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Freddie Singer
Piano & Music Technology
A performing musician since the age of 14, experience includes recording sessions in New York City and Los Angeles for various artists and commercials, performed for corporate events, private parties and TV shows. I've taught students of all ages for over twenty years.
Many ideas for a better teaching method were influenced by my performance and studio experience. Working with producers such as Jack Douglas (Aerosmith), Kerner &Wise (Kiss, Gladys Knight, Stories and Dust) and Warren Dewey (Boston), combined with traditional classical training, I developed a learning method that's fun and includes musical styles from classical to jazz and pop. The main focus of our teaching at Keynotes is to bring out the creativity in our students while instilling a traditional understanding of music that is universal.
Evette Singer
Vocal/Drama
Evette guides students toward success and advises students and their parents when they prepare to audition for junior high school, high school, or college. Students say, "It's like having a second mom, because she really cares about us."
Evette studied Drama at Circle in the Square Theater School through a special program with New York University. She studied Voice with Dona D. Vaughn for seven years. From 1986 through 2002, Freddie & Evette performed together professionally.
Evette also worked for "Gymboree Play and Music" for over seven years as a certified instructor.
Sara Nodell
Sara has been active in the music community since elementary school. In the 5th grade she learned to play piano and the year after added flute as her primary instrument. She has been involved in band and orchestra since 6th grade, remaining first chair and section leader throughout her school career. Sara also participated in Pit orchestra for the musicals at her high school, which was definitely an enriching experience both musically and personally. She has a deep love for both music and children and we are proud to have her as part of our Keynotes family.
Keynotes Music Studio • 5513 Avenue N (2nd Floor), Brooklyn, NY 11234, USA • 718-810-4043 • email - lessons@keynotes1.com
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Q: Spreadsheet-like formulas on the DOM I am looking for a way to dynamically bind formulas throughout my DOM.
We have a data intensive app, and currently I write many handlers to try and recalculate and update the appropriate cells.  However, this is error-prone.
I saw something that might be capable, hashigo.  However it hasn't been updated in about a year and a half.
Does anyone know of something similar that is under active development?  I have been searching, but this is all I have managed to find.
Ideally I only need to setup the formula, and it will handle monitoring if fields in the formula have changed, and update the value accordingly.
EDIT: I also jQuerySheet however it is way more than I can use, I just need the formula parsing aspects of it.  And it's calculation engine appears to revolve too much around cells with a column/row identifier.
EDIT2: This jQuery Calculation plugin is getting closer to what I need.
EDIT3: Ultimately, I'd love to be able to write out something as simple as
$('#output').formula(" ( SUM($('.x')) + $('#y') ) / ( funcThatReturnsValue() + 4 )");

Which would result in the value of #output being recalculated whenever a value in .x or #y changed.
However, I may would setting for something as basic as this
$('#output').formula({
    formula: "(SUM(x)+y)/(j+k)",
    variables: {
        x: $('.x'),
        y: $('#y'),
        j: function() {
            return 3;
        },
        k: 4
    }
    onblur: $('.x, #y')
});

A: You can use knockout.js to get the functionality you're looking for.
Knockout.js implements an mvvm pattern in your javascript. Here is how they define MVVM:

MVVM and View Models Model-View-View Model (MVVM) is a design pattern
  for building user interfaces. It describes how you can keep a
  potentially sophisticated UI simple by splitting it into three parts:
A model: your application's stored data. This data represents objects
  and operations in your business domain (e.g., bank accounts that can
  perform money transfers) and is independent of any UI. When using KO,
  you will usually make Ajax calls to some server-side code to read and
  write this stored model data.
A view model: a pure-code representation of the data and operations on
  a UI. For example, if you're implementing a list editor, your view
  model would be an object holding a list of items, and exposing methods
  to add and remove items.
Note that this is not the UI itself: it doesn't have any concept of
  buttons or display styles. It's not the persisted data model either -
  it holds the unsaved data the user is working with. When using KO,
  your view models are pure JavaScript objects that hold no knowledge of
  HTML. Keeping the view model abstract in this way lets it stay simple,
  so you can manage more sophisticated behaviors without getting lost.
A view: a visible, interactive UI representing the state of the view
  model. It displays information from the view model, sends commands to
  the view model (e.g., when the user clicks buttons), and updates
  whenever the state of the view model changes.
When using KO, your view is simply your HTML document with declarative
  bindings to link it to the view model. Alternatively, you can use
  templates that generate HTML using data from your view model.

So you'll create your "model" which includes the data in the spreadsheet, along with any functions you need to recalculate data. Then you'll have your view, which automatically updates (aka recalculates) the data as the user changes things on the page.
http://knockoutjs.com

A: I just develop plugin that parse formula, using jison parser in its core, currently the formula is still limited to sum, avg, min and max, but will add more function as requested.
http://xsanisty.com/calx/

A: What you are describing sounds a lot like "Bindings" and "Computed Properties" from Sproutcore or Ember.js.

A: Have a look at jQuery Calculation Plug-in. But I'm not sure whether you can define any formula

A: You're going to want a framework like Backbone.js or Knockout

Backbone.js
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
Cited from Backbone:
With Backbone, you represent your data as Models, which can be created, validated, destroyed, and saved to the server. Whenever a UI action causes an attribute of a model to change, the model triggers a "change" event; all the Views that display the model's state can be notified of the change, so that they are able to respond accordingly, re-rendering themselves with the new information. In a finished Backbone app, you don't have to write the glue code that looks into the DOM to find an element with a specific id, and update the HTML manually — when the model changes, the views simply update themselves.

Knockout.js
http://www.knockoutjs.com/
Cited from Knockout JS:  By encapsulating data and behavior into a view model, you get a clean, extensible foundation on which to build sophisticated UIs without getting lost in a tangle of event handlers and manual DOM updates.

A: You can approach the problem like this:

*

*by storing the vars on the DOM node you want to keep update via $('myDomElement').data('varX',data);

*by overloading the setData-method for that DOM node via
$("myDomElement").bind("setData", function(key,value){
setTimeout(function() { $("myDomElement").trigger("formula"); },10);
return value;
});

*and by finally creating your update formula like
$('myDomElement').bind("formula",function() { this.html(foo()); });
Woehoe, I reread your post and found you don't really specify you have vars in which you store the data ... instead you got cells ...

*

*in this case you could just add a changeHandler to the cells that update the formula ..

hmmm, actually, I think I forgot what the problem was, it seems a bit too obvious what I'm supposing here ... sorry if of no help
anyway ... I did a quick google on data binding jquery, that's where I found you can bind the setData/getData-events on $.data:
What you might not know about jquery
I also found this, which might or not be of interest to your spreadsheety-approach:
using jquery.data to detect form changes
What's more, I agree with previous answers, you could always use a framework -- personally I prefer jsmvc

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Last studio album with Lemmy Kimister, "Warrior On The Edge Of Time" marks the end of HAWKWIND's "classic" space stoner era, considered by many as their best period. The music combines the soft melodic side of "Hall of the Mountain Grill" and the heavier side of "In Search of Space" and "Doremi Fasol Latido". Keyboardist Simon House incorporates sounds effects quite futuristic at this time.
"Warrior On The Edge Of Time" is in fact a concept album based on Michael Moorcock's Elric cycles. Thus, like in "Space Ritual", some tracks are only spoken sentences, this time enunciated by the writer himself, with an ambient background. These three passages are "The Wizard Blew His Horn", "Standing at the Edge" and "Warriors". This collaboration between HAWKWIND and Moorcock won't be the least one.
"Assault And Battery" and "The Golden Void" can be considered as a long single song. An immediate boarding for stars, this cosmic mini-epic suite is a pure space metal little gem! The two tracks will often be played live consecutively. "Opa-Loka" is a nice space instrumental that reminds NEU! by moments. The beautiful "The Demented Man" is a cool enchanting tune with acoustic guitars and synthesizers, in the style of songs from "Hall of the Mountain Grill". Magic! However, the highlight of the album is undoubtly "Magnu". This futuristic space metal ritual with middle-eastern sonorities and saxophone is simply great, and like "Master of the Universe", will become a concert favorite, played at a faster speed.
The second half of the record is a little less remarkable. "Spiral Galaxy 28948" is the best instrumental of the disc, with its whirling keyboards and guitars. "Dying Seas" is also a good futuristic dark space rock with sci-fi sound effects, whereas "Kings Of Speed" is just an average hard rock song. This ender is the weakest track of the record, as it is a bit repetitive and out of place. Composed by Lemmy, the original violin version of "Motorhead" is included as a bonus track. Gorgeous! There is quite a gap between this version and the eponymous track on MOT'RHEAD first opus.


