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Q: How to import Django models in a script started with Popen() My question is very similar with this one. The difference in my case is that the python script I want to start as a subprocess (listener1.py), is part of my project, just on a different app.
This is my project structure:
my_project
    ├── my_app1 #This app contains models,views etc.
    │   ├── models.py
    │   └── apps.py
    │   └── ...
    ├── logic_app #This app contains several unrelated python scripts
    │   └── ManagerScript.py
    │   └── listener1.py
    │   └── ...

In my apps.py:
class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'my_app1'
    def ready(self):
        #Once app is ready, start the following script as a thread
        thread = Thread(target=ManagerScript.main)
        thread.start()

In ManagerScript.py:
#This thread is responsible for starting listener1.py as a Subprocess
#(because this is a thread I can successfully import my Models here)
#from my_app1 import models #This would work!

tmp =  ['python3','path/to/listener1.py']
Popen(tmp, preexec_fn=os.setpgrp)

In listener1.py:
from my_app1 import models #Does not work!
...

My question is, considering the fact that the subprocess listener1.py is in logic_app folder, how could I import my Models in listener1.py script without using  Django Management Commands? (Because using them would require to change my current project structure)

A: You can run them through the Django shell. Without writing it as a command.
Python manage.py shell
exec(open(<path-to-file>).read()))


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This County In Ireland Was Just Voted The Vegan Capital Of The World
Irish Tatler Staff
If Hayes & Jarvis say it, it must be true.
It feels like there was a time not so long ago when it was something of a struggle to be vegetarian. When eating out, most restaurants didn't offer vegetarian options and if they did, they weren't exactly the most appetizing dishes. Thankfully those days are long behind us. However, the battle now is to make the world a more vegan-friendly place, and that battle is going extremely well too.
Whether it be to help the environment or simply for your own health and wellbeing, more and more people are opting to adopt plant-based diets for a variety of reasons. Chances are that if you're a vegan and reading this, you're wondering what we mean when we say eating vegan is becoming easier and easier. If that's the case, then perhaps you should pay a visit to our very own captiol city, Dublin.
It may come as a bit of a surprise but according to luxury travel company Hayes & Jarvis, Dublin tops a global list of vegan-friendly restaurants.
Hayes & Jarvis analysed information on popular travel website TripAdvisor, looking at the 50 most-visited cities in the world. It ranked which cities have the highest proportion of a particular restaurant category and the highest proportion of 4.5- to 5-star restaurants in the category.
Dublin came in with 21.2 per cent of restaurants classified as vegan-friendly but fear not, Hayes & Jarvis' research did not only label Dublin a great place for vegans. Phuket unsurprisingly came in second, Amsterdam third, while London and Venice rounded out the top five.
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If you live in Dublin or have paid the city a visit recently, then this might not come as much of a surprise to you, especially if you're vegan. Not only is the city one of the best in Ireland for food hands down, but the options for vegans are plenty. A personal favourite of ours is Nutbutter and their forbidden rice bowl with jackfruit. You can take a look for yourself at why we love it so much via the photo below.
What is forbidden rice you ask? . It is a species of rice that grows in tropical zones such as China , Japan and North Korea! It is a great source of plant based protein (8.5g per 100g) and also contains lots of fibre( 4.9g per 100g)! 凌
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When it came to the destinations with the best vegan fare, Shenzhen in China was found to have the best quality vegan food (91.2 per cent of its vegan restaurants have been rated 4.5 stars or above), followed by Cancun, Mexico (85.2 per cent) and Macau, China (82 per cent).
To see the full list of Vegan-friendly cities, click here.
Main image by @trashisfortossers on Instagram
READ: The Secret To A Creamy, Delicious Vegan Milkshake Resides In This Recipe
READ MORE: Do So-Called Vegan Influencers Practice What They Preach?
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My love for food and my eagerness to lose weight were both contradictory. I wished I would continue eating as well as losing weight. My brain was grappling with ideas that would allow both and one fine day it devised a plan. The plan was eat as much as you want and then vomit it out. I happily adhered to this idea and worked my way eating and vomiting. I also started losing weight; I would binge on a kilo of chocolates and pounds of cake and candies and it would have no affect on my weight. My parents suspected something was wrong as I was losing extra ordinary amounts of weight despite overeating all the time. Therefore, to reassure them I gradually started cutting down on my diet and there came a time when I almost stopped eating. My eye balls popped out and my teeth were on the verge of falling. I looked funny and my sister started calling me an "emaciated pig" and that was it. Now, I have started eating and I hope to look like a full framed pig soon.
Ironically this is the first time in my life when I am determined to put on some weight and am feeling rather happy about it. I have left behind my perfectionist approach to life and want to indulge in random activities that make me happier. I was never obese or fat, I have always been skeletal, but it was a slight bulge at the waist that made me feed my dinner to my dog most nights. If I was unable to do that I would take laxatives or enema. In the worst cases when I would binge I would make myself vomit. From 120 pounds my weight plummeted down to 90 pounds and I often suffered from constipation and ulcers, but never gave up because losing weight gave me a sense of pride and also of superiority. It was when my menstruation stopped and I was hospitalized, that my sense of pride was overtaken by a feeling of inferiority and disgust. Today I just got back home from the hospital and I'm gorging down all my favorite food.
The fantasy of teenage love sometimes makes you take extreme measures. I was 15 and had just discovered the pleasure of attracting the attention of boys, but how would I do that with my obesity? To top it, one day my dad mockingly told me that I will not get a date if I didn't shed some extra kilos I had. His words pierced through me and created a deep hollow inside me. I decided to get rid of my obesity. I took my own words serious enough that I started shedding off pounds rapidly and reached a stage where my menstrual period came to a halt. I developed eating rituals for myself and I would weight my food in the kitchen and put them in containers and line them up. Alongside I also started a routine of rigorous exercising. My condition deteriorated and I was hospitalized. Even this could not deter me and I continued my exercise routine in the hospital bathroom. I was subsequently hospitalized several times and nothing would work. One day when I came back home from the hospital and my mother said to me with tearful eyes "you are my life too, don't play with it" and that was the moment of reckoning.
I was 16 and weighed 110 lbs and lived a happy life. It was during the winter fall that we had a dance party at school and my classmate teased me that no one was asking me out because I was fat and ugly. His teasing struck me like a hammer and then onwards I started counting the calories I would consume. Initially I started skipping lunch and later breakfast too. There came a time when my calorie intake had plummeted down to just 300 calories a day. I weighed 92 pounds and my hands, feet and knees started swelling uncomfortably. My finger nails broke and my hair lost its entire luster. On day I fainted and fell off the school bus and cut my forehead and was taken to the hospital where I was admitted, that was the time I realized my mistake and was determined to overcome it.
It was New Year's Eve and my resolution was to go on a diet. I was 14 then and obese. I went to a school in my village with three other boys and the pressure of being the only girl was becoming my enemy. At the same time my parents were preparing the grounds for a divorce at home and so there was not a place, where I'd find peace. I assumed that thin people have happy lives and that my main enemy was obesity. I began restricting my diet, cutting down all carbohydrates and fats and supplementing them with rice cakes and apples. I started losing weight and suddenly life became worth living. I wanted to lose more weight and started cycling 24 km everyday and eventually lost weight enough to collapse while riding from a minor heart attack. I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and that is when I realized the gravity of my problem. I did this for a happy life and realized it lead me miles away, therefore I decided to get back on track and fight it.


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Morocco trekking guide Rachid Ait Elmahjoub has been guiding for eight years and set up his own company in 2013. This year, Rachid says he and a colleague became the first people ever to walk from the roof of North Africa, Mount Toubkal, to its floor, the Atlantic Ocean, relying on the hospitality of the Berber people along the way.
