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735 Drinking Water Supply Schemes of Uttar Pradesh Approved
ganari November 12, 2021 1:30 pm
Ministry of Jal Shakti 735 Drinking Water Supply Schemes of Uttar Pradesh ApprovedSchemes Worth Rs. 1,882 Crore Will Benefit 39 Lakh People In 1,2
Ministry of Jal Shakti
Schemes Worth Rs. 1,882 Crore Will Benefit 39 Lakh People In 1,262 Villages Of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Plans To Provide Tap Water Connections To 78 Lakh Households by March, 2022
Rs. 10,870 Crore Central Allocation toUttar Pradesh Under Jal Jeevan Mission For 2021-22
The State Level Scheme Sanctioning Committee (SLSSC) of Uttar Pradesh on 11thNovember, 2021 approved proposals submitted by the State worth Rs 1,882 Crore for making provision of tap water connections in rural areas. These schemes will cover a population of 39 lakh in 1,262 villages of 33 Districts. In the said meeting, 735 schemes were approved by the committee. As per the approval, tap water connections to be provided to 4.03 lakh rural households of the State.
As on date, 34 lakh (12.9%) rural households out of 2.64 Crore are getting tap water supply in their homes. In 2021-22, the State plans to provide tap water connections to 78 lakh households.
Under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), there is provision for constitution of State Level Scheme Sanctioning Committee (SLSSC) for consideration and approval of schemes to be taken up for making provision of tap water supply to rural households. The SLSSC acts as a State level Committee to consider water supply schemes/ projects, and a nominee of the National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM), Government of India is a member of the committee.
To translate Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's vision of providing clean tap water to every household and freeing women and girls from the drudgery of fetching water from a distance, the National Jal Jeevan Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti has already released Rs. 2,400 Crore grant–in–aid to Uttar Pradesh during 2021-22. In 2019-20, Central Government had allocated Rs. 1,206 Crore to Uttar Pradesh for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission, which was increased to Rs. 2,571 Crore in 2020-21. Union Minister, Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat while approving this four-fold increase in allocation in 2021-22, assured full assistance to the State for making provision of tap water supply in every rural home by 2024.
In Uttar Pradesh, there are 2.64 Crore rural households in over 97 thousand villages, out of which now 34 lakh (12.87%) households have tap water supply in their homes. During the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission, only 5.16 lakh (2%) households had a tap water supply. In the last 26 months, despite disruptions faced during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, the State has provided tap water connection to 28.85 lakh (10.92%) households. The State aims to make 5 districts 'Har Ghar Jal' in the current financial year.
To accelerate the pace of JJM implementation, National Jal Jeevan Mission has urged the State to take necessary measures to provide tap water supply to 78 lakh rural households in the State this year, for which the State plans to start water supply works in more than 60 thousand villages by December, 2021. With this year's Central allocation of Rs. 10,870 Crore and with an opening balance of Rs. 466 Crore available with the State Government, the State's matching share of 2021-22 and shortfall in matching State share of previous years, the total assured fund available for the implementation of JJM in Uttar Pradesh is more than Rs. 23,500 Crore. Thus, the Government of India is ensuring that there is no paucity of funds for the implementation of this transformational mission in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
Further, Rs. 4,324 Crore have been allocated to Uttar Pradesh as 15th Finance Commission tied grant for water & sanitation to Rural Local Bodies/ PRIs in 2021-22. There is assured funding of Rs. 22,808 Crore tied grant for the next five years i.e. up to 2025-26. This huge investment in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh will accelerate economic activities and also boost the rural economy. It will create income-generating opportunities in villages.
Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone of piped water supply schemes for the rural areas of 7 districts viz. Jhansi, Mahoba, Lalitpur, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda and Chitrakoot in the Bundelkhand region in February 2019; and in November 2020, for rural drinking water supply projects for Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Vindhyachal region. These are water-stressed areas. These projects will benefit about 18.88 lakh households in 6,742 villages of the region. So far, the physical progress is about 50% in these schemes.
To take forward the mission's motto of 'Building partnership, changing lives', various reputed organizations have started working with the local community in the State to ensure drinking water security on a long-term basis. UN agency like UNOPS has already mobilized resources on the ground and actively working in about 140 villages of Bundelkhand, Vindhyachal, Prayagraj and Kaushambi. Aga Khan Foundation is working in 40 villages of Lucknow and Sitapur. Similarly, Tata Trust is mobilizing its resources in 200 villages of 3 districts of Balarampur, Bahraich and Shravasti. With this type of participation, Jal Jeevan Mission is becoming a 'Jan Andolan'.
The NJJM team emphasised the need for effective community contribution- which is a non-negotiable aspect of Jal Jeevan Mission. The need for water availability assessment and source sustainability is much needed in the State as most of the schemes in Uttar Pradesh are ground water-based. The NJJM team suggested including the provision of greywater management through convergence in the water supply schemes as it's a very important component of the Jal Jeevan Mission.
Water quality monitoring & surveillance activities are given top priority by imparting training to 5 women in each village, for regular and independent testing of drinking water sources and delivery points using Field Test Kits (FTKs). Water testing laboratories are upgraded and open for the general public so that people can test their water samples at a nominal rate.
With a focus on 'service delivery, 10 villages in Baghpat district are being taken for 'online measurement & monitoring system' as part of Grand Technology Challenge being run by Jal Jeevan Mission in partnership with MeiTY, GoI and State Government. The 'online system' will generate alerts whenever the water supply in the village is disrupted so that timely corrective action can be taken.
Under Jal Jeevan Mission, water quality-affected habitations, Aspirational & JE/ AES affected districts, SC/ ST majority villages, SAGY villages in the State are given priority. Working in line with 'SabkaSath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Vishwas', Jal Jeevan Mission aims at universal access to the potable tap water supply to the most vulnerable and marginalized people.
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HNB FINANCE wins Bronze at SLIM DIGI Awards 2.0
Leading integrated financial services company HNB FINANCE PLC (HNBF) took home the bronze award for superior Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing at the recently held SLIM DIGI Awards 2021. This spotlights HNBF as the only finance company to emerge victorious at the prestigious annual awards ceremony, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding digital marketing endeavors spearheaded by organisations across a multitude of industries in Sri Lanka.
HNBF secured this unique victory for their exceptionally strategised and executed campaign, "Building an organic footprint". The awards ceremony was held on the January 21, at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall.
"We are extremely honoured to have secured this coveted win for our SEO and SEM efforts. Digital marketing plays a pivotal role in empowering companies to reach their targets, and the global pandemic has only accelerated this agenda by compelling companies to reimagine their business models to reach consumers more effectively and creatively. As an institution that places a high value on superior customer experiences, HNB FINANCE has always looked to digital to enhance our service portfolio. This victory is undoubtedly testament to the strength and effectiveness of our persistent investment in digital innovation." stated HNB FINANCE Head of Marketing Udara Gunasinghe.
HNB FINANCE is motivated by a strong vision to provide innovative, technology-driven financial solutions to enhance customer experiences and foster deeper, more meaningful relationships with all stakeholders; in a global climate placing increasing emphasis on digital transformation. The company's active presence in the digital sphere consistently delivers rich insight on customer success stories, CSR initiatives, HNBF's financial offerings as well as regular updates on the financial sector with the aim of improving financial literacy in the country. Most recently, HNB FINANCE was also awarded the prestigious Arcturus Award for social content & marketing at the annual Vega Digital Awards 2020 – the only finance company in Sri Lanka to have secured this honour.
The SLIM DIGI Awards is one of Sri Lanka's most anticipated and prestigious Awarding Ceremonies, regarded as the premier celebration of the expertise, talent and achievements in the digital sphere. All entrants are independently judged under stringent international standards by the industry's most respected business, marketing and digital marketing professionals. It recognizes the Best Digital Marketing campaigns from across a multitude of industries such as banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, real estate, leisure and hospitality, and more. The SLIM DIGI awards aims to encourage innovative and contemporary work of global standards, as well as to inspire Sri Lanka's digital marketing industry and its next generation of practitioners.
Govt commended by Japanese Ambassador for its role in improving business environment
Amãna Bank signs up with the Department of Registration of Persons to facilitate eKYC
By Lynn Ockersz
The CSE is planning to attract a greater number of investors to the stock market this year through the introduction of some new product lines. In order to increase the choice of instruments available to equity investors, the CSE intends to focus in the immediate term on instruments, such as, stock borrowing and lending and regulated short-selling, CSE CEO Rajeeva Bandaranaike said.
The latter instruments would help in generating more liquidity and trading among equity investors, not only in instances when the market is on its way up but also in a declining market as well, CEO Bandaranaike told The Island Financial Review in an exclusive interview recently.
The CEO also said that the CSE is aiming at leveraging the corporate debt market through the initiation of some new products. For example, Green Bonds, Perpetual Bonds and the facilitation of secondary trading of corporate bonds via repo trading.
Asked to indicate as to how these instruments would help the bourse going forward, Mr. Bandaranaike said that stock borrowing and lending, for instance, would facilitate and enable regulated short selling which will have the effect of increasing liquidity and trading among all categories of equity investors.
This will create opportunities for traders to make use of market volatility. Besides, investors holding long term portfolios could lend their stock and earn an interest with least effort on their part.
Asked to elaborate on the importance of Green Bonds, the CEO said that institutional investors in particular are currently focusing on ESG projects; that is, investors that are sensitive to environmental, social and governance concerns. Accordingly, the CSE would be catering to some important investor needs through the latter projects.
Meanwhile, in response to the question on how the digitization initiatives of the CSE have helped in ushering a more robust share market in Sri Lanka, CSE's Chief Information Officer Chandrakanth Jayasinghe said it is the aim of the CSE to give progressive digital exposure to investors. There are two dimensions to be considered here the CIO said. First, more and more important features have been added to the CSE's digital mobile App over the last two years.
The CIO added: 'A revamped mobile App is now at hand to enable quicker and informed investment decisions. All the information required by the investor is now available via this App to enable him to enter the market. For example, we are linked to the Department of Registration of Persons. Digital on-boarding and digital signing etc have been enabled via the app. On a full digital basis investors can now interact with the CSE.
'The investor is now connected to the CDS E-Connect via the CSE and the investor could access his/her stock portfolio, for instance, and access his/her monthly statements. They could also make changes to their profiles such their address changes via the mobile App. Research reports of brokers could be accessed by the same means, nominations could be effected through the same mechanism. It's a total change: a 360-degree info hub has been created through the App.
'Secondly, the CSE is a more agile digital organization. For instance, most of our back-end functions are fully robotized. AI is used in many operations. We use AI for compliance operations.
'We are saddled with very much less paperwork. Over 90% of all account openings are effected through our mobile App. Most paper-based formalities have been done away with.'
SriLankan Airlines has unveiled a new and improved mobile app that is designed for optimum user-friendliness. The enhanced app will afford customers greater ease and flexibility in managing their flight bookings, purchasing value-added services, enrolling for a FlySmiLes account and performing a variety of other tasks.
The new app provides greater autonomy for Customers through added features that are exclusive to the app. Customers will be able to choose their in-flight meal; reserve seats; change travel dates and sectors; buy value added services such as excess baggage, travel insurance and duty-free items; and check-in for flights well in advance.
The ability to manage flight bookings, even while on the move, remains entirely with passengers who will be empowered to exercise greater control in shaping their journey independently and dynamically. Customers' in-app experience is inclined to be further enhanced with the new 'My Trips' feature. My Trips will organize and present important information that a customer requires for an upcoming flight in a timely fashion on the app's homepage.
The homepage includes other up-to-minute information on the flight schedule and allows users to search and stay on top of the departure and arrival times of flights. Customers can also stay updated and not miss out on the latest deals and promotional fares.
Brandix Apparel Ltd., gave hope to 16,824 children of the Brandix family by gifting them school essentials including stationery and schoolbags necessary for the new school year, under its 'Manusathkara Thilina' 2022 initiative recently.
Understanding the current need to support our team members, especially during the current crisis of rising stationery costs, the children of 10,933 Brandix Associates were recipients of Brandix's unstinting efforts to inspire and support education for all. The 2022 programme is being held for the 7th consecutive year where children from pre-school to Grade 13 received stationery packs.
Malika Samaraweera, Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Brandix Apparel noted, "The beginning of the new school year is eagerly anticipated and exciting for all students. However, we realise that our employees, who are the backbone of our enterprise, are facing a daunting challenge to provide their children these essential items. We firmly believe in taking care of our communities and this year's Manusathkara Thilina programme ensures these children have the tools and opportunity to learn and grow."
Begun in 2016, the Manusathkara School Essentials initiative seeks to drive home the importance of education among the children of Brandix employees. To-date, over 37,000 children have benefitted from the programme. The educational hampers gifted to the children comprise of stationery and other school necessities, enabling their success for the foreseeable future.
With the aim of driving social sustainability, the inspired team at Brandix continues their work towards Equal Opportunity and the Right to Education for All. Recognising that today's challenges are wide-ranging and incredibly tough for many families, the school essential packs will enrich the lives of the beneficiary children and sustain their school education.
Supporting Sri Lanka's aspiring youth towards continuity in their education, Brandix has also initiated an annual scholarship scheme under its 'Manusathkara University Scholarship' programme. Children who are high performers in the Advanced Level Examinations within the Brandix Model Villages are awarded scholarships to pursue their higher education and contribute towards Sri Lanka's future workforce. The 'Model Village' concept was developed by Brandix to support the wellbeing of communities within a 10km radius of the company's facilities.

