Fresh from a victorious outing against Adrien Broner, the Filipino champion was challenged by reigning featherweight kingpin Gervonta Davis to a fight, saying he is interested to share the ring with the boxing legend after his first title-defense fight versus Abner Mares next month.
Manny Pacquiao turned back the clock on Saturday when he displayed his vintage form to dominate Adrien Broner in their boxing showdown at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
"Pacman" eked out a unanimous decision victory as the ringside judges scored 116-112, 116-112, 117-111 in his favour to retain the WBA welterweight strap and to score his second consecutive win since losing to Jeff Horn in 2017.
Showing he has plenty of gas left in the tank, the native of General Santos City, dictated the tempo early in the match and never looked back, which left his 29-year old opponent settling for counters and clinches.
Boxing fans and pundits alike sang praises to the Filipino great for showing that he can still wreak havoc in the ring even at age 40.
Now, Pacquiao is eyeing a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr, who was at the MGM Grand last Saturday to witness the fight at ringside. The pair tussled in one of the most lucrative boxing fights in history back in 2015, where "Money" scored a comfortable unanimous decision win.
Interestingly, both him and Pacquiao have the same adviser in Al Haymon, which could make the negotiations a lot easier should they pursue a future fight.
"Tank" captured the vacant super featherweight belt last year after a third-round TKO win over Jesus Cuellar. The undefeated boxer is set to defend his belt against former titlist Abner Mares on February 9 in front of his challenger's fans in Carson, California.
Should Manny Pacquiao fight Gervanto Davis next? What do you think of this match-up?


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```Smalltalk
DSBot new
	token: 'BOT-TOKEN';
	servers.
```

![Bot example](../assets/img/bot-servers.png)

### Send Message

```Smalltalk
DSBot new
	token: 'BOT-TOKEN';
	with: [ :bot | bot message
		content: 'Hi! I am a bot :-)';
		sendToServer: 'Pharo' channel: 'general' ].
```

![Bot example](../assets/img/bot-send-message.png)

### Expertise

There is an example of a bot, that listen to incoming messages and answer the question *Who is expert in ...?*

```Smalltalk
bot := DSBot new.
bot token: 'BOT-TOKEN'.
bot connect.

answer := DSExpertiseAnswer new bot: bot; yourself.

bot announcer
	when: DSGatewayMessageAnnouncement
	do: [ :ann |
		DSExpertiseQuestion
			message: ann message
			answer: answer ].
```

![Bot example](../assets/img/bot-expertise.png)

For more examples see `DSBot` and `DSClientPostBuilder` classes.

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Hi there, this is Stefanie with Simple Acres . I have something delicious I cooked up in the kitchen that is perfect for the holidays! I am excited to share with you my Weight Watchers Sausage Stuffing. A delicious recipe simple to make with minimal ingredients! There is only 2 Weight Watchers Smart Points in each serving!
What I love about this Weight Watchers Sausage Stuffing is that it can be prepped ahead of time for easy assembly the day of cooking! This recipe is such a simple side to serve during the holidays full off nourishing fruit and vegetables.
The other thing I love about this recipe is that it involves such minimal ingredients you may have most of them at home already!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and place cubed bread in oven until lightly toasted at about 8-10 minutes.
Saute' sausage with onions, celery, apples and craisins and salt and pepper.
Mix all ingredients in large bowl and add egg whites and fresh herbs.
Spoon stuffing into a 9 x 13 casserole dish and bake until browned on top. This will take about 45 minutes.
This recipe makes 24 servings, and it's just 2 Weight Watchers Smart Points per serving. This recipe was inspired by Weight Watchers.
You can always cut into 12 equal pieces then you will have 4 Smart Points per serving. Still a low points count side dish to enjoy this Thanksgiving season!
There you have a Watchers Holiday Stuffing recipe you can enjoy!
This recipe is not endorsed by Weight Watchers. SmartPoints were calculated with the WW App.
Saute' sausage with onions, celery, apples and craisins and salt and pepper.
This recipe makes 24 servings, and it's just 2 Weight Watchers Smart Points per serving.
If you are preparing your holiday menu plan, here are a few more you are sure to love!
Stefanie Davis is a Registered Dietitian who loves making recipes that are delicious yet healthy. She resides on a farm with her husband and 3 children where she blogs about family life, food and art at Simple Acres. She enjoys sharing her photography and all things creative with others in her community.
Thanks for the holiday recipe! It looks great. I'm definitely putting it on the menu this Thanksgiving.
What is the serving size? Cup? Half cup? Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by. I just updated the recipe because I saw a few errors I missed when my recipe contributor submitted. A 9 x 13 casserole dish serves 24. So you would cut into 24 equal pieces. For 24 servings the Smart Points are 2 per serving. So if you'd like to enjoy a bit more, cut into 12 equal servings for 4 Smart Points. Enjoy!!


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The Outdoor Life Network has come a long way since its beginning in 1995. From televising fishing shows and the Tour de France as the signature series, to becoming Versus in 2006 and acquiring the NHL as its flagship sport, to now becoming the NBC Sports Network at 4:00 PM ET today. The official name change happens five months and a day after plans for the launch of NBC Sports Network were officially announced thanks to the Comcast/NBC deal.
The relaunch was supposed to begin with a Winter Classic postgame show, but with the hockey game being moved from 1:00 to 3:00 because of weather conditions, Versus becomes NBC Sports Network with a (presumably special) edition of NBC Sports Talk. In the evening, NBC Sports will broadcast a hockey documentary Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72 followed by Canucks/Sharks.
In place of T. Ocho and Jenn Sterger (pour one out today in memory of all those crazy Versus shows) will be heavyweights like Bob Costas, who will bring Costas Tonight monthly and town hall meetings quarterly to the network. As they were in 2011, NBC will be a major player in any major rights deal that appears on the horizon to load up on live sports programming moving forward. As much as ESPN's debate shows infuriate viewers, give new President John Skipper credit for going all in acquiring live sports rights. NBC will be under pressure to get NFL games, make a move for the next MLB contract, or another fashionable sports property. For now, the NHL will have to carry the mail for NBC.
For as much flak as Versus got for nobody being able to find the channel, NBC Sports Network will launch in 75 million households today. That's about 3/4 the households that ESPN and ESPN2 are in, so it's not like NBC is beginning this venture from scratch. But, according to USA Today, less than half of television viewers had heard of Versus. Yikes. The NBC/Comcast machine will have to try to change that statistic quickly in the first year.


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"Star Wars" spinoffs on Ahsoka Tano and "Rangers of the New Republic" coming to Disney Plus
Plus, a Lando Calrissian series from "Dear White People" creator Justin Simien, and much, much more was announced
By Alex Stedman - Adam B. Vary
On "The Mandalorian," Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano confronts Magistrate Elspeth (Disney+)
This article originally appeared on Variety.
Spinoffs of "Star Wars" fan favorite character Ahsoka Tano, "Ahsoka," and "Rangers of the New Republic" will be coming to Disney Plus, Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy announced during Thursday's Disney Investor Day conference.
Rosario Dawson will star in "Ahsoka," having made her debut as the character in "The Mandalorian" recently. Both new series are set within the timeline of "The Mandalorian."
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Ahsoka Tano was the Jedi Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, but would go on to become something of a foil to him. She debuted in animated movie "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," and also appeared in the series "Star Wars Rebels," voiced by Ashley Eckstein.
Dawson, though, was the first person to play Tano in live-action. In Season 2 of "The Mandalorian," Pedro Pascal's titular bounty hunter finds her in his search to deliver "the child" (now known to be named Grogu) to the Jedi. She ultimately, however, decides that she can't mentor him.
Read more from Variety: BTS named Time's Entertainer of the Year
It was far from only bit of "Star Wars" news: Kennedy also announced new series "Andor," starring "Rogue One's" Diego Luna; "The Bad Batch," a new animated series; and the fact that Hayden Christensen will be returning as Darth Vader opposite Ewan McGregor in "Obi-Wan Kenobi." All the new series will be coming to Disney Plus.
Also on Disney Plus' "Star Wars" docket are "Lando," a new "event series" focused on Lando Calrissian with "Dear White People" director Justin Simien developing, and "Star Wars: Visions," a series of animated shorts.