I grew up in a little tiny Berber village in the heart of the Atlas Mountains in a valley called Imlil. My father is a farmer, but he also worked as a muleteer with several tour companies. From the time I was 10, I would join him on some of his tours and had a chance to meet people from several foreign countries, and learn a little bit about their cultures and their language. I really liked it and that's how I got to know all the trekking paths through the Atlas Mountains and the desert. Afterwards, I realized that I was starting to love this kind of a job, so this became my future dream.
After college, I went directly to an area called Oukaimeden, a ski resort, where I got the chance to get into the tourism field as a mountain guide, as a participant of a training club called FRMSM. I finished my training, which involved a lot of mountain activities, and received my license, which was a big push forward. I started to work with several tour companies; I led tours through the Sahara desert, the Atlas Mountains and also through the imperial cities. I worked for a while until I set up my own company that aims to promote eco-friendly and socially responsible tourism.
What does a typical guiding day look like for you?
I usually spend my whole time, two or three weeks or even more, in the mountains, where there is no cellphone service which I like, exploring Berber villages, meeting the locals and exploring the Sahara desert with its kasbahs and imperial cities and their history.
The most bizarre experience I have had was when I was walking along a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, during a trekking expedition through the Atlas Mountains I did with a Scottish customer. We had been walking for 10 days and we had been walking for more than 15 hours that day, and there were no villages or people. We only saw a car once every hour and we had no water, we were very thirsty.
Your company aims to promote eco-friendly and socially responsible tourism – how does it do this?
As organizers of community-friendly trekking, we create job opportunities for the locals as well as raise money for community projects. For each service clients buy from us, 10% goes directly to provide a monthly payment of a teacher in a preliminary school in Imi Oughlad village and to help support a female cooperative.
Your profile mentions that you wanted to be the first person ever to walk from the roof of North Africa, Mount Toubkal, to the Atlantic Ocean – did you succeed? How was it?
It's not just that I wanted to be the first person ever, I actually did it and I was with another person from Scotland. We were entirely self-supported during the trek, carrying all our own equipment and supplies. It was August which made it quite difficult as it was really hot – over 40°C. It was an unforgettable expedition as we chose a route which wasn't touristy. There were no shops on the way due to the great distance from civilization. We had to take water from houses where we stayed and from springs or rivers. We spent all our nights with local Berber families. The other mountain guides said they did not think we could do it, but we kept going and then finally, we reached the sea. Everywhere we went, the Amazigh people (the Berber people of Morocco) shared their food and water and hospitality with us. This is how life works in the Atlas mountains.
The benefits of hiring a guide are that the clients will feel safer than when they are by themselves. They will get to know the place where they and learn about the country's traditions, culture and habits. With a guide they will meet the locals and get in touch with them, be an insider instead of just a tourist, visit families, share food and moments with them, join them on their daily activities, join them on their calibrations and much more.
What can make you a good tour guide is to be kind, a human being, knowledgeable about what you are doing, be well behaved, respectful and experienced, show your love to people and of course, keep smiling, be more than proud to tell clients about your life, traditions and culture.
If you enjoyed this, you might also like Explore Morocco and Explore Marrakech.
Rachid is a very experienced and proficient trekking guide in Morocco whose specialty is guiding the circuits around the mountains and valleys near the Atlas Mountains. Rachid is a true adventurer, having attempted to become the first person to ever walk from the roof of North Africa, Mount Toubkal at 4167 meters, to its floor – the Atlantic Ocean.
As a guide, Rachid offers a challenging trek for athletic adults where the beauty and peace of the mountains can be enjoyed. He worked with several companies from all over the world before setting up his own company, Pathfinderstreks. Rachid and his team offer a wide range of tour packages and aim to connect internationals and locals in a way that will lead to mutual enrichment.
Notre séjour de 4 jours est 3 nuits dans le sud du Maroc était organisé à la perfection. Rachid a été très disponible et attentif à nos besoin dès les premiers contact par mail. Il s'est occupé de tout, de la prise en charge à l'aéroport jusqu'à notre départ. Il nous a beaucoup appris sur son pays, sa culture, ses coutumes. Ces 4 jours ont été dépaysants, ( Aït Ben Haddou, Ouarzazate, la vallée du Drâa, les gorges du Dadés, la vallée des roses, les dunes de Merzouga…), des paysages a couper le souffle, des emotions fortes, des instants envoûtants ( le ciel étoilé du désert). Bref un voyage magique et inoubliable. À refaire absolument!
Our 4 day/ 3 nights stay in the south of Morocco was organized to perfection. Rachid was very helpful and attentive to our needs from the first contact through email. He took care of everything from the management at the airport until we left. He taught us a lot about his country, its culture, and its customs. These four days in Ait Ben Haddou , Ouarzazate, the Draa Valley , the Dades Gorge , the Valley of Roses , Merzouga dunes … , were filled with breathtaking scenery, strong emotions, captivating moments ( the starry desert sky). In short, a magical and unforgettable journey. I would absolutely do it again!
Rachid is an experienced mountain guide through the mountains of Morocco, safely guiding many tours and showing the majesty of the mountains. He organizes trekking trips within Morocco's High Atlas Mountains emphasizing a community-friendly approach. His trekking options include Mount Toubkal ascent, walking the High Atlas valleys, and treks through Berber villages revealing the breathtaking quiet beauty of adjacent valleys. Our activities rely on the knowledge, strong limbs and hospitality of the Berber people, who work as local guides, muleteers and accommodation providers. We believe they are the people who can tell the most about their culture, traditions and way of life to make the whole trekking experience unique and authentic. As an organizer of community-friendly trekking, Rachid creates job opportunities for the locals and raises money for community projects.


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a perfect means? I've a venture that I'm simply now operating on, and I've been on the glance out for such information.
this website has been so useful for me, especially the podcasts for Education!!
Shame there isn't any for Culture and Identity.
Thanks for the compliment. Will do culture and identity podcasts soon.
Do u have notes for religion as well ?
Sorry not at the moment, but it will be written later in this year.
do you have any more notes on global development?
Hi – sorry not as yet, but is there anything in particular you wished to know about?
Qns- what is the diff. Between ideological conditioning device and the IDeological State Apparatus ?
I know that family is the ideological conditing device as claimed by cooper ( its the only one right ?) but what is the difference between the two ,as even the family is considered as ISA by althuser . Becuase the both ideologically try to make us perfect proletariat .
Hi – If you view society as being in conflict the family is "an ideological conditioning device in an exploitive society" where children learn (socialized) inside families to submit to authority so they'll learn to be obedient and submissive when they're working adults. In the same way Althusser (1971) a French Marxist, argued that in order for capitalism to survive people must be taught how to think and behave, and the family is the best mechanism for doing this.
Therefore they are both the same thing Cooper has just developed Althusser's point. Does that help?
So we can say that the media, family , education and religion are all ideological conditioning devices . As they all do indoctrinate the ruling class ideology within us ?
They are like justifying capitalism for us right ?
Correct – you've got it!!
So can we like interchange the terms ?
Im guessing no ,because whenever i searched on the net . Ideological conditioning device always came along with family and coopers name . So I am guessing cooper(marxist) only used the term for family .
And the ISA are used in maintaing hegemony, they are used for making the proletariat be consent ?
Sorry , i know i have a lot of qns but cant help it you answer them the best .
Thank you very much and May God bless you !
I was already thinking of reveiwing your books on Amazon , its just that they havent arrived yet for me . As soon as I get them and go through them , I will surely put great comments on them .
Thank you, and if there's anything you want answers to, just ask.
No sorry, though have plans to write them in the future, it won't be for some time.
Hi , can u pls explain neo – functionalist and neo -marxist views on religion for social change .
Do they claim religion as intiators for social change or channels forexpressing social dissent . As in the liberation theory the poor used religion o liberate themselves from the poverty .
Civil right movement in the usa created civil unrest through protests organized baptist church but it was due to reasons such as less civil rights for the black .
So according to me they donot claim religion as creating radical social changes but yes it can be used to tigger them .
Pls help . Also with neo functionalist .
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The places creative, service, and working class jobs will grow the most by 2022.
