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Exclusive: Thomson Reuters Launches Practical Law Global Experience
By Jean O'Grady on February 11, 2020
Is any law firm or company immune from Brexit, trade law or global privacy (GDPR) issues? Thomson Reuters is responding to the growth of cross-border legal issues with the launch of the Practical Law Global which allows researchers to browse for foreign law answers by country or topic. Jurisdiction-specific resources are written by a prestigious roster of local experts. Practical Law Global will be available on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.
Practical Law Global
Practical Law Global offers:
A seamless navigation between domestic and global content
A new global practice taxonomy
Access to Global In-House Resources on the home page
Ability to customize a personal list of country favorites in a Featured Countries section
A country Q&A comparison tool to compare answers to key questions across multiple jurisdictions
Ability to set up alerts to track issues around the globe.
Local Country Content Written By Specialists
What is Practical Law Global? Practical Law Global puts all Practical Law content into a unified, simple interface for users in need of know-how outside their primary jurisdiction. New topical and jurisdictional content has been added to the global platform. Major jurisdictional materials from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and China are supplemented with additional coverage from more than 100 other countries.
According to Emily Colbert, vice president, Practical Law Product Management, the major benefit of Practical Law Global is an enhanced user experience which allows lawyers to more easily discover relevant international materials by searching or navigating through either topics or jurisdictions. Thomson Reuters has created a new hierarchy of 14 global practice areas broken into granular subtopics. Thomas Sander, director, Practical Law Product Management, highlighted the pervasiveness of privacy issues in legal which Thomson Reuters has addressed with the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters Global Data Privacy & Security Center into the Practical Law Global platform.
What are the 14 global practice areas in Global? • Antitrust & Competition • Arbitration • Benefits, Share Plans & Executive Compensation • Capital Markets • Commercial • Corporate • Data Privacy & Security • Employment • Finance & Financial Regulation • Intellectual Property & Technology • Life Sciences • Litigation & Dispute Resolution • Real Estate • Restructuring & Insolvency.
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Upgrading Practical Law Global Subscribers to country specific content (E.g. US, UK, Canada, Australia) will have the opportunity to upgrade to "Global." All Practical Law subscribers can get to the Global content by clicking the "Global" home button at the top of the home page. Access to the new global experience pages is not restricted, however, out-of-plan content will still be restricted in the same way as current out-of-plan content. No one will lose access to any content which is currently available to them.
View a video about the Practical Law Global here.
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'Rites of Passage' is the debut album from British heavy metal band Hamerex. Some of the tracks have been released previously as EPs and demos.
There is an evident Slayer influence here, particularly in the vocals and the guitar riffs on tracks such as 'The Headless Horseman' and the guitar solo in 'Hypnotise'. Luckily for Hamerex, they actually make this work. The highlights include 'The Lycan', which features a catchy guitar intro, great solos and an equally catchy chorus making it destined to become a mosh-pit favorite and 'The Gates of Hades' with its catchy guitar riffs.
The only disappointments are the title track and 'Waste Away' which both suffer from a case of mismatched backing and lead vocals which resemble howling at times. Good news is that the rest of the music is so good you can actually look past this.


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Home Security National Security LNA fighters taken prisoner in Tripoli
LNA fighters taken prisoner in Tripoli
LNA prisoners.
An offensive by eastern forces on Libyan capital Tripoli stalled in the face of strong resistance and the internationally recognised government said it took almost 200 prisoners.
Fighting between Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) and troops under the internationally-backed Tripoli government killed at least 56 and forced 8,000 to flee their homes in the city in the last week, the United Nations said.
A Reuters reporter heard occasional heavy gunfire and explosions as the LNA faced off with forces of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj's government around a disused former international airport and the Ain Zara district.
After sweeping up from the south, the LNA bogged down in Tripoli's southern suburbs. Several locations changed hands more than once.
More than 190 LNA troops were captured, officials allied to Tripoli said, accusing it of using teenagers. A total of 116 fighters were captured in Zawiya, west of Tripoli and an additional 75 in Ain Zara officials said.
In a prison in Zawiya, Reuters reporters saw prisoners, mostly young men, some wearing civilian clothes, sitting on the floor while others stood facing a wall.
In Tripoli, officials brought families displaced by fighting to shelter in schools. Red Crescent workers handed out rations in a school as gunfire clattered in the distance.
Haftar's push on Tripoli is the latest turn in a cycle of factional violence and chaos in Libya dating back to the 2011 uprising that overthrew veteran dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
The European Union urged the LNA forces to stop the offensive, agreeing on a statement after France and Italy sparred over how to handle the escalating conflict.
"The military attack launched by the LNA on Tripoli and subsequent escalation in and around the capital are endangering civilians, including migrants and refugees, and disrupting the UN-led political process, with the risk of serious consequences for Libya and the wider region, including the terrorist threat," top EU diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said in a statement.
France, with oil assets in eastern Libya, provided military assistance in the past to Haftar in his eastern stronghold, Libyan and French officials say. It was a leading player in the war to unseat Gaddafi.
Italy supports the UN-backed government of Serraj.
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Haftar moved troops from southern and eastern Libya to Tripoli, stretching his lines.
Exploiting this, Islamic State's AMAQ news agency said the Islamist militant group killed six LNA soldiers near Sabha.
LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari confirmed the attack but said there were no casualties on the LNA side.
In the latest tally of casualties the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said 56 people – mainly combatants and civilians including two doctors and an ambulance driver – were killed and another 266 wounded in Tripoli.
It was not clear if this included the LNA toll for its soldiers – 28 killed and 92 wounded since the start of the offensive.
The number of people forced from their homes by fighting rose to 8,075, the UN migration agency IOM said.
The LNA forces swept out of their stronghold in eastern Libya to take the sparsely populated but oil-rich south earlier this year, then headed t Tripoli, where Serraj's UN-backed government sits.
Haftar resisted UN pressure to accept a power-sharing settlement to stabilise the country, using his leverage as a Western ally against militant Islam in North Africa.
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The Knowledge audit and mapping process focuses on analyzing organizational knowledge assets and sources and mapping its flow and creating its inventory.


What should you do if you've been pulled over for DUI?
On behalf of Mark B. Arthur, PC posted in drunk driving on Friday, October 13, 2017.
Drivers in Virginia may be subjected to randomized DUI checks when on the road. It's also possible to be pulled over for minor offenses, such as having expired stickers or a broken tail light. But what do you do if you've been pulled over because an officer suspects that you've been drinking?
There are many reasons an officer might believe that you're driving under the influence. The first thing they look at is driving behavior. Lane-weaving, sudden stopping, or missing traffic signals are all potential red flags, and this will get you pulled over even if you haven't been drinking. If you have been, the situation can get serious quickly. As stated by the Huffington Post, police are often trained to look for all signs of potential DUI, including things you might not consider. For this reason, it's not wise to try evasion. If you see the lights go off, pull over, stay in the car, and wait to see what they have to say.
Being pulled over or even arrested for a DUI charge can be a frightening moment in anyone's life. If you're able to keep your cool, you can lower your chances of incriminating yourself or making the situation even worse.