On the feature side, Patty Jenkins will be directing the next "Star Wars" feature film, "Rogue Squadron," set to release on Christmas 2023.
Disney Plus announced earlier in the presentation that it would be releasing 10 "Star Wars" series, in addition to 10 Marvel series, over the next few years.
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The news comes as "The Mandalorian" ends its second season on Disney Plus in triumph and the most recent "Star Wars" feature film, 2019's "The Rise of Skywalker," endures a growing reputation as one of the worst of the 11 "Star Wars" movies to date.
Several creatives are attached to developing various "Star Wars" feature projects, including "The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson, Marvel Studio chief Kevin Feige, "Thor: Ragnarok" director Taika Waititi and "Sleight" director J.D. Dillard with "Luke Cage" writer Matt Owens.
See footage of "Andor" and "The Bad Batch" below.
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Federal Budget 2017
Federal budget 2017: Debt, education, veterans dominate pre-budget Q&A
Posted Mon 8 May 2017 at 2:35pm Monday 8 May 2017 at 2:35pm Mon 8 May 2017 at 2:35pm
Minister for Veterans Affairs Dan Tehan on Q&A on Monday night, May 9.
abc.net.au/news/federal-budget-2017-dominates-q-and-a/8507864
The day before the federal budget for 2017 is handed down, Q&A got stuck into how the Government proposes to change education, support for Australian veterans — and debt.
When the panel was asked how Australia planned to repay debt forecast to exceed half a trillion dollars, Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel Dan Tehan said the first thing to do was get the budget back into surplus.
"Until you can get your balance sheet right, you won't be able to [address debt]," he said.
"As we've seen previously, it's always been a Coalition Government which is able to balance the budget and repay the debt."
This claim was immediately attacked by Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh, who called it "rubbish".
"This furphy that the Liberal Party are good economic managers is just the biggest furphy if you look at the current deficit at the moment and how it's blown out," she said.
"Labor would tax multinational companies that are getting away scot-free."
Senator Singh returned to the theme of company taxation several times during the evening.
When comedian Dave Hughes asked how Mr Tehan thought building and running the second Sydney airport would go, Senator Singh accused the Government of funding it by "attacking those who can least afford it".
"You don't want the Western Sydney Airport built?" Mr Tehan asked her.
"I don't want the Western Sydney Airport built off the back of some of the lowest-income Australians being cut," she replied. "I want it built by you abolishing your obsession with corporate and bank company tax cuts of $50 billion."
Can Gonski 2.0 be a go-ski?
The Government had more support when the panel was asked if it will be possible for the Parliament to grasp the opportunity for real change in school funding represented by Gonski 2.0.
"I hope, really, really do hope so. It's time to put all the politics aside on this," Mr Tehan said.
"David Gonski has said this is a good model going forward. I hope the Senate will support it and I hope we get the outcome.
"I think it's a good model and a model that we have a system Australia-wide which the Federal Government will invest in. It gets rid of all of the side deals the Labor Party did with their version."
How 'Gonski 2.0' will affect schools
The Government's proposed needs-based system will benefit some schools more than others.
Other panellists agreed the Gonski 2.0 model was promising, with tax expert Mark Leibler calling it fair and equitable, but warning that the entire argument was very, very, very confusing.
"This is a very, very complex formula. I believe that the Government should carry this through," he said.
Ms Singh criticised the Government's proposal as being $22 billion short, but said the Government had "finally caught up to the importance of needs-based funding".
"Needs-based funding is about every child in every school getting every opportunity for the best education," she said.
"Education should be an investment. An investment not just in this current generation, but in our nation and where we see our nation in the world. That is why it should be properly funded.
"Because if it's not properly funded, then it's not going to achieve every child in every school getting every opportunity for the best education."
Vendetta against young people?
Tertiary education, and the idea of education as an investment, also came under scrutiny when an audience member drew applause for asking if the Government's proposed reductions in university funding and ongoing support for negative gearing indicated a vendetta against young people.
"I think what the Government is doing here in relation to the universities and HECS is counterproductive," tax expert Mark Leibler said.
"The bottom line is the universities are an export industry valued at $22 billion. The bottom line is when it comes to universities, the value of the knowledge [they create] is worth more than the mining sector."
Mr Leibler referred to Deloitte Access Economics figures suggesting the value of knowledge generated by universities added 8.5 per cent to GDP, and said the proposed changes to university funding "will destroy value in terms of Australia overall".
Mr Tehan said the Government would spend $28 billion on the higher education sector over the next four years.
"What we're asking students to do is make a contribution towards that. And that contribution will go up from 43 cents in the dollar to 46 cents in the dollar," he said.
"We're keeping the system demand-driven, we're making sure that degrees will remain affordable."
Mr Leibler disagreed, saying "the bottom line is you're introducing and making the students repay their loans more quickly. You're making them pay more.
"This applies to students who are at university now. For some of them it will make it very difficult."
"To eat, in fact," Hughes interjected.
Mr Tehan said the Government had to make choices, and also had to think about "the carpenters, the plumbers, the farm hands and others who won't get a degree".
He said the Government thought it had the balance right on higher education funding.
'What we need is veterans supported, not a memorial'
Mr Tehan came under pressure when he was asked about a $100 million memorial in Villers-Bretonneux in France and why the Government was not spending money on today's veterans instead.
The minister said $350 million was being invested in veterans, and highlighted that anyone who had ever served a day in the military could seek free treatment for any mental health condition.
However, host Virginia Trioli and Hughes continued to press him on whether that sum could be increased if the memorial was not being built.
When Mr Tehan said the French were still grateful for Australia's contribution to World War I, Hughes drew applause for asking why they were not paying for the monument.
"I don't think Dan Tehan is going to win this argument in front of this audience," panellist and Victorian CEO of the Urban Development Institute of Australia Danni Addison said.
"$100 million does seem like a lot. There's serious need — not that that's being denied in any way — here in Australia for veterans and people who are not veterans in the mental health space."
Mark Leibler said the memorial funding was a bit over the top, but not the worst thing the Government spent money on.
Senator Singh said what Australia needed was not a memorial but quickly and timely processing of claims for support by veterans suffering post traumatic stress and other mental health problems.
"That's what your package I understand is addressing, and something that I actually commend the Government on as long as it is properly funded," she said.
