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Politics | February 12, 2015
10 Unlikely Political Friendships And Alliances
J. Francis Wolfe
Politics makes strange bedfellows. When there are goals that must be accomplished, differences can be set aside to reach common ground despite clashing ideologies or vastly different opinions. What follows are some of the unlikeliest alliances and friendships ever forged in the arena of politics.
10Jackie Robinson & Richard Nixon
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Jackie Robinson is among the most recognizable figures in the history of civil rights, first for breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947 and then for devoting the remainder of his life to the movement. Given his total dedication, it seems difficult to believe that Robinson staunchly supported Richard Nixon and not John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. Robinson publicly endorsed Nixon, saying that he believed that Kennedy was "insincere" in his commitment to the civil rights cause.
He continued to support Republican candidates until 1964, when the party tapped Barry Goldwater over the Robinson-backed Nelson Rockefeller. Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act, and Robinson ultimately voted for Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
When Nixon ran for president again in 1968, Robinson and Nixon's political friendship ended. Robinson was angered by Nixon's association with Senator Strom Thurmond, a "Dixiecrat" from South Carolina who had continually supported segregation. Robinson instead supported Hubert Humphrey on account of his long history of support for civil rights. (Nixon's political friendship would not be the last odd alliance he formed, however, as he appears again on this list.)
9Jim Jones & Harvey Milk
It seems unlikely that the man ultimately responsible for the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberately planned act (until the attacks of September 11, 2001) would become an ally of one of the more revered political activists of the 1970s, but such was the case between Jim Jones and Harvey Milk in San Francisco. Milk courted Jones's support during one of his many initial campaigns, and Jones's followers at the Peoples Temple assisted Milk in distributing campaign materials.
Milk reached out to Jones via letter, saying, "Our paths have crossed. They will stay crossed. It is a fight that I will walk with you into. The first time I heard you, you made a statement: 'Take one of us, and you must take all of us.' Please add my name."
Even though Milk's letter contained the "kind of awed reverence that the cult leader demanded from his followers," he remained wary of Jones and told his supporters to be very careful around the Peoples Temple.
8Hunter S. Thompson & Pat Buchanan
Photo credit: Miami Dade College, Bbsrock/Wikimedia
If one were to bring up Richard Nixon in the company of Hunter S. Thompson, it is very likely that some very colorful language—and quite possibly the threat of violence—would follow. Thompson hated Nixon with a passion, so it's odd that Thompson and one of Nixon's closest advisers—Pat Buchanan—considered each other friends. Buchanan was with Nixon from the mid-'60s all the way to the end of the Watergate scandal, so Buchanan's connection to Nixon was far from minor.
Thompson once referred to Nixon as "a political monster straight out of Grendel," who could "shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time." And that was among the nicer things he wrote about him.
Thompson said on multiple occasions that he "admires" Pat Buchanan, recognizing the "quality in the enemy." Give the "Good Doctor" credit for being able to look past one's associates when making a character assessment.
7Pat Moynihan & Richard Nixon
Photo via: Brookings Institution
After hearing a speech delivered by Moynihan titled "The Politics of Stability," Nixon and his staff recruited the Harvard and MIT professor—a Democrat—to become the assistant to the president for urban affairs. The staff job was considered politically risky given the proximity with which Moynihan and President Nixon would be working. Thanks to the union, however, Moynihan "managed to persuade Nixon to embrace a much more liberal approach to welfare than most of his White House team would ever have supported."
Stephen Hess, who authored a book detailing the unusual political pairing, has referred to Moynihan and Nixon as the "the oddest couple that you could imagine." Part of the reason that the relationship worked so well, at least according to Hess, was Moynihan's treatment of Nixon as an intellectual. He convinced Nixon to adopt policy that was "historic," a strategy of flattery that ultimately transformed welfare in a way that would have not otherwise been possible.
6Sheriff Bob Braudis & Hunter S. Thompson
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It is indeed rare that a man running for sheriff would find himself an ally in the county's most infamous outlaw, but such was the case with Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis and Hunter S. Thompson. Braudis ran for the position of sheriff in 1986 and won, a position that Thompson had also unsuccessfully run for over a decade before.
When Thompson campaigned for sheriff, Braudis's predecessor openly declared that charging Thompson with law enforcement would lead to more murder. Thompson shaved his head bald and referred to his adversary Carrol Whitmire—who had a crew cut—as his "long-haired opponent." He promised to rename Aspen "Fat City" to deter developers from capitalizing on the name "Aspen."
While Whitmire and Thompson failed to see eye to eye, Braudis and Thompson not only found common ground—they established a quarter-century-long friendship. According to Thompson, Braudis was the only police officer in the United States to "speak Latin, downhill ski like the ghost of Jean-Claude Killy, and discuss Aristotle while making pat-down arrests," while going on to describe him as "a freak at heart with the morality of Saint Francis of Assisi. No chickens—t stuff like sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. As a cop, his judgments are judicial and therefore honorable . . . He's the [kind of] righteous knight that Clarence Darrow would have saluted."
5Aleksei Kudrin & Aleksei Navalny
Photo credit: Radio Free Europe
Russian politician Aleksei Navalny has been at the center of a great deal of unrest in Russia of late. Currently under house arrest after receiving a suspended sentence for allegations of embezzlement, Navalny was the leader of demonstrations against Russian president Vladimir Putin several years ago, which is why it is strange that he would find himself aligned with a close friend of Putin's.
Aleksei Kudrin served as finance minister before resigning from the position in 2011. In 2012, he criticized the Kremlin for the use of what he termed "confrontational rhetoric" toward opponents of those currently in power. Kudrin's assertion was strange considering his past association with Putin and the Kremlin, and he has continued to support Navalny while criticizing the authorities. Most recently, he said, "The authorities could have easily put Navalny in jail. But they understand that it would have led to a large wave of protests. So they will torture him through other means."
4Teacher Unions & The Tea Party
Contention over the Common Core education mandates has resulted in some very unlikely political alliances. The typically Democratic-leaning teachers unions have found an unlikely ally in the staunchly conservative members of the Tea Party in the fight against the Common Core federal mandates.
In most cases, teachers unions support federal mandates, such as those in support of special education and other programs. In the case of the hotly debated Common Core, however, the teachers union agrees with the Tea Party that the federal government should not intervene when it comes to designing the curriculum or in gauging student progress according to standardized testing. Common Core did not create just one odd political alliance, as President Barack Obama has also found himself oddly aligned on the issue with the massive energy corporation Exxon-Mobil and the US Chamber of Commerce.
3Mario Cuomo & Rudy Giuliani
Photo credit: Liberal Party of New York
Mario Cuomo, then seeking a fourth term as the Democratic governor of New York, found an unlikely ally in Rudy Giuliani, the first Republican mayor of New York City since John Lindsay in 1966. (Lindsay eventually switched to the Democratic Party while still in office.) It was quite unlikely that Giuliani would privately support Cuomo, let alone publicly endorse him in his campaign, so it came as quite a surprise when Giuliani announced that he was backing Cuomo instead of the Republican candidate George Pataki.