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Q: dpkg-buildpackage get error with apt-get source nginx I wanna install ngx_pagespeed on ubuntu 12.04 precise version. get nginx 1.4.4 from source
apt-get source nginx
chech dependence for nginx.
add page_speed module then
dpkg-buildpackage -b
get error, i through would be ngx_pagespeed wrong, then remove added line and dpkg again.
strange, still get same error like below:
        --with-mail_ssl_module \
        --add-module=/root/pagespeed/nginx-1.4.4/debian/modules/nginx-auth-pam \
        --add-module=/root/pagespeed/nginx-1.4.4/debian/modules/nginx-dav-ext-module \
        --add-module=/root/pagespeed/nginx-1.4.4/debian/modules/nginx-echo \
        --add-module=/root/pagespeed/nginx-1.4.4/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair \
        --add-module=/root/pagespeed/nginx-1.4.4/debian/modules/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module \
         >config.status.full
make: *** [config.status.full] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

why i use clean source package to build it still get wrong?
please help, been confused long time. thanks

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Where Does the Fox Live?
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By Peter Jenkins
While some people are still trying to ascertain what the fox is saying, Fox Finders of Baton Rouge, a new Facebook group, is simply trying to find out where they live. The page, which was started last week by an LSU student, is part of a student research project. Specifically, the goal of the project is to use social media to understand the ecosystem and where urban foxes fit into that puzzle around LSU.
Ahsennur Soysal, 24, an LSU senior in the Coastal and Environmental Science Department, has teamed up with Dr. Linda Hooper-Bui and others for this project, which is Soysal's senior thesis project. According to Soysal, Dr. Hooper-Bui suggested the research topic, and they are "trying to use social media to map the fox presence within Baton Rouge." They are doing this using Facebook and Instagram and are asking people to submit pictures of foxes they see around Baton Rouge. Soysal says "it's a great way to get the public involved in research.
Now, some people do see foxes as a threat. They are known for causing some problems, especially for people who happen to have chickens in their backyard. However, just like anything else, we should take precautions. At the same time, Soysal and her fellow researchers want the people of Baton Rouge to know that foxes are not a serious threat. The research in part hopes to shed light on the habits and locations of foxes to better understand when and where they come out in order to give the people of Baton Rouge a better understanding of this animal and its habits. According to the team, cats and small dogs aren't typical prey of foxes, and Dr. Hooper-Bui believes that "they are very beneficial, they are probably taking care of Baton Rouge's rat population and other varied insects, cockroaches, and other things people don't want around." Soysal then went on to discuss a recent project that was conducted in Wisconsin, which showed that foxes mainly ate berries and rodents.
The research team says they have received positive reactions from the public so far. A number of pictures have already been posted to the Facebook page, and in the near future they plan to launch a larger media strategy to promote their work; they will even post flyers around town to help generate even more responses from the public.
Charles D'Agostino, 66, of Baton Rouge, says, "Over the last 10 years we have had foxes denning and birthing kitts in our yard in University Acres." He talked about their habits and interactions with humans and had this to say, "The kitts stay close to the den until they are old enough to be on their own. They have been fun to watch and they are not aggressive. They go into hiding when humans or my dog gets too close, but they are not very scared of humans. They do avoid contact, but we often observe them from a distance and they will stay and watch us until you get too close. They are very fast and they are really small." He also mentioned that his kids love seeing them around.
The research team wants Baton Rouge residents to get involved with this project, so if you would like to contribute to this research by taking pictures and posting them to social media, there are two ways to do that. You can either post them to the Facebook page, Fox Finders of Baton Rouge, or you can post them to Instagram and tag the post with, #findfoxlsu. When this research is complete, the research team hopes to have a better understanding of these creatures and how they affect the ecosystem, the rest of us just want to know what does the fox say?
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The two-time Grammy Award winner was born in Lafayette and will return to the state on January 13 to perform the National Anthem at the championship game. Daigle, an LSU alumna, announced her return on twitter:...


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Brissett perfect model for a modern day QB
It was a first on Thursday night for the Patriots. Starting a rookie quarterback in a regular season game is almost unheard of, for a Bill Belichick lead team. Although it was a different quarterback it was still the same result.
Jacoby Brissett on his NFL debut played brilliantly in more ways than one. No turnovers was key as one of the most potent defenses in the NFL weren't given a sniff. On top of that his sublime game management and his ability to keep moving the chains was exemplary against the Texans but shouldn't we expect this now from a Patriots quarterback. The same questions arose in the direction of Jimmy
Garoppolo at the beginning of the season and now Brissett and both answered them admirably. Belichick just has a way of getting the best out of quarterbacks whoever he is.
The Patriots have the chance now to go undefeated before Brady even has to play a snap, which was originally looking unlikely. Brissett injured his thumb in Thursday's win but with over a week before the game against the Bills, one of Brissett or Garoppolo surely will be fit.
Lorenzo Reyes of USA Today reports on Bill Belichick's comments on Brissett:
"He handled himself great last week, this week, all week, every day," Belichick said after the game. "He's done nothing but come in here and work as hard as he possibly can — when we had three quarterbacks — to take his opportunities and learn from the other two guys, when it was him and Jimmy and then this week it was pretty much all him. He's just a hard-working kid that is really dedicated to doing what's right for the team and trying to improve on anything that you tell him. He just wants to do what the coach tells him to do. I'm glad we have him."
It wasn't a standout display in the air from Brissett, completing 11 of 19 for 103 yards with no touchdowns but that wasn't his job. It was to manage the game and keep the offense ticking over. One bright spot, in particular, was his 27-yard quarterback run for a touchdown which showed his ability on the ground. This is positive to see because Brissett is looking like the perfect model for your modern day QB and the Patriots have a star of the future.
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The Portland Power was a women's professional basketball team in the American Basketball League (ABL) based in Portland, Oregon. The Power began play in 1996, and disbanded when the ABL folded at the end of 1998. The Power hosted home games at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which had a capacity of 10,934.

1996-97 season
The Power held their pre-season training camp at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon. A scrimmage was held in Monmouth on October 6, 1996 against the Seattle Reign. Portland's first head coach was Greg Bruce, who had previously been the head women's basketball coach at Portland State. The Power's first roster included:

Lisa Harrison, forward for Tennessee's 1991 national championship team
Michelle M. Marciniak, guard for Tennessee's 1996 national championship team
Katy Steding, Portland native, 1996 basketball Olympic gold medalist, and forward for Stanford's 1990 national championship team
Coquese Washington, guard for Notre Dame
Natalie Williams, center for UCLA's basketball team and volleyball national championship teams in 1990 and 1991

The Power got off to a poor start, going 5-17 under Bruce. Power players reported to ABL management on at least two occasions that Bruce was difficult to work with. The league met with Bruce, who resigned on January 1, 1997, citing personal reasons. He was replaced by former Purdue coach Lin Dunn. Under Dunn, the Power managed to go 9-9 the rest of the first season, and finished last in the Western Conference. Regional cable television network Prime Sports Northwest broadcast four Power games.

1997-98 season
In their second season, the Power showed much improvement. The team acquired Sylvia Crawley from North Carolina's 1994 national championship team and Delisha Milton from Florida among other players, and won the Western Conference. Coach Dunn was named ABL Coach of the Year, and Williams was named the league's MVP. In the playoffs, the team met the conference runner-up, the Long Beach Stingrays, and lost 2 games to 0.

Season ticket costs ranged from $176 to $265 ($ to $ adjusted for inflation). Individual game tickets cost $11, $13 or $15, depending on the section ($, $, $, respectively, adjusted for inflation).

1998-99 season
For their third season, the Power acquired Steding's former Stanford teammate, point guard Sonja Henning. Though they got off to a slow start, the Power was leading the Western Conference after completing a five-game win streak when the ABL abruptly folded due to financial difficulties on December 22, 1998.