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import mrjob
import pickle
from numpy import *

class MRsvm(MRJob):
	DEFAULT_INPUT_PROTOCOL = 'json_value'

	def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
		super(MRsvm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
		self.data = pickle.load(open('F:\\Develop\\Bigdata\\Books\\svmDat27'))
		self.w = 0
		self.eta = 0.69
		self.dataList = []
		self.k = self.options.batchsize
		self.numMappers = 1
		self.t = 1

	def map(self, mapperId, inVals): #needs exactly 2 arguments
		#input: nodeId, ('w', w-vector) OR nodeId, ('x', int)
		if False: yield
		if inVals[0]=='w':                  #accumulate W-vector
			self.w = inVals[1]
		elif inVals[0]=='x':
			self.dataList.append(inVals[1])#accumulate data points to calc
		elif inVals[0]=='t': self.t = inVals[1]
		else: self.eta=inVals #this is for debug, eta not used in map

	def map_fin(self):
		labels = self.data[:,-1]; X=self.data[:,0:-1]#reshape data into X and Y
		if self.w == 0: self.w = [0.001]*shape(X)[1] #init w on first iteration
		for index in self.dataList:
			p = mat(self.w)*X[index,:].T #calc p=w*dataSet[key].T
			if labels[index]*p < 1.0:
				yield (1, ['u', index])#make sure everything has the same key
		yield (1, ['w', self.w])       #so it ends up at the same reducer
		yield (1, ['t', self.t])

	def reduce(self, _, packedVals):
		for valArr in packedVals: #get values from streamed inputs
			if valArr[0]=='u':  self.dataList.append(valArr[1])
			elif valArr[0]=='w': self.w = valArr[1]
			elif valArr[0]=='t':  self.t = valArr[1]
		labels = self.data[:,-1]; X=self.data[:,0:-1]
		wMat = mat(self.w);   wDelta = mat(zeros(len(self.w)))
		for index in self.dataList:
			wDelta += float(labels[index])*X[index,:] #wDelta += label*dataSet
		eta = 1.0/(2.0*self.t)       #calc new: eta
		#calc new: w = (1.0 - 1/t)*w + (eta/k)*wDelta
		wMat = (1.0 - 1.0/self.t)*wMat + (eta/self.k)*wDelta
		for mapperNum in range(1,self.numMappers+1):
			yield (mapperNum, ['w', wMat.tolist()[0] ]) #emit w
			if self.t < self.options.iterations:
				yield (mapperNum, ['t', self.t+1])#increment T
				for j in range(self.k/self.numMappers):#emit random ints for mappers iid
					yield (mapperNum, ['x', random.randint(shape(self.data)[0]) ])

	def configure_options(self):
		super(MRsvm, self).configure_options()
		self.add_passthrough_option('--iterations', dest='iterations', default=2,\
			type = 'int', help='T: number of iterations to run')
		self.add_passthrough_option('--batchsize', dest='batchsize', default=100,\
			type='int', help='k: number of data points in a batch')

	def steps(self):
		return ([mrjob.step.MRStep(mapper=self.map, mapper_final=self.map_fin, \
			reducer=self.reduce)]*self.options.iterations)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	MRsvm.run()


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Under Adil's leadership, WorldLink has grown from 1 employee to over 1,200 in offices throughout the world. WorldLink's recognition from Inc., Deloitte, and others can be attributed to its Cloud & Data/Analytics Consulting, Talent Solutions, and Managed Services to some of the world's largest corporations. WorldLink takes a unique approach in its Consulting arms, partnering with leading start-ups to bring the most cutting-edge technology to its clients. As CEO, has driven WorldLink's vision and direction. The technology world has benefitted through his leadership, as WorldLink has developed valuable use cases in emerging areas such as Big Data/Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain applications. Adil has also placed a large bet on extending quality of life through the use of technology. As recognition for his WorldLink vision, Adil was a 2016 Finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Southwest region.
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Mckenna Grace Net Worth: Why is Mckenna Grace So Famous?
By Jeremy Caroll On Sep 6, 2022
As of 2022, McKenna Grace's Net Worth is approximately $2 Million US. At the age of six, she began her career as an American actress. McKenna Grace is well-known for her roles in numerous films and television programs. She rose to fame after starring in numerous television programs, including Crash & Bernstein, The Young and the Restless, and Fuller House, among others.
The Hollywood Reporter ranked Mckenna Grace among the top 30 stars under the age of 18 for the years 2018 and 2019. She has received so much fame at such a young age and has performed in numerous hit shows, which is a great accomplishment for her.
Mckenna established herself in the Hollywood film industry as a leading actress. Grace is popular on social media platforms, where she has millions of followers, despite all of this.
McKenna Grace's Early Life
Mckenna Grace was born in Grapevine, Texas, on June 25, 2006. Her father is an Orthopedic Surgeon named John Ross Burge, and her mother is a housewife named Crystal Nicole Burge. Mckenna developed an early interest in acting and began taking acting classes at the age of five.
Her acting abilities quickly impressed her teachers and parents. Then she met with an agent, who suggested that he relocate to Los Angeles for better opportunities. Mckenna then moved to Los Angeles with her family, where she landed her first acting role in the film 'Goodbye World.' That film was a commercial failure when it was released in 2013, but it was how Mckenna made her acting debut.
McKenna Grace's Career
Grace played Jasmine Bernstein on the television show "Crash & Bernstein" in 2012. She appeared in 15 episodes of the show. She made her television debut in the 2013 pilot episode of Joe, Joe, & Jane, playing Sydney. Then, from 2013 to 2015, Mckenna played Faith Newman in the well-known TV series "The Young and the Restless."
Since then, Grace has appeared in two more TV shows, including "Designated Survivor" and "Fuller House." She later received additional recognition for her role as Young Theodora Crain in the 2018 horror series "The Haunting of Hill House," for which she attained considerable fame. Grace played the younger versions of older characters in the majority of the films and television shows, and she received high praise for her work.
Mckenna Grace starred in several hugely successful films and television shows, such as "Amityville: The Awakening," "Captain Marvel," "Troop Zero," and "Annabelle Comes Home." Grace received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Esther Keyes in the fourth season of the TV show "The Handmaid's Tale" in the year 21. Grace released her debut single, "Haunted House," in November 2021.
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McKenna Grace's Biography
Full Name Mckenna Grace
Nickname Mckenna
Date Of Birth June 25, 2006
Birth Place Grapevine, Texas, United States
Height 5 ft (152.5 cm)
Weight 45 kg (99 pounds)
Relationship Status Single
Father John Ross Burge
Mother Crystal Nicole Burge
Hometown Grapevine, Texas
Food Habit Vegetarian
Education Qualification Homeschooled
Twitter Mckenna Grace
Instagram Mckenna Grace
Mckenna Grace's Net Worth
According to Reports, McKenna Grace has a net worth of 2 million dollars as of 2022. She is one of the wealthiest teenage actresses and social media celebrities in the United States, having achieved success at a young age. McKenna Grace earns more than $35,000 per month. The majority of her earnings come from films and television shows. Grace has a YouTube channel, which she started on April 5, 2013.
Her net worth has increased significantly since signing a contract for the Marvel Universe film. Grace is only a teen, but it appears that she will achieve greater fame and fortune in the future. The actress also earns a good living through brand endorsements, modeling, and sponsorships. McKenna Grace's annual salary exceeds $400,000.
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Endorsement:
Mckenna Grace is a well-known teen actress in the Hollywood film industry who has promoted a variety of brands. Grace promotes a variety of brands on her social media accounts, including Nadya Dzyak, Mischka Aoki, CHANEL Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and many more.
What is Mckenna Grace's Height?
The height of McKenna Grace is 5 feet.
What is Mckenna Grace's Age?
Mckenna Grace, who will be 16 in 2022, was born on June 25, 2006, in Grapevine, Texas, in the United States.
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Nicolas de Lamoignon de Baville received the castle from Louis XIV, in 1667. Well, well! The period chronicler, Saint-Simon, wrote in his Memories that it was Lamoignon who sentenced Fargues to death, in order to seize his castle of Courson! Anyway, Lamoignon was never short of something to do, here: 10 years after his arrival, he extended the first castle and raised wings overlooking the courtyard. On the left, a dining-room and on the right, a vast gallery. He also landscaped a formal garden.
The owner was guillotined during the French Revolution, eek, then his grand-daughter turned up: Anne-Zoé de Montesquiou-Fezensac. She married Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova. Who? Napoléon I's cousin, son of a cousin of Laëtizia Ramolino (Napo's mum)! He took part in every Empire battles, was exiled when Bourbons returned on the throne, came back, became deputy of Corsica in 1849. Napo even appointed him duke of Padua, in 1808.
And Courson's Empire apartments were designed by Toussaint and Anne-Zoé, in 1820! Louis-Martin Berthault, landscaper of La Malmaison castle, also designing a part of the current park. Whoa, it cost a lot of money in the end… But Toussaint was fine, in Courson! He had a happy retirement, here. Because, loyal to Napoleon, he withdrew from politic when Bourbons returned. Definitively.
Besides, one day, the couple wasn't in Courson. Outside, the duke of Angoulême and his wife were hunting, when they saw the castle. The duchess asked a peasant to whom the estate belonged: "– To the duke of Padua." "– Ah, I don't know him." "– No, said the duke, and I regret it; because he's the most honest and loyal man I know."


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Q: How is the python traceback able to run after an exception has been raised? I was surprised by the following behavior:
import traceback

raise Exception('dogs')
traceback.print_exc()
print('cat')

#=> Successfully prints traceback, doesn't print cat.
import traceback

raise Exception('dogs')
# traceback.print_exc()

print('cat')

#=> Also doesn't print cat.
So what exactly is going on here? What is the difference between the traceback.print_exc() module and print()? I found it surprising that apparently some functions can run after the exception is raised, but not others.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks.

A: When an exception is raised, the control flow is changed. Unless you catch the exception, all the statements below the line where exception was raised won't get executed.