Part of the reason for Giuliani's support of Cuomo was their shared contempt for then-Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who was seen as an ally of Pataki. Giuliani would later say of Pataki that his "only essential characteristic is that he offers an alternative," and that Pataki "best personifies the status quo of New York politics—a candidate taking as few positions as possible, all of them as general as possible, taking no risks and being guided and scripted by others. He has simply not made the case that he is the agent of change."
2George W. Bush & Ted Kennedy
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The political friendship between George W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts began with an agreement over an education bill in 2002, and it continued on for the remainder of Bush's years in the White House. Bush, a Republican president, and Kennedy, a liberal Democrat, formed quite an unlikely pairing that ultimately yielded many common-ground compromises while also producing bitter acrimony at times.
Kennedy disagreed loudly with the president's actions relating to Iraq, the poor response to Hurricane Katrina, and tax cuts, but these disagreements did not prevent Kennedy and Bush from working together numerous times throughout the Bush presidency. The pair forged ahead on issues such as education and immigration, and Bush jokingly remarked that "the folks at the Crawford [Texas] coffee shop would be somewhat in shock when I told them I actually like the fellow."
1Chevron & Argentina
Argentina does not exactly have a history of welcoming foreign investors, particularly those whose environmental record is spotty. Despite this, Argentina and Chevron found themselves aligned due to the presence of potentially rich oil reserves in a field called Vaca Muerte.
Argentina's past relations with foreign investors was not the only reason that the political alliance seemed odd, as Chevron was still locked in a dispute with Ecuador, an Argentinian ally, over alleged damages to the Amazon rain forest due to oil pollution. The dispute was such that Chevron's asset were frozen for several months, but the chance of a big payoff was so great the Chevron chose to expand in Argentina nonetheless.
The fracking processes used by Chevron had many Argentinians up in arms as well, causing heated demonstrations. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to control protesters. Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, went ahead with the fracking despite opposition from both her critics and her supporters. Kirchner persisted largely due to the country's financial crisis and the hope of a significant windfall from the Vaca Muerte field. The alliance was ultimately successful, as a spokesman with Chevron referred to the Vaca Muerte field as the equivalent of Argentina winning the "geological lottery."
J. Francis Wolfe is a freelance writer whose work can be seen daily at Dodgers Today. When he's not writing, he is most likely waiting for "just one more wave," or quietly reading under a shady tree.
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Bountiful Harvest: Cougars Reap What They Sew
FEATURE STORIES, Girls' basketball, Palmyra
– Week Ending Dec. 31
ALTOONA – There were a lot of great things about the trip – the spontaneity, the companionship, the novelty. But the best thing about it was that no one knew, or cared, where it was going.
The Palmyra girls' basketball team is disappointed that the trip is over. But the Cougars became better student-athletes, better daughters, better people because of it.
On Saturday afternoon at Altoona High School, Palmyra ran into a little more athletic, a little more seasoned club in Thomas Jefferson, and endured a 48-39 season-ending defeat, in the quarterfinals of the PIAA Class AAAAA playoffs. The Cougars competed, performed well and made their regular complement of mistakes, but found its margin for error to be much smaller.
The contest was close throughout, or at least until the potent Jaguars spurted late in the third quarter.
The loss snapped Palmyra's ten-game winning streak – six of which had come in the postseason – and concluded the Cougars season at 18-11. Along the way, the Cougars captured a surprising District Three Class AAAAA championship, reached their true potential and created lifelong memories.
Not too shabby for a squad that was a game away from missing out on the postseason altogether.
Thomas Jefferson, the runner-up out of District Seven, ran its record to 22-7 and barged into Tuesday's semifinal round of the PIAA Class AAAAA tournament.
"We had so much momentum behind us," said Palmyra head coach Mary Manlove. "It was like, 'Let's see where this can take us.' You don't know where you're going to go. We discovered that throughout the ride. We just pushed ourselves and tried to improve daily. That approach really took them (her players) far.
"We enjoyed it so much," Manlove continued. "We enjoyed the practices so much. We enjoyed the bus rides so much. It was just enjoyable spending time together. They made us all better coaches."
After the Cougars had enjoyed three early one-point leads thanks to baskets from seniors Amelia Baldo and Olivia Richardson, Thomas Jefferson used a 9-2 run to take a 20-12 lead early in the second quarter.
But Katelyn Becker's three-pointer sparked a 9-0 burst that gave Palmyra a 21-20 advantage, with 2:51 left in the first half. Jess St. Clair, Baldo and Zoe Smith all contributed a couple of points apiece during the stretch.
"I thought we played well," said Manlove. "We missed some shots. We didn't have as much poise in the second half as we did in the first.
"If we played this team ten times, we'd have our work cut out for us every single time," Manlove added. "This team was very good. We played dead even with them. It was a battle."
Baldo paced the Palmyra scoring with 12 points, while Becker collected 11. For the Jaguars, Alyssa DeAngelo tallied a game-high 14 points and teammate Jenna Clark pumped in 13.
The Cougars made good on six of their ten free throw attempts.
"I thought she went toe-to-toe with that point guard," said Manlove of Baldo. "We made their bench beat us.
"They're (the Jaguars) good. They can score," added Manlove. "We did our very, very best to keep it close. We had our chances. We didn't play as meticulously as we needed to, to beat a team like that."
Thomas Jefferson netted the first two baskets of the second half to push its three-point halftime margin to 28-21.
Palmyra responded with four straight bench points from Sara Boyer to pull to within 28-25 of the Jaguars. Two minutes later, another three-ball by Becker drew the Cougars to within 32-28 of the lead.
"Credit to them," said Manlove of the Jaguars. "They made some adjustments at halftime. It wasn't as easy for us in the second half. They're so in control. They're so confident. They're a very skilled team. I'd say they're the best team we played this year. We were fortunate to get the (playoff) bracket we did.
"I knew today was going to be very difficult," continued Manlove. "We knew it was going to be a challenge. We knew we were going to have our hands full. We got every look we wanted. We just didn't make shots."
As the fourth quarter opened, the end drew nearer for Palmyra.
A three-pointer by Graci Fairman gave Thomas Jefferson its biggest lead of the contest at 40-30, 16 seconds into the final period. It was a lead the Jaguars matched a minute later, thanks to a Clark lay-in.
On the other side of the floor, the Cougars were suffering through a 4:39 score-less stretch.
"They're a mess," said Manlove of her troops. "It's just so hard. We didn't want it to end. But they knew the last game was going to come. We know how special it is to be one of the last eight teams in AAAAA.
"This group has given me everything I every wanted," added Manlove. "I wish I was on this team (as a player). It's a credit to the kids, a credit to the community and a credit to the administration. It was a fun ride."