At the time of their demise, the Power's starting lineup was:
Katy Steding, forward
Delisha Milton, forward
Natalie Williams, center
Elaine Powell, guard
Sonja Henning, guard

After the franchise folded, many Power players went on to continue their careers in the WNBA.

Team records

1997-98 playoff results

ABL statistical leaders
1997-98 season:
 Natalie Williams, 1st in ABL in scoring (913 points, 21.7 points per game)
 Natalie Williams, 2nd in ABL in rebounding (477 rebounds, 11.4 rebounds per game)
 Natalie Williams, 1st in ABL in field goal percentage (336 of 604, .556 average)
 Natalie Williams, 4th in ABL in blocks (47 blocks, 1.1 blocks per game)

1998 season (partial):

 Natalie Williams, 2nd in ABL in scoring (258 points, 19.9 points per game)
 Natalie Williams, 2nd in ABL in field goals percentage (94 of 162 .580 average)
 Katy Steding, 1st in ABL in three-point goals (32 of 74 .432 average)
 Natalie Williams, 2nd in ABL in rebounding (129 rebounds, 9.9 rebounds per game)
 Sonja Henning, 2nd in ABL in assists (78 assists, 6.0 per game)

Rosters

All-Star players
Natalie Williams (First Team All-ABL, 1996-97 and 1997-98)

League honors
Natalie Williams, 1997-98 ABL Most Valuable Player
Lin Dunn, 1997-98 ABL Coach of the Year

References

External links
 American Basketball League Tribute site
1996-97 Standings, Awards, and Playoff Results from Infoplease.com
1997-98 Standings, Awards, Playoff Results, and Individual Leaders from Infoplease.com
Portland Power 1999 statistics from CNN/SI.com

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Q: Javascript sliding (preferably jQuery) I am trying to think of the name of the plugin (or a plugin) that slides content in (up or down).
So I have a hidden div, I click on one of the titles/header, it opens the hidden div, if I click on another header it hides the other visible div, and slides up or down the new one.
I can't think of it for some reason.. anyone?

A: It is called an accordion and can be found in the JQuery UI.
Here is the link: http://jqueryui.com/demos/accordion/

A: I think you're thinking of the jQuery UI Accordion. If you're including the weight of the library anyway, be sure to check out the other widgets and effects as well.
Another note, as of the time of this answer, the current version is jQuery UI 1.8, you need to pair this with jQuery 1.4, not 1.3.2 (use jQuery UI 1.7 for that situation).


Poor defending allowed Southampton to open the scoring in the 3rd minute but Olivier Giroud came off the bench to score a late equaliser to salvage a point.
Ever since Arsenal's 3-1 home defeat to Manchester United, last Saturday, Alan Shearer has been inundated with messages from hysterical Gunners fans who were apoplectic for the former Newcastle United captain's analysis of their loss to Jose Mourinho's men.
"I must say I am very frustrated as in the second half there was a lot of time-wasting", Wenger said.
"I consider Olivier Giroud as a regular player", Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said of the striker, who has lost his starting place to summer signing Alexandre Lacazette.
Apple just bought Shazam. What does it mean for the next iPhone?
Apple said Shazam would be a "natural fit" with its Apple Music streaming service and would help users discover new songs. Apple has confirmed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam in an effort to increase its music business.
For Southampton, Maya Yoshida and Jack Stephens are among the changes, while Charlie Austin starts another game up front.
Giroud's goal was Arsenal's first effort from inside the penalty box in the second half, which is testament to Southampton's discipline and organisation. I believe as well it's always the same when you have many good players, some of them can not play. The answer is in the authority of the referee.
"First, it has to be in the head of the players to respect the game and to play". It is not the 28-year-old's natural game, but he fulfilled his duties diligently and worked hard before his substitution in the final five minutes.
Austin has scored four goals in his last three starts for Southampton, with Shane Long and Manolo Gabbiadini now behind him in the centre-forward pecking order.
During his election campaign past year , Trump repeatedly promised to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is leading the Malaysian delegation to the extraordinary OIC summit in Istanbul .
Temperatures are already starting to fall and winds are picking up as an Arctic cold front moves through Upstate New York . Areas east and then southeast of Lake Ontario will be line for the steadiest and heaviest lake snow tonight and Wednesday.
I speak to all my players individually and it's hard to speak openly about those conversations. Is it something you can copy? "I don't know because it is not part of our culture".
Danny Drinkwater missed the last game away to West Ham United with a virus, but he is be back to face Huddersfield. Chelsea is 11 points behind leader Manchester City , whose game in hand is against Swansea on Wednesday.
Starting in January, TV viewers can no longer contact tournaments to cite rules violations made by professional golfers. A fan had noticed that Thompson placed her ball incorrectly after marking it during a round and called in to report it.
The video now has well over one million views and celebrities have started showing the young boy their support. Fox News host Sean Hannity said: "I will gladly fly them to NYC to be my guests & visit Fox News".


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Ukraine Synagogue Where Begin Married Gets First Torah Scroll Since World War II
by JNS.org
Interior of the newly restored Choral Synagogue in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych, July 3, 2019. Photo: Rephael Isaak Vilenskiy.
JNS.org – The dedication of a Torah scroll at the restored Choral Synagogue took place on Wednesday in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych.
Yaakov Dov Bleich, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, dedicated a new Torah scroll together with the representatives of Jewish communities from across Ukraine, along with local residents and descendants of Jewish families of Drohobych, who arrived from Israel and the United States for the occasion.
Speaking before the guests, Bleich said that the event marks "another important milestone in the revival of Jewish life not only in Drohobych, but all across Ukraine."
The synagogue restoration project, initiated by Felix Vekselberg, took more than seven years to complete and was funded by his son, Viktor Vekselberg.
"Viktor Vekselberg was born and raised in Drohobych and, for many years, has supported the Jewish community. I regret that he himself was not able to attend the celebration, as he has been banned entry into Ukraine for political reasons. I am sure that, given his great efforts in helping develop Drohobych, he has all the merits to be considered for the title of Honorary Citizen of this town," continued Bleich.
The Choral Synagogue was built in the mid-19th century for one of the biggest and most thriving Jewish communities of Galicia.
According to its current members, Drohobych was home to 17,000 Jews before the Holocaust, which was about half of the town's population at the time. It is estimated that in 1942 and 1943, Nazis massacred between 11,000 and 14,000 Jews there.
Community elders say that Israel's sixth prime minister, Menachem Begin, and his wife, Aliza, got married in the Drohobych synagogue in 1936. One of the guests at their wedding was Ze'ev Jabotinsky, leader of Revisionist Zionists and mentor to Begin.
The old synagogue is depicted in the famous painting by Maurycy (Moshe) Gottlieb, "Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur," which is now housed in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Gottlieb was born in 1856 in Drohobych, then part of the Austrian empire, and later became part of Poland and Western Ukraine.
After World War II, the synagogue was used as a warehouse for textiles and for salt storage. It was later turned into a furniture store, and its annex was used for food storage.
In the 1990s, the building was transferred to the town's Jewish community, but was looted and set afire. For years, it was dilapidated until restoration work began in 2013 through the efforts of the Vekselbergs.