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Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, Hayao Miyazaki's wondrous fantasy adventure is a dazzling masterpiece from one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation.
Chihiro's family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastical spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for spirits and demons, Chihiro must use all her wits to survive in this strange new place, find a way to free her parents and return to the normal world. Overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, Spirited Away became a worldwide smash hit, and is one the most critically acclaimed films of all time.
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Startup in Saudi Arabia
Updated on Wednesday 11th August 2021
In the last few years, startups have become some of the most popular types of businesses in the world, including in Saudi Arabia, which is one of the most developed states in the Middle East and where the procedure of starting a company resembles in many ways that in Western countries.
Among the activities Saudi startups can develop, there are those related to industries like research and development, and fintech, as these activities have an innovative approach which is one of the most important characteristics of a startup.
The creation of a startup in Saudi Arabia is not complicated, as the process implies registering one of the common business forms available under the local legislation.
Below, our company registration agents in Saudi Arabia explain the main steps for opening a startup business. We can help everyone interested in creating such a venture in this country.
What to consider before launching a startup in Saudi Arabia
While in terms of registration there are no differences between Saudi startups and other businesses, especially when it comes to the legal requirements that need to be met. However, the differences rely on:
the fact that the startup implies having a thorough business plan given its innovative character,
it is also recommended for the company to follow a well-established business model which has the potential to attract as many investors as possible,
it has an innovative character which in some cases it implies meeting certain requirements and addressing specific markets or demands,
such a business is usually created by one or more young entrepreneurs who need to gather money for their projects,
the money is usually obtained through crowdfunding, seeding, angel investors, and loans.
These are general lines that can characterize a startup in Saudi Arabia, however, if you want to create such a business, you can decide on other types of activities.
How to register a Saudi startup company
The company formation procedure of a startup in Saudi Arabia is completed the same way as for a business with any other activity and it implies:
choosing a business form,
registering the company,
setting up its bank account,
registering it for taxation,
applying for the necessary licenses.
When it comes to the most employed business form for Saudi startups, the limited liability company and the private limited liability company represent the two suitable options for such a venture. However, compared to other countries, it should be noted that the local legislation imposes specific share capital requirements for each of the two entities.
For the first one the minimum amount required is 100,000 SAR (around 26,000 USD) is required, while for the second one, the share capital requirements are substantially higher.
As mentioned earlier, A Saudi startup implies transforming an idea into a project that has a high demand on the market and that has not been implemented before, hence its innovative character and this is one of the reasons important financial contributions are required. These can be obtained through crowdfunding platforms. The good news is that the project can be presented on different platforms and thus obtain the necessary financial support.
Our Saudi company formation specialists can help foreign investors who want to open startups in this country.
Our accountants in Saudi Arabia also provide services for startups.
The startup ecosystem in Saudi Arabia
According to the US-Saudi Business Council, in the past few years, Saudi startups have become quite popular thanks to the foreign direct investment inflow registered by the country, but also to the implication of the government of supporting such initiatives.
Among the projects that had the highest rate of success, the following sectors had most of the benefits:
e-commerce,
logistics,
delivery of goods,
financial services technology (fintech),
online education.
If you want to set up a startup company in Saudi Arabia, these are just a few of the industries you could operate in.
In numbers, investment in Saudi startups rose to 95 million USD in the first half of 2020 alone, which was double the amount obtained the previous year by such businesses. Out of these, 67% of the funds were obtained by e-commerce companies.
We also invite you to watch a video on how to create a startup in Saudi Arabia:
Foreign investments in Saudi Arabia
The last few years were very good for the Saudi economy, as:
in 2019, Saudi Arabia was the 3rd busiest startup market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,
in terms of foreign direct investments (FDIs), these increased by 7%, reaching 4.6 billion USD in 2020,
Saudi Arabia ranked 12th in the Venture Capital Availability index in 2020,
it also ranked 24th in the 2020 World Competitiveness Yearbook.
If you want to open a startup in Saudi Arabia, please contact our local specialists for support.


What does Kevin O'Leary think about Alberta's newly elected progressive NDP government?
"Alberta was the shining light of capitalism," O'Leary told Business News Network in a post-election interview. "Now it's fallen off the cliff into a socialist bog -- I don't know what else to call it."
He went on to blame the election results on "a lot of socialists" who moved to Alberta "because they couldn't get work in their socialist provinces," but "still vote that way." He also complained of the NDP's "class warfare" rhetoric, saying they're talking about "throwing all the entrepreneurs out of the province."
O'Leary, a reality TV show star and Chairman of an investment fund, is a former CBC host who once said the 85 richest people owning more wealth than the world's 3.5 billion poorest people was "fantastic news." He also called Thomas Piketty's ideas"insane."
O'Leary stepped up his rhetoric in the Financial Post Thursday, instructing international investors to pull out of Alberta and called raising taxes on corporations and reviewing royalty rates "un-Canadian."
O'Leary's diatribes aren't the first example of the business community overreacting to Alberta's election results with "apocalyptic" rhetoric.
On Thursday, a few appeared to change their tune. Several prominent corporate leaders (and major Progressive Conservative donors) who, before the vote, told voters to "think straight" in the face of a surging NDP, are now saying they're prepared to"work together" with Premier-elect Rachel Notley.
"Democracy has spoken and it is always right, and it's time to move ahead," Doug Goss told the Edmonton Journal. "When called upon, we all have to offer the best advice we can to the new government."
For his part, O'Leary seems happy blazing his own path.
"It's a Petri dish," O'Leary (who at another point referred to the new Alberta government as a "disease") told BNN. "I wouldn't invest any money in Alberta now."


Lesson 301: And God Himself shall wipe away all tears.
9. What Is the Second Coming?
1. 1Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. 2Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. 3This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. 4Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. 5Let me see Your world instead of mine. 6And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. 7Father, I will not judge Your world today.
2. 1God's world is happy. 2Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. 3We wept because we did not understand. 4But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God's world today.


