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Proposals to do work on land or have plans for the land that may affect native title rights and interests, such as mining, granting pastoral leases or declaring a national park.
Information for PBCs on changes to native title laws and obligations
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Living with native title: the experiences of registered native title corporations
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Much of the attention paid to native title in Australia has focused on court proceedings and other legalities, but what does it actually mean to live with native title? This book presents the experiences of native title holders and the corporations they have established to look after their native title interests.
Native Title Information Handbooks - PBC Funding and Training Guide
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The Native Title Information Handbooks provide a summary of resources and information relating to key areas of native title.
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Commercial opportunities from Native Title: The Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara peoples' journey to economic benefit
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The Coober Pedy region of South Australia is the traditional country of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara people. The Native Title journey of the Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara people started in 1995 when their claim commenced. After achieving Native Title determination, successfully negotiating a number of ILUAs and winning their first major commercial contract, their journey continues today.
About Future Acts
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Webpage from the National Native Title Tribunal detailing basic information about future acts.
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Information about Future Acts for PBCs.
Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs) for PBCs
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The future act regime provides a mechanism through which some native title holders are in a position to negotiate compensation for the impact of the future acts on their native title rights and interests.
Valuing native title compensation after De Rose and Griffiths (No. 3)
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Sometimes we get lost in our own thoughts and completely forget about the real world. The same thing clearly happened to the people featured in this article. Why would a rational person smoke near a gas tank or swim toward a shark in an inflatable boat? We sure can't explain their reasoning.
25. They obviously aren't aware of what fear is.
24. Chopsticks would have helped.
23. They just have to avoid hitting the brakes.
21. No one is gonna fall into this hole! There's a cone!
18. This sign is for losers.
16. How will she explain this?
13. She forgot that it wasn't a smartphone.
8. What were they thinking about when they did this?
7. Just 2 questions: Why? How?
6. Nobody uses that door anyway.
3. Nothing will be the same.
2. Someone's first attempt at drawing a sign.
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Bloody Sunday Inquiry hears of shoot-to-kill policy
BY PATRICIA McBRIDE
A barrister representing a number of the deceased and wounded of Bloody Sunday has told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that the British Army had approved a shoot-to-kill policy in respect of individuals involved in protests up to three weeks in advance of Bloody Sunday.
Arthur Harvey QC, instructed by Madden & Finucane, gave his analysis of official documents that have been submitted as evidence before the Inquiry, which re-opened in the Guildhall in Derry this week. These documents included a memo written by General Robert Ford, then Officer Commanding the army in the Six Counties, in which Ford states: ``I am coming to the conclusion that the only way to deal with the situation is to shoot selected ringleaders of the DYH.'' (Derry Young Hooligans).
Harvey stated: ``When one goes through the documents, one eventually sees that by mid-January, General Ford had come to the conclusion that the stage had been reached where the only solution was to shoot and to shoot to kill those persons who were involved in rioting.''
He also referred to the minutes of meeting of the joint security committee at Stormont three days before Bloody Sunday, which stated that the civil rights march in Derry ``could end up in a shooting war.'' The then Home Affairs minister John Taylor chaired the meeting.
Harvey continued: ``It is inconceivable that any political body or security committee responsible for the safety and wellbeing of its citizens could receive with equanimity, the expression that the civil rights march of Sunday 30 January could end up in a shooting war and no comment be made.
``When one looks at the broad swathe of documents, the interpretation I submit is not the one which has been offered by Counsel to the Tribunal, that Bloody Sunday basically is not something that was envisaged or foreseen. It ought to have been foreseen by the Westminster Government. It ought to have been foreseen by the Stormont regime, and in fact was.''
On Monday, Christopher Clark QC, Counsel to the Inquiry, introduced into evidence a recording made by the IRA of tapped telephone conversations which took place at Victoria Barracks in Derry on the evening of Bloody Sunday. This tape had been missing since it was seized by the Gardai in 1976 during a house raid and was made available to the Derry Journal by republican sources in September this year.
The tape contains conversations between soldiers and also between soldiers and journalists in which discussions of the events of the day take place and in which one soldier is heard to tell another, ``General Ford was lapping it up. He says it's the best thing he's seen in years.''
There are also comments made about ``things going badly'' and ``the wrong people'' being shot, which appears to be an admission that the army knew as events were happening that innocent people were being killed and injured.
The Inquiry heard that several requests had been made to the Dublin government for the original copy of the tape to be forwarded, but as yet no reply has been received.
Opening statements by counsel for the families and wounded are expected to continue for another week. The Inquiry expects to begin taking evidence from the first of over 700 civilian witnesses on Monday 27 November.


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All the effort that went into creating the LIBRA and its reach. There is more to LIBRA than being just a cryptocurrency launched by Facebook.
All the effort that went into creating the LIBRA and its reach. There is more to LIBRA than being just a cryptocurrency launched by Facebook. LIBRA brings with it, the LIBRA association. LIBRA comes with the freedom to be used wherever you require. The first thing is cashing in local currency for getting LIBRA, the cryptocurrency and spend them without big transaction fees and being anonymous. The details of LIBRA include the technology behind it, the LIBRA Association, the wallets in use and the process of payment. With all these details and even more, Facebook released a 100-page documentation sighting the features of LIBRA and Calibra.
The all-new LIBRA Association with crypto control.
Knowing that people would not trust the cryptocurrency blindly and to encourage adoption of the currency, Facebook created an association that supervises the development, the real-world assets providing the value for it and the rules for governing the blockchain. This is the LIBRA Association, the fruit of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency of this real-time application. The membership, though, doesn't come free, as each member is needed to pay $ 10 million each and become a validator node operator. They are entitled to one vote in the association council as well as getting a share of the dividends from the interest LIBRA earns on the reserve to which the users pay fiat currency.
Facebook doesn't rule out the possibility of founding members reaching the count of 100 while including competitors like Google and Twitter provided they meet the requirements. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the association meets biannually and is located there due to the neutral nature of the country and being supportive of financial innovation.
The right to vote at the association
The joining members must have a half rack of server space, an internet connection of 100 Mbps or more, a fulltime site engineer with security matching enterprise-grade. They should reach around two of the three thresholds of a market value of $1 billion or $500 million of customer balance. With a reach of around 200 million people per year, they should be recognized in the top 100 industry leaders by Interbrand Global or S&P.
While businesses focus on crypto require more than $1billion in assets, those focusing on blockchain technology should have been in business for one year with security and privacy graded as enterprise and custody of more than $100 million in assets. Added to this, only one-third of the founding members can be in the crypto business. Research organizations like universities and non profits are open to be members, while fulfilling three of the four qualities namely, must have worked for more than five years on financial inclusion, must have reached out to multinational users, designation by Charity Navigator as high as the top 100, and /or $50 million budget.
The association is responsible for recruiting more founding members so that they act as validator nodes and help funding design incentives for early birds and giving them social impact grants. Each member has a representative on the council that decides on the managing director of the association who in turn appoints an executive team that elects a five to 19 top member board.
Even though the above conditions are met, Facebook and Calibra get just one vote or 1% of the total vote in the association council. This means that LIBRA cannot be hijacked for personal benefits by any of its members providing decentralization. Facebook can save its face from all the privacy issues being brought out against it and avoid extra scrutiny by avoiding sole ownership of LIBRA.
Is LIBRA the stable coin?
Merchants are sure to find LIBRA a robust payment mode as it's a stable medium of exchange and will not turn worthless a few days after as it is based on the blockchain concept that gives the currency its credibility. LIBRA is connected to bank deposits and short-term government securities, as with international currencies like dollar, pound, euro, yen and Swiss franc. The value of LIBRA remains stable as the association maintains assets that help balance the composition of currencies so that fluctuation in one currency doesn't affect it.