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Real Property, Sale, Right of first refusal, Purchase and sale agreement. Contract, Sale of real estate, Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, Performance and breach, Damages. Consumer Protection Act, Sale of commercial property.
CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on March 2, 1998.
The case was tried before Carol S. Ball, J.
Thomas Bhisitkul (Stacey Coady with him) for the plaintiffs.
William E. Gens for Martin J. Malloy.
James R. DeGiacomo (Elizabeth A. Kowal with him) for Michael S. Lapuck & another.
purchase price of $287,500, Lapuck's offer proposed the following additional terms: (i) an initial deposit of $1,000, to be paid upon acceptance of the offer; (ii) the offer was contingent on the parties' execution of a mutually satisfactory purchase and sale agreement that, when executed, would be the agreement between the parties; (iii) an additional deposit of $13,375, to be paid upon execution of the above-described purchase and sale agreement; (iv) closing would occur within sixty days following execution of the purchase and sale agreement; and (v) the buyer's obligations were conditioned on (a) the buyer obtaining first mortgage financing for seventy-five percent of the purchase price, and (b) the buyer's satisfaction with the results of the buyer's inspections of the property. The offer further provided that the seller would provide "a current environmental report on the property that is satisfactory to Buyer and Buyer's Lender and demonstrate compliance with all Federal and Massachusetts regulations, thirty days from signing of Purchase and Sale Agreement. A copy of any previous environmental reports is to be delivered to Purchaser within five days of acceptance of this Offer."
On November 5, 1997, Frostar [Note 11] received by facsimile a copy of the Lapuck offer. Shortly thereafter, Candeloro J. Maggio, Jr., acting on behalf of Frostar, informed Malloy's attorney that he wished to match the Lapuck offer.
never received them. At the attorney's request on January 12, 1998, Maggio signed and returned by overnight mail an additional copy of the agreement. After Malloy signed the agreement his attorney sent a facsimile cover sheet to Maggio on January 20, 1998, stating that the fully signed agreement was "attached." However, the agreement did not accompany the facsimile cover sheet; Maggio telephoned Malloy's attorney to advise her of the omission, and the attorney assured him that she would deliver a copy to his New Hampshire office "right away." As of January 30, 1998, however, Maggio still had not received a fully signed copy of the agreement; in fact, Maggio did not receive a signed copy of the agreement until after he filed his complaint in the present action. Even without having received the purchase and sale agreement, however, Maggio delivered to Malloy's attorney a check for the additional deposit of $13,375 on February 18, 1998.
disclosed by the environmental report would extend to the fifth day after Frostar received the report.
By the time Malloy signed the purchase and sale agreement on January 20, 1998, the dates specified in paragraph 5 had already passed. Moreover, as noted, Maggio had not received a copy of the agreement even then. Maggio did not receive an environmental report from Malloy until February 17, 1998, less than two weeks before the scheduled closing date but almost three weeks after Malloy's attorney had received it. [Note 13] When finally delivered, the environmental report raised more questions than it answered. Among other concerns, the report reflected that past occupants of the building had conducted a dry cleaning business on the property, and that a "sheen" was visible on the surface of standing water in the basement. The study did not include tests of any subsurface soil or water, and the consultants who prepared the report did not inspect portions of the building leased to tenants other than Frostar. In a series of telephone calls to Malloy's attorney, Maggio expressed various concerns with the adequacy of the report, and with the potential risks it identified. When Malloy's attorney made it clear that Malloy considered the report complete and was unwilling to furnish additional information on environmental conditions at the site, Maggio requested a two-week extension of the closing date to allow him to conduct his own further study. Malloy was unwilling to agree to an extension of the closing date.
the claim of inadequacies in the environmental report as a pretext in an unsuccessful attempt to postpone the closing.
Discussion. The jury found that Malloy's actions constituted a breach of his obligations to Frostar Corp. under the right of first refusal, a breach of his obligations to Frostar Inc. under the purchase and sale agreement, and a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The jury awarded damages to both plaintiffs in the amount of $842,500. [Note 15] Though the judge denied the defendants' motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, the judge took a somewhat different view of the evidence than the jury, declining the jury's recommendation of a finding that Malloy's actions violated G. L. c. 93A. [Note 16] We discuss the issues raised in the parties' cross appeals in turn.
refusal because it was superseded by the purchase and sale agreement the parties later entered. We agree.
"A right of first refusal is not an option to purchase property at a certain price, but a limitation on the owner's ability to dispose of property without first offering the property to the holder of the right at the third party's offering price. . . . The owner's obligation under a right of first refusal is to provide the holder of the right seasonable disclosure of the terms of any bona fide third-party offer. . . . It is the prerogative of the holder then to decide whether to purchase the property at that price." Uno Restaurants, Inc. v. Boston Kenmore Realty Corp., 441 Mass. 376 , 382-383 (2004) (footnote and citations omitted). Upon notice of a bona fide offer to purchase, the right of first refusal ripens into an option to purchase the property at the price and otherwise on the terms stated in the offer. See Mucci v. Brockton Bocce Club, Inc., 19 Mass. App. Ct. 155 , 159 (1985).
To support its contention that it holds independent rights under the right of first refusal that survived execution of the purchase and sale agreement, Frostar cites Zolner v. THN Invs., Inc., 21 Mass. App. Ct. 927 (1985), which held that an option to purchase was not superseded by a subsequent purchase and sale agreement that terminated upon failure of a condition contained in it but not in the option. Id. at 927-928. Frostar contends that, to the extent the terms of the purchase and sale agreement were less favorable to it than those contained in the Lapuck offer which triggered the right of first refusal (specifically on the subject of the seller's obligation to furnish an environmental report), it retained its right to insist upon a purchase in strict conformity with the terms contained in the Lapuck offer despite its execution of the subsequent purchase and sale agreement.
As matter of law, Frostar's claim of a breach of the right of first refusal failed, and it was error to deny the defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict as to that claim.
verdict on Frostar's claim of breach of the purchase and sale agreement, the defendants contend that Malloy fully complied with his obligation under the agreement to furnish an environmental study of the property, and that the uncontroverted evidence established that Frostar did not comply with its obligations under the agreement and, in addition, failed to tender performance at the time designated in the agreement for closing. Finally, the defendants contend that the evidence compels judgment in their favor because, even if Frostar was relieved of the duty to tender performance in the circumstances, Frostar failed to establish that it was ready, willing, and able to perform its obligations under the agreement. As to breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, the defendants argue that there is no evidence in the record to support a conclusion that Malloy acted in bad faith or with dishonest purpose, conscious wrongdoing, or ill will.
The jury further could have concluded, in the circumstances, where Malloy furnished the study to Frostar well after the period specified in the agreement, well after expiration of the period for the buyer's performance of its own inspections, and so near the closing date that the buyer was without any realistic ability to resolve before the scheduled closing date the uncertainty concerning the environmental condition of the property, that Malloy had an implied obligation to grant to Frostar a reasonable extension of time (as Frostar requested) to allow Frostar to perform its own, more thorough investigation. We conclude that there was adequate support in the evidence for the jury's conclusion that Malloy breached the purchase and sale agreement.
As to the claim of breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, both Frostar and Malloy attempted at trial to portray the other as the party who sought for improper purpose to scuttle or delay the sale of the property, and there were facts in evidence to support either conclusion. The judge correctly recognized that resolution of that factual dispute is a quintessential jury function, and declined to accept the defendants' arguments for judgment notwithstanding the verdict to the extent they rested on the assertion that Malloy did not act in bad faith or for an improper purpose.
395 Mass. 199 , 202 (1985), quoting from Mayer v. Boston Metropolitan Airport, Inc., 355 Mass. 344 , 354 (1969).
In the present case, the jury could have found that Malloy steadfastly refused to furnish Frostar with an environmental study adequate in scope to permit Frostar to assess the environmental condition of the property. Because the environmental study Malloy furnished to Frostar did not permit Frostar to assess the environmental condition of the property, and because the date on which Malloy furnished the study -- coupled with the delays in delivery of a fully-signed purchase and sale agreement and Malloy's refusal to allow Frostar an extension of time to perform its own study -- frustrated Frostar's opportunity to obtain information independently to assess the environmental condition, we reject the defendants' contention that Frostar's claim is barred by its failure to tender performance on the designated closing date. [Note 23] See Vander Realty Co. v. Gabriel, 334 Mass. 267 , 271 (1956) (buyer relieved of tender where seller's failure to perform obligation precedent to buyer's obligation to purchase rendered seller unable to perform on date scheduled for closing). Compare Lafayette Place Assocs. v. Boston Redev. Authy., 427 Mass. 509 , 522-523 (1998), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 1177 (1999) (buyer not relieved of tender where parties shared responsibility under contract to obtain appraisal, and buyer failed to follow provisions of contract to resolve resulting uncertainties).
