirmed discussions with the German press agency. The newspaper "Bild" reported on a meeting between Dynamo general managers Michael Born and Ralf Becker with league representatives Peter Peters, Rüdiger Fritsch and Ansgar Schwenken in Frankfurt / Main, which was also supposed to be on increasing the league.
"If a club comes to us and wants to talk to us, of course we will. And if you want an assessment from us, you will get it, of course," said Peters, deputy board spokesperson for administration of DFL for DPA. "The questions are: what exactly do they want? How do you assess this? And how should it be implemented?" However, there are still no apps or suggestions on the Dresdeners table.
According to the report, Dresden is expected to make specific suggestions on how the season starting September 18 could be played with 19 or 20 second division teams. SV Wehen Wiesbaden, also relegated from the penultimate position, could thus retain the class. "From our point of view, it is useless to speculate on the chances of success," Nico Schäfer, managing director of Wiesbaden, said at the dpa's request. "At the moment, we are in an assigned but observer role and wait first."
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The increase in the second division would present clubs with new programming problems in the already tight schedule, and the TV money would also have to be distributed to more clubs. Approval for this will likely be low. Perhaps that is why the Dresdeners are speculating more about financial compensation, especially since current team leader Becker's plans are clearly geared towards the 3rd Division.
Before the end of the past season, Dresden had already announced that it wanted to review the legal procedures. The club see a competitive disadvantage as the team have had to quarantine and then play nine games in 28 days due to multiple cases of coronavirus.
The club would have had an opinion on the odds of success for a week – but it would take a lot of time and money to run through the instances and would barely be finished before the league started. The German Football Association is officially responsible for the sporting jurisdiction and the LDF for the organization of the 2nd division. As a third division club, Dresden is unlikely to apply for a raise for the DFL general assembly of 36 professional clubs.
Wiesbaden Managing Director Schäfer underlined: "We had a long discussion within the LDF about the sporting integrity of competition under these framework conditions, and finally we decided to end the season with all its contingencies in all cases." The basic decision in March to continue the match was unanimous according to the LDF.
The "Bild" also writes that Dresden would have questioned the Corona test laboratories mandated by the LDF and considers that the 14-day quarantine is unnecessary. The latter, however, had been commissioned by the health department. In addition, Dynamo team doctor Onays Al-Sadi reportedly said at the end of May, after the team's fourth Corona case became known, that the authority "had acted in such a way. absolutely responsible and correct ".
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The publication and incredibly brisk sales of Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" seem to have really gotten under President Trump's skin.
"Fire and Fury" has upended the administration in a way no scandal previously has. Insiders report the White House has turned into a "three-ring circus" and caused a very ugly public split between the president and his former top strategist Steve Bannon.
The book describes Mr. Trump as being terrified of dementia, calling him "a man whose many neuroses included a horror of forgetfulness or senility," and his tweets in response to the questions being raised about his mental fitness seem to bear that out.


My phone rang at 1:07am and I was on the road to Livingston by 1:10am (Whoo hoo for leggings and ponytails!). Photographing a new baby coming into the world is such an adventure. Each time I shoot one, it's completely different than the one before.
Lindy & Jack didn't know the gender of their baby before Pryce came into the word, and what a joy was it to be there as they were flooded with images of raising their new daughter!
Lindy is a midwife at Upper Cumberland Center for Women her friend Dr. Nahm was able to deliver her baby. Minutes after Pryce was born, Lindy & Jack asked Dr. Nahm to pray a blessing over Pryce as the RN's in the room listened in. Such a touching moment.
One thing that was very obvious after my encounters with Jack & Lindy's family was that Pryce is going to be one very loved little girl.
Beautiful! You captured the moments the families will cherish for a lifetime!
Such a beautiful family! Many Blessings!