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2018-19 Palmyra Girls' Basketball Results
12/75:00p
Ephrata (Ephrata, PA)
(W) 52 – 29
@ Northern Lebanon (Fredericksburg, PA)
12/117:30p
Cedar Cliff (Camp Hill, PA)
Location: Palmyra High School
Bishop McDevitt (Harrisburg, PA)
(L) 47 – 44
Red Land (Lewisberry, PA)
@ Hershey (Hershey, PA)
Location: Hershey High School
Cedar Crest (Lebanon, PA)
12/27TBA
Central Dauphin (Harrisburg, PA)
West York Area (York, PA)
1/512:30a
Lower Dauphin (Hummelstown, PA)
1/8TBA
Mechanicsburg (Mechanicsburg, PA)
1/11TBA
Susquehanna Township (Harrisburg, PA)
1/157:30p
@ Cedar Cliff (Camp Hill, PA)
Location: Cedar Cliff High School
@ Bishop McDevitt (Harrisburg, PA)
Location: Bishop McDevitt High School
@ Wilson (West Lawn, PA)
Game Details: WILSON HIGH SCHOOL, Gym
@ Red Land (Lewisberry, PA)
Location: Red Land High School
Hershey (Hershey, PA)
Susquehannock (Glen Rock, PA)
Milton Hershey (Hershey, PA)
Lampeter-Strasburg (Lampeter, PA)
@ Spring Grove (Spring Grove, PA)
Location: Spring Grove High School
Solanco (Quarryville, PA)
Gettysburg (Gettysburg, PA)
3/93:00p
Pope John Paul II (Royersford, PA)
Game Details: Milton Hershey HS, Hershey
2019 PIAA Girls' Basketball Championship – 5A Girls' Championship
Wyoming Valley West (Plymouth, PA)
Game Details: Martz Hall, Pottsville
Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson Hills, PA)
Game Details: Altoona HS
– Week Ending Dec. 3
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Every agile team is faced with decisions about which requests or user stories to prioritize, and the choice can often be difficult‒especially when we're expected to adapt to rapidly changing requirements.
When working with stakeholders or external team members, the process can be even more stressful as requests build up; stakeholders with competing interests may express disapproval if their requests are not prioritized over others or not completed in the timeframe they desire.
In these situations, it's essential for an agile team to be able to de-prioritize or defer work to a later date, because time and resources are finite while requests can be infinite.
Many stakeholders will regularly check in on the progress of their requests and become frustrated if progress is not made as quickly as they prefer, however, in many cases, there are rational reasons for allowing new requests and work to supersede existing requests.
At some point‒or perhaps even frequently‒your team will need to explain why a request was deferred or de-prioritized, which can become an uncomfortable situation. To help you best prepare for this discussion and explain your decision, here are 10 common reasons why your team may need to de-prioritize a request and some examples of how you can explain your decision.
Possibly the most frequent reason a task has been deferred is that more valuable requests have come up, which represent more value than older requests. Because agile teams are expected to adapt to changing priorities, and we can't complete an infinite amount of work in a finite amount of time, something needs to be pushed a little further down the priority list or roadmap.
To help explain this, start with why the new request is very valuable and important to your users and organization. While it's also important to explain why the older request is not comparatively as valuable, you may want to avoid beginning the conversation with reasons the request was devalued relative to new requests, and focus on the new opportunity being presented.
If the stakeholders care about the users and what's best for your organization, they should understand why it's important to complete newer requests that provide more value to the users you're ultimately building the product for.
Sometimes the requested work will no longer deliver as much value because conditions change. For example, if a stakeholder requested your team build features that help users sort their recyclables into aluminum, plastic and paper, but the government no longer requires sorting of recyclables into categories, the request becomes far less valuable and possibly not valuable at all.
When explaining this scenario to your team, start with explaining the original value proposition (i.e., sorting recyclables), explain what condition changed (i.e., government regulation changed), and then explain how that change reduces the original value proposition (i.e., the change in government regulation reduced the need to sort recyclables).
Let's say you're working on a product focused on college students at a select set of universities, much like Facebook did when it started. You may get requests specific to college students, such as advanced features for managing tuition, securing financial assistance for college and educational curriculum management.
However, your product may evolve the way Facebook did, to serve the entire world's population above a minimum age such as 13 years old. Suddenly, requested features like securing financial assistance for college are only delivering value to a smaller percentage of your users, whereas previously, they benefitted all of your users.
Again, when explaining your decision to de-prioritize the request, explain the original value proposition and what changed to reduce that value proposition, but this time end by explaining how the change decreased the percentage of users who would receive value from completing the request.
Pretty much every roadmap needs to be adapted and modified at some point as product goals shift, and when this happens, there will be requests which are no longer as relevant.
For example, in the social network example above, it's usually a conscious product strategy to shift from focusing solely on a niche market like college students and target a wider audience like the entire global population. During this transition, your current user base may still be college students, but you're attempting to capture new markets with new user bases.
In this case, your explanation should start with what the original value proposition was, then explain the shift in your roadmap, then explain how the original value proposition no longer delivers the same value to your target market‒even if they're not your current users yet.
It's not unusual for a request to be satisfied another way, which makes the original request irrelevant or unnecessary. For example, a stakeholder may have asked you to build an electric scooter, but your team first built an electric bicycle that delivered more value to more users.
Once the electric bicycle was released, users who originally asked for the scooter ended up trying it out, and found that it met most of their transportation and enjoyment needs. Since most people were satisfied with the electric bicycle, they no longer saw urgently needed value in having an electric scooter.
In this scenario, explain the value proposition of the incomplete request, explain the value of the request that was completed, and then explain how the completed request provided the same or similar value to the user and how it decreased the user need for the incomplete request.
As your product changes, introducing new features or bug fixes can become more and more risky, as features and code start depending on other areas of the product.
For example, let's say you're building a publishing website that starts out with just basic blog posts. As your product matures, you develop more features that rely on blog posts‒feeds, categories, comments, tags, social sharing, canonical URLs, preview snippets, advertising and more.
When you were first building the product, someone requested private members-only restrictions on some content. Back when the only feature on the site was blog posts, this seemed pretty straightforward, but now that you've got a bunch of features relying on this core feature, things get a little more risky in terms of what can go wrong.
For example, could secure content introduce problems with SEO meta data, preview snippets, feeds and comments? Could disruptions in feeds be seen as a bug? Could email notifications about comments that are no longer accessible to non-premium members be seen as a bug? What about actual bugs?
For this scenario, the value to the user didn't change so much as the risk presented by implementation. First explain the relatively lower risk of the request in the past, then explain the conditions that resulted in elevating the risk of implementing the request.
Similar to the above example of elevated risk, sometimes the resources needed to support the implementation of a request become elevated over time. A lot of the time, this is due to scale and complexity of the product, as well as user behavior.
For example, unlimited frequency of Excel exports for huge tables of data would be much easier to support if your user base was small and not expected to grow, but if you added a large number of users over time, you may want to put some restrictions on how frequently users can pull data and how large the sets of data can be to avoid crashes that harm all users.
In this scenario, explain the original resources needed to support the request at the time it was submitted, then explain what changed (i.e., user base size) which escalated the difficulty to support the request in the current state of the product.