Maggio's account but unavailable to him until several months after the closing was to have occurred. In reply to the defendants' contention on appeal that the evidence did not establish that Frostar was ready, willing, and able to close, Frostar asserts simply that the jury resolved that question of fact in Frostar's favor. However, there is no basis on which we may adopt that assertion because the judge declined the defendants' request to instruct the jury that, in order to place Malloy in breach, Frostar was required to show that it was ready, willing, and able to perform. [Note 24] The refusal to give the requested instruction was error. See Kanavos v. Hancock Bank & Trust Co., 395 Mass. at 206. The requirement that a party claiming breach of contract establish its ability to perform as a condition to recovery rests on the straightforward principle that a party claiming deprivation of the benefit of a contract must show that it was in a position to obtain the benefit of the contract, but for the breach. See 9 Corbin, Contracts § 978, at 818 (interim ed. 2002). Because the jury were not properly instructed on an element essential to their verdict, a new trial is required.
damage award. [Note 25] See Canal Elec. Co. v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp., 406 Mass. 369 , 374-375 (1990). With damages eliminated, however, there is no basis for the defendants' contention that the judge abused her discretion in ordering specific performance as a remedy.
trial on those two counts. [Note 28] So much of the judgment dismissing count V of the complaint, which claimed that Malloy violated G. L. c. 93A, § 11, is affirmed.
[Note 1] Formerly known as Commercial Cold Storage Corporation.
[Note 3] As trustee of the 33 Norfolk Avenue Realty Trust.
[Note 4] Michael S. Lapuck and Kenneth M. Lapuck, as trustees of the RFD Realty Trust; the 1164 Washington Street Realty Trust; and Royal Fire Door Company, Inc.
[Note 5] The judge accepted the jury's recommendation that defendants Michael S. Lapuck and Kenneth M. Lapuck, as trustees of the RFD Realty Trust, the 1164 Washington Street Realty Trust, and Royal Fire Door Company, Inc., were not liable under G. L. c. 93A.
[Note 6] The judge also denied the defendants' motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, to alter or amend the verdict, for remittitur, and for a new trial.
[Note 7] We affirm the judgment dismissing the c. 93A count against Malloy. As will be seen, only two of the three contract counts require a retrial; the claim in count I of the complaint, that Malloy breached a right of first refusal held by Frostar, shall be dismissed.
[Note 8] 16 Howard Street is also known as 33-35 Norfolk Avenue.
[Note 9] As of the date of the lease, Frostar Corp. was doing business as Commercial Cold Storage -- Howard Street Division, Inc. The lease provided for a term of ten years, with an option to renew for an additional ten years, and was in effect during all periods relevant to the present controversy.
"Right of First Refusal to Purchase: In the event Lessor shall receive a bona fide offer to purchase the Leased Premises or any property of which it is a part during the term of this lease, and the offer of purchase shall be satisfactory to Lessor, Lessor shall give Lessee the privilege of purchasing the premises at the price and on the terms of the offer so made. This privilege shall be given by a notice sent to Lessee at the Leased Premises by certified mail, return receipt requested, requiring Lessee to accept the offer in writing and to sign a suitable Purchase and Sale Agreement for the premises within the period of fifteen (15) days after the mailing of the notice.
"The failure of the Lessee to accept the offer to purchase or sign a contract within the period provided shall nullify and void the privilege to Lessee; and Lessee [sic] shall be at liberty to sell the premises to any other person, firm, or corporation. Any subsequent sale, except to Lessee, shall be subject to this lease and any renewals or extensions thereof."
[Note 11] The two named plaintiffs in the present action, Frostar Corp. and Frostar Inc., are affiliated entities; both are wholly owned by Frostar Industries, Inc., which, in turn, is wholly owned by Candeloro J. Maggio, Jr. Frostar Corp. was the lessee under the above-described lease (and the holder of the right of first refusal it created), while Frostar Inc. was purchaser under the purchase and sale agreement at the center of the present dispute, by assignment of the rights held by Frostar Corp. For convenience in this opinion, we hereinafter refer to the plaintiffs interchangeably as Frostar, except where the context requires more specific reference, or as Maggio, when he is acting on Frostar's behalf.
[Note 12] March 1, 1998, was a Sunday; accordingly, the closing fell to the following day.
[Note 13] Malloy's attorney received the environmental report on January 28, 1998.
[Note 14] Incident to the closing, the Lapucks agreed to indemnify Malloy against loss or damage resulting from Frostar's suit, and to defend Malloy in the suit.
[Note 15] In ordering sale of the property to Frostar as specific performance of the purchase and sale agreement, the judge reduced the damages award by $287,500, the purchase price payable under the agreement.
[Note 16] In so doing, the judge expressed her view that "Maggio dragged his feet during the sale process. It appeared that he hoped to defer closing and the attendant obligation to pay a significant sum of money as long as possible, possibly due to his ongoing divorce proceedings. Maggio waited until the last moment to register every objection and then used his late expressed concerns to justify his request for an extension of time. He took all these actions knowing full well that the Malloys were in dire financial [straits]."
[Note 17] In Mucci v. Brockton Bocce Club, Inc., supra at 161, we suggested in dictum the possibility that the holder of a right of first refusal might preserve his right to challenge the bona fide nature of the triggering offer, and to rescind the purchase or recover damages if the offer was not bona fide, even after proceeding with purchase of the property. We express no view on whether as a general proposition the holder of a right of first refusal may agree to modifications of terms during the negotiations of a purchase and sale agreement triggered by a third-party offer, and claim a breach of the refusal right by reason of those agreed modifications, even after closing the purchase.
[Note 18] We also note that paragraph 23 of the purchase and sale agreement contained a standard "merger clause," which stated that all prior agreements and understandings of the parties with respect to the transaction were merged into the agreement.
[Note 19] Frostar's contention that Lapuck's "new" offer was materially different from the offer that triggered the right of first refusal is specious. The subsequent offer contained only minor differences from Lapuck's original offer concerning the procedures for assessment of the environmental condition of the property, and those differences were less favorable to the buyer.
[Note 20] Malloy's contention that he was free to sell the property to the Lapucks upon Frostar's breach of its obligations under the purchase and sale agreement, see Mucci v. Brockton Bocce Club, Inc., 19 Mass. App. Ct. at 160, is at odds with the jury's conclusion that Malloy, rather than Frostar, was the breaching party -- a conclusion we have determined to be supported by the evidence.
[Note 21] In reply to the defendants' suggestion that the scope of the study was defined by the limitation under the agreement that Malloy was obliged to contribute no more than $2,000 to its cost, Frostar correctly observes that the limitation was on the extent of Malloy's contribution, and not on the total cost of the study.
[Note 22] Framing Frostar's position in that manner illustrates the flaw in the defendants' contention that Frostar's sole right under the agreement was to terminate if it was dissatisfied with the results of any inspection. The point is that Frostar bargained for, and was entitled to receive, an environmental report sufficient to allow an informed judgment whether to terminate or to proceed -- or at least a jury could so have found.
[Note 23] In the present case, though the parties' agreement allowed Frostar to conduct its own inspections, the obligation to furnish an environmental study was assigned to Malloy in the first instance. As we have observed, supra, the jury could have concluded that the study Malloy furnished did not fulfil his obligations under the agreement.
[Note 24] In reply to the defendants' argument on this subject, Frostar points simply to the judge's instruction that, in order to recover for breach, Frostar "must establish [its] full and complete performance of all obligations under the contract." The cited charge plainly does not frame for the jury the question whether Frostar was ready, willing, and able to perform its obligations under the contract.
[Note 25] To the extent that, in denying the defendants' motion to set aside the damages award on that basis, the judge implicitly relied on the absence of a similar provision in the right of first refusal, our reversal of the judgment based on the right of first refusal eliminates that factor. The covenant of good faith and fair dealing is implied in the contract between the parties, viz., the purchase and sale agreement, and accordingly the parties remain subject to the waiver of damages contained in that agreement. See Uno Restaurants, Inc. v. Boston Kenmore Realty Corp., 441 Mass. at 385.
[Note 26] As the defendants correctly observe, Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC Assocs., 411 Mass. 451 (1991), does not support the plaintiffs' assertion that the finding of a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing compels a finding of a violation of G. L. c. 93A. In that case, the findings on the breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing were made by the trial judge in a jury-waived trial. Id. at 471-476. In the present case, the findings on the breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing were made by the jury, and the judge's conclusion that the evidence was sufficient to support the jury's verdict does not compel the judge to adopt the jury's conclusion as her own.
[Note 27] In light of our determination that the judgments must be vacated pending retrial of the question whether Frostar was ready, willing, and able to perform its obligations under the purchase and sale agreement, we also conclude that the trial judge did not abuse her discretion in staying her order for specific performance pending this appeal.
[Note 28] Unlike the circumstances in Kanavos v. Hancock Bank & Trust Co., 395 Mass. at 206, where the retrial was limited to the question whether the plaintiff was ready, willing, and able to perform his obligations under the contract, the question of Frostar's ability to perform in the present case is interwoven with the question of precisely what the jury considered to be Malloy's breach. For example, as discussed above, depending on which view of the evidence the jury took, Frostar's readiness and capacity to perform might be tested either as of March 2, 1998 (the closing date specified in the contract), or as of March 16, 1998 (the date at the end of the two-week extension Frostar requested but was refused).


