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The 10 best Labor Day movies for folks who can't watch "9-to-5" one more time
Must-see comedies, dramas and docs about the workplace that you can't believe you've never seen or forgot you loved
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2017/09/03/the-10-best-labor-day-movies-for-folks-who-cant-watch-9-to-5-one-more-time/
Gary M. Kramer
September 3, 2017 8:30PM (UTC)
For most folks, Labor Day is a day off of work. And while most folks who go to the movies often don't want to be reminded of their jobs, there are some great features and documentaries that depict working environments.
Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" may be the most classic film about work, but in contemporary times, "Office Space" rivals "Clerks" for the best comedy about the daily grind. In the category of "bad boss" movies, "The Devil Wears Prada," "Swimming with Sharks," "Working Girl" and "9 to 5" all feature employees getting the best of their superiors.
So here are ten lesser-known films about work and workplace environments that deserve the extra effort to be seen. From quirky comedies to fascinating documentaries, these films are entertaining and informative.
"American Job" Chris Smith's terrific deadpan film (that plays like a documentary) has Randy Scott (Randy Russell) taking a lousy minimum-wage job in a plastics factory (Recall that line from "The Graduate"?). However, after he gets fired, he takes a series of jobs including a dishwasher at a fast food restaurant to motel housekeeper and telemarketer. Each employment opportunity provides mind numbing repetitive but skilled work for low pay, as well as a series of restless co-workers that are both amusing and irritating. "American Job" was made years before Barbara Ehrenreich's landmark book, "Nickel and Dimed," and Mike Rowe's TV show "Dirty Jobs," but like those far more famous works, it shows the incredible efforts required to do menial tasks and the mindset of the people who do them.
"Bartleby" Adapted from Herman Melville's story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," this offbeat comedy has the title character (a terrific Crispin Glover) answering, "I would prefer not to" when the Boss (David Paymer) asks him for help with something. Bartleby further explains that he has given up working. I could tell you more about this film, which is very good, and darkly comic, but I would prefer not to.
"The Boss of It All" Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier's corporate comedy has vain Danish actor Kristoffer (Jens Albinus) posing as Svend, a non-existent IT company president, just so the business can be sold to Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson), a frosty Icelander. However, a series of reversals delay the deal, allowing the staff to finally meet and interact with their "boss," who has been unseen until now. Many of these encounters are funny; one employee punches Svend, others have sex with him, some have miscommunications. Nevertheless, when Kristoffer's ex-wife (Sofie Grabol) is introduced as Finnur's lawyer, this enjoyable film takes off with some fun twists involving who exactly is conning whom.
"Canned Dreams" This remarkable documentary takes viewers around the world to show ordinary people doing various jobs that ultimately produce a single product. There are Brazilian miners, Romanian men who work in a slaughterhouse, French workers on an assembly line, Italians and Portuguese working in fields, and more. What emerges is a shrewd commentary on globalization and how each country contributes to the product's end result. But more importantly, it is why these workers do these often-unpleasant jobs (the worst involve animal slaughter): it is usually so their children can have a better life. As they recount their hopes and dreams, viewers will be empathetic. As the final shot reveals what everyone is working to create, viewers will reevaluate their thoughts about what is contained in that particular can.
"Fast, Cheap & Out of Control" Errol Morris' documentary is about four men who all love what they do. Dave Hoover is a wild animal trainer; George Mendonça is a topiary gardener; Ray Mendez is a mole rat specialist; and Rodney Brooks is a robot scientist. These men talk passionately about their work, the challenges of it, how they problem solve, and what they discover and have learned about human and animal natures, behaviors and rules. They have all found the best way to do what they do, but more importantly, they each find themselves in another social animal. Viewers can't help but identify with one of the men, which is what makes "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control" so universal.
"Equity" This juicy little indie is for anyone who wants to see that glass ceiling shattered. Female investment banker Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) loves money and taking companies public. While she has had setbacks before, working on a new IPO, she becomes a target not just of competitors who want to see her fail, but also finds herself under investigation by her former friend Samantha (Alysia Reiner). As a security breach scandal broadens, a series of betrayals and reversals of fortunes keep Anna, and viewers, on tenterhooks. And if the male condescension isn't horrific, just delight in Naomi's rant about the lack of enough chips in a chocolate chip cookie.
"In the Company of Men" Talk about a toxic work environment! Neil LaBute's cynical, blistering comedy-drama about emotional abuse is still chilling more than two decades later. Chad (Aaron Eckhart) is a junior executive who coaxes his colleague Howard (Matt Malloy) to play catch-and-release with the vulnerable Christine (Stacy Edwards), a deaf colleague. Their scheme is designed to make themselves feel better; these straight white men certainly aren't welcoming to women or minorities — just watch how Chad humiliates a young black trainee. Eckhart is infuriatingly amoral in a performance that established his career.
"In the Pit" the dignity of Mexico City construction workers is chronicled in Juan Carlos Rulfo's fascinating documentary about the building of an urban freeway. Rulfo takes viewers "In the Pit" to reveal the everyday dangers of this tough work, from avoiding oncoming traffic to scaling dizzying heights. The filmmaker takes time to meet the men (and one woman) who work on the site, discussing their fears (not eating), dreams and accidents. Rulfo also distinguishes "In the Pit" with dazzling camerawork, from time-lapse sequences and pans, as well as the jaw-dropping finale, a nearly 8-minute long tracking shot of the construction project. You'll never look at construction workers the same way again.
"Putney Swope" The opening sequence of Robert Downey, Sr.'s (dubbed "a prince" in the credits) irreverent 1969 satire has all the white, male board members of an advertising agency electing the sole African-American, Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) to chairman. (They all voted for him because they thought no one else would). "You don't have to accept the job . . . it's a terrible job," Swope is told. But he takes over. Swope doesn't rock the boat — he sinks it, creating "Truth and Soul, Inc." with naughty ads that are wildly successful. As Swope takes care of business, running the company in ways that reflect the era's Black Panther movement, the white characters are treated like slaves, and Swope fires more folks than Trump did in a season of "Celebrity Apprentice." "Putney Swope" may be a bit dated, but it is still wickedly funny.
"Up in the Air" Jason Reitman's loose adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel is a smart, laugh-out-loud film about downsizing. Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a suave transition specialist, a man who gives pep talks to downsized employees. As he explains in the film, "We take people at their most fragile and set them adrift." While he is very good at his job, he's rather patronizing to most of the folks he meets when he's not working — his estranged family in particular. Clooney is slick, but not oily; he sells it all without being smug. He meets his match in Alex (Vera Farmiga, at her most delectable) and is troubled by the presence of Natalie (Anna Kendrick), a young go-getter at his company who gets him temporarily grounded in more ways than one. "Up in the Air" is terrific as it captures Ryan's "compact living" where everything, including his emotions, is compartmentalized. Reitman never allows things to get too sentimental or sticky, and his film is graced with a trio of excellent performances.