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BBC News: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran
Iran's most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran, the country's defence ministry has confirmed.
Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand county.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has condemned the killing "as an act of state terror".
Western intelligence agencies believe Fakhrizadeh was behind a covert Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
"If Iran ever chose to weaponise (enrichment), Fakhrizadeh would be known as the father of the Iranian bomb," one Western diplomat told Reuters news agency in 2014.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes.
But news of the killing comes amid fresh concern about the increased amount of enriched uranium that the country is producing. Enriched uranium is a vital component for both civil nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons.
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A 2015 deal with six world powers had placed limits on its production, but since President Donald Trump abandoned the deal in 2018, Iran has been deliberately reneging on its agreements.
Joe Biden has pledged to reengage with Iran when he takes over the US presidency in January, despite longstanding opposition from Israel .
Between 2010 and 2012, four Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated and Iran has accused Israel of complicity in the killings.
Fakhrizadeh's name was specifically mentioned in Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation about Iran's nuclear programme in April 2018.
There has been no comment from Israel on the news of the assassination. The Pentagon has also declined to comment, according to Reuters.
What happened to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh?
In a statement on Friday, Iran's defence ministry said: "Armed terrorists targeted a vehicle carrying Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the ministry's research and innovation organisation.
"After a clash between the terrorists and his bodyguards, Mr Fakhrizadeh was severely injured and rushed to hospital.
"Unfortunately, the medical team's efforts to save him were unsuccessful and minutes ago he passed away."
Iranian media reports said the attackers opened fire on the scientist in his car.
Fars news agency earlier reported there was a car explosion in Absard town, with witnesses reporting that "three to four individuals, who are said to have been terrorists, were killed".
Why was he targeted?
By Paul Adams, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent
As head of the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation, Fakhrizadeh was clearly still a key player. Hence Benjamin Netanyahu's warning, two years ago, to "remember his name".
Since Iran started breaching its commitments under the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the country has moved ahead rapidly, building stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and enriching to a purity above the level permitted under the deal.
Iranian officials have always said such moves are reversible, but developments in research and development are harder to eradicate.
"We cannot go backwards," Iran's former ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said recently.
If Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the key player Israel alleges, then his death could represent someone's effort to put the brakes on Iran's forward momentum.
With the US president-elect, Joe Biden, talking about taking Washington back into the deal with Iran, the assassination could also be aimed at complicating any future negotiations.
What has the reaction been?
"Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today," Iran's foreign minister said in a tweet.
"This cowardice – with serious indications of Israeli role – shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators."
Mr Zarif called on the international community to "condemn this act of state terror".
The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that Iran will avenge the killing of the scientist.
"Assassination of nuclear scientists is the most obvious violation of the global hegemony to prevent our access to modern sciences," said Maj Gen Hossein Salami.
Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh?
Fakhrizadeh is the most renowned Iranian nuclear scientist and a senior officer of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
He has long been spoken about by Western security sources as extremely powerful and instrumental in Iran's nuclear programme.
According to secret documents obtained by Israel in 2018, he led a programme to create nuclear weapons.
At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he identified Fakhrizedeh as the head scientist in the programme, and urged people to "remember that name".
In 2015, the New York Times compared him to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who directed the Manhattan Project that during World War Two produced the first atomic weapons.
A professor of physics, Fakhrizadeh is said to have led Project Amad, the alleged covert programme that was established in 1989 to research the potential for building a nuclear bomb. It was shut down in 2003, according to the IAEA, though Mr Netanyahu said the documents retrieved in 2018 showed Fakhrizadeh led a programme which secretly continued Project Amad's work.
The IAEA has long wanted to speak to him as part of its investigations into Iran's nuclear programme.
Suspicions that Iran was using the programme as a cover to develop a nuclear bomb prompted the EU, US and UN to impose crippling sanctions in 2010.
The 2015 deal that Iran reached with the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany saw it limit its nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief.
Since President Trump abandoned the deal, it has floundered. Earlier this month, the IAEA said Iran had more than 12 times the amount of enriched uranium than permitted under the deal.
Meanwhile, tensions between the US and Iran have escalated, peaking in January with America's assassination of Gen Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds force.
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The Saskatoon Entertainment Expo is pleased to announce its final addition to its 2022 celebrity guest line-up!
Katherine McNamara is an actress and singer who is perhaps best known for her role as 'Clary Fray' in the Freeform series "Shadowhunters." The fantasy show, based on a series of young adult books, drew a massive fanbase and garnered multiple People's Choice Award and Teen Choice Award wins. The series aired its final episode on May 6th, 2019. McNamara is also well known for starring in the CW's "Arrow" as 'Mia Smoak (aka Blackstar)'. Initially only referred to as Blackstar, Mia is an underground cage fighter from a possible future. The reveal of Mia's true identity as the daughter of Oliver Queen and Felicity


Christmas Cat is sitting so nicely on his mat, but probably not for long. He looks like he's getting ready to pounce on those ornaments hanging from the tree. It's partly my fault. I'll explain.
The ornaments are from the Carols of Christmas stamp set and the Card Front Builder Thinlits die set. I first stamped them in Garden Green, and a second time in real red, so I could die cut them out and hang them from the green string. I made the ornaments red, knowing this was Christmas Cat's favorite color, so I must take some responsibility.
Shall we talk about the cat? He was born in 1962, and his fur is Garden Green and Real Red, five cent, United States, Christmas stamps. He is popular in the neighborhood, and has a number of friends with fur from many patterns of Designer Series Paper. The Cat Punch is available in the current Holiday catalog, and I'm thinking this cat has more than nine lives, and will live forever. He spends a great deal of time on his Merry Christmas mat, which was made with the Bunch of Banners die set, and the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.
We (the cat and I) decided on a Very Vanilla background and embossed it with the Pine Bough embossing folder, layered on a Garden Green card base. To make the tree come alive we used the Pretty Pines Thinlits dies to cut two branches from Garden Green cardstock. I said, "You can look, but don't touch." Famous last words.
I just hope he doesn't knock over the tree!
Thanks, Jennifer! I have a bunch of Canadian stamps I can use also! Happiness!
Thank you Trish! Especially nice coming from a non-cat lover!
What a cute little "Calico Kitty". Love the rug underneath. Great job Su!
Thank you, Rae! I appreciate your blog hop assistance!
Su Mohr , Wow wow that is so beautiful I think you should present that to stampin up and maybe they can duplicated that into designer series paper for next year ??
Thank you, Maria, I'm so glad you like it! And, I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my blog.
Perfect for a kitty to wonder what should I do next?
Hi Stella, he'll be getting in trouble, no doubt!
I am with you I love the cat. Great job giving the cat another direction.
Thank you, Pam! I'm so glad you like the cat. Maybe we can keep him around for a while.
Kitty did it again…. as others have remarked, he's Purrrrfect!
Thank you, Debi! It's nice to understand cat talk.
Thank you, Debbie! I appreciate your kind comments.
Cute, cute, cute!!! You had me at "kitty" and this one is so creative! Absolutely wonderful holiday card for all our kitty-loving family and friends.
I love, love, love your postage stamps creations, Su! And your story is so fun! I'm remembering my own naughty cats at Christmas time!
Thank you, Karen! Somehow, we love our naughty cats.
Love the collage-style cat made with vintage postage stamps!
Thank you, Pat! I'm having fun putting my old stamp collection to use.
I have loved all your cards using the postage stamps, but this is the best yet. Just purrfect!
Thanks Linda! Love your "purrfect" comment!