Jim Happell, Ph.D., could write a dissertation on sulfur hexafluoride in his sleep. For the past 15 years, the University of Miami scientist has measured the presence of the colorless, odorless, and nonflammable gas in oceans around the world, using it as a transient tracer to study currents and circulation patterns.
But what Dr. Happell never anticipated is that the gas, known by its chemical formula SF6, would help in another endeavor — a surgical procedure that probably prevented him from going blind in one eye.
Two weeks before he was to depart on a research cruise to the Pacific, Dr. Happell began experiencing symptoms of obscured vision that he could only describe as a veil or curtain being drawn across the corner of his right eye. After a thorough exam at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at UM's Miller School of Medicine, an ophthalmologist gave him the bad news: He was suffering from a detached retina initiated by a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
A natural change that occurs as one ages, a PVD is a condition in which the vitreous gel that fills the eye separates from the retina, the light-sensitive layer of tissue in the back of the eye that helps you focus on the images you see. Many people never experience symptoms and may never know they have one. But in other cases, a PVD can cause retinal tears.
"That's exactly what happened to me," said Dr. Happell.
His ophthalmologist repaired the damage that same day, sealing the retinal tear with a laser and using a gas bubble of SF6 to reattach his retina.
Dr. Happell was astonished when he learned the gas, an excellent electrical insulator often used in power transformers, would be injected into his eye to help reattach his retina.
The vision in Dr. Happell's right eye is now much better. He wasn't able to go on his research cruise, but he will pick up the second leg of the expedition later this month in Hilo, Hawaii. He'll spend 30 days in the Pacific studying ocean currents by measuring — what else — sulfur hexafluoride.