Sometimes the resources available external to your team change and can better handle requests that were originally submitted to your team.
For example, maybe you were the founding team of developers at your company, which has since expanded to include teams focusing on specific sets of features or markets.
Your team no longer should handle all requests, and it's very likely another team or resource will be more focused and do a better job on the request. Maybe the team of developers handling ecommerce features would be better suited for building out a new shopping cart feature.
In this scenario, explain the new resources that now exist and why they're better suited for handling the request. Sometimes it's developers, but sometimes it could be another resource like more manual workers or skilled workers who can perform data manipulation and custom reports in Excel, for example.
Similar to other examples above, sometimes changes in the product or other external factors make a request more difficult or costly than originally estimated. Going back to the content publishing website example, adding more and more features can make it more difficult to implement additional global features that interact with that newly expanded set of features.
In this case, explain the difficulty of the request when it was originally made, then explain what changed and how that increased the difficulty of implementation.
Whether it's a change in your user base size or a change in user behavior, sometimes requested features just won't be as frequently used as originally anticipated. A common scenario that comes up frequently is around bugs and bug fixes.
For example, you may be working with a video player technology that doesn't support a specific browser as well as another video player, and a stakeholder may request that you change video player technology to better support all browsers because users are seeing too many errors.
However, your user base may shift their behavior and start only using the more widely supported browser, making the frequency of the video player error much lower.
In this scenario, you can explain the original frequency of the problem or need, and then explain what factor changed and led to a decline in the frequency of the problem or need for users.
Telling a stakeholder that their request is no longer as high of a priority as it previously was will rarely make them happy, and they may actually have negative feelings about this news.
However, shifting priorities is a key aspect of every agile team, and ultimately a main driver of what makes us effective and successful.
Hopefully the examples and scenarios in this blog post can help you better prepare for some of those more difficult conversations. Happy de-prioritizing!
Ken Shen Robinson is a senior product manager at Praetorian Digital, where he leads product management for EdTech products that make our communities smarter and safer.


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Average November Early Payment Discount is $120
NOVEMBER 1, 2018 – ORLANDO, FL – Orange County Tax Collector Scott Randolph today announced that 2018 Property Tax Bills have been mailed to property taxpayers in Orange County. Tax bills are due April 1, 2019, but may be paid starting today, November 1. Taxpayers who pay their bills early will receive a 4% discount if paid in November, a 3% discount in December, 2% in January and 1% in February.
For the average Orange County homeowner with an assessed home value of $185,000, the 4% November discount will mean about $120 in savings. Randolph said those savings, which equal about three tanks of gas, are particularly important for middle-class families and seniors.
"For working families, and seniors especially, every dollar counts when it comes to planning the monthly budget," Tax Collector Scott Randolph said. "One-hundred and twenty dollars can go a long way for a lot of families in our community. That's why I encourage everyone who can to take advantage of the early payment discount program."
Last year, nearly 90% of Orange County tax bills received an early payment discount; 68% of bills were paid in November, 13% were paid in December, 4% were paid in January and 3% were paid in February.
Orange County taxpayers can pay their taxes online and sign up to receive Paperless Tax Bills at octaxcol.com.
2018 Orange County Taxes by the Numbers
$2,450,827,581 – Total value of property taxes
446,922 – Tax bills mailed by the Orange County Tax Collector's Office
288,540 – Single-family homes
226,320 – Homesteaded properties
59,633 – Tangible personal property accounts
50,349 – Residential condos
4,279 – Multi-family homes
How Are Taxes Collected?
To ensure a system of checks and balances, the responsibility of setting tax rates, determining property values and collecting taxes are carried out by separate governing entities, each held accountable by the residents for which they serve.
Tax rates are set. The Board of County Commissioners, School Board, City Commissioners and other tax-levying bodies set the millage rate, which is the rate of tax per one thousand dollars of taxable value. Non-Ad Valorem assessments, such as streetlights, sewage and road improvements are levied on a unit basis rather than the value of property.
Property values are determined. The Property Appraiser establishes the value of property in Orange County and approves exemptions, including the homestead exemption. Based on the values and exemptions assessed, the Property Appraiser certifies the Tax Roll to the Tax Collector.
Taxes are collected. The Tax Collector is responsible for mailing tax bills, collecting taxes and distributing revenue to the 63 different taxing authorities in Orange County. The Tax Collector also performs tax certificate sales, collects Tangible Personal Property Taxes and distributes unused fees to the taxing authorities.
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I love it when readers engage with Foxy Monkey content and contribute back. This time, Navjot Singh Walia, an MSc student from Queen Mary University of London asked me to share his essay with my readers.
The quality of the document is very good and I happily agreed.
Without further ado, please grab a cuppa and read the essay. It covers a range of financial topics from Robo Advisors, pros and cons of different ISAs (Stocks & Shares, Cash ISA and Innovative Finance ISA) to a cryptocurrency coins breakdown. Back to Basics!
Advantages of investing with a Robo-Advisor?
which have little to no human intervention".
Betterment was one of the first to launch in 2010, having been founded in 2008 following the financial crash. They have now become one of the biggest, with approximately $10 billion assets under management [source].
clichéd image of a pin-striped suited Independent Financial Advisor (IFA). Robo-Advisors initial purpose was to rebalance the financial eco-system by giving greater power to those with less wealth.
around $4.6 trillion by 2022.
Foxy Monkey comments: Here in the UK, the most popular one is Nutmeg.
portfolio on "automatic", and for investors that have a relatively simple situation".
portfolios for as low as £1.
service as you could with an IFA.
portfolio. There are investment strategies that go beyond algorithms.
Advisors. Therefore, at the higher end of this fee spectrum, the much-talked-about reduction in fees is not quite as impactful.
or expensive for those using IFAs or Wealth Managers.
OFF3R is a great place to compare some of the best Robo-Advisors.
investments of up to £20,000 through ISA is tax-free. That could be cash ISA or Stocks and shares ISA or mix of both.
Higher gains never come without higher risks. There is always a possibility of the investment value to go down as well as up or to be at par with the investment made.
Savers can only open a Lisa if they are between the ages of 18 and 39 inclusive. They can pay up to £4,000 a year, but no more. At the end of the first year, the government will add a 25% bonus, i.e. up to £1,000.
From 2018/19, this bonus will be paid monthly. Since you can continue to pay into a Lisa up until the age of 50, the potential eventual bonus is up to £32,000.
and is the part of £20,000 ISA limit.
See BBC article: The Lifetime Isa: Free money – or just too complicated?
investment of as low as £25 to the maximum limit of £4000.
aka IFISA which contains peer-to-peer loans.
Money invested in IFISA is the part of £20,000 per year allowance. Off3r really is a good place to look into and compare IFISA offered by various different platforms.
cryptocurrency, is not that different.
If only Nakamoto knew what his non-regulated digital peer-to-peer cash system would amount to.
timestamp the transaction in hash nodes.