Traceback is used to print stack traces - https://docs.python.org/3/library/traceback.html
import traceback

try:
    raise Exception('dogs')
except:
    traceback.print_exc()
    print('cat')

Output:
In [5]: import traceback
   ...:
   ...: try:
   ...:     raise Exception('dogs')
   ...: except:
   ...:     traceback.print_exc()
   ...:     print('cat')
   ...:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<ipython-input-5-3599c128a12e>", line 4, in <module>
    raise Exception('dogs')
Exception: dogs
cat

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Dayton Magazine December 2016/ January 2017
Doctor to a Poet
Dr. William A. "Bud" Burns was Dayton's first African-American doctor.
By Leo DeLuca
West Dayton's historic Wright-Dunbar neighborhood scantly resembles its turn-of-the-century appearance—19th century buildings rest alongside modern storefronts and the rumble of automobiles has long replaced the click-clack of horse hooves on unpaved roads.
But it was here in a late 1880s Italianate-style house at 219 N. Summit St. (now Paul Laurence Dunbar Street) that Dr. William A. "Bud" Burns, Dayton's first licensed African-American doctor, cared for Paul Laurence Dunbar, the world's first renowned African-American poet, as he lay dying of tuberculosis.
Both Burns and Dunbar attended Central High School on Wilkinson and Fourth streets in downtown Dayton. Dunbar was in a small class of 27 students (alongside Orville Wright), and though Burns was a year younger he and Dunbar were two of the only African-American students at Central High. They formed an ineffable bond.
Paul Laurence Dunbar's story has been told ceaselessly: At a time when racism prevented African-Americans from obtaining even the most plebeian positions Dunbar rose as an international literary star. But while Dunbar saw the glare of publicity Burns altered history in his own right.
"William Burns was, in a truer, greater sense than Paul, the friend and leader of his race in Dayton," wrote author Charlotte Reeve Conover in her 1907 book, Of Some Dayton Saints andProphets. "Dunbar represented unattainable things; Burns the attainable."
Losing his parents early in life, Burns was brought up by Capt. Charles B. Stivers, a Civil War veteran, Central High School principal and the namesake of Stivers School for the Arts. And it was Stivers that first encouraged Burns to pursue medicine.
In 1893, Burns studied under Dr. J.C. Reeve of Dayton before paying his way through Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Returning to Dayton he opened his West Fifth Street office caring for patients of all backgrounds, including his childhood friend Paul Laurence Dunbar.
But sadly, in May 1899, after collapsing from pneumonia while giving a reading in New York City, Dunbar began requiring more intensive treatment. Now internationally famous the poet developed tuberculosis; he became dependent on alcohol (prescribed to alleviate his pain) and sought fresh air on distant health retreats before settling back home in Dayton in 1903.
Burns joined Dunbar on one of his health retreats to the Catskill Mountains and he stood by the poet's side as he struggled to stay alive. But, tragically, it was Burns—not Dunbar—that first met the mercurial hands of death.
After a brief two-week battle with typhoid fever Burns died on Nov. 19, 1905, at the age of 32. "The Dayton Academy of Medicine held a called meeting Sunday afternoon at their quarters in the Ludlow Street Arcade," wrote the Dayton Evening Herald on Nov. 20, 1905. "No member of the Academy was held in higher esteem than was Dr. Burns."
Burns' death not only shocked the medical community but the city of Dayton as a whole. And no one took the news harder than Dunbar. "Paul never seemed to recover from Bud's death," wrote author Anne Honious in her book, What Dreams We Have. "A friend noted that after the funeral Dunbar more often seemed discouraged in his fight against tuberculosis."
Paul Laurence Dunbar died on Feb. 9, 1906, at the age of 33, less than three months after his boyhood friend and doctor, William A. Burns. Both men are buried at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton; Burns in section 33, Dunbar in section 101. Here they lie. Two old friends. Two guiding lights. Reunited in the end.
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Talk to stop Capita printing jobs being shifted out of Birmingham
The Capita Document and Information Services business is rapidly outgrowing its unit at Holly Lane in Erdington and has confirmed it plans to move to a larger premises
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Birmingham City Council is to open talks with one of its major contractors over plans to expand its printing business in a bid to stop the firm leaving the city.
The Capita Document and Information Services business is rapidly outgrowing its unit at Holly Lane in Erdington and has confirmed it plans to move to a larger premises.
The firm carries out much of the printing, office support and publishing work for Capita-run council contractor Service Birmingham.
It also does work for many other organisations and other parts of the Capita empire and the city council is keen for the facility, and the jobs, to stay in Birmingham.
The firm, while refusing to rule out relocation to another city, has insisted that there are no plans to move before December 2015 and that staffing levels will be maintained this year.
Erdington MP Jack Dromey is also seeking a meeting with Capita bosses to ensure the firm stays after being approached by workers who fear for their long-term future.
He said: "I take the concerns of the Capita workforce very seriously and will be seeking a meeting with the top management of the company. If Capita want to expand, they should expand in Birmingham. They owe Birmingham nothing less."
The unit is one of six throughout England operated by Capita Document And Information Services – the others are in London, Coventry, Bicester, Stoke-on-Trent and Darlington.
A Capita spokesman said: "Following a review of Capita Document and Information Services' operations, it has been concluded that, to ensure its ability to meet growing demand, investment in a new print facility is required.
"We are currently reviewing our options, but we can confirm that there will be no reduction in staffing levels at the existing site in Birmingham during 2014 and it is our intention to continue to operate out of the this site until at least December 2015."
Council deputy leader Ian Ward, who is currently leading negotiations with Capita over a £20m cut in the annual cost of the Service Birmingham contract, said they intend to talk to Capita about a new location for the print business in Birmingham.
He said: "I am sure we can find a suitable location within Birmingham for their growing business."
Jack Dromey
Service Birmingham


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Forge Biologics Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug Application for Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial (RESKUE) of FBX-101 Gene Therapy for Patients with Krabbe Disease
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Forge Biologics Inc., a gene therapy manufacturing and development company, today announced that the company has received FDA clearance of the Investigational New Drug (IND) to initiate a Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating its novel, first-in-human AAV gene therapy, FBX-101, for patients with Krabbe disease. FBX-101 is the company's first therapeutic program to receive an IND which also received Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals required prior to any patient enrollment. This marks a major step forward in building out the company's hybrid model as a gene therapy manufacturing and development engine.
Krabbe disease is a rare and fatal pediatric leukodystrophy affecting about 1-2.6 in 100,000 people in the United States. Patients are born with mutations in the galactosylceramidase (GALC) gene, which encodes an enzyme that helps break down lipid molecules inside cells. This results in the toxic buildup of psychosine, a lipid molecule that can't be degraded in cells, particularly in cells in the brain and peripheral nerves, and leads to toxic levels that cause cell death and myelin loss. The disease initially presents as physical delays in development, muscle tightness and irritability, and rapidly advances to difficulty swallowing and breathing, loss of vision and hearing, and increasing cognitive degeneration. Early onset, or "Infantile", Krabbe disease cases usually results in death by age 2-4 years, while later onset or "Late Infantile" cases have a more variable course of progressive decline. There is currently no approved treatment for either form of Krabbe disease.
FBX-101 is an adeno-associated viral (AAV) gene therapy administered after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), that delivers a functioning copy of the GALC gene, the enzyme needed to prevent the buildup of psychosine in myelinated cells of both the central and peripheral nervous system. FBX-101 has been shown to correct the central and peripheral myelination deficits, significantly improve the behavioral impairments associated with Krabbe disease in animal models, and drastically improve the lifespan of treated animals. The use of transplant and intravenous AAV gene therapy infusion has the potential to overcome some of the immunological safety challenges of traditional AAV gene therapies.
"The ground-breaking treatment approach using HSCT and AAV gene therapy, initially developed by Dr. Escolar, has safely demonstrated superior benefits in preclinical animal studies of Krabbe disease than either treatment method alone," said Timothy J. Miller, Ph.D., Forge's CEO, President, and Co-Founder. "We are grateful for the FDA's engaged review and allowance of the IND, and look forward to enrolling patients very soon."