The association is yet to fix the value of the LIBRA, but it can be expected to be somewhere around a dollar, pound, euro or yen making it easy to be tendered. The main idea is that users will cash in money and keep a reserve of LIBRA to be exchanged at accepting vendors for online services. Wallet apps like Calibra and other third party wallets help trading local currency for LIBRA and vice versa for grocery stores and local resellers.
Summing up the plus points of LIBRA.
Money exchange for the unbanked abroad becomes difficult in today's financial condition. They are prone to high remittance charges and payday lenders who prey on them making them poorer. The cryptocurrency of the future, LIBRA helps workers send money across to their families and can be retained, even if their physical possessions get robbed. This is one step ahead of realizing the Facebook dream of a more close-knit world with applied cryptography that matters even more than all the News Feed Likes combined.
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A cross-party group of MLAs' failed legal challenge to the Brexit process has been referred directly to the Supreme Court, it emerged today.
The order was confirmed following a direction issued by Attorney General John Larkin QC that four devolution issues require further judicial scrutiny.
Last month a High Court judge in Belfast dismissed separate bids by the Stormont politicians and victims campaigner Raymond McCord to halt the United Kingdom's planned departure from the European Union.
Mr Justice Maguire rejected claims that the British Government cannot use royal prerogative powers to begin EU withdrawal without an Act of Parliament.
But earlier this month the High Court in London held that only Parliament can trigger Brexit.
With the Government set to challenge that ruling at the Supreme Court, lawyers in the Northern Ireland cases have been mapping out their own appeal routes.
In an unprecedented step, Mr Larkin used powers under the Northern Ireland Act 1998 dealing with devolution issues to announce his intention to advance one of the challenges.
His plan involves referring only the judicial review brought by politicians including Alliance MLA David Ford, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, Sinn Fein Assemblyman John O'Dowd and Steven Agnew of the Green Party.
During a court hearing last week counsel for the Government claimed any move to split the two cases could ultimately prove to be a "treacherous shortcut".
Mr Justice Maguire, whose judgment dealt only with issues specific to Northern Ireland, adjourned proceedings at that stage for further written submissions.
But with Mr McCord now seeking authority from the Court of Appeal to go directly to London, it has been confirmed that the MLAs have already had the same step rubber-stamped.
:: Do any provisions of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, read together with the Belfast Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement mean an Act of Parliament is required before Brexit can be triggered?
:: If they do, is the consent of the Northern Ireland Assembly required before the relevant Act of Parliament is passed?
:: If they don't, do any of the same provisions restrict royal prerogative powers to trigger Brexit?
:: Does section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 prevent the prerogative power being exercised in the absence of compliance by the Northern Ireland Office with its equality obligations under that section?
It is now expected that Supreme Court justices will consider the issues next month along with the Government's challenge to the verdict reached by the High Court in London.
Meanwhile Mr McCord, whose son was murder by loyalist paramilitaries, is pressing ahead with attempts to "leapfrog" the Court of Appeal and go directly to London too.
Prime Minister Theresa May is set to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal process for confirming the UK is to leave, by the end of March 2017.
Even though the June 23 referendum backed Brexit, a 56% majority of voters in Northern Ireland wanted to remain.
During the original three day hearing in Belfast it was contended that the move is illegal without first securing Parliamentary authorisation.
But the judge identified no limits to the use of prerogative power for announcing intentions to quit the EU.
Mr McCord claimed they have a legal right to resist being forced out.
His lawyers argued that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has given the Northern Irish public sole sovereignty to decide on their future.
They also predicted Brexit would have a "catastrophic effect" on the peace process, causing constitutional upheaval amid renewed calls for a united Ireland.
The MLAs also sought to judicially review the British Government's move towards quitting the EU.


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The Staatsbibliothek forms the eastern boundary of the Kulturforum, a complex of buildings which also includes Scharoun's Philharmonie and Kammermusiksaal and Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie. The building exhibits an architectural language familiar from Scharoun's Philharmonie (completed in 1963), but pleasingly and appropriately adapted to the program of a library. If the Philharmonie's sculptural interior (generated by the concert hall itself) stretches and compresses its exterior, the Staatsbibliothek's multiple reading, research and stack spaces make for a gentler, and less agitated exterior. The spaces within are wonderfully modulated. The volumes of reading rooms, offices, and stacks are seemingly stitched together by stairways and smaller changes in level. The building beckons to be explored.
Along with the Exeter Library designed by Louis Kahn, the Staatsbibliothek is probably the most famous of modern libraries. Its contribution to architects' understanding of a building type with a long and well-documented history has been extremely influential in subsequent library design. Scharoun's building, while deriving its form from its function, is no mere sum of functional parts. Its expressiveness—and that of Scharoun's other buildings in the Kulturforum—is personal and idiosyncratic in ways that mark a clear contrast to the canonical international style exhibited by its neighbor, Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie (1965-68).
The Staatsbibliothek is south of the Tiergarten and west of Potsdamer Platz.


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Retreats – yoga, artistic, or spiritual, can serve as wonderful allies in this journey known as life. Part luxury, part necessary… in whatever size or shape they may take, such commas in the traffic of being have been known to wondrously enhance one's physical, creative and inner alignment. The team behind the Artist Immersion Program (AIP) champions such pauses through the concentrated retreat experiences they build blending spirituality and art into their signature programs across the globe. This springtime, they are inviting guests to unplug and join them for two magical weeks in the rolling hills of Tuscany where the immersion menu includes a host of creative and other exhales.
D.H. Lawrence once wrote, "For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery." With its muted golden light and mild pace, Tuscany especially has long been revered as a splendid spot to not only study art, but to turn inward and experience the artistic lifestyle. Painting, Drawing, Book Art, Natural Morta, Writing and beyond… Seizing on its pastoral setting, AIP's all new Italy 2018 "Art Lab" (May 11-24) was designed to offer participants a sanctuary for both art making and focus.
Beautifully prepared meals with farm to table ingredients, cultural immersion, and response through art making have long served as the core of AIP programming. Unique to this year's Italy escape is the yoga component. Retreat guests will have the option of one or two week immersions on the mat, with week one offering a hatha-based program (led by Ruth Wheeler) and week two a chakra yoga exploration (led by Petra van Noort). Both series will invite participants to cross-pollinate with the lush natural land. Morning and late-afternoon yoga practice will bookend time in the studio (or at the canvas) and extended opportunity to commune with other artists. The yoga sessions will be intentional offering themes and insights on awakening our inner artist, finding our flow, and delving deeper inward. In salute of AIP's new yoga component, they are offering BOSTON YOGA and LA YOGA readers an exclusive $700 discount when booking. Simply use the code of AIPOM2018 when registering.
Italy 2018 "Art Lab" will integrate art into daily ritual and practice, simply. The days will unfold with ease connecting participants to culture, nature, local cuisine, to learning and to their own inner landscape. Of inner work, the Dharma teacher Zohar Lavie reminds us, "This re-balancing, this opening and aligning and cultivating of gratitude and generosity and joy is really important… It's not about self-gratification. It's actually about bringing balance into the (whole) system and resourcing." Resourcing in Chianti in May? Sounds like a dream come true as we ride-out winter's ongoing pounding and yet more snow falls here in New England… in late-March. To reserve your spot in Italy 2018 "Art Lab", or to learn more about AIP's other programming, please visit their website.


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Israel says Iran is accelerating nuclear quest
Moshe Milner/GPO/Getty Images - In this handout image provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Democratic delegates from the U.S. House of Representatives headed by Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) August 6, 2013 in Jerusalem. The delegation is meeting with both Israeli and Palestinian government officials.
By William Booth, Wednesday, August 7, 3:51 PM E-mail the writer
JERUSALEM— Saying the United States and the world were being misled by a false face of a more moderate Iranian leader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday charged that Iran not only continues its nuclear program but has accelerated its quest to build a bomb in the weeks after voters there elected Hasan Rouhani president.