Medical practice has reached an unprecedented ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. But all that care comes at a high — and rising — cost. In the United States, health care costs increased over the past five decades from about 6 percent to roughly 18 percent of GDP. Advanced treatments available today can exceed annual budgets or even lifetime savings of an average household. Hedging health care expenditure risks through an efficient insurance system is a policy concern in all developed countries.
In the U.S., most health care is covered through private insurance. Still, government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid account for more than 40 percent of overall health care expenditures.
There has been a deepening connection between the private and public provision of health insurance. As many as 80 percent of Medicaid and more than 30 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in various forms of privately administered, mostly publicly financed, managed care plans that completely substitute for publicly run fee-for-service coverage. Many more beneficiaries purchase private add-on insurance to supplement their public plans. Finally, with the introduction of Affordable Care Act exchanges, many more people are buying insurance on privately run, partially publicly financed markets.
That creates challenging policy issues touching on consumer behavior, insurer behavior, and market facilitation by the government.
My recent research has focused on understanding how those three categories are connected, using Medicare Part D — the prescription drug benefit of Medicare — as a case study to examine those connections. Many pieces of Part D resemble the design of the health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, and my analysis can help policymakers who are refining the mechanics and administration of publicly funded, but privately run, health insurance programs.
Consumer behavior. The very essence of competition in the health insurance market relies on consumers responding to prices and quality of plans and purchasing those health insurance plans that give them the highest value for their dollar. Policymakers may attempt to encourage such shopping behavior and facilitate better insurance plan choices.
Insurer behavior. Insurers make multiple strategic choices in competitive health insurance markets. They decide whether to enter the market, which insurance contracts to offer, and how much to charge for them. The regulatory environment may significantly affect all these decisions, and policymakers face the challenging task of trying to anticipate insurers' response to the design of the policy instruments.
Market facilitation by the government. In mixed public-private health insurance markets the government is often a direct participant, since a large share of financial resources transacted between insurers, patients, and providers stem from public funds. In the simplest case, for example, policymakers decide how much of insurers' premiums are paid by consumers and how much are paid from federal or state budgets. Moreover, policymakers often run various kinds of risk-equalization programs, aimed at reducing the incentives for insurers to select the healthiest consumers. The design of subsidization and risk-equalization may significantly affect how much insurance costs and which consumers choose which plans and services.
Medicare Part D — a prescription drug insurance for seniors — was introduced in 2006 and was the largest expansion of Medicare in its most recent history. It is run entirely by private insurers that are heavily regulated and subsidized from public funds.
These insurers provide a variety of drug plans to seniors. Enrollment is voluntary, although seniors face higher premiums if they enroll later than when they first become eligible. A typical Medicare enrollee can choose among 30 to 50 Part D plans. These plans vary in their premiums, coverage rules, and in which insurer runs the plan. Roughly 70 to 75 percent of insurers' revenues for regular enrollees come from federal subsidies, while the remainder is paid by enrolled Medicare beneficiaries. For beneficiaries with sufficiently low incomes, subsidies can reach up to 100 percent of premiums and out-of-pocket expenditures.
How are consumers making their decisions?
While inertia in purchases is natural and is observed in many other markets — from electricity providers to cell phone contracts — such low rates of contract switching may be detrimental to the idea of effective competition in health insurance.
If consumers do not reconsider their choices in response to significant changes in premiums or coverage features every year, insurers may have no incentives to improve their products.
While the fact that individuals with greater medical needs select more generous plans is perfectly natural, it creates a significant challenge for the policymakers. The regulatory environment allows insurers to offer plans of different generosity, but does not allow them to charge different premiums depending on how sick individuals are. Hence, when the sickest beneficiaries all enroll into the most generous plan, this plan increases its prices for all enrollees, which causes the healthiest consumers in the plan to switch to other options, leaving the plan with an ever-worsening risk pool.
Economists call such phenomenon an adverse selection spiral. In a worst-case scenario, the spiral unravels. And insurers decide not to offer generous coverage.
Indeed, I find this likely happened in the Part D context, as the most generous plans offered in 2006 and 2007 were discontinued by insurers after those plans have attracted disproportionately sick beneficiaries.8 To prevent the whole system from unraveling, policymakers in Part D have several regulatory instruments in place, from minimum required coverage levels to several risk-equalization schemes.
While these extensive policies are in place to combat the implications of adverse selection, there are comparatively fewer policy instruments that try to address the implications of potential behavioral biases in consumer choices. Such rules could encourage consumers to actively reconsider their annual choices of plans and simplify the effort required to find the most suitable plan by making differences in plan features more transparent.
Caution is warranted, however, with any policies that strive to simplify choices.
First, the simplification of choices is most valuable to consumers when it is individual-specific. Whether a certain plan is more generous than another may vary depending on a person's health.
Second, common choice simplification tools — such as software that calculates out-of-pocket spending in all plans for a given basket of drugs — usually do not communicate how much risk protection each plan provides and the chances of each individual consumer needing such risk protection.
The calculators are a great tool if consumers know with complete certainty which prescription drugs they will need next year, but they may be misleading if such knowledge is not available.
In general, too much simplification and reliance on historical health care experience undercuts the perceived value of having insurance. As a result, beneficiaries may feel that purchasing health insurance "was not worth it" if they didn't end up using health care in a given year, even though the same people would not complain about the worthlessness of their auto or home insurance if they didn't have a collision or their house didn't burn down.
Finally, researchers have argued that under certain circumstances improving choices by consumers could exacerbate the adverse selection dynamics.9 This risk of selection spirals is a crucial aspect to consider in the design of any choice improvement policies.
With that in mind, more consumer education on the nature and magnitudes of health care risks could significantly help consumers assess their own risk, how much risk they are willing to tolerate, and how much risk protection they want to purchase.
On the insurer side of the equation, setting up the right incentives requires taking into account a large number of different margins on which insurers respond strategically to market conditions.
For example, economists have considered how Medicare Part D insurers may respond to the kinds of frictions in consumer choices that were outlined above.10 Not surprisingly, insurers consider consumers' tendency to remain in their plans over time and may try adjusting their prices to attract new consumers when they enter the market and then keep them at potentially higher premiums.
This natural response by insurers is important to keep in mind when considering policies that may reduce consumer inertia in plan choices.
Another important question to ask is whether there are inefficiencies in plan design that may be associated with the insurers' attempt to discourage enrollment by relatively sick consumers. While Medicare Part D has relatively extensive regulation around which drugs have to be covered by plans, there is still significant room for strategic formulary design by insurers. Indeed, it appears that on average insurers tend to offer better coverage of drugs that are used in treating more profitable diagnoses.11,12 This happens despite the extensive risk-equalization policies that are in place in the Part D market.
Resolving this issue by specifying exactly which drugs have to be on formularies and how they should be covered, however, would unlikely provide an optimal policy solution and may indeed make obsolete the idea of achieving efficiency gains through insurer competition.
With these likely challenges in mind, one wonders whether there are actual efficiency gains that the competitive environment brings to benefit and formulary design.
In addition to adverse selection, economists often highlight a second market inefficiency in health insurance settings — the so-called "moral hazard." The idea is that in the presence of insurance, individuals face a much lower (perhaps even zero) price for each next health care service they get, and hence may have little incentive to carefully weigh the benefit of the service against its true cost. The problem of moral hazard has likely led to the sharp recent increase in co-pays, co-insurance, and high deductibles in health plans.
Second, insurers that provide both prescription drug and medical coverage (Medicare Advantage plans with a Part D component) have better coverage of prescription drugs that may lead to higher expenditures in inpatient and outpatient settings if not taken regularly.12,14 The fact that insurers that only provide prescription drug coverage do not have the incentives to improve coverage for such drugs implies that they exert an externality on traditional Medicare that has to absorb potentially higher medical costs from suboptimal drug adherence.
Overall, conditional on the policymakers' decision to introduce competition in health insurance, it appears valuable to leave private insurers some room for the design of their plans, as long as the policy environment makes a significant attempt at muting risk-selection incentives and at discouraging prescription drug insurers from having poor coverage of cost-effective medications.
In addition to its extensive regulatory role in Medicare Part D, the government is also a direct player in this market, as more than 75 percent of insurers' revenues ultimately stem from public funds. Relative to the aspects of consumer choices and insurer behavior, there is less research examining the incentives around the payment of public subsidies in Medicare Part D. This part of the market, however, plays a crucial role, as the design of the subsidization mechanisms and the level of subsidies may significantly alter prices and allocations on this market.
In Medicare Part D alone, public spending — most of it in terms of subsidies for premiums and cost-sharing — amounts to about $80 billion annually.
Subsidies come in several different flavors. For people with incomes significantly above the federal poverty line, there are no subsidies for co-pays and co-insurance, but there are significant subsidies for premiums. On average, these beneficiaries pay about 30 percent of the premiums. For enrollees whose incomes are lower or slightly above the federal poverty line, there are special so-called "low-income subsidies" in place. These subsidies typically cover 100 percent of insurance premiums and almost all of co-pay and co-insurance payments.
How does the government — in this case the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS — decide how much subsidy to offer?
A critical piece of this puzzle is the rule for how a firm's pricing decision — called a "bid" — is turned into premiums that enrollees face. Medicare beneficiaries do not face full prices or bids set by insurers; instead, there is an intermediate process by which CMS decides on how much of the insurer's bid will be paid by the government in subsidies and how much will be paid by enrollees in premiums.
In this process, CMS takes the sum of all bids for all participating insurers in the U.S., averages them using enrollment weights from the previous year, and takes a fraction of the resulting number to obtain the base subsidy. The premium of a given plan is then determined by taking the maximum of zero and the firm's bid minus this base subsidy.
This pricing mechanism has three effects on market outcomes.
First, consumers face premiums that are strictly lower than firm bids, which increases demand.
Second, the relative premiums of plans are distorted by this mechanism; this is important since it may distort the choices of consumers across plans.
Third, the same bids determine the plans' eligibility to enroll low-income subsidy enrollees, who are commonly assigned to plans by CMS, rather than choose their plans themselves.
While this complex mechanism of collecting bids from insurers, and passing them through an intricate formula, may seem like a convoluted way of determining subsidy levels, there are few alternatives that the government could consider.
Another, simple, option that implicitly comes up in frequent policy proposals that consider moving the whole Medicare program to a defined benefit system would be to provide fixed vouchers that could be used to buy a plan in the Part D market.
The existing system has an important additional advantage — it gives CMS an implementable, albeit potentially administratively very costly, mechanism to determine the level of the voucher. While efficiency could be substantially improved by making subsidies plan-specific and attempting to steer consumers to more efficient plans, such policies are likely not practical, since CMS would have to know the efficiency differences across hundreds of insurance plans.
Medicare Part D subsidization policies provide key learnings for the subsidization of privately provided, publicly subsidized social insurance programs in general.
It suggests that the optimal subsidy design depends crucially on the policymakers' objective. One motivation of subsidizing these programs is typically redistribution — the government attempts to ensure the affordability of insurance.
Inevitably, such subsidy policies will have efficiency costs for the market. One source of such inefficiencies is market power. Subsidies create incentives for imperfectly competitive insurers to raise markups and pass them through to the price inelastic government.
Conditional on the decision to privately run and publicly subsidize social insurance programs, there are large welfare differences across specific mechanisms that are feasibly at the policymakers' disposal. Depending on whether the policy is guided by the considerations of consumer surplus, total welfare, or government spending, different policies deliver drastically different results.
1. Abaluck, Jason, and Jonathan Gruber (2011) "Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D program," American Economic Review 101(4): 1180-1210.
2. Heiss, Florian, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter (2006) "Who Failed to Enroll in Medicare Part D, And Why? Early Results," Health Affairs 25(5): 344-354.
3. Winter, Joachim, Rowilma Balza, Frank Caro, Florian Heiss, Byung-hill Jun, Rosa Matzkin, and Daniel McFadden (2006) "Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage: Consumer Information and Preferences," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(20): 7929-7934.
4. Heiss, Florian, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter (2010) "Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans," in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, ed. D. Wise, The University of Chicago Press: 413-481.
5. Heiss, Florian, Adam Leive, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter (2006) "Plan selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from administrative data," Journal of Health Economics 32(6): 1325-1344.
6. Ketcham, Jonathan, Claudio Lucarelli, Eugenio Miravete, and Christopher Roebuck (2012) "Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D," American Economic Review 102(6): 2639-2673.
7. Ketcham, Jonathan, Claudio Lucarelli, and Christopher Powers (2015) "Paying Attention or Paying Too Much in Medicare Part D," American Economic Review 105(1): 2639-2673.
8. Polyakova, Maria (2016) "Regulation of insurance with adverse selection and switching costs: Evidence from Medicare Part D," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8(3): 165-195.
9. Handel, Benjamin (2013) "Adverse Selection and Inertia in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts," American Economic Review 103(7): 2643-2682.
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11. Carey, Colleen (forthcoming) "Technological Change and Risk Adjustment: Benefit Design Incentives in Medicare Part D," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
12. Lavetti, Kurt, and Kosali Simon (2016) "Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D Plans," NBER Working Paper no. 22338.
13. Einav, Liran, Amy Finkelstein, and Maria Polyakova (2016) "Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-Specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D," NBER Working Paper no. 22277.
14. Starc, Amanda, and Robert Town (2016) "Internalizing Behavioral Externalities: Benefit Integration in Health Insurance," NBER Working Paper no. 21783.
15. Decarolis, Francesco, Maria Polyakova, and Stephen Ryan (2015) "The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Regulations in Medicare Part D," NBER Working Paper no. 21298.