Bottle-fed babies, too, can still enjoy the touch and love of the mother, as is the case with breastfeeding.
Making the leap to bottle feeding , especially in cases where this is not a choice but a necessity, must not be seen by the mother as a failure to care for her child, or as a defeat.
There is only one thing that matters: that baby is nourished and feels loved at all times and under all circumstances. It is important, therefore, that bottle feeding takes place in the same way as breastfeeding, allowing both mother and baby to enjoy this intimate occasion.
The environment must be calm and relaxed, and little ones must be able to feel mama's touch and love, even when not latching directly onto the breast.
Feeding time evokes a wonderful combination of emotions - a sense of communication, love and tenderness that doesn't have to be sacrificed.
As with breastfeeding, it is important to make time for feeding, away from confusion, noise, and distraction - a peaceful moment to connect with each other.
Bottle feeding has the advantage of being able to involve daddy directly in this important ritual.
Indeed, after the first few weeks of life, fathers can also experience the thrill of giving a bottle to baby. This will help them to get to know each other better, and to grow closer as father and child, keeping any of the feelings of jealousy, exclusion and abandonment that new fathers often feel at bay.


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(Video) "Kayvee has no mental health issues, he felt unwelcomed" - Family and handler of Kayvee react after he was withdrawn from the show
Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Big Brother Naija star of Season 6, Gbolahan "Kayvee" Ololade, has been withdrawn from the show after suspected mental health problems got speculated. (Read More Here).
In the trending video, Pere announced that Kayvee has been advised to withdraw based on health grounds. His fellow housemates were asked to pack his luggage and drop it at the storeroom.
After speculations of mental breakdown, his family through his Instagram handler rushed to social media to debunk the speculations. According to his family, Kayvee was unwelcomed by his fellow housemates.
Family revealed:
"The KayVee we know isn't what people are painting him to be. His friends and family will never allow him to go into the house if he had a mental health issue. KayVee is big on mental health and positive vibes, and you could see that from when he entered the house.
"What is happening in the house is simply a reaction to him being unwelcomed. He was full of life when he got into the house, and something has triggered this phase. This has caused him to withdraw into his shell to rebuild his energy and vibe.
"Have you met #KayVee? If 20 people are in a room and down spirited, he s always there to uplift them. We could see how he played this role for his fellow housemate, Angel. He is a kind person, and that's one of the qualities that makes us super supportive of him.
"KayVee is passionate about his craft, and that's why he is on the #BBNaija show to promote himself and work. He has worked with several celebrities and individuals. He's a focused and hardworking person whose life and work ethics inspire his friends and family. Over the years, he has tirelessly built his brand "KOKO's VIEW", which provides top-notch photography and cinematography to clients.
"He doesn't speak bad English. Guys, he felt unwelcomed and overthinks his point before speaking, so it sometimes comes across as incoherent. Isn't it human nature to overthink? Let's be humane.
"When we say, "you don't know what people are going through", this is the kind of situation where we should be reminded to be kind to each other and remain supportive. Fewer words, more action.
Please keep supporting #KayVee as he needs us now more than ever."
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Hello. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend (all zero of you since that's how many read this). I've been working hard on a pair of socks and been attempting to do some spinning. I'm horrible at it so far and I really don't want to frustrate myself to the point of not wanting to look at it again so I've been taking it slow. After my laundry is done I plan to give it another go for a few hours and hopefully things will start to click.
I've been sick for the past month or so with a sore throat. My doctor thought it was a virus and gave me some antibiotics which really didn't do anything. He might be right and it could be allergies, but my voice has been slowly going the past week and it's starting to scare me. I couldn't yell at my cat to get her off the counter the other night. It was more of a hushed command and she could have cared less. So in hopes of regaining my voice for this weekend, I've stayed in as much as possible lately and rested to give it a chance to come back. Monday starts the busy season at work until June/July so I'm also enjoying having <b>nothing</b> to do.
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The below note or commentary was unable to be posted on the Time Magazine website, since the site is no longer allowing comments. I have decided to post it here. I hope you will first go to the site below and read the article and some of the comments made by Dr. Jeffrey Edleson and myself. There is a growing movement to again make the emotional-mental and physical needs of the abducted child a side-note, much like the saying, "Children should be seen and not heard" and "I brought you into the world, I can take you out". The pseudoscience that Dr. Edleson is practicing is harmful and one of the biggest spins I have ever read--one that would make a seasoned politician blush. Please follow the link and then read my note. -It will make better sense.
Much like Dr. Edleson, I also work in the area of parental child abduction. Well that is not exactly true, I am not paid—even when I testify in a court case or am called to testify before a state or federal bill—but volunteer a great portion of my life to the crimes of parental child abduction, child abuse and child neglect. Then again, Dr. Edleson does not work in parental child abduction either. In fact, after visiting his websites and resume, he is primarily focused on women violence; which has been the main family-crimes group issue when fighting any form of national acceptance, of the mental diagnosis that could save the lives of thousands of children's—that of parental alienation disorder (wow, that was a run on sentence). Please understand, I lived through 3 years, 2 months and 5 days of a parental kidnapping (October 10, 1980 – December 5, 1983)—resulting in the first interstate felony conviction/recovery in United States history. After being returned, I found myself in the home of a man that beat on my mother and beat on me; of which was partially due to the affects related to my father abducting my brother and me. Even after my mother left her then husband, I underwent what many would call neglect. Either or, I have a pretty good handle on BOTH subjects (just in case the good doctor wishes to challenge my understanding of family violence).
I have lived in some of the worst conditions a child should ever have to endure—both during and after the abduction. I have lived in a garage (the kind with lots of holes, where the cold and daylight wakes you up; even when the doors and windows are closed or the car fumes choke and make your clothes stink). I have lived in many state and national parks (during and after my abduction). I was forced to take a restaurant job the day I turned 13 and pay rent until I legally on my own. I have seen my mother picked up and repeatedly thrown by her then husband (not my abducting father or her current husband). I've woken up in the middle of the night because the FBI was closing in; along with my 'evil' mother who hated me and left my father for another man. The former being common statements children of parental child abduction state they were told repeatedly by their abductor; which Dr. Edleson has completely overlooked when choosing who to use to get his 'scientific' data. I have had the police at my house more times than I can remember. In fact, I could have used many of the officers as references when I went into law enforcement and emergency medicine; given the intimate nature they knew of my family life. Yes, family violence and parental alienation is real; although I am sure, the good doctor would prefer we roll the calendar back to a time when the earth was flat and 'children knew to be seen and not heard'. However, it should not be the reason we let these gun-slinging-for-hire, professionals, who seek their own preconceived, pseudoscience policies, overlook and leave the thousands of innocent children hanging.
I have seen firsthand the affects of family violence as a victim, observer, law enforcement officer and medic. It is a horrific and terrible crime. According to Dr. Edleson's own '23' cases, they are the sole reason to change the laws that protect the victims and punish the criminals; i.e., changing the Hague Treaty to fit his agenda. Dr. Edleson in my view, blatantly, grievously and without compassion, side stepped the fathers and children that have suffered at the hands of mothers who for their own reasons have destroyed the precious bond between them with their felony act. Again, not to appear one-sided; I was abducted by my father and in his single kidnapping act, destroyed my bond with my mother and countless lives. Did he deserve to go to prison? Yes, with a capital Y-E-S. The crime of parental child abduction is a crime that must be seen for what it is.
Think about this: When a parent loses all form of custody, they are considered a 'stranger'. When they abduct their own child, it is treated as a stranger abduction. Every professional uses Stockholm Syndrome or another emotional/mental diagnosis to help show the damage that was caused by this stranger upon the child. However, it is not okay to use such heavy terminology when that same parent still maintians some rights to their child. Why is that? It is simple; children are viewed as the property of the parents and rendered the silent minority in these cases. I have heard many lawyers and therapists argue that by viewing parental child abduction like the felony crime it is, would open up Pandora's Box. Why is that? Why is it okay while they have no rights and not okay to protect the child's mental-emotional- physical welfare when they do have them? More importantly and to the point I am getting at: why is the child being sidelined for the selfish preservation of the parents? Again, I have been through this, I fully know what it feels like to hear a judge refer to my left-behind mother and not me as the victim. …I guess it makes sense if children are seen as property, chattel if you will, of the owner/parent. As a parent myself and child victim, I find this appalling and much to the parallel as the saying, "I brought you into the world, I can take you out" and "Children should be seen and not heard".
When we look beyond what Dr. Edleson would have us believe is the way it 'really' is, and instead look at the child-victim first, we see a much bigger problem; the problems caused by stealing one's child and forever destroying the basic foundation of family trust. Of course, if he did this, he may have to find new work or hop over to the dark side and actually help children; those rotten things that need not be heard but seen. Of course, if he did this, I would be the first to greet him with open arms and kindness. The sort that comes from having been abducted, abused and learned to respect those that dedicate their lives to protecting children like me, FIRST!
Lastly, Dr. Edleson stated below that parental alienation has been debunked. Well I checked his source; it turns out he is mentioned on that site too. That would be like me using a site I am or have worked with to prove my point—a little narcissistic. Again, the groups, like the one he named, do fantastic and needed work with abused women and families. It is still not parental child abduction nor an unbiased research on ALL the facets of this crime. There are many HUNDREDS of professionals out there—medical, psychological and legal—that believes in the negative effects parental child abduction has on the child and left-behind parent. Case in point, there is a wonderful study that was published in The American Journal of Family Therapy (Examining Parental Alienation in Child Custody Cases: A Survey of Mental Health and Legal Professionals The American Journal of Family Therapy, 37:127–145, 2009 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. ISSN: 0192-6187 print / 1521-0383 online. DOI: 10.1080/01926180801960658). I am not going to quote here from them, given the limited words left but I encourage you to read and discover on your own—not believing my words or Dr. Edleson's alone. I am neither a proponent nor opponent of the DSM-IV. I am not a therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist or lawyer, only a victim of this crime and a 30-year case study (for those willing to ask). However, with a quick internet search, you will find many Medical Doctors and PhD's that question parts of the DSM. Many of these controversies revolving around the DSM stem from: one, Cultural aspects and two, the Political and Legal aspects. The political and legal aspects, being the area that Dr. Edleson is attempting to use for the Family Violence argument. Again, don't take my word for it, do your own search—I am too much of skeptic to take someone else's views as fact and I hope you will too.
We cannot base facts that will affect millions of children and families in the decades to follow solely on allegations and assumptions; most of which come after the crime has been committed and the abductor has been arrested and is seeking a defense argument in civil or criminal court. We must rely on hard facts and evidence that has been ruled on in a court hearing where the evidence lead to the conviction of said allegation. I would hope that you—and I know you are an intelligent and compassionate person—would never take hearsay and undocumented information as fact when it comes to such a serious issue; one effecting our children. It is easy to 'discover' facts that meet our preconditioned ideologies. If I am looking for green Volkswagen Beetles, I will find them tomorrow while driving. However, I will miss the other beetles on the road or the many different kinds of cars (just like the many other cases of parental child abduction) that pass before my eyes. Happy New Year!