Calling Rouhani "a wolf in sheep's clothing," Netanyahu warned U.S. lawmakers at a meeting here, "I know that some place their hopes on Iran's new president. He knows how to exploit this, and yesterday he called for more talks. Of course he wants more talks. He wants to talk and talk and talk. And while everybody is busy talking to him, he'll be busy enriching uranium. The centrifuges will keep on spinning."
In his first news conference since taking office, Rouhani said Tuesday that he was willing to participate in nuclear negotiations with the international community but stopped short of saying he would engage in direct talks with the United States.
Israel's leadership has declared Iran's uranium enrichment program an "existential threat," and Netanyahu has sought assurances from the Obama administration that it would confront Iran, militarily, if necessary.
"Iran's work and quest towards the achievement of atomic weapons not only continues, it continues unabated — it's actually accelerated," Netanyahu said.
Also troubling, Netanyahu said, were recent reports that Iran may be operating a heavy-water factory to produce plutonium, which also can be used in a nuclear weapon.
"So the situation unhappily is not getting any better, it's actually getting worse," the Israeli leader said.
Rouhani, who served as former chief nuclear negotiator for Tehran, is known in some circles as "the diplomatic sheik."
That has Israel's political and defense leadership worried that the United States and Europe might be tempted to relax rather than ratchet up pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions.
"Rouhani is charming, he is cunning, and he will smile all the way to the bomb," said Yuval Steinitz, Israeli minister for international affairs, strategy and intelligence, in an interview.
Steinitz said that rather than negotiate with Tehran, the United States and the international community should tighten the economic sanctions against Iran's already stagnating economy.
In his remarks before journalists Tuesday, Rouhani said, "If we feel that the Americans are truly serious about resolving problems, Iran is serious in its will to resolve problems and dismiss worries."
But Rouhani said Iran would not be bullied, and during his news conference, the new president repeatedly referred to unspecified "warmongering pressure groups" working for an unidentified country, which most listeners presumed to be Israel.
The Israeli intelligence minister said Tehran should hear from the United States and the international community that it has only two choices — voluntarily shutter its program to enrich uranium or "see it destroyed with brute force," which he envisioned as "a few hours of airstrikes, no more."
Steinitz shrugged at the possible consequence, and said he could envision Iran firing "several hundred missiles" at Israel in retaliation, producing "very limited damage because we can intercept many of them."


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The Constitution Party (), known until 11 February 2006 as the Estonian United People's Party (), was a political party in Estonia, mainly supported by the Russian minority.

For the 1995 elections the party formed the "Our Home is Estonia" alliance with the Russian Party in Estonia. The alliance won six seats.

The party held 6 seats in the Riigikogu from 1999 to 2003. At the legislative elections of 2 March 2003, it won 2.2% of the popular vote and got no seats. In 2007's election, it fell further to 5,470 votes (1.0%) and again got no seat; Estonian Internal Security Service alleged there was an active promotion campaign by Russian special services.

On 28 June 2008, it merged with the Estonian Left Party to form the Estonian United Left Party.

Controversy

According to the Estonian Internal Security Service the Constitution Party was a puppet-party supported and controlled by Russia, created by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) as part of their campaign of "political intelligence manipulations". Also several members of the party have connections with groups such as Nochnoy Dozor.

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2008 disestablishments in Estonia
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RAINBOW PRIDE: A member of the LGBTQI community pose in front of a rainbow flag at Woodford Square, Port of Spain, on Thursday after a High Court judge ruled that this country's buggery laws were unconstitutional. PHOTO BY AZLAN MOHAMMED
OUTSPOKEN Reverend Victor Gill says despite the court's ruling on the unconstitutionality of this country's buggery laws, his position has not changed and is warning that the ruling can have serious repercussions, including massive social unrest similar to that which led to the 1990 attempted coup.
Gill, of the Redemption Christian Centre, spoke to Newsday after conducting service at one of his churches yesterday.
He has been one of the most outspoken critics of the law's removal.
Gill said while he was still opposed to homosexuality, his organisation preaches peace and did not
condone violence against any group of individuals.
Responding to critics who placed him indirectly responsible for the eviction of gay men by landlords and relatives, Gill said this was merely the reaction of a society opposed to homosexuality.
Citing the 1990 insurrection, Gill predicted similar action from the public in response to the buggery laws' ruling. "This decision will have major fallout. There will be a spillover. It's not something that I am advocating, but in 1990, the Jamaat al-Muslimeen felt the government at the time was being unjust, and it led to anarchy. The Jamaat has already expressed their objection to the removing the buggery law and so have we (Christians), 95 per cent of the population do not want this.
"This could lead to a big uprising in this country unless the government steps in and realises this country cannot bear this moral burden."
Gill said he and other religious leaders were in the process of organising one of the largest protests against the law's repeal, uniting various religious organisations, sometime this week.
He also accused Justice Rampersad of imposing a secular world view on TT, and predicted an increase in criminal activities in the wake of the ruling.
Newsday also spoke to Luke Sinnette, social worker and member of LGBTQI lobbyist group, Friends for Life, who said he was concerned by Gill's remarks about social uprising. Sinnette said he was not convinced that Gill was using his role as a religious leader for the greater good, and accused him of hate speech. "They have to stop and take responsibility for what they're doing, because if you're putting this rhetoric out there, that there will be some social unrest, you put that in the minds of people.
"Instead of quell the unrest you choose to feed it. This is not religious beliefs; this is homophobic beliefs. It's hard when all you want to do is get up and get a taxi to come home; it's a serious problem," an emotional Sinnette said.
Sinnette added that despite the backlash, his organisation has received tremendous support from local and international supporters for the three men who were evicted from their apartments and have succeeded in finding alternative accomodations for the trio.
In his ruling, High Court judge Devindra Rampersad said Jason Jones' constitutional challenge was not a case about religious and moral beliefs but was one about the inalienable rights of a citizen; the dignity of the person.
Although he has ruled that the laws were unconstitutional, null and void, he has not struck down the offending sections of the Sexual Offences Act, so they remain in place until he finalises his order.
The State has announced its decision to appeal the ruling.
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The closest beach, Cala Fustera, is just 500 metres away!
Escape to your very own oasis at Casa Penyal and indulge in the serenity of this spacious villa. Situated in Calpe, high up in the hills with stunning views of the ocean, this holiday home is the perfect spot for a getaway with friends or family.
Days can begin on one of the four terraces, one of which is covered, sipping on freshly made coffee. Evenings can then be spent alfresco dining at the cosy outdoor dining nook, with a feast prepared on the barbeque. In other words, days from start to finish can live out your idea of tranquillity.
The interior of the villa offers bright, open-plan living with large windows and double doors that open to the outdoor area. The home is an eclectic mix, with modern and traditional touches throughout. The dining and living area offers plenty of space for the whole group to sit and relax, whether around the dining table or on the large L shaped couch. The dining table in the open kitchen offers space for the whole group to sit, perfect for winding down and reminiscing over the day's activities.
There are two open kitchens in the villa, both of which offer all the home comforts needed to create a simple breakfast or an all-out feast. The appliances are up-to-date and a gas hob, gas oven, microwave, refrigerator-freezer, coffee machine, electric kettle and toaster.
The bedrooms in this home are welcoming and homely, with natural light streaming in. There are five bedrooms, two with double beds and three with two single beds. As for the bathrooms, there are three throughout the villa each with a shower, washbasin and toilet and one with a bath/shower and bidet.
The villa has air-conditioning in the bedrooms, which is necessary for those scorching Spanish days and nights.
Outdoors is the real charmer of the house, and the real haven. Spend the day relaxing by the private pool on one of the sun loungers or seek refuge from the crowd, and the sun, on one of the covered balconies that overlook the stunning ocean vistas.