Gary M. Kramer is a writer and film critic based in Philadelphia. Follow him on Twitter.
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Ford Adjusts Its Focus: SVT makes this its most high-tech offering ever
By Mark Vaughn
So there I was, in the driver's seat of a fairly pedestrian, garden-variety stock Ford Focus hatchback, lined up side-by-side on an empty street with a tuned-to-the-gills SVT Focus hatchback, engines revving, countdown sounding off...
The 2.0-liter Zetec four gets more high technology than may have ever been stuffed into the engine bay of a Ford for the street, with variable intake runners, tuned exhaust, dual-mass flywheel and a very clever six-speed manual.
"Three, two, one..."That was me yelling out the numbers, by the way. Not simply to drag race for the sake of drag racing, though there's always some way to justify that in the name of research, but rather to get the first performance evaluation of Ford Special Vehicle Team's soon-to-be-released entry into the all-important sport compact performance segment.
Why is that segment important? It hooks the youth, potentially making them Ford buyers for life, and eases the marketing gurus' fears of an ever-aging customer base. One of Jac Nasser's more insightful decisions early in his tenure was to make more cars that younger buyers would want, to understand what is commonly called "the import scene" of front-wheel-drive sport compact cars. The SVT Focus is aimed squarely at that segment.
Will it hit anything? We'll find out.
As a condition of evaluating this new Focus, SVT made us agree that we wouldn't suction-cup our test equipment to the side of it, take it to the drag strip and compile data that they feared might make it look bad. The car was a prototype still under development, they said. We could get a production car nearer to the SVT Focus' February launch date and test that. Earlier this year Ford imposed similar restrictions on our first glance at the thing. (And while dribbling out information a little bit at a time may be frustrating, at least we're getting something in advance.) Back then, Ford's Special Vehicle Team wouldn't even let us drive one, let alone test it. They instead asked that we take their word that it was going to be "spectacular." They even went so far as to trash-talk the competition.
"We should beat them all in fun-to-drive," said SVT's Focus program manager Andy Slankard. "Around town, on the track, you name it, you're going to have more fun in ours."Slankard went on to specifically herald his vehicle's superiority in everything from braking and handling to acceleration and curb-side appeal.
Nine months later, we can still only estimate the car's abilities. We'd like a lifeline, Regis.We called up a guy we know who has some experience with the Focus. But not just any guy. And not just any experience. We called Shaun Carlson, the quickest, fastest Focus racer in the import drag racing scene. At 8.76 seconds at 152 mph, Carlson's Meguiar's Ford Focus is the quickest and fastest front-wheel-drive drag racing Focus in the world, with 600 or 700 horse-power going to the front wheels. The only front-wheel-drive car quicker than Carlson's is the AEM Drag Civic of his friend Stephan Papadakis, which recently went 8.12 seconds at 180 mph.
As befits a performance car, the SVT Focus has performance gauges, including oil temperature and pressure, not found on the regular Focus. And the HVAC bezels are trimmed in silver.
We weren't planning to line up the SVT against the 700-horsepower beast. Don't worry Ford officials. Carlson got two Focuses from Ford, one to turn into a race car and one for just driving around. We figured to drive the pair back-to-back, but Carlson had an even better suggestion."Want to race?" he asked.
That sounded entirely reasonable.
So that's how I came to be lined up on that deserted street, counting backwards. As the song says, at the count of one we both accelerated. Off the line the cars were relatively even, through the end of first gear they stayed fairly close, too. Then, going up through the gears the SVT Focus pulled away. And there was the proof: the taillights of the SVT Focus hatch drawing further and further away as we floored the throttle on the stock hatch, the distance increasing by about a car-length every 200 or 300 feet. There's your 40 more horsepower.
Another race lead with better launch technique on my part made for a slightly closer race at first, but the SVT's horses still pulled strongly out front.
We drove both back to the shop and had a look at the prototype more closely. Under the hood the first thing you see is a larger air intake and a missing intake resonator, both of which get more air in the system. But the heads and runners on the SVT version of the 2.0-liter Zetec engine are obviously different, too.
SVT added a cleverly designed variable-length intake runner and its own set of headers. After the runners, the incoming air is routed through valves controlled by a variable intake cam that alters position from 85 degrees to 145 degrees after top dead center on the intake stroke, the first time an intake cam has been so altered on a Ford in North America. Inside the engine are forged-steel connecting rods and cast-aluminum pistons, the latter bumping compression from 9.6:1 to 10.2:1. The new SVT head hides enlarged intake ports and valves with stiffer springs that allow redline to increase from 6750 rpm to 7200 rpm. Finally, exhaust headers are configured in a 4-2-1 routing, with larger-diameter tubing for better flow.
Exterior is more subtle, a rare trait in the import drag scene. Both we and the target buyers to whom we showed the car noticed a little vagueness in the shifter.
Those changes not only increase peak horsepower from 130 in the stock Zetec engine to 170 in the SVT version, but bump torque from 135 lb-ft to 145 lb-ft. More importantly, at just over 2000 rpm the torque increase goes from just under 120 lb-ft to over 140 lb-ft. Or at least that's what it looks like on SVT's handy torque graph. And that's what Slankard promised us nine months ago, saying that 85 percent of the SVT's torque was available at 2200 rpm.
"We're going to have low-end torque," he'd said back then. "Every one of those other [competitors] will probably not."
But on the road our SVT Focus didn't feel nearly as grunty at the bottom end as Slankard and the chart promised. In fact, at just over 2000 rpm the SVT Focus we drove felt downright lackadaisical, whether racing or just driving around town.
"It seems like most of the torque comes on at, like, four grandish," said Carlson.On a dyno, though, the torque is there.
"In a GSR or even RSX when we ran dyno tests, this SVT Focus had 10 to 15 lb-ft more torque at almost every rpm level," said sport compact super tuner Oscar Jackson, who has been tuning such cars longer than just about anyone, when we asked him about the SVT later. "The RSX is a great car but you have to spin it to get anything out of it. The SVT Focus pulls, not like a supercharged version, but you don't have to do two downshifts to pass, you only have to do one."
One of Jackson's products for the Focus is a supercharger, upping power in the base Zetec engine to 180.
The increase in peak horsepower was more obvious than the torque increase. Above 3500 or 4000 rpm the engine was a blast to wind out. The shorter intake runners kick in at 6000 rpm, but the engine is less obvious in its transitional phase than some VTEC units in older Hondas and Acuras. Nonetheless, there is torque and power aplenty here. As long as the engine speed is above 3500 rpm, there's plenty of elbow room on the tach compared to the VTEC-tuned competitors, and a more seamless flow of power.
Of course, in those competitors you give up lots of torque to get that horsepower, so much of which is crowded up at the very top end of the tach. Still, many of the buyers in the upper end of the sport compact market look only at peak horsepower. Carlson may be speaking for many of them when he says of the SVT, "If they got 190 horsepower, it would be so much more legitimate. There are a lot of 200-horsepower competitors out there, RSXs, Eclipses..." The argument could go on forever. So let's just leave the engine behind and head out to the driver's left.
Attached to the engine is a dual-mass flywheel. Behind that is a six-speed Getrag manual transmission. How'd they get six speeds in the space of a five-speed box? By using two separate final drives, a 2.88:1 for first, second, fifth and sixth and a 4.25:1 for third, fourth and reverse. Sit down with a calculator and see if that all adds up. The overall ratios for first should come out to 12.7:1 and 3.1:1 for sixth. It's a pretty clever way to get six speeds.