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Q: Sum of Last Digits $$ a=123456789; b= 987654321 $$
$$ M = (a \times 10^{18} + 1)^b $$
What is the sum of last 36 digits of $ M $ ?

A: $$M=(a \cdot 10^{18} + 1)^b=\sum_{i=0}^b\left({b\atop i}\right)(a\cdot10^{18})^i\cdot1^{b-i}\\
=1+b\cdot a\cdot10^{18}+\sum_{i=2}^b\left({b\atop i}\right)(a\cdot10^{18})^i
\equiv1+b\cdot a\cdot10^{18}\pmod{10^{36}}$$
So the last 18 digits are 17 zeroes and a one.
And the last 18 digits of $a\cdot b$ form the digits 36 to 19 (seen from behind) of $M$.
Not sure if there is a "smart" way to get them, but we can just calculate them with a calculator. This yields
$$121932631112635269000000000000000001$$
the digit sum of which is $64$.

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An Injection of Independence: Megan Volpert's 1976 | Review by Michael Shou-Yung Shum
September 6, 2016 By Grist Journal
First things first—Megan Volpert informs us in her introduction to 1976 that she was born in 1981, and that, therefore, this invitingly messy collection of essays, observations, and verbal assaults on our Bicentennial Year is by definition not a retrospective, but a retrospeculative. In other words, this is a history book, and Volpert is one hell of a historian. Over 230-odd pages, she vividly dissects the meaningful political and cultural events of that contentious year, filtered through a deeply subversive lens. Her perspective: an admixture of punk rock informality and sharp, incisive sense of humor of the thirty-something author who, Volpert tells us, would have been dismissed as a total sell-out by her teen self. 1976 attests to the author's ability to braid many disparate, fascinating elements into a most delectable Gordian knot, spinning off constellations of cultural references into the atmosphere effortlessly. The author's fertile imagination very much appeals to the hyper-distracted reader of today, and every chapter opens to a new set of mysteries.
Each chapter is a month of the year except July, the Bicentennial month, gets two chapters and an interlude all on its own. Most aggressively interrogate the accepted history behind the events that transpired in that particular month. The focus is on the newsworthy—the Carter-Ford election, the Soweto student uprisings, the film Taxi Driver—but the character of each essay is quite different. They range from the horrifying, like the author's brutal reflections on Pol Pot's regime, to the sublime. Always rumbling underneath is the powerful engine of the author's voice—sharp in its pivots, and authoritative:
Just as my body grows old and crabby, so too does the body of my bike. I have to learn its preferences and be accommodating. Likewise, my bike will have to accept the fact that we leave the house at 6am to go to work, no matter how wet or cold it is. We are sharing a body, making decisions together. If the bike does not always do what I tell it to do, it's because I have failed first to respond to its needs in some way. A bike must be kept happy or it cannot keep its driver happy. At our best, we are sharing one cyborgian consciousness and cruising together in one body—corporeal, incorporated. (73)
Like the bands she espouses—The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Joan Jett—Volpert 1) takes shit from no one, and 2) tells it like she sees it. Which is to say, we trust her like we trusted our favorite bands in high school. Her knowledge of the decade is nigh-magisterial, but the book teaches the reader lessons about today, how the more things change, the more things stay the same; how outrage always ends in complacency; and how getting old is about learning how to buy into something you never wanted to believe in the first place.
By Megan Volpert
Sibling Rivalry Press, April 2016
Paperback, 240 pp., $19.76
Michael Shou-Yung Shum's stories and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Barrelhouse, Midwestern Gothic, and Burrow Press Review. His first novel, Queen of Spades, will emerge October 2017 from Forest Avenue Press.
Filed Under: Fiction/Nonfiction Reviews, Reviews Tagged With: 1976, Megan Volpert, Michael Shum, nonfiction, Reviews


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Naonobu is a small lunar impact crater named after Japanese mathematician Ajima Naonobu. It is located on the eastern Mare Fecunditatis, to the northwest of the prominent crater Langrenus, and it forms a triple-crater formation with the adjacent Atwood to the south and Bilharz just to the southwest. Naonobu and Atwood are separated by only a few kilometres.

The interior of this crater has been flooded with basaltic lava, leaving a relatively flat interior and a reduced outer rim. There is no central peak, but a small crater lies just to the southwest of the midpoint. A similar crater lies across the western interior of the rim.

This crater was previously designated Langrenus B before being renamed by the IAU in 1976.

References

External links
 LTO-80A3 Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap 80A3, Bilharz