The villa lies in a coastal and residential area, close to restaurants, bars and supermarkets. It is just 500 metres from Cala Fustera beach and five kilometres from Calpe.
Casa Penyal is a 5-bedroom holiday villa, that can sleep up to 10-guests. With the dining area on the first floor, as well as a terrace with outdoor dining & furniture, enchanting views of the coastline can be enjoyed during meal time.
With stunning clear waters and white sandy beaches, the Costa Blanca coast is a popular holiday destination for tourists from all over the world. With over 200 kilometres of Mediterranean coastline, there are many towns and villages along the coast that boast spectacular beached and medieval history.
One of the reasons for why it is such a popular destination lies in the weather. The area is rarely without sun all year round, as the area averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year.
The oldest town along the coast, Benissa, is where this villa is located. Visitors marvel in the medieval history as they wander the narrow lanes and are enchanted by the white-walled buildings, the homes with window grids and the balconies that have flowers hanging from them. Everything in this town is beautifully quaint and full of history.
As for the local cuisine, seafood is plentiful and a must-try. There are also plenty of international establishments in the area, so every appetite is happy.
Benissa is conveniently located near to other towns along the Costa Blanca and easily accessible due to the proximity of the A-7 motorway. Day trips can be had to the historical town of Calpe or the upmarket beach town of Moraira. The town is also near the two local airports, Valencia and Alicante and the villa sits just over 100 kilometres from both.
This villa is a perfect holiday home for guests of all ages.
Children can spend the day swimming and tire themselves out, spending the evening slouched on the large, comfortable couch watching movies or playing games. There are plenty of bedrooms as well, so everyone can have their own space and the children can sleep as everyone else continues the party – and when they wake early in the morning, they can (hopefully) play without waking parents.
There are also small touches in the villa that make travelling with children easier such as a washing machine, a bathtub and satellite television.
The villa is just 500 metres from Cala Fustera beach, a small sandy beach that offers family-friendly restaurant and cafes nearby. There are also amenities such as bathrooms close. It's a safe, clean, EEC flag beach that is perfect for children to swim and snorkel as parents hire sun loungers and relax.
There are plenty of activities in the area to keep children entertained, such as cycling, kayaking and snorkelling all within 1000 metres of the villa.
Benissa itself is a family-friendly location with churches, museums and parks to keep the children entertained and also plenty of fun stories that can be shared about the location.


This post was originally published on the Digital Science blog.
I attended GHC as a Hopper – a volunteer who receives free conference registration in exchange for a few hours of work. I had to attend an orientation the night before the conference officially started, and sport a nifty red t-shirt during my volunteer shifts.
My volunteer duties included helping distribute sponsor swag during a session, and staffing the AnitaB.org booth in the Expo Hall. When I wasn't busy hopping, I attended as many sessions as I could.
Sessions were divided into many different tracks, ranging from career guidance, to more technical sessions about subjects like data science. There was something for everyone – from students, who are heavily represented, to mid-career, technology-adjacent professionals like me.
My favorite sessions were the keynotes – there's nothing quite like being in an enormous room with 18,000 other women. And GHC keynotes aren't like any other keynote I've attended. Legions of conference staff and volunteers ushered the crowds into the hall with dance music and lighted wands. Instead of a single speaker, the keynotes each had multiple speakers. Some, like Melinda Gates, and GoldieBlox founder Debbie Sterling, I'd heard of before. Others, like Sue Black and Mary Spio, were new to me. Each had a compelling story and encouraging, supportive, energizing messages for the audience. I truly appreciated the diversity of age, race, background, and message in the keynote speeches. The keynotes are posted online here.
Many attendees are there just for the Career Expo. The enormous expo hall was filled with recruiters, and attendees with resumes in hand. The giveaways used to entice participants ranged from the usual conference swag like pens, to more elaborate items like custom 3D printed candy portraits. Yes, you could get a gummy of your face.
I feel so fortunate to have attended GHC, and to spend three days listening to great sessions, and talking with other women in technology. As a remote worker in a small company, I appreciate the opportunity to connect with my peers in person. I even had the special treat of meeting up with nearly all the attendees connected to Wellesley, my undergraduate alma mater.
I now understand why GHC has exploded in popularity in the past few years. The depth of the concurrent sessions, the energy of the keynotes and the expo hall. The acceptance and inclusion that are omnipresent, combine to produce both content and an atmosphere that are one of a kind. I can't wait to experience it again.
The Grace Hopper Celebration is the world's largest gathering of women technologists. It is produced by AnitaB.org and presented in partnership with ACM. GHC 17 took place on Oct. 4-6 in Orlando, FL. You can find out more about the Grace Hopper Celebration here.


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Ariana Grande gets shut out of her first 'Voice' finale
The NBC brass really hyped the arrival of new The Voice coach Ariana Grande this fall, no doubt hoping that a young, current pop star like her could freshen up the franchise in its tired 21st season. But when the five contestants moving on to next week's finale were revealed Tuesday, there was no Team Ariana representation in the mix. That means that next Monday and Tuesday, Ariana will sit out her first finale, after her one contestant still in the competition, father/son folk duo Jim & Sasha Allen, failed to get the votes this week.
The Voice stopped adhering to team quotas way back in Season 3, but when the show's last three seasons were shortened due to COVID, those quotas were reinstated. Now, with the rules back to normal — meaning that none of coaches were guaranteed a contestant spot in the season's finale — of course The Voice was back to looking like The Blake & Kelly Show. The first four finalists announced by Carson Daly on Tuesday's live results episode all represented the current panel's longest-running and most popular coaches: Blake Shelton's soul powerhouses Wendy Moten and Paris Winningham, and Kelly Clarkson's family folk band Girl Named Tom (the first trio to ever make it to a Voice finale) and teen pop prodigy Hailey Mia. I then assumed that Team Blake's Lana Scott, the only country singer still in the competition, would easily win the Instant Save — and that would mean that John Legend would be sitting on the sidelines right next to Ariana next week.
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New Zealand: Police uses backdoor in law to gather private data
According to the New Zealand Council of Civil Liberties, in several cases private data was handed over by banks to the police, after the police requested these data from them. It is further explained that the police used forms that looked official, instead of applying to a judge for a search warrant or examination. The police should neither have an oversight, nor a register which tracks the amount of filed requests.
The Police and banks rely on a legal loophole in the Privacy Act that allows organisations to reveal information about persons in order "to avoid prejudice to the maintenance of the law". The Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is willing to end the further use of this backdoor. Referring to the case of handing over the private information of activist and journalist Martyn Bradbury, he said:
"…we concluded that Police had collected this information in an unlawful way by asking for such sensitive information without first putting the matter before a judicial officer. Our view is that this was a breach of Principle 4 of the Privacy Act, which forbids agencies from collecting information in an unfair, unreasonable or unlawful way."
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Satanic Temple launches school anti-spanking campaign in Texas (PHOTO, VIDEO)
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The growing number of Satanic Temple followers have been making their presence felt across America and are now campaigning to outlaw corporal punishment in schools.
The organization this week unveiled a huge billboard in Springtown, Texas, as part of their 'Protect Children Project,' which read: "Never be hit in school again. Exercise your religious rights."
Springtown made headlines in 2012, after a male vice principal spanked two female students aged 15 and 16, leaving "welts, blisters and bruises" according to the teens' parents.
READ MORE: Educatin' with Satan: Oregon elementary school lets Satanic club rival Christian group
While corporal punishment is still legal in Texas with parental consent, it was, at the time, illegal for a member of the opposite sex to paddle a student. The Springtown ISD Board of Trustees later changed the policy to allow an administrator of the opposite sex to dole out the punishment, on condition that an administrator of the same sex supervises.
The temple's poster was apparently ill-received by some locals and torn down just one day after it was erected. The group says they will be reinstating the billboard.