The Leominster Lassie League had a great first week of the season.
Computer Down Under Royal Angels topped the Mason's Recreation Black Xplosion 16-2.
Splash-N-Go Car Wash Reds outlasted the Vietnam Veteran's Green Giants 13-7.
The Black Xplosion edged out the Bourbeau's Purple Hurricanes 16-15.
The Royal Angels doubled the Green Giants 14-7.
The Reds beat the Hurricanes 15-4.
The Green Giants won over the Black Xplostions 13-8.
Finally, the Royal Angels topped the Purple Hurricanes 14-8.
The Leominster DPW Royal Pirates won over the Leominster Lassie League Yellow Stingers 11-3.
Brideau Oil Blue Dolphins topped the Leominster Lassie League Green Hornets 15-9.
Ollie's Purple Lightning edged out Leominster Ice & Oil Red Cardinals 6-4.
The Yellow Stingers beat the Red Cardinals 14-9.
The Blue Dolphins outlasted the Royal Pirates 8-5.
The Green Hornets topped the Purple Lightning 17-3.
The Yellow Stingers won over the Blue Dolphins 19-14.
Finally, the Royal Pirates beat the Purple Lightning 20-7.
The Wm Southworth DMD Green Gators topped the Elena Mae's Bridal Boutique Blue Vipers 18-2.
The Zichelle Steel Red Sox edged out Piper Electric Royal Diamonds 9-8.
Creative Print Products Black Krushers won over Dr Ron Ebbs Purple Hawks 7-2.
The Black Krushers edged out the Green Gators 16-15.
The Blue Vipers over the Purple Hawks 17-7.
The Green Gators beat the Royal Diamonds 9-4.
The Blue Vipers topped the Purple Hawks 20-7.
Finally, The Black Krushed edged by the Red Sox 8-7.
For more information about the Leominser Lassie League visit, www. leominsterlassieleague.org.


This was nick-named the "Impossible Railroad". It was built in the earliest part of the last century, finished in 1932 by John D. Spreckels, the sugar baron, with hopes of linking the harbor of San Diego to Eastern Markets. In later years it was going to be used to move goods out of Baja, to the East. It was originally named the San Diego and Arizona Eastern, it has gone bankrupt so many times it's impossible to list all the names it has gone through. At present, and for a multitude of reasons, no trains have run on this track for the last two years.
There are several reasons that this has not worked out for previous and present owners. First the tunnels are collapsing and are in need of constant repair. And now the most important reason: At the Western end of the track it crosses into Mexico. That means that the US would have to build an inspection station to inspect all incoming goods. This may never happen. And finally, the route, if you look closely at the enlarged map provided HERE you'll see the zig-zag track (highlighted in RED ) that it follows through the mountains and this alone makes it undesirable.
What makes this hike so interesting (why 100's have made this hike) is the sheer size and durability of the Goat Canyon Trestle. After all it is made of WOOD! Hard to believe that just a few years ago a locomotive with 2 flat bed trailer cars crossed the trestle. One of the flat bed cars was carrying a track hoe to clear some of the rock slides off the tracks. This was a masterpiece of engineering and is worth the hike in to see it.
NOTE: Although 100's of explorers have hiked down the tracks to see this amazing trestle, it is your responsibility to find out if this is legal to do so! The hiking trail provided as a GPX track is a legal way to get to see the trestle and does not include hiking on the tracks. We will not be held liable for an illegal actions by your lack of knowledge.


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Extraction of Mammoth tusks in Siberia
About 10 thousand years ago, northern Siberia was inhabited by shaggy giants, called mammoths. Now extinct genus of mammals affected by the rise in temperature at the end of the last Ice Age and Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat, which resulted in their habitat was flooded and reduced. Animals caught in limbo on an isolated island, where there was not the slightest chance to return to the mainland. Some populations, sharpened on these land areas to the east and north of Siberia, delayed and became extinct about 3,700 years ago.
The remains of mammoths, in particular their tusks to date status are the most common fossils in the Siberian lands. Scientists estimate that the reserves of this ancient material in Russia reach hundreds of thousands of tons, and annual production is several tens (20-60) tons. Given the volume of produced relics, one can only imagine what a big number of mammoths lived on these lands in those days. Known tusks, champions curled in spirals on 4-4.5 meters, their weight was equal to 100-110 kg and diameter - 18-19 cm. Photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva
The indigenous peoples of the northern areas, are often found washed up before spring waters tusks, believed that the giant animals move underground, putting over its surface only their huge "fangs". They called their Eggor, ie earthen deer. According to another legend, the mammoths lived in the early times of creation. Because of its enormous weight they constantly fail to his chest in the ground. In creating mammoths paths formed rivers, streams, which eventually led to the complete flooding (there is a legend that during the biblical flood animals would be saved on Noah's ark, but could not fit there). For some time the animals floated over the vast waters. Photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva
Throughout the European part of Russia and Siberia and up to the middle of the XX century actively flourishing folk art of carving on bone. Local carvers sired combs, boxes, miniature sculptures exclusively from the tusks of mammoths. This material is very beautiful, and durable plastic, though is somewhat complicated to handle. Its hardness is equivalent to such materials like pearls, amber and coral. Mammoth bones easily handled cutter, acquiring a great mesh pattern, and thanks to the large size of them can perform virtually any sculptural form.
Tusks of mammoths returned from the permafrost via hard work seekers. Their production is quite complex, as part of the ancient material lies in the swampy areas at the bottom of the river, in the tundra. Often tusks found on the banks of streams, lakes and ravines. To extract a single artifact earner is required from several hours to several days of continuous excavation. Before you pick up the found material, hunters tusks thrown into a hole dug silver jewelry or colored balls, as an offering to the local spirits.
Today, virtually all mining mammoth tusks in the vast Siberia is illegal, and about 90% of the received "Treasures" is ultimately in China, where the very revered ancient tradition of carving on ivory. The rapid growth of demand caused some concern among researchers, since it leads to the loss of valuable data about living on this land animals, tusks which contain information about the climate, feed and the environment. Perhaps in the permafrost of Siberia still locked millions, and even more mammoth tusks, but find them every year becomes more and more difficult.
Source — Nationalgeographic | Evgeniaarbugaeva | NGM | Huffingtonpost | NPR
Location: Siberia