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The first 19 speakers have been announced for our annual flagship event, WIRED2015, to be held on 15 and 16 October at London's Tobacco Dock.
Bringing the WIRED world to life, WIRED 2015 showcases the innovators changing the world and promoting disruptive thinking and radical ideas. There will be around 45 speakers over the two-day event, presenting stories about their work in science, design, business and many other fields.
Andras Forgacs, cofounder and CEO of Modern Meadow, which is producing meat and leather in the lab -- without harming animals.
Antoine Blondeau, CEO of Sentient Technologies, who worked on the project that became Apple's Siri. Today he runs Sentient Technologies, the world's best-funded AI company.
Caleb Harper, research scientist, MIT CityFARM at MIT Media Lab. Harper is turning city dwellers into farmers by making it possible to grow crops anywhere -- even underground.
Carlo Ratti, director, MIT Senseable City Laboratory. Ratti is an architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist who's designing the future of the connected city.
Gabor Forgacs, chief scientific officer, Modern Meadow and scientific founder, Organovo. A theoretical physicist and bioengineer, Forgacs is 3D printing blood vessels, liver tissue and other human organs.
Willard Ahdritz, founder and CEO of Kobalt, the music industry's biggest secret. By tracking online music plays, it produces up to 700,000 revenue streams for artists.
Frank Pearl, who has worked with ex-members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to re-integrate them into society, plus Jose Miguel Sokoloff, an ad-man whose work has led to the demobilisation of guerrilla forces in his native Colombia.
Author and broadcaster Misha Glenny, whose most recent book explores the criminal underworld surrounding Rio de Janeiro's largest cocaine operation.
Serial entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, who is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and chair of digital skills charity Go ON UK.
Tom Wujec, an Autodesk problem solver who uses emerging technologies and tools to help organisations overcome their challenges.
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, who helped create and direct MIT's Media Lab, the Media Lab Asia, and the Centre for Future Health, and will show what our phone data reveals about us.
In addition, René Redzepi, chef and founder of Copenhagen's Noma, repeatedly voted the world's best restaurant, is bringing MAD, his non-profit for chefs, to guest-curate a special section on chefs and the future of food.
There will also be 15 WIRED Innovation Fellows (including three Creative Fellows, in association with The Space) from around the world, building on the programme's successful launch at WIRED2014.
USAF pilot and physicist Ryan Weed who is developing the world's first antimatter rocket to help humans become a truly interstellar species.
Helen Keen who creates pioneering science/comedy shows and whose new series explores how technology can solve the world's problems.
Freeman Osonuga, who worked in Sierra Leone for six months on the front-line against the ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.
Meg Schwamb, who is crowdsourcing the search for new planets outside our Solar System and the study of Mars' climate.
Arthur Kay, CEO of bio-bean, who has industrialised the process of turning waste coffee grounds into Advanced Biofuels.
Designer Francis Bitonti, who merges 3D printing and artificial intelligence to bring product design into the information age.
Global influencers who participated in last year's event included will.i.am, Zaha Hadid, HRH The Duke of York, Ze Frank, Ron Arad, Sir John Hegarty, Andrew Hessel, Anne Wojcicki, Charmian Gooch, Demis Hassabis, Elif Shafak, Esther Dyson, Ionut Alexandru Budisteanu, Jay Bregman, Joel Jackson, Nico Sell and Sam Bompas.
We are also delighted to announce that Telefónica will once again be WIRED2015's headline partner.
Nick Sargent, commercial director of WIRED, said: "We're thrilled to have Telefónica as our headline partner again this year. WIRED2015 will once more assemble opinion formers and future shapers, setting the agenda and providing a unique platform from which to engage with the future. WIRED, together with Telefónica, looks forward to facilitating this meeting of minds."