Whether through an act of God or man, the Satanic Temple billboard criticizing SISD's spanking policy is now flapping in the wind on Hwy 199 pic.twitter.com/54PLMxS9lg
— Springtown Epigraph (@SpringtownEpi) March 17, 2017
The Satanic Temple plans to post billboards near schools that still practice corporal punishment, which is legal in 19 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The temple is requesting donations to help fund the campaign.
READ MORE: Satanic Temple slams new Texas fetus burial rule opposed by Pro-Choice groups
According to a ruling by the US Supreme Court in 1977, spanking or paddling in schools is lawful where it has not been explicitly outlawed by local authorities.
The temple is asking members of the Satanic community who are students in US public schools to register to have their schools notified that corporal punishment is an abuse of their civil rights.
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NAVSA/AVSA in Florence (May 17-20, 2017), an NYU/Purdue U Conference
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The NYU/Purdue U NAVSA/AVSA La Pietra conference (May 17-20, 2017) will include a plenary lecture by Garrett Stewart, James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa, as well as "material culture" workshops led by scholars largely on aspects of the La Pietra collection. Workshop leaders include: Francesca Baldry (NYU Florence), Dorothea Barrett (NYU Florence), Cristina Bellini (NYU Florence), Margherita Ciacci (NYU Florence), Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt), Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue), Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck), Jessamyn Hatcher (NYU), Leah Price (Harvard), Jonah Siegel (Rutgers), and Garrett Stewart (U Iowa). During this time, participants will also have a chance to choose one of two tours: one to the English Cemetery (led by Julia Bolton Holloway of the Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei, Italy); one to visit the Victorian holdings of the National Archives, Florence, with its director, Carla Zarrilli, and Caterina del Vivo of ANAI Toscana, Italy.
See below for more information. We will also have a special sequence of panels on Charles Darwin, with papers by David Amigoni, Isobel Armstrong, Miranda Butler, Gowan Dawson, Devin Griffiths, John Holmes, George Levine, Cannon Schmitt, James Secord, and Jonathan Smith.
In advance of the conference, Dino Franco Felluga and Catherine Robson will run a Professionalization Workshop for graduate students (May 15-17 and May 21, 2017), like the one run successfully at the 2013 NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA conference in Venice, Italy.
The lead organizers are Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue) and Catherine Robson (NYU).
The Collectors' Interior: Time and Space through the Looking Glass
Francesca Baldry in reflection at La Pietra
"There is a place of dim, familiar things, of contacts vaguely subtle to the touch−I call it home; in my imaginings each detail is of value overmuch." In 1923, a nineteen-year-old Harold Acton composed a Proustian ode about his family home at La Pietra. Ten years earlier, Jacques-Emile Blanche a friend of Marcel Proust, had depicted Harold with his father in one of the sitting rooms. Hundreds of archival photographs document the many villa's arrangements, indicating a strong interest for the creation of a perfect art space. From the Goncourt brothers to Balzac, from D'Annunzio to Serao, from Vernon Lee to Henry James to Walter Benjamin, the bourgeois interior became a subject of creativity and an image of history and interiority. Conceived as a camera obscura, a theatre and a mirror, the Acton interior is characterized by a detailed-orientated vision and the constant reflection and dialogue of present and past, interior and exterior worlds. It is a place of fantasy where one repairs to be anywhere except in the here and now. With the aid of visual and literary sources, participants of this workshop will be invited to deconstruct and explore three rooms. We will compare patterns and motifs, track influences from other art interiors in Italy, Europe, USA, and the Far East, and finally trace a map of the origin of the collectors' spaces and their ramifications into museums and exhibitions. Seminar leader: Francesca Baldry
Romola at La Pietra and Other Stories: Speed-Dating Short Texts
Dorothea Barrett with a copy of Romola
In George Eliot's Florentine Renaissance novel Romola (1862-63), there is a striking scene that takes place at the milestone on the Via Bolognese for which the Villa La Pietra is named. In Chapter 40, "An Arresting Voice," Romola is leaving Florence and her husband with the intention of going to Cassandra Fidele in Venice and starting a new life as a scholar. She stops to rest at the milestone and is accosted by Fra Savonarola, who commands her to go back to her "place." The scene is full of interpretative possibilities that we will explore together in a speed-dating workshop in which each participant chooses the quantity of material covered. Chapter 40 of Romola will be our starting point; we could then move on to writings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and Harold Acton (the Barrett Browning and Dickinson texts are interesting together in terms of literary influence; the Forster and Lawrence are contrasting descriptions of the Piazza della Signoria). If we get to these latter readings, we can extend our discussion to a comparison of Victorian and modern viewpoints on different aspects of the same multi-faceted object: the city of Florence. Seminar leader: Dorothea Barrett
The Acton Family Library: A (book)case Study
Leah Price in Sir Harold Acton's library
Can we reconstruct a family's habits and feelings by examining the books that they left behind? This seminar gives participants the opportunity to explore the library that Hortense, Arthur, William and Harold Acton assembled at Villa La Pietra. Together we'll look at signs of wear and tear (or lack therof) in selected volumes, including two copies of The Spoils of Poynton that contain dueling annotations by mother and son; duplicate copies of Pater's Renaissance; a guidebook taken from a hire car, some marked-up bilingual dictionaries, and a children's book. But since in this collection as in most others, marginalia form the exception rather than the rule, we'll also debate what we can and can't glean from other forms of evidence: house layout, bookshelf organization, furniture design, and (where available) letters, diaries, account-books, visitors' books, probate inventories, auction records. Participants will be asked to introduce the session by describing their own research, and we'll conclude by thinking about what aspects of the book-historical exercise we've just performed are specific to this collection, and which can inform research on, or teaching in, other library collections. Seminar leaders: Cristina Bellini & Leah Price
Botticelli and Victorian Culture
Margherita Ciacci in the Villa La Pietra kitchen area
One Punch cartoon from 1894 quipped about the naiveté of the young dashing gentleman who, being asked whether he liked Botticelli, declared he preferred Chianti: "But that's a cheese!" retorted the self-assured friend. By the end of the nineteenth century, Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) had become quite a familiar name for Victorian audiences. Aside from being used as an ingredient for low-brow humor, his work in Renaissance Florence had been hugely inspirational for the artists who, under the encouragement of John Ruskin, recognized themselves in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB). Because of Botticelli's iconic importance in the "idea" of Florence that was fabricated during the nineteenth century (especially at the hands of the English-speaking community)—and continues to pervade contemporary culture (vide the current "Botticelli Reimagined" Exhibition at the V&A)—the Workshop aims at discussing some of the elements that have been feeding and morphing into the present-day, multi-layered phenomenon. Taking our lead from Ruskin's endorsements and sketching a brief overview of the PRB's artistic achievements (through a PPT presentation), the participants' attention will be drawn to a close examination of selected documents held by the Acton Library at Villa La Pietra. Amongst them, H. P. Horne's opus magnum published in 1908 with the title Alessandro Filipepi, Commonly Called Botticelli, Painter of Florence. Besides this prized work, the Acton Library at Villa La Pietra holds also one copy of the essay that Horne, the architect and learned bibliophile, devoted to book-binding as well as issues of The Hobby Horse published quarterly (1884-94) by the Century Guild of Artists under H. P. Horne's editorial care. Seminar leader: Margherita Ciacci
The Virtual Aesthete: A Room, a Life, and a Legacy in 3D
Jay Clayton in Sir Harold Acton's bedroom
The Virtual Aesthete will be a discussion and hands-on workshop in using digital pedagogy to model the literature and art of the past. Focusing on Harold Acton's bedroom, we shall look at ways to transform Acton's already virtual life as a twentieth-century "Victorian" aesthete into digitally available forms for teaching and research. Harold Acton crafted a life for himself in La Pietra as curator of his father's collections, arranging rooms into virtual collages that mixed historical periods, artistic styles, and furniture into a living Wunder Kammer. We will explore how to do the same using contemporary digital media. The workshop will provide examples of some proven pedagogical approaches, such as having students compose Twitter fictions or remediate the setting and characters in a gaming environment, and then ask participants to share their own classroom strategies. We will conclude by constructing our own historical timeline of objects from Acton's bedroom using the new timeline tool at The COVE. Please bring a digital camera or phone so that you can upload images for the collaborative timeline. Seminar leader: Jay Clayton