Moreover, a distributed hash table (DHT) is a class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table: (key, value) pairs are stored in a DHT, and any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value associated with a given key. Unlike having a centralised system doing it, it's the network of peers doing it using Blockchain technology as the support system.
and currency exchange, unlike bitcoin's peer-to-peer currency protocol.
Dash every month as a reward. [Source].
Bitcoin. Whilst, these coins have the most significant market cap, there are approximately 1,400 cryptocurrencies in total, each with their own pros and cons. See coinmarketcap.
the coins of the system).
currencies, thereby mitigating one of the major drawbacks of fiat currency.
or scam another person, as the ledger is fully auditable and open.
No one has the authority to block or freeze a cryptocurrency wallet.
have sufficiently fast networks and servers to support the currencies.
to adapt to the change.
behind the rapid rate at which the cryptocurrency market is growing.
Changing a protocol in a cryptocurrency is another drawback as it is a very long process, but can be improved with community efforts.
reaching a high of $19,343 in December 2017. See coinmarketcap prices.
could lose everything with no right to compensation.
on Crypto Compare and Coinmarketcap.
Bitcoin Madness: Missed the boat already or time for a new era?


According to the official website of the initiative, ideas submitted have raised 23 comments and 670 likes so far. Among the ideas presented by Lisbon's citizens are projects for growing vegetables on rooftops of public buildings, illuminating a monument's façade or launching a website about the city's trees.
Each idea will be published at the initiative's website and left open for public debate and comments, according to the organisers. Ideas should fit one of 13 thematic areas, including culture, education, social rights or green structures. Detailed rules can be found here.


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Hôtel Le Belleval: Paris, France
February 4, 2019 By
Hôtel Le Belleval, built circa 1870, retains its typically Haussmannien style with stone façade, framed windows and balconies. Lobby with seating unit: Below the glass "bubble" chandelier by Gallotti&Radice is a four-part, 1870s couch found at a flea market and reupholstered in leather.
On the outside, Hôtel Le Belleval, in Paris's eighth arrondissement, appears to be a typical construction of the sort commissioned by Emperor Napoléon III as part of his urban-renewal program directed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann between 1853 and 1870. With a stone façade, iron balconies and rich window frames, if it were not for the traffic outside, guests might easily imagine themselves in that era.
Open the front door of Le Belleval, however, and the calendar pages leap forward 150 years. Designed by French architect/interior designer Jean-Philippe Nuel, known worldwide for his 4- and 5-star hotels, Le Belleval, "combines references and trends to create a contemporary communal space as opposed to a frozen backdrop," as he puts it. The corner of the lobby with 2 chairs at left are illustrative of the hotel's design. Generations apart, yet complementary, one chair is a classic fauteuil, the other, contemporary. Bar: Below a traditional ceiling dating from the 1800s, the bar features a one-of-a-kind mosaic artwork. While created using traditional methods, the unusual layout gives it a modern edge.
Nuel explains that contrary to buildings where inside and outside are "homogenous," he consciously made them different here, pointing out such interior details – in both public spaces and guestrooms – as the anthracite-stained raw wood, printed wallpaper, furniture styles from both 19th and 21st centuries and boldly patterned rugs that create a relaxed look, "a unique and vibrant harmony."
Combining these modern treatments with the original columns, ceilings imbued with sublime moldings and walls renovated following the Haussmannien model, he says, "For me, it's the opposite of a stereotypical approach without soul."
Built about 1870, and named for a famous botanist, also the personal physician of Henri IV and Louis XIII, Pierre Richer de Belleval, the hotel is now airily furnished with pieces accentuating the sleek lines favored by today's crop of French, Italian, Croatian and Danish master craftsmen. The look is simple and easygoing, designed as much, Nuel says, for Parisians as for visitors from abroad.
Anthracite-painted doors lead into the hotel's restaurant, known for its fresh, organic cuisine. Opening onto the street, the restaurant's furniture exudes a relaxed mood to coincide with today's lifestyle. Area rugs dot the cement floor.
Key to Nuel's design is the mélange of textures. In addition to area rugs scattered upon cement floors, and a variety of upholstery fabrics – from leather to rattan – are the customized mosaic pieces created by renowned mosaicist Delphine Messmer and frescoes by artist Gola Hundun.
A short walk to such landmarks as the Louvre, Champs-Élysées and Sacré-Coeur, as well as favored shopping, Le Belleval offers 52 guest rooms, a fitness center in what looks like an ancient wine cave, garden, bar and restaurant.
Like Paris itself, Hôtel Le Belleval offers two versions of itself, yesterday and today, under one roof.
All photography by Nicolas Mathéus.
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Horsing Around with the Arts, von Stade Gallery. Grades 8-12: On display from May 2-28, 2018.
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame presents the second student art show of the 24th annual juried exhibition. Artwork by area schoolchildren featuring an equine or Thoroughbred racing theme is displayed within the Museum's von Stade Gallery for this annual spring event. For more information on this educational program, please click here.
Support for this exhibition was generously provided by Price Chopper.
Fabulous and Fast: the female horses of the Hall of Fame, Contemporary Racing Gallery.
On display from April 3, 2019 through December 31, 2019.
**Please note: the Steeplechase Gallery will be closed until Memorial Day for renovations.
Photo Finish: juried photography exhibition, von Stade Gallery, January 19 to March 9, 2019. Online exhibition available through December 31, 2019.
Paintings from the Charles H.
Hall of Fame Heroes, McBean Gallery. **Please note: the McBean Gallery will be closed until Summer 2019 to prepare for new exhibitions.
Man o' War at 100, Contemporary Racing Gallery.
On display from March 29, 2017 through February 3, 2019.


There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Live by choice, not by chance. Make changes, not excuses. Be motivated, not manipulated. Work to excel, not compete. Listen to your own inner voice, not the jumbled opinions of everyone else. This is the way to inspire people! This is how you can grow into the best version of YOU!
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Shokugeki no Soma S3 Ep. 6: We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!
Azami quickly relieves Hisako of her duties, and when Erina meekly tries to protest, he creepily assures her that he'll take care of everything now. Yo, what happened to our assertive heroine? Welp, it's flashback time. Back when Erina was just a child, she used to be normal… well, as normal as you can expect from a kid born with a silver spoon in her mouth. One day, her father decided to teach her all about wasting food. It was supposed to be a lesson about cooking and developing the proper palate, but really, all he did was taught her to disrespect the art of cooking and become a giant bitch like him (guys can be bitches, too!). If she didn't like a dish, she had to treat it like garbage.
Dump it in a trash can, drop it on the floor, throw it in the chef's face — Erina could do whatever she wanted as long as she showed the proper amount of over-the-top disdain for anything that didn't meet her standards. Naturally, children are born innocent, and young Erina didn't want to waste food. Azami quickly became physically and mentally abusive. He threatened to abandon his own daughter if she didn't adhere to his sick ideology. The anime only shows him grabbing her arm painfully, but you can use your imagination. At some point, Senzaemon banished Azami from the academy, and the old man slowly hoped to undo the girl's brainwashing but y'know… at the end of the day, Erina's still Erina. Even to this day, she still looks down on people.