Home health aides, administrative assistants, and fast food servers: these are some of the occupations that are going to grow the most in the coming years. As the Atlantic's Derek Thompson explained last month, "just a handful of occupations—personal care aides, registered nurses, nursing assistants, and home health aides (all in health care), along with retail salespeople and food-prep workers—will account for one-in-six new jobs in the next decade."
This analysis comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics's latest ten-year projections, which provide a broad picture of what America's workers will be doing in the future.
The boom of these low-skill jobs can be seen as part of a fundamental, larger shift in the what and where of America's workforce. Today, America is growing both low-wage, low-skill service jobs and high-wage, knowledge-intensive positions. The next decade will see the job market continue to split along these lines. There will be fewer and fewer solid, working-class jobs that helped build this nation's broad middle class during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
My Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Charlotta Mellander used these BLS baseline projections to project job growth for all of America's 350-plus metros over the next decade. MPI's Zara Matheson mapped the data.
The graph above shows the growth of jobs in America across three broad occupational classes – the creative class, service class, and working class – over the past half century. The trend could not be clearer. Working class jobs, which include those in factory production, construction and transportation, have declined from half the workforce to about 20 percent.
High-paying, knowledge-based creative class jobs in science and technology, business and management, the professions, arts, media, and entertainment have increased from just 15 percent of jobs to more than a third. Lower-paying service jobs in fields like retail sales, food prep, and personal care have increased from 30 percent to nearly half of all jobs.
These basic trends will continue over the next decade. Between 2012 and 2022, the U.S. will add 15.6 million new jobs, according to BLS projections, with the overall workforce growing by 10.8 percent from 145 to 161 million. Of these, 5.6 million will be high-wage, creative class positions. The creative class will grow by 12.5 percent, the highest rate of all groups. The country will add another 7.4 million low-wage, low-skill service jobs, a 10.5 percent growth rate. Finally, the country will add 2.7 million blue-collar, service-class jobs – with most of that growth in construction and transportation jobs. The overall working class job market will grow 9.1 percent. Of these, just 75,000 will be in direct production work; the high paying factory jobs that provided the backbone of the middle class a generation ago will see a growth rate of less than 1 percent. By 2022, production workers will make up just 5.5 percent of the American workforce.
The map above looks at the overall picture, tracking where employment is projected to grow the most and the least over the next eight years. Forty-five percent of metros (179) will experience employment growth greater than the national average of 10.8 percent. The darkest blue areas are along the East Coast, in parts of Florida, and in the energy-driven metros of Texas and the Midwest. The metros that will add jobs at the fastest rate include mainly smaller metros like Duluth, Minnesota; McAllen, Texas; and Greenville, North Carolina. College towns like Morgantown, West Virginia; Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Ann Arbor, Michigan are also projected to experience a relatively high rate of job growth. The large metros that will add jobs at the fastest rate are the big three of the Bos-Wash corridor: Boston, D.C. and New York. The slowest growth is projected in the Midwest, parts of the old South, and central California.
These overall figures do not provide a clear sense of the kinds of jobs that will grow in specific metros and regions of the country. To get at that, the next set of maps tracks the growth rates for the three broad classes of jobs. We looked at first the creative class and then the service and working classes.
Note that the color scales are different for each graph, as we track, by quartiles, the metros that will see high, medium, and low rates of growth in each class of jobs over the course of the next decade.
The news is both good and bad. Though they are not distributed evenly across the country, creative class jobs are generally growing faster. In a few places that are projected to see overall lower levels of job growth, including much of the South and some of the old Rustbelt, creative class jobs are actually growing faster than they are in other regions. But in many economically vibrant coastal metros, this creative class job growth goes hand in hand with low-skill, service-class job creation.
The first map, above, charts the projected percentage change in creative class employment by metro. Most metros will see substantial growth in their creative class jobs. More than eight in ten metros will see creative class job growth higher than the national average of 12.5 percent. But, clearly, some will lag far behind.
The blue and teal scattered throughout the metros of Florida, the South, and parts of the Midwest are positive signs. These are economies that today rely mainly on service and some manufacturing jobs, and they are starting off with relatively lower levels of creative class jobs in 2012. Many of these metros have struggled to regain a foothold in the new knowledge economy in the wake of deindustrialization, and these projected growth rates are a sign of rebirth. Far more troubling is the yellow and green spread in parts of the Sunbelt – especially Arizona and California – as well as a few economically vibrant East Coast metros. Though these metros are sometimes building on a stronger base, their relatively anemic projected growth in high-paying creative class jobs is something to keep an eye on.
The second map tracks the projected explosive growth of service-sector jobs. Slightly more than 30 percent of metros will see service class growth higher than the national average of 10.5 percent. Notice how much blue and teal there is on the map along the East Coast's Bos-Wash corridor. This shows the reality of America's increasingly bifurcated job market, with a growing split between good and bad jobs (and, in fact, a symbiosis between these two in many places).
Greater New York may be home to a large share of the country's super-rich, but it is also projected to be the large metro that will see the fastest growth in low-wage service jobs. Other locations that are projected to see high levels of service-class job growth appear in the old industrial regions of the country – upstate New York, Ohio, Michigan, and other parts of the Midwest and Rocky Mountains. These are the places where good working-class jobs have been eliminated, and where employment growth will continue to be dominated by low-paying, insecure service class jobs.
The final map in the series charts the projected growth of jobs in blue-collar working class jobs (recall this includes construction and transportation jobs, which are projected to grow much faster than factory jobs). Almost 40 percent of metros are projected to see working class job growth higher than the national average of 9.1 percent. These jobs are projected to grow the fastest in parts of the Sunbelt, especially Florida; the energy-powered metros of the Gulf Coast, Texas, and the Rocky Mountains; and some metros along the coasts. This reflects the boom of construction and transportation jobs in these relatively fast growing metros. These include metros like Midland and Odessa, Texas; Grand Junction, Colorado; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Fairbanks, Alaska. The large metro where blue-collar jobs are projected to grow the fastest is greater Washington, D.C. Troublingly, growth in blue-collar jobs will be far more limited in many of the Midwestern Rustbelt metros that once relied on the working class for their economic vitality.
The growth patterns in the graphs above will add up over time, leading to subtle shifts in the class compositions of various U.S. metros. In the main, the next decade will reinforce the patterns we have begun to see today, amplifying the emerging split between high-paying creative class workers and low-paying service class workers. The maps below chart the projected share that each of the three broad occupational classes is projected to represent across the U.S. in 2022.
The first map looks at the projected creative class share in 2022. This map provides a stark picture of the great and growing geographic divide in America brought on by the concentration of knowledge, creativity and skill. The share of creative class jobs ranges from 40 or even 50 percent in some metros, to a low of well below 20 percent in others.
The metros with the highest proportion of creative workers are familiar – Boston, Washington and other East Coast metros, and the Bay Area, Seattle and Portland on the West Coast. But other metros will see share of the creative class increase to substantial levels – including parts of Texas, Atlanta, and some Midwest metros. Greater Washington D.C. is projected to top the list in 2022, with nearly half (47 percent) of its workforce in creative class positions. The creative class will make up 40 percent or more of the workforce in Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina (45 percent); San Jose, California (45 percent); Ann Arbor, Michigan (44 percent); Trenton-Ewing, New Jersey (43 percent); Boston, Massachusetts (42 percent); Boulder, Colorado (41 percent); and San Francisco, California (40 percent). The metros with the lowest shares of creative-class workers will be in parts of the old South and Sunbelt.
The second map shows the growing role of low-wage service jobs in nearly every part of the country. It identifies the increasing prevalence of these jobs, which are projected to make up more than 60 percent of all positions in some metros. Even at the lowest end of the spectrum, service class jobs will still make up a considerable 35 percent of all workers.