A Momentous Edition of Sibling Sonnets
The original illuminated text drawing that D. G. Rossetti made of his poem for his mother's birthday
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem, "The Sonnet," is the first poem in the sonnet sequence House of Life. This COVE edition will attempt what Dino Franco Felluga, one of the lead editors, is calling—inspired by the poem—a "momentous edition." The other lead editor is Jerome McGann. If we have time, we will also undertake together a close reading of Christina Rossetti's "In an Artist's Studio." As we close-read the poetry, an amanuensis will record our readings using The COVE's annotation software. Our collective annotations will then be augmented over summer 2017 before being sent out for peer review. If all goes well, the final result of this work will be a collectively published edition in COVE Editions, NAVSA's new publication arm: http://covecollective.org. Seminar leaders: Dino Franco Felluga and Herbert F. Tucker
Victorian Vasari
Hilary Fraser in front of Giorgio Vasari's Holy Family in the Sala da Pranzo
One of the prized paintings in the Acton Collection at Villa La Pietra is Giorgio Vasari's Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist. This sixteenth-century Mannerist work, splendid in its original ornate frame, formerly held pride of place above the fireplace of Arthur and Hortense Acton's sumptuous bedroom, and now hangs in the Sala da Pranzo. The painting provides the focus of a workshop that looks at Vasari's art and writing and his reputation and influence in the nineteenth century. Vasari's Lives of the Artists, which played such a role in the renaissance of the Renaissance in Victorian England, helped form the Actons' taste. Their library includes, as well as several editions of the Lives in Italian, French and English, a volume of Stories of the Italian Artists from Vasari for children, with Harold Acton's childhood bookplate. It also contains a book on the house in nearby Arezzo that Vasari created for himself and his collection, whose dense pictorial decoration celebrates the life of the artist. This invites reflection on the house museum itself, on the private residence as a heterotopian space of collection and display, and on the ways in which art is intertwined with lives. Vasari's choice of biography as the medium for his history of Renaissance art chimed with the Victorians' own passion for life writing and the painting of modern (and historical) life, and we will think about his legacy in relation to forms of artistic representation in the nineteenth century. Seminar leader: Hilary Fraser
Fashion and the Actons
One of Hortense Mitchell Acton's dresses (with portrait), Villa La Pietra
A number of years ago, a conservator entered a storeroom at Villa La Pietra and stumbled on a pile of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks. She opened them and discovered a collection of exquisite dresses, the kind usually only seen in movies, or inside protective vitrines in museums. Closer inspection revealed silk labels, handwoven with the name "Callot Soeurs." The dresses belonged to Hortense Mitchell Acton, the Chicago heiress who, in 1907, bought VLP. As for the "Callot Soeurs"—the Callot Sisters—they are not much remembered now. Yet, not long after they opened their atelier, in 1895, they became one of the great names in Belle Époque fashion. Although she could not have known it at the time, the conservator had discovered the largest private collection of Callot Soeurs in the world. In this seminar, conducted in part in Villa La Pietra's conservation lab, we will study the outside and inside of several examples of Hortense Mitchell Acton's gowns, as they have been preserved, and as they have decayed, together creating a collective model of how to read the intimate, social, economic, and labor histories stitched into a dress. Seminar leader: Jessamyn Hatcher
Reading in the House (with the City in Mind)
Jonah Siegel in the upstairs library, La Pietra
Michelangelo's marble Day and Night at San Lorenzo; Botticelli 's painted Madonnas at the Uffizi; the blue and white terra cotta children festooning the facade of the foundling hospital at the Piazza Santissima Annunziata: these are just a few of the distinct aesthetic experiences available to the traveler to Florence today, much as they were in the Victorian period and for centuries before. The visitor to la Pietra finds more art, but not simply a domestic version of what is to be seen in Florence proper. Polychrome wooden sculpture, a Renaissance bas-relief made out of papier-mache, gilded paintings on wood panels, garden statues made not of marble, but of a more vulnerable stone. At city and villa, the real presence of objects makes unavoidable the encounter with material conditions only fully appreciable on site. This workshop will reflect on the intersection of the experience of the matter of art with speculation on its meaning. Florence and the villa will be in our minds as we work through a small selection of texts by John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and Vernon Lee (most of them revolving around Florentine art) with the goal of coming to terms with the ways in which major thinkers on art of the period mark the intersection between material experience and idea. We will also take the opportunity to reflect on the ways in which the collection in which we find ourselves—itself a manifestation of informed late-Victorian taste—does or does not instantiate the kinds of concerns present in our reading. Seminar leader: Jonah Siegel
Reading Extensive and Intensive
Garrett Stewart in front of Palmezzano's Saint Jerome in an Extended Landscape
For a site-specific workshop in a transmedial genre, the Acton villa offers a unique architectonic frame around representations of reading when housed within the outside-in ideals of Palladian space. A mansion of many libraries becomes a storehouse for the iconology of reading's mystified inwardness. Amid dozens of painted saints with bibles, two images serve to bracket a 500-year trajectory of painted book culture in Western art (to be sampled by numerous slides). Within the strategic sightlines of the Villa's windows and mirrors, these images project back from an inhabited room-with-a-view to a recessional depth not just wholly virtualized but differently figurative for the reading act. Close attention to the Renaissance emblematics of Palmezzano's "Saint Jerome in an Extended Landscape" will elucidate the double phenomenological register of perspective's outer and reading's inner distances. We will then turn for contrast to a commissioned work by author-painter Jacques-Emile Blanche—known elsewhere for his portraits of turn-of-the-century writers like Henry James and George Moore—in which Arthur Acton oversees from behind his young son's reading. Given their intensive and immersive nature, books in the normal ocular tropes of painting bring the outside in, containing little worlds in themselves. Here, however, the novice reader and his patriarchal superego appear in a sitting room of the Villa against a complex trompe l'oeil backdrop of strictly illusory depth, no longer "extended," as in sacred reading, to the world it sanctifies and explicates, but closed on itself. Why? With what compositional impact? That's where our inquiry will begin. Seminar leader: Garrett Stewart
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CMHC-Granville Island recently issued a public "Call for Ideas" to refine the long-term vision for the Arts & Innovation Hub. In response, VSIR submitted a five-page proposal to build a state-of-the-art facility that promotes creative community-building, strengthens Granville Island's iconic status, and enhances the city's innovation capacity. The proposal calls for the establishment of Knowledge Hub and Learning Interchange in the north building of the former Emily Carr University of Arts and Design (ECUAD), a 120,000 ft2 wood structure.
The new facility would serve as a community gathering place for turning ideas into action to create the conditions to realize a better future for Vancouver.The proposed concept framework creatively links together arts, culture and local marketing concepts and findings presented in the Repurposing Strategy that reflect stakeholder consultations, the architectural and planning analysis as well as the CMHC Granville Island's guidance.


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Veterans group unveils 2021 legislative priorities
By Jim Hannah, LRC
Frankfort, KY - Protecting the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs (KDVA) budget while providing property tax relief for veterans service organizations is at the top of a wish list for the state's veterans advocates.
Joint Executive Council of Veterans Organizations (JECVO) No. 1 legislative priority for the 2021 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly is protecting KDVA's budget, said Larry Arnett, the group's legislative officer. He made the comments while testifying before today's meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection.
KDVA Commissioner Keith Jackson testified that his department returned $263,000 to the state general fund in response to the governor's budget reduction request in April. The General Assembly will convene on Jan. 5 to pass the state's next fiscal budget.