We liked the SVT Focus' insides. Particularly the pedals, which are repositioned to better facilitate heel-and-toe shifting.
And SVT added larger-diameter, stronger CV joints to handle the extra torque.Naturally, bigger brakes were install-ed to slow it down as well as it speeds up. In this case 11.8-inch front ventilated discs and 11.0-inch solid rears are con- trolled by ABS for better stopping power. I rode with Carlson while he gave the ABS a test-stomp.
"Whoo! ABS works well," he said.
"Seatbelts, too," I added.
The 215/45R Continental ContiSport-Contact tires were mounted on 17-inch rims with five spokes (stock Focus tires are 195/60R-15s). Normally you could say that would be enough, given the stock Focus' excellent balance and smooth-handling suspension. But SVT added stiffer springs (plus-10 percent front and 20 percent rear) and 21-mm solid antiroll bars at both ends. Shocks have softer jounce and firmer rebound than stock for a smooth ride that doesn't increase body roll in corners. On the road it works just as promised, using the Focus' already excellent balance to even greater advantage.
Transitional handling character, how the car feels when it's shifting weight from one side to the other in a corner, is better than just about anything in the class. If that's what Slankard meant when he promised a fun-to-drive car, he was right on the money.
Oh yeah, money. The SVT Focus will cost $17,995, which includes the $490 destination charge. An Acura RSX will run from approximately $20,000 up to $25,000. The Honda Civic Si, due in March, is expected to start at under $20,000. The Mitsubishi Eclipse, another favorite on the import scene, ranges from $18,000 to $27,000. And lest we be accused of favoritism by rabid fans, the VW Golf ranges from $15,000 to $23,000; the Chevy Cavalier/Pontiac Sunfire from $14,000 to $17,000; the Dodge Neon from $13,000 to several grand more; and the Mazda Protegé from $13,500 to just more than $18,000, the latter for the excellent-handling but overloaded MP3. Don't forget that a base Focus ZX3 hatchback starts at a mere $12,445; cash-strapped Focusanti could be forgiven if they started out with that and built up their race rockets from there.
Considering the amount of technology on the SVT Focus, we wonder if Ford isn't losing money on each of the 7500 a year it plans to build at its Hermosillo plant for sale in North America only. Or whether young buyers will go for it. Carlson, speaking from the heart of the market, wonders, too.
"Maybe in the Midwest or East Coast you might have more interest," said Carlson. "But I just can't see the typical Honda guy going for it. People who are into Hondas stay with Hondas. People who are getting into [the import scene] might like being different, they're tired of all the Hondas. So there might be an interest there."
Of course, half the appeal of all those Acuras and Hondas is that you can find a good used starter project for $5,000 and add performance one paycheck at a time from a phalanx of tuner shops. The Focus is still too new to have the same stripper/donor population available, or as many aftermarket parts manufacturers. The new SVT may help change aftermarket interest in the car.
"Before the SVT, if you can make the comparison, it was like when the single-cam Civic was all the Honda guys had to work with," said Jackson. "When the Civic Si came out, suddenly they could grab onto this new car. The SVT has lots of horsepower, brakes, a great suspension, suddenly with the SVT they have a great base from which to build on."
Ford hopes it, too, will have a great base from which to build on a newer, younger customer.
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Looking for an app developer? Consider these priorities, says DCBank
October 18, 2021 /by David Potter
If you want to incorporate an app or an API in your company's ecosystem, Jeff Smith, President and CEO of DCBank, suggests focusing on a few key elements: "The number one thing is user experience (UX) –– make sure there's the fewest number of keystrokes possible," he says. "Then there's the experience of your app developer, and their ability to clearly understand the problem you're trying to solve."
DCBank is a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that helps financial institutions and FinTech entrepreneurs with their digital payments (including the transfer of funds), card services, digital wallets, identity and lending software.
The company goes beyond just offering online banking services, though. Clients are also provided with access to API developer tools, which allow them to have full control over the DCBank products they are engaging.
What is an API? An Application Programming Interface (API) allows two apps to communicate and share data.
It's no surprise that user experience is a top priority for the online bank, considering the main purpose of many of their applications and APIs is to offer more services to clients in an easy and accessible way –– while empowering them to embed those services in their own technology, says Smith.
Creating best-in-class APIs that deliver seamless UX is heavily dependent on the second priority he mentioned — working with a seasoned app developer.
When Smith was searching for a company to build custom applications, his expectations were clear: He wanted an experienced team that was client-focused, and one that would clearly understand and deliver solutions to a problem, not just build an app. Smith also wanted a team that could deliver on budget and on time.
Some other questions DCBank considered during its search included:
Will this developer have the ability to replicate the app or API solution across multiple platforms?
How many apps are required?
What's the strength and position of teams involved in the building of these apps?
Smith says he found all the development support he was looking for with Vog App Developers.
"I'm still using Vog and it's been five years," he says. "I don't use anybody else."
The first project that Vog worked on for Smith was building and launching new features for a cryptocurrency application.
"The first objective was to get the app online and offer the ability to purchase cryptocurrency from a mobile app versus having to go to a computer," explains Smith. "It was the first app of its kind in Canada."
Vog continues to provide ongoing monthly support and development for that application, adding new coins, making changes to the environment, updating policies, managing iOS updates, and more.
After the success of the cryptocurrency initiative, Smith engaged Vog to build out applications and APIs for DCBank's core services. With these, the goal was to make the tools more accessible, thus enabling easier integration for customers.
Vog also provided advisory support so the platform can duplicate or resell services without needing to rebuild a new app each time.
Having an external development team that could be depended on for deliverability and speed is even more important today, as the impact of COVID-19 increases use and expectations of digital banking services, says Smith.
"The pandemic has pushed the requirement for non face-to-face transactions that can occur wherever, such as a business owner doing payments from their iPad," Smith says. "That has pushed demand ahead five to seven years, so we're trying to deliver a better interface on a more expedited basis."
With double-digit growth annually for the past several years, DCBank works hard to meet those demands, says Smith.
When it comes to return on investment (ROI), Smith says it's measured differently depending on the function of each individual app. His team has seen value from improved user experience and customer satisfaction, contract renewals, and additional services that are offered to customers.
As for the cryptocurrency application Vog first built for Smith?
"The ROI for that app was multiple thousands," he says.
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The Job Shadow program facilitated by Junior Achievement Zimbabwe is offered to students that are about to go out of the education system specifically students in form 4 and 6. Students go into a workplace and spend a day 'shadowing' a host in different professions. Cell Insurance partnered with Junior Achievement Zimbabwe by accommodating students in this program. The students got a chance to observe the daily operations of their Cell host. The experience allowed the students to explore specific careers of interest by observing employees performing their work duties. The experience provided realistic career information that was intended to aid the students in making informed career choices.