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Independiente I es el tercer álbum de estudio del grupo de funk chileno Los Tetas. Fue grabado en el año 1999, en Santiago de Chile y Los Ángeles California. Este es el primer álbum de Los Tetas grabado sin una discográfica y con su nuevo bajista, Toly Ramírez Jr. Además de solo poseer 1000 copias a la venta.

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Advanced Micro Devices May Be Split Into Two Companies – Rumours
Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest supplier of x86 central processing units, may divide itself into two separate companies in order to boost efficiencies of both. AMD has publicly indicated that the company needed restructuring and also admitted that it has been developing so-called "asset-smart" strategy in the last few quarters, but no actual details are clear.
According to a news-story by 247wallst.com web-site, there are rumours on the market claiming that Advanced Micro Devices may be split into two companies, one of which would concentrate on contract chip production and another would focus on development of microprocessors, graphics processing units, multimedia chips, core-logic sets and some other products. The rumour has been circulating for some time now, moreover, about half a decade ago AMD already admitted that it would make chips for its partners on a contract basis if it has enough manufacturing capacities.
Currently AMD is struggling to deliver competitive central processing units (CPUs) and also to manufacture them using latest process technologies on time. In addition, the company has to develop GPUs, chipsets and other products, which are made by contract semiconductor makers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) as well as United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC).
Theoretically, splitting the company into two would allow the independent firms to become more competitive since the contract manufacturing unit would get finances from outside AMD. However, for a maker of x86 CPUs it is crucially important to tailor state-of-the-art fabrication technologies for microprocessor design, something which may not be truly possible in case of bulk process technologies at a contract maker. Additionally, splitting the company into several units would not particularly fit into "asset-smart" strategy.
Another rumour about AMD in the recent months was ouster of chief executive and chairman of the board Hector Ruiz. However, Mr. Ruiz still remains in his office.
AMD did not comment on the news-story.
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package org.opensaml.xml.security.credential.criteria;

import org.opensaml.xml.security.credential.Credential;
import org.opensaml.xml.security.criteria.EntityIDCriteria;
import org.opensaml.xml.util.DatatypeHelper;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Instance of evaluable credential criteria for evaluating a credential's entity ID.
 */
public class EvaluableEntityIDCredentialCriteria implements EvaluableCredentialCriteria {

    /** Logger. */
    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EvaluableEntityIDCredentialCriteria.class);

    /** Base criteria. */
    private String entityID;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param criteria the criteria which is the basis for evaluation
     */
    public EvaluableEntityIDCredentialCriteria(EntityIDCriteria criteria) {
        if (criteria == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("Criteria instance may not be null");
        }
        entityID = criteria.getEntityID();
    }

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param newEntityID the criteria value which is the basis for evaluation
     */
    public EvaluableEntityIDCredentialCriteria(String newEntityID) {
        if (DatatypeHelper.isEmpty(newEntityID)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Entity ID may not be null");
        }
        entityID = newEntityID;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    public Boolean evaluate(Credential target) {
        if (target == null) {
            log.error("Credential target was null");
            return null;
        }
        if (DatatypeHelper.isEmpty(target.getEntityId())) {
            log.info("Could not evaluate criteria, credential contained no entity ID");
            return null;
        }
        Boolean result = entityID.equals(target.getEntityId());
        return result;
    }