FBX-101 is the culmination of nearly 20 years of Krabbe disease research, led by Maria Escolar, M.D., M.S., Chief Medical Officer at Forge Biologics and the pioneer for evaluating the natural history and new treatment approaches for patients with Krabbe disease. "This combination approach is extremely exciting because the preclinical data demonstrate significant correction of survival, behavior and neuromuscular function in animal models compared to either transplant or AAV treatment alone. This is a significant milestone for Krabbe disease families suffering from this deadly disease," said Dr. Escolar.
The initiation of the RESKUE trial in Forge's gene therapy pipeline continues Forge's momentum within the biotechnology industry in Columbus, Ohio, bringing positive impact to both Ohio and the global rare disease community.
Patients and families can learn more about clinical trials for FBX-101 by visiting https://www.forgebiologics.com/science/#krabbe.
About Krabbe disease
Krabbe disease is a rare, pediatric leukodystrophy affecting about 1-2.6 in 100,000 people in the U.S. and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Krabbe disease is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the galactosylceramidase (GALC) gene, a lysosomal enzyme responsible for the breakdown of certain types of lipids such as psychosine. Without functional GALC, psychosine accumulates to toxic levels in cells. The psychosine toxicity is most severe in the myelin cells surrounding the nerves in the brain and in the peripheral nervous system, eventually leading to the death of these cells. The disease initially manifests as physical delays in development, muscle weakness and irritability and advances rapidly to difficulty swallowing, breathing problems, cognitive, vision and hearing loss. Early onset or "Infantile", Krabbe disease cases usually results in death by age 2-4 years, while later onset or "Late Infantile" cases have a more variable course of progressive decline. There is currently no approved treatment for Krabbe disease.
About FBX-101
Forge is developing FBX-101 to treat patients with infantile Krabbe disease. FBX-101 is an adeno-associated viral (AAV) gene therapy that is delivered after a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. FBX-101 delivers a functional copy of the GALC gene to cells in both the central and peripheral nervous system. FBX-101 has been shown to functionally correct the central and peripheral neuropathy and correct the behavioral impairments associated with Krabbe disease in animal models, and to drastically improve the lifespan of treated animals. This approach has the potential to overcome some of the immunological safety challenges observed in traditional AAV gene therapies.
About Forge Biologics
Forge Biologics is a hybrid gene therapy contract manufacturing and therapeutic development company. Forge's mission is to enable access to life changing gene therapies and help bring them from idea into reality. Forge has a 175,000 ft2 facility in Columbus, Ohio, "The Hearth", to serve as their headquarters. The Hearth is the home of a custom-designed cGMP facility dedicated to AAV viral vector manufacturing and will host end-to-end manufacturing services to accelerate gene therapy programs from preclinical through clinical and commercial stage manufacturing. By taking a patients-first approach, Forge aims to accelerate the timelines of these transformative medicines for those who need them the most.
For more information, please visit https://www.forgebiologics.com.
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Forge Biologics Inc.
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It just can't help but listen to metal all day long, while scaring the ever loving bajeezus out of explorers adventuring inside tribe infested jungles.
I imagine this being an enemy in some kind of crazy RPG like Mother.
This one is the second sprite, inverted upside down.
I allowed myself to use all colors I wanted this time.
Thank you surt and baah!
I love it! Got my vote!
This is probably my favourite interpretation of the bunch. I never would have seen this on my own, but it's clear as day now.


An eight night procession, filled with candles, presents, prayers, and good food that you later regret eating; also known as Hanukah. This tradition dating back hundreds of years is one representing the struggle for survival and the prevalence of hope. Families all over the world celebrate this eight night holiday tradition in remembrance of their ancestors. For most families, they either celebrate Hanukah or Christmas, but not both. I however, am lucky enough to be able to celebrate both.
I've grown up in a diverse family that has given me the opportunity to experience different types of religions and cultures. Some would say that I am a "bad Jew" for celebrating Christmas, but I don't agree with that at all. I believe that celebrating Christmas does not make me a bad Jew, but a cultured Jew. Knowing more about different religions and traditions can only be beneficial. If people have a better understanding of others customs there will be more compassion, empathy and understanding in our world.


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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The mid-2000s witnessed a paradigm shift of technological innovation in China, characterized by a policy change from expectation of technological spillover from transnational corporations to an emphasis on indigenous innovation and domestic firms. Notably, seven strategic emerging industries (SEIs) have been designated by the central government to foster technological upgrading in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. While increasing attention has been paid to these policy changes, the practice of developing SEIs and subsequent impacts on innovation dynamisms remain understudied. Drawing upon an institutional evolution perspective on the regional innovation systems (RIS) approach, I examine how foreign-invested and domestic firms have adjusted their innovation strategies in the changing institutional environment, through examining the light-emitting diode (LED) industry, one of the state-designated SEIs in Shenzhen. This study was conducted primarily from on-site field investigation, firm-level surveys, and in-depth interviews during the period of 2008 and early 2013. It sheds light on the adaptation of the local state, reflected by the Shenzhen municipal government's recent abolishment of the LED industry development plan after four years of implementation. I urge more studies to examine other SEIs designated by various governments in different cities and regions in China to better understand policy change and effects on national innovation systems and RISs in the contemporary global economy.


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BLACK FRIDAY UPDATE! All pjs are $25! Plus, try using this link right here to save an additional 20% off. You have to be a "new customer"….or try from a different browser, tablet, phone etc. I hope it works for you!
Hanna Andersson makes some of our absolute favorite pajamas! I have a few tips on ordering, saving money, and fit that I'm sharing today! I'll be sure to update this post with any sale information I find!
You can find the pjs my kids are wearing right here. They make baby to adult sizes!
Why buy Hanna Andersson? Because their pjs are so soft and hold up so well! They look brand new even after being in the washer and dryer so many times. In this photo, Hudson and Sadie are wearing the same pair of pajamas they wore last year! Belle's are new and the "old" pjs look identical to the new ones. I can't say the same for other brands we've owned. That right there is why these pjs are an investment that is totally worth it.
These Gnome pjs are from two years ago. Shop this year's similar print here.
2. The pajamas come in a wide range of sizes. Most pjs go up to size 14-16, and many of the same prints are offered every year.
3. Fit: I find that the pajamas fit true to size. Usually in pajamas I have to order up one size from my kid's typical clothing size, but that's not the case with these. Hudson is wearing size 6, Sadie size 4, and Belle size 2. The photo above is them wearing these exact same pjs last year.
4. Act fast! Popular prints and sizes sell out fast.
5. Buy them big. If you want to be able to re-use your pajamas next year like we do, buy them one size up. Because they are a snug fit, they will still fit your kids this year (just will be a little long). Then, you can wear them again next year! The only exception to this is for babies. Buy a baby's current size…you can't really put too big pajamas on a baby! Last year I bought four pairs of these pajamas on sale: sizes 6, 4, 2, and 12-18 months. Belle wore size 12-18 months last year in the photo above, and is wearing the size 2 pair this year.
6. Tips on saving money: These pjs are on the pricey side, so I try to only buy when they are on sale! Any current sale information will be added here: Currently all pajamas are 25% off, no code needed. Shop the pjs my kids are wearing this year here. Shop all pajamas here.
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"Being 25 years old and having to bury one of my children, is not something that I would ever imagine that I would have to do in life. I can't say if it would hurt worse or less because I've never had to bury my parents or anything like that or grandparents. But losing a child that you made plans with, to do things with throughout life and to see grow – it's absolutely heartbreaking"
Compounding the tragedy, Lewis said he considered the man Greeneville Police have arrested and charged in the deaths of Trinity Tweed and Easterly, his friend.
"We did everything together, I mean I look at him like my brother," said Lewis. "When people ask me who he is, I tell them my brother. And for this situation to come out like this it's crazy, I guess you have to watch who you trust."
For Lewis, the next challenge will be explaining the loss of a sister to his daughter Zayleona, 4, and praying that justice can be found.
"I have some type of relief but it doesn't replace what was taken from me. It don't replace what was taken from the other families involved in the situation," adding, "All we can do is let God take it in his hands now."
The Greeneville Police Department says four detectives are working the case, but plan to give the families involved time to grieve as well observe the Christmas holidays.


Senate Bill 571: More efficient/cost effective health and human services?