On a tailor-made Latin America trip where you will be moving from one lodge to another, you will be met at each airport, airstrip, lodge/hotel or transfer point by representatives of A2A Journeys or our partners or representatives from the lodges at which you are staying. You will always have our contact telephone numbers (including emergency cellphone numbers) as well as numbers and addresses of our ground operators in each country you will visit. We are always contactable to handle your arrangements - from flight changes to a misplaced pocketbook, to retrieving a bag that may have been left behind and having it delivered to your next destination. Rest assured you will always feel safe throughout your stay in Latin America.


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Features, Opinion
Mining IPOs quick out of the blocks
Staff Writer June 7, 2021, 4:33 pm June 24, 2021
By Tony Featherstone
The recovery in mining floats has gone up a gear as more resource companies take advantage of buoyant sharemarket conditions to raise capital and list on the ASX.
Fifteen initial public offerings (IPOs) in mining and energy have closed so far this calendar year (to end-April 2021). That's almost half of all IPOs on the ASX.
As Australian Resources & Investment (AR&I) went to press, another 18 resource companies had live IPOs, according to AR&I analysis of ASX admissions data.
This year's strong start for mining floats follows 24 resource-sector IPOs in 2020 that raised up to a combined $190 million in a difficult funding market.
The median share-price gain (over the issue price) from resource IPOs from 2020 is 23 per cent (at end-April 2021). Remarkably, only six mining IPOs from last year have lost investors money (see table).
Three factors are driving the mining resources recovery. The first is the collective performance of resource shares, underpinned by higher commodity prices and improving global growth.
The S&P/ASX 200 Resources Index, a barometer of 38 materials and energy stocks on the ASX, returned 42 per cent over one year to end-April 2021, outperforming the broader market.
Second, the Australian sharemarket had a stronger recovery after crashing in March 2020 amid COVID-19 fears. The S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index is up almost 33 per cent over one year.
A sharemarket rally typically unleashes a wave of IPO activity because cashed-up investors are more likely to back new listings and speculative companies. That helps mining explorers.
Third, expectation of a strong rebound in global economic growth – and continuing high commodity prices – is an ideal backdrop for mining floats.
In early April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgraded its global economic growth forecast for the second time in three months. The IMF now predicts the world economy will expand by 6 per cent in 2021.
Expectations of higher global growth are boosting commodity prices. The Reserve Bank Index of Commodity Prices was up 28 per cent over the year to end-March 2021 (based on the currencies of five major industrial countries). Higher commodity prices are a boon for mining floats.
If global growth continues to surprise on the upside, and commodities remain elevated, activity in mining IPOs could boom in 2021. There is significant pent-up demand for resource floats after years of low float volumes and a stagnant IPO market.
That does not suggest capital-raising conditions are easy for resource IPO hopefuls or that all floats are achieving their minimum subscription or a sufficient spread of shareholders to meet ASX Listing Rules requirements. But mining IPO conditions are the best in at least five years.
A noticeable feature of resource IPO activity in the past 18 months has been companies raising a larger amount of capital – a sign of improving investor demand for resource-sector offerings.
Resource listings in 2021
Torrens Mining kicked off this year's resource IPO market with its listing in early January. Torrens sought up to $10 million to develop its Mount Piper and Club Terrace projects in its Victorian gold portfolio. Both projects are in areas with promising historic exploration.
Australian Gold and Copper (AGC), another January listing, sought $7-$10 million. AGC will hold three projects in the Central Lachlan Fold Belt in New South Wales. The company says its portfolio has multiple near-term discovery opportunites. Early exploration results have been promising.
OzAurum Resources listed in February after seeking up to $18 million through an IPO. Sponsored by Canaccord Genuity, OzAurum is developing two gold projects in Western Australian-based tenements assembled over three decades.
Among other floats, Auric Mining successfully listed in February after its $6.5 million IPO.
Auric had agreements to acquire a portfolio of prospective gold exploration and development projects in the Widgiemooltha and Norseman regions of WA. The company's share price rallied in late March after promising exploration results.
DDH1 Limited was by far the market's largest mining IPO with its $150 million listing in March 2021. Launched in 2006, DDH1 says it provides drilling technologies to obtain spatially accurate representative geological information. DDH1 has a fleet of 961 mineral drilling rigs.
Genmin, another larger mining IPO, sought $20-$30 million and listed on the ASX in March. Genmin is a central West African-focused iron ore explorer with projects in the Republic of Gabon. Genmin is also one of few Africa-focused mining IPOs on the ASX in recent years.
Bastion Minerals sought $5-$6 million to identify high-quality precious- and base-metal projects in the mineral-rich mining regions of the Coastal Cordillera in the Atacama region of northern Chile. The Coastal Cordillera region is host to multiple world-class gold projects (including the Maricunga Belt) and copper deposits. Bastion listed on the ASX in March.
Elsewhere, Tulla Resources sought $78 million in its IPO and listed on the ASX in March. Tulla continued the run of mining floats raising larger amounts in 2021.
Tulla's key asset is a half-interest in the Central Norseman gold project, a historical gold mine located near the town of Norseman in the Goldfields of WA that has produced over 5.5 million ounces of gold since operations began in 1935. The other half-interest in the project is held by ASX-listed Pantoro. It acquired that interest from Tulla Resources via a farm in and joint-venture agreement.
Firebird Metals, an April listing, sought up to $5.5 million in its IPO to develop the Oakover project, about 90 kilometres east of Newman in WA's East Pilbara Manganese Province. Oakover comprises one granted exploration licence and two exploration applications.
In gold exploration, Medallion Metals sought $12.5 million in its April IPO. Medallion's Ravensthorpe gold project and Jerdacuttup project are in the Southern Goldfields-Esperance region of WA, approximately 550 kilometres south-east of Perth.
Kincora Copper sought up to $10 million to accelerate its drilling activities in up to three projects within the Lachlan Fold Belt. High-priority drilling commenced in April 2020 and continues at Kincora's flagship Trundle project within the Lachlan Fold Belt, yielding promising copper and gold results.
Peregine Gold, this year's smallest mining IPO by capital raised, had a good start after seeking $2.5 million at 20 cents a share. Peregine had the right to acquire the Pilbara gold project, an early-stage exploration project in WA's famed Pilbara region.
Best performers from 2020
Caspin Resources topped last year's resource IPO rankings. After listing in late November 2020, its 20-cent shares raced to 69 cents by end-April 2021.
Caspin sought up to $6 million to develop the Yarawindah Brook and Mount Squires projects in WA. Caspin was spun out of Cassini Resources.
Desert Metals also starred. After listing a week before Christmas at 20 cents a share, it shot to 74 cents before easing to 55 cents by late April.
Desert Metals sought $5 million to develop its wholly-owned package of exploration licences on the north-west margin of the Yilgarn Craton of WA.
Dynamic Drill and Blast Holdings (DDB) was another IPO standout. The company services the civil and mining industries from full-production drilling to specialty blasting.
DDB sought $5 million in an August 2020 IPO and its 20-cent shares raced to 45 cents by end-April 2021. The company announced two new contracts with mining, as well as contract extensions.
Among other floats, Siren Gold, an October listing, rallied from a 25-cent issue price to 31 cents by January 2021. Siren was among the larger resource IPOs in 2020 with a $10 million offer.
Underwritten by Morgans Corporate, Siren has the Reefton gold project on the South Island of New Zealand, which has been explored and mined for hard-rock and alluvial gold since the discovery of gold there in 1870.
Soon after listing, Siren announced promising exploration results at its Alexander River and Big River tenements, within the Reefton gold project.
Manuka Resources was another top IPO performer by share-price gains since listing. Its 20-cent shares traded at 43 cents at end-April 2021 after the company sought $7 million at 20 cents a share through a float in July 2020.
Manuka owns the Wonawinta silver and Mt Boppy gold projects in NSW. Wonawinta has a 50.9-million-ounce silver mineral resource that complies with the Joint Ore Reserves Committee Code (JORC). Manuka says it is set to become Australia's largest primary silver producer, commencing in third-quarter 2021.
Tony Featherstone is a former managing editor of BRW, Shares and Personal Investor magazines. The information in this article should not be considered personal advice. It has been prepared without considering your objectives, financial situation or needs. Before acting on information in this article consider its appropriateness and accuracy regarding your objectives, financial situation and needs. Do further research of your own and/or seek personal financial advice from a licensed adviser before making any financial or investment decisions based on this article. IPO information can change quickly if companies do not raise their minimum subscription or attract enough shareholders to meet ASX Listing Rules. All prices and analysis at April 29, 2021.
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The Four Chaplains Monument, located on the grounds of St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, depicts the four chaplains' selfless acts of valor witnessed in the early morning of February 3, 1943 on the United States Army transport ship, Dorchester. When the ship was torpedoed and began to sink, four chaplains -  two Protestant ministers, Reverend George Fox, and Reverend Clark Poling, a Jewish rabbi, Alexander Goode, and a Catholic priest, Father John P. Washington, offered their life jackets to four troops when the ship's supply ran out. Based on eyewitness accounts, the monument depicts the four chaplains standing against the ship's railing, arms linked, and praying as the ship sunk beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic.
The 2,000-pound bronze monument was conceived by Timothy Schmalz, a master sculptor who created stunning pieces based on religious themes. Sitting atop of a granite base, the front of the monument depicts the four chaplains standing on the deck of the Dorchester, arms linked and praying, as the ship's bow rose up behind them and sank into the frigid water. On the back of the monument is an angel holding four life jackets.
Witness the large bronze sculpture depicting the chaplains on the sinking ship
Visit the special chapel dedicated to the four men in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church
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An American study published its findings on the growth-promoting effect of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) was correlated with the decreased activity of bile salt hydrolase (BSH), an intestinal bacteria-produced enzyme that exerts negative impact on host fat digestion and utilisation.
Consistent with this finding, independent chicken studies have demonstrated that AGP usage significantly reduced population of Lactobacillus species, the major BSH-producers in the intestine. Recent finding also demonstrated that some AGPs, such as tetracycline and roxarsone, display direct inhibitory effect on BSH activity. Therefore, BSH is a promising microbiome target for developing novel alternatives to AGPs. Specifically, dietary supplementation of BSH inhibitor may promote host lipid metabolism and energy harvest, consequently enhancing feed efficiency and body weight gain in food animals.
The study goes on to say that independent studies have shown the link between usage of AGPs and reduced BSH activity as well as reduced population of some Lactobacillus species, the major BSH-producers, in the intestine of food animals. In light of these findings, BSH enzyme is a promising microbiome target for developing novel alternatives to AGPs for enhancing the productivity and sustainability of food animals.