}

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The news has been full of stories about new advancements in 3D printed tissue. Companies such as Organovo and research institutions such as the University of California San Diego are leading the charge in the development of 3D printed, functional human tissue, particularly liver tissue. So far, printed tissue is being used mostly for pharmaceutical drug testing, but everyone in the 3D printing biosphere professes the ultimate goal of eventually producing whole, fully functional human organs that can be transplanted into patients. Most experts agree that it will happen; it's just a matter of when.
It's also a matter of who. The race to be the first to 3D print a transplantable human organ is an intense one, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center may have just pulled into the lead. Regenerative medicine researchers at the North Carolina hospital have announced that they have printed ear, bone and muscle structures and successfully implanted them into animals. The structures, after being implanted, matured into functional tissue and sprouted new systems of blood vessels, and their strength and size mean that they could feasibly be implanted into humans in the future.
Dr. Atala has long been a major player in the field of regenerative medicine. In 2006 his lab made history by growing and implanting a bladder into a human patient – the first time such a feat had ever been accomplished. He and his team have been developing the Integrated Tissue and Organ Printing System (ITOP) over the past decade. The system involves a custom-designed 3D printer that utilzes a water-based ink optimized to promote the health and growth of encapsulated cells, which are printed in alternating layers with biodegradable plastic micro-channels that act as passages for nutrients. Unlike other bioprinting methods, ITOP prints the cells and the scaffolds simultaneously, according to Dr. Atala.
Wake Forest's research has been largely funded by the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a military organization working to develop regenerative treatments for severely injured soldiers. The development of transplantable, 3D printed tissue could obviously benefit both military personnel and civilians, though – according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, over 121,000 Americans are currently on the waiting list for an organ transplant. The ITOP system could eliminate waiting lists altogether with "made to order" organs custom-designed for individual patients based on MRI and CT scans.
We're still years away from that, but it's been five months since 3D printed bone fragments were implanted into rats, and the tissue is still thriving inside the rodents' bodies. One of the biggest challenges in bioprinting so far has been getting printed tissue to survive long enough to form blood vessels and nerves and otherwise fully integrate with the body in which it is implanted, so this study is incredibly promising. You can access the study here. Discuss these new advances in the 3D Printed Tissue forum over at 3DPB.com.


We welcome and applaud your Millennium Challenge Account initiative, which calls for increased foreign aid based on standards of "ruling justly, investing in people and encouraging economic freedom." We feel this initiative holds great promise for advancing development and alleviating poverty. Moreover, we congratulate you on the inclusion of ruling justly as a key criterion for the allocation of that assistance. We believe that it is particularly important that respect for human rights, adherence to the rule of law, and rooting out corruption be key elements in helping to determine where the U.S. invests its resources.
We have learned from past experience in countries around the world, including Egypt, Somalia, Cambodia, and Zaire that if democracy, human rights, and governance concerns are ignored, U.S. assistance efforts are simply wasted. The bottom line is that these issues matter.
Listed below are simple and transparent examples of criteria for ruling justly that we would respectfully ask you to consider in choosing beneficiaries of the Millennium Challenge Account.
Governments should only be considered for the Millennium Challenge Account if they are making substantial progress in guaranteeing, in practice and over time, such fundamental freedoms as freedom of expression and association, the right to free and fair elections, and equal treatment under law. We believe that once those elements are in place, adherence to the rule of law and anti-corruption efforts are more likely to follow.
While we understand that the Millennium Challenge Account will consist primarily of government-to-government assistance, we would like to reiterate the critical role that civil society plays in ensuring a functioning democratic system and broad-based economic development. Therefore, we urge you to ensure that assistance from other development sources to the civil society sector be maintained and indeed increased.
We welcome the opportunity to be of any further assistance to you in the formulation of criteria and the implementation of this important initiative.


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Карамба (Sesamothamnus lugardii) — вид рослин порядку губоцвіті.

Будова
Невелике дерево (до 4 м), що має кілька стволів, які ростуть з однієї основи. Рудо-зелена кора лущиться тонкими смужками. На гілках ростуть колючки. Запашні білі квіти з довгою трубкою з'являються, коли опадає листя.

Поширення та середовище існування
Росте у південній Намібії, східній Боствані, південному Зімбабве та Національному парку Крюгер в ПАР.

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Джерела
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Губоцвіті
Флора Південно-Африканської Республіки
Флора Намібії
Флора Ботсвани
Флора Зімбабве
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Schlacht bei Hüls bezeichnet zwei Schlachten nahe Hüls bei Krefeld:
im Truchsessischen Krieg im Jahre 1583, siehe Schlacht bei Hüls (1583)
im Hessenkrieg im Jahre 1642, siehe Schlacht auf der Kempener Heide


We all want to show-off our personality, right? I decided to show you my favorite bright color, metallic and neon pumps. All these shoes can be used in your everyday life. This 2017 is full of great ideas that can make you look glamour, trendy and chic. I am talking about creative ways how to make all these shoes look awesome on you, no matter if you wear casual or dressy staples.
All in red! If you want to brighten up your outfit, then you should give a try to this red double-breasted tailored coat and complete it with platform stiletto heeled pumps in matching red color.
Generally people look for shoes that can match their clothes, right? However, some women do the exact opposite! They use to play with their accessories. If you still don't own a pair of colored pumps, then you definitely should give this trend a try! Trust me, you are not obliged to match your footwear with everything you wear. A bright dress complimented with loud shoes can look weird and too much glaring. That's why colored shoes look great with neutrals and non-bright clothes. I personally recommend to wear more black and white with colored shoes. Neutral hues can carry bright shoes nicely! If you are still scared to take the plunge and try on bright, metallic and neon shoes, then you definitely should take a cue from these awesome street style images.