State Senator Nelson filed SB 571 (see it here: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=SB571) , which deals with efficiencies and cost-savings in the Texas health and human services agencies. In many ways it is a strange bill, it isn't connected to any part of statutes and it is very loose and nonspecific, i.e. significantly open to interpretation. The idea of identifying cost savings and efficiencies is a laudable one, but for this to be dictated by the Legislature is concerning as they don't understand how everything works on anything more than a superficial level.
The first thing to understand is that this bill (as of 2/11/11) is only filed. It will need to go to committee, be heard in committee, passed in committee, go to the Senate, be heard in the Senate, passed in the Senate, the whole process repeats in the House, then the Governor would need to sign. All this would need to be done before this bill becomes law.
With that said, it's worth looking at this bill in some detail. The first part of the bill is part philosophical statement. In it, the Senator affirms the Legislature's right to determine appropriations and to reduce or eliminate appropriations if it is necessary to achieve a balanced budget. Should this bill pass, it will trump any other statute to the contrary.
•	Eliminating or modifying programs not funded or funded at a reduced level as a result of the FY12 and 13 budgets.
In addition, there are instructions to each of the Article II agencies.
•	Evaluate the elimination of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families exemptions not required by Federal law (this is a Federal block grant): This is about $63 million a year for FY12 and 13.
Both the Senate and House budgets are going to seriously decrease the services received to Texans. The long term implications will be abuse for elderly and disabled Texans at the hands of poorly paid, overworked providers. Lack of state assistance in the care of the elderly and disabled will burden families and insurance companies.
There are pro's and con's to privatizing a hospital. Certainly outsourcing is a good way to reduce costs. The major cons are that you have a lack of accountability, a lack of control, and (of course) the hospital will be run with the idea of making a profit.
The assumption that anything having to do with the state can be made cost-effective is naïve and reflects a lack of understanding of how the state does business.
•	Evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of providing early childhood intervention services through the state medical assistance and child health plan program (i.e. Medicaid).
•	Maximize use of the Department of State Health Services to provide mental health and substance abuse services that are purchased through CPS and adult protective services program.
•	Make child care regulation more efficient.
•	Redesign the foster care system so that it improves outcomes for children and families.
The first bullet directs DFPS to rely on DSHS during a time when DSHS is being told (in this bill) to privatize a hospital, make care more cost-effective, make drugs cost less, and pay providers less money. It seems a bit contradictory.
The second bullet probably isn't possible given how the state of Texas operates, but it's nice to say.
I think there's a good intent behind this bill, but the bill is largely ignorant of how the state operates, it's written in a way that it contradicts itself in several areas, and if it happened the way that it is written would have a serious impact on the services that Texans receive.
I think there needs to be a real serious dialog about what services Texas should provide to which citizens. Then there needs to be a real serious dialog about what state agencies are critical to providing those services, what can be eliminated, and what can be merged/streamlined. The Legislature also needs to realize that every one of the bills they file (almost) has a reporting requirement attached to it, which means that staff has to be hired/focused on generating those reports. This also needs to be prioritized so that the important information that the Legislature actually reads is delivered and the rest is dropped.
Thanks for the analysis. Very helpful.
Do you think the ECI recommendation lines up with Gov's budget to move all of DARS under DADS or DSHS? Seems like it would push it toward a medical model rather than skills building/educational. I don't see any mention of TEA – which is probably a good thing.
1. The Senator doesn't know what's in her legislation (in one part we recommend moving ECI to a program that we recommend investigating to possibly cut/downsize in another). This is very possible btw.
2. We intend for a serious cutback of ECI in the future with seriously reduced eligibility.
3. Perhaps it is the first salvo in moving DARS into another agency. I had not thought of that.


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The Deskjet 3636 takes HP 302 black and also HP 302 tri-colour cartridges. The black cartridge provides 190 pages and the colour 165. Like other tri-colour cartridges you'll have to replace the whole cartridge when one of the colours runs out.
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O Capim-andrequicé (Leersia hexandra) é um planta herbácea da família das gramíneas, nativa do Brasil, especialmente dos estados do Ceará, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná e do Mato Grosso. Tal espécie possui folhas lanceoladas e inflorescências em panículas eretas, pubescentes. A forragem é de qualidade regular quando nova, tendo ainda raízes com qualidades diuréticas. Também é conhecido simplesmente pelo nome de andrequicé ou grama-boiadeira, por ser uma vegetação dos terrenos alagados.

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Asprella australis (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Asprella hexandra (Sw.) P.Beauv.
Asprella hexandra (Sw.) Roem. & Schult.
Asprella mexicana (Kunth) Roem. & Schult
Homalocenchrus angustifolius Kuntze
Homalocenchrus hexandrus (Sw.) Kuntze
Hygroryza ciliata (Retz.) Nees ex Steud.
Leersia abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich.
Leersia aegyptiaca Fig. & De Not.
Leersia angustifolia Munro ex Prod.
Leersia australis R.Br.
Leersia capensis Müll.Hal.
Leersia ciliaris Griff.
Leersia ciliata (Retz.) Roxb.
Leersia contracta Nees
Leersia dubia F.Aresch.
Leersia elongata Willd. ex Trin.
Leersia glaberrima Trin.
Leersia gouinii E.Fourn.
Leersia gracilis Willd. ex Trin.
Leersia griffithiana Müll.Stuttg.
Leersia luzonensis J.Presl
Leersia mauritiaca Salzm. ex Trin.
Leersia mexicana Kunth
Leersia parviflora Desv.
Oryza australis A.Braun ex Schweinf.
Oryza hexandra (Sw.) Döll
Oryza mexicana (Kunth) Döll
Pharus ciliatus Retz.
Pseudoryza ciliata (Retz.) Griff.

Referências

Ligações externas
 Encyclopedia of Life
 FAO
 Acta Botanica Brasilica
 IDAO: Sinonímia
 Flora do Brasil

Leersia
Flora do Espírito Santo (estado)
Espécies citadas na Lista Vermelha de Ameaça da Flora Brasileira
Espécies citadas na Lista de Espécies da Flora Ameaçadas do Espírito Santo


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Paul Johan du Toit (31 October 1965 – 9 January 2014) was a South African artist, working in painting, sculpture, paper and mixed media. His exhibits have been displayed globally. Most notably, three of his sculptures were selected for the 2001 Florence Biennale.

Among the many awards he has received is a medal from the city of Florence in the Biennale Internationale Dell'arte Contemporanea. He was nominated for the Daimler Chrysler Sculpture Award of 2002. Paul was recently invited to work with former president Nelson Mandela and international musicians on the 46664 campaign.

Biography
Paul Johan du Toit was born on 31 October 1965 in Johannesburg. He grew up in Mayfair Johannesburg and his time was spent between his artist aunt, Elizabeth van der Sandt, and his father's workshop, where he used to create sculptures out of electrical gadgets while his aunt tutored him in oil painting techniques.

In 1984 Paul du Toit matriculated and in 1985 he was conscripted to the South African Air Force where he used the time to do some carpentry, make his first bronze work of an airplane and study computer science part-time through Pretoria Technikon. When he left the army he worked as a computer programmer
In 1988, the company Paul du Toit worked for went into liquidation and he worked in a boring job at the bank to make ends meet. All this time he painted at night to keep his artistic flair alive.

In 1992, visit to Florence in Italy was to be a turning point in Paul's artistic career. So inspired was he by Michelangelo's David, that he returned fired with commitment to make his art work.
This influence was further fuelled by their trip to Paris two years later, where the exposure to a group of sculptures made from polyurethane foam metal drums and plastic at the back of the Louvre, really resonated with him. He returned to South Africa and started making sculptures in his garage, from discarded materials. One of these won him the 'Best Artist with No Formal Training' at the Association of Arts in Bellville Cape.

In his Hout Bay studio Paul started using an impasto technique (thick industrial paste into which he scratched lines and images) which was to become intrinsic to his style of automatic scribbling. At this stage he also used his computer know-how to optimise his use of the internet and connect to the international art scene.

In 2014, du Toit died of cancer. He was 48.

Art career + Art work

1997 Paul sold his first paintings locally. He also launched his website and his work was spotted by a gallery owner in Paris who invited him to exhibit in 1998. Paul decided to make art his career as he became part of a group exhibition at the Groot Constantia Art Gallery.