Jackson also said his department had received $3.9 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. As of Oct. 31, the department had spent $1.9 million and obligated the remaining amount for similar COVID-19 expenses, including increases in medical costs for veterans.
JECVO'S second, and final priority, is legislation, known as Bill Request 153, that would create a property tax exemption for property owned by veterans service organizations.
To qualify for the tax exemption, over 50 percent of an organization's annual net income would have to be expended on behalf of veterans and other charitable causes, according to language in the bill.
The sponsor, Rep. Matthew Koch, R-Paris, testified similar legislation was filed during the last two regular sessions. He said 31 states already have laws governing property tax exemptions for veterans service organizations.
Arnett said if BR 153 was enacted it would mean a loss of about $300,000 annually in tax revenue. Only 8 percent of that figure currently goes to the state, he said. The majority goes to the cities or counties where the veterans service organizations have posts.
"They don't mind losing that $275,000 because they get much more than that in charitable contributions and civic involvement by our veterans organization folks," Arnett said about support for BR 153 from the Kentucky Association of Counties and Kentucky League of Cities.
Arnett said BR 153 was critical to the viability of Kentucky's veterans service organizations, many of which were in financial difficulty even before COVID-19.
Jackson said his department would also like to see legislation to align Kentucky's education benefits with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, establish a veterans suicide prevention program within his department, and designate June 12 as Women Veterans Appreciation Day.
Rep. Jim DuPlessis, R-Elizabethtown, said he would like to see the state's veterans advocates push for the passage of proposed legislation to provide tax incentives for service members to retire in Kentucky. His district includes a portion of Fort Knox, with a daytime population of about 25,200 soldiers, civilian employees and family members, according to the U.S. Army.
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Secondhand Smoking in Childhood is Far-Reaching
Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home are more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood, U.S. researchers say.
Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lung that primarily causes shortness of breath. In people with emphysema, the lung tissues necessary to support the physical shape and function of the lung are destroyed.
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggest the lungs may not recover completely from the effects of early-life exposures to tobacco smoke.
Gina Lovasi, assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, says approximately half of the participants in the large multi-ethnic cohort had at least one regular cigarette smoker in their childhood home.
The researchers studied computed tomography scans of 1,781 non-smokers without clinical cardiovascular disease recruited from six communities in the United States.
"We were able to detect a difference on CT scans between the lungs of participants who lived with a smoker as a child and those who did not," Lovasi says in a statement. "Some known harmful effects of tobacco smoke are short term, and this new research suggests that effects of tobacco smoke on the lungs may also persist for decades."
The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, says the association between childhood exposures to tobacco smoke and early emphysema among participants whose mothers did not smoke, suggests the effect detected is for smoke exposure in the home during childhood rather than in utero exposure alone.
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Luxembourg: Luxembourg keeps on expanding its treaty network
Keith O'Donnell and Samantha Merle, ATOZ – Taxand
Luxembourg has recently ratified 13 double tax treaties (DTTs) and protocols with the first objective to align Luxembourg standards with the OECD standards on exchange of information in tax matters and Luxembourg keeps on expanding its DTT network with eight additional DTTs signed or initialed. While an expansion of the DTT network is good news, as it makes Luxembourg more attractive for foreign inbound or outbound investments, some new DTTs introduce changes which may refrain investors from performing certain investments in Luxembourg as these investments will now become less attractive from a tax point of view. Here, reference can be made to the changes introduced for Luxembourg companies investing in real estate in Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia or to the anti-abuse provisions included in certain DTTs and drafted in such general terms that they may create some legal uncertainty for taxpayers. These DTTs include however also positive changes, such as reductions of withholding tax rates or provisions granting DTT benefits to collective investment vehicles, which is great news for the Luxembourg investment fund industry. Here, we will focus on the new rules for the taxation of gains on real estate investments and DTT benefits for investment funds.
New rules for the taxation of gains on real estate investments
The new DTTs with Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia include a specific provision, according to which capital gains derived by a resident of a contracting state from the alienation of shares (or similar rights for some of these DTTs) in real estate companies are taxable in the source country (country in which the real estate is located). In other words, these gains are now, in line with the OECD Model Tax Convention, taxed at source, whereas in the past they were treated as gains on the sale of movable property, meaning that they were only taxable in the country of the seller.
This change is of importance for many real estate investment structures, especially for Luxembourg companies investing in real estate in Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland or Russia via a local property company. So far, the capital gains were only taxable in Luxembourg (country of the seller) and could benefit from an exemption based on the participation exemption regime. Now, there will be a potential taxation of the gains in the country in which the real estate is located (to the extent the local legislation provides for such taxation).
Luxembourg companies which invest in real estate in these countries should therefore carefully review their investment structure to mitigate any adverse tax consequence.
DTT benefits for investment funds
The protocol to the DTT signed between Luxembourg and the Czech Republic states that the term "resident of a contracting state" also includes a fiscally non-transparent person (including a collective investment vehicle, (CIV)) that is established in that state according to its laws even in the case where the income of that person is taxed at a zero rate in that state or is exempt from tax there. This provision means that Luxembourg SICAVs and SICAFs benefit from the DTT provisions. FCPs, since they are fiscally tax transparent, should not.
Under the new DTTs with Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, body corporate CIVs are considered as residents and beneficial owners of the income received while transparent CIVs are considered as individual residents and beneficial owners of the income received. This means that SICAVs/SICAFs will be able to benefit from the same reduced withholding tax rates as ordinary fully taxable Luxembourg Companies while for FCPs, since they are tax transparent, the maximum rate applicable to individuals (which is higher), will apply. For investments performed by Luxembourg CIVs, this distinction should however not have any impact since these three jurisdictions do not levy withholding taxes on dividend distributions.
The same provision is included in the DTT with the Seychelles.
Finally, the Protocol to the new Tajikistan-Luxembourg DTT provides that undertakings for collective investment are considered as residents and beneficial owners of the income they earn. Here, no distinction is made between SICAVs/SICAFs and FCPs.
The recent developments in respect of DTTs are positive as regards countries with which Luxembourg did not have any DTT so far as they should increase business flows between Luxembourg and these countries. Luxembourg should, however, remain vigilant when negotiating DTTs as some provisions may have negative impacts on certain sectors which are key for Luxembourg as a business friendly location, like the real estate sector, where the implementation of provisions on the taxation of capital gains on real estate companies will rather refrain investments and may have a negative impact in the middle and longer term. Positive developments are the inclusion of specific provisions granting DTT benefits for collective investment funds, in line with the recent OECD commentaries in this respect. We expect that Luxembourg will in future systematically require from its DTT partners the inclusion of such provision in order to remove the tax barriers that often exist when CIVs invest abroad.
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Walk Connemara offers guided walks, trekking, hillwalking, hikes and walking tours in Connemara, Co Galway, Co Mayo and along the route of the Wild Atlantic Way in the West of Ireland. These are provided by Paul Phelan, a qualified mountain leader and experienced local walking guide and author of "Connemara and Mayo - a Walking Guide" published by the Collins Press in 2011. (see below and the Guide Book page).
Walk Connemara offers a variety of services for individuals, groups, tour operators and corporates interested in walking-related activities in Connemara. We deliver an authentic and special experience in one of the wildest landscapes in Western Europe.
The cost for a half-day is currently €130 - €230, again depending on the location, numbers and transport. We accept payments through PayPal (you can use either a credit card or your own PayPal account).
Let us know what you have in mind and we will help you design your special experience. We can arrange walks around various themes or features e.g. archeology, history, heritage, geology, birds, bogs, caves, mountain passes, megalithic tombs, holy wells.