So big question number one: where is the mother? Who. Knows. It's anime. If a parent is conspicuously absent, you can probably assume that they're dead. Question number two: why didn't any other adult step in? I guess they were all scared of Azami. Word eventually got to Senzaemon, but man, it definitely took its sweet time. Question number three: the girl was and still is obviously a victim of child abuse, so why hasn't she gotten any therapy? We don't do therapy in anime or any media whatsoever! We just hope that people will eventually get over their problems. If the victim isn't automatically cured by time, we throw our hands up in the air in exasperation!
Oh, I can hear it now: "Dude, c'mon, it's just an anime! Don't take it so seriously! Why are you arguing that a character should get therapy and shit?" I don't get this line of thinking. The anime apparently isn't serious enough to consider sending its heroine to therapy, but it is serious enough to show a child being physically and mentally abused. Shit, man, you can't have it both ways. The poor girl is frozen with fear anytime her father is near her. You really want to convince me that this doesn't deserve a serious solution? No, wait, I know! We'll break her out of her room and have her stay at the Polar Star Dormitory with her friends! Yeah, the power of friendship will fix everything!
Actually, there are a lot of sensible solutions at hand. Why even keep the girl on campus where her father can get to her at anytime? Is Totsuki Academy the only viable cooking school in the entire world? Of course not. There are renowned schools everywhere. More importantly, you don't become a great chef in school. You become a great chef through experience. You need to work in a kitchen for years. You also need to travel the world and taste everything! See how food is made with your own eyes! Don't just read about it! In fact, this is the golden opportunity for Erina to escape her mentally deranged father. What better way for her to hone her culinary chops by attending, say, a well-respected culinary institute in France! But then we wouldn't have our tropey anime shounen, now would we? You can't just send the hot, tsundere heroine away! How else is she going to bare her goods to us despite being at her lowest moment!
It's kinda pathetic, isn't it? Hisako is busy telling the rest of Polar Star Dormitory all about Erina's plight. It's so sad… so, so sad. I mean, just look at the girl's dead eyes. And I guess while we do that, we might as well get some T&A 'cause why not? So yeah, Erina's character arc kinda took a pitiful turn, didn't it? She's not a great character, but none of them are. Shokugeki no Soma has never been about strong character development. You watch the show for some food-related hijinks and that's it. Still, if I had to pick between her or Megumi, I'd go with Erina every time. Too bad she's literally just another damsel in distress at the moment. Lest you think I'm exaggerating, Senzaemon tells Yukihira that the boy wonder is the only person in the world who can save the girl from Azami! Really, he's the only one!
I mean, shit, you got a better solution?
CategoriesAnime, Series, Shokugeki no Soma TagsAnime, Shokugeki no Soma S3
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E Minor, do you mistype the title on purpose? Lol
On a more serious note, this anime is ecchi shonen battle anime first and foremost, so it doesn't really give a damn about its characters or even cooking. Heck, the cooking part has gone from a mere gimmick to a one trick pony that the anime continues to repeat ad infinitum while hoping we're suffering from memory loss so we don't notice it.
I even go as far as thinking that it only include the cooking part to fulfill the minimum quota to be called a cooking animu, so the creators and the fans can pretend that this isn't just an animu about T&A. It's more deep than that. Heck, we got child abuse here and it's an important part of the story and not just a mere gimmick to make our animu shoujo more animu shoujo.
To be honest, this is one hell of cynical animu on a production level, not the actual story in it. The creators of this animu about the wonders of cooking don't believe in the wonders of cooking. So, the animu never go in-depth on the cooking because the creators don't believe that anyone want to watch it, and give us your standard shonen battle and ganbatte, and T&A to keep us (not me, though) watching.
It's not like I believe that this animu and its creators can give me incisive and detailed commentaries on the cooking world, though.
Sloppy mistake.
Damn, you already fixed the title. Now, I look foolish. Lol
Karandi says:
Now I'm kind of glad I didn't go for a third season of this show. I enjoyed the first season, found the second okay, but I was more or less over this show because two seasons in and I barely remember the character names and I don't much care about any of them. The cooking and that was fun, but it wasn't doing much else for me. I was thinking I'd binge the third season when it was done but the more I hear about it the more I feel I'm over this series.
Lezard says:
Umm yeah.. But ever since she got that secretary and got more friends she was already recovering from the abuse in a natural way so the therapy wont be needed anyway.. Also wouldnt letting her go abroad means her father would get to her easier without the protection of the Academy. And yeah I also think the grandpa ask Soma to protect Erina by overthrowing the current Elite 10 so they can impeach the new director.
I guess im just too forgiving but yeah the anime should have been explained more.
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Kind of tragic the one time Erina finally gets spotlight as a main heroine she gets turned into an abused damsel and her fanservice gets upped by 100%.
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Beset by federal lawsuit, Kansas City home lender exits the business after 71 years
Kansas City Star (MO)
Kansas City-based James B. Nutter & Co., one of the nation's largest private mortgage lenders that since its founding in 1951 helped hundreds of thousands of Americans buy their first homes, has announced that it is going out of the home loan business.
The news comes as the company enters the third year of a costly legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice over Nutter's alleged mishandling of so-called reverse mortgages.
The government sued Nutter in September 2020, alleging that the company engaged in fraudulent and deceptive practices in originating the federally backed mortgages. The lawsuit said that involved forging signatures to make it seem like qualified underwriters approved the loans when in fact they were not qualified.
The alleged misconduct occurred from 2008 to 2010, the suit said, and resulted in the Federal Housing Administration paying out tens of millions of dollars in mortgage insurance claims on properties that were worth less than the amount of the loan.
The company continues to deny wrongdoing and predicts it will prevail in court in a case that could stretch on for years.
"Since the complaint was first filed in September 2020, Nutter has maintained that the Justice Department's allegation are completely meritless," said Jim Nutter Jr., the company's' president and CEO, in a written statement provided to The Star.
"Moreover, nowhere does the complaint allege that any of Nutter's borrowers were ineligible or unqualified to receive any loan, nor that any action taken by Nutter hurt any borrower, in any way."
The lawsuit and the company's decision to go out of business are not unrelated, according to two sources close to the family who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Jim Nutter Jr. has been experiencing health issues, they said. Along with the stress brought on by the lawsuit, that contributed to his decision to withdraw from the mortgage industry and begin closing down the business.
In a business sector where companies that originate loans often sell them off to other lenders for collection, Nutter was atypical. If you got your loan from Nutter, that's who you sent your monthly check to until the loan was paid off. The company serviced almost all of its own loans until this past spring.
Nationwide reach
At its peak, Nutter serviced $7 billion in loans on homes in all 50 states and was one of the top 100 mortgage companies in the country, a company spokesman said.
"Where the company ranks now, we frankly don't know," the company said in response to questions from The Star.