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package com.github.kokorin.jaffree.ffmpeg;

import com.github.kokorin.jaffree.StreamType;

/**
 * Implement {@link Filter} interface to provide custom ffmpeg filter.
 * @see ffmpeg-filters
 */
public interface Filter {
    /**
     * Creates {@link Filter} starting from specified stream type.
     *
     * @param streamType stream type
     * @return Filter
     */
    static GenericFilter fromInputLink(StreamType streamType) {
        return new GenericFilter().addInputLink(streamType);
    }

    /**
     * Creates {@link Filter} starting from link name or stream specifier.
     *
     * @param linkOrStreamSpecifier link name or stream specifier
     * @return this
     * @see
     * stream specifiers
     */
    static GenericFilter fromInputLink(String linkOrStreamSpecifier) {
        return new GenericFilter().addInputLink(linkOrStreamSpecifier);
    }

    /**
     * Creates {@link Filter} starting from filter name.
     *
     * @param name filter
     * @return Filter
     */
    static GenericFilter withName(String name) {
        return new GenericFilter().setName(name);
    }

    /**
     * Prints filter description according to ffmpeg filtergraph syntax.
     *
     * @return filter description
     * @see
     * filtergraph syntax
     */
    String getValue();
}

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Strawberry chocolate chip bars - Drizzle Me Skinny!Drizzle Me Skinny!
Ok… I confess.. I am in love with these bars! 🙂 I had one right out of the oven. 🙂 Thankfully everyone else loved them too or I might of eaten them all!! They are full of strawberries and just enough chocolate to cure that "I need chocolate" attack. Only 5 smart points each and they make a delicious and satisfying dessert.
Preheat oven to 350F, spray a 9 inch square dish and set aside.
Using an electric mixer beat your sugar, yogurt and apple sauce. Add in your egg, milk and vanilla and mix well.
Stir in your flour and baking powder. Gently fold in your strawberries and chocolate chips.
Spread out batter into your sprayed dish.
Bake in oven for approx 35 minutes. Cool and cut into 12 bars, each bar is 5sp or 3pp.


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Q: ALTER TABLE engine from MyISAM to InnoDB: why does mysqldump --order-by-primary help me? I found an interesting mysqldump option in MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual. In internet there are no further details and explanations.
--order-by-primary

Dump each table's rows sorted by its primary key, or by its first
  unique index, if such an index exists. This is useful when dumping a
  MyISAM table to be loaded into an InnoDB table, but makes the dump
  operation take considerably longer.

Can you explain me why this helps in migrating MyISAM to InnoDB? How this works?

A: MyISAM table is stored as a heap, rows are being placed inside the data file into an empty place they can fit. If you are only inserting then that means appending new rows, but when the rows are being updated or deleted, some gaps are created and then later filled by other rows so the order of full table scan (which is what dump does by default) is not defined in any way.
InnoDB table is organized differently. The rows are stored as items inside a B-Tree "indexed" by the PRIMARY KEY. So entire table is clustered by the PRIMARY index defined. (As a side note InnoDB table always has a PK, if you do not define one, it picks one for you or creates artifical one.) That means that the full table scan is actually executed by scanning all data pages of the PRIMARY index and so the rows are returned ordered by that.
If you dump MyISAM table ordered by PRIMARY, the dump may be a bit slower than the unordered one, but a dump is usually the faster part of migrating so thats mostly a small penalty.
When you insert data into InnoDB table, the B-Tree index dynamically balances itself to keep the logarithmic depth. That often means some page splits are done.
If you insert the data in random order, each row may go to a different part of the tree, hitting different pages on-disk and initiating random splits. That incurs some IO performance penalty and it can lead to suboptimal fill factor (percentage of empty space in each page), as full page is split to two pages only 50% full which means that in bad case your data storage may be 2 times greater than needed (and all queries have to read twice as much data). Another possible outcome is fragmentation of the pages - when logically consecutive pages of the the lowest level of the B-Tree are stored in random separate locations of the disk drive (but this state is not easily identifiable and seems to be a theoretical issue, in practice encountered only rarely if ever).
But if you insert the data ordered by the PRIMARY KEY, the new rows are being "appended" to the table. Only the "last" pages on each level need to be taken care of (and if I understand it correctly - the suboptimal fill factor can be avoided as InnoDB can identify that "appending" is happening and add new pages more effectively). And the pages may be allocated more sequentially too.
So insertion in the PK order leads to faster execution and probably better storage usage in InnoDB tables.

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NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The "Nightdippers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5 held a change of command ceremony in the squadron's hangar bay onboard Naval Station Norfolk, Mar. 21.
Cmdr. Matthew Wright relieved Cmdr. Michael Dutton as commanding officer of HSC 5 in a ceremony attended by the command Sailors, family and guests. Dutton served for two and a half years as commanding officer of HSC-5, leading them through tailored ship's training availability and composite training unit exercise with Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12.
Wright served as the executive officer of HSC-5 under Dutton and now, as the commanding officer, will lead the squadron on her deployment with CSG 12.
HSC-5 is slated to deploy as a part of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 and CSG 12 this spring.
"My promise as commanding officer is that I will dedicate myself to bring out the best of this generation of HSC 5 as part of the CVW 7 and CSG 12 team," said Wright.
HSC-5 is comprised of MH-60S Seahawk helicopters whose mission consists of search and rescue, Naval Special Warfare Support and anti-surface warfare. Additional missions include logistics support, vertical replenishment, medical evacuations, non-combatant evacuation operations and maritime interdiction operations.


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package net.mikesu.fastdfs.client;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Map;

import net.mikesu.fastdfs.FastdfsClientConfig;
import net.mikesu.fastdfs.command.*;
import net.mikesu.fastdfs.data.Result;

public class StorageClientImpl extends AbstractClient implements StorageClient {

    private Socket socket;
    private String host;
    private Integer port;
    private Integer connectTimeout = FastdfsClientConfig.DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT * 1000;
    private Integer networkTimeout = FastdfsClientConfig.DEFAULT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT * 1000;

    private Socket getSocket() throws IOException {
        if (socket == null) {
            socket = new Socket();
            socket.setSoTimeout(networkTimeout);
            socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(host, port), connectTimeout);
        }
        return socket;
    }

    public StorageClientImpl(String address) {
        super();
        String[] hostport = address.split(":");
        this.host = hostport[0];
        this.port = Integer.valueOf(hostport[1]);
    }

    public StorageClientImpl(String address, Integer connectTimeout, Integer networkTimeout) {
        this(address);
        this.connectTimeout = connectTimeout;
        this.networkTimeout = networkTimeout;
    }

    public void close() throws IOException {
        Socket socket = getSocket();
        Command<Boolean> command = new CloseCmd();
        command.exec(socket);
        socket.close();
        socket = null;
    }

    @Override
    public Result<String> uploadSlave(File file, String fileid, String slavePrefix, String ext, Map<String, String> meta) throws IOException {
        Socket socket = getSocket();
        UploadSlaveCmd uploadSlaveCmd = new UploadSlaveCmd(file,fileid,slavePrefix,ext);
        Result<String> result = uploadSlaveCmd.exec(socket);

        if (meta != null) {
            String[] tupple = super.splitFileId(fileid);
            if (tupple != null) {
                String group = tupple[0];
                String fileName = tupple[1];
                this.setMeta(group, fileName, meta);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    public Result<String> upload(File file, String fileName, byte storePathIndex) throws IOException {
        Socket socket = getSocket();
        UploadCmd uploadCmd = new UploadCmd(file, fileName, storePathIndex);
        return uploadCmd.exec(socket);
    }

    public Result<Boolean> delete(String group, String fileName) throws IOException {
        Socket socket = getSocket();
        DeleteCmd deleteCmd = new DeleteCmd(group, fileName);
        return deleteCmd.exec(socket);
    }

    @Override
    public Result<Boolean> setMeta(String group, String fileName,
                                   Map<String, String> meta) throws IOException {
        Socket socket = getSocket();
        SetMetaDataCmd setMetaDataCmd = new SetMetaDataCmd(group, fileName, meta);
        return setMetaDataCmd.exec(socket);
    }

    @Override
    public Result<Map<String, String>> getMeta(String group, String fileName)
            throws IOException {
        Socket socket = getSocket();
        GetMetaDataCmd getMetaDataCmd = new GetMetaDataCmd(group, fileName);
        return getMetaDataCmd.exec(socket);
    }

    /**
     * check storage client socket is closed
     *
     * @return boolean
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isClosed() {

        if (this.socket == null) {
            return true;
        }

        if (this.socket.isClosed()){
            return true;
        }else {
            //根据fastdfs的Active_Test_Cmd测试连通性
            ActiveTestCmd atcmd = new ActiveTestCmd();
            try {
                Result<Boolean> result = atcmd.exec(getSocket());
                //True,表示连接正常
                if(result.getData()){
                    return false;
                }else {
                    return true;
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            //有异常,直接丢掉这个连接,让连接池回收
            return true;
        }
    }

}


Alpert Enterprises International > Advocacy > What is Advocacy?
A large component of the work performed by Alpert Enterprises International belongs to the world of advocacy. In essence, advocacy covers all forms of pleading a cause.
What are the forms of advocacy?
What does advocacy work involve?
How does AEI's work constitute advocacy?
Our cause: The celebration of excellence and support of those who pursue excellence.
While social advocacy traditionally pertains to disadvantaged groups, our definition of social advocacy is inclusive of the marginalised. Due to the widespread nature of a stigma against excellence, those who pursue or achieve excellence are too often marginalised and their needs remain ignored. Consequently, AEI is working to promote, protect and defend the welfare and the justice of highly motivated individuals striving for excellence.
1. Professor Wolfensberger, Adelaide 1992, in Cross J & Zeni L (1993) Safeguarding Advocacy for People with Disabilities in Australia, Disability Advisory Council of Australia.