The service class will represent the largest share of the workforce in resort and tourism strongholds of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (66 percent); Ocean City, New Jersey (65 percent); Punta Gorda, Florida (65 percent); Palm Coast Florida (63 percent); Atlantic City, New Jersey (63 percent); and Las Vegas, Nevada (63 percent). The service class will represent a large share of the workforce in metros across Florida, Texas, and Arizona as well as parts of New York and other East Coast metros.
The final map, above, shows the projected share of working class jobs in 2022. These include construction and transportation jobs, as well as traditional blue-collar positions in factory production. This map shows the tremendous variation in America's blue-collar workforce, which ranges from more than 45 percent at the high end to just 10 percent at the low end.
The working class will remain the most significant chunk of the workforce in the industrial heartland of the country – the old Midwest and the South, including Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana (46 percent); Dalton, Georgia (44 percent), Houma, Louisiana (40 percent); Odessa, Texas (40 percent); Morristown, Tennessee (39 percent), Decatur, Alabama (36 percent); Longview, Texas (36 percent); and Holland, Michigan (35 percent). Notice how small the working class's job share will be – well below 20 percent – along much of the East and West Coasts. In knowledge hubs like Boston, Washington, and San Francisco, blue-collar jobs will represent just slightly more than 10 percent of all workers. Parts of Florida, Texas, and Las Vegas will similarly have relatively lower proportions of working class jobs. By 2022, blue-collar jobs will make up less and less of the workforce in the old industrial heartland – 19 percent in Buffalo; 21 percent in Pittsburgh; and 21 percent in Detroit.


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Crisis Pregnancy Center Expected to Challenge New NY City Regulation Impeding Work of Women-Helping Centers
Pro-abortion New York Michael Bloomberg signing Bill 371.
It is most encouraging when our faithful readers write with their thoughts on a particular story, and especially when we talk about the NARAL-driven offensive against Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs). Last week we got lots of response to a partial CPC victory.
Federal Judge Deborah K. Chasanow invalidated a portion of a Montgomery County, Maryland, law (modeled after the city of Baltimore law which had been overturned in January) that required CPCs to post signs that strongly suggest pregnant women should go elsewhere for care. Judge Chasanow did uphold part of the law that requires CPCs to have signage (in English and Spanish) that state "the Center does not have a licensed medical professional on staff"– at least until a trial on the law has concluded.
The suit was brought by Centro Tepeyac Women's Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. It is one of four of what are called "limited-service pregnancy centers" affected by the law. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) sued on behalf of the Center on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds.
"We will show that the county has no facts to justify the idea that any signs are needed except the ideological complaints of abortion activists," Matt Bowman, an ADF attorney, told the Gazette newspaper. "There are no facts, no examples of a pregnancy center doing anything but offering real help to women."
Last Wednesday the city of New York took its place in the pro-abortion queue with Bill 371. CPCs are again forced to specifically state in writing the services they do not provide (e.g., abortion) at the same time no comparable requirement is made of New York City's abortion clinics. It adds an additional onerous provision; this blatant abridgement of free speech rights is extended to advertising as well.
Pro-abortion Mayor Michael Bloomberg, insisting he is not pro-abortion, signed the bill into law last Wednesday. Read the Wall Street Journal's account and it's clear Bloomberg knows the law is on shaky legal footing.
"As for the legality of the new law, Bloomberg did not attempt to defend it from charges that it is unconstitutional," wrote the Journal's Michael Howard Saul. "'You can challenge it in court,' he told opponents. 'If it's constitutional or not, I just don't know.'"
"We have been maligned by an activist – [City Council member] Jessica Lapin – who spends her spare time in front of abortion clinics escorting women into abortion clinics," said Expectant Mother Care (EMC) founder Christopher Slattery. "The department of health has never sanctioned us, never given us a visit, never given us a fine, never given us a warning."
In a statement, Slattery added, "For the past 26 years, EMC Frontline has provided real choice for women facing an unplanned pregnancy. We have provided free sonograms, prenatal care, transitional housing, monetary assistance, and even job training in some cases. NYC is attempting to say our strategic alliances with 10 medical clinics and doctor's office is inherently deceptive despite state law which allows these very types of alliances and off-site sonograms programs. We pledge to fight this bill with all means necessary to protect the rights of women and pre-born babies."
EMC is being represented by the American Center for Law & Justice which was expected to file a suit in federal court today.
The City of Baltimore has appealed the January 28 ruling of U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis that struck down a City Council ordinance requiring "limited-service pregnancy centers" to post a sign in their waiting rooms notifying clients that the center "does not provide or make referral for abortion or birth-control services."
"Whether a provider of pregnancy-related services is 'pro-life' or 'pro-choice,' it is for the provider — not the government — to decide when and how to discuss abortion and birth-control methods," wrote Garbis (see "Federal Judge Cites Free Speech in Invalidating Baltimore Pregnancy Center Ordinance," www.nrlc.org/NewsToday/BaltimoreFreeSpeech.html).
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corresponding effect upon the weather of the earth.
Ascendant of the weather chart.
planet making the aspect and the nature of the aspect.
to the weather at that place.
houses influencing the weather in that locality.
equally effective in horary astrology, mundane astrology and weather predicting.
that the weather will be fine.
planets involved in the aspect, but of a type that occurs in the given locality.
violent weather because their aspects, due to slow motion, are more enduring.
place upon each of these four factors.
the fourth, the sign it is in and the aspects it makes, should be considered.
in so far as this 1/8 influence on the weather is concerned.
not enough to bring actual rain–we may look for dark, cloudy and gloomy weather.
Neptune tends toward fog. In general, then, these five planets tend toward dark days.
considered that there are five planets which tend to give a fairly bright sky.
weather charts for the time when it is expected.
circumstances, it tends toward both sunshine and warmth.
whatever rain is shown in the chart. But, of itself, it is a dry planet.
be judged from the chart as a whole.
position or by aspect, never favors dryness.
tends to prevent rain, except when it is part of a combination which indicates storm.
without moderating in any degree the amount of rainfall.
sensitive Ascendant merely loosens such wind as the chart holds.
Middle West are so essential in producing crops.
MARS: Mars is the hot planet, and tends more toward hot weather than any other.
a storm combination in the weather chart, he tends to cause destruction by violence.
releases conditions that are there in spite of his protest.
the Ascendant of the Temperature Chart.
weather. He is not a still planet like the Sun and Neptune, but he is not violent.
dominant, the days on which it does not rain will be gloomy and disagreeable.
unusual violence. More than any other planet, he signifies storm and destruction.
the dryness. Under such conditions he adds to the grief by making it still more dry.
then from cold to hot. In winter or summer he tends to sudden drops of temperature.
violent downpours in which lightning is a prominent feature are typical of his nature.
tends to produce some kind of unusual weather which may, or may not, be cool.
violence of the storm, but brings unusual phenomena.
I have already mentioned how rains of unusual nature are influenced by him.
more than any other planet, brings about peculiar weather conditions.
brings invigorating cool breezes that are decidedly beneficial.
and temperature influences are concerned are the signs of high temperatures.
in comparison with those signs which are calm.
scorch the leaves of growing crops.
produce moderate weather and a still atmosphere.
so quickly as the more copious downpours of Cancer.
Capricorn and Aquarius, but tends to real cold rather than the cool weather of Pisces.
that wind will be an accompaniment.
influence on the Temperature Chart it tends to give low temperatures.
that it can be considered as a sign tending toward calm weather.
in full force for days at a time.
the snow and drive the snow clouds from the sky.
chart, lightning and other violence may be expected.
temperature, either in winter or summer, it tends to cold, dry, windy weather.
such as penetrate clothing and chill one to the bone, are quite characteristic.
influences are strong enough to override this tendency, it adds wind to the storm.
lower temperatures rather than heat.
wind, are enjoyable and favorable for outdoor work.