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Why Big Tech Leaders Are Billed as the Top Election Winners
Jon C. Ogg
Last Updated: June 16, 2022 12:01 pm
Calling out winners and losers based on an election cycle is a tricky business. As of Wednesday, November 4, it seems the stock market wants to declare that the technology sector may be the big beneficiary from the 2020 elections. Despite the country not knowing whether it will be under a Trump or Biden regime, it looks as though the gridlock will continue with a mixed Congress. That also can change, but the market bets are pointing that way.
Large tech companies are adding countless billions of dollars in market capitalization as the live-money voting is now betting that all the proposed regulations and potential breakups of the tech giants will be pushed off to a later date. In fact, these companies may now be able to operate even more aggressively than have in recent years.
24/7 Wall St. has reviewed some of the top tech leaders to determine why they would be viewed as strong winners based on the election outcomes. The current assumption is that under gridlock and with so many other fights between the parties, it is likely going to result in no major actions against the technology giants.
As with all political issues revolving around business sectors, surprises can occur, and the real wins and losses remain to be seen. That just doesn't keep investors and speculators from placing their bets with live money.
The explanations about why each company is winning can be debated, and the outcomes are still unknown. That said, what can't be debated is how the market is treating the technology darlings on "the morning after." One major mover may be coincidental, and one key social media player is losing handily.
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has been called out by multiple officials as having far too much power and influence in people's lives. It is probably true that the operators of Google can tell more about someone than that person knows about themselves. Alphabet's breakup odds may have just gone down. Its shares were up 3.9% at $1,709.00 on Wednesday morning.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may now have limited worries about how it operates under a gridlock scenario. Jeff Bezos is not exactly Trump's hero, but now it seems that the empire of selling online, running a massive cloud operation, having the top destination for organic and natural foods and getting into whatever business it wants to at the time will be allowed to go on. Amazon shares were up 4.5% at $3,187.00 on Wednesday morning.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still the world's largest corporation, with more than a $1.9 trillion market cap. Its shares rose 2.3% to $113.00 on Wednesday. While the iPhone is not a monopoly, companies have fought Apple's app store for taking too large of a cut and for having too much influence. On another note, was a Biden or a Trump win going to prevent millions of consumers from upgrading to the iPhone 12?
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) also has been a potential breakup candidate for its dominance in social media. Mark Zuckerberg has been under fire more times than can be counted easily, but now it seems as though the company can continue with its divisive and ever-changing policies. That remains to be seen, but the live-money bets in the stock market had Facebook up 5.2% at $278.90 on Wednesday morning.
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been a cloud winner under Azure, and current and pending contracts might not face much scrutiny under gridlock. That remains to be seen, but Microsoft has also been a winner from the stay-at-home economy. Its Xbox refresh also likely will boost revenues by the billions this holiday season, regardless of which candidate (or party) ultimately wins. Microsoft shares were up 3.4% at $213.30 on Wednesday.
Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is the newest Dow Jones industrial stock in technology, and its market has grown and grown. The split work between offices and home is also helping to bolster sales. This one may not have been a target by regulators, but the gravy train is likely to keep on producing gravy. Salesforce was last seen up 3.1% at $244.25.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) was one of Wednesday's technology winners, but it had absolutely no significant regulatory exposure to speak of. AMD has its daily success tied to an analyst upgrade, as Goldman Sachs upgraded its shares to Buy from Neutral and raised its target price to $96 from $84. The shares traded up almost 5% at $80.35, and that is down from a high of $80.72 earlier in the morning.
Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is that one exception to the rule on Wednesday. Jack Dorsey and the people at Twitter have been accused on more than one occasion of limiting speech and blocking countless conservative voices. Without a blue wave, that may keep the pressure on the company. Twitter was down 0.15% at $41.68 on Wednesday morning.
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Rear Admiral Alfonso Nanclares, EU NAVFOR Deputy Commander, extended Operation Atalanta's commitment support to the Regional Centre for Operational Coordination (RCOC) in the Seychelles.
On Monday 5th February Admiral Nanclares met Mr Ronny Maratiken, the Deputy Director of the RCOC, and H.E. Lionel Majeste-Larrouy, the French and EU Ambassador to the Seychelles. This follows a recent visit by Indian Ocean delegates to EU NAVFOR in London.
As part of the wider EU effort to strengthen regional resources EU NAVFOR is working with regional partners, including the Indian Ocean Commission, to improve maritime capabilities. Admiral Nanclares said: "This was a great opportunity to help support and develop capabilities in the region". He went on to say, "We now have a greater understanding of how we can help each other both now and in the future".
Operation Atalanta is committed to supporting regional partners in preventing piracy across the Western Indian Ocean. When six pirates attacked the MV Ever Dynamic last November, EU NAVFOR's Italian warship ITS Fasan captured and transferred them to the Seychelles for a legal finish. If convicted the suspected pirates could face up to 30 years in a detention facility. During the meetings all delegates expressed "confidence in the capability of the Seychellois to fairly and successfully prosecute the suspects handed over in November 2017".
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March 9, 2018 By Faro Laz
Fuel subsidies have always been endemic to the MENA region's energy importers as well as producers for socio and political reasons. Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex and Jessica Jewell, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) went over the pros and cons of the issue worldwide and reached the conclusion that ultimately, subsidy reform is not impossible, but neither is it easy. To gain maximum benefits for the climate while doing the minimum harm to the poor, reforms must be carefully targeted at the regions and sectors where they will be most effective. In any case, fossil fuel subsidies need to go ASAP .
Fossil fuel subsidies need to go – but what about the poorer people who rely on cheap energy?
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Almost all governments in the world joined the Paris agreement in 2015 in an effort to tackle climate change. In the same year, many of the same governments paid about US$400 billion in direct and indirect subsidies to help people buy fossil fuels.