Fred Wilson writes on the new Yahoo system: A VC: Is Panama Working?.
The question to pose is, are higher clickthrough rates better or worse for Yahoo?
So if CTR goes up, the system is great, right? Wrong.
CTR could be a good thing, but it might not be. We need conversion rates to figure it out.
Is Panama going well or not?
… and each one of these factors is related. So my guess is that by improving the targeting, they will have a different success profile with the types of publishers and advertisers that are involved. As this changes, only then will we understand the pure impact of Panama.
The fact is, the types of publishers you work with are as much of a driver for ad revenues as the other stuff. If you have a publisher that drives tons of untargeted traffic, through obtrusive ads and confusing UI, then no matter how good your ads are, you'll just drive junk ads. You need to get off these sites and onto higher quality ones in order to get better performance.


It's good to hear that a newspaper in Bhutan celebrated it's birthday, especially at times when private papers are financially struggling in this five-year-old democracy. The Journalist paper launched in mid December 2009 was led by seven scribes who walked out from the country's first private paper Bhutan Times citing management interference. The paper which was touted as Bhutan's micro mini Le Monde, was owned by journalists; but not anymore.
The Journalist, which has a new team, is now edited by Columbia graduate Kencho Wangdi, the former news editor of Bhutan's biggest paper Kuensel.
Ok, now where are the founding journalists of the paper?
1. Gopilal Acharya: Edited Bhutan Times newspaper before he left with other reporters to start The Journalist; now runs a consultancy firm.
2. Passang Dorji: Managed the biweekly The Bhutanese paper after he left The Journalist. He is the first president of The Journalists Association of Bhutan.
3. Deki Choden Gyaltshen: Now works as press attache to the prime minister of Bhutan.
4. Sonam Pelvar: Presently the news editor of The Bhutanese newspaper.
5. Tara Limbu: Journalist with the Bhutan Broadcasting Corporation.
6. Tashi Wangmo: Was senior reporter with The Bhutanese. Now taking a break.
7. Tanka Raj Subba: Now a corporate employee.
Reproducing the piece I wrote for Business Bhutan in December 2009 on the launch of the paper.
The former editor and six journalists who walked out from Bhutan Times in the last week of October will publish the first issue of their weekly Sunday newspaper tomorrow.
The editor and chief executive officer of the paper, Gopilal Acharya, said Sonam Gyaltshen's investment would be paid back as soon as the paper starts generating money, thus making the paper completely owned by journalists.
The paper, with a print run of 5,000 copies was prepared on computers the journalists had borrowed from friends.
"No one has been paid since we left Bhutan Times," Gopilal Acharya said.
Investors had shown interest to put in money for the paper but the journalists declined such offers.
"We don't want to repeat the BT story," said the editor, who along with the journalists left their parent company after alleging management interference in news matters.
The team fears that having investors will force them to represent their interests in news.
But the decision has been tough on the scribes including three women. Personal debts have been mounting with the sudden stop in income. One of them has started walking to office instead of taking a cab and another is desperately searching for a one-room apartment.
The newspaper now shares space with the BMS office in a three bedroom apartment. Friends have donated chairs and cameras, and at many times, the scribes, who are used to official transportation when on duty, had to walk to offices in search of news.
All reporters, since they own the paper, are also involved in canvassing advertisements. But the response has not been very positive, the editor said.
"The moral support has not translated into income," he said trying to repair a rod heater in his office which has a life size mounted photograph of the Constitution signing ceremony.
But, despite financial woes, the journalists are upbeat about the launch of the paper.
"We can't close shop because we started it," said Tankaraj Subba, who will cover financial news and features.
The team brushed off rumors that their leaving from Bhutan Times was triggered by the resignation of its founder managing director, Tenzin Rigden.
The paper is also looking at forming an editorial advisory board including representatives from the corporate, private, and government sectors and the clergy to provide feedback and give guidance. But they will not have any financial stake in the paper.
The paper, expecting help from a funding agency that gives interest-free loans to new entrepreneurs, will be printed at Galing Printers in Bjemina, 20 kilometers south of the capital.
"We will survive," said Sonam Pelvar who covers environment and technology.


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Link Robot ♥ Actresses (Especially the Intimidating Leggy Kind)
Shock Till You Drop Sigourney Weaver interview involving all four Aliens movies and her other genre successes. She's a bit cagey in her answers -- see how she dodges the tough question. But it's Sigourney so we read. And...
Collider ...Robert DeNiro has signed on to play the object of her investigation in the psychological thriller Red Lights. He'll be playing a psychic, she's a paranormal activity expert. The role of Weaver's partner is yet to be cast. We hope it's a good chemistry fit.
In Contention Are Macy Gray and Kimberly Elise the standouts from For Colored Girls? We'll need more than just one anonymous source's opinion to find out. Stay tuned.
The Film Doctor 9 notes on I Am Love. I'm not going to read this now (I'm working on an I Am Love piece and want to be free of all influence) but I like these # notes pieces.
Birth of a Notion RIP Barbara Billingsley. She spoke jive.
Pussy Goes Grrr on cinema's love of combining the feminine with the monstrous.
Chuck & Beans "How To Break Bad News To A Movie Geek."
popbytes on the movie-turned-stage-musical Leap of Faith with music by Oscar winner Alan Menken. The musical stars one of our Broadway favorites Raúl Esparza. We hope they recast the female lead. Enough with the stunt casting, producers. Musicals deserve GREAT voices (like Esparzas).
Movie|Line Info regarding Oz: The Great and Powerful from Sam Raimi starring Robert Downey Jr. Boy did the producers of the Wicked musical biff their chance to be first. By the time that musical hits the screen people will be so sick of Oz with all these multiple movies greenlit; if you arrive AFTER the things you've influenced it's kind of problematic and potentially stale. They should have started on the movie the very moment they realized they had a mammoth hit on their hands. Like way the hell back in 2004 they should have been doing the first draft screenplay and searching for the movie cast. It takes years to get a movie on the screen and we could have been enjoying it for Christmas this very year.
Just Jared Halle Berry presented Chris Nolan with an award at the Scream Awards. (It's a horror awards show.) I can't figure out why Nolan would have been honored but when people love you they will find any excuse. P.S. Berry looks sensational. But you knew that already. Beautiful woman.
I Need My Fix Anne Hathaway on the cover of the new Vogue. But excuse me, why does she look like Eva Mendes instead of Anne Hathaway? I hate it when magazine photo shoot tinkering does that.
Pullquote this is a month-old post on notes taken during a screening of Angelina Jolie's Salt. But it's new to me and it totally amused me. Trust that I can never understand my own notes after a screening.
Comedy Central Gay Robot ♥ Ryan Phillipe. teehee
Labels: Anne Hathaway, For Colored Girls, Halle Berry, horror, Oz The Great and Powerful, Ryan Phillipe, Salt, Sigourney Weaver, Sunset Blvd, Wicked
Cinesnatch said...
Ah, a not-even-close-and-no-cigar-"Catwoman" escorting the current director of the Batman franchise ... makes me realize that after his three submissions into the Batman folklore, there may not be one FEMALE villain ... :(
OFF SUBJECT: I just saw your grade for "Catfish" ... hmmn ... are you sure???????? I give it a C and that's generous, IMO. Perhaps, I was disappointed because it was marketed as a ...
... a thriller. But, there was an disingenuousness on the part of the filmmakers that I only felt a hint of during the film that only snowballed as I started mulling it over the days following the viewing. Mainly, I didn't buy that our lead was totally in love and completely clueless. After all, he was young and savvy, and everyone and their mother knows how to do a google search ... an extensive one, especially, if you're investing yourself into a relationship with someone who you've never met before. I highly suspect that the filmmakers knew something was up, but, they knew they were onto something, so went with it. And it does pass itself off as a documentary, so even if documentaries these days have a particularly strong "point-of-view," it still leaves me sour.
Granted, even if my instincts were proven true. the film still had things to say (that were already said in the rather predictable "tallhotblonde") about the internet, relationships, identity, etc.
The Film Doctor said...
Thanks for link, Nathaniel. I look forward your thoughts about I Am Love. It is definitely one of my favs for the year.
Is it only me but I really can see Carmen Maura as Norma Desmond in an Almodóvar remake of Sunset Blvd? There's something about this still of Swanson that screams Carmen Maura.
Yes, I can't wait either for your thoughts on I Am Love, and if I really read that right an interview with...Tilda?!?
OtherRobert said...
Who am I to question an anonymous source on performances in a Tyler Perry film? I will suggest, however, that Macy Gray is not well known enough in the acting community to convince people that matter that she's really acting in For Colored Girls. I want the film to be good because I really like the play, but I question with that cast that she is the standout performance.
Mariah Carey got some awards traction because she was so well known and playing against type. Similar things can be said for Jennifer Hudson, who was known enough and had a really baity role. But Macy Gray? Devout fans and general pop culture awareness do not always go hand in hand with modern R&B music.
SoSueMe said...
Wow...Anne does look like Eva Mendes on that cover.
That Vogue cover broke my heart.
Damn you Photoshop!
Berry is a beautiful woman but does she still make movies? or has she just decided to do photoshoots and appear at every envelope opening that is going these days?
amy -- the latter i think
jose -- photoshop is like the vocoder of photography. you look too much like yourself. let me photoshop that right out of you and make you like someone else!
otherrobert -great point
vatz -- i dont know this 'tallhotblonde' film but even if they knew something was up in CATFISH i still feel like it has valuable things to say about the delusional aspects of virtual relationships. After all... even if they knew a lot of the delusion of romantic obsession is WILLFUL DELUSION so taht still applies.
FranklinBluth said...
the scream awards are for horror, sci-fi and fantasy, not horror alone, that's why nolan would have gotten an award
ahhh -- thanks for the clarification. but i'm guessing they'd still find a way to honor him without sci-fi :)
R.E.M. Borja said...
I saw "Leap of Faith." The show is kind of bad, but Esparza is great--perhaps too good that he overwhelms the rest of the show, including Brooke Shields. Shields does her best, but she just does not have the voice to compete with Esparza. I also had a hard time buying her as a down-on-her-luck waitress.
If the show is going to Broadway, they need to make a lot of improvements. The music is forgettable, the ballet sequences seem as if they belong in a different show, and the show as a whole needs to decide if it wants to be family entertainment or a darker exploration of issues of faith. Right now it's neither uplifting or interesting.
Raul -- OUCH. but glad to hear about Esparza.
cinephile said...
Halle Berry is just so freakin' hot, its incredible that she is 44.