SCORPIO: Of this sign it may be said that it, more than any other, tends to extremes.
heat. Its influence seems never to be toward moderate temperature.
proportions of tornadoes and hurricanes.
that sometimes accompany the more violent storms of the East and Middle-West.
favors neither clouds nor fog, but tends to make visibility exceptionally good.
for Capricorn to moderate it. Instead, it will make the heat even more disagreeable.
chart, such influence as it has is toward increasing the destructiveness.
increase the fury of a blizzard.
is the exaltation of Venus, its influence in general is not violent, but mild.
whatever windy influences are present.
are seasonable and of marked benefit to the crops.
dominant; for the rain it brings is sufficient to discourage outdoor pleasures.


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Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
The Waiting quantity
The story begins with a mother's confession…sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean War
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story―the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel.
The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn't come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son.
Then seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can't stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother.
Expertly translated from the Korean by the award-winning translator Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim's Grass, which appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.
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Дата рождения: 30 March 1928
Место рождения: Holloway, London
Дата смерти: 6 June 2013
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Thomas Ridley Sharpe was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were both adapted for television.
Born in 1928 in Croydon, Sharpe was an alumnus of Pembroke College, Cambridge, before moving to South Africa for a decade then being deported for sedition for speaking out against apartheid. He returned to England to lecture before spending time between the UK and Spain, writing a series of novels. He died in 2013 from complications of diabetes. His ashes were interred in the graveyard at the remote Northumberland church at Thockrington, where his father had been a preacher.
Sharpe was born in Croydon (or Holloway and brought up in Croydon).[4] Sharpe's father, Rev George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister, who was active in far right politics in the 1930s. Rev Sharpe was chairman of the Acton and Ealing branch of The Link and a member of the Nordic League who declared that he hated Jews "in the sense that he hated all corruption". Sharpe initially shared some of his father's views, but was horrified on seeing films of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Sharpe was educated at Bloxham School, on which he based Groxbourne in Vintage Stuff, followed by Lancing College. He then did National Service in the Royal Marines, before going to Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied history and social anthropology.
Sharpe moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher, before being deported for sedition in 1961. His time in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure, in which he mocks the apartheid regime. He wrote a play, The South African, which was critical of the regime. After it was performed in London, Sharpe was arrested and deported from South Africa.
Upon returning to England, Sharpe took a position as a history lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, later Anglia Ruskin University, which inspired his Wilt series in which he derides popular English culture. From 1995, he and his American wife Nancy divided their time between Cambridge and their home in Llafranc, Spain, where he wrote Wilt in Nowhere. The couple had three daughters. Despite living in Catalonia he did not learn either Spanish or Catalan. "I don't want to learn the language," he said. "I don't want to hear what the price of meat is."
Sharpe died on 6 June 2013 in Llafranc, in Costa Brava, from complications of diabetes. He was 85. He was reported to have been working on an autobiography. He had also been reported to have suffered a stroke a few weeks before his death. Paying tribute, the author Robert McCrum wrote "The Tom Sharpe I knew was generous, acerbic, engaging, and full of wicked fun." Sharpe's editor at Random House, Susan Sandon remarked that he was "witty, often outrageous, always acutely funny about the absurdities of life".
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Ask a guru how to build a better business school
What's the formula for a great business school? Take some high-quality research, add in some exceptional faculty, mix with great international students and wrap in accreditation and rankings. If only it were so easy.
For just over a decade, CarringtonCrisp has been answering this question for business schools around the world. Market research and intelligence have been provided to schools, and work has been undertaken to help them enhance their offer.
Now CarringtonCrisp has teamed up with EFMD to deliver the businessschool.guru service (now the CarringtonCrisp website), making a package of high-quality market research studies available to business schools around the world.
Many schools are aware of the challenges facing their MBA programmes, and recent research has found that the percentage of students seeking full-time MBA study has fallen from just over 50% five years ago to only just over 40% today.
Andrew Crisp, co-founder of CarringtonCrisp, explains: "The guru service is about much more than data. On its own, the data can only take you so far. CarringtonCrisp provides analysis, insight and context from more than a decade of studying business education, bringing the data to life and making it relevant for a business school".
The five market research studies that make up the businessschool.guru service will produce data on alumni, MBAs, MScs, school websites, brand, reputation and marketing.
Whether a school wants to inform its strategy, improve market positioning, develop new degrees or build relationships with alumni, businessschool. guru offers individual school reports alongside global trends for each study.
Add in access to conference presentations, news from the global business education marketplace and a host of other benefits for those running business schools, and you have everything you would expect from a guru.
Eric Cornuel, Director General and CEO of EFMD, comments: "The EFMD/ businessschool.guru strategic partnership builds on our long standing relationship with CarringtonCrisp. For many years we have worked with CarringtonCrisp to provide our members with original research to help them build their business school offer. The businessschool.guru service extends and deepens our relationship with CarringtonCrisp and offers a wealth of insights to our members as they look to the future".
If you are thinking about the recipe for a better business school, a great place to start is to ask a guru.
If you would like to learn more about how this strategic partnership can benefit your school please visit: www.businessschool.guru or contact Andrew Crisp.
If you have any other questions regarding how EFMD is supporting this partnership, please contact Matthew Wood at EFMD.
You can also view the PDF or listen to the podcast.
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In March 2016, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has established the Priority Programme "Geometry at Infinity" (SPP 2026). The programme is designed to run for six years; the present call invites proposals for the second and last three-year period.
This programme combines research in differential geometry, geometric topology, and global analysis. Crossing and transcending the frontiers of these disciplines it is concerned with convergence and limits in geometric-topological settings and with asymptotic properties of objects of infinite size. The overall theme can roughly be divided into the three cross-sectional topics convergence, compactifications, and rigidity.
Examples of convergence arise in Gromov-Hausdorff limits and geometric evolution equations. The behaviour of geometric, topological and analytic invariants under limits is of fundamental interest. Often limit spaces are non-smooth so that it is desirable to generalise notions like curvature or spectral invariants appropriately. Limits can also be used to construct asymptotic invariants in geometry and topology such as simplicial volume or L2-invariants.
Compactifications reflect asymptotic properties of geometric objects under suitable curvature conditions, possibly in a large scale sense. Methods from topology, differential geometry, operator algebras and probability play a role in this study. Important issues are boundary value problems for Laplace or Dirac type operators, both in the Riemannian and Lorentzian setting, as well as spectral geometry and Brownian motion on non-compact manifolds.
Besides continuous deformations rigidity is essential for many classification problems in geometry and topology. It appears in geometric contexts, typically in the presence of negative curvature, and in topological and even algebraic settings. Rigidity also underlies isomorphism conjectures relating analytic, geometric and homological invariants of infinite groups and more general coarse spaces.
Proposals for this Priority Programme should address research questions in geometry at infinity as indicated by (but not restricted to) the above sample topics. Ideally they contribute to establishing an interdisciplinary research environment. It is advisable to state explicitly the relation of the proposed project to the overall programme as well as to other (potential) projects. More detailed information on the thematic focus of the Priority Programme is available at the programme's website.
Proposals for the second three-year funding period have to be submitted starting 5 August and no later than 15 October 2019 via DFG's secured portal "elan".
Principal investigators of projects from the first funding period may submit a renewal proposal for a currently running project by selecting it in the "proposal overview" in "elan", where an option for a renewal proposal is offered. Registered applicants who wish to submit a new project need to select "Proposal Submission – New Project – Priority Programmes", where they will find the programme guidelines (guideline 50.05, in particular, part B), the instructions for preparing project proposals (guideline 54.01) as well as a template (in rtf-format). The proposal has to be structured as shown in the template – however, it is admissible to prepare the proposal as a pdf-file, e. g., using LaTeX, instead of using the rtf-file. The submission process itself can be reached by clicking on "Start online form", followed by selecting "SPP 2026/2".
If you have never before submitted a proposal to DFG through "elan", you need to register in advance. This can be done online by yourself – however, it takes one to two working days to be confirmed by DFG staff. If you need to register, please complete your registration before 10 October 2019. If your contact data in "elan" is outdated, please also update it before that date.