1998 was the year Paul hit the international circuit with his paintings being exhibited in many international and local exhibition. He appeared on the CNN International Art Club and held his first solo exhibition in Paris.
1999 marked a continuation of the local and international interest with shows in Moscow, Edinburgh and with local corporates buying some of Paul's work.
2000 was a coup for Paul as he was selected by Professor to be one of the 70 over 2000 – a noteworthy achievement. This led to a solo and group exhibition in Cape Town as well as exhibitions in the Netherlands and France. 2000 heralded the beginning of Paul's wooden sculptures.
In 2001 he was nominated to exhibit works at the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art where he won 5th place in the sculpture section. He was also nominated for the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Sculpture. He held two solo exhibitions one at the Holland Art Fair in The Hague and the other in Cape Town.

Gallery

References

 Paul du Toit interview Indagare Magazine NYC, 2009.
 "Essay" by Kresta Tyler-Johnson
 Paul du Toit Exhibition at 34Long Fine Art, Cape Town.
 Paul du Toit ArtFilms.
 Paul du Toit Profile at Contemporary Africa Database.
 "See the art on Paul's Planet", University of Johannesburg exhibition profile, 14 September 2006.
 Bays, Jeff, "PlanetPaul", NY Arts Magazine, 1 October 2006.
 "Off the Wall: Paul du Toit", [press release at AbsoluteArts.com, 26 January 2005.
 "Paul du Toit" litnet
 Web 2.0 exhibition Web 2.0 Art Exhibition in France
 "Sunday Times" Interview

External links
 Official website of Paul du Toit
 Auction history of South African artist Paul du Toit
 Podcasts dedicated to the art of Paul du Toit
  Paul in the studio at the Dieu Donne Papermill New York City

Contemporary painters
1965 births
2014 deaths
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South African male painters
Artists from Cape Town


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You are here: Home / News / Mortgage lenders and conveyancers lay bare the rot of leasehold to MPs
July 6, 2017 // by Sebastian O'Kelly
… and MPs says profiteering freeholders will be treated 'like Philip Green'
… LKP patrons call for another Commons debate on leasehold
Packed APPG is told by mortgage lenders and conveyancers that leasehold must be reformed. MPs demanded Commons debate, and said scamming freeholders are likely to experience the opprobrium heaped on Philip Green
Mortgage lenders and conveyancers yesterday told MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group that leasehold is in desperate need of legislative reform.
The cautious Council of Mortgage Lenders, now renamed UK Finance, spoke of its "disappointment", acknowledging that ordinary buyers are living in blighted homes.
Nationwide talked of a "legislative" response to the issue of leaseholders trapped in homes owing to onerous lease terms making them unsellable. It underlined why it was not prepared to lend on leaseholds with higher than 0.1 per cent ground rents.
And the Conveyancing Association, deploying data drawn from 21,000 homes sales, listed the numerous imaginative scams freeholders dream up at the end of occupation when a leasehold property is sold.
(They are no less imaginative during the beginning and the middle of the process either, the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership can attest.)
It added up to a dismal picture of leasehold practices. The audience of 80 included MPs and Lords, stakeholders in the leasehold sector, property managers, two Law Commissioners, landlord and tenant lawyers, conveyancing solicitors, trade bodies and leaseholders who have been sold houses and flats with outrageous ground rent terms from developers such as Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties plc.
The housebuilders were as usual too shy to attend, with Countryside Properties plc pulling out hours before the meeting.
All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform, chaired by Martin Boyd, who is a trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
The meeting was chaired by Martin Boyd, a trustee of LKP.
Meanwhile, Sir Peter Bottomley, LKP patron, declared:
"The people who have bought these freeholds from developers are in my view going to face a significant amount of parliamentary attention. It will ask how they can buy a freehold for some £5,000 and then within a year or two ask a leaseholder to pay £42,000 to buy the freehold back.
"In my view that is unfair and socially irresponsible. Those people can expect to be treated like Philip Green if they don't come to reasonable settlement very quickly."
The meeting was the first of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform of this Parliament. There now 86 MPs and Lords who have joined up.
The three LKP patron MPs: Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative), Sir Ed Davey (LibDem) and Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour)
All three of LKP patron MPs – Sir Peter Bottomley, Sir Ed Davey and Jim Fitzpatrick from the main political parties – were in attendance.
Sebastian O'Kelly, a trustee of LKP, told the meeting: "It is absolutely ridiculous that in Marie Rimmer's constituency of St Helens South and Whiston that a modest can be sold by Taylor Wimpey that in 60 years generates £185,000 in ground rents.
"That is just scamming the poor and the vulnerable, and a whole load of professionals have been complicit in this whether the lenders, the surveyors or the conveyancers, who have been doing a tokenistic job and landing these people in the soup.
Housebuilder Bob Bessell says 'no justification for ground rents at all'
"I would like to draw contrast between those kind of house builders and the gentleman sitting three along on my left: Bob Bessell, the founder of Retirement Securities, who has built 3,500 retirement properties around the country.
"He has left his entire freehold interest in trust for the benefit of his leaseholders.
"He has not scammed anyone. The way he has chosen to run his business stands as a very dramatic contrast to the plc housebuilders who decided to cheat their own customers."
Council of Mortgage Lenders: 'disappointed' with the sector
Jennifer Bourne, of the Council of Mortgage Lenders / UK Finance, was the first quest speaker who told the APPG that there was now a working group looking at mortgages on new build properties.
"Lenders will need to learn how ground rents work and any other charges in a leasehold agreement," she said.
The CML / UK Finance wants ground rents that won't affect future mortgageability – ie makes a property unsellable except in cash auctions – and which have a "reasonable lease length".
Miss Bourne suggested "ground rents should be as close to peppercorn as possible".
For some unexplained reason, the CML / UK Finance feels it is rational for leasehold flats to have shorter leases than houses. This seems to be a view among lenders, but the reasoning for it is lost on LKP.
"We are very cognisant of the issue that some homes with doubling ground rent may be blighted.
"Lenders like others had not really appreciated what was coming through with these leases. It is disappointing that we are having to look at this."
Nationwide: We are not lending on new leases that cheat buyers
Nationwide's head of property risk, data and strategy, Robert Stevens (left), also addressed the APPG, explaining why the lender won't issue mortgages on new-build properties with onerous ground rents or short lease terms.
"By the time that you find out that there are onerous terms – it might be that the lease is short; it might be the ground rent is doubling – potentially you are six to nine weeks down the line," he told the APPG, which was attended by 80 MPs, Lords and stakeholders.
"We made a decision a couple of months ago to draw a line in the sand. Could we continue to allow people to continue to buy leasehold properties where there were onerous terms which would mean in future an asset that was not what the buyers thought it was. Our view was, no."
He added:
"We are seeing instances where ground rents start at £500, £600 or £700 a year, which are completely disproportionate to the value of the property."
Then there were leasehold consent fees: £10,000 for a conservatory, say, or £5,000 for a satellite dish. All these can affect future value.
Mr Stevens urged that all key lease information should be provided up front clearly.
He urged more consumer awareness of leasehold, particularly concerning ground rents and consent fees, and "truly independent advice when purchasing a property" as "everybody in this process potentially has a vested interest".
Finally, he said:
"We need a mechanism to allow customers who currently have properties with onerous leases to purchase the freeholds on a fair basis to ensure that they can go forward.
"We need a legislative response to this."
Conveyancing Association: Leasehold sellers pay too much and wait too long
Beth Rudolph, of the Conveyancing Association (at a previous APPG), says leaseholders are overcharged to sell their properties and it takes far longer to sell them than a freehold house
A whole raft of dodgy and unjustifiable fees are dreamed up by freeholders and their managers whenever a leasehold property comes up for re-sale, according to the Conveyancing Association.
The frustrations and try-on fees involved in a leasehold transaction were laid bare by Beth Rudolf, the association's director of delivery.
"500,000 leaseholders a year are suffering unreasonable fees and delays in selling their leasehold properties," Miss Rudolf told MPs.
These delays – far worse than those involved in the conveyancing of often more valuable freehold houses – has an impact on the housing market and the wider economy.