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We believe in people over things, always. We believe wholeheartedly in the importance of the in-betweens, the undone, and the unaffected. We believe a day spent adventuring out of doors is never wasted. We believe in the power of stories to radically shape, enlarge, and empower the world around us. Our mission is to live up to our name: honest and down to earth.
We love the outdoors, and exploring together is our love language. Nature and wild spaces fill & inspire all of our work, and we love photographing & adventuring with people who feel just the same.
We're more about being wallflowers than stage managers, but we'll give you enough direction that you'll never feel lost or confused. We might step in and fix your hair, take a bit of a hike together, and hopefully, make you laugh a lot.
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We're Laura & Devon, kinda still newlyweds and life long sweethearts living in Spokane, Washington. We're all about finding new places to explore, and we're always scheming up our next road trip. We love coffee, classic sci-fi, snarky jokes, and pasta. We are happiest when admiring the ocean or driving through the mountains. We own way too many books and never have enough reading time, and have a family of fluffies whom we adore.
We're drawn to adventure, honesty, and to all things timeless, honest, & a little bit windswept. We want to emphasize emotion and relationship over pretty things, and we want authentic connections and love to shine through our work. We strive to blend our love for nature with our heart for storytelling in all our work.
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For engagement sessions, our turn around time is usually a few weeks, depending on how close it is to peak wedding season. For weddings, our turn around time is 1-2 months, but we always like to post some sneak peeks of what we're working on.
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You'll receive a gallery link via email. From your gallery, you'll be able to download your photos in full resolution for printing as well as web size for any social media sharing. You also purchase prints and albums from the gallery as well, and our galleries can either be made private or shareable for family and friends to view.
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8:30 AM EST, Tuesday, April 24: "Why are stockmarkets rising?" a friend asked last night. Simple. The economy is booming. You can see it in the very strong first quarter reports by industrial companies, i.e. ones that physically make things. You can feel it in your suppliers. They're stretched and late.
For those of us trying to get something done -- like a house built or a book printed, the manufacturing boom is immensely depressing. Worse still is the arrogance of many late suppliers. There's plenty of work around; the customer will wait. Feed him soothing lies while he waits.
Stockmarket lore says the stockmarket predicts the economy nine months out. It's contradicting what the economists are telling us; namely there'll be a recession in the second half of 2007.
The hubris of predictions — and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens — are themes of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's engaging new book, "The Black Swan." It concerns the occurrence of the improbable, the power of rare events and the author's lament that "in spite of the empirical record we continue to project into the future as if we were good at it." We expect all swans to be white and are shocked when a black swan swims by.
Born in Lebanon in 1960, Taleb lived through a "black swan" when his serene homeland [and it was serene, I was there] was cast into the chaos of civil war in 1975. After emigrating to the United States, he attended Wharton, then worked on Wall Street; today he is a professor at the University of Massachusetts. Black Monday in 1987, when Wall Street suffered its worst single-day decline in modern history — in a drop that started for no clear reason — was his epiphany. Chance, he realized, has far more influence than we care to admit.
In his 2001 book "Fooled by Randomness," which became a surprise hit in the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Taleb drew on his experience as an options trader to argue that stock-market projections are worthless because no one has any idea where prices are headed. After prices unexpectedly rise or fall, he wrote, experts impose specious retroactive narratives to divert attention from their ignorance. In "The Black Swan," Taleb proclaims that the unexpected is the key to understanding not just financial markets but history itself.
Criticizing the accomplished is healthy; mocking them because they are accomplished is sophomoric. Given the thousands of smart people trying to game the global equities system, it's a wonder the market mainly rises and that things don't go haywire more often. Maybe the appalling theories of those sinister establishment economists actually do improve market stability.
My present concern is to figure solutions to supplier tardiness -- the Black Swan of an overstressed economy. I admit I have no answers. In recent weeks, I've tried logic. I've tried begging. I've tried screaming. Clearly one solution is a late penalty. You have to negotiate that up front. And in today's over-strained manufacturing and contractor world, I don't think many would agree to late penalties, and adhere to them. Many of my friends are being hit with price increases on fixed-price jobs. "Pay it or we walk off the job."
The emotional drain can he hefty. In recent weeks, I've heard outright lies from several manufacturers and contractors. The most egregious was my book printer who actually told me his bindery had broken down, when he hadn't even started printing my job.
An architect friend is buying from Asia. He says he gets better prices and faster delivery. He is buying everything major appliances to granite counter tops from Asia. Contractor friends are employing more immigrant labor.
If you're an overstrained supplier, please keep your customers informed. My book printer never bothered telling me he'd be late. I only found out when I called to check.
David Halberstam is killed in a California car crash: This is truly sad. There is a lesson. The roads are hazardous, more than I ever imagined. Two of my subcontractor employees working on my new house have been to jail because of DWI. One is serving six months for his third conviction. My family nearly got killed by a truck that veered into our lane late one evening on a country road in upstate New York. I was driving, fortunately, very slowly.
I wish there were a simple solution. Halberstam was broadsided by another car. Please wear a seat belt. Drive carefully and slowly.
Halberstam wrote 21 books. His 2002 best-seller, War in a Time of Peace, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
Speaking to a journalism conference last year in Tennessee, AP reported he said government criticism of news reporters in Iraq reminded him of the way he was treated while covering the war in Vietnam. "The crueler the war gets, the crueler the attacks get on anybody who doesn't salute or play the game," he said. "And then one day, the people who are doing the attacking look around, and they've used up their credibility."
A man walked into the women's department of Macy's in New York City.
He found a saleslady, and told her, "I would like a Jewish bra for my wife, size 34B."
He repeated "A Jewish bra."
"That's unusual," said the saleslady. "Most of our customers want the Catholic bra, the Salvation Army bra, or the Presbyterian bra."
Confused, the man asked, "What are the differences?"
The saleslady responded. "It is all really quite simple. The Catholic bra supports the masses. The Salvation Army bra lifts up the fallen. The Presbyterian bra keeps them staunch and upright."
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Rezone Request For Mars Hill Road Highlights Pressure For Commercial Development On The Oconee County Corridor
Follows Session On Overlay
Residents along Mars Hill Road–fresh from a four-hour session on future land use along the roadway–will have another opportunity to express their views on future development in their neighborhoods on Monday night.
The Oconee County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing that night on a proposal by one of the land owners to move forward with a rezone of property even before the county takes action on an overlay district it is considering for the corridor.
Faye C. Kellar, 1991 Mars Hill Road, is asking the county to allow her to carve one acre from the front of her 3.9-acre property and convert the small residence on that part of the property into an office.
The public hearing will take place during the regular meeting of the Planning Commission, which starts at 7 p.m. at the Courthouse in Watkinsville.
Overlay Referenced
The overlay district being considered by the county was the topic of the meeting held from 3 to 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Community Center in Veterans Park.
Thirty-four people signed their names to the sheet at the entrance to the meeting, which was designed to give those who attended a chance to comment on the proposed legislation setting up the overlay district as well as on the maps outlining proposed future land use.
That legislation would set up a set of requirements that would be on top of those in existence for development of property. As written, it also would identify future land use preferences.
The meeting on Thursday also gave visitors a chance to talk about the road construction itself with staff from the county Public Works Department, a team from the Georgia Department of Transportation, and a representative of G.P.'s Enterprises, contractor for the Mars Hill Road widening project.
Most of those who attended focused on the future land use and overlay ordinance, in contrast to what dominated the two earlier meetings the county held on the overlay district. At those, most of the comments dealt with problems of the roadway design and construction.
Nature Of Comments
Many of those who spoke on Thursday raised concerns about the amount of future commercial development reflected in the land use maps shown.
One person who spoke with B.R. White, Oconee County Planning Department director, said some kinds of commercial development along the corridor were acceptable to her, but other types were not. The video below shows a clip from that exchange.
OCO: Depends On Type from Lee Becker on Vimeo
Also of concern to a number of those present was a provision of the draft legislation that states that "Rezoning and special use requests for an individual property may only be initiated by the Board of Commissioners at the owner's request."
White said that provision would be reviewed in light of the concern of several of those present, who said it took away their right to rezone their property once the overlay was put into place.
The Board of Commissioners will have to adopt the proposed overlay district before it can become law.
Kellar's Legal Challenge
Attorney Jeffrey W. DeLoach, representing Kellar in the rezone request that will be before the Planning Commission on Monday night, made reference to the overlay district in correspondence filed with the county.
The maps that consultant Bill Ross prepared for the overlay district designate the Kellar property as part of a "Residential Conservation Area," which is at least partially a misnomer. It anticipates and allows office use, though it proposes that the commercial development retain a residential character.
"It seems everyone can recognize that the widening of Mars Hill Road is going to impact the properties immediately adjacent to the new roadway," DeLoach wrote. "Acknowledging this fact, the county has undertaken a land use study to address this coming change."
The new roadway will make the 864-square-foot house at the front of Kellar's property less suited for residential use, the attorney argued, and the existing residential zoning diminishes the value of the property.
DeLoach said Kellar has a constitutional right to rezone her property for nonresidential use.
Zoning Narrative
The narrative for the zoning application states that the existing residence at the front of the lot will be converted to office use to accommodate Kellar's son, who is an accountant.
The residence will be renovated to provide office space for the accounting business. In the future, the car port will be enclosed to provide storage space, the narrative states.
Tax records indicate the residence was built in 1962.
The remaining acreage will be divided into two parcels, according to the narrative, but the narrative does not indicate how those two parcels will be used.
A map submitted with the rezone documents shows one of those lots surrounding a second residence on the property, built, according to tax documents, in 1971.
Additional documents in the Planning Department file indicate that the Georgia Department of Transportation paid Kellar $24,402 and split out 0.056 acres of frontage on her 3.9-acre lot for the road construction.
Kellar is asking the county to rezone her property from AR-1 (Agricultural-Residential One Acre) to O-I-P (Office-Institutional-Professional) use.
The staff report states that "The subject property is entirely surrounded by properties zoned AR-1 (Agricultural-Residential One Acre) with single-family residences. The current request is not compatible with the zoning or land uses adjacent to the subject property."
The existing AR-1 zoning classification does not diminish the value of the subject property, according to the staff report, and "if the property is rezoned as requested, property values of neighboring residential properties could be negatively affected by non-residential valuations."
Despite the negative review, the staff did not offer a recommendation on action regarding the Kellar rezone request.
Neighborhood Opposition
The staff report notes that, if the property is converted to O-I-P use, it could in the future be used for business and professional offices as well as for social, fraternal, political, civic and community organizations.
The O-I-P zoning district also is designed for institutional uses such as hospitals, nursing homes, convalescent centers, institutional planned developments and clinics, the report said.
Opponents have submitted a petition stating that the rezone would "drastically change a longtime well established residential neighborhood to commercial development, a possible increase in property taxes and set a precedent for more SPOT ZONING."
The petition contains the names of 16 persons.
A perusal of 27 pages of comments submitted to the Planning Department since the discussion of the overlay district began shows citizen concerns to be varied.
A number deal with specifics of the road construction.
Many deal with a concern about commercial development.
"Mars Hill could easily turn into some version of the Atlanta Highway," one person wrote. "And twenty years from now, it too could have its own array of vacant store fronts."
"Please preserve the residential integrity of our part of Oconee County," the writer implored.
Other Rezones
Also on the Planning Commission agenda on Monday night is a request by National EMS Inc. to locate an operations center in the Lampkin Branch Business Park off U.S. 441 just north of Watkinsville. The staff recommends approval.
Ralph Len Dolvin is requesting a rezone of 2.7 acres of land on the southwest corner of New High Shoals Road and U.S. 441 from agricultural use to business.
Dolvin wants to develop a commercial complex with a pharmacy and other retail and commercial tenants.
The staff recommends approval.
Note: I misspelled Faye Kellar's name in an earlier version of this report. I apologize for the error.
Posted by Lee Becker at 4:06 PM
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Мухамед I ел Мустаншир (Абу Абд Мухамед ел Мустаншир ибн Јахја; 1228-1277) је био други владар династије Хафсида у Ифрикији и први који је носио титулу калифа. Са француским краљем Лујом IX склопио је споразум о окончању Осмог крсташког рата. Био је вазал Краљевине Сицилије, али је отказао послушност када је Манфред Сицилијански збацио Конрадина са престола.