Note that the descriptions of the projects and all CVs need to be prepared in English. Further, DFG's rules for publication lists (guideline 1.91) need to be respected: Beside the general bibliography, every proposal should include a list of up to ten publications by the applicant(s) (and/or members of her/his/their group) that relate directly to the project. Any academic CV submitted to the DFG must not list more than ten publications, which describe best the scientist's profile. Publications in these lists need to be classified as a) refereed publications (published articles and monographs; accepted articles with note of acceptance by the journal) or b) other publications (e. g., preprints on arXiv), which need to be accessible online (please mention the arXiv number or provide links).
A review meeting with reviewers and applicants will be held at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (close to Bonn) on 5 March 2020. Please check the Priority Programme's website for possible additional information which may be communicated there.
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Amazon is known today not just as the everything store, but as the creator of Alexa, one of the most pervasive digital voice assistants on the market today. As an extension of Alexa, Amazon has become more than just a seller of other people's products. It's now a hardware maker (Fire Phone aside), having embarked on its boldest product play since the original Kindle when it decided to develop its own line of smart speakers to house its artificial intelligence software. Once again, the division responsible for this piece of hardware was Lab126, Amazon's hardware arm that gave it the tools to dominate the e-reader market nearly a decade prior.
Fitness guru Billy Blanks entered American homes across the country when he introduced his Tae Bo workout. The creator of the martial art known as Tae Bo, Blanks sought to teach people how they could get more physically fit, be more confident, and do so from the comfort of their own home. The Tae Bo workout has revolutionized the way people get their exercise and provided millions of people access to an easy and effective martial art that they can learn through instructional videos.
The infomercial industry is huge and is worth a staggering $250 billion as of 2015. It all started back in the late 40's and early 50's when major sponsors of serial television programs were soap manufacturers (i.e. Proctor & Gamble, Lever Brothers and Colgate-Palmolive), which is how "soap operas" got their name. There is some controversy although the first infomercial is thought to have been for a blender either made by VitaMix or Waring Blenders and aired in 1949 or 1950. Time limits for commercials were imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not too long after this which halted the growth of infomercials until 1984 when those limits were removed.
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INDATA Launches Portfolio Architect AI
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Industry's first Portfolio Construction, Modeling, Rebalancing and Reporting Solution based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Greenwich, CT – April 10, 2018 – INDATA®, a leading industry provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, today announced the release of iPM Portfolio Architect AI™, the investment industry's first portfolio construction, modeling, rebalancing and reporting solution based on AI and machine learning.
Gartner has listed the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the top three technology trends for asset management firms. "Portfolio managers need a seamlessly integrated front office that provides a single real-time global position and enables them to react to changes in the market with speed and agility,"1 wrote Ali Merji, Research Director.
Architect AI leverages natural language as well as voice capabilities to perform complex workflows rapidly, which allows portfolio managers to work more efficiently, effectively reducing the number of steps in a given process and minimizing the reliance on complex software coupled with external spreadsheets that dominate many of today's front office workflows. The system also utilizes machine learning as well as deep learning to tailor and optimize the portfolio management process for the individual needs of each firm and their unique investment strategies.
A web-based solution, Architect AI is available as a native cloud application with both private (via iPM Cloud) and public cloud versions offered, in addition to in-house deployments. Architect AI is based on open APIs, which can be integrated into most environments. According to Gartner, "cloud accessibility and APIs will enable organizations to leverage AI capabilities in pilot and production deployments."2
Another key competitive advantage of architect AI is that it leverages iPM Epic, which is based on big data technology. Effective AI solutions require significant data, which can be both structured and unstructured, to build and train data models. Using Architect AI in conjunction with iPM Epic, INDATA clients are able to create effective data models for their own firms and benefit from the current and future efficiencies created through the application AI and machine learning. With INDATA taking care of the underlying technology that makes everything work, small and medium-sized firms can now also reap the benefits of AI, in addition to larger firms.
"We are extremely excited to launch Architect AI, which is the culmination of extensive developments in our iPM Cloud and iPM Epic products," commented David J. Csiki, President of INDATA. "While cutting edge in nature, Architect AI is a practical solution that delivers tangible ROI for investment managers allowing them to maximize productivity while minimizing costs, which is essential in today's markets where active managers can now deploy technology to improve the bottom line," he added.
For more information on INDATA's product offering, visit www.indataipm.com
1 Gartner, Top Three Technology Trends for Asset Management CIOs to Address in 2017 and Beyond, Ali Merji, 14 March 2017.
2 Gartner, Artificial Intelligence Primer for 2018, Whit Andrews, Tom Austin, 15 January 2018.
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About INDATA®
INDATA is a leading specialized provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, including trade order management (OMS), compliance, portfolio accounting and front-to-back office delivered via iPM Epic® – the industry's first investment technology platform specifically designed for the era of big data and iPM Portfolio Architect AI™, the industry's first portfolio construction, modeling, rebalancing and reporting tool based on AI and Machine Learning. INDATA's iPM – Intelligent Portfolio Management® technology platform allows end users to efficiently collaborate in real-time across the enterprise and contains the best of class functionality demanded by sophisticated institutional investors. The company's mission is to provide clients with cutting edge technology products and services to increase operational efficiency while reducing risk and administrative overhead.
INDATA provides software and services to a variety of buy-side clients including asset managers, registered investment advisors, banks and wealth management firms, pension funds and hedge funds. Assets under management range from under $1 billion to more than $100 billion across a variety of asset classes globally. For more information, visit www.indataipm.com or follow us on Twitter: @indataipm
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Simply Well is located in down town Carlisle on the first block of South Pitt Street. We are housed in the Noble Mansion c. 1800 which has a stone exterior and two white columns in the front of the building. Church Ave runs along side our building which leads to our parking lot. We offer three parking spaces in front of our garage as well as 16 spaces right next to the garage. You can enter the building through the front door or the back door.
Once inside, you'll walk through the foyer. Eric Klinedinst D.C., Sherry Raymond LMT, Ashley McDermott LMT, Dave Bender LMT, Valerie Domenici PhD, Judy Prescott D.Ed, Karen Capone LPC, and Joe Schaefer, M.AmSAT are all located on the bottom floor of Simply Well. Upstairs, we have Michele Landis who owns the yoga studio, as well as Dana Souders LMT.
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Two bonds open; save capital gains tax
6 min read . Updated: 12 Dec 2010, 08:40 PM IST Bindisha Sarang
TaxGautam NayakRECNHAIHDFC BankSachin VasudevaMoney MattersEquities
The profit on the piece of real estate you sold last month makes a nice fat bulge in the savings account. You find yourself just logging in to your online banking account to see the number of zeros and scrolling to the SMS that pinged once the money got credited to your account. But the call from your financial planner telling you that you'll lose 20% of that to tax is that niggle in the corner of your joy spreading its darkness around. But wait. There is a way to erase this little patch of unhappiness as well. You can use a legal shelter to save tax due on long-term (at least three years) profit of up to ₹ 50 lakh on real estate. Sell smartly and this number can double. Read on to know more.
The difference between the price at which you buy and the price at which you sell is the profit. If you held the property for less than three years, the profit gets added to your income, but hold on for three years and you pay 20% as long-term capital gains (LTCG). But even this can be saved by investing in bonds specified under section 54 EC of the Income-tax Act.
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Says Gautam Nayak, a Mumbai-based chartered account, "There are two bonds that are currently eligible under section 54EC. They are bonds from Rural Electrification Corp. Ltd (REC) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)."
To get the benefit of investing in these bonds, the property you have needs to be residential, flat or independent house, and has to be held for a minimum of three years to qualify for LTCG.
Bond details
Who can invest? Apart from resident individual, Hindu Undivided Families and non-resident Indians and approved institutions can also invest in these bonds.
Availability: These bonds are available on till 31 March. The issuers of the bond have the right to close the issue any time before this date. Says S.K. Chauhan, manager (finance and account), NHAI, "These bonds are available on private placement and are currently open to retail investors. The instrument is not listed." You can hold these bonds in both demat and physical forms.