Impact craters on the Moon

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Many Brands Offer Eco-Friendly Options To Meet Consumer Demand
April 22, 2019 Sarah Cavill
Happy Earth Day! Started as a "national teach-in on the environment" in 1970, Earth Day has since become a time to show respect for the planet, and recently a time to express concerns about climate change and other environmental issues. Of particular concern to today's consumers is excess packaging and post-consumer waste.
From 2014 to 2018, "plastic waste" increased as a Google search term. Many brands are taking note of the trend and creating responses to this consumer worry. As brands adopt more earth-friendly products, packaging and solutions, they are integrating earth-friendly messaging into the company "DNA" in an authentic way that resonates with environmentally-conscious consumers. Here are several companies making moves to help the planet, connect with modern consumers and burnish their brands' pro-environment identities.
A Small Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Brand Aims To Reduce Waste From An Everyday Object
Bite, a small direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand which sells toothpaste pills in glass bottles via a renewable subscription, is one of many brands using DTC strategies to launch earth-friendly products. More than a billion toothpaste tubes are thrown out per year, and Bite's goal is to reduce that preventable waste. With a mobile-friendly site and a strong consumer connection on social media, Bite is reaching younger demographics concerned about the environment. Generation Z and Millennials in particular are worried about how environmental damage, including excess packaging like toothpaste tubes, could impact the planet in their lifetimes.
Disney's Smart Packaging Initiative Continues To Innovate Fun, Sustainable Solutions
In 2014, Disney launched their Smart Packaging Initiative (SPI) after six years of research and development into how best to reduce waste from toys — and make them easier for kids and parents to open. The aim of SPI is to reduce packaging, make more components recyclable, optimize sales performance and reduce costs for the company. Disney shared their SPI data and SPI measurement tool with toy manufacturers including Mattel, LEGO and Hasbro who have since applied some of the SPI integrations.
A popular implementation of SPI was Disney's Moana doll. The packaging is 70% recycled paper printed with vegetable-based inks. The Moana box is created to be easily opened by kids and uses no glue or tape. Once opened, the packaging can be transformed into Moana's boat, making it sustainable, reusable and fun.
McCormick & Company Redesigns Their Spice Jars To Create Recyclable And Reduced-Waste Options
Iconic spice manufacturer McCormick & Company aligned their 2025 corporate goals with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an attempt to reduce their impact on the environment and promote sustainability. So far, McCormick has met several of their goals including a new container for their signature spice Old Bay, now made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a 100% recyclable plastic. This packaging change equated to a 16% reduction in "associated carbon emissions" according to Mike Okoroafor, McCormick's Vice-President, Global Sustainability & Packaging Innovation.
McCormick implemented a 10% reduction in material for their European glass jars, with the lighter jars reducing carbon emissions from production and transport. By 2025, McCormick hopes to have an overall 25% reduction in their packaging carbon footprint, a 20% reduction in their water usage and 100% reused, recycled or repurposed packaging.
"Through this program, we are seeking to make a meaningful and measurable impact on our environment and to do what is best for the company, our consumers and our communities," said Okoroafor.
MGA Entertainment Offers Toy Shoppers A Way To Recycle Post-Consumer Waste
MGA Entertainment, a U.S toy manufacturer, partnered with TerraCycle to offer a recycling option for L.O.L. Surprise fans. TerraCycle is an innovator in recycling and reusing pre-and-post consumer waste previously considered unrecyclable or hard to recycle. And L.O.L. Surprise toys are a part of the unboxing trend, which while full of fun surprises, leaves a lot of waste in its wake. The MGA/Terracycle partnership makes the recycling process simple for unboxers who can now simply fill up a box with their toy waste, print a label from the TerraCycle website and send it off for earth-friendly disposal. A recent study by the American Chemistry Council found an 11% uptick in recycling when stores offered in-store recycling, which indicates that consumers are eager to help when given the tools to do so.
Isaac Larian, CEO of MGA Entertainment says, "Soon all of MGA products and packaging will be recyclable." Adding, "We all must do our part to save this beautiful planet for the next generation."
TerraCycle Creates A Subscription Business Focused on Reusable Packaging And Customer Habits
TerraCycle continues their recycling and reusability innovations with the launch of Loop.
"The key thesis statement is we can't just recycle our way out of the garbage crisis," says Tom Szaky, TerraCycle's CEO and co-founder. "We need foundational changes. Our version of the foundational change is: How do we solve for disposability at the root cause, while matching the benefits?" Enter Loop. A subscription service (with an eventual brick and mortar presence as well) that offers consumers the chance to go beyond recycling.
Loop, created by TerraCycle, wants to re-introduce the "milkman model," delivery mainstay until the 1960s, in which customers would receive deliveries of milk bottles to their doors and, once all the milk had been drunk, leave the bottles by the front door again for pick up.
Loop teamed up with TerraCycle's impressive roster of brand partners to create reusable containers ranging from ice cream tubs to toothpaste tubes. Like any online order or subscription service, subscribers place the order online. But this time the order is sent in a reusable tote, which will be returned to Terracycle with the empty used containers. The containers are then washed and reused. A recent article on Greenbiz.com explains, "The entire process is handled by TerraCycle, from sale and delivery to package return and cleaning. In effect, TerraCycle is the online retailer, buying wholesale and selling retail. The package remains the property of the brand."
TerraCycle hopes Loop's business model will win over consumers reluctant to be inconvenienced or change their shopping habits. The goal says Szaky is to "mimic the way consumers already buy, use and dispose of packaging."
Consumer demand for eco-friendly solutions to the plastic and post-consumer waste problem is growing, and companies can effectively meet those demands by aligning themselves with their customers' values and shopping behaviors. Those brands looking to make real change for the planet and genuine connection with their customers, should be willing to use all available marketing optimizations.
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Adèle Celestine Josephina Colson (24 February 1905 – 22 December 1997) was the first woman to graduate from the Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" in Mechelen, Belgium, and the first woman in the world to earn a professional carillon certification.

Life and career
Colson was born in Mechelen, Belgium, and studied voice and piano at the Mechelen Conservatory. In 1924 she enrolled at the Royal Carillon School.  refused to teach her because he believed the carillon should not be played by women. As a result, she was taught by the director Jef Denyn himself.

Colson earned her carillon diploma on August 10, 1929, performing a range of repertoire including Jef van Hoof's , an original piece she composed, and Matthias Vanden Gheyn's third carillon prelude. Due to gender discrimination, she was never able to find ongoing employment as a carillonist and famously tore up her diploma. In the 1970s, Royal Carillon School director Piet van den Broek reissued her diploma that is now preserved in the Anton Brees Carillon Library.

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Photograph of Adèle Colson with Jef Denyn in the Bok Tower Gardens Digital Collections
Digitized photographs of Adèle Colson in the Regionale Beeldbank of Mechelen, Bonheiden, Duffel, Sint-Katelijne-Waver and Zemst
Catalogue of the Municipal Carillon Museum of Mechelen, Belgium

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Q: Proper usage of a MOSFET to control USB On the RaspberryPi.SE it was suggested that one can use MOSFET BS170 to switch a USB device on and off by a GPIO pin (3.3V). I need to get 500mA to power a GSM dongle; the voltage drop should preferrably be minimal since USB is quite strict on voltage).
I'm not sure if I did the right thing. I cut the power wire of the USB cable, and connected the MOSFET to it in the following way:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
(I use a speaker in the schematic to represent my USB device, and a switch to represent a pin of the GPIO.)
The problem is that:

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*I'm not sure that the two grounds are actually connected.

*According to a scheme on RPi's elinux page, I should have cut the GND wire instead of the PWR one.

*The official gate voltage is 3V and I supplied 3.3V to it.

I think I demaged the transistor I bought. I can buy a new one (even couple of them, they're really cheap), but I would prefer to know what to do before I experiment again or cut some more wires.
EDIT:
I did some more search, and I found a schematic by bretth on sparkfun.com, which seems to do what I want, using a P-MOSFET instead of N-MOSFET. Is this schematic angood way to go? It is a problem that GPIO provides 3.3V and maximal V_GS is 3V for N-FET and (minus) 2.4V for P-FET?

simulate this circuit

A: So I decided I'd give it a try, I bought AOP605, wired everything, and it works! :) So the following scheme is what can be used to control USB power using 3.3V input voltage:

When the GPIO pin is off, the USB DEVICE is off, switching the GPIO on switches on the USB DEVICE as well. I use 7.5k as R1 (I don't have 10k by hand) and it works well, too. Credit to betth and his post on sparkfun.com, I only changed the transistors to something more suitable for my case that I can buy here.

A: Alternatives: There are dedicated USB power switch ICs, for example Maxim 1562 and lots of others.
Or, you might consider a small reed relay. If you want to avoid the holding current, then you might choose a latching reed relay.