Flexing and pressing is this Monarch's reputation. With a flex Rating of 4, progression and flexing is made easy, whether its connecting those first turns, or press'n in the park. The TLS 5 Twin Lacing System pulls the liner close in hugging and supporting ankles all in two pulls. This Monarch boot not only helps with progression but keeps those feet warm and comfy in Cloud 3 Liners. For flex'n and press'n into new mountain zones this Monarch covers a lot of terrain.


The Best Business Awards are now open for entry with at least one category sure to suit you. Organisations of all sizes are invited to enter.
Check out the feedback from other past winners here.
As a winner you will receive a press release with judge's comments about why you have won, like those above. These comments can also be used on your website and other marketing materials at no cost and will be published on the Best Business Awards website, which is great for link building too. A winner's trophy, certificate and logo may also be purchased although this is optional.
Organisations of any size may enter and many past winners are small and medium size businesses like Be-a Education Ltd, Moorhouse, Davis Construction and Monodraught. Big name past winners include DFS, Türk Ekonomi Bankası AŞ, Kyocera Document Solutions, Santander, Pfizer, Transport for London and Nef Turkey.


A World AIDS Day Vigil and Remembrance Walk will take place tomorrow evening in Wilton Manors' Hagen Park.
It's a stark reminder that while there are more treatments and preventative measures that ever including pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, "people need to not feel comfortable about this disease, it's not over yet," stresses CAN Community Health Medical Director Dr. Vilma Vega.
Miami-Dade and Broward Counties continue to lead the nation with the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses.
She attributes that to multiple factors including our population and the fact that people from around the world move here.
Dr. Vega says everyone - no matter what age, race or sexual orientation - should be tested because no one is immune.
Even the elderly have to be concerned because, "people have gone back into the world of dating, and they're as active in their 70s as they were in their 30s, and we need to realize that these patients are at risk."
When it comes to cost, treating HIV/AIDS can be expensive, but Dr. Vega says there are options for patients including services through health departments and non-profit clinics and grant programs through the state.


Even as posh condos rise in trendy neighborhoods around the nation's capital, many older complexes are mired in a recession that never ended. A cycle of aging infrastructure, limited resources and foreclosure is putting these communities in a deep financial hole, threatening what traditionally has been an affordable path to homeownership for the working class.
Monthly fees, the financial lifeblood of condo developments, have risen sharply as boards try to generate cash for long-deferred maintenance and to cover basic expenses. As a result, more owners can't make their payments, and fewer prospective owners can afford to buy in.
At the same time, tightened lending rules, and a reluctance among banks to foreclose on units that will be hard to resell, have boosted the number of long-vacant condos in many complexes, further depleting the flow of fees that pay for utilities, trash collection, upkeep and repairs.
Grand Bel II, a 1960s-era complex off Georgia Avenue and Bel Pre Road, "is not the Ritz," as former property manager Eric Cooper put it. But it has been a sturdy launchpad for immigrants and young families.
Bulgarian-born Aneta Lefterov purchased her two-bedroom in 2010 for $106,000, a bargain price, flattened by the housing bust. She took advantage of a Federal Housing Administration-insured loan, allowing her to make a low down payment, and was able to stretch her salary as a workforce consultant for the state of Maryland to cover her mortgage payment and the $490 monthly fee.
The problem is the condo economic model, in which your neighbors are also your business partners, obligated to pay their share of common expenses.
Even before Lefterov moved in, there were signs of distress. As the economy deteriorated, more Grand Bel II owners had trouble paying their bills. To forestall mortgage default, many opted to stop paying monthly assessments. Routine maintenance was put on hold. The pool stayed empty; weeds poked through cracks in the tennis court.
The board took out a $1 million bank loan to address a serious drainage problem, which depleted cash reserves. Monthly fees ticked upward: $550, then $592, then $655. The board levied a special one-time assessment of between $800 and $1,200 for each unit.
"We're going to get to the point where we won't be able to pay," Lefterov said.
Cooper, whose parents lived at Grand Bel II in the 1970s, said that by 2014, the amount owed by owners at least four months behind in their fees was in the mid-six figures.
But the bills are piling up. County inspectors ordered many of the development's 76 balconies removed last year because of rotting supports that created an "imminent danger" of collapse. Pressure from groundwater caused basement foundation walls to fail in at least seven units, and the $750,000 repair was not covered by insurance.
Condo owners say some of the financial problems are the result of poor decisions made by the elected boards that run condominium corporations and that often lack experience or are reluctant to displease neighbors.
Alyson Meiselman, board president of the Vistas at Washingtonian Woods, said previous leaders didn't raise monthly fees for 20 years after the 152-unit development opened in 1992.
A 2012 engineering study estimated that $600,000 was needed to repair poor grading, tripping hazards, retaining walls and crumbling parking lots. Past boards had set aside only two-thirds of that amount. To try to bridge the gap, the current board has hiked fees 33 percent on average, to between $325 and $600 a month.
At Hermitage Woods in Silver Spring, previous boards raised fees but failed to set aside money for repairs. Other money simply disappeared, residents said.
The 43-year-old building has been without a working elevator for at least eight months. Segments of the outside walkways are off-limits because of rusting supports. A roofing contractor who was paid tens of thousands of dollars went out of business before finishing the repair.
The board has increased monthly fees to finance the elevator repair, which residents hope will begin soon.
"It's pretty bad," said Heidi Rodriguez, 35, who carried groceries up five floors while pregnant this spring and summer. She pays a $450 monthly assessment, up from $125 nine years ago.
Condo communities have been hurt by both the subprime lending practices that triggered the housing bust, experts say, and some of the steps regulators took to address those practices.
Nationally, residential foreclosure rates have retreated to 2006 levels, according to RealtyTrac, the real estate research firm. But in places that went all-in on condos — building new ones and converting existing rental apartments — foreclosures remain an outsize presence.
"You have people who should not have been given loans because they couldn't afford to pay the loans and associated expenses," said Rockville attorney Tom Schild, who represents condo governing boards.
Mohamed Mohamed, a soft-spoken Sudanese American linguist who worked for a U.S. contractor in Iraq, said he put down only $5,000 when he bought his $205,000 two-bedroom condo in Alexandria's Saxony Square in 2005. "They just want to get you," he said of lenders during the boom.
He hasn't had steady employment since 2011. In mid-July, he was nine months behind on his mortgage and negotiating to stave off foreclosure on the apartment where he lived with his wife and young son.
In Montgomery County, condominiums are 15 percent of all housing stock. But from January 2015 through July of this year, they comprised 44 percent of the county's 6,059 foreclosures. During the same period in Fairfax County, 47 percent of 2,602 foreclosures were condos — even though condos represent just 28 percent of homes. In Alexandria, condos are 47 percent of 42,000 residences but 63 percent of foreclosures.
The torrent of defaults that accompanied the housing bust led the FHA to tighten its guidelines for issuing loan insurance. Those changes, too, have affected the financial health of condo communities.
Before 2008, the FHA approved prospective condo buyers based on their individual financial stability. The new rules required that an entire community meet a minimum level of solvency.
The agency will not provide loans for condo communities if at least 15 percent of current owners are 60 days or more behind on their monthly fees. The FHA also requires that a community's cash reserves be equal to at least 10 percent of its annual budget.
Those shifts means no FHA loans at places like Grand Bel II and Hermitage Woods, driving up the cost of a mortgage and shrinking the pool of potential buyers.
Nearly 60 percent of Montgomery County's 440 condominium communities have lost FHA certification or allowed it to expire. Nationwide, HUD records show, about 75 percent of all condominium developments lack approval.
Housing advocates and condo board members say lenders also hurt condo complexes by failing to quickly process foreclosures and offer units for resale. Such "zombie foreclosures" are especially prevalent in cases where the value of the property is less than the balance on the loan, critics say.
"Some of these units have dropped more than 50 percent in value, so [banks] sit on them and hope that the markets come back," said Jackie Simon, a Montgomery County real estate agent and housing activist.
In Maryland, foreclosures once moved swiftly through the legal system, sometimes in 35 days or less. When the recession hit, state lawmakers passed measures to slow the process for owners, adding "speed bumps" that included mediation.
While the changes gave distressed borrowers more protection, they also created a foreclosure backlog, saddling condo complexes with vacant units that perpetuate blight and can't generate the all-important monthly assessments.
Nationstar, the Texas-based mortgage giant, foreclosed on unit 503 at Hermitage Woods last September, buying it at auction for $77,400. A year later, it remains padlocked and dark.
Kelly Ann Doherty, a Nationstar spokeswoman, said it takes two to five months for a foreclosure deed to be processed and recorded. Doherty said the company had a potential buyer for the unit earlier this year who was unwilling to wait for the deed to be recorded. She said another offer is pending and that the company has paid condo fees that were due.
Lawmakers and public officials have started to address pieces of the problem.
President Obama signed broad housing legislation this summerthat includes provisions requiring the FHA to relax some of its requirements for condo certification.
In January, the Montgomery County Council approved a measure requiring members of condo boards to complete an online course detailing financial and administrative responsibilities.
The county has also moved its Commission on Common Ownership Communities, which adjudicates disputes in condo communities and homeowner associations, from the consumer affairs department to the housing agency. Officials say the shift, and funding for an extra investigator, will help the commission be more proactive in overseeing the governance and financial health of condo communities.
Last year, the council passed a law that denies condo owners the licenses required to rent out their units unless all common ownership fees are paid.
Some experts say better oversight and tighter restrictions are not enough, predicting that some complexes could deteriorate to the point where government agencies will have to intervene.
"Without significant changes, you're going to have cities and states condemning and taking over these properties," said Natalie Stewart, president of a California-based condominium consulting firm.
Christopher Anderson, chief of the community development division for Montgomery County's Department of Housing and Community Affairs, said such a scenario was "not outside the realm of possibility" but added that the resources available to local government are limited.
"We cannot as a county responsibly lend money to condo associations to fix problems," he said.
County officials are exploring whether to partner with an affordable housing nonprofit that would buy underwater or foreclosed units at Grand Bel II, then sell those units to solvent owners.
In the meantime, youngsters who live at the complex spent another summer running past the closed swimming pool.