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Мамелучки султан Бајбарс нападао је преостале крсташке државе у Сирији. Бајбарс се користио сукобима Венеције и Ђенове (1256—1260), познатих као Рат Сен Сабас, да освоји градове као што су Назарет, Хаифа, Торон и Арсуф. Иго III од Кипра, титуларни краљ Јерусалима, бранио је Акру од муслиманских напада док је Бајбарс пустошио све до Јерменије која је у то време била под контролом Монгола. Ово су разлози због којих је француски краљ Луј отпочео са проповедањем новог крсташког рата 1267. године. Његов претходни поход на Египат завршен је потпуним неуспехом. Луј је убедио и свога брата, Карла I, владара Напуља и Сицилије, да учествује у Осмом крсташком рату. Карло је први напао Тунис како би створио јаку базу за напад на Египат. Луј је памтио негативна искуства Ричарда Лављег Срца у Трећем, крсташа у Петом и своје искуство из Седмог крсташког рата. У Петом и Седмом крсташком рату хришћани су поражени у самом Египту те је Луј желео формирати базу из које би непрестано могао обнављати нападе. Мухамед ел Мустаншир, владар Туниса, био је спреман на преговоре. Био је повезан са хришћанским владарима у Шпанији. Карло је позвао у Африку свога брата Луја. Лујев долазак у Тунис 1270. године означио је почетак Осмог крсташког рата. Јула те године Луј се искрцао на афричку обалу. Већи део његове војске се разболео због лоше воде за пиће. Сам Луј је умро од болести дан након доласка Карла. Његова последња реч била је "Јерусалим". Лујев син, Филип III, проглашен је наследником, али је због његове младости команду преузео Карло.

Опсада Туниса прекинута је 30. октобра склапањем договора са Ел Мустанширом. Хришћани су добили право на слободну трговину у Тунису и пребивалиште за хришћанске свештенике и монахе у граду. Поход је тако, бар делимично, био успешан. Када је сазнао да се Лујеви војници повлаче из Туниса, Бајбарс је одустао од плана да пошаље Мустанширу војску у помоћ.

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 Крсташка епопеја - Рене Грусе, ИК Зорана Јовановића (2004)

Рођени 1228.
Умрли 1277.
Муслимани крсташких ратова
Личности Осмог крсташког рата

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For the country's 20 million Sikhs, the struggle to visit the religion's holiest shrine has been a pain point for generations.
In the border village of Dera Guru Nanak in Gurdaspur district in India's Punjab, a few faithful have gathered hoping for darshan — to view the holy gurdwara or Sikh temple to seek blessings of the guru. But there's no gurdwara — only a vast expanse of fields — visible to the naked eye. Sikhism's holiest shrine, Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, where the founder of the religion, Guru Nanak, lived for 18 years, is 2.5 miles away — across the border in Pakistan.
Modi has compared the construction of the corridor to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the initiative has emerged as the centerpiece of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) campaign for India's 20 million Sikhs — 77 percent of them in Punjab — who have welcomed the project. Of them, 16 million are of voting age. India has proposed that 5,000 pilgrims be allowed to use the corridor each day, or 1.8 million annually. But the sharp deterioration in relations with Pakistan following the Feb. 14 terror attack that killed 40 Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir is casting a shadow on the project.
Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu honored by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh during the foundation laying ceremony of Kartarpur corridor at Dera Baba Nanak in district Gurdaspur, on November 25, 2018 in Amritsar, India.
The BJP recognizes that, and the government is trying to insulate the initiative from the border conflict. On March 14, a team from Pakistan visited India to hold negotiations on the exact contours of the project. But achieving a Berlin Wall pulldown in the middle of what is close to the equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis for India and Pakistan will take more than meetings: It'll require a semblance of peace.
Even without actual access to the Kartarpur shrine — where Guru Nanak's remains lie — more than 100 Sikh pilgrims gather every day at the border village, say officers of India's Border Security Force (BSF) who keep a close watch. For darshan, the people of Dera Guru Nanak, a village with a population of 6,400, have installed binoculars. One by one the faithful line up, look into the lens to see a hazy outline of the gurdwara and say their prayers. Guru Nanak formalized Sikhism while at Kartarpur, says Anju Suri, a historian at Panjab University. That's what makes the gurdwara the religion's most sacred spot.
(Top): Najvot Sidhu, a minister in the government of India's Punjab, at the inauguration of the Kartarpur corridor project in November 2018. (Bottom): A map showing how the corridor will connect the border village in India's Punjab to the kartarpur shrine 2.5 miles inside Pakistan.
It's also what makes the Kartarpur corridor a politically game-changing promise. Traditionally, the Sikh vote in India has swung between the Congress and an alliance between the BJP and its coalition partner in Punjab, the Akali Dal. The Akali Dal principally represents Sikh peasants. But the Congress has skeletons in its cupboard that the BJP–Akali Dal coalition frequently highlight to portray their opponent as anti-Sikh. In 1984, hundreds of Sikhs were massacred on the streets of Delhi after then Indian PM Indira Gandhi — of the Congress — was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards. The party also made little effort to connect Kartarpur to India's Punjab.
Kartar Singh, in his 90s, still dreams though. He was born in Pakistan and came to India in 1947. Visiting the Kartarpur gurdwara is his "last wish," he says. While India's Sikh community waits, pilgrims will have to use the binoculars to catch a glimpse of the gurdwara in Pakistan. The BSF will stand guard as a witness to the politics between the two neighbors, which could continue to deny a community's prayers — or finally fulfill them.