James B. Nutter & Co re-branded as Nutter Home Loans in 2019 and a year later announced "an alliance" with Tamara Day, the Kansas City-based star of TV's "Bargain Mansions" home remodeling show on HGTV. As the company's spokesperson, Day endorsed Nutter as a source of funding for home remodeling projects and her photos are featured prominently on the lender's website.
Nutter Home Loans stopped originating loans on Oct. 20. Other than a small group of workers that will remain, most of the company's 125 employees will be laid off.
"We are currently working diligently to take great care of our many loyal and longtime employees by providing them with well-earned severance pay and access to professional outplacement services that will allow them to pursue other career opportunities," Jim Nutter Jr. said in his written statement.
His father, James B. Nutter, founded the company in the post-World War II era by making home loans out of his apartment in Kansas City at a time when the demand for housing was soaring.
Nutter & Co. was among the first mortgage companies to offer Veterans Administration loans and developed a method for efficiently dealing with all the red tape that had other companies avoiding Federal Housing Administration loans.
The company's founder also took pride in making home loans within minority neighborhoods when other lenders avoided those areas, but did not get caught up in the subprime mortgage mess.
"We lost market share because we didn't make those horrible loans, because it was wrong," the senior Nutter told The Star in 2012.
When Nutter died in 2017, former Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council executive director Margaret May praised him for his commitment to predominantly Black neighborhoods like hers, for not only helping people become first-time home owners but also in supporting underprivileged areas with charitable gifts.
"He was a good man. He was a friend of Ivanhoe," she said at the time. "When you give your money and your time ... on numerous occasions, when we had special events, he'd be right there."
The company was a pioneer in initiating the government's reverse mortgage program when it started in 1989. Reverse mortgages allow homeowners 62 and older to get loans roughly equal to the equity they have in their homes so they can afford to stay in them until they die.
The money helps many seniors pay rising tax and insurance bills on their homes at a time in life when they often have less income. The loans are paid off when the house is later sold.
The company maintains that it did not abuse the program and claims the government's lawsuit was an overreach.
'Sign of the times'
David Westbrook, a former public relations executive and longtime friend of the Nutter family, said he's sad to see the company come to an end, but that the company's namesake left a positive legacy.
"He made it possible for the average consumer to get a first-time loan that they otherwise probably wouldn't have got," Westbrook said.
Privately owned companies like the one James B. Nutter started, Westbrook noted, are becoming rarer all the time.
"Their withdrawal from this business is a sign of the times because the industry has consolidated so much that the big players are the only ones who remain, and that's sad," he said.
Many of Nutter's loans are being shifted to those big players. Stacy Ford, who lives in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas, told The Star that she and her husband had a mortgage through Nutter when they bought their first house in 2004 and that her parents had been doing business with Nutter for 30 years.
She valued the longstanding business relationship. But when the Fords sold their house and bought a new one this summer, they again financed it through Nutter, only to learn that Nutter immediately sold their mortgage to Planet Home Lending LLC, which as of Sept. 30 had $62 billion in its loan portfolio.
A Nutter loan officer told her in an email that the company began selling off mortgages last spring in order "to remain viable" due to the volatility in the market.
"We had to do this because the rate we were offering at application had increased so much by the closing that we were losing money on almost all loans that we closed for a period of time," the loan officer wrote.
The company said on Friday that it has not sold all of its loans yet and is working with potential buyers to ensure that Nutter loans will be given "the best and most professional level of care."
Borrowers will be given 15 days notice, as required by law, before their loans are transferred. The company said the Nutter family will remain active in other business and civic interests in the community.
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I notice this primarily in the amount and directness of people's eye-contact.
The hidden dimension. Hall — High Context Communication vs. Jerry Webster has a master's in Special Education, a post-baccalaureate certificate in Autism, and more than 20 years of classroom experience.
However, people might come to temporarily own areas of public territory. Thermal code: This category denotes the amount of body heat that each participant perceives from another. At this point, I am somewhat of a hybrid of cultures!
Adolescents favor texting or computer-mediated communication as an alternative to the more directly combative face-to-face interactions because it takes advantage of evading imposed social norms such as " school rules ", which are likely to be especially repressive of aggression involving females.
Realizing and recognizing these cultural differences improves cross-cultural understandingand helps eliminate discomfort people may feel if the interpersonal distance is too large "stand-offish" or too small intrusive.
Using his taxonomy, it is possible to outline following four types of distances each of which is used by people only for a certain type of communication: 1 intimate up to 0.
Those that "hate" receiving targeted messages on their social media profiles could be experiencing frustration. People from Japan and India raised in more densely populated areas are said to have smaller personal space as well.
In other countries the distances may vary, for example, the intimate distance of some Southern Europeans is only 8 to 11 inches.
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What is a Meteorite?
A meteorite is a fragment of rock or iron from outer space, usually a meteoroid or asteroid, which survives passage through the atmosphere as a meteor to impact the surface of the Earth. Meteorites are believed to originate in the asteroid belt between the planets of Mars and Jupiter. A meteorite may range in size from less than a gram to more than 60 tons.
When the path of these space rocks intersects with Earth's orbit, the meteoroid enters the atmosphere at high velocity causing the luminous phenomena we call a meteor or shooting star. These meteors should not be confused with a meteor shower. Meteor showers involve the Earth passing through a comets orbit.
A very bright meteor is called a fireball and may be called a bolide if associated with a smoke train and detonations (which often produces meteorites). These events can also be tremendous force of nature. The recent Russian meteor sonic boom and shock wave on February 15, 2013 caused considerable property damage and injury to people.
Sometimes the forces on these objects are too great and fragmentation will occur resulting in a few to even many thousands of individual pieces. The area on the ground surface meteorites cover is a distribution ellipse also know as a strewnfield.
As the meteoroid passes through the atmosphere, ablation occurs where melting and vaporization removes material from the surface. This ablation can also produce regmaglyphs which are flight marks produced during the passage of a meteoroid through the atmosphere and often look like thumbprints pushed into the surface. This melting of the exterior surface from heating due to it's high velocity through Earth's atmosphere is also what causes the fusion crust seen on the exterior of meteorites. These factors help us with meteorite identification because the exterior features of space rocks are different from that of Earth rocks.
An oriented meteorite is formed when it's passage through the atmosphere is in a stable orientation. It receives the characteristic ablation features from being melted mostly on one surface. Among these features are a rounded front surface or a cone shape and often radial lines of melting in the front surface, and a rolled over lip of melted material which has cooled around the circumference of the back side.
On very rare occasions large meteoroids will reach the ground with enough velocity and mass to form an impact crater. The best preserved impact crater today is Meteor Crater in Arizona. Associated with impact structures and craters is a type of rock called an impactite. This glassy rock, also called crater glass, is formed from the melting of native rocks during the impact of asteroids. A second glassy object associated with impact events but much less understood are tektites. A tektite is a natural glass object formed by the melting of native rocks during some asteroid impacts. Some tektites, the Australites, receive aerodynamic shapes as the still plastic but cooling glass falls back to the surface from very high altitude. Muong Nong tektite glass may be from a melt sheet formed near the impact site.