Where to buy? You can download the forms from www.nhai.org and www.recindia.nic.in or get them from authorized banks. You will need to deposit the forms along with required documents and funds at any authorized bank across the country.
Chauhan says, "NHAI bonds application forms can be deposited at any branch of Union Bank of India and IDBI Bank Ltd, and select branches of other authorized banks." For instance, select branches of HDFC Bank Ltd accept the application for bonds of both REC and NHAI.
Tenor and redemption: Both the bonds are available for three years. A senior officer of REC, who did not want to be identified as he is not permitted to speak to the media, says, "With REC bonds, the redemption will happen at par (you get what you invest) at the end of three years from the date of allotment and these are non-transferrable bonds. Also, once you submit the application, you cannot withdraw."
The NHAI bond, too, is fully redeemed at par on maturity of three years. These bonds are not only non-transferrable and non-negotiable, you can't keep them as security against any loan or advance.
Interest rates: Currently, both the bonds are giving an interest rate (coupon rate) of 6%, payable annually. NHAI bonds will pay the interest on 31 March every year. In case of REC, the interest will be paid on 30 June every year.
Investment amount: You can invest a minimum of ₹ 10,000 and a maximum of ₹ 50 lakh. The face value is ₹ 10,000 per bond and you can buy up to 500 bonds.
Allotment: "The allotment happens on the last date of each month in which the subscription amount is realized and credited into the institutes account," says Chauhan. But it would take around 45 days for the bond to reach you through post.
Tax: The good thing about these bonds is that no tax is deductible at source on the interest they pay. But the interest earned on these bonds is taxable. You will need to pay tax on the interest income.
Other details: You can hold them in the name of a single holder as well as on joint basis. In case you make separate applications, individually or jointly, the aggregate investment should not exceed ₹ 50 lakh, or both of you may lose the benefit under section 54 EC.
The bonds also offers a nomination facility. In case of death of one of the joint holders, the name of the deceased holder can be deleted from the bond. Also, transmission of bonds to legal heirs is permitted in case of the death of the holder.
Exemption under section 54 EC can be claimed only if you have made capital gains. Says Sachin Vasudeva, senior partner, SC Vasudeva and Co. Chartered Accountants, "Investment under section 54 EC is permissible only in case of LTCG. As per the said section, the capital gains have to be invested in the bonds and the deduction its allowed to the extent of the amount invested."
Therefore, if you've made LTCG of, say, ₹ 30 lakh and invested it, the amount will be exempt from tax. But if you invest only a part, say ₹ 10 lakh, you will get an exemption only on ₹ 10 lakh; you will have to pay LTCG tax on the remaining ₹ 20 lakh.
However, to avail the exemption, the investment needs to be made within a specified period from the date of gains. "The investment has to be made within six months of occurrence of LTCG in order to be eligible to claim the exemption benefit under section 54 EC," says Nayak.
Though you can invest a maximum of ₹ 50 lakh and that too within six months of the transfer of the asset, you can increase your benefit if your LTCG exceeds ₹ 50 lakh, the maximum investible permitted. "Say your LTCG of ₹ 1 crore arises in the month of January, you can invest the maximum amount of ₹ 50 lakh up to 31 March and can invest the remaining ₹ 50 lakh in April, since the limit is for investment per year, and not exemption per year."
This is applicable, if your six-month limit falls in between two fiscal years. So if you manage to sell your property after October any year, you can actually double your tax benefit.
Who should invest
If you sell a property and you do not need the funds for three years, these bonds work for you as they help you save tax.
Says Vasudeva, "The rate of tax on capital gains is 20%." This means that 20% of the LTCG has to be paid as income tax. For instance, on an LTCG of ₹ 1 crore, your tax liability comes to ₹ 20 lakh.
Says Nayak, "When you invest in these bonds, you straightaway get a benefit of 20% as tax exemption." By investing ₹ 50 lakh in one fiscal year, you can save ₹ 10 lakh—as tax exemption—since this is the amount you would have paid as tax if you did not invest in these bonds.
Therefore, in a way, you are investing only ₹ 40 lakh. On maturity, you get back your principal of ₹ 50 lakh on maturity (an effective appreciation of ₹ 10 lakh in three years since you didn't pay tax) and also earn an interest of 6% per annum.
Nayak says, "With these bonds, the risk is minimum. You don't need to track them on a regular basis either nor do you need to pay any kind of brokerage. It's a good investment avenue to save tax on LTCG especially for anyone who is risk averse."
So if you have made long-term capital gains, now is the time to invest and save tax. Remember, the issuer can close the bond issue before the last date.
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Weddings are considered to be one of the best days of your life as it is the day you get married and become one with your true love. It is a sacred ceremony worth keeping for the rest of your life; and, in weddings, you would really want to keep memories by having pictures and videos taken.
For this topic, we share with you some wedding slideshow software and some common features these kinds of software have in order to give you an idea of what software to use in making your own slideshow, which you will be showing during your wedding reception or collection to keep. You can search for more Video Slideshow Software on the web.
Most slideshow software have the basics for making your own slideshows such as having clip art and text tools to label your pictures and give decorations for your pictures and other effects for you to choose to make improvements on your slideshow pictures as well.
Other slideshow software also have photo adjustment tools like the option to adjust your brightness and cropping tools to get rid of unwanted objects or subjects. These kinds of software are easy to use as they don't require much time to master which means anyone is able to learn and use the software right away.
Some advanced slideshow software also have intro and credit options for you to place in credits and title designs for your slideshows. Other advanced software even have photo booth options for you to use on your wedding day for you and your guests to have fun. Another tool most advanced software also have are different slideshow templates ready for you to use.
Other users prefer to use an advanced Video Slideshow Maker as it gives you more tools and features to do specific editing on your slideshows, as well as let you make more detailed adjustments to your slideshow pictures.
Other slideshow making software have backup features to save your files which makes it convenient for you to continue where you last left and also helps you recover your files in case your computer breaks down. Some software lets you edit the time and gives you transition effects to use for your slideshows as well.
Some slideshow software also gives you features on adding music to your your slideshow background for a more decorative slideshow, another feature which most slideshow editing software have these days is the ability to make a high-definition output on your slideshows so that video quality will be pleasing to look at.
Most of these software are easy to use which have drag and drop features for you to avoid being confused on using specific tools and options on placing an item in your slideshows. Other tools which some slideshow software provide you are filters to use on improving your slideshows and visual effects.
All slideshow making software have CD burning tools for you to burn your slideshows on CD's and DVD's to give as wedding souvenirs, for personal use, or collection to your memories. Most of these software are free to download so that you can try its different features, and most of these software do not consume much space and don't need much computer specifications to perform properly. You can also search for more Flash Slideshow Maker software on the web.


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The dust settles and WHAT a weekend to look back on. Time for me to share my memories of this fantastic event - the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival 2014 held in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK.
A slow start for me heading up to Huddersfield on what should have been a 90 minute journey. My thanks go out to the Department Of Transport for kindly laying on road works on every single stretch of road on my route, meaning my trip was more like 200 minutes. I arrived, road weary but immediately uplifted in the hotel bar seeing many old friends, main stage acts and thoughts of a night in the town.
The (un) official opening evening for the festival was arranged for the Head Of Steam pub in Huddersfield - a smashing real ale venue that had been the choice of a range of pre festival events for the GNUF team during the summer. On arrival I was greeted to a completely full front room that was already in full swing with a uke jam in progress.
Some beers later and the evening entertainment started with some beautiful playing from Lionel K Hubert in solo mode, and thereafter, the stage was taken over by other GNUF acts giving it what for.
So, early start and a trek down to the Town Hall with a bunch of loan ukuleles that have featured on this blog that I needed to hand back. Wristbands picked up, hellos to the organising team. Its when you look into the programme that you realise just how much was actually going on this weekend. My apologies in advance, but I cannot include everyone in this diary. I really wanted to get a broad view of the variety at GNUF this year so please don't take it to heart if you are a workshopper or performer and I couldn't fit you in!