Everyone in the world right from an L.K.G student to a PhD holder are familiar with the word HAPPY.One or other day we may have listen few sentences like, I will be happy if I get a good rank, I will be happy if I get a job, I will be happy if India wins the match, I will be happy if he/she agrees my proposal so on….
My question is y you should be happy only if you can reach your respective desires or goals? y can't you be happy first and try to reach your goals later with happiness?
Sometimes when we ask people about what they want to achieve in their life ? Few smart people answers that they want to stay happy in their lives…(actually they are not smart).who is stopping them in staying happy now and further? Indeed, themselves.
So where is happiness? Happiness is no where, it is within 'you'. It is 'you' who creates it and it is the same 'you' who destroys it.so don't let the you in you to destroy it . Stay Happy forever and ever because the people who are more happy with their lives stay longer in this world…..


Can I Sell My Car Without a Title in Illinois?
Selling a car without a title in Illinois may be risky. The title is the legal record of all claims and releases made on titled property. Federal and state laws require a title indicating the name and signatures of buyers and sellers when selling a car. Assuming a written bill of sale and proper tax documents are filed with your local secretary of state or department of motor vehicles office, a new title must be ordered and signed over to the seller to legally transfer ownership. It is at the title holder's discretion whether to release the title once it is reprinted. Virtually the only way to sell a car without a title in Illinois is as scrap for salvage with written notice to the secretary of state at the time of registration renewal.
Submit a completed application form VSD 190 and the title fee to your local Illinois secretary of state office for a duplicate title. The duplicate title is mailed to the owner of record. Expedited title service is available at the Secretary of State Office for an additional fee, which includes UPS overnight delivery or same-day pickup at the Springfield Secretary of State Office. A title search determines whether any liens or loans exist on the title of the automobile. These title issues must be addressed prior to any transfer of title. Contact information for the lien or loan holders may turn up on the title search or on the title itself.
Payment terms and conditions may be determined by the titleholder once the title arrives from the Illinois Secretary of State Office. This step is a theft and fraud deterrent designed to ensure that the title is released to the titleholder of record only. Physical possession of the title allows the titleholder to transfer, release or place a claim on the title in writing. The title itself indicates the automobile serial number, which is also designed to deter fraud. Typographical or data errors may cloud a clear title and must be resolved with the Secretary of State Office in a corrected title.
Assuming a price and terms are agreed upon, the titleholder must sign over the title indicating the vehicle's mileage and condition, typically as is. A bill of sale and receipt typically supplement the title and transfer records. The buyer is responsible for registering and documenting sales tax on the automobile. Note that insurance and liability issues vary from state to state regarding temporary registration for recently purchased vehicles. Temporary registration for intrastate purchase for up to 30 days is available for registered dealers. Temporary registration plates valid for 90 days are available for from the Illinois secretary of state, dealers and currency exchanges.
Automobiles at the end of their service life are commonly sold for scrap. The annual registration renewal certificate is mailed to the owner of record. At the time of renewal, the owner may notify the secretary of state in writing that the car has been junked or sold for scrap. This written notification then becomes the final record for the automobile and serial number to the secretary of state. This process prevents junked or scrapped automobiles from being legally titled again.


Please contact your GP for an appointment.
Amersham Hospital: the blood test clinic is open from 8.30am - 3pm for patients coming via their GP, that extends till 4pm for patients that are coming via an onsite hospital clinics.
Please note that samples cannot be left out of hours.
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Wycombe Hospital: the blood test clinic is open from 8am - 11am for appointments, with open access from 09.00am - 3.30pm.


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Japanese team discovers dizziness drug can improve poor long-term memory
New research by a Japanese team has revealed that people's long-term memories can be improved by taking a large dose of a dizziness medication that boosts the amount of histamine in the brain.
The conclusion of the research, which appeared in the American journal Biological Psychiatry on Tuesday, may have future implications for treating memory disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
Histamine in the central nervous system is linked to learning and memory, with long-term memory defined as memory prior to 48 hours ago.
The medication is usually prescribed at low dosages to treat those who suffer from dizziness. But in the memory experiment participants were given higher dosages to boost their histamine levels.
The trial was conducted on 38 men and women who were asked to study images of 128 objects. Their memory was then tested a week later and again two days after that, where they were asked if they had seen the items before.
Half of the test subjects were given an oral placebo while the other half were given the drug 30 minutes before the first test started. In the second test, those who had received the placebo earlier received the drug, while those who had initially received the drug were given the placebo.
The ratio of correct answers provided by those who responded after taking the drug stood at 46 percent, a 3 point increase over their scores when they did not take the medication.
Experiments showed that the test scores also varied significantly according to original memory capability.
Those who originally had a poor memory improved their scores from 28 percent to 55 percent after taking the drug.
In contrast, those who had a naturally good memory struggled after taking the drug. The percentage of correct responses declined from 61 percent to 39 percent.
Researchers suspect that for the latter group, the extra histamine may have added too much "noise" and excessive nerve signaling that hindered recall.
However, the trial does not suggest that improved long-term memory is always beneficial.
"There are still uncertainties surrounding the use of this medication, and people could recall bad memories from the past," cautioned Yuji Ikegaya, a University of Tokyo professor who was part of the research team. "People shouldn't take the medication based on their individual judgment."
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If you are interested in collecting foreign currency, then you might be interested in investing in Iraqi dinar. Here are a few interesting facts that you should know before you look into buying foreign currency and buying iraqi dinar in particular.
1. The Iraqi dinar was went into circulation in 1932. Before it went into circulation, the Indian rupee was the most used currency of the country.
2. Dinar banknotes issued between 1990 and 2003 had an image of Saddam Hussein on the note. This was changed when he was overthrown from power.
3. In spite of the fact that you will be hard pressed to find a financial advisor who will recommend investing in Iraqi dinar, they are still considerably affordable. In spite of their lack of popularity and value, this still makes them a low risk investment.
4. For those just interested in the collectable value of the dinar, they will be happy to know that the iraqi dinar has been been produced in several denominations, and a whole host of color schemes.
5. There is a lot of vocabulary that you will need to become acquainted with if you are going to be investing in Iraqi dinar. For instance, fils is the singular form in Arabic, not the plural. The plural form is actually fulus.
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this whole thing is pretty interesting. i didnt even know that people were interested in collecting currency, i mean, i kne that people collected things like coins, but i never knew that currency was something that was included in that as well.
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Balasana The name comes from the Sanskrit words bala meaning "child" and asana (आसन) meaning "posture" or "seat". In this pose, the body faces the floor in a fetal position. The knees and hips are bent with the shins on the floor. The chest can rest either on the knees or the knees can be spread to about the width of a yoga mat, allowing the chest to go between the knees. The head is stretched forward towards the ground - the forehead may touch the ground. The arms may be stretched forward in front of the head or backwards towards the feet.