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August 1, 2019 EV-News
GKN Automotive Supplies Millionth eDrive System
GKN Automotive has continued to pioneer the very latest developments in the industry's shift to ever more advanced eDrive systems.
A MILESTONE IN ELECTRIC MOBILITY:
GKN Automotive supplies one milionth eDrive System
GKN Automotive has five semi-integrated two-in-one and three-in-one eDrive series production projects underway in China and Europe for volume OEMs
GKN Automotive boasts 17 years' experience in eDrive development, integration and global production
Integrated eDrive systems manufactured at sites in Europe, China and Japan, with recent investments increasing global capacity
The world's leading supplier of automotive all-wheel drive and electric driveline technology and systems, GKN Automotive, will this month deliver its one millionth eDrive system. Demand for GKN Automotive's expanding eDrive portfolio, which encompasses a range of driveline technologies for electrified vehicles, has increased markedly over recent years. The company currently has five major eDrive mass production projects in progress in China and Europe.
Hannes Prenn, COO of GKN Automotive ePowertrain, commented: "It is always a proud moment when GKN Automotive reaches a significant production milestone, and this one is particularly significant as it underlines our leadership in the fast-growing eDrive segment. The strength and breadth of our current eDrive order book is a testament to our heritage of eDrive innovation, development and integration, as well as our ability to meet the exacting quality and production targets set by our customers."
GKN Automotive has pioneered advanced eDrive technologies since 2002, developing experience of systems integration and production that is unmatched in the industry. The knowledge began with transmissions, then eMotor and transmission systems, through to fully integrated motor, gearbox and inverter systems. GKN Automotive's eDrive experience is proven by its support of numerous OEMs with their evolving line-ups of electrified vehicles, including BMW, Mitsubishi, Porsche and Volvo.
Modular, scalable eDrive family – for every vehicle application
GKN Automotive's family of highly efficient, lightweight, high-power modular eDrive products began with single eDrive transmissions. The company now offers semi-integrated two-in-one eMotor and transmission systems, such as the Electric Rear Axle Drive (eRad) in the Volvo XC60 and XC90, and two other eRad plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicle projects due to enter series production in the next 12 months.
GKN Automotive has continued to pioneer the very latest developments in the industry's shift to ever more advanced eDrive systems. It is currently supplying a volume OEM with a semi-integrated three-in-one (incorporating eMotor, transmission, and inverter) eRad project for vehicles destined for China and Europe. And later this year, GKN Automotive will supply a global premium OEM with a semi-integrated three-in-one eDrive system.
Common across the portfolio of products is low weight, compact packaging, exceptional efficiency and high power and torque, with scalability enabling designs to be integrated across a wide range of vehicle platforms and packaging requirements.
ACeDrive – the next-generation of eDrive development
GKN Automotive is also collaborating with Drive System Design and the University of Nottingham on an £8 million project to design and develop the world's lightest and most efficient electric vehicle powertrain suitable for the volume market. The initiative is match-funded by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). The APC is an organization created by the UK Government's Automotive Council to fund UK-based research and development projects, aimed at developing low-carbon emission powertrain technologies.
ACeDrive (Advanced Cooling and Control of High Speed e-Drive) aims to achieve the level of technology and performance outlined in the Automotive Council's roadmap for 2030. The core targets for the resulting eDrive technology are a 25% reduction in both packaging size and cost, a 20% drop in weight, and a 10% increase in efficiency compared to current equivalents, and production readiness by 2023.
A global operation – eDrive production in Europe, China and Japan
GKN Automotive has a truly global production and supply capability that has seen significant investment to increase capacity in recent years, enabling the company to localise manufacture and supply to best meet customer requirements.
A state-of-the-art 18,000sqm facility in Bruneck, Italy employs over 600 people, and is dedicated predominantly to eDrive production. In China, GKN Automotive's joint venture – Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems (SDS) – is significantly increasing its annual eDrive production from its Shanghai plant and a newly-constructed state-of-the-art facility in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province.
Further supporting increased vehicle electrification requirements in Asia are world-class manufacturing facilities in Japan; one in Tokoname City, and the other in Nagoya, which supplies Mitsubishi with significant volumes of the Multimode eTransmission system for its Outlander PHEV, one of the world's most popular plug-in vehicles.
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IDENTIFICATION OF THE SHOCK! 1 in 8 births that happened in 2015 in a war zone
Increased by more than 125,000 is the number of babies that were born in 2015 in war zones. Last year, with 16.4 million children were born in war zones, while this year this was increased to 16.6 million, emphasized UNICEF."There may be a worse beginning for a life?", questioned the director of the UNICEF Anthony Lake.Prolonged civil wars put the lives of citizens at risk in a large number of countries, including Syria, the central African Republic and South Sudan.One of these infants is the Ντιλγκές, the son of 19-year-old Ναχίντ, who is a refugee, said the worker at the UNICEF Christopher Tidey at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The young mother, which divorced the war from her parents, he traveled alone with him aged 7 months son and arrived in Turkey, he added. "I really feel awe about'this man, the inner strength that is", he noted referring to the 19-year-old.Children born in areas in which war may not have a healthy emotional and mental development and are more likely to die before you complete the fifth year of age, from'what children born in areas in which there is peace, it also highlights the UNICEF.Babies can also suffer if the arrest is the result of a rape in time of war, also notes Debra Ντέλετ, professor of political science at the University of Drake, Iowa, which he has co-authored a study on this issue."There are cases that some women are attempting to kill their children at birth," adds the same. UNICEF predicts for the coming year, an increase of 16.7 millions of children who are born in war zones.Source
Increased by more than 125,000 is the number of baby…
born in 2015 in war zones. Last year, with 16.4 million children were born in war zones, while this year this was increased to 16.6 million, emphasized UNICEF.
"There may be a worse beginning for a life?", questioned the director of the UNICEF Anthony Lake.
Prolonged civil wars put the lives of citizens at risk in a large number of countries, including Syria, the central African Republic and South Sudan.
One of these infants is the Ντιλγκές, the son of 19-year-old Ναχίντ, who is a refugee, said the worker at the UNICEF Christopher Tidey at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The young mother, which divorced the war from her parents, he traveled alone with him aged 7 months son and arrived in Turkey, he added. "I really feel in awe of him, the man, the inner strength that is", he noted referring to the 19-year-old.
Children born in areas in which war may not have a healthy emotional and mental development and are more likely to die before you complete the fifth year of their age than children born in areas in which there is peace, it also highlights the UNICEF.
Babies can also suffer if the arrest is the result of a rape in time of war, also notes Debra Ντέλετ, professor of political science at the University of Drake, Iowa, which he has co-authored a study on this issue.
"There are cases that some women are attempting to kill their children at birth," adds the same. UNICEF predicts for the coming year, an increase of 16.7 millions of children who are born in war zones.
UNICEF is appealing for $2.8 billion for children in humanitarian crises around the world
Ουμανιτέ: "First cause of the refugee, the wars of the European countries…."
High treason against the Nation, "the solution" to the demographic problem of the country with the "localization" of millions of refugees .