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A commonly proposed date for the crucifixion of Christ is Friday April 3, AD 33. This was the conclusion of Fotheringham (1934)[1,2], Hoehner (1978), Humphreys & Waddington (1985), Schaeffer (1990) and others. Newton also considered this date but preferred Friday April 23, AD 34. Various other dates have been proffered, among which are proponents of the Wednesday crucifixion on April 25, AD 31.
A) Matt 12:40 is emphatic that Christ would lie in the grave for three days and three nights. This is no minor matter to be ignored or trivialized since Christ indicated that it is the only sign of his messiahship (Matt 12:39; Luke 11:29~30). Neither the Friday or Thursday crucifixion days satisfy these criteria.
B) The weight of the evidence is that Christ was not resurrected on Sunday morning. All the gospels agree that when the women came to the tomb early Sunday morning, Christ was not there (Matt 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; John20:1). John's account points out that it was still dark when they came to the tomb. This makes the Friday crucifixion date even more untenable since it effectively removes any fraction of the Sunday daylight period from the count. Most translations of Mark 16:9 have interjected the word 'Jesus' into the verse and wrongly give the impression that Jesus rose on the first day of the week. The New International Version, based on the minority texts, even discounts the whole section from Mark 16:9 ~ 20.
C) Considering the events that transpired from Jesus' death at about 3.00pm (Matt 27:45) to the time he was placed in the tomb, it is likely that Jesus was placed in the tomb at dusk (Matt 27:57). This situation will also remove a partial daylight period from the count and further calls into question the Friday crucifixion.
D) John 19:31 makes it clear that the Sabbath following Christ's crucifixion was a 'high day' or an annual Sabbath which could fall on almost any day of the week (Lev 23:5~7). The weekly Sabbath by comparison begins at twilight on Friday and ends at twilight on Saturday (See section 3.1). The misunderstanding of this distinction is perhaps the prime reason why so many analyses have gravitated to Friday crucifixion date.
E) Luke 23:56 tells us that the women prepared spices and then rested on the Sabbath. Since a High Day Sabbath followed the crucifixion, the spices could not be prepared until after the High Day Sabbath had come to an end. Luke 23:56 requires another Sabbath rest day following the High Day Sabbath, which a Friday crucifixion/Sunday resurrection does not allow. This verse also negates a Thursday crucifixion, since the day following the crucifixion was a High Day Sabbath and no work was to be done (Lev 23:7), leaving no opportunity for the women to prepare spices before the weekly Sabbath started.
The widespread fixation on a Friday crucifixion in the face of such compelling biblical contradiction is puzzling, especially since the historical details of the process of adoption of the Easter tradition following the 'Quartodeciman controversy' is well documented.
A) An understanding of how the Jews counted the day.
B) An understanding of how different sects observed the Jewish Spring Holy Days.
Stroes and other researchers(chap 5) have pointed out the difficulties in exegesis for words translated 'day' in the Bible and also for terms relating to the day, such as 'morning', 'evening' and 'between the evenings'. Zeitlin has also highlighted possible changes in time reference in the Old Testament. However, for the period of Christ's life, there is consensus that the dominant Jewish sects counted the start of the day at twilight, so that a full day consisted of the night period followed by the daylight period(pg 52). Mark 1:21, 32 is a confirmation of this practice, since the people waited until the Sabbath ended at sunset, before bringing their sick to Jesus.
The timeline of the Synoptics is a 9.00am crucifixion followed by a period of darkness from noon to 3.00pm, when Christ dies (Mark 15:25, 33; Matt 27:45; Luke 23:44). In John 19:14 however, the term 'sixth hour' (KJV) is used and many have assumed that John was referring to the time just before the crucifixion. Some authors have proposed that the 'sixth hour' in the Roman system of timekeeping is about 6.00am, and signified the time that Jesus was brought to Pilate for questioning. Wright has highlighted the difficulties in this interpretation since the placement of John 19:14 is after the trials by Pilate and immediately precedes the crucifixion. In examining the other scriptures where John gives the time of day (John 1:39; 4:6, 52), the context is consistent with the Jewish system of timekeeping. In any event, it seems implausible that Pilate's Judgment hall would be open as early as 6.00am, since that corresponds to daybreak around the time of the spring equinox at Jerusalem's latitude.
b) The Days of Unleavened Bread.
c) A High Day Sabbath on the first day of Unleavened Bread.
d) A High Day Sabbath on the last day of Unleavened Bread.
e) The Night to be Much Observed.
f) The Wave Sheaf Offering.
Though different sects recognized these events during the Spring Holy Days, they did not always agree on when and how they were to be kept. There was consensus that the Days of Unleavened Bread was a seven-day period commencing on the fifteenth of the first Jewish month, called Abib or Nissan, with the first day being a High Day Sabbath and the seventh day being a High Day Sabbath.
However, different sects had different views on the other spring Holy Day events. The plurality of practices that existed at the time of Christ is best illustrated by the differences in when the Wave Sheaf Offering was observed.
The Pharisees kept the Wave Sheaf Offering on the day after the High Day Sabbath on the first day of Unleavened Bread, while the Sadducees, Samaritans and Karaites observed it on the day following the weekly Sabbath that falls within the period of the Days of Unleavened Bread. The Boethusians, on the other hand, kept the Wave Sheaf Offering on the day following the weekly Sabbath that came after the Days of Unleavened Bread, while the Falashas observed it on the day following the High Day Sabbath on the last Day of Unleavened Bread[16, 17]. The Qumran sect kept the Wave Sheaf Offering on the day following the Sabbath that falls during the Days of Unleavened Bread, but used a 364 day Solar Calendar that differed from the Lunar Calendar used by most of the other sects, so that the Spring Holy Day events fell on specific days of the week.
In the case of the Passover, the Pharisees, the dominant sect at the time of Christ's crucifixion, killed the Passover in the daylight portion of the fourteenth of Abib and consumed it on the night portion of the fifteenth of Abib, at the same time that the first day of Unleavened bread had begun. Josephus places the slaying of the lambs between 3.00 ~ 5.00pm(6.9.3), while other sources suggest that the slaughter began at midday[20-22]. Even though the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread were separate events (Mark 14:1), the Pharisees and other sects also used the terms 'Passover' and 'Days of Unleavened Bread' interchangeably[23, 24]. The Passover practices of many of the other sects were lost when they disappeared from history, but we do have existing today, a small community descended from the Samaritans, who observe the Passover on the evening portion of the fourteenth of Abib. The Samaritans who derived their religious practices from Israelitish priests (II Kings 17:27 ~ 28), also hold to the pre-deuteronomic rituals of the Passover, where the sacrifice is to be done by the laity and not by the priests at the sanctuary. Talmon has pointed out that there are historical differences in Holy Day practices between the Jews and the other tribes that constituted Israel. Philo also confirms that the Passover was kept according 'to the order and tradition of each people'.