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MEP Deirdre Clune is 'left in limbo' amid Brexit delays
Deirdre Clune, MEP cannot take up her seat in the parliament until the UK leaves. Picture: Jim Coughlan
CORK MEP Deirdre Clune has voiced her frustration at not being able to take her place in the European Parliament due to the Brexit impasse.
On Friday, European Union ambassadors postponed a decision on how long to delay the UK's departure from the EU.
It was envisaged that the UK would leave on October 31.
Ms Clune, a sitting Fine Gael MEP re-elected in the Ireland South constituency, was due to take the seat she won in May when the UK left the EU, along with Fianna Fáil's Barry Andrews.
However, the date for the UK leaving the EU looks set to be extended beyond the end of October.
Both Ms Clune and Mr Andrews say they are in limbo until a date is confirmed.
The elections were conducted with an extra seat in the South and Dublin constituencies, but the winners of those two seats cannot take their place in parliament until the British MEPs leave.
Ms Clune won the last seat in the Ireland South constituency following several days of recounts.
"Back in May, we thought we would be good to go in October but all we can do is wait," she said.
"It remains to be seen if there will be a general election in the UK as well.
"It is an unprecedented situation," she added.
"It feels like being in limbo because you have been declared elected but you can't take up your seat and now we are still not sure when exactly we can take them," said Ms Clune.
"There is no point getting uptight or annoyed about things that are totally out of my control.
"There is a new commissioner coming in November and that is when the real work begins.
"There are 27 people in this situation around the EU waiting to take up a position so we're all in the same boat."


Will it ever end, is exactly how I felt this week. The writing part of a book is easy and fun. However, to get a book to market the work seems never-ending. I know I'm a bit of a purist, which isn't good for business but makes me feel good. We all know Amazon is a massive company with an equally huge market share so I try to spread the wealth. I think it is important to support local businesses and for books that is a local printer and local bookstores.
Once the writing is complete, usually in a Microsoft Word document, I convert it into a book format with a cover designed to suit the interior size; one for e-Books and one for print books. Easy-peasy! Well, not quite. I send my books, the print version, to three different places for printing, for three different reasons.
A local printer for my personal inventory; books fairs, local independent bookstores and my local fans. Ingram/Spark, the largest book distributor in the world because they supply Chapters/Indigo and with a little luck, Waterstones and W.H. Smith in the U.K. And, of course, we mustn't forget Amazon's worldwide reach for both e-Books and paperbacks.
Here is where the never-ending part enters. Each of these printers has a different set of specifications and often the difference is a couple of millimetres. Frustrating! I tackle Amazon first and, although I hate to say it, I can understand why they do so well. Amazon was easy-peasy. I uploaded the files, proofed the files, Amazon approved them and the book was up for sale in 24 hours. Next, I called Gauvin Press in Gatineau, a great family business. But it took five days to get the specs sorted and the order in. However, in their defense, this was my first order. It will be faster next time. Okay, still not finished, on to Ingram/Spark. This is scary and the opposite to Gauvin, there is no personal contact, everything is automated, which means everything has to be exactly to their specifications or you might get a strange looking book. The preparation took some time but the ordering process only took twenty-four hours.
Writing Updates: The Christmas edition of The NarrowBoat Romance Series, Christmas at Lavender Cottage continues, not as fast as I would like for reasons explained above.
Books I'm Reading: Fiction: I finished reading Susanna Kearsley's The Winter Sea and the conclusion made me weep, so sad, but realizing there were about thirty more pages to read, I thought things might change although I couldn't see how. But Ms. Kearsley had a wonderful and unexpected twist at the end. Fabulous book! My current read is Lisa Jewelle's Then She Was Gone a different kind of book. A contemporary story about a mother who mourns her missing fifteen-year-old daughter years after her disappearance. The story is holding my attention and I suspect there are many twists and turns to this thriller.
Nonfiction: The Emotional Wound Thesaurus – A writer's guide to psychological trauma – By Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglishi. This is an extremely helpful book for writers because it explains how traumas affect peoples behaviour. A nasty or even evil character has a back story and a writer needs to know that story. You will see this unfold in Christmas at Lavender Cottage as Olivia's past explains nastiness.
This entry was posted in Canadian Authors, Dogs, Life of an Author, Writing courses and tagged Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, Susan's Readers Group on October 6, 2018 by Susan Jennings.
So, I lied! In last weeks blog, I said the writing course Get Rid of Page Fright – First Sentence to First Sale would be ready for release last Wednesday and that didn't happen, for multiple reasons. However, drum roll please, it was released today. If you are a want-to-be, novice or struggling writer, I designed this course for you. Click for more details. Okay, enough of the sales pitch, I just wanted to apologize for my poor timing. I almost forgot the launch special includes a 40% discount. Miss Penny is pawing at my knee to tell her story.
At last, Miss Penny speaking, they left me out of the blog last week, so I'm pleased to be back. It has been a boring week for me as the boss has been busy and not paying attention to me so I've played with my toys. I also learned to hide under the table. When Susan goes out she shoves me in this crate, it's quite comfortable but I would rather have the run of the house, can you image the mischief…? There's a box of shoes by the door I could chew those, I quite like books and there's a lot of those around here and cords running all over the place. Um! Maybe I'm safer in the crate. Today's picture is me, taking my toy to bed. Well, I'm only a year old, I like my toys.
Writing Updates: Working on research for Sophie so the writing for that book is stalled. But, I have started a new story, a Christmas novella, contemporary romance, at Katie's Lavender Cottage B&B a feel nice Christmas story.
Books I'm Reading: Fiction: Susanna Kearsley's The Winter Sea is as great a read as I expected. The time slip, in and out of the early 1700s is so good, the history, the descriptions of Scotland's rugged coast and the subtle romance are excellent.
This entry was posted in Dogs, Life of an Author, Writing courses and tagged historical fiction, Susan's Readers Group, teachable, writing course on September 15, 2018 by Susan Jennings.


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'Hardcore Henry' Flops At Box Office After Tepid Reviews
The first-person action flick took fifth place at $5.1 million in its opening weekend, with "The Boss" grabbing the top spot.
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Hardcore Henry, the action movie shot from the main character's perspective, had a dismal showing at its first weekend in theaters, grossing just $5.1 million and taking the fifth spot. The lukewarm response follows a round of reviews from critics, who found the film didn't quite meet the hype.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Melissa McCarthey's comedy The Boss nabbed the top spot with $23.48 million over its opening weekend, only just ahead of Batman v Superman which made $23.44 million.
Hardcore Henry was supposed to reinvent the action genre, using an innovative storytelling approach that placed the audience in the lead character's shoes. This unique filmmaking technique was achieved through a GoPro camera rig strapped to the actors, although it is far from the first Hollywood film to tell a story from the main character's perspective. The whole production was made on a budget of just $10 million.
Shot entirely from Henry's POV, the audience fights mercenaries in a part of Moscow, having been brought back from the dead at the start of the film with no recollection of what happened.
However, the film scored just 51 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. "Hardcore Henry seems poised to reinvent the action flick, but without a story or characters worth caring about, its first-person gimmick quickly loses its thrill," the critic consensus reads.
The Boss took first place in its opening weekend, despite scoring just 18 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Melissa McCarthy stars as a CEO recently released from prison, who's trying to use her old connections to re-climb her way back up to the top.
The Boss has received scathing reviews from critics. "It's just early April, but I have an early contender for the most loathsome, ill-advised, horrible executed, most spectacularly unfunny movie scene of the year," said Richard Roeper in The Chicago Sun-Times.
Despite losing the weekend top spot and facing largely negative reviews, Batman v Superman producers are unlikely to be too upset. The film has made a staggering $783.5 million worldwide since its release, on a budget of around $250 million.


text: Q: How to get the checkbox value from the admin side and display it on the frontend in Magento2 I am new to Magento2 and I wanted to show the attribute values on the frontend, which are on the admin side.so I don't know where and how should I start this flow to implement my ideas in magento2 so if anyone knows kindly explain the flow from scratch. Thanks in advance


Designed for cutting fresh flower stems and vines. Also use for cutting decorative mesh and wired ribbon.
Floracraft Heavy Duty Floral Wire Cutter, for cutting flower stems, wire, vines and branches. 6.5 inches.


A tunnel connecting the Imotski region in the Dalmatian hinterland with the Makarska Riviera officially opened for traffic on Monday. The 4,249 meter Sveti Ilija tunnel pass through the Biokovo mountain, shaving off significant travel time for those in the hinterland heading to the picturesque Dalmatian coast.
The tunnel, which connects Zagvozd with Baska Voda, has a 'pay as you go' toll system will cost users 20 kuna (2.66 euros) for automobiles, 12 kuna (1.60) for motorcycles and 66 kuna (8.80 euros) for heavy trucks. Pre-paid electronic payment device (ENC) users will receive a 50% discount. The tunnel reportedly cost over 500 million kuna (close to 100 million USD) to construct.