Subsidies are government policies which make energy cheaper than under normal market conditions. They mostly go towards fossil fuels, since most of the energy we use comes from oil, gas or coal. As one of us noted in a review published in the journal Ecological Economics, fossil fuel subsidies are a popular and pervasive tool for helping people across the world have access to energy.
But it isn't clear whether both trends are possible. Isn't there a contradiction between subsidising fossil fuels and meeting Paris climate targets? And, if the subsidies are removed, won't many people suffer without cheap energy?
Though recent analysis shows that the worldwide removal would not magically solve climate change, there are many reasons for reform beyond reducing emissions.
Subsidies are inefficient
There is increasing disillusionment with subsidies. As one senior OECD official puts it:
Subsidies often introduce economic, environmental, and social distortions with unintended consequences. They are expensive for governments and may not achieve their objectives while also inducing harmful environmental and social outcomes.
Therefore, there is growing political momentum against fossil fuel subsidies. In 2016, the G20 leaders reaffirmed an earlier pledge to phase them out.
In theory, reforming or even completely removing these subsidies should not be a particularly difficult task because there is increasing evidence that they are not especially effective at poverty alleviation: the very reason they were introduced in the first place.
For example, an IMF study documented that across 20 developing countries the poorest fifth of the population received on average just 7% of the overall subsidy benefit, whereas the richest fifth received almost 43%. Another study looked at India and found that, of the US$22.5 billion spent on fossil fuel subsidies in 2010, less than US$2 billion benefited the poorest 20%. This is essentially because poorer households in poor countries use less fuel than wealthier households, even when energy is subsidised.
Rural petrol station, Myanmar.
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Subsidies can also paradoxically lead to energy shortages. In Myanmar, fixed prices for electricity, diesel and petrol have resulted in shortages when those prices fall below international market levels. This has convinced suppliers to focus on exports to China and Thailand rather than domestic use, and has stripped them of the revenues needed for infrastructure.
Why does such an obviously inefficient policy stay around? One easy explanation may be that the main obstacle to subsidy reform is the fossil fuel lobbies. But recent research shows that the situation is not so simple.
Subsidies still help the poor
Most subsidies were introduced to serve a social mission and some have done it really well. Examples include the US's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program or the UK's Warm Front Program, which helped 2.3m "fuel poor" homes.
In developing countries, subsidies are also typically introduced as well-meaning policies to support lower income groups and thus gain support from large numbers of people. And, although they are an extremely inefficient policy to support development, subsidies are sometimes the best option when institutions are under-developed.
Around the world, almost all subsidies are aimed at consumers rather than producers. It's true that the bulk of this money goes to richer households, but since energy makes up a larger share of poorer household budgets, subsidies are relatively more important for people on low incomes. Many governments therefore fear that removing them risks political upheaval.
Regional distribution of global fossil fuel subsidies as of 2015.
Jewell et al, Nature
A political opportunity
Despite this difficulty, the tension between providing energy subsidies to the poor and protecting the climate is not as insurmountable as it may seem. A recent article in Nature led by one of us shows that, if fossil fuel subsidies were removed worldwide, the largest emissions reductions would occur in oil and gas exporting regions: Russia and some of its neighbours, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.
Most subsidies originate in these regions, but they also benefit fewer people living below the poverty line than in lower income countries such as India. This presents a unique political opportunity, because it is these oil and gas exporting countries where subsidy cuts would be most welcomed, as government budgets are squeezed by low oil prices.
Projected reduction in greenhouse emissions from removing fossil fuel subsidies compared with Paris climate pledges.
modified from Jewell et al / Nature
The trick to making subsidy reforms stick, even in the face of an oil price rise, is to combine them with effective pro-poor policies. Examples include India paying for cooking gas for those households which fall below a certain income level, or the way Indonesia and Iran have reallocated energy subsidy money to help finance infrastructure development and universal health care respectively.
Ultimately, subsidy reform is not impossible, but neither is it easy. To gain maximum benefits for the climate while doing the minimum harm to the poor, reforms must be carefully targeted at the regions and sectors where they will be most effective.
Benjamin Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex and Jessica Jewell, Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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Since becoming a Partner in 2005, Jade has been consistently ranked as a leading pensions legal expert in both the Chambers and The Legal 500 directories. Her Leeds based team has been ranked as the top rated pensions legal team in Yorkshire in the Chambers legal directory for many years.
Jade advises on all aspects of company and personal pension arrangements. She advises employers and trustee boards on managing their trust-based DB and DC schemes; auto-enrolment compliance and the outsourcing of pension provision; the pensions aspects of corporate M&A; joint ventures, and restructurings. Her broad practice area covers contentious and non-contentious work including court and Ombudsman proceedings and dispute resolution.
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Home Science A new factor in depression? Brain protein discovery could lead to better...
A new factor in depression? Brain protein discovery could lead to better treatments
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Low. Down. Less than normal. That's what the word depression means, and what people with depression often feel like. But sometimes, depression can mean too much of something – as new research shows.
The discovery, about a protein called fibroblast growth factor 9 or FGF9, goes against previous findings that depressed brains often have less of key components than non-depressed brains.
The green cells show where the researchers used an injected virus to block production of FGF9 in rat brains — and reduce anxiety-like behavior. Credit: University of Michigan – Akil laboratory
In this case, people with major depression had 32 percent more of FGF9 in a key part of their brain than people without the condition. In rats, raising FGF9 levels artificially led to depression-like behavior changes, and repeated social stress caused brain FGF9 levels to rise.