A: Following advice from Dave Tweed it is apparent that switching a USB load via the ground rail is not good so, what remains of this answer is all about choosing a mosfet and checking the appropriate graphs in the spec for the device. In short,  look at the graph of drain current versus drain-source voltage and choose a device that has the lowest volt drop for the gate voltage you are able to provide. In this particular case it's appropriate to use a p channel mosfet switching the positive rail to the load and to do this requires an NPN BJT to interface between the gpio and the mosfet's gate.
You should have inserted the N channel mosfet in the ground wire to the load with source to ground and drain to the positive rail connected load. Also you need to put a resistor across the gate and source to leak away charge once the switch has open circuited. The gate-source pins are effectively a small capacitor with very little ability to drain away charge / voltage fed to them when the switch is closed. Try 10kohm or 100kohm.
EDIT NOTE - originally the question showed an IRF530 in the circuit
3.3V may be a little too lightweight for the the MOSFET you've shown in the diagram. The IRF530 is a 100V rated device and it has quite a high gate-source threshold voltage (2V min to 4V max). This means at 3.3V it may be only just starting to turn the MOSFET on fully: -

I've marked in red what the volt drop across the MOSFET is at a current of 1A flowing when the gate-source voltage is 4.5V - they don't specify any less than 4.5V so this is also a big clue that you should look for a device with much smaller Vgs(threshold). As you can see, with 1A flowing you are losing 1V across the MOSFET and this isn't what you should be aiming for. Clearly if you could supply a gate drive voltage of (say) 10V then at 1A drain current the volt drop will be about 100mV.
Try finding a device that shows the same graph with gate voltages down to 3V and look for no more than 100mV lost across the FET when 1A is flowing.
A BS170 FET is going to be worse if you want 1A: -

At 1A you'll need at least 6V to drop maybe 1.8V. Miles worse than the IRF530. However, if your load current was more like 100mA, a 3V gate-source voltage might only "lose" 0.5volts across the device.

A: First, you don't need the 10k resistor, I guess it was inherited from a diagram involving NPN+PNP transistors. Second, there's another option which is sometimes even simpler, consisting in using an LDO regulator with a shutdown input pin. That's what is used on the BusPirate board and a number of other ones. Such regulators are able to show almost no voltage drop between input and output and come in a 5-pin SOT23 package and are small and very convenient. Otherwise there are USB power switches which include the two transistors as well (and sometimes current limiting and possibly fuse emulation).


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Petronet to partner OVL for stake in Qatar Petroleum LNG project
May 27, 2018, 1:31 pm IST
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Petronet is keen to take 5 per cent stake in the expansion project along with associated upstream gas development.
Petronet LNG Ltd is keen to partner with ONGC Videsh Ltd to buy a stake in Qatar Petroleum's upcoming gas exploration and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, its MD and CEO Prabhat Singh said.
New Delhi: Petronet LNG Ltd is keen to partner with ONGC Videsh Ltd to buy a stake in Qatar Petroleum's upcoming gas exploration and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, its MD and CEO Prabhat Singh said.
Qatar Petroleum plans to expand LNG production capacity from 77 million tonnes per year to 100 million tonnes in next few years. Petronet is keen to take 5 per cent stake in the expansion project along with associated upstream gas development, he said.
State-owned Qatar Petroleum, which consolidated its two LNG producing companies - Qatargas and RasGas, into itself earlier this year, is looking to form a joint venture with international partners to deliver the North Field expansion.
"We had meetings with them and they have asked us to give a business proposal," Singh said, adding the joint team of Petronet and OVL is keen to visit data room to firm their views. Petronet currently buys 7.5 million tonnes of LNG per annum from RasGas of Qatar under a 25-year contract.
RasGas had in the contract promised to give 5 per cent stake to Petronet or its nominee in the liquefication plant in the Gulf nation. But Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), which was assigned to pick up the equity, hesitated in making the USD 135 million payment. The stake is now worth USD 2 billion.
Singh said Qatar has announced plans to produce 100 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually - equivalent to a third of current global supplies - in the next five to seven years, up from current 77 million tonnes.
Petronet is keen to get ownership of gas molecule at the well-head and so wants a stake in both the upstream development and LNG production facility, he said.
The stake would help Petronet, which is India's biggest LNG importer, better understand the business of converting natural gas extracted from under-sea fields are converted into a liquid at sub-zero temperature, shipped and marketed world over.
This will be its first investment in an LNG production plant. Petronet operates a 15 million tonnes per annum terminal at Dahej in Gujarat for import of LNG and converting the liquid fuel back to its gaseous state before piping it to customers. Singh said Petronet wants to acquire a stake that will guarantee it a board position.
The offer made to Petronet in lieu of LNG purchases was the same that RasGas had promised Korea's KoGas in an LNG supply deal. Article 30.7 of the agreement with Petronet promised the stake at "no premium" but RasGas reneged on its commitment and demanded a premium from ONGC, which was nominated to take the stake. The talks broke down on the premium asked, sources said.
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ABC News' Jon Karl is relentlessly following Trump around to ask about John McCain. Trump is stonewalling him.
President Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet about the late Sen. John McCain, and one White House reporter has been on a mission to change that.
Jon Karl, ABC News' White House correspondent, spent part of his Monday afternoon documenting just how doggedly he was asking Trump about McCain's legacy. With similar resolve, Trump seemed determined to face stoically ahead, ignoring every single one of Karl's questions.
"In the Oval Office just now I asked [Trump] if he had any thoughts on the legacy of John McCain," tweeted Karl. "He heard me but did not answer." Later, Karl said he asked again, but that Trump "stared ahead and said nothing."
"One more," Karl wrote a few minutes later. "I asked the president to respond to the American Legion calling for a McCain proclamation and the lowering of the White House flags. No answer." The American Legion, a veterans' organization, demanded Monday that Trump issue a formal proclamation about McCain's death, and requested that he order the flags at half-staff until McCain's burial in keeping with presidential protocol.


Whenever we're in the mood for Shanghai food, we always end up at Ding Tai Fung in Markham. In the quest to try some place new, we wound up at 369 Shanghai Dim Sum, located in the Peachtree Plaza at Highway 7 and Kennedy.
Judging by how busy it was on our Sunday evening visit, my guess is that it's a pretty popular restaurant. It's a casual no-frills spot and while the space is smaller than Ding Tai Fung, they offer a very extensive menu with many of the same offerings.
You can't come to a Shanghai dim sum restaurant without trying their Xiao Long Bao or Freshly Steamed Juicy Pork Buns ($5.95) as this restaurant calls them in English. There's an art to picking them up with your chopsticks without puncturing the skin and eating them without burning your mouth. The skin was delicate and what made these ones unique was a hole at the top of each dumpling so the soup wasn't scalding hot. While we found the pork filling to be enjoyable, we felt that there was a lack of soup in each dumpling. Definitely not soupy enough!
We also ordered the Shanghai-style Pan Fried Minced Pork Buns ($6.50), which comes with five buns per order. In general, I'm not a big fan of these since I often find them too bready and dry. These ones didn't do anything to change my mind. They were a little too dry for my liking.
Up next was an order of Shanghai Small Wontons with Spicy Sauce ($6.50). I was wondering why these wontons were so tiny but I guess I missed the "small" in the description. I thought they were tasty but I just wish there was more filling in each wonton. I prefer the spicy wontons at Ding Tai Fung (one of my favourite dishes there!).
The Crispy Shredded Turnip Pie ($3.95) we ordered wasn't what I expected but it was surprisingly delicious. It came in the form of a flat pancake, similar to a green onion pancake, but filled with shredded turnip. It was fried to a nice golden brown and wasn't too greasy.
Another big hit of the meal was the Stewed Beef in Pancake ($9.95). I was surprised to see this priced so high but it's definitely one of the better ones I've had. More often than not, the stewed beef is terribly dry. The beef here was tender, moist and covered in extra sauce. I also enjoyed the addition of green onions. A must-order!
One of the highlights from our trip to Taipei last year was sticky rice rolls which they serve for breakfast. I took a gamble and ordered the Steamed Rice Glue with Salted Stuffing ($3.95), hoping this was it (gotta love the English translations!). It turned out to be what I wanted but unfortunately, it wasn't as great as I had hoped. The rice itself was fine, as was the fried Chinese doughnut inside, but I was really missing the pickled vegetables which is normally found in this as well.
For a more substantial dish, we ordered the Twice-Cooked Sliced Pork with Fried Rice Cakes ($12.95), a menu item which had the word "NEW" next to it. The dish consisted of chewy rice cakes, shredded cabbage, red and green peppers, garlic, mushrooms and a bit of sliced pork in a very spicy sauce. For the price, we were really disappointed with the lack of pork. Not that we particularly cared for it anyway… the meat was pretty 'meh'. Rice cakes were great, albeit super oily, but the pork was a letdown.
When we arrived at the restaurant, we were both starving, so needless to say, we went a little overboard ordering. This was, in fact, for just the two of us. We came home with leftovers, so don't judge!
Overall, it was a solid meal but nothing to write home about. There were a couple hits but there weren't enough of them to make me choose 369 Shanghai Dim Sum over Ding Tai Fung. You'll know where to find me next time I have a Shanghai dim sum craving!