As for the Night to be Much Observed, the Pharisees have traditionally combined this celebration with the Passover Celebration on the evening portion of the fifteenth of Abib. Since the destruction of the Temple, Pharisees have continued with this celebratory meal but have reduced the Passover observance to preparing a token Passover plate containing the roasted shank of a lamb. The Karaites as well have celebrated the Night to be Much Observed on the night of the fifteenth of Abib, but have not celebrated the Passover since the destruction of the Temple in 70AD.
Much of the confusion on the keeping of the Jewish Spring Holy Days is attributable to the Deuteronomic instructions, which differ in significant ways from the instructions in the other books of the Torah. These differences have prompted Coulter to make a case for scriptural editing of Deut 16, along the lines of those evidenced by Deut 34. Indeed it is unlikely that Moses would have instituted such significant changes to the Passover rituals without some explanation on the change from his previous instructions in Ex 12 and 13, Num 28 and Lev 23.
The important observation is that there was no uniform way in which the Spring Holy Days were observed in the time of Christ. The Gospel accounts can therefore be accepted without interpretation, with Christ and his disciples observing the Passover on the evening/night of the fourteenth of Abib, while the Pharisees began preparations for the Passover sacrifice on the afternoon period of the fourteenth of Abib and consumed the Passover sacrifice on the evening/night of the fifteenth of Abib.
Jesus was crucified during the procurator-ship of Pontius Pilate, which was during AD 26 to AD 36, so this limits the period to be investigated. If the fourteenth of Abib was from Tuesday 6.00pm to Wednesday 6.00pm, then the first of Abib would fall from Wednesday 6.00pm to Thursday 6.00pm.
At the time of Christ, the first day of the month was determined by observation of the first appearance of the New Moon[34, 35]. Additionally, the proclaiming of the first month of the year was determined by the New Moon that permitted the barley harvest to be full enough to perform the Wave Sheaf Offering.
The fixed Jewish Calendar in use today, as well as contemporary observations of the barley harvest by the Karaites, place the start of Abib, both prior to and following the spring equinox on March 21st, once the Passover itself falls after the spring equinox. We will consider both pre and post equinox months for thoroughness.
The commencement of Christ's ministry can be reckoned from his baptism. Luke 3:1 tells us that John the Baptist began his ministry in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius. Christ was baptized soon afterwards and as he was approaching his thirtieth birthday (Luke 3:21 ~23). Tiberius was appointed co-regent with Augustus Caesar in late AD11(pg 64) (Chap II). Thus the fifteenth year of Tiberius would late AD 25 to late AD 26.
Since Christ's ministry began with baptism (Matt 3:6; Mark 1:9), it is unlikely to occur during winter, which restricts it to the spring/summer period (John 3:23). This places Jesus' baptism to the spring/summer of AD 26.
In John 2:20, the temple was dated as forty six years from the start of construction. Since the temple was started in 20 BC(pg 40), the incident of John 2:20 occurred in AD 27. The start of Christ's ministry preceded that date thus supporting the baptism date of spring/summer of AD 26.
1. The Passover events described in the section John 2:13~17 correspond to the crucifixion Passover, while the other events described in John 2:18 ~ 25 relate to a previous Passover.
An indication of the length of Christ's ministry can be deduced from John 10:22, which speaks of Christ being in Jerusalem during the Feast of Dedication in winter. Since the Synoptics preclude Christ's presence in Jerusalem during the winter preceding his crucifixion, then the incident describes in John 10:22 must have occurred in a previous winter.
Another piece of evidence in determining the length of Christ's ministry is provided by John 3:22~23, which shows an overlap with John's ministry during the spring/summer baptizing period.
Though the traditions of the 'Church Fathers' show almost as many variations as there are 'Church Fathers', one that supports the AD 28 crucifixion is ascribed to Clement of Alexandria, who stated that Jerusalem was destroyed forty-two years and three months after Christ was crucified. The temple was destroyed on the Jewish month of Av, corresponding to July/August, while Jerusalem was taken in the Jewish month of Elul in AD 70 (6.10.1)[40, 41], corresponding to August/September. These dates support a late April AD 28 date of the crucifixion.
The content of the gospel of John brings into question the identity of the author, since much of the first eleven chapters contain intimate knowledge of Christ's ministry before John (Zebedee) was called. John was not reluctant to admit his authorship of the book of Revelation (Rev 1:1), whereas the author of the gospel of John never did disclose his identity (John 21:24). Both Filson and Phillip suggested Lazarus as the author, but John 11:1~44 provide details of events that occurred when Lazarus was dead, that would be difficult for Lazarus to witness to. Titus has suggested Matthias as another candidate for the authorship of the Gospel of John, but the conclusion is uncertain. Since John was a common name at the time of Christ, the traditional name ascribed to the fourth Gospel cannot be discounted, but may refer to a John other than the son of Zebedee. John 18:15~16 and Acts 4:6 supports this possibility.
c) In stipulating a time for the collection of taxes, authorities would avoid disrupting pre-harvest activities and would likely wait until the harvest is in and people have the wherewithal to pay their taxes. The early harvest in Israel was in May/June in time for Pentecost, while the later harvest was in September/October before the Feast of Tabernacles.
d) Luke 2:3 stipulates that everyone went to their city of registration to be taxed. This negates against the taxation occurring precisely during the pilgrim feasts of Passover, Pentecost or the Feast of Tabernacles, since the inhabitants of all Israel would converge on Jerusalem during those periods (Deut 16:16). The taxation would therefore have to be prior to or following the time of these Feasts. The fact that none of the Gospels mention any aspect of the pilgrim feasts in connection to Christ's birth supports a birth outside these periods. In considering possible dates for the taxation, November is a rainy month, while the time for the prePentecost harvest is short. The most convenient times for the taxation would therefore be either after Pentecost in May/June or prior to the Feast of tabernacles in September/October.
Thus the likely period of the birth of Christ is from summer to early autumn.
A possible scriptural indication of the birth of Christ is given Luke 1:26 which states that Gabriel visited Mary in the sixth month. If this is taken to be the sixth month of the Jewish year rather than the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, this points to a conception in the period August to October, and the birth of Christ during the period May to July.
These two possible dates of Herod's death provide the likely dates for Christ's birth given in Table 3.
In Sec 5.3.1, the commencement of Christ's ministry was determined to be the spring/summer of AD 26. Since Christ was about thirty years old at that time, the year of Christ's birth works out as 5 BC. This negates the commonly held view that Herod died in BC 4 and lends support for the BC 1 date.
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