GNUF were keen this year to introduce more acts and another venue to the festival so had introduced the Festival Fringe, taking place at a rather wonderful record store in Huddersfield. The Fringe was also FREE to locals and really did create a kind of inclusive vibe to the event across the town. I managed to get there in time for Dead Mans Uke who absolutely blasted the place with a superb set. You may have seen pictures of them on this site, but you have to go see them - its only when their music starts and Jakes bass kicks in that you will really 'get it'. The venue was rammed and their reception was hot. Other artists on the Fringe Stage included Peter Moss, Lionel Hubert, Phil Doleman, Ukulelezaza and Michael Adcock, but with my young daughter in tow it was time for her lunch and for me to return to the HQ before the main stage opened.
This also gave me time to pop my head into a few workshops (and there was some serious variety here too - not just how to play lessons, but really interactive stuff like learning to play and sing with Tricity Vogue and The Mersey Belles, or making your own recording with the Mother Ukers). I also had a bit of time now to explore the Market place - a must for any uke festival. Such beautiful instruments on display - I could have spent a fortune. Sadly for me I am keeping the collection static for the time being, but I did come away with some loan ukes that will be featuring on the reviews section in the near future!
Opening the main stage were 'Some Like It Ossett' comprising Tony Casey from the GNUF team plus Jacqui Wicks, Joe Grant- Mills and Ralph Dartford. They went down extremely well and have a smashing sound. Then an act that will be featuring on Got A Ukulele very soon in the form of the Mersey Belles with their absolutely top drawer close harmony singing. In fact, as you will read on below, they offered their singing skills to festival visitors with their singing workshop too.
Next up, an act who I was really pleased had come to GNUF. I last saw Krabbers at N'Ukefest 2014 and his beautiful (and funny) songs were really appreciated by the audience and sounded just great.
Closing the first half of the concert were a band I have been dying to see for years - Mother Ukers. I think a lot of the audience may not have known what to expect here, but the reception they were given was tremendous. And why was that? Well they just exude energy, fun and talent. Pop covers like you have not heard before! Loved it.
A short break and then an act I have also been wanting to see for a long time. I first hooked up with Tricity Vogue some years ago on this site, but had never seen her perform live. This year she was at GNUF with her 'All Girl Swing Band' and WOW. Just WOW. They absolutely lit up the room with their sound, talent and energy. Originals, retro styled pop numbers and the wonderful tap dancing of Josephine Shaker (at one point dressed as a penguin!) blew the audience away. A REAL highlight of my festival weekend with no doubt.
You know how a good festival should have one of those artists who just captures the room? Well say hello to Zoë Bestel who had the audience open mouthed with the quality of her performance and sublime vocals. Seriously people, watch this space with Zoë as she will be going on to much much bigger things in a very short space of time, I am sure of it. No word of a lie, there were people in the audience in tears.
Next up, a man who is probably the most experienced performer at the festival in Mr Andy Eastwood. Dare I use the word 'extravaganza'? Andy is a multi instrumentalist (in fact I am not sure there is much he CAN'T play) who put on a high energy performance which left the audience speechless. There are those who just pin the act as a 'Formby thing' but that misses out SO much. Yes he plays a banjolele, but you need to hear his work on wooden uke, violin and more. Mesmerising musicianship.
Finally, the Saturday headliner, Del Rey. I have known who Del Rey is, but I will be honest and state that I had not seen much of her work on video. I am so glad she was there though. Appearing on stage with Adam Franklin this was a set of such talent, mainly on resonator instruments, but also guitars, or both. If you like your fingerpicked jazz and blues with style and humour this was the set for you. I totally adored it.
And finally - an all star jam saw the performers re join the stage for a hugely fun play out to the end of the night.
There was me thinking Sunday was a quieter day. Could not have been more wrong!
Back to the Town Hall for the opening session on the main stage with a 'Mashup' of performances between the musical acts which was huge fun. Then on to a performance from a trio of guys I am proud to call good friends - Chonkinfeckle! I could blog about how Tim got to bed at about 8.00am that day before needing to get to soundcheck for 10.30, but I won't (oops). Yet, they delivered a belting set - in fact they just get better and better the more I see them. This year they were joined on stage on tub bass by GNUF team member Paul McCann and Mia Lynch (her first time on stage) for a couple of songs and got a great reception from the crowd.
Next up, more good friends in the shape of The Anything Goes Orchestra. They tore the roof off the venue in their GNUF 2013 show did so again this year. They perform such a lively and tight set it really is hard not to dance (either in your seat, or in this case in the aisles and in front of the stage). Electric performance with good humour and great songs.
A quick but important word here about Heidi Bang Tidy, the compere for the weekend, and who was the perfect choice. So funny, and equally happy to joke at audience members as she was with performers. She just sparkles and keeps the thing moving with lots of style and good laughs. She even came down to the aisle during the TAGO set to dance with my 4 year old daughter... (her highlight of the whole weekend!).
And with that, the Town Hall came to a temporary close as the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain had arrived. Not only did they need to sound check, but they were also running a workshop in the hall. But that didn't mean that the festival came to a close.
Just outside the Huddersfield Gallery and library, Space to Create had set up a marquee at the Piazza where more performances took place including shows from Ben Rouse (blistering) and Vonck and Vlam (spellbinding) amongst other workshops and open mic slots.
As for this blogger, my day was not over as I had been asked to join the judging panel for the Mersey Belles busk off performance. Earlier in the festival the Belles had each worked separately with two workshop groups to learn and perform 'Tonight You Belong To Me'. Each group had been taught the vocal part of one of the Belles, and then came together to perform the whole song. I think they thought of me as a Simon Cowell type (grumpy blogger that I am), but in reality their performances were superb and it was huge fun to be a part of.
5pm brought the act that all had been waiting for - the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain. Sadly for me, a combination of being dead on my feet and day job commitments the next morning meant I had to bid my farewell to Huddersfield. Needless to say though, social media this morning has been FULL of compliments for their amazing set to close the festival. They even ended up performing in the hotel bar with other festival goers and performers. How cool?
So GNUF 2014 closes. In my book this one topped last year, and in fact has topped any uke festival I have been to. It's all about the 'feel' that the organising team put onto the event and a very clever choice of acts and mix of workshops and ideas. This is far more than just a hall you turn up to and watch some ukulele performances. There were things at every turn, and acts to delight all sorts of tastes. And of course there were NO egos here. The main acts really threw themselves into affairs and mingled and mixed with the crowds. I for one was so pleased to catch up with old friends and make new ones, and having had a bit of an iffy ukulele time recently the very warm words from many mean an awful lot to me. Well done to all of the organisers of this event and long may it continue!
In fact, as for it continuing - the date has been set for 2015 already with a return to Huddersfield on 22-24 May! Early bird tickets are now available on the link below! And what a line up it looks to be - Manitoba Hal, Aaron Keim, Sarah Maisel and Craig Chee, Phil Doleman, Zoë Bestel, Chonkinfeckle, Dead Mans Uke and many more.
It was an amazing weekend - as a volunteer I got to see a different side to the event, and was fortune enough to go into all of the 6 Workshops I was registering people into... I have learned an incredible amount about playing my Uke better, different styles, tips, techniques and even physical Uke comedy with the fantastic Vonck and Vlam who, along with the Mother Ukers, are the 2 performances I am gutted to have missed. ALL of the performances I saw were excellent, I have left rocking like Ben Rouse, boogyfied by Tricity Vogue, and a little bit in love with the Mersey Belles, and especially in awe of the Ukes - although they gave me some wonderful tips to help me get a lot better than I was before the weekend.
I could go on for a very long time, but I'll stop here. A fabulous, fantastic, fun and funky weekend. I love GNUF!
Nice resume Barry hope you can catch up on sleep !
No problem at all Jeff - thanks!
Looks like I will have to cross the pond for this one next year!