"If people are not moving they are not spending money. They are not booking holidays," said Miss Rudolf. "They have no idea what is going on in their lives for what looks like four months."
She gave some compelling examples of leasehold sector game-playing when it comes to the sale of flat or leasehold house.
The First Tier Tribunal has ruled that a deed of covenant should not be charged at more than £80, but it is routinely costed at £300 today.
As with subletting fees – supposedly limited to £40 per tenancy – freehold game-players have successfully ignored the tribunal as irrelevant.
Premier Property Lawyers, a Conveyancing Association member based in Leicester, examined the data of 21,000 leasehold transactions.
On the basis that £100 a hour would be a reasonable fee for a paralegal – £120 in London – 77 per cent of deeds of covenant fees were unreasonable.
"The average fee was £132 across all 21,000 of those data sets, even though the property tribunal says that £80 is reasonable for a deed of covenant," said Miss Rudolf.
"And since an Act in 1996, you do not need a deed of covenant to impose the benefits and burdens of a lease on anybody so it is a completely otiose and unnecessary document."
"The charges for 94 per cent of notices of assignment on every single lease transaction were unreasonable, according to the research.
"A total of 90 per cent of certificates of compliance – which in itself is a completely made-up document: it confirms that a deed of covenant which (don't forget) has already been paid for, and a notice of assignment (which has also been paid for) – have been completed. These certificates of compliance enable the Land Registry to register the change of ownership.
"Stock transfer forms, were found in 72 per cent of cases to come with unreasonable fees.
"So we can see that these unreasonable fees are endemic across this.
"We see increases regularly: over the last four years they have gone up by 23 per cent in some cases."
Miss Rudolf continued:
"You must be getting a pretty spiffy service, you would have thought. Sadly not, the unreasonable delays continue to increase.
"In 2014, 40 per cent of the leasehold sales packs necessary to sell a property took over 30 days to come back after payment had been made.
"Today, 50 per cent take more than 30 days. And 20 per cent of lease administrators take more than 55 days to come back from lease adminstrators.
"What used to take 6-8 weeks in 2009, now takes up to 14-16 weeks.
"Overall, leasehold transactions take over 20 days longer to exchange contracts than a freehold transaction.
"When you consider how many withdrawals and fall-throughs you get the longer a transaction goes on, the impact is serious."
Marie Rimmer MP is aghast at the leasehold houses scandal in her St Helens South constituency. She wants to know why Taylor Wimpey's £130 million compensation scheme is not being paid to the leaseholders. And why are leaseholders having to contact the company, rather than the company publicly announcing the number of leaseholders affected
It is going to cost me thousands to get my Taylor Wimpey freehold that was promised for only £4,425
Joanne Darbyshire, a Taylor Wimpey leasehold household house owner in Bolton, believes she was miss-sold her property – and she is letting quite a few people know about it, too
Finally, Joanne Darbyshire, a Taylor Wimpey purchaser of a leasehold house with doubling ground rent in Bolton, gave the APPG insight into progress on her case.
She was told that she could buy her freehold after purchase and knew from her neighbour who did so that the cost would be around £4,425.
"I was miss-sold my property on the basis that I could buy the freehold to my house for a similar price in the future.
"I'm now going through the enfranchisement process and I do not know whether Taylor Wimpey's supposedly £130 million Ground Rent Assistance Scheme will be of any help to me.
"It appears that I'll be paying £10,000 – £15,000 for my freehold, in contrast to £25,000 to £35,000 that the new freehold owner has demanded.
"I'm still going to lose thousands of pounds paying for this freehold, which I wouldn't have been had I been properly advised at point of sale.
Miss Darbyshire told MPs: "The Wimpey Ground Rent Assistance Scheme is not a silver bullet."
Justin Madders MP addresses the APPG, of which he is vice-chair. He intends to find out who the investors in the doubling ground rent freeholders are.
CML says lenders 'reviewing loans to reflect concerns about onerous ground rents' Council of Mortgage Lenders urged to help LKP end forfeiture CML: Will mortgage lenders lend on commonhold? No. Yes. Maybe … er UK Finance mortgage lenders doled out cash on dodgy leases, but don't know how many now can't sell Have lenders refused mortgages on doubling ground rent properties?
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Katie Kendrick
Well done LKP.
Every single point mentioned in this excellent article is very much needed.
It was a great turn out. Clearly there is a strong consensus that leasehold issues can not continue the way they r.
Hopefully a debate in the commons can be secured.
Thank you for continuing to include the national leasehold campaign. We appreciate all your hard work.
There is clearly a lot of work to be done but it can and will be done.
We won't give up.
Riccardo Paglianiti
Thanks for voicing our concerns with such excellent reports.
This campaign will encounter its frustrating moments as the attention of the public gets distracted by issues that day in day out hit the front pages of the National newspapers but giving up is not an option.
With the relentless action and constant growth of the National Leasehold Campaign supported by the excellent LKP, a day will come when the scandal will explode to unseen levels. The PPI scandal is nothing compared to the damage that the scams orchestrated by certain developers and their off-shore mates have caused to our families.
Those MPs, who chose to stay out of the APPG will have no option but to join the choir.
Jo Darbyshire
Excellent summary as usual LKP. It really feels like the tide of opinion in the sector is changing. We will keep fighting for justice for those of us caught up in this leasehold nightmare.
Mer C
MAY THE TIDE CONTINUE IN LEASEHOLDERS FAVOUR VERY QUICKLY.
Rent Rebel
That'll be the same Philip Green that got knighted. Govts create this untenable situation; they're complicit. And still they DO nothing.
Every day that passes another freehold passes into the hands of investors. What is Govt doing to reassure any leaseholders being fleeced NOW?! These leaseholders are in two minds whether to even lose their time and money on collective enfranchisement, cos they are STILL WAITING for the Govt to step in and DO something about their freeholds. The ground under their own feet got sold on without their knowledge for heaven's sake.
Meanwhile, charlatans and gangsters cash in on those trying to even extend their lease and condemn them to being prisoners in their own home aswell
https://barcode1966.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/the-forgotten-casualties-of-the-doubling-ground-rent-scandal/
" These deals will usually offer to extend your lease back up to only 99 or 125 years. For example if the lease on your flat had fallen to 80 years it would only be topped up by 19 years to 99 years as opposed to having a lease length of 170 years through the statutory route)
Instead of reducing your ground rent to zero they will include new onerous ground rents which can be between £250 – £500 per year. Their coup de grâce will be to link this onerous ground rent to an aggressive accelerator, like ground rent doubling every 5 or 10 years.
This is evil genius by freeholders because not only will they make a fortune from the actual ground rent they will now collect, they know that in another 15 years or so someone will have to extend the lease again and with ground rent that high they will have to pay many tens of thousands of pounds for the extension.
I estimate that between 40-50% of all lease extensions carried out each year are informal and this has been going on for 25 years! "
WHEN is this Govt going to stop pretending they care and start doing something to actually help these people?!
Leasehold Reform
Thank you for the link and useful info. Most people simply don't know about informal lease extensions and ground rents reverting to peppercorn.
I asked around carrying my own informal poll, and NOT. ONE leaseholder I spoke to knew the facts about lease extension. These were mostly well educated people, a couple of them solicitors actually, (with different areas of expertise).
The system is rigged against the rights of the leaseholder, even tribunals seem to want to keep the unfairness as quiet as possible.
The ground rent fiasco, is just one of the areas of exploitation open to freeholders. There are others, ultimately leaseholders are virtually powerless against the professional freeholder with entourage of solicitors, managing agents and surveyors.
The so called rights the leaseholder has, are virtually impossible (and very expensive) to enforce and there are no meaningful penalties for rogue freeholders and dodgy managing agents. They are only answerable to each other, so they can pretty much do whatever they like…
what we need is a total rehaul of the system and account investigations… the tax system allows them to get away with murder.
Sharon Crossland AIRPM
Are these the same lenders who didn't want to lend on commonhold?
I have not seen any members of CML ( mortgage lenders association ) ) advertise loans for Commonhold..
But I am sure many Customer Service Managers ( in the Mortgage Lender Companies ) want to see the end of leasehold forfeiture which has higher priority to the lenders charge registered against the leasehold title.