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Two Humming Birds
American Hudson River School Painter, 1819-1904 Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819-September 4, 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his peers. Art historians have come to disagree with the common view that Heade is a Hudson River School painter, a view given wide currency by Heade's inclusion in a landmark exhibition of Hudson River School landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1987. The leading Heade scholar and author of Heade's catalogue raisonn??, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., wrote some years after the 1987 Hudson River School exhibition that "...other scholars??myself included??have increasingly come to doubt that Heade is most usefully seen as standing within that school." According to the Heade catalogue raisonn??, only around 40 percent of his paintings were landscapes. The remaining majority were still lifes, paintings of birds, and portraits, subjects unrelated to the Hudson River School. Of Heade's landscapes, perhaps only 25 percent were painted of traditional Hudson River School subject matter. Heade had less interest in topographically accurate views than the Hudson River painters, and instead focused on mood and the effects of light. Stebbins writes, "If the paintings of the shore as well as the more conventional compositions...might lead one to think of Heade as a Hudson River School painter, the [marsh scenes] make it clear that he was not." Related Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade :. | Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes | The Stranded Boat | Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes | Magnolia | Orchids and Hummingbirds |
Italian Neoclassical Sculptor, 1757-1822 Italian sculptor, painter, draughtsman and architect. He was the most innovative and widely acclaimed sculptor of NEO-CLASSICISM. His development during the 1780s of a new style of revolutionary severity and idealistic purity led many of his contemporaries to prefer his ideal sculptures to such previously universally admired Antique statues as the Medici Venus and the Farnese Hercules, thus greatly increasing the prestige of 'modern' sculpture. He was also much in demand as a portrait sculptor.
Raphael Von Ambros
Czech, 1854 - 1895
Carlo Maratta
(13 May 1625 - 15 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting and particularly in his use of colour. His contemporary and friend, Giovanni Bellori, wrote an early biography on Maratta.


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Wiring diagram for Triumph twins with battery and 2-wire stator and stock coils.


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Raiffeisen Bank International ends the past year with a record profit
Condemning private jets across the board does not help the climate
hatGPT inventors want to recognize text from machines
According to the Federal Network Agency, electricity supply is secure even if coal is phased out earlier
US prepares aid package – longer-range missiles
Das US-Justizministerium bittet um Fahrerassistenzdokumente von Tesla
What should Europe's industrial policy answer to the USA look like?
BMW Wants Its Customers to Change Fewer Cars
Although automobile companies make huge profits from second-hand vehicles, BMW's request from its users; they use vehicles for a longer period of time and stop changing vehicles every few years.
Automakers only producing new cars They don't make money from selling. The service, spare parts and used vehicle market also brings great profits to automotive companies. Although BMW is included in these companies, the company has an interesting request from its users.
BMW's head of sustainability, Monika Dernai, said in a statement. BMW owners instead of replacing their vehicles every few years, he wanted them to use the same car for a longer period of time by maintaining their vehicles.
Sustainability and reducing waste are the key
Meeting with members of the press in London Dernaito reduce the waste of the automotive industry, customers' vehiclesI need to use longer stated that the point has been reached. Darnei said in a statement. "We really need to think about extending the life of vehicles; maybe buy a car and extend its life instead of a second hand market where they sell cars to each other. The idea might be to renew the interior of the car." used the phrases.
In Dernai's view, future vehicles will generally modular and interchangeable in case of transforming into structures that should be. For example, instead of selling the vehicle and buying a new vehicle, there may be alternatives such as updating the seats or the dashboard of the vehicle with a newer version.
This kind of approach is 3 series or X3 Although it seems that people who own such cars may like it, it seems that the transition to electric vehicles, which is a newly adopted technology in the coming years, will not allow the demand for second hand to fall.
BMW calls this approach the "circular economy" and envisions products being reused and recycled as much as possible before they become waste. Darnei and BMW argue that this approach will not harm the automotive industry, but automotive manufacturers can be pioneers in reducing waste.
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Ursula von der Leyen and Volodimir Selenski (photo from April 2022) Ukraine is an official candidate for EU membership, but...


From this haul of the month, I had to think about it quite well. As you know, I cannot do a whole feature on products that will not turn out to be worthy of one. For some reason, I trusted my instinct this time, and presented this haul early this month, without getting the chance to test the products first.
The shade I am review is 004 Sunkissed Cherry . Its a peach like shade, not orangey at all, but tends to be a bit on the coral side . This product has a beautiful color-payoff and very good pigmentation. Only a small tiny drop (yes drop!) of this will color your cheeks perfectly.
These tubes are .47 oz, and are about the size of a large lip gloss. The shades range from pinks to berrys, to cherries. The tubes are squeezable, and it's quite easy to control the amount of product coming out due to the small opening.
Apart from naming it as a "liquid" cheek tint, this is not by any means a liquid consistency. In fact, it has a creamy to mousse like texture, non- sticky and non greasy. It felt very light and airy.
This product blends really well because of its creamy smooth texture. It stayed on my cheeks for 5 hours with foundation underneath.
This cheek tint has a slight hint of a scent, but did not annoy me or irritate me at all, its almost unnoticeable.
Would I recommend this product? Yes, its affordable, portable, stays on, and has variety of shades.