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How Many Meteorites and Where are They Found
Meteorites land at random everywhere on Earth. Most land in the oceans and are not at present recovered from the water. Of those that fall on the land many are also not recovered. Meteorites often arrive in a very dramatic display with blinding light, smoke trails and thunderous detonations. The meteoroid exploding into many fragments high in the air. Meteorites can also arrive as individual pieces with less notice. In the past when there were no detection methods available many meteorites would go unrecovered. We can make estimates based on the meteorites found about how often large events occur. A handful of larger objects strike the Earth everyday. So many thousands of small ones hit the Earth that it grows heavier by tons of weight each day.
While it is true that they fall randomly everywhere, they only survive for a long time if they fall in areas like deserts or places with only occasional rain. Meteorites almost universally contain iron which quickly deteriorates in the atmosphere of Earth. Meteorites which fall in jungles and forests will disappear into the ground cover and quickly fall apart by weathering likely never being recovered.
The meteorites which land in deserts will fare much better. Thousands of meteorites have been recovered in the last few decades from deserts. Many of these meteorites have been on or near the surface for thousands of years. We usually think of deserts as lethally hot locations. In actual fact deserts are defined by their rain fall amount. It happens that the frozen vastness of Antarctica is also a desert by definition since it has nearly no rainfall. It is called a cold desert. Tens of thousands of meteorites have been found on the ice or found where they have been moved by the ice. Mixed with other rocks meteorites have been found in moraine deposits formed by the glaciers. Though thousands of years old freezing has preserved them from the weathering suffered by meteorites which fall in other climates.
Types of Meteorites
Since the first meteorites were collected and studied it has been clear that there are three basic types of meteorites. Iron Meteorites which consist of mostly iron with varying amounts of nickel. The second and most abundant group is the Stone Meteorites made up of silicate minerals with a small amount of metal grains. The third group is the Stony-Iron Meteorites which contain roughly half mineral and half nickel iron metal. Most are believed to originate from the asteroid belt but there are also meteorites proven to be from the Moon and Mars.
Iron Meteorite
Iron meteorites as the name states are composed of almost solid nickel-iron. Often there are mineral inclusions in iron meteorites, but they amount to a small percentage of the mass. Three main subgroups of irons have been recognized. They are the Octahedrites, the Hexahedrites and the Ataxites. The metal nickel is found in nearly all meteorites. It is the amount of nickel that was in the original bulk alloy that cooled in space that determined which of the three iron families a meteorite will be placed into. This difference in nickel chemistry results in a difference in crystalline appearance of the metal when acid etched and also determines even which nickel iron minerals will crystalize. In the Octahedrites both Taenite and Kamacite mineral crystals grow. In Hexahedrites only Kamacite can form. So Hexahedrites are essentially pure kamacite. The opposite is true with Ataxites where only Taenite was able to grow. Much more can be said about this but it is the size of the crystals in Octahedrites that determines a meteorite's placement in the next level of classification. Low nickel Octahedrites will have large crystals and are call Coarse Octahedrites, middle level nickel percentages will result in what are called Medium Octahedrites, and iron meteorites that formed where there was a higher amount of nickel will have tiny crystals and are called Fine Octahedrites.
Stone Meteorite
The largest group of meteorites by far is the stony meteorites. Made of minerals that for the most part are the same as minerals that are found on Earth. However,they have structures and textures not found here. The stony meteorite group is divided into two major subgroups; the chondrites and the achondrites. The	chondrites get their name because of the spherical mineral structures they contain called chondrules. In space the molten droplets of rock material cooled in the very low gravity into tiny round spheres that crystallized into minerals. Achondrites are stony meteorites without chondrules. These meteorites have an igneous mineral structure with crystals that indicate they formed in an environment with some gravity. In most stony meteorites there is metallic nickel-iron. The metal is in the form of grains scattered throughout the matrix of the rock.
Stony-Iron Meteorite
The Stony-Iron meteorites are made of both nickel iron metal and stone and this group includes two large sub groups, the pallasites and the mesosiderites. The Pallasites are characterized by having a large portion of their mass in the form of olivine crystals with these crystals being surrounded by nickel-iron. Mesosiderites have silicate minerals found commonly in many iron meteorites but the amount of silicates gets quite high resulting in these meteorites classified as mesosiderites.
Meteorites from the Moon & Mars
Lunar meteorites are mostly volcanic rocks called basalts. Over time the impacts on the Moon have broken the rocks into fragments that have been melted and reformed into rocks called breccias. Lunar meteorites will often show small individual areas of different colors that make up these breccias and are called clasts. Moon rocks are very old. Volcanic activity is believed to have stopped early in the Moon's history.
Mars meteorites can be broken down into three distinct groups. They are Shergotty, Nakhla, and Chassigny which form a grouplet of planetary meteorites know as the SNC group. Scientists have proven that these meteorites came from Mars by comparing the trapped Martian atmosphere in the meteorites compared with the measurements of the Martan atmosphere by the NASA Viking spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1976.
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Q: firebase serve TypeError: glob pattern string required I currently have a deployed firebase application which I am now connecting with node to build a UI. I have previously deployed this application with firebase hosting and firebase realtime database and experienced no issues. Even when exactly replicating the sample code and directions from the video "Node.js apps on Firebase Hosting Crash Course - Firecasts" I am met with this error when attempting to call firebase serve from the command line. I am using Mac OSX. The error message is as follows:
i  functions: Preparing to emulate functions.
i  hosting: Serving hosting files from: public
✔  hosting: Local server: http://localhost:5000
✔  functions: helloWorld: http://localhost:5001/test-setup-5ae3a/us-central1/helloWorld
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Nov/2018:21:53:20 +0000] "GET /__/firebase/init.js HTTP/1.1" 200 - "http://localhost:5000/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36"
TypeError: glob pattern string required
    at minimatch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/minimatch/minimatch.js:94:11)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/superstatic/lib/middleware/rewrites.js:20:11
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/superstatic/lib/middleware/rewrites.js:33:17
    at _run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/superstatic/lib/activator.js:58:16)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/superstatic/lib/middleware/files.js:117:16
    at tryCatch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:525:12)
    at invokeCallback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:538:13)
    at publish (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:508:7)
    at flush (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:2415:5)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7)

Here is my firebase.json:
{
  "database": {
    "rules": "database.rules.json"
  },
  "hosting": {
    "public": "public",
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "sources": "/timestamp",
        "function": "app"
      }
    ],
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ]
  },
  "functions": {
    "predeploy": [
      "npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint"
    ]
  }
}

Here is the index.js document within my functions folder:
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const express = require('express');

const app = express();
app.get('/timestamp', (request, responce) => {
  response.send(`${Date.now}`);
});

exports.helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest(app);

A: The problem is with this line:
exports.helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest(app);

It should be:
exports.app = functions.https.onRequest(app);

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