Taken together, the findings provide more evidence that depression is a physical illness. If FGF9 or its effects prove to be a good target for drugs, the finding could eventually help lead to better medications for the mental health condition that affects millions of Americans.
FGF9's role was discovered by a team from the University of Michigan Medical School and the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, who report their results today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They made the discoveries through years of detailed comparisons of brain tissue donated by people with and without depression, and multiple studies in rats.
Because drugs that block excess production of something in the body generally cause fewer side effects than drugs aimed at increasing something, the team says their findings could hold promise for the development of a new class of antidepressants.
"Fixing depression is not easy, because it's a disorder at the level of the circuits that connect brain cells, and many regions of the brain are involved," says Elyse Aurbach, the neuroscience doctoral student who is the paper's co-first author. "Still, this is the first time FGF9 has been identified as related to depression, and found to be active in a critical area of the brain for the disorder. We and others need to study it further to determine what is going on. It's very exciting."
Human differences: A surprising finding
Aurbach and her mentor Huda Akil, Ph.D., worked with colleagues at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and several other universities to make the discovery. Key to their work was the highly regarded brain bank at the University of California, Irvine, supported by the Pritzker Consortium.
They focus on fibroblast growth factors, molecules involved in cell growth and maintenance in the brain, and in other areas of the body. They've studied another FGF molecule, called FGF2, in the brain for years, trying to figure out why it's lower in people and animals with depression and other mental health disorders. They've even shown that giving FGF2 injections can calm anxious rats.
The team was surprised when FGF9 levels were higher in the brains of people who had had depression compared to those who had not. The increased levels held up even after they accounted for differences in the ways the individuals lived, and died, before their brain tissue was preserved for research.
They made the finding using post-mortem brain samples from the Pritzker collection — 36 depressed and 56 non-depressed brains in all. Through three different kinds of microarray gene expression studies and a confirming test called quantitative PCR, they looked at all the genetic activity that was going on when these brain donors died, specifically in the area of the brain called the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a crucial area of the brain for memory, learning and stress control. It has been found to be smaller in people with depression, and this is thought to be the result of chronic stress that affects the health of brain cells in that region.
Each experiment showed higher FGF9 levels in the depressed brains. What's more, the levels of several other fibroblast growth factors were down when FGF9 was up, suggesting that the entire system for regulating cell growth and development in the brains of depressed people was altered.
Rodent studies reveal FGF9 function
Intrigued by the human results, the team decided to explore FGF9's role further through experiments with rats. This allowed them to do something they can't do in humans: try to determine if FGF9 rises in response to something, such as stress, or if levels are naturally higher and predispose someone to depression.
First, they exposed rats to repeated social stress over a week and a half, and looked at the levels of FGF9 in various regions of the brain's hippocampus. Not only did the levels rise, but the rats got more socially withdrawn and less likely to maintain a healthy weight.
Next, they looked at what happens if FGF9 is injected into the brain – specifically, the ventricle, or open space between the brain's two sides. Other rats received a placebo. The rats that got the FGF9 acted more anxious, and moved around less – and these depression-like changes persisted with repeated injections.
Lastly, the group created a virus that interfered with FGF9 production through a process called RNA interference. They injected it, or a comparison virus that didn't block FGF9 production, into rats' brains – in a specific area of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus. The active virus caused levels of FGF9 to drop about 30 percent, while other FGF molecule levels stayed the same. And the rats showed less anxiety.
"We call this approach 'reverse translation'," says Akil, who is the Gardner Quarton Professor of Neurosciences, a professor of psychiatry and co-director of MBNI. "We start by careful, broad scale analyses in the human brain to discover new molecular players that might play a role in triggering or maintaining the depression. We then follow them up in rodent studies to understand the role of these molecules and determine whether we can target them for new treatments".
Aurbach, Akil and their colleagues are already performing more experiments to determine why FGF9 production rises, as well as to study it in other brain regions and to see how it affects communication among brain cells. A patent application has been filed and is being managed by the Pritzker Consortium. They hope their work will lead to a search for medications to affect FGF9 levels, but caution that the molecule is important in the lungs and blood vessels, too.
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Mount Hope Historical County Park
75 Teabo Road, Wharton, NJ 07885
Mount Hope Historical County Park, comprised of 444 acres, was at one time the location of an active iron mining industry, and serving the community of miners and their families. The rocky landscape of the Park reflects the industrial heritage of the site. Morris County once had vast reserves of high-quality iron ore that was mined from deep, large caverns. The large, deep depressions seen throughout the Park are called subsidence pits. They are the visible remains of the shafts, adits, and slopes that yield what the Native American residents called Succasunny or Black Stone-magnetite iron ore.
Known locally as Richard Mine, Mount Hope Historical County Park was a booming iron mining and processing site. Three separate veins of ore were mined on this Park that contains the remains of the Teabo, Allen, and Richard Mine properties.
Today, you can enjoy this historical park for its heritage and beauty, as well as its hiking and snowshoeing trails. Register for a guided Industrial Heritage Tour to learn more about the fascinating history of this Park.
REMEMBER! For your personal safety… You MUST stay on the marked trails. Digital trail maps are available online.
Mining at Mount Hope began as early as 1710, making it one of the oldest mining areas in Colonial America. For the next 270 years, mines at Mount Hope, and throughout Rockaway Township, were worked almost continuously, with the last mine operating until 1978. In the northeastern section of Mount Hope Historical Park are the remains of mines representative of the county's earliest commercial iron mining. Remains of 20th century iron mining can be found in the southwestern section of the park.
Mount Hope Historical County Park is open daily Sunrise to Sunset throughout the year.
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GPS Address: 75 Teabo Road, Wharton, NJ 07885