The United States has agreed to consider granting unilateral trade benefits for Caribbean Basin countries and dependent territories that currently do not receive those benefits.
This was one of the key results outlined in a joint statement by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the U.S. following the conclusion of the recent meeting of the Trade and Investment Council (TIC) in Georgetown, Guyana.
Over the last three years, bilateral trade between the U.S. has grown from US$15.7 to US$21.8 billion, an increase of 39 percent.
Since l983, the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) has granted unilateral duty-free treatment for imports of certain eligible articles from CBI beneficiary countries. The participants discussed the operation of the CBI and how to better take advantage of the opportunities available under the initiative.
Currently, 17 countries and dependent territories receive benefits under the CBI Recovery Act (CBERA). Seven of those countries and dependent territories receive benefits under the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTA).
The meeting also discussed replacing the l991 Agreement Establishing a Trade and Investment Council with a 21st century trade and investment framework agreement and it was agreed to aim to complete negotiations as soon as possible.
It was also agreed that the U.S. would host the next meeting of the Trade and Investment Council in 2013.


I like them so much that I bought a couple more pots! Hopefully I got different kinds of Titanopsis - I'm not much of an expert in identifying these things. Luckily, these two are also getting ready to bloom!
And while I was at it, I also picked up this Faucaria. The shiny, waxy leaves resemble the jaws of a mammal and while those spines look dangerous, they are actually quite soft.
I think my work colleague has also been infected by the cactaholic bug because he also bought some for himself. He has an opuntia and frithia (which I already have), but he also bought a couple more which I would have wanted myself!
The spines of this cactus branch out from reddish pores which make it look really unique.
Another beautiful specimen. The spines look soft, but are far from it. Its top looks like something is going to come out of it in a flash and gobble up any bug that ventures near it.
All these are in our office, and my colleague would occasionally just stand by the window sill, lean over and stare at our mini garden. He would comment at how dry the soil looks (we watered these thoroughly only three days prior) and I would adamantly forbid him to water!


Many New Years Resolutions center around health—from exercising to diet to other types of self improvement—because we all want to become our best selves. Eating locally is an easy and effective way to improve your health, your wellbeing and your social impact, while improving the community around you.
Most people think of fruits and vegetables as the only way to eat locally. While that is the primary way, there are many new ways to use your food dollars in your own community. From craft beers to artisanal pickles and handmade pasta, there are options all around us. As for protein sources, local dairies producing milk, cheeses and yogurts are on the rise, as are meat producers. And even local grains are starting to be grown—in DC, you can buy locally grown rice and wheat.
I understand that many of these items may cost more than a similar product at the grocery store. I get it! These locally produced items may not be for every day. Think once a week, or a couple times a month. Or choose one item that is important—like yogurt, for example—and commit to finding that item made locally.
And don't forget fruits and vegetables! The availability of produce varies across the country, but even in New England, it is is possible to eat locally most of the year (maybe with some 'cheating' in the winter).
But how will this impact your health? Food made locally is often produced with less preservatives and chemical stabilizers. But the best step you can take is to make the fruits and vegetables the centerpiece of your table. In preparing the local produce, you can make healthy dishes using less fat, sugar and salt than in restaurant or convenience foods. And as you shift your food dollars from grocery store items to local foods, you may find that there are less processed foods in your pantry.
The second component of eating locally is eating seasonally. This might be difficult at first, but eventually it will become strange to eat green beans and tomatoes in the middle of winter.
I first started eating seasonally when I moved to the farm. The summer and fall were full of variety, peaches and berries and so many vegetables—and I was unprepared for the winter, when the fridge held carrots, beets, and cabbage. Eventually, though, I learned to love eating seasonally. It puts you in touch with nature, and makes those in season peas, beans and berries that much more amazing.
I also learned to preserve. For me, that has meant a lot of freezing. This year, we froze snap peas, loads of berries, zucchini, and more. I haven't stepped into the canning game yet, but I want to someday. Canning will help you preserve many more flavors of the growing season.
While eating seasonally in the winter can be challenging, it is not impossible. Perhaps expand your thinking about what local means in the winter season. We eat lots of citrus alongside our local apples. We will buy greens for a salad if the farm is low on greens. We focus on seasonality, and good sourcing. But we always put the emphasis on what we can grow here.
Find your local farmers market and support it through the winter months. Try that weird looking vegetable. Ask the farmer for suggestions. I know that we always have several recipe ideas for each winter item, because we know that our customers might be skeptical of a celeriac.
When you spend your money locally, that money stays in the community. It doesn't get sent to a CEO's bank account offshore, it goes into my pocket, or into the pocket of the producer. Then we spend it, locally of course. This effect multiplies many many times. Money spent at home stays at home and helps to build our own communities.
Your farmer works hard all year round to grow food for you. Don't abandon her in the winter months. That's when her cash flow is the lowest, and when she is planning for the next season. She needs to know that you will buy her cabbage all winter long, or else she won't grow it. If you buy it, she will grow it!
Your farmer is most likely supporting a family, or maybe dreams of leaving her part-time job to full-time farm. Your continued patronage through the winter shows her that the community is ready to buy locally year-round, and may allow her to take that risk to expand or build a storage unit, or to try some spinach in a low tunnel over the winter.
Your farmer wants to grow more for you! Let her do that, by buying what she has to offer now. Make it known that you want local food.
And in the summer, set aside a Saturday or two to preserve the bounty of the season. Freezing, canning, pickling—whatever you choose to do, make it a priority. Let your farmer know the week ahead of time that you need a case of tomatoes, or cucumbers, and he will set them aside for you, and give you a great price.
The recent LA Times article about agricultural workers in Mexico was a shocking wake-up call. I wasn't surprised at what it revealed about labor practices, though. Even in this country, some of our largest farms mistreat their workers. Low pay and long hours are rampant in the industry. Most farms employ undocumented workers, because Americans don't want the work. This may be true even at a farm local to you.
But at least you can easily find out. It may be near impossible to get a straight answer on the labor conditions behind a tomato you find at the grocery store. But a farmer at the market should be able to tell you, without hesitation, how his laborers are treated.
At our farm, we have apprentices, local workers, and H2A workers from Jamaica. They are all paid far above the minimum wage, and work hours that are long, but are not impossible. Most workers come back year after year, and feel sufficiently compensated. You can read their bios on our website, and talk them at our farmers market. We know whose hands picked those tomatoes, and we know they aren't been mistreated.
Can you say the same about that tomato at the store in January?
We understand that local food is sometimes more expensive, or can be harder to find. It doesn't have to be a hard and fast rule (though we'd like it to be). But make eating locally a goal as much as you can — whether that means foregoing those tomatoes in the winter, or trying that kohlrabi at the market, or preserving some tomatoes from August — and you will find that rewards outweigh the difficulty. So, in 2015, eat local year round!