Walk Connemara also offers guided walks for individuals or small groups who can join a scheduled walk. However, these are generally subject to a minimum number of people booking in advance, and are not guaranteed until we have sufficient bookings. If confirmed, you will join a group with other people for your guided walk, hillwalk, hike or trip. Scheduled walks normally cost in the range of about €25-70 per person (island trips and some special hikes are more expensive). View the Scheduled Walks page for a calendar of walks, hikes and Island trips that individuals or small groups can join.
You can also have a Scheduled Walk created to meet your requirements or interests or guarenteed to proceed (irrsepective of the other bookings). These customised scheduled walks usually cost more per person than a scheduled walk (but often much less than exclusive guiding, particularly for small groups e.g. three/four people). Let us know what you would like and we will try to quote you for a customised scheduled walk.
We can organise day trips to Inishbofin, Inishturk and Clare Island, using the regular ferry services. These trips can be exclusive or offered as scheduled walks (take a look at the Scheduled Walks page).
We also offer customised Island day trips on a private boat to these and other islands (some of which are uninhabited). These are normally offered from April to October. Current prices for custom guided island day trips (including the comfortable boat, taking up to 11 people) range from €500-€1000 depending on the location, the duration and the lunch (ranging from simple outdoor picnics through pub grub, to gourmet feasts with local produce served in an island hotel). Larger group sizes are also possible as are multi-day island tours.
We can also help you plan your walking tour or holiday. We offer advice and guide books to help you plan and get the most out of your West of Ireland walking experience. We can also assist with developing walks, tours and other walking-related activities.
We can organise transport for individuals, and tour groups of various sizes. We can arrange maps, food, accommodation or other logistics to help you enjoy hillwalking in this spectacular landscape.
Paul has been an enthusiastic hill walker for over 20 years, having climbed mountains all over Ireland, as well as in Scotland, Portugal and Japan. He has been a member of the Beanna Beola (Twelve Bens) Hill-walking Club since 2003. Paul has led many club hillwalks of various grades and group sizes and helps to organise the hill-walking schedule.
Paul has been guiding groups of tourists to Connemara since 2008. He is a qualified Mountain Leader with First Aid (REC4) training. He also got a distinction in the FETAC Level 6 course Marine and Countryside Guide – specialising in Hill Walking and has a Local Guide badge from Fáilte Ireland (Ireland's National Tourism Development Authority).
Paul speaks several languages (basic Irish, French, Japanese and Portuguese, along with an understanding of Spanish, German and Italian). At Walk Connemara, we have extensive knowledge of the walks and heritage of Connemara. We can deliver an authentic and valuable experience for you or your clients.
Paul has featured in several TV programmes about Connemara. He featured in the Clifden episode of Tile Films' "Cé a Chónaigh i Mo Theachsa? (Who Lived in My House?)" documentary broadcast on TG4. He also had a credited part in the TV drama Single Handed broadcast on RTE and ITV. Paul presents a music show every second Saturday 7-9pm on Connemara Community Radio.
Paul's book "Connemara and Mayo - a Walking Guide", was published in April 2011 by the Collins Press It is now widely available in good bookshops and around Connemara - and we can send you a signed copies by post. For more details see the Guide Book page.
Boots with good grip and rainwear are essential for safe hiking and hillwalking in Connemara. Click here for information on Recommended Equipment. We can arrange some equipment rental (e.g. poles) if you don't have all the right hiking gear with you. We may also be able to loan you some spare equipment (e.g. rain jackets, boots).
For safety, walking group sizes depend on the nature of the walk. For instance, mountain hikes are limited to about 8 people, while up to about 25 may be possible for certain easy walks. An extra guide will be arranged for large groups (at possible extra cost).
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Coming to Portland from Southern Oregon was a big change for me and getting used to living in a metropolitan area was not easy. Driving downtown seemed difficult to even think of (although as months went by, it was just fine). Portland traffic, especially after work-shifts, gets a bit crowded. When I see no hope of getting to PSU driving or finding a parking place, I turn to a rescuer that Portland is known for: the Trimet public transportation system.
Created in 1968, Trimet provides commuter rail, light rail, streetcar and local buses in the Portland metropolitan area. Among these services there are four light rail lines, one commuter rail, one streetcar and 79 bus routes. What is not known about Trimet is that it carries more people than any other transit system its size in the States: Weekday boardings averaged over 300,000 trips.
What is great about Trimet's MAX Light rail, however, especially for students like myself going from the city center to PSU, is the yellow Free Rail Zone. After school, I could take the Max and go pretty much any place I needed to go downtown and go back to Pioneer Square to get back home; all for free. Nevertheless, coming this September 1st, MAX Light Rail and Portland Streetcar service in downtown Portland and the Lloyd District will no longer be free. Moreover, most fares are going up.
How do PSU students, faculty and staff feel about these changes?
Thank you for bringing up this subject. TriMet has been an invaluable partner in making the PSU campus more accessible and livable. I want to point out one important correction to your post: beginning Sept 1st, all PSU students and employees will be able to ride the Portland Streetcar for free. This includes the entire Streetcar system from NW Portland to South Waterfront, not just the soon-to-be-former "Free Rail Zone". When the east side Streetcar line opens on Sept 22nd, it will also be free to PSU community members. Just show your current PSU Photo ID card to ride. Unfortunately the MAX light rail trains will not be included in this benefit.
This program is the result of a new sponsorship agreement between PSU and the Portland Streetcar, which is a separate transit system from TriMet (however, the streetcars are driven by TriMet operators and TriMet contributes a small amount of funding to their budget).
Again, thank you for bringing up the subject of commuting and transit. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
You wrote a nice article. However, as a resident of Woodburn and a PSU student, I think Tri-Met is a bit overrated. They limited access in the southern part of Metro. Those of us that work and go to school from Tualatin south, have no easy way to get downtownin a decent amount of time. At least for me it is not easy or fast.
My suggestion is they expand WES to go into downtown directly and meet up with a bus or Max line there near the Steel Bridge, then all the way out in Beaverton..
Until then, I will drive my car and pay the high parking rates, so that I can get to class on time and graduate next June.
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Irish boyband, Westlife have revealed today (April 12) that their first album in nine years, 'Spectrum', will be released, on the 6th of September 2019. Westlife have an exciting and busy year ahead, as it was revealed that the band will be embarking on an extensive tour this summer, ahead of the release of their comeback album, 'Spectrum', this autumn.
The boyband, made up of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, and Markus Feehily have confirmed their first studio album since the release of 2010's 'Gravity' will drop on the 6th of September 2019. The groups comeback comes after they took a hiatus, which began in 2011, and lasted until October 2018 when they reunited, bringing much excitement to fans.
The 11-track album, 'Spectrum', which was recorded in Dublin, LA, and London, cements the group's return to the international music scene, on the exact day they mark the twentieth anniversary of the release of their first ever UK single, 'Swear It Again', which was released on the 12th of April 1999. Their latest album, 'Spectrum', was written and produced by hitmakers such as Steve Mac, Ed Sheeran and James Bay. The album showcases the band's stunning vocals with a collection of fresh pop anthems and moving ballads, including the amazing first single, 'Hello My Love', of their music comeback as well as their current hit, 'Better Man'.
Speaking of the album, the band, said: "We are making new fresh pop music for old and new fans alike and are so excited to share 'Spectrum' with everybody." The band added: "We're all driven by trying to create the best album of our careers. Our fans deserve the very best version of Westlife possible and with this album we feel that we've achieved that.
The news of the release date of their latest album, 'Spectrum', follows the announcement of their 25-date tour of the UK and Ireland. Their comeback not only include their latest album, but their fastest-selling UK and Ireland tour of all time, cementing Westlife's position as national music treasures.
The tour, which will celebrate Westlife's 20th anniversary, will see the band hit the road, in Belfast, on the 25th of May 2019, heading to venues in Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Leeds, London, Nottingham, Birmingham, and Liverpool, before concluding, in Dublin, on the 6th of July 2019. Westlife's album is available for pre-order now and their UK and Ireland tour can be seen in full below.