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The Ancient Agora
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One of the most important parts of Greek history was the political aspect of their life. The Agora (also known as Forum of Athens in older texts) was the heart of ancient Athens, the focus of political, commercial, administrative and social activity, the religious and cultural centre and the seat of justice. At the same time it is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora.
Besides the historical aspect, it offers you a beautiful view of the hills in its surroundings: the hill of Areopagus on the south and the hill Kolonus Agoraios, also called Market Hill, on the west.
Metro Monastiraki
Adults €4, children € 2
Opening time: 8 am – 3 pm, museum closed 8 – 11 am on Mondays
The Resistance Museum
The Dutch people are proud of their anti-fascist history and, therefore Dutch Resistance Museum is one of the most popular WWII-themed museums.
The weird looking building in center of Helsinki is Kiasma. It is a contemporary art museum with 5 floors and over 9000 pieces of art.
California Academy of Science
The California Academy of Sciences is one of the largest museums of natural history in the world.
German-born Jewish girl wrote about her suffering during the WWII. Anne Frank and her family were hiding from the Nazis for over two years in an old house in the middle of Amsterdam.
The 30th most visited art museum in the world and definitely the most visited in the Netherlands, is the Van Gogh Museum.
Kungliga Slottet
The official residence of Swedish monarchs is the Stockholm Palace. Originally, it was built in the 13th century as a fortress, but through the ages, it developed into one of the most impressive palaces in the world.


Brief Description: Charges for brine-impacted soil remediation services including services to dispose of unwanted soil excavated from the remediation site.
Thank you for your recent letter. You ask how Kansas sales tax applies to charges for brine-impacted soil remediation services, including services to dispose of unwanted soil excavated from the remediation site. The contaminated soil is disposed of by converting it into a slurry that is pumped into decommissioned underground gas storage caverns.
During the production of petroleum, saline produced water is also brought to the surface. At one time it was common practice for this fluid to be discharged at the surface. Today, oilfield brine is usually re-injected into a deep geological formation, often the one from which it was withdrawn. Nevertheless, brine spills at the wellhead or tank battery are a frequent occurrence.
An oilfield brine spill will convert the soil to a saline condition (Harris, 1998). This causes established plants to perish because a high concentration of ions in the soil solution makes it difficult for plant roots to absorb water by osmosis. Contamination with oilfield brine may also produce a sodic soil. Sodic soils exhibit poor structure, characterized by a low hydraulic conductivity, because the aggregation of clay particles is inhibited when sodium ions displace other ions (notably calcium ion) from cation exchange sites. Dispersed clay particles are free to migrate in the soil water until they become lodged in, and plug off, the smaller pores in the soil.
Soil that is unable to support plant life, as result of either salinity or sodicity, will eventually succumb to erosion. The resultant "salt scar" is very costly to remediate. Therefore, it is an economic imperative that brine-impacted soil be remediated as soon as possible after the spill has occurred. On the other hand, since oilfield brine does not represent a threat to human health unless it impacts drinking water, and the contaminated land may not be that valuable (from an economic perspective), the means by which the brine components are removed from the soil must be relatively inexpensive.
In 1997, the American Petroleum Institute (API) published a field manual concerning the remediation of brine-impacted soil (Carty et al., 1997). This manual describes three separate remedial activities. The first, excavation of the contaminated soil (with appropriate disposal elsewhere), is utilized when the brine components represent a significant threat to nearby surface water (or groundwater). However, this approach should be used as a last resort because it is very expensive. The second activity involves the addition of amendments (e.g. gypsum) to improve the structure of the topsoil and encourage the downward movement of brine components through the soil profile (driven by rainfall or surface irrigation). The success of this approach is critically dependent on the characteristics of the subsoil (or underlying geologic materials); if the hydraulic conductivity of these materials is low, the brine components will remain concentrated in the topsoil. The third activity utilizes halophytes, plants capable of surviving in highly saline soil, to stabilize the topsoil. Unfortunately, the knowledge base required to match known halophytes to local climatological and ecological conditions is not yet available.
Historic oil and gas production practices in Kansas and other states in the United States in the first half of the 20th Century resulted in damage to surface soil. Production was often carried out in the absence of relevant state anti-pollution laws such as exist at the present day. As is the case in most of the world's oil reservoirs, at some point in their history, they begin to produce large volumes of water, often 50 times more water than oil. Without regulatory control, the oil and water is sometimes released into the surface in unlined pits. It was the use of these pits that gave rise to scarring of the land.
The scars are areas where salt water and crude oil have sterilized the soil by the action of two pollutants – salinity and sodium. The salinity prevents seeds from germinating and existing plants from thriving. The sodium acts on the clays in the soil, making them swell and destroy the structure of the soil. The destruction of the soil structure makes the soil tight and prevents the soil from transmitting water into the soil or to roots in the soil zone. Remediation must address both aspects of soil scarring. The subject research prioritizes the various remediation techniques to rank their effectiveness and efficiency in Kansas. Project Final Report, p. 7.
Management of drilling wastes is an ongoing environmental concern. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) have issued Federal regulations that govern the management and disposal of drilling wastes. See Drilling Waste Management Information System at http://web.ead.anl.gov/dwm/. Kansas Corporation Commission regulation K.A.R. 82-3-603 fixes requirements for how spills of oil field fluids are handled. Oil field fluids include saltwater, oil, drilling mud, and fluid used for fractionation.
The discussions quoted above show a range of actions that can be taken to remediate brine impacted soil. If necessary, all of these actions can be taken on the same area of impacted soil. One is to work minerals (e.g. gypsum) into the impacted soil. Another is to plant halophytes, which are plants like saltbush or sea lavender that can flourish in salty soil. The third is to excavate the soil, remove it, and dispose of it in an environmentally sound manner. You ask whether Kansas sales tax applies to excavation services to remove the soil and to services to grind the soil into smaller particles which are mixed with liquids to create a slurry that is pumped into decommissioned underground gas storage caverns.
Kansas retailers' sales tax is not imposed on soil excavation services if the charges for excavation are not lumped together as part of a taxable installation charge. See In Re Bernie's Excavating Company, Inc., 13 Kan.App. 2d 476, 772 P.2d 822 (1989). For example, charges for excavating a trench and installing buried pipe in it are fully taxable if both services are billed as a single lump sum charge for taxable pipe installation. However, if the customer invoice shows one charge for pipe installation and another for excavating the trench, the charge for excavation is not subject to Kansas sales tax. Accordingly, Kansas sales tax does not apply to separately stated charges for excavating brine impacted soil or to a lump sum charge for nontaxable remediation services that recovers the service provider's excavation costs as part of the single, undifferentiated customer charge.
The Kansas retailers' sales tax act (Act) levies sales tax on retail sales of tangible personal property and on retail charges for the taxable services enumerated in the Act. No service enumerated in the Act can be construed so broadly that it includes disposal services. Over the years, the department has ruled Kansas sales tax is not imposed on charges for sewer services, trash hauling, pumping out septic tanks, and disposing of salt water produced at a gas or oil well, as well as other similar services.
The services performed to transform excavated soil into a slurry that can be pumped into decommissioned gas caverns are also nontaxable disposal services, as it the pumping service itself. Accordingly, charges billed to a customer for: (1) excavating brine impacted soil, (2) hauling it to a pumping station, (3) changing the soil into a slurry, and (4) pumping it into the ground are not subject to Kansas sales tax.


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Q: Characteristic Function of $Y=X+c$ The sort of problem that I'm working on is actually related to the following previous post:
Bernoulli Distribution with support different from $\{0,1\}$
And if $X$ is Rademacher distributed then how do I compute the characteristic for $Y=X+c :(c\ge 0 $ $constant)$
I have the following:
$φ_Y=φ_{X+c}=\cos(t)*\mathbb{E}[e^{itc}]$
I just get the feeling like this is "messy" and should some more elegant/useful representation.

A: Since $c$ is constant, $\mathbb E(\mathrm e^{\mathrm itc})=\mathrm e^{\mathrm itc}$. (And please replace $\varphi_Y$ and $\varphi_{X+c}$ by $\varphi_Y(t)$ and $\varphi_{X+